## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 02/04/2022 **Period start date To** 01/04/2023 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Life Seekers Aid **Charity registration number:** 1195995 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the CIO are for the public
beneft:
(a) To advance the educaton and training of
those applying for and granted refugee status
and their dependants in need thereof so as to
advance them in life and assist them to adapt
within a new community.
(b) To relieve fnancial hardship amongst those
applying for and granted refugee status and
their dependants living (temporarily or
permanently) in the United Kingdom.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Life Seekers Aid (LSA) organises and
runs multilingual workshops for those
applying for, and those recently
granted, refugee status in the UK.
These sessions – run by trained
volunteers, who are all themselves
refugees – aim to demystify the
asylum process, and help asylum
seekers and refugees adjust to life
within their new community in the UK.
These sessions provide benefciaries
with a clear basic understanding of
how the British asylum process works,
and their rights and responsibilities
whilst navigating it.
We also run weekly drop-in sessions
where we ofer food, clothing,
toiletries, advice and warm smiles to
asylum seekers and refugees. And,
where appropriate, we refer
benefciaries to organisations and
experts qualifedto provide specialist| |||legal and medical assistance.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Our trustees have given careful
consideration to the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public
beneft, and have kept this in mind
when establishing LSA’s objectives
and making any decisions on behalf of
LSA.
Everything LSA does is done for the
public beneft. Our work aims directly
to improve the lives of a public class
(asylum seekers and refugees in
Britain) by ofering them advice and
support navigating the asylum
process, and helping to look after
their material needs where possible.
Our work also aims indirectly to
strengthen community ties in the UK
at large by helping asylum seekers
and refugees to become settled and
productive members of British
society.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Life Seekers Aid works with
volunteers from refugee and migrant
backgrounds, who facilitate the work
we do by helping us organise and
distribute material aid donations and
providing interpretation services. All
of these volunteers have had to go
through the asylum process
themselves and so are well placed to
support others in this position. We
ofer some training to these
volunteers; andwe arekeen to| expand this as funding allows us to. We also work with volunteers from the local community who help us ensure that beneficiaries are registered with local GPs and schoolage beneficiaries are registered at local schools. This is an important part of the process by which we help asylum seekers and refugees settle within their new local communities. We are incredibly grateful to our volunteers for all the time they have spent supporting our work. Without their contribution, LSA could not continue to operate. Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Over the past year, our volunteers
have continued to meet around 50
newly arrived asylum seekers every
week, and assessed their needs. The
large majority of these asylum
seekers have little in the way of
clothing, toiletries and basic
essentials. Life Seekers volunteers
fnd out what each person needs, and
then try to match them up with
supplies donated to the East London
Mosque.
While assessing their needs, we also
speak to them about the asylum
process as a whole, and invite them
to attend the workshops and activity
sessions that we ofer. Currently,
there is very little support or guidance
ofered by the government to asylum
seekers, and navigating the asylum
process can be incredibly
complicated, scary and immiserating.
Because our refugee volunteers speak
a wide variety of languages between
them, and have all been through the
asylum process themselves, they are
incredibly well placed to ofer this
support ina sympathetic and open| manner. If those we speak to have any specific legal or medical issues or concerns, we refer them to specialists. **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Life Seekers Aid received £4,400 over the
course of the financial year.
£2,500 came from a grant generously
provided to us by Migrant Helpline in order
to help fund our community hub project.
This money is a restricted fund which is
being used to purchase material essentials
– like clothing, sanitary products, and
rucksacks – which we are distributing to
newly arrived asylum seekers and refugees
at our weekly drop-in sessions in
Whitechapel.
£150 came from unrestricted private
donations to the charity.
£1,750 was paid to LSA by Jesuit Refugee
Service for work that we provided, running
a series of workshops for them.
Over the course of this period LSA has
spent £4,719 on carrying out our charitable
activities – this number is slightly higher
than our income this year because we had
a surplus at the end of last year, when we
were still in the middle of running a project
funded by Lush. This project has now been
completed, and the money has been spent.
Now, at the end of this reporting year, we
have a surplus of £2294, the majority of
which we will aim to spend over the course
of the next year as we complete our
ongoing projects.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|At the end of this fnancial period, Life
Seekers Aid still has little unrestricted
funding.
We are conscious that this presents
an issue for the charity’s ability to pay
for small expenses and operating
costs, and will actively seek to secure
more unrestricted funding over the
next year| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£150.00| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Life Seekers Aid’s principal source of
funding is from a charitable grant we
received from Migrant Help.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|At present, Life Seekers Aid does not
invest funds that our allocated to us.
We may review this as the charity
grows.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||N/A| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation
(CIO) foundation constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|LSA seeks to appoint trustees with
appropriate knowledge and
experience that will help with the
efective administration of the charity.
Our governing document states the
following.
(1) Apart from the frst charity
trustees, every trustee must be
appointed for a term of three years by
a resolution passed at a properly
convened meeting of the charity
trustees.
(2) In selecting individuals for
appointment as charity trustees, the
charity trustees must have regard to
the skills, knowledge and experience
needed for the efective
administration of the CIO.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Life Seekers Aid| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|LSA| |Registered charitynumber|1195995| |Charity’s principal address|Life Seekers Aid, 40 Loudoun Square, Cardif CF10
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||VickyMoller|Chair||| ||Alexander Thomas
Bagenal|Treasurer||| ||Dr Francis William
Arnold|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Kenan Albeirakdar ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Bagenal **Full name(s)** Alexander Thomas **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 11.08.24 |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date|**To**|Period end date|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Private donations
**150**
Migrant Helplinegrant
**-**
Jesuit Refugee Service
**1,750**
Lush CharityPot donation
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,900**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 1,900**
**A3 Payments**
Costs of charitable activities
**2,219**
Costs of charitable activities
**-**
Assylum seeker workshopexpenses
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 2,219**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 2,219**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 319**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**2,613**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 2,294**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**150**
**2,500**
**1,750**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,400**|**15**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**3,000**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**3,015**| |||||| ||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**2,500**|**-**|**4,400**|**3,015**| |||||| ||**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**2,219**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,719**|**-**| |||||| |||||**402**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**402**| |||||| ||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**|| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**2,500**|**-**|**4,719**|**402**| |||||| ||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 319**
**-**
**2,613**
**2,294**|**2,613**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**2,613**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Current account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,294**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,294**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Alexander Thomas Bagenal
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Alexander Thomas Bagenal|12.08.24| |||||