## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01.07.2024 Period start date To 30/06/2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: GRACEFUL HANDS**
## **Charity registration number: 1199478**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the CIO are to support and
promote such charitable purposes as the
Trustees may in their absolute discreton
determine and in partcular but without
prejudice to the generality of the foregoing:-
4.1 To advance in the Islamic faith throughout
England and Wales for the beneft of the public
in accordance with the Statement of Faith
mainly but not exclusively through the holding
of services and meetngs, religious and
supplementary educaton, maintaining a library
of Islamic literature, outreach and pastoral
care. Nothing in the consttuton shall authorise
an applicaton of the property of the CIO for
thepurpose which are not charitable.|
|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|To advance in the Islamic faith throughout
England and Wales for the beneft of the public
in accordance with the Statement of Faith
mainly but not exclusively through the holding
of services and meetngs, religious and
supplementary educaton, maintaining a library
of Islamic literature, outreach and pastoral
care.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We can confrm the trustees have had regard
to the guidance issued by the charity
commission on public beneft|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making
Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|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|We were involved in setting up Water Mills
and providing food to orphans along with
warm winter projects..|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
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|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|£0.00 Cash Balance
£0.82 Account balance as no bank account|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Once our charity is operating to the full
potential, we would like to keep reserves to
show donors and funders how effectively
we are managing money|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£0.82|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|No Uncertainties|
## **Additional information (optional)**
|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**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|**All the funds raised were from member**
**of the public who want to make a**
**difference to society and are giving on a**
**regular the basis.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**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|Apart from the frst charity trustees, every
trustee must be appointed for a term of 1 year
by a resoluton passed at a properly convened
meetng of the charity trustees.
FIRST TRUSTEES ARE
AFZAL BHAMJI, EBRAHIM PATEL, Mohammed
Ali Patel|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|GRACEFUL HANDS|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1199478|
|Charity’s principal address|16 OXFORD CLOSE
BLACKBURN
BB1 1DL|
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## – 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 N/A held in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for N/A 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)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **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)** A BHAMJI **Full name(s)** AFZAL BHAMJI
**Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR **Chair, etc)**
**Date**
01.06.2025
**Charity number: 1199478**
**Graceful Hands Charitable Incorporated Organisation (C.I.O.)**
**Trustees' report and unaudited financial statements**
**for the year ended 30 June 2025**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Contents**
||**Page**|**Page**|
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|Legal and administrative information||**1**|
|Trustees report||**2**|
|Independent examiners' report||**3**|
|Statement of financial activities||**4**|
|Balance sheet||**5**|
|Notes to the financial statements|**6**|**- 7**|
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Legal and administrative information**
|**Charity number**|1199478||
|---|---|---|
|**Business address**|6 Audley Lane||
||Blackburn||
||Lancashire||
||BB1 1LT||
|**Registered office**|Blackburn||
||Lancashire||
||BB1 1LT||
|**Trustees**|Afzal Ali Mahmad Bhamji||
||Ebrahim Yusuf Patel||
||Mohammed Ali Patel||
|**Management committee 1**|Afzal Ali Mahmad Bhamji|Ebrahim Yusuf Patel|
||Mohammed Ali Patel||
|**Accountants**|AKT Accountants||
||14 Strawberry Bank||
||Blackburn||
||Lancashire||
||BB2 6AA||
|**Bankers**|HSBC Bank||
||60 Church Street||
||Blackburn||
||Lancashire||
||BB1 5AS||
**Page 1**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 30 June 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2025. The trustees who served during the year and up to the date of this report are set out on page 1.
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is incorporated as a charitable incorporated organisation (C.I.O.) on 28 June 2022. Its governing document is the constitution as adopted on 28 June 2022.
Its aims and objectives are as set out below:
## **Objectives and activities**
## _Objective of charity_
The Objects of the CIO is to advance in the Islamic faith throughout England for the benefit of the public in accordance with the statement of Faith mainly but not exclusively through the holding of services and meetings, religious and supplementary education, maintaining a library of Islamic literature, outreach and pastoral case.
## **Achievements and performance**
The charity has started to raise funds in pursuits of its aims and objectives. This was limited due to the lenght of time taken to open a charity bank account. The charity also made donations to other charities in the year.
## **Financial review**
The charity in the financial year received gift aid and other donations.
## **Statement of trustees' responsibilities**
The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.
Law applicable to charities in England and Wales requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of charity's financial activities during the year and of its financial position at the end of the year. In preparing financial statements giving a true and fair view, the trustees are required to:
- select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
- make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
- prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 1993. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees recommend that AKT Accountants remain in office until further notice.
On behalf of the board
Afzal Ali Mahmad Bhamji
## **Trustee**
3 November 2025
**Page 2**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Independent examiner's report to the trustees on the unaudited financial statements of Graceful Hands.**
I report on the financial statements of Graceful Hands for the year ended 30 June 2025 which comprise the statement of financial activities, the balance sheet and the related notes. These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and the accounting policies set out therein.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and independent examiner**
As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts, you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's statement**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charities Commissioners. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (i) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act
have not been met; or
- (ii) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Independent examiner**
**Page 3**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Statement of financial activities**
## **For the year ended 30 June 2025**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Notes**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
Incoming resources from generating funds:
Voluntary income
2
843
**Total incoming resources**
843
**Resources expended**
Interest payable and similar charges
20
Support - Other costs
824
**Total resources expended**
844
Total funds brought forward
2
**Total funds carried forward**
1|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
843
843
20
824
844
2
1|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
1,990|
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|||1,990|
|||40
1,948|
|||1,988|
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The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a separate statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared.
All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
**The notes on pages 6 to 7 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
**Page 4**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Balance sheet as at 30 June 2025**
|**Notes**
**Current assets**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Net current assets**
**Net assets**
**Funds**
3
Unrestricted income funds
**Total funds**|**2025**
**£**
**£**
1
1
1
1
1
1|**2024**
**£**
**£**
2
2
2
2
2
2|**2024**
**£**
**£**
2
2
2
2
2
2|
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The financial statements were approved by the trustees on 3 November 2025 and signed on its behalf by
## **Afzal Ali Mahmad Bhamji Trustee**
**The notes on pages 6 to 7 form an integral part of these financial statements.**
**Page 5**
## **Graceful Hands**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2025**
## **1. Accounting policies**
The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the year and the preceding year.
## **1.1. Basis of accounting**
The financial statements are prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice' issued in March 2005 (SORP 2005) and the Charities Act 1993.
## **1.2. Cashflow**
The charity has taken advantage of the exemption in FRS1 from the requirement to produce a cashflow statement because it is a small charity.
## **1.3. Incoming resources**
All incoming resources are included in the statement of financial activities when the charity is entitled to the income and the amount can be quantified with reasonable accuracy. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
Voluntary income is received by way of grants, donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Grants where entitlement is not conditional on the delivery of a specific performance by the charity, are recognised when the charity becomes unconditionally entitled to the grant.
Donated services and facilities are included at the value to the charity where this can be quantified. The value of services provided by volunteers has not been included.
Gifts donated for resale are included as incoming resources within activities for generating funds when they are sold.
## **1.4. Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
Costs of generating funds comprise the costs associated with attracting voluntary income and the costs of trading for fundraising purposes including the charity's shop.
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature necessary to support them.
Fundraising costs are those incurred in seeking voluntary contributions and do not include the costs of disseminating information in support of the charitable activities.
Support costs are those costs incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the charity and include project management.
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## **Graceful Hands**
## **Notes to financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2025**
|**2.**|**Voluntary income**||||||||
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||||**Unrestricted**||**2025**||**2024**||
|||||**funds**|**Total**||**Total**||
|||||**£**|**£**||**£**||
||Donations type 2|||823|823||-||
||Donations type 3|||20|20||10||
||Gift Aid|||-|-||1,980||
|||||843|843||1,990||
|**3.**|**Analysis of net assets between funds**||||||||
|||||**Unrestricted**|||**Total**||
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||Fund balances at 30 June 2025 as represented by:||||||||
||Current assets||||1||1||
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|**4.**|**Unrestricted funds**|**At**|||||**At**||
|||**01/07/2023**|**Incoming**||**Outgoing**||**30/06/2024**||
|||**2024**|**resources**||**resources**||**2025**||
|||**£**||**£**|**£**||**£**||
||Description for Unrestricted Fund 1|2||843|)
(844||1||
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