| Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | Trustees' Annual Report | for theperiod | for theperiod | for theperiod | ||
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| 1 | April | 2023 | 31 | March | 2024 |
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1191571
Somali Health Exchange
SHE
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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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Amina Ibrahim | ||||
| Amal Saleh | ||||
| Asha Abdillahi | ||||
| Sawsan Abdillahi | ||||
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:
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
We continue to focus 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.
Although the charity benefits from the support of a pool of volunteers, it relies on the Chair and Trustees for core planning, project delivery and governance. Trustees have begun to consider how best to share project delivery responsibilities.
Section C Objectives and activities
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Summary of the In summary they are to:
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objects of the charity Increase capability of healthcare in Somaliland: Knowledge share, on the job set out in its development and exchange of ideas
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governing document Raise funds for equipment and consumables Create sustainable opportunities for young Somaliland Healthcare Professionals (HCPs).
The charity aims to develop and improve the capability of healthcare in Somaliland via in-country travel to carry out the following activities:
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Face to face training sessions for healthcare workers in hospitals and medical & nursing students in universities
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Workshops for HCPs providing training for ‘soft skills’ such as communication and teamwork
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Train the trainer programmes for nominated Champions to ensure the training that is provided is embedded and sustained.
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| Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit) |
Over the year1 April 2023-31 March 2024, 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. After deferring a planned trip twice due to regional instability in the previous period; we were able to conduct a successful in-country visit 1July 2023- 16 July 2023 This trip saw 8 professionals recruited, hosted and who volunteered their expertise. They were made up of surgeons, a doctor with expertise in medical education, operating department practitioner, nurse and project management leads (planning, risk and capacity). Training was undertaken with local partner sites in 3 cities, Hargeisa, Burao and Borama. Engagement and scoping meetings took place in our fourth partner city, Berbera. This trip focused on 3 distinct training elements, basic life support, care of the critically ill patient and basic surgical skills training. A fourth element of the trip was a blood donation information evening and blood type testing in partnership with a local university and phlebotomy team. Total number of trainees (BLS and management of critically ill) = 314 Total number of attendees – Blood donation awareness, blood type testing workshop = 71 university students Importance of local partnerships Our work could not take place without the support of our local partners. Be it the local university, public hospital or key stakeholders. These relationships mean our training can be tailored to local needs and students can be released to join our training. 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. Despite this we have seen continued interest and engagement from potential volunteers. We have held several informal in-person and virtual meetings with trustees and previous volunteers to understand motivations, explain our methodology and outline plans. A core component of delivering our work is ensuring we have aligned values, mutual respect and trust. This is important for the volunteer group’s work as a team and when engaging in-country stakeholders and partners. Assessing mutual contributions We take time to understand each volunteer’s skills, specialism/specialist interest, the contributions they can make and the buddy system we can employ both 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. For this reason each trip has had a slightly different clinical and professional skills base. Planned visits and safeguarding measures The safety and wellbeing of our volunteers is paramount and we take every precaution available to us. Collection of consumables The charity gathered and consolidated several groups of donated goods and consumables to be used in hospitals locally. These items were shipped to |
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coincide with the team’s arrival. This allowed us to safely divide up and repackage goods for distribution at each location and avoid further onward distribution costs. Once we arrived in country we were able to hand-deliver donated goods to assist with surgery for example knowing these donated goods would be put to good use by those responsible for these hospital departments.
Trustees also held Trustee meeting during the period. Trustees 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)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
You may choose to Contributions of volunteers is invaluable. include further They use their annual leave to volunteer their time and pay their own airfare which statements, where increased since the initiative first began informally in 2018. relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main Recruitment and engagement of volunteers achievements of the Through our activities see (Section c) we have a pool of 6-8 volunteers with charity during the year relevant experience, skills-mix and scope to support our objectives. The main achievements of the 2023 trip is that we have continued to build and improve upon the training we offered through the use of simulation based apps (Sim Man), Virtual reality head sets for Basic Life Support training, using simulation skins to conduct surgical skills training which aids in re-usability and storage and introduction of blood type and blood donation awareness. The new clinical volunteer pool supplements our existing volunteer pool who donated their time and clinical/project management/comms expertise in Trip 1 (2018) and Trip 2 (2020). We held online planning meetings to agree scope of the trip, training content, partner sites and logistics with volunteers as well as discuss relevant security updates. On-boarding volunteers is a significant responsibility and requires due care. We’ve also worked hard to mentor volunteers as the future leaders in healthcare. The success of the July 2023 in-country training visit is a credit to the work of volunteers, local partners and trustees. Disseminated findings of our Summer 2023 trip and broader work:
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Section D Achievements and performance
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Global surgery conference (September 2023)
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Hosted a gala dinner to promote the work of SHE to UK health and wider professionals network to support volunteer recruitment and fundraising (November 2023)
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Shortlisted Cura-H Awards - Health Education Visionary Awards (March 2024)
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)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Our charity is funded primarily by individuals through our public donation platform page. These funds enable us to carry out our incountry training which we successfully achieved during the period. It covers the cost of shipping, transporting volunteers to different towns and cities to deliver training first hand and cost of training supplies.
Trustees carefully consider offers of donations and partnership working to ensure they align with our values and to mitigate against reputational damage to the charity.
During this financial year, the Trustees also made personal contributions to help cover some procurement expenses, as well as to support the additional costs of the gala dinner held in November 2023.
Despite our best efforts, the charity has struggled to open a bank account to receive its charitable donations and make appropriate expenditure. The reason being that we deliver training and make local payments in Somaliland (for hotels, transport, food). Somaliland is a self-declared republic of Somalia and due to financial regulations placed on Somalia there is a challenge to our operations.
Trustees continue to explore all available options.
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Section F Other optional information
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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date
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Period start date 1-Apr-23 |
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| A1 Income Donations 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 2,845 FundraisingGala - ticket sales 3,978 Interest 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 8 5,068 11,899 - - Sub total - Total receipts 11,899 A3 Expenditure Office rent 480 July2023 tripexpenses 2,150 Gala expenses 7,986 2,445 - Sub total 13,062 n/a - - Sub total - Total payments 13,062 Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,163 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 2,374 Cash funds this year end 1,210.70 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Trustee donations to pay for Gala expenses Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). Equipment and consumables for July 2023 trip A4 Asset and investment purchases,(see table) |
to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 2,845 3,978 8 5,068 - - - 11,899 - - - 11,899 480 2,150 7,986 2,445 - - - - 13,062 - - - 13,062 - 1,163 - 2,374 1,211 |
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| 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 | |
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| A. Saleh | Amal Saleh | 22-Mar-24 | |