## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01 April 2024 To 31 March 2025** ## **Charity name: Sindh Doctor’s Association (UK)** ## **Charity registration number: 327015** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To further the education of medical**
**students from the Sindh Province of**
**Pakistan**.
**For the relief of human sufferings and**
**illnesses in the Sindh Province of**
**Pakistan.**
**To encourage and promote primary**
**education in rural areas by offering**
**financial assistance and any other**
**possible help**.| |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|**Support the ongoing projects of**
**schools, hospital projects and support**
**services for wheel-chair users. Ongoing**
**support for the SOUL project.**
**To support the ambulance service and**
**the 20 newly adopted schools in taluka**
**Sindhriand Khipro.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes, the Trustees have been upraised**
**with the Charity Commission guidance.**| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |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|**The main achievements of the Charity in**
**the year 2024:**
**1. Provided continued support for**
**the ongoing projects of hospitals,**
**schools and SOUL projects.**
**2. Started ambulance service**
**between Tharparkar and bigger**
**hospital centres, e.g. Hyderabad,**
**Karachi, etc.**
**3. Adopted 20 (closed) primary**
**schools in Taluka Khipro and**
**Sindhri in Mirpurkhas.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**The Charity objectives revolve around**
**improving the health and education**
**infrastructure.**
**This year’s achievements cover these**
**two objectives.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Funds were raised from the**
**membership, friends and well wishers.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Invested approximately £7000 in**
**establishing the Ambulance service with**
**three vehicles.**
**Invested a further £5000 for opening**
**(making functional) some 20 primary**
**schools in Taluka Sindhri and Khipro,**
**Mirpurkhas. **| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the reporting period, the**
**charity remains in a stable financial**
**position. Total income and expenditure**
**have been monitored closely throughout**
**the year, with resources directed in line**
**with our charitable objectives. The**
**charity has maintained sufficient**
**unrestricted reserves, in accordance**
**with our reserves policy, to ensure we**
**are prepared to respond to emergencies**
**and continue delivering core services.**
**We continue to manage our finances**
**prudently, ensuring sustainability while**
**maintaining our capacity to support**
**beneficiaries effectively. **| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity holds reserves solely from**
**unrestricted donations. These funds are**
**deliberately maintained to ensure the**
**charity can respond swiftly and**
**effectively to unforeseen emergencies,**
**such as natural disasters including**
**earthquakes, floods, and other crisis**
**situations. Maintaining this reserve**
**enables us to provide timely**
**humanitarian assistance when it is most**
**urgently needed, ensuring our**
**operational readiness in times of**
**exceptional need. **| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**As at the end of the financial year, the**
**charity held £109,435 in unrestricted**
**reserves. These reserves are maintained**
**in line with our reserves policy, which**
**aims to ensure the charity can respond**
**promptly to emergency situations such**
**as natural disasters. The current reserve**
**level is considered sufficient to meet**
**this objective and to provide financial**
**stability. The trustees regularly review**
**the reserve levels to ensure they remain**
**appropriate to the charity’s risk profile**
**and operational needs. **| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**The charity had no funds materially in**
**deficit at the end of the financial year.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The trustees have assessed the**
**charity’s financial position and consider**
**that there are no material uncertainties**
**about the charity’s ability to continue as**
**a going concern. The financial**
**statements have therefore been**
**prepared on a going concernbasis. **| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |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:||| |---|---|---| |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|**Unincorporated Association**| |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|**Trustees are appointed by selection by**
**the Executive Committee**| ## **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|Sindh Doctor’s Association (UK)| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|SDAUK| |Registered charity number|327015| |Charity’s principal address|16 Beechwood Park
London
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Dr. Khalid R
Laghari|||| ||Dr. Kamar Khan
Afghan|||| ||Dr. Shahabuddin
Kalhoro|||| ||Dr. Anwar Hussain
Baloch|||| ||Dr. Ziauddin
Ahmed Shaikh|Treasurer||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |**N/A **||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| **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 al>ove. Slgned on behalf of the charity's trustses Signature(s) Full name(s) Posltlon (eg Secrèiary. Chali, etc) Date 96_07_24>f **SINDH DOCTORS ASSOCIATION (UK) 327015 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 01/04/2024 To 31/03/2025 from** ~~ee ee ee~~ ## ~~a~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Membership fee and annual subcription|881|-|-|881|506| |Voluntary Receipts from Donors|162,792|35,168|-|197,960|175,558| |HMRC Charities|7,341|-|-|7,341|13,877| |Interest on reserve funds|141|-|-|141|233| |Sub total|(Gross income for| |171,155|35,168|-|206,323|190,173| |AR)| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |IeS|SS| |Total receipts|171,155|35,168|-|206,323|190,173| |A3 Payments| |Education and Health Care|-|-|-|-|152,090| |Health|37,402|35,168|72,570| |Education|23,155|-|23,155| |Social Welfare|27,800|-|27,800| |Natural Disaster|-|-|-|-|4,800| |Management Cost|-|-|-|-|14,317| |Other Charities|35,685|-|-|35,685|-| |Social and Fundraising Events|14,050|14,050| |Accountancy|1,000|-|1,000| |Other Adminstrative Cost|278|-|278| |Finance Cost|379|-|-|379|180| |Sub total|139,749|35,168|-|174,917|171,387| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases,|(see table)| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |I|SS|SS| |Total payments|139,749|35,168|-|174,917|171,387| ||||||||| |Net of receipts/(payments)|31,406|- 0|-|31,406|18,786| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|- -|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|78,029|- -|78,029|59,243| |Cash funds this year end|109,435|- 0|- 109,435|78,029| |=== >>| **----- End of picture text -----**
Accounts 2024-25 ## **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**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
Current Account 1
Current Account 2
Current Account 3
Reserve Account|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**21,670**
**-**
**54,925**
**-**
**20,330**
**-**
**12,510**
**-**
**109,435**
**-**
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OK
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||| ||||| Accounts 2024-25 7 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**|||| |---|---|---|---| |**members of**|Sindh Doctors Association (UK)||| ||||| |**On accounts for the year**|31 March 2025|**Charity no**|327015| |**ended**||**(if any)**|| ||||| |**Set out on pages**|in Accounts 2024-25||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2025** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £25,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of Institute of Financial Accountants. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Signed:** _**Raza Laghari**_ **Date: 11/06/2025 Name:** Ghulam Raza Laghari on behalf of Certax Accounting (Fitzrovia) Limited **Relevant professional** Institute of Financial Accountants (membership number 264760) **qualification(s) or body** **March 2025** **IER** 8 ## **(if any):** **Address:** 85 Tottenham Court Road London W1T 4TQ ## **Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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** . None to report. **March 2025** **IER**