BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
13135717 (England and Wales)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 January 2022

Period of accounts

Start date: 15 January 2021

End date: 31 January 2022

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2022

Directors report
Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Directors' report period ended 31 January 2022

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 January 2022

Additional information

There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with directors' remuneration or compensation for the director's loss of office, which require disclosure.



Directors

The director shown below has held office during the period of
2 July 2021 to 31 January 2022

GITONGA, Keziah Makena


The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
15 January 2021 to 31 January 2022

MAINA, Alice Wambui


The director shown below has held office during the period of
15 January 2021 to 10 June 2021

KARANJA, Alexander Njuguna


The director shown below has held office during the period of
15 January 2021 to 6 March 2021

APIA, Peris Nyiha Semiti


Secretary ABDULAI, Gilbert Iddi

The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006

This report was approved by the board of directors on
5 September 2022

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: MAINA, Alice Wambui
Status: Director

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 January 2022

13 months to 31 January 2022


£
Turnover: 14,789
Cost of sales: 0
Gross profit(or loss): 14,789
Distribution costs: ( 980 )
Administrative expenses: ( 7,322 )
Other operating income: 0
Operating profit(or loss): 6,487
Interest receivable and similar income: 0
Interest payable and similar charges: 0
Profit(or loss) before tax: 6,487
Tax: 0
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: 6,487

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Balance sheet

As at 31 January 2022

Notes 13 months to 31 January 2022


£
Fixed assets
Intangible assets:   0
Tangible assets: 3 1,480
Investments:   0
Total fixed assets: 1,480
Current assets
Stocks:   0
Debtors:   0
Cash at bank and in hand: 5,162
Investments:   0
Total current assets: 5,162
Prepayments and accrued income: 0
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year:   0
Net current assets (liabilities): 5,162
Total assets less current liabilities: 6,642
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year:   0
Provision for liabilities: 0
Accruals and deferred income: 0
Total net assets (liabilities): 6,642
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 6,642
Total members' funds: 6,642

The notes form part of these financial statements

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 January 2022 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 5 September 2022
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: MAINA, Alice Wambui
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2022

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2022

  • 2. Employees

    13 months to 31 January 2022
    Average number of employees during the period 0

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 January 2022

3. Tangible assets

Land & buildings Plant & machinery Fixtures & fittings Office equipment Motor vehicles Total
Cost £ £ £ £ £ £
Additions 0 0 0 1,480 0 1,480
Disposals 0 0 0 0 0 0
Revaluations 0 0 0 0 0 0
Transfers 0 0 0 0 0 0
At 31 January 2022 0 0 0 1,480 0 1,480
Depreciation
Charge for year 0 0 0 0 0 0
On disposals 0 0 0 0 0
Other adjustments
At 31 January 2022 0 0 0 0 0 0
Net book value
At 31 January 2022 0 0 0 1,480 0 1,480

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

BAME HUB - UK NETWORK C.I.C.

Company Number: 13135717 (England and Wales)

Year Ending: 31 January 2022

Company activities and impact

BAME HUB-UK NETWORK C.I.C has been working tirelessly to support Black, Asian, and Ethnic minority communities (BAME) and their non-BAME friends across the UK, especially during the covid pandemic and lockdown. It delivers various projects aimed at vulnerable BAME groups, including children and young people, people with physical disabilities and mental health difficulties, the elderly, asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants, ex-offenders, people with sexual abuse and early pregnancy issues and among others. We have a youth empowerment project, community support and family activities where we invite BAME communities and their non-BAME friends across the UK. Currently, have ongoing capacity building and growing future leaders. We have delivered capacity-building training to young people between 18-25yrs, benefiting over one hundred people across the UK. We have organised fun and recreational days for our members. Families meet, socialise, and have fun through community social events where the BAME families and their non-BAME friends have been invited to outdoor activities. For example, beaches, parks and social gatherings to reduce social isolation and loneliness. These activities help to improve physical and mental health well-being.Our Mission is to bridge the gap and improve communication between the UK mainstream and BAME communities.Our vision is to empower and equip BAME communities and their families with skills to be self-sufficient that help them avoid pitfalls associated with a lack of empowerment and information. This will improve their social standing by being more socially and economically cohesive within the British Society as they build their lives in the UK.We often invite professionals, business entrepreneurs and role models to our seminars, workshop, and talks. We have organised sessions to give information about employability, health awareness, immigration and family law, and business start-up. During the covid-19 pandemic, we were disseminating cabinet and prime minister office, local authorities and Public Health England information regarding covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, vaccinations, flu jabs, and overall general health and census updates. BAME Hub-UK Network is building a network of role models, business entrepreneurs, mentors, and heroes in education, sport, and art. Within our organisation across the UK, we have more than one volunteer supporting vulnerable young people, the elderly, asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants, etc. We also have more than three thousand supporters and members across the UK. We collaborate with various organisations and have helped over one hundred fifty organisations that deal with BAME communities and their non-BAME friends. Promoting what they do gives them our platforms to showcase their work, primarily through our offices (using our internal database) and social media platforms. Young people capacity-building training: It is a funded project by National Lottery Community Fund. This ongoing training of young people has benefited more than one hundred BAME young people across the UK. The training aims to equip them with essential tools and transferable skills needed in the world of work and reach their maximum potential. The training consisted of various modules, Cross-Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Equality & Diversity, Careers and Employability. In addition, advice and guidance, CV, Job search and Application, Business start-up and Entrepreneurship, Building your self-esteem and assertive skills, Conflict resolution at the workplace, Emotional intelligence and anger management. We also partnered with Merseyside police to deliver summer work placement with our young people aged 13-19yrs old. The students learned about the police profession, police duties and what influences their decision-making in real-life scenarios. Community Events: Community social event was created during covid 19 pandemic to bring and connect people from different cultural background to fight social isolation and loneliness. Therefore, we have organised and participated in community events across the UK. BAME families and their non-BAME friends attended community social events either online or face to face after the lockdown lifted. For example, the BAME community met at several UK beaches, parks and restaurants in Liverpool, Milton Keynes, Essex, London, Northampton, Birmingham, Coventry, and other cities. Although, some activities were conducted online via zoom during the lockdown, effectively reaching out to self-isolating people and those living alone. We are keen on fighting isolation and loneliness because research shows that social isolation and loneliness are increasingly recognised as public health issues. Our BAME communities are experiencing loneliness, which is the feeling of being alone, regardless of the amount of social contact they have.Some also experience social isolation, which is a lack of social connections. Some families who attended our social events said sometimes social isolation could lead to loneliness and feeling lonely without being socially isolated. Therefore, we try to match groups depending on their similar or shared interests, for example, walking, going to the beach, cycling, etc. These activities aim to improve mental and physical health well-being because evidence shows that loneliness and social isolation are associated with higher risks for severe health conditions such as heart disease, depression and poor cognitive function. In fact, covid-19 forcefully made us aware of isolation and loneliness because feeling connected with other people is a basic need, like we need food. Our organisation is therefore bringing people together so that they can feel connected to combat loneliness and social isolation. We need one another to survive and thrive. We received positive feedback from the participants who attended these events. They found the event helpful, enhancing social inclusion and fighting isolation and boredom. We have also been invited to attend community events by our partners and individuals, where our executive committee and members honoured the invite. Some of our executive directors have also been invited to speak and talk about knife crime, mentoring, advice, and awareness on the various topics we address within our organisation. Building Role model Network event: This event builds a network of role models, business entrepreneurs, mentors, and heroes in education, sport and art. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we successfully invited role models to talk to young people and BAME families, such as Miss England, Councillors from BAME communities, Lawyers, and successful businesspeople. The role model-building network continues to grow; we are looking to introduce fortnight meetings with role models, business entrepreneurs, mentors, and heroes in education, sport and art.Food Feeding program: During the lockdown, we provided food staples and halal food to asylum seekers and refugees, people from BAME communities with diabetes who were shielded, and elderly and non-BAME families who are friends of BAME communities. Our members donated money to buy food, and others donated food. Some food banks in Liverpool, Milton Keynes and other areas supported our service users. Our volunteers would call the food bank and receive an Ecode that allowed them to collect food on behalf of our service users and deliver it to them because sometimes we could not meet the demand. Case studies One of our food feeding program beneficiaries is 23yrs old Mohammed (not his real name), an asylum seeker. He was self-isolating as he had tested covid-19 positive. He is from Afghanistan and left home unexpectedly because his life was in danger due to the war in Afghanistan. He has post-traumatic stress disorder. We received a referral from Refugee Action and contacted him, where we found that he had not eaten food for three days. He was starving and weak. He could not speak English, so we had to look for an interpreter. Lucky enough, we had an interpreter volunteer who spoke his language. So, through our interpreter, we collected all the information we needed from him to offer support. During the three-way call interview, he told us we should only deliver fast or cooked food because he could not cook.Given that he had tested covid-19 positive, he could not enter the shared kitchen with five other asylum seekers in National Asylum Support Services (NASS) accommodation. He had not also left home to collect his NASS money for a week again because he was self-isolating. So, we also supplied water, juice and fruits to cater for a week. We also had a four-way telephone interview with his local food bank to request more support. The food bank generated the Ecode, and our volunteer was able to collect the food on his half and drop it off to him. Mohammed said, "Many thanks to you, BAME HUB-UK NETWORK CIC, for the support you accorded me as a neediest and vulnerable individual. I feel you are my nuclear family, and I have no better words to express my gratitude because you have saved my life. May Allah blesses you, and once I feel much better, "What you have done to me today, I must volunteer in your organisation to help someone in need to give back to my community and your organisation", etc. We have also extracted some comments from our user of service (not real names) as we have many testimonials and case studies:Juma: "you saved my life." Ann: "I am who I am today because of you". Fatuma: "you came at the right time because I was lonely, lost, confused and hopeless". Joe: "May God bless you for the good work you do for us". Yusuf: "You have no idea what you have done to my family and me; we had lost hope". Jane: "You are brave; please do not fear; please keep doing what you do to save souls". Clothes and Pairs of Shoe Donations: BAME HUB-UK NETWORK CIC received clothes and pairs of shoe donations from various organisations and individuals across the U.K. Liverpool Hair and Cosmetics has also donated clothes and shoes for children aged 1-4yrs. We shared some children's clothes and shoes with our partners in Liverpool. However, the donations we received from National levels were distributed across the UK, including Manchester, Milton Keynes, London, Northampton, Coventry, Essex, and Nottingham, especially to the most vulnerable people who have experienced sexual abuse, domestic abuse, and violence. We also received Christmas gifts from the individuals and distributed them to the latter cities. Black History Month: We celebrated Black History Month through online zoom, and many people attended the event across the UK. The event was very interactive, and young people had a chance to ask many questions regarding black history month. Guest speakers were happy to answer all questions. The event lasted almost four hours because our members were delighted to continue with the session by asking many questions and interacting. Since the lockdown was not fully lifted, people had a chance to chat and meet people from all areas across the UK. In the same month of Black History Month, we also delivered a workshop to empower our BAME Youth in our community. It was a virtual training workshop that covered the following areas:-Self-esteem and self-confidence by Mr Frank Wambari-Black History Month in the UK by Mr Dave Murphy-Equality and Diversity: The Unity Factor by Mr Kevin KorgbaStress Management Workshop: We also delivered a stress management workshop because we felt the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown had brought too much stress. The workshop was delivered effectively on zoom by the renowned and certified master transformation coach Mr Frank Wambari. The session covered the following topics: What is stress, what is stress management, what causes stress pressure and stress management control. In the end, members requested more sessions related to health, and now we are kin to start delivering health topics sessions more frequently. Raised awareness on the impact of Leukaemia in the Black and Asian Minority community: We invited our members to attend the Leukaemia awareness session because we have realised the effect of LEUKAEMIA within the BAME Community is not well known. Leukaemia is a cancer of the white blood cells. Previous research has reported 'unfair survival odds for BAME Blood cancer patients with Leukaemia. Leukaemia can happen at any age but is most common in people over 60. We have partnered with KEVIN KARARWA LEUKAEMIA TRUST, a wonderful organisation doing a fantastic job raising awareness of Leukaemia. The founder of KEVIN KARARWA LEUKAEMIA TRUST, Veronica Kararwa, delivered an informative session on the day. In the end, we had an open forum for Questions and Answers where she answered all the questions.Volunteering and Giving References: We have offered various volunteering opportunities to our young people and job seekers within our organisation to increase participation and improve employability across the UK. Currently, we have more than one hundred volunteers across the UK. We have given many references to our volunteers and secured paid jobs as a result of working with us. We have partnered with various community organisations, charities, and law firms where we signpost and make referrals in Essex, Liverpool, London, Northamptonshire, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Coventry, Birmingham, Northampton, Nottingham, etc. Our volunteers have also benefitted from inhouse and Pathways Solutions Limited training courses as indicated below: Conflict Management – Getting along at the workplace.Performance Management – Managing Employee performanceConducting Performance reviewsEmployee Dispute Resolutions – Mediation ProcessSocial Media and BusinessBuilding a Brand on a social mediaProblem Solving and Decision MakingPublic Relation – Presentation Survival School.Apprenticeship Referrals: Many organisations have shared apprenticeship opportunities across the UK, and we have used our internal database, medial social platforms, Twitter, Telegram and WhatsApp group to share with our members because we have more than four thousand in our all network. Many of the organisations returned to say a big thank you because they have received a high volume of returned apprenticeship applications. Although, some get back to us more than twice to say we continue sharing the apprenticeship opportunity because only a few people have signed up. We thought it depends on the type of internship; individual preferences of their future career may play a role in deciding if they will go onto the apprenticeship presented to them.

Consultation with stakeholders

Our stakeholders are the black, Asian, and ethnic minority (BAME) community and their non-BAME friends, including refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants from all over the world. Our stakeholders include service users, their families and children participating in our various community support and family social events, training, seminars, workshops, and training. Other stakeholders include community organisations, professional business advisors, government officials, public health England, the local government offices and businesses that support our work in several ways. Moreover, numerous funders and individuals who fund our projects to run our projects; volunteers, executive committees, facilitators, and part-time staff are all our stakeholders.We always have regular meetings with some of our stakeholders across the UK. We set -up a new steering group at the end of any funded project to carry out evaluation feedback on success stories and feedback on what our participants tell us after benefiting from our projects or events. We use feedback forms, regular surveys, questionnaires, and talking to our service users, funders, members, and beneficiaries to collect detailed feedback that helps us improve future projects. Through consultation with our stakeholders, professional business advisors, BAME communities and service users, we gather feedbacks which helps us improve, find the gaps and make changes in our future projects. All the feedback we collect from the latter groups is helpful and informative. It helps us to find out if we are still working on our Mission and vision and inform us the better ways of bridging the gap and improving communication between the UK mainstream and BAME communities. To empower and equip BAME communities and their families with skills to be self-sufficient that help them avoid pitfalls associated with lack of empowerment or information.

Directors' remuneration

No remuneration was received

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
5 September 2022

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: ALICE MAINA
Status: Director