## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 15 07 2024 **To** 31 03 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
SHEMITAH FOUNDATION
**Charity name** SHEMITAH FOUNDATION **Other names charity is known by** SF UK **Registered charity number (if any)** 1209121 **Charity's principal address** 27 MONTREAL ROAD ILFORD **Postcode IG1 4SH**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**|
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||Frederick Israel Raymond|Chair||Board of Trustees|
||David Amankwah Opoku|Trustee||Board of Trustees|
||Barida Natalie Poi|Trustee||Board of Trustees|
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CONSTITUTION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO FOUNDATION How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY BOARD OF 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’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 relief of financial hardship for the public benefit, anywhere in the world, through the provision of: well-being counseling and education sessions, humanitarian aid and support, funding for educational courses and materials, vocational training.
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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)**
**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**
The charity focused on strong community engagement to ensure its work reflected real and current needs. Regular community meetings were held with residents, local leaders, and partner organisations to listen to concerns and identify priority issues affecting people facing financial hardship. The charity also carried out structured community surveys to gather wider feedback. Survey responses highlighted increased demand for food support, wellbeing services, and skills development. These findings directly informed service planning and resource allocation. As a result of this engagement, the charity adapted its activities to better meet local needs, increased participation in its services, and strengthened trust within the community.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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)** Barida Natalie Poi **Full name(s)** Frederick Israel Raymond **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Trustee **etc) Date** 30/01/2026
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||**SHEMITAH FOUNDATION**
**Charity Name**|**SHEMITAH FOUNDATION**
**Charity Name**|**SHEMITAH FOUNDATION**
**Charity Name**|**SHEMITAH FOUNDATION**
**Charity Name**|**SHEMITAH FOUNDATION**
**Charity Name**|**1209121**
**No (if any)**|**1209121**
**No (if any)**|**1209121**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**||15/07/2024
Period start date||**To**||31/03/2025
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**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 £**|
|DONATIONS|**510**||**-**||**-**||**510**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**510**||**-**||**-**||**510**||**-**|
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**(see table).**||||||||||
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**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|COMMUNITY PROJECT|**200**||**-**||**-**||**200**||**-**|
|INSURANCE|**308**||**-**||**-**||**308**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**508**||**-**||**-**||**508**||**-**|
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**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
30/01/2026
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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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
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||Signature
**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Frederick Israel Raymond
Barida Natalie Poi||||**When due**
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approval|
||||Frederick Israel Raymond||||30/01/2026|
||||Barida Natalie Poi||||30/01/2026|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
30/01/2026
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