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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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|**From**|Period start date|||**To**|Period end date|||
||1|October|2020||31|March|2022|
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Somali Health Exchange **Other names charity is known by** SHE **Registered charity number (if any)** 1191571
**Charity's principal address** (Correspondence address) ISRAAC centre, Vestry Hall, 54 Cemetery Road, Sheffield,
**Postcode** S11 8FP
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Amina Ibrahim||||
||Amal Saleh||||
||Asha Abdillahi||||
||Sawsan Abdillahi||||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
In year 1 we have focused on building the charity’s foundations.
Trustees are volunteers who are committed to delivering on the charity’s aims of building capacity through knowledge exchange.
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
In summary they are to:
- Increase capability of healthcare in Somaliland: Knowledge share, on the job development and exchange of ideas
- • Raise funds for equipment and consumables
- • Create sustainable opportunities for young Somaliland Healthcare Professionals (HCPs).
**Summary of the objects of the charity** The charity aims to develop and improve the capability of healthcare in **set out in its** Somaliland via in-country travel to carry out the following activities: **governing document** • Face to face training sessions for healthcare workers in hospitals and medical & nursing students in universities • Workshops for HCPs providing training for ‘soft skills’ such as communication and teamwork • Train the trainer programmes for nominated Champions to ensure the training that is provided is embedded and sustained.
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Over the period **01 October 2020-31 March 2022** , our activities have focused on recruiting and re-engaging volunteers for the next in country knowledge exchange. The planning, review and monitoring stages are critical for the safe delivery of our objectives.
## **Impact of COVID-19**
The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious implications for health service, health research and health project delivery. Health systems globally have had to contend with management and recovery and we have taken care to ensure our trustees and volunteers remain safe and well as a priority. International travel to deliver inperson training was paused.
## **Engaging volunteers**
The majority of the charity’s volunteers are healthcare professionals who are employed by the NHS. They have full careers and individual commitments. **Summary of the main** Despite this we have seen continued interest and engagement from potential **activities undertaken** volunteers. **for the public benefit** We have held several informal in-person and virtual meetings with trustees and **in relation to these** previous volunteers to understand motivations, explain our methodology and **objects (include** outline plans. **within this section the** A core component of delivering our work is ensuring we have aligned values, **statutory declaration** mutual respect and trust. This is important for the volunteer group’s work as a **that trustees have had** team and when engaging in-country stakeholders and partners. **regard to the guidance issued by Assessing mutual contributions the Charity** We take time to understand each volunteer’s skills, specialism/specialist interest, **Commission on** the contributions they can make and the buddy system we can employ both **public benefit)** ahead of time and in-country. Whilst we have a broad base of clinical and professional expertise. Each volunteer is at a different point in their professional development journey. We make every effort to support them to refine and/or develop new skills through planning or leading a session, supporting colleagues in training delivery, as they sourcing technical equipment/teaching materials.
## **Planned visits and safeguarding measures**
Safe and reliable travel options were carefully monitored throughout the reporting period _(see Section F)._ We also took care to ensure feasibility of any trip – noting potential and changeable in-country/return isolation requirements. For these reasons our next visit was earmarked for September 2022. Trustees also carefully monitored the in-country public health reports throughout this period. A number of outbreaks of concern were reported. Safe and reliable travel options were carefully monitored throughout _(see Section F)_
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
**Recruitment and engagement of volunteers** Through our activities see _(Section c)_ we have a pool of 6 new volunteers with relevant experience, skillsmix and scope to support our objectives. This pool supplements our existing volunteer pool who donated their time and clinical/project management/comms expertise in Trip 1 (2018) and Trip 2 (2020).
**Maintaining UK and local networks and engagement despite limitations placed by COVID-19**
## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has limited overheads (see correspondence address costs); core costs relate to in-country training delivery. We monitor base funds to ensure feasibility.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
Our charity is funded by individuals through our public donation platform page. These funds enable us to carry out our in-country training. Due to COVID-19 there was minimal expenditure this financial year and Trustees opted instead to focus efforts on in-country delivery in 2022 subject to usual safeguards.
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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## **Section F Other optional information**
Monitoring COVID-19 and the social/political/economic landscape to allow safe international travel:
- 19 July 2021, **Most legal limits on social contact were removed in England. (COVID-19** ) (Source:https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/timeline-coronaviruslockdown-december-2021.pdf )
- 27 July 2021, **Air travel via the UAE to Somaliland re-opened. Although reduced since the pandemic** .
- https://www.mediaoffice.ae/en/news/2021/July/27-07/flydubai-restarts-its-operations-to-Hargeisa
- 3 November 2021, **Increasing concerns about violence in Ethiopia (main alternate route for travel to Somaliland)** https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-gravely-concerned-by-escalating-violence-ethiopia-ahead-envoysvisit-2021-11-03/
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
> **Full name(s)** Amal Saleh
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 11.02.2023
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||**Somali Health Exchange**|**Somali Health Exchange**|**Somali Health Exchange**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|**01-Oct-20**
Period start date|**To**||**31-Mar-22**
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Income and**|**Expenditure**|||||||
|**A1 Income**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**1,610**
**638**
**2,248**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,248**
**240**
**-**
**-**
**240**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**240**
**2,008**
**-**
**-**
**2,008**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,610**
**638**
**1,610**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,610**
**240**
**-**
**-**
**240**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**240**
**1,370**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Total donationsprior to 1 April 2021|**1,610**||||||**-**|
|Go fund me 1 April 2021- 31 March 2022|**638**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**2,248**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**
||||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~
**_Total receipts_**|**-**||||||**-**|
||**2,248**||||||**-**|
|**A3 Expenditure**||||||||
|Expenditure 1 - Address premises £20
per month|**240**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**240**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
|
n/a|**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**2,008**|**-**|**-**||**1,370**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**2,008**|**-**|**-**||**1,370**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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01-04-2023
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
n/a
n/a
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
n/a
n/a
**Details**
n/a
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Amal Saleh|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Amal Saleh|11.02.2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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