SOMALI INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1167198 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIDA; SIDA UK

our mission is to help the Somali Community, improve the quality of their lives and enable them to play a fully empowered and effective role in wider society by bringing people together, sharing knowledge and co-ordinating activity and opinion.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC LIVING IN THE UK WHO ARE SOMALI OR OF SOMALI DESCENT:A. BY RELIEVING PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS;B. BY ADVANCING EDUCATION; AND C. BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED.(2) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM SOMALIA AND ELSEWHERE WHO ARE RESIDENT OR ARE INTENDING TO RESIDE IN THE UK BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, REPRESENTATION, COUNSELLING, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN MATTERS SUCH AS ASYLUM, IMMIGRATION, MONEY, DEBT, WELFARE BENEFITS, HOUSING, HEALTH, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.(3) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND DISTRESS, PROTECT AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH AND ADVANCE EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SOMALIA AND HORN OF AFRICA COUNTRIES, BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS, CLEAN WATER SUPPLIES, SELF-HELP PROJECTS, MEDICAL AID AND SUCH OTHER FACILITIES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DEEM NECESSARY WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received approximately £60,000 from the London Borough of Southwark Council and £16,000 from The National Lottery, maintaining a reserve of approximately £11,000. The trustees report that the charity has remained prudent and solvent, sustaining support for over 1,700 beneficiaries despite cost of living challenges. Per the Co-ordinator’s review, the organization continues to operate as a stable service provider for the local community.

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.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nasir Abdichair
• Amal Ahmed Ali
• Edil Essa
• IBRAHIM DERIA
• Weli Farah Farah

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

Operates in: Djibouti · Ethiopia · Kenya · Somalia · Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).