## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 April 2024 31 March
31 March 2025
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** NORTHAMPTON EDUCATION & CULTURAL CENTRE
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1194139
**Charity's principal address** 26 Newnham Road
Northampton
**Postcode**
NN2 7RE
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Huseyin Alti Chair For Whole Year The trustees themselves 2 Izzet Yildirim Trustee For Whole Year The trustees themselves 3 Tunahan Bilir Trustee For Whole Year The trustees themselves 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
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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**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Centre
How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, Centre, company) Appointed by the existing trustees. Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **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 trustees are responsible for the general control and management of the charity. The trustees give their time freely and receive no remunerations or other financial benefits.
The trustees meet together as a body monthly and are responsible for all decisions taken in relation to running the community facilities and the activities provided by the charity.
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The charity's objects ('objects') are specifically restricted to the following; for the public benefit to advance education in the Northamptonshire (England), particularly but not exclusively amongst children between the ages of 3 and 16 in such ways as the charity trustees see fit, including by: a) assisting in supplementary education, the provision of homework clubs and language classes for those whose education is impacted due to language barriers. b) developing their mental, physical and moral capabilities through organising cultural and social events in the Northamptonshire and surrounding area.
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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)**
**Public Benefit Statement** The charity undertakes a wide range of activities in pursuance of its charitable aims. The Trustees consider that these activities, summarised below, deliver tangible public benefit to the users of our community centre and the wider communities of Northampton and its neighbouring cities. **About the Northampton Education & Cultural Centre** The Northampton Education & Cultural Centre is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to fostering community integration, skills development, and social cohesion. We achieve this by providing free English language classes, homework clubs for children from bilingual families, mentorship programmes, and inclusive leisure activities. Many individuals in our local area face significant barriers to integration. We assist adults who are enduring social isolation and low wages due to a lack of English proficiency, equipping them with the language and vocational skills needed to secure employment and integrate successfully. Furthermore, we support young pupils who are struggling in the mainstream educational system because English is an additional language, often exacerbated by their age of arrival in the UK or previous educational disruptions. To address these challenges, we set out to provide an empowering education within a caring, family-like environment. Our overarching aim is to recognise individual needs, raise aspirations, and encourage our beneficiaries to seize every opportunity available to them in the UK. Many of our core services and classes are provided entirely free of charge to ensure they remain accessible to those most in need. **Our Approach: Youth Focus & Mentorship** Advancing community development through language and cultural education— with a primary focus on young people—remains central to our work. We employ a structured mentorship model: young people are paired with a trained mentor for an initial period before being allocated to a suitable class. During this time, participants engage in weekly out-of-school supplementary education, homework support, and leisure activities at our centre. This builds their confidence and ensures a tailored approach to their development. Our mentors receive continuous training throughout the year and attend monthly meetings to rigorously track and report on each young person's progress. These out-of-hours sessions, facilitated by our dedicated volunteer teachers and community members, act as crucial information and advocacy hubs for both children and adults in our region. **Our Vision, Goals, and Core Values Our Long-Term Vision** To equip individuals with the language, knowledge, and social skills
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required to belong and actively contribute to their community.
- To sustainably improve the economic well-being of our beneficiaries.
- To enhance physical and mental health through accessible, free leisure activities.
## **Our On-Going Goals & Core Values**
Our primary goal is to empower people through English language tuition and vocational support, enabling them to secure employment, access higher and further education, and participate fully in local life. This mission is underpinned by five core values:
- **Whole Person:** Taking a holistic approach to learning and well-being to help individuals reach their full potential.
- **Partnerships & Relations** : Collaborating as a team and partnering with others, recognising that we can achieve more together to enable individuals and communities to reach their aspirations.
- **Sustainability:** Committing to a long-term vision of delivering lifechanging impacts for both individuals and the wider community.
- **Excellence:** Delivering the highest quality of service by investing in continuous training and actively seeking evaluation from learners, staff, and partners.
- **Accountability & Boundaries** : Maintaining a safe, comfortable environment to work and study, built on openness, transparency, mutual respect, and clear rules.
## **Core Support Services**
Our services are strategically designed to remove language barriers, raise aspirations, and reduce educational or workplace underachievement.
- **English Language Classes:** Tailored courses designed to develop the communication skills of young people and adults who require additional linguistic support to thrive in education or employment.
- **Supplementary Study Support** : Delivered by our dedicated volunteer teachers, we provide vital out-of-hours homework support and educational materials to students who are falling behind in their mainstream studies.
- **Leisure & Sports Activities** : Extracurricular activities are an essential component of our programme, allowing beneficiaries to practice their language skills in a relaxed, social setting. Engaging in sports not only enhances physical health and fitness but builds emotional resilience, fosters friendships, and develops the interpersonal confidence required
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for effective communication.
**Who We Help**
**The Northampton Education & Cultural Centre’s programmes are strategically positioned to be highly accessible to:**
1. **Vulnerable Individuals** : Particularly young people who are at risk of failing in education or employment due to language barriers or a lack of interpersonal skills.
2. **The Wider Community** : Those who would significantly benefit from structured leisure and extracurricular activities to develop their physical, mental, and moral capabilities.
## **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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Volunteers are an important resource in community work. This year our Charity has achieved to reach over 2,500 Turkish speaking people in our region. This helped us increase our number of volunteers who then helped us organise and conduct more charitable and fund-raising activities than last year. Volunteers are involved in most of our community activities and we have now over 15 people regularly giving their time.
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
Charity trustees have reserve policy that minimum £100 must always be set aside in the Charity's bank account to cover events or situations that may happen.
## **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;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Financial Review and Funding Strategy**
The Northampton Education & Cultural Centre operates a sustainable funding model designed to ensure our core educational and support programmes remain completely free of charge at the point of access. While our services are provided at no financial cost to the users, we actively foster a culture of reciprocity by encouraging beneficiaries to contribute back to the organisation through volunteering.
To underwrite our operations and expand our reach, we are committed to building strong strategic alliances with aligned national organisations, local commercial enterprises, and private philanthropists.
## **Income Generation and Diversified Funding Streams**
Our funding strategy relies on a diversified portfolio of income streams to ensure financial resilience. Overseen by our Fundraising Coordinator, our established avenues for contribution include:
- **Individual Giving and Micro-Sponsorships:** We offer structured donation tiers to suit varying levels of philanthropic capacity. This ranges from a £1,000 commitment to fully sponsor a young person’s educational support for an entire year, down to £100 donations that directly fund the extracurricular and leisure activities available to all participants.
- **Community Fundraising Initiatives:** A vibrant and highly successful cornerstone of our regular community fundraising is our weekly Friday culinary event. Volunteer chefs generously donate their time to prepare and sell authentic ethnic cuisine. This initiative not only generates consistent, unrestricted revenue but also celebrates the rich cultural diversity of our user base.
- **Corporate Partnerships and Grants:** We actively solicit corporate engagement through direct financial grants and business sponsorships. Furthermore, local and regional businesses are heavily encouraged to participate in, and sponsor, our wider calendar of fundraising events throughout the financial year.
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## **Expenditure and Resource Allocation**
Prudent financial management is central to our operational ethos. Because the frontline delivery of our educational and mentorship programmes relies heavily on the dedication of our volunteer teachers and mentors, our primary financial expenditure is directed towards core operational overheads. This predominantly consists of the salary for our Office Manager and essential administrative costs, ensuring we maintain the necessary infrastructure, safeguarding, and coordination required to support our extensive volunteer network and deliver our charitable aims effectively.
## **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)** Huseyin ALTI Izzet YILDIRIM **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Trustee **etc) Date**
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NORTHAMPTON EDUCATION & CULTURAL CENTRE 1194139
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/04/2024 31/03/2025
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from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Charitable activities 34,910 - - 34,910 33,877
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 34,910 ] - - 34,910 33,877
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 34,910 - - 34,910 33,877
A3 Payments
Costs of charitable activities 23,415 - - 23,415 33,592
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Sub total [ 23,415 ] - - 23,415 33,592
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Purchase of fixed assets - - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 23,415 - - 23,415 33,592
Net of receipts/(payments) 11,495 - - 11,495 284
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 4,524 - - 4,524 4,240
Cash funds this year end 16,019 - - 16,019 4,524
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Creditors
Unpaid salaries
Employee tax
**Details**
**Details**
Laptop
Cash at bank and in hand
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**16,019**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,019**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**349**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**625**
**1,150**
**922**
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**-**
Print Name
Huseyin Alti
Izzet Yildirim|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**-**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the trustees/** Northampton Education & Cultural Centre **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1194139 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Date: 31/05/2026
Signed:
Name: Mr Cem Kizilcik
Relevant professional Chartered Accountant
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address: 52 Chestnut Drive
Sale
M33 4HH
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**October 2018**
**IER**
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**October 2018**
**IER**