## Habibti Liverpool Trustees’ Annual Report
## **Reporting period**
From: April 2024 To: March 2025
## **Charity details**
Charity name: Habibti Liverpool Registered charity number: 1201401 Principal address: 28 Rutland Avenue, Liverpool L17 2AF
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Charitable purposes**
The relief of those in need by reason of ill health, financial hardship or other social or economic disadvantage in Liverpool, by providing donated goods to families and community groups in need, in particular but not limited to food, clothes and household goods; and
To preserve and protect good health for the public benefit, in particular but not limited to providing equipment, medicine and financial support to pay healthcare staff at the hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.
## **Main activities**
_Summarise the main activities carried out during the year to further these aims._ Collection of financial donations. Our volunteers and supporters raised funds by: organising fashion shows, Christmas card amnesties to raise money, jumping out of planes, running women’s circles, teaching and awareness sessions in Ramadan, DJing, shaving their hair, jumping in the dock, a Snowdown marathon, a boxer donating proceeds, carol singing, children and adults birthday – donations instead of presents, organising parties. Toro’s restaurant donated their proceeds from one night’s earnings.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees confirm we have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Achievements and Performance**
In June, 2024, Najla delivered Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine’s prestigious Leverhulme Lecture as part of our 125th anniversary public lecture series. You can watch her lecture in full by visiting: _**Inspirational Yemeni paediatrician Professor Najla Al-Sonboli returns to Liverpool for prestigious Leverhulme Lecture | LSTM**_ . The lecture demonstrates the impact of her and Nasher’s work in conflict and scarcity and how they have innovated with limited resources to promote health equity for the most vulnerable. The lecture includes some distressing images. There are references to war and conflict with first hand experiences of illness and trauma which are discussed. For many people in the community this was the first time they met Najla and Nasher, who they knew so much about and had fundraised for, and it was an emotional time of connection.
Medical equipment was donated from Alderhey Children’s Hospital and we have paid for it to reach Yemen – this included tubes for intubation, cannulas. One volunteer collected clothes, formula and nappies and sent these to Al-Sabeen hospital where they were received with great joy.
## **Financial Review**
## **Financial position**
_Provide a summary of the charity’s finances at the end of the year._
We have again exceeded our target for donations sent to Yemen, with a total of £39980 sent over the period. This was funded by incoming donation totalling £39056.80 and small sales of £3296.37. We made an overall surplus over the period of £1871.62 and maintained our reserve cash in the bank at over £6000 throughout, ending the period with £8978.60 in the bank.
## **Reserves**
Policy on holding reserves (if applicable): We try to balance the urgent needs of the hospital with our knowledge of expected income over the next period. We aim to retain small reserves to allow up to 3 months’ transfers, equivalent to a total of £6000.
Amount of reserves held: £8978.60
## **Funds in deficit: None**
## **Going concern: No concerns**
## **Additional notes (optional)**
Sources of income/funding.
Investment policies. Principal risks faced by the charity.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
Governing document: Constitution, December 2022
Charity type: CIO Foundation
How trustees are appointed:
1. Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a special resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees, in which charity trustees must _unanimously_ approve the new appointment.
2. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
List all trustees, their roles (if any), and service dates (if not for the full year).
|Trustee Name|Office (if any)|Dates acted (if not the full
year)|
|---|---|---|
|Saba Ahmed Dabab|||
|SallyTheobald|||
|Christiana O’Brien|||
|Beth Hollihead|TemporaryTreasurer||
||||
## **Other key people (optional)**
Corporate Trustees: None
Trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity: None
## **Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved this report.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
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**Charity Name**
**Habibti Liverpool**|
**Charity Name**
**Habibti Liverpool**|
**Charity Name**
**Habibti Liverpool**|**No (if any)**
**1201401**|**No (if any)**
**1201401**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/04/2024|**To**|Period end date
31/03/2025|||
||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**3,296**
**39,057**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**42,353**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**42,353**
**764**
**-**
**39,980**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,744**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,744**
**1,609**
**-**
**7,177**
**8,786**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**8,223**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,223**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,223**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,960**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,960**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,960**
**263**
**-**
**-**
**263**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,296**
**39,057**
**8,223**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50,576**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50,576**
**764**
**-**
**39,980**
**7,960**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**48,704**
**1,872**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Sales|**3,296**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,296**||**-**|
|Donations received|**39,057**|||**39,057**||**-**|
|Zakat|**-**|||**8,223**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**42,353**|||**50,576**||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
|**N/A**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|||
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**50,576**||**-**|
||||||||
|Cost of sales|**764**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**764**||**-**|
|Cost of donated equipment|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Direct donations to Al Sabeen|**39,980**|||**39,980**||**-**|
|Zakat Payments||||**7,960**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**40,744**|||**48,704**||**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
||||**-**|**48,704**||**-**|
||||||||
||**1,609**|**263**|**-**|
**1,872**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**7,177**|**-**||**7,177**||**-**|
||**8,786**|**263**|**-**|**9,049**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
26/01/2026
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## **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**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
None
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
None
Natwest Account Balance
Zempler account balance
Cash float
**Details**
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
Signature
Beth Hollihead|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**4,044**
**-**
**4,672**
**263**
**70**
**-**
**8,786**
**263**
OK
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
Beth Hollihead|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||Beth Hollihead|Beth Hollihead|19/01/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
26/01/2026
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/ members of**
Charity Name **Habibti Liverpool**
**On accounts for the year ended**
## **31[st] March 2025**
**Charity no (if any)**
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2025** .
As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation 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.
**Signed:**
**Date:**
20/01/2026
**Name:**
Teza Francis Kowa
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
ACCA
1
**January 2026**
**IER**
Membership Number - 0411526
**Address:**
C/o Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place, Liverpool
L3 5QA, UK
## **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** .
Not Applicable
2
**January 2026**
**IER**