HARROW ASSOCIATION OF SOMALI VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATIONS (HASVO)

Registered charity 1129442 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide information & drop in services .Partner other organisations in the field.Provide elderly services for people with cultural and language difficulty.Provide education, training and raising awareness on the practical issues affecting the Arabic & Somali Community in the Borough.Provide advice and advocacy and outreach services.Offer weekend support for young people , elderly and women.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOMALI COMMUNITY PRINCIPALLY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW BY ACTING AS AN UMBRELLA BODY FOR LOCAL SOMALI GROUPS WHO HAVE, INPARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE FOLLOWING AIMS:THE RELIEF OF POVERTY;THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT;THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE [SOCIALLY ANDECONOMICALLY] [SOCIALLY] DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTERABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY;THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS;THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH;THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT."

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF HARROW

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total net assets of £171,531 against a stated reserves policy target of £30,000. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention requiring further understanding of the accounts, and the trustees reported the charity remained financially stable.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05435204

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MOHAMED, Cabduiqaadir Afeey — director, appointed 22/08/2023not on trustee list
• YUSUF, Ahmed Hussein — director, appointed 26/04/2005not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CABDULQADIR MOHAMED AFEYchair
• AYAN ISMAIL
• OMAR ELMI NOOR
• Samira Hassan
• YUSSUF AHMED

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

Operates in: Barnet · Brent · Ealing · Harrow · Hillingdon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFGHAN ASSOCIATION OF LONDON (HARROW).

• AFGHAN ASSOCIATION OF LONDON (HARROW) income £153k
• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP income £496k
• Huda Community Association (HCA) income £149k
• HASANAH AID income £278k
• THE HARROW MISSION income £315k

Side by side with its peers

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