HEAR WOMEN

Registered charity 1135763 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GARGAR FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT

Improving Women HealthCampaigning against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM, HIV/ADIS) Community-based health, employment awareness workshops. Improving women Education organising women's networksVolunteer training sessions. Literacy and numeric, ESOL class Creating Employment opportunity for Young people

Objects

TO ADVANCE EAST AFRICAN WOMENS RIGHTS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AND PARTICIPATE THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN GENERALLY.RELIEVE SUFFERING AMONG EAST AFRICAN WOMEN, THE VICTIMS OF WAR AND OTHER DISASTERS IN SOMALIA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AND PROMOTE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND PREVENT UNWANTED PREGNANCYTO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR EAST AFRICAN WOMEN, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ESTABLISHING EDUCATIONAL CENTRES FOR ADVANCING THEIR SKILLS. PROVIDE ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE OF INVOLUNTARY STERILITY OF MALARIA AND OTHER SEXUAL DISEASE FOR MEDICAL ADVICE AND TREATMENT AS APPROPRIATETHESE AIMS SHALL EACH INCLUDE ASSISTING THE EAST AFRICAN WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN WAR AND NEED PARTICULAR ASSISTANCE AND REHABILITATION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements were prepared on a cash basis for the year ended 31 December 2025. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with the Charities Act or accounting records. The trustees confirmed the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

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Policies the charity declares

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• 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
• 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)

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bakol Dirie
• Hassan Ismail HAMUD
• Oumayma Tuijri
• Samia Zaki

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Kensington And Chelsea · Sierra Leone · Somalia · The Gambia

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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