ISRAAC SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1170028 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISRAAC, ISRAAC CENTRE

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOMALI AND SOMALILAND COMMUNITY TOGETHER WITH OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE SAID COMMUNITY WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE O

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TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SOMALI AND SOMALILAND COMMUNITY TOGETHER WITH OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS IN THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR THOSE MEMBERS OF THE SAID COMMUNITY WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: 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 · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · 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 accounts state that the charity reported a net incoming resource deficit of £32,477 for the year ended 21 April 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £556,415 to £523,938. The trustees have adopted the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) and the financial statements were subject to independent examination rather than audit. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £225,609 and restricted reserves of £298,329.

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
• 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £140k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ADAM YUSUFchair
• AHMED MOHAMOUD
• Abdilfatah Yousuf Sahal
• FAIZA HASSAN ALI
• Omar Barud
• Professor GEOFFREY GREEN

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 ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• ENFIELD SOMALI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £100k
• SOMALI RELIEF AND ISLAMIC CULTURAL CENTRE income £134k
• ISLINGTON SOMALI COMMUNITY income £147k
• ILEYS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £209k
• SOMALI RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FORUM income £91k
• COUNCIL OF SOMALI ORGANISATIONS income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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