## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 22 SEPTEM 2023 31 MARCH 2024 BER **To**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** THE HELPERS (AL ANSAR) FOUNDATION **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1204871
**Charity's principal address** 77 ST. THOMAS’S ROAD LONDON **Postcode N4 2QJ**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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**
**TAR**
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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**
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO FOUNDATION CONSTITUTION How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY TRUSTEES Trustee selection methods
- (eg. trust, association, company)
- (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’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 HELPERS (AL ANSAR) FOUNDATION OPERATES FOR THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND POVERTY AMONGST FAMILIES IN BANGLADESH WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO AFFORD BASIC SUPPLIES SUCH AS; FOOD, CLEAN WATER, AND CLOTHING, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF THESE SUPPLIES.
**TAR**
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THE TRUSTEES ARE AWARE OF THE CHARITY COMMMISSIONS PUBLIC BENEFIT GUIDANCE.
THE MAIN ACTIVITIES FOR THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE FOOD, CLEAN WATER, CLOTHING AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO THOSE IN NEED.
THESE ARE DISTRIBUTED BY A NETWORK OF VOLUNTEERS ON THE GROUND IN BANGLADESH TO THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY.
**Summary of the main** THIS ASSESSMENT IS MADE BY THE TRUSTEES AND **activities undertaken for the** VOLUNTEERS ON THE GROUND, THE TRUSTEES HAVE SEEN **public benefit in relation to** FIRST HAND THE ISSUES FACED BY A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF **these objects (include within** SOCIETY IN THAT THEY LACK THE BASIC SUPPLIES WHICH WE **this section the statutory** OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **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.
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
THE CHARITY HAS BEEN ABLE TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT SUPPLIES OF FOOD PARCELS TO ENABLE POVERTY STRICKEN AND DESTITUTE FAMILIES TO ENJOY NUTRITIOUS MEALS. INSTALLED TUBE WELLS IN DEPRIVED AREAS, PROVIDING CLEAN AND SAFE WATER TO HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES.
SUPPORTED CHILDREN IN LOCAL SCHOOLS WITH THE PROVISION OF SCHOOL FEES, SUPPLIES, BOOKS, UNIFORM AND STATIONARY, ENABLING CHILDREN TO HAVE ACCESS TO QUALITY EDUCATION.
PARTNERED WITH LOCAL BUILDERS TO CONSTRUCT HOMES FOR FAMILIES LIVING IN EXTREME POVERTY. PROVIDING THEM WITH SHELTER FROM HARSH WEATHER CONDITIONS, GIVING THEM A SAFE AND DIGNIFIED PLACE TO LIVE.
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## **Section E Financial review**
THE CHARITY’S POLICY ON RESERVES IS TO MAINTAIN A **Brief statement of the** HEALTHY BANK BALANCE IN THE EVENT OF UNFORESEEN **charity’s policy on reserves** NATURAL DISASTERS TO OFFER THE CHARITY’S SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN NEED IF AND WHEN SUCH DISASTERS OCCUR.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
N/A
## **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.
## **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)** MR FARHAD AHMED **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 19/01/2025
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## Receipts and Payments Accounts
Charity name The Helpers (Al Ansar) Foundation Charity number (if any) 1 2 0 4 8 7 1 For the period from (start date) 2 D D 2 M 0 M 9 2 Y 3 Y to (end date) 3 D D 1 0 M 3 M Y 2 4 Y
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**Receipts and payments**|**Section A**
**Receipts and payments**|
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||**A1 Receipts**|Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£|Restricted
funds
to the nearest
£|Endowment
funds
to the nearest
£|Total funds
to the nearest
£|Last year
to the nearest
£
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||Donations|21,908|-|-|21,908||
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**A2 Asset and investment sales, etc**
_Total receipts_
**A3 Payments**||||||
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||Expenses|33,274|-|-|33,274||
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||Sub total
**A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc**
_Total payments_
_Net of receipts/(payments)_
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
_Cash funds this year end_||||||
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**March 2012: new format January 2017**
**CC16a**
**Section B**
## **Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|Details
**B1 Cash funds**
_Total cash funds_
_(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))_
Details
**B2 Other monetary assets**
Details
**B3 Investment assets**
Details
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
Details
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
Signature
Barclays Bank|Details|Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
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funds
to the nearest
£|Endowment
funds
to the nearest
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||Barclays Bank|7,246|-|-|
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|||Farhad Ahmed||19/01/2025|
**March 2012: new format January 2017**
**CC16a**