EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Registered charity 1118721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

??? Supplemantary school??? Provision of positive activities to the youth;??? luncheon club for the elderly refugees;??? Guidance, mentoring services to young people and their families??? Promotion and integration of refugee families into mainstream services and schools;??? Information, advice and resource centre for matters relating to Somali language and history

Objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE;1. TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF SOMALI REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS, AND OTHER BLACK & MINORITY ETHNIC (BME) COMMUNITIES IN UK, PARTICULARLY CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY;A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING:B) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;#C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND THE PROMOTION OF GOOD HEALTH; AND D) THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE. 2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE IF THE HORN OF AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES T IMPROVE SCHOOLS IN THE AREA.

Area of benefit: IN THE UK, AND IN THE HORN OF AFRICA.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £28,264 and held total unrestricted reserves of £91,021 as of 30 November 2025. The trustees have set a reserve policy target of approximately six months of operational expenditure, which the current unrestricted reserves do not explicitly meet given the stated operational expenditure levels. The accounts were subject to an independent examination with no matters coming to the examiner's attention.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• GLA — “GLA Community Outreach Programme” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sham Arun-Qayyumchair
• CHARLOTTE EMMA FERNANDO
• MARSO ABDI
• Mohamed ALI NUUR
• TANYA SUSAN WHITE
• VERA ATILENGA COFFEN

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

Operates in: Brent · Ealing · Hounslow · Somalia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REFUGEE WORKERS' CULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

• REFUGEE WORKERS' CULTURAL ASSOCIATION income £199k
• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• BRADFORD AFRICAN COMMUNITY income £137k
• FUTURE SKILLS TRAINING income £234k
• REACHING THE UNREACHED income £773k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.