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# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Company limited by guarantee

## Company Registration Number:
SC818296 (Scotland)

## Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025

## Period of accounts

## Start date: 2 August 2024

## End date: 31 August 2025

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

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

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

Directors' report period ended 31 August 2025

The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 August 2025

Principal activities of the company

GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance CIC started providing breastfeeding support in Gaza in August 2024. With a humble beginning of a team of 6 healthcare workers (contractors) who received detailed training and were linked to lactation consultants in the UK (volunteers) as mentors the core team established its presence as an effective supporter of mothers and vulnerable infants. In the first 13 months GINA supported 14,706 breastfeeding mothers in Gaza and improved their ability to breastfeeding their infants. The team in Gaza gradually expanded over 13 months to cover 5 hospitals and a community clinic in collaboration with MSF Spain, by end of August 2025 the team has 33 lactation advisors, 2 administrators and 2 data analysts. The team in the UK and Europe (all volunteers) also expanded to include 20 lactation consultants and 20 Arabic-speaking healthcare workers providing translation, for the WhatsApp-mediated remote support scheme. GINA delivered capacity building workshops on the ground for other NGOs such as MDM France, MSF France, MSF Belgium and Ard Al Insan and is currently delivering the breastfeeding support part of the WHO training for primary care staff workshops in Gaza, over 200 healthcare workers attended these workshops between Aug 2024 and Aug 2025. GINA supports 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) with lactation advisors, breast pumps and sterile milk bags. We also pay for transport for the mothers who are unable to attend the hospital to breastfeed their NICU babies due to lack of cash. GINA has become the hub for caring for Cleft Lip and Palate infants in Gaza, with 34 infants being followed up for nutrition and liaising with surgical expeditions to operate on the children as safely as possible. GINA is currently in the process of signing up a project with the World Health Organisation focusing on the prevention and management of malnutrition in infants less than 6 months old in Gazan Hospitals. The Total number of mothers who had benefitted from GINA's services in Gaza is around 10,000 lactating women, providing lifesaving breastmilk to at least 10,000 infants below the age of 24 months. GINA's work has also contributed to scientific conferences and publications, as per the following list: 1. Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Conference (18th-19th Sept 2024) - Outstanding Award for Contribution to Breastfeeding and human Milk - First Prize for poster Presentation 2. Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture International conference MAINN, Cumbria UK (28th-20th April 2025) - Supporting Breastfeeding in conflict zones: workshop delivered by GINA 3. Scottish Neonatal nurses Conference, Glasgow, UK (6th June 2025) Breastfeeding Support in Emergencies – presentation 4.Supporting, Protecting and Sustaining Breastfeeding in Conflict Zones: The Gaza Experience. Webinar hosted by eCrianza – Spain, 12/07/2025 Published papers: 1. GINA infant nutrition alliance supports breastfeeding in Gaza. Discover Public Health 22, 436 (2025). Qudieh, A., ldhiar, H., Ajweh, Y. White, M. Haridas, R. Yassi, A. 2. Gaza’s infant malnutrition crisis needs more than just infant formula. Maternal and Child Nutrition/ Volume 22, issue 1/ e70131(2025). Gribble, K., Al Soufi, R, et al End of Report

Directors

The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
2 August 2024 to 31 August 2025

Dr Reem Al Soufi
Mr Simon Shemilt

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
1 April 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Mr Simon Shemilt
Status: Director

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

| 13 months to 31 August 2025
--- | ---
| £
Turnover: | 132,585 |
Cost of sales: | 0 |
Gross profit(or loss): | 132,585
Distribution costs: | 0 |
Administrative expenses: | ( 95,132 ) |
Other operating income: | 0 |
Operating profit(or loss): | 37,453
Interest receivable and similar income: | 0 |
Interest payable and similar charges: | 0 |
Profit(or loss) before tax: | 37,453
Tax: | 0 |
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: | 37,453

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Balance sheet

As at 31 August 2025

| Notes | 13 months to 31 August 2025
--- | --- | ---
|  | £
Fixed assets
Intangible assets: |  | 0 |
Tangible assets: |  | 0 |
Investments: |  | 0 |
Total fixed assets: |  | 0
Current assets
Stocks: |  | 0 |
Debtors: |  | 0 |
Cash at bank and in hand: |  | 37,453 |
Investments: |  | 0 |
Total current assets: |  | 37,453
Prepayments and accrued income: |  | 0 |
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year: |  | 0 |
Net current assets (liabilities): |  | 37,453
Total assets less current liabilities: |  | 37,453
Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year: |  | 0 |
Provision for liabilities: |  | 0 |
Accruals and deferred income: |  | 0 |
Total net assets (liabilities): |  | 37,453
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: |  | 37,453 |
Total members' funds: |  | 37,453

The notes form part of these financial statements

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 31 August 2025 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 1 April 2026
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Mr Simon Shemilt
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

- ## 1. Accounting policies

  Basis of measurement and preparation

  These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

# GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

## Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 31 August 2025

- ## 2. Employees

  | 13 months to 31 August 2025
  --- | ---
  Average number of employees during the period | 0 |

  GINA does not have employees, in Gaza we have contractors and in the UK members are volunteers.

# COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

### GINA INFANT NUTRITION ALLIANCE CIC

### Company Number: SC818296 (Scotland)

### Year Ending: 31 August 2025

Company activities and impact

GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance CIC started providing breastfeeding support in Gaza in August 2024. With a humble beginning of a team of 6 healthcare workers (contractors) who received detailed training and were linked to lactation consultants in the UK (volunteers) as mentors the core team established its presence as an effective supporter of mothers and vulnerable infants. The team in Gaza gradually expanded over the 13 months to cover 5 hospitals and a community clinic in collaboration with MSF Spain, by end of August 2025 the team has 33 lactation advisors, 2 administrators and 2 data analysts. The team in the UK and Europe (all volunteers) also expanded to include 20 lactation consultants and 20 Arabic-speaking healthcare workers providing translation, for the whatsApp-mediated remote support scheme. GINA delivered capacity building workshops on the ground for other NGOs such as MDM France, MSF France, MSF Belgium and Ard Al Insan and is currently delivering the breastfeeding support part of the WHO training for primary care staff workshops in Gaza, over 200 healthcare workers attended these workshops between Aug 2024 and Aug 2025. GINA supports 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) with lactation advisors, breast pumps and sterile milk bags. We also pay for transport for the mothers who are unable to attend the hospital to breastfeed their NICU babies due to lack of cash. GINA has become the hub for caring for Cleft Lip and Palate infants in Gaza, with 34 infants being followed up for nutrition and liaising with surgical expeditions to operate on the children as safely as possible. GINA is currently in the process of signing up a project with the World Health Organisation focusing on the prevention and management of malnutrition in infants less than 6 months old in Gazan Hospitals. The Total number of mothers who had benefitted from GINA's services in Gaza is around 10,000 lactating women, providing life saving breastmilk to at least 10,000 infants below the age of 24 months. GINA's work has also contributed to scientific conferences and publications, as per the following list: 1.Lactation Consultants of Great Britain Conference (18th-19th Sept 2024) Outstanding Award for Contribution to Breastfeeding and human Milk First Prize for poster Presentation 2.Maternal and Infant Nutrition and Nurture International conference MAINN, Cumbria UK (28th-20th April 2025) Supporting Breastfeeding in conflict zones: workshop delivered by GINA 3.Scottish Neonatal nurses Conference, Glasgow, UK (6th June 2025) Breastfeeding Support in Emergencies – presentation 4.Supporting, Protecting and Sustaining Breastfeeding in Conflict Zones: The Gaza Experience. Webinar hosted by eCrianza – Spain, 12/07/2025 5.Breastfeeding Network Conference (online), Supporting Infant feeding in Emergencies, GINA – (1st October 2025) 6.NES Scottish Quality and safety Fellowship, Dundee, UK (16th October 2025) Equity presentation on Breastfeeding Support in Emergencies 7.Panellist for The Milky Way, GOMA, Glasgow, UK (21st October 2025) 8.UNICEF baby Friendly UK conference in Telford (12th -13th Nov 2025) Keynote presentation on supporting breastfeeding in conflict zones 9.Maternity and Neonatal festival, Edinburgh (25th November 2025) Poster Presentation 10.Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF - Paediatric Days Conference, Amman Jordon (24th -25th of November in 2025) Presentation on Mother-Baby Dyad in NICU – conflict zones experience Presentation on establishing breastfeeding training and support remotely 11.The International Marce Society for Perinatal Mental Health Conference, London (6th Feb 2026) Digital Villages of Care in Gaza – Presentation Best Speaker Award 12.The International Child Health Group (ICHG) Annual Conference. (26th November 2025) Protecting children in global health crises, Gaza experience. Published papers: 1.GINA infant nutrition alliance supports breastfeeding in Gaza. Discover Public Health 22, 436 (2025). Qudieh, A., ldhiar, H., Ajweh, Y. White, M. Haridas, R. Yassi, A. 2.Gaza’s infant malnutrition crisis needs more than just infant formula. Maternal and Child Nutrition/ Volume 22, issue 1/ e70131(2025). Gribble, K., Al Soufi, R, et al

Consultation with stakeholders

No consultation with stakeholders

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
1 April 2026

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Reem Al Soufi
Status: Director