ASPIRING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER

Registered charity 1104200 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASPIRING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER LTD, YEMENI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (SHEFFIELD) LIMITED

To improve literacy skills, training, career guidance, advice in financial, welfare and legal matters, childcare assistance, youth work, after school study support for the Yemeni community and other BME communities in Sheffield.

Objects

A) TO PROVIDE AND PROMOTE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION;B) TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF THE YEMENI CULTURE;C) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SAID YEMENI COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: DIRECTED WHOLLY OR MAINLY TO THE BENEFIT OF THE YEMENI COMMUNITY IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £100,025 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £1,015,063 to £915,038. Free reserves stood at £463,249, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain financial stability and service continuity. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2025 (received 20/05/2026, 20 days after the 30/04/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 29/03/2022, 57 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~13.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (89% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Awad Gobranchair
• AHMED YOUSEF ABDULQADER
• FAIZA SHAIBI
• Rafat Saleh
• Said Ali
• Saleh Mohammed Al-Yafai

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Diversity Rights.

• Diversity Rights income £72k
• WIGAN AND LEIGH COMMUNITY CHARITY income £275k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• YEMENI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION IN GREATER MANCHESTER income £222k
• ARRAHMA ISLAMIC CENTRE income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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