BRITSOM

Registered charity 1196492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General Charitable Purposes Advice & Advocacy Debt Management Education/Training/Skills Welfare Advice Employment Opportunities Support Health and Wellbeing Supplementary Education Youth and Children Activities Arts and Sports Support to local schools Volunteering opportunities Mental Health FGM Awareness ESOL Classes Mother and Toddler Group, sewing classes.

Objects

(1) THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN PARTICULAR WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET, PRIMARILY FOR THOSE INHABITANTS WHO ARE OF SOMALI ORIGIN NOW LIVING HERE AND ANYONE WHO IS RELATED TO SUCH PERSONS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RELIEVE POVERTY. (2) TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE OF SOMALI OR BAME ORIGIN NOW LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BARNET AND THROUGHOUT LONDON, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. (3) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES, PARTICULARLY TO PERSONS WHO ARE OF SOMALI OR BAME ORIGIN, IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of £11,006.38 for the year, resulting in total net assets of £156,219.62. The trustees have set a reserves policy target of £70,000 to maintain operations for six months, and the unrestricted reserves held were £70,434. The charity is funded entirely by grants and donations, with no trading income disclosed.

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 6 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

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MOHAMED ALIchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• AMINA ABDALLA
• MULKI BASHIR
• Madina Mire

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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