2024-03-31-accounts - Scottish Communities Initiative

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Scottish Communities Initiative

Receipts & Payments Account For the period 01 April 2023 - 31 March 2024

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Scottish Charity Number:
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Bankers:
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Scottish Communities Initiative Trustees’ Report For the period 01 April 2023 - 31 March 2024

Introduction

Scottish Communities Initiative is a small Scottish Charity (SC 045969), and a voluntary organisation operating in Glasgow. We are driven into action by our mission statement to help create a more equal, just and educated Scotland.

We will do this through our four projects of: Breaking the Glass Ceiling; Disrupting Radicalisation,; Enhancing Rehabilitation and Increasing Social Empowerment.

Over time, Scottish Communities Initiative will grow into a source of guidance and support for policy makers, service providers and service users. We will achieve through the delivery of our aims and objectives. We will identify disenfranchised individuals and we will educate, assist and empower them by signposting towards relevant training, mentoring, networking and supporting opportunities.

The end goal is that all Scots including those from a BME and Muslim background are being given the same opportunities as the rest of society.

We ask for your full support and your assistance to help us find barriers, challenge discrimination, suggest positive and realistic solutions and change lives for the better so that we have a more equal, just and educated Scotland for all.

Aims/Objectives Scottish Communities Initiative _of are:

To help create a more equal, just and educated Scotland. To advance the prevention or relief of poverty through our: increasing social empowerment and breaking the glass ceiling projects. To provide the advancement of education through our: breaking the glass ceiling; challenging and reducing radicalisation; and enhancing rehabilitation projects. To provide the advancement of citizenship or community development through our: breaking the glass ceiling; challenging and reducing radicalisation; enhancing rehabilitation; and increasing social empowerment projects. To provide the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation through our: breaking the glass ceiling; challenging and reducing radicalisation, enhancing rehabilitation, and increasing social empowerment projects. To advance the promotion of religious or racial harmony through our: breaking the glass ceiling; challenging and reducing radicalisation; enhancing rehabilitation; and increasing social empowerment projects.

Activities

During the year charity performed regular weekly/monthly mental health consultation and other smailer health project.

Statement of Responsibilities of Members

The committee members are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for each financial year, which gives a true and fair review of the state of affairs at the end of the year and of its results for that period. In preparing those accounts the members are required to;

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The committee members are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the project and which will enable them to comply with accounting procedures of The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 and The Charities Accounts (Scotland) regulations 1992, As a Scottish charity they must also comply with the applicable terms and provisions of the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Regulations 2006. They are responsible for safeguarding the assets of the organisation and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud or other irregularities.

We shall continue to work to deliver the successful assistance and help required by our service users to the consistently high standard we have been renowned for.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our volunteers and supporters from the whole community for their hard work throughout the year.

Signed on behalf of Scottish Communities Initiative

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independent Examiner’s Notes on Scottish Communities Initiative Receipts & Payments Statement For the period 01 April 2023 - 31 March 2024 | report on the accounts of the charity for the period ended 31 March 2024 which are set out on pages seven to eight. ieee hacia: Miche ab einanind See ee ee we oe

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity’s trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (a) to (c) of the 2006 Accounts Regulations does not apply.

it is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of the independent examiner's report

My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. 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 seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently | do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner's statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention

which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations

° to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 8 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations

have not been met, or

to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

There is no change in role and responsibilities of trustee’s within the board during the period 01/04/23 to 31/03/24.

| reviewed the group's financial records, pay-ins, and expenditures from April 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023. During this period, the charity organised an event in August 2023 and conducted regular mental health counselling sessions.

With specific reference to this accounting period | should just like to state that after examination of the group’s financial records | have no specific recommendations to make regarding the group’s methods of recording or accounting practice as they all conform to the statutory requirements for an organisation of its size and nature. Further no other issues of concern were raised in any pertinent matter with regard to Scottish Communities Initiative’s accounts for this period.

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Receipts & Payments Account Statement Period 01 April 2022 to 34 March 2023

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Receipts
Grant Fund Received	1280.00		0.00
Donations	0.00		0.00
Total Receipts		1280.00	0.00
Expenses		;
Accountancy Fees	180.00		180.00
Event/Project Cost	2,887.78		1,742.30
InternetCost	330.24		276.26
Admin Cost	599.00		0.00
Total Expenses		3,997.02	2198.56
Surplus(Deficit)		(2,717.02)	(2,198.56)

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Statement Of Financial Position For The Year Ending 31 March 2024

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||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |£| |Opening|Bal|01|April|2023|13,943.41| |Surplus(Deficit)|for year|(2,717.02)| |Balance|c/f on|31|March|2024|11,226.39| |Fixed|Assets| |Tangible|Assets|599.00| |Current|Assets| |Debtors| |Cash|in|hand/ Bank|11,115.17| |Total|Assets|11,714.17| |Net|Liabilities| |Creditors|amount|failing|due within|1|year|487.78| |Creditors|amount|failing|due|more|than|1|year| |Net|liabilities| |Depreciation| |Total|net worth|of Charity|C/FWD|to|1|April|2024|11,226.39| |All|funds|are|restricted|to|the|purpose|raised|for,|except|generated|income| |Signed|by|Independent|Exami| |27/03/2025| |Signed|on|behalf of|Scottish|Communities|Initiati|

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