Annual Report Mar 2012- Feb 2013

Patrons

Sir Geoffrey Bindman

Moris Farhi MBE

Baroness Sally Greengross

Sir Nicholas Hytner

Lord Joel Joffe CBE

Professor Francesca Klug OBE

Lord Anthony Lester QC

Miriam Margolyes OBE

Rabbi Jeffery Newman

Professor Susie Orbach

Rabbi Danny Rich

Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah

Alexei Sayle

Professor Avi Shlaim FBA

Sir Antony Sher KBE

Dame Janet Suzman

Rabbi Jackie Tabick

Zoe Wanamaker CBE

Michelene Wandor

Charity No: 1103211

BRITISH

SHALOM-SALAAM

TRUST Crossing Borders for Peace

Annual Report Mar 2012- Feb 2013

Patrons

Sir Geoffrey Bindman

Moris Farhi MBE

Baroness Sally Greengross

Sir Nicholas Hytner

Lord Joel Joffe CBE

Professor Francesca Klug OBE

Lord Anthony Lester QC

Miriam Margolyes OBE

Rabbi Jeffery Newman

Professor Susie Orbach

Rabbi Danny Rich

Rabbi Elizabeth Tikvah Sarah

Alexei Sayle

Professor Avi Shlaim FBA

Sir Antony Sher KBE

Dame Janet Suzman

Rabbi Jackie Tabick

Zoe Wanamaker CBE

Michelene Wandor

Charity No: 1103211

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From our chair

I am delighted to introduce the 9th Annual Report of the British Shalom-Salaam Trust which covers the year ending 28th February 2013. I particularly want to thank our many supporters for their continuing faith in our work.

We continue to assist a wide variety of projects both within Israel and in the Occupied Territories. Several - like the Madaa Silwan Summer Games - are old friends who need an annual BSST grant as it is impossible for them ever to become self-sufficient. Others are new – for example, the Peacock of Silwan Theatre Project, who found us via a personal recommendation, and whose theatre performances in the coastal city of Akko went on to garner enormous critical praise.

Some groups, such as the wonderfully creative environmentalists, Comet ME, no longer feature, because our ‘seed corn’ grant was so successful that it led to major funding from much larger bodies like the EU. Others, like the Villages Group, have, with our encouragement, gone on to build their own impressive British donor base. Still small and informal, the Villages Group now rely on our ‘Post Box’ service to manage the collection and transfer of funds that they raise themselves.

Along the way, we have come to know some inspirational people in Israel/ Palestine who are doing extraordinary things to help their communities in an increasingly difficult and hostile environment. And we have also met many remarkable people here in Britain, without whose donations our work would not be possible. Thank you to all our donors – we value your generosity enormously – and appeal to you, not only to go on giving, but to spread the word about BSST as widely as you can.

Dr Gill Yudkin

Date 28.5. 2013

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BSST – who we are

The British Shalom-Salaam Trust is a Jewish initiative established in 2004 to respond to the extreme humanitarian crisis in the Middle East caused by the Israeli Occupation. We have supporters from all faiths and none. We are the only British Jewish grant-giving charity operating both within Israel’s 1967 borders (the ‘Green Line’) and the Occupied Territories (West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Golan and Gaza).

BSST has three key roles whereby we deliver public benefit under British charity law: we provide our own small grants to applicant groups in Israel/Palestine; we manage donations secured in Britain by Israeli/ Palestinian groups lacking a British charitable arm, and, in situations of urgent need (as in the bombing of Gaza), we make emergency appeals.

Our grants policy - challenging oppression

Working closely with grassroots projects in Israel and the Occupied Territories, BSST is only too aware of the injustices, disparities in power and destruction of democracy caused by the Occupation. We therefore focus on projects and groups that make it central to their purpose to challenge oppression and disadvantage, and that are committed to a just resolution of the conflict in Israel/Palestine based on equality and mutual respect between all communities there.

Who we fund

The organisations we help address a wide range of concerns, including human rights, education, health, social care, the environment, inter-communal cooperation, anti-poverty, culture and sport. Provided our criteria are met, we assist regardless of ethnicity or religion, giving grants to Palestinians (from Israel or the Occupied Territories), Israeli Jews, or other communities such as refugees and migrant workers. We are particularly keen to assist groups tackling difficult and contentious issues and new and developing projects that may be overlooked by major funders.

Maximising access While many groups assisted by BSST have Israeli or Palestinian legal status similar to a British registered charity, we aim to be equally accessible to informal associations of volunteers who struggle to secure mainstream funder support. As the Villages Group, a handful of innovative and committed volunteers working with Palestinian families in the South Hebron Hills, have written:

‘We are unable to contact large funding organisations as we are not an organisation with yearly administrative and financial reports that are required by funding agencies.‘

BSST is committed to making our application process as simple as possible, so tiny projects like the Villages Group can seek our help. We provide a very brief application form which is downloadable from our website and accept applications year-round.

BSST grants start from as little as £500 and rarely go above £5k and we hope that, as organisations become larger, our role can become smaller. However, we recognise that it may be impossible for the projects we assist to achieve long term sustainability, and, as this report shows, we frequently provide repeat funding. In addition, where we make emergency appeals, normal principles about donation or recipient organisation size can be waived.

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Interfaith religious students at an environmental seminar

West Bank mothers enjoy the sea on a day out organised by the Israeli Min-El-Bahar women’s group

Our donors Since we were first established, thousands of people have made donations to BSST – Jews, Christians, Muslims, and those who assert no religious belief or identity. We are immensely grateful to all our donors, whose contributions large and small enable us to contribute, if only in a limited way, to building a just peace in Israel/Palestine.

In 2012-13 we wish to give special thanks to some especially generous donations made by the following:

The Barnett & Sylvia Shine Trust No 2; the Barham Charitable Trust; the MD & IN Newman Trust; the Mosse Charitable Foundation; the Orp Foundation; the Sigrid Rausing Trust; an anonymous donor, who, through the Stonehage Charitable Trust, has specifically supported the work of the Villages Group.

And thanks too to John Sharp, the Independent Examiner of our accounts, who, as always, donated his services

Traditional Palestinian dancing at the Jenin Cultural Centre

Children in a house which was destroyed in the December 2012 bombing of Gaza. Image from Physicians for Human

Rights (Israel)

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Projects Receiving BSST Grants During 2012-13

Afnan Al Galil (Facebook at ‘Afnan Al

Galil’) is an ambitious women’s project based in a Palestinian village in Galilee. It aims to improve the economic and social status of local women by developing a tourist trade. It is also building inter-communal contacts and has opened its sewing and embroidery courses to Jewish as well as Palestinian women, held joint cookery sessions and begun to establish a mixed cultural centre.

Using links with tour guides and travel agencies, the group encourages visitors to go ‘off the beaten track’ and visit their village, enabling more contact between Palestinians, Jews and others, and providing the village women with an outlet for selling their traditional sewn handicrafts. BSST is funding this group for a second time. AMOUNT GIVEN £1.5K

Alkhaimah – Association for Education and Development www.alkhaimah.org

challenges the consequences of Israeli policy forcibly to expel the Bedouin from their traditional desert life. Their rural society is being replaced by a cramped and deprived urban existence, with wretched housing, poor education and high unemployment. This has resulted in a destructive breakdown in Bedouin culture and relationships, which has impacted especially badly on women and girls.

BSST has known this Bedouin self-help project for some years. This time we contributed funds for after-school classes to increase female literacy and self-esteem, stop girls leaving school early, teach them about their rights, give them experience of the outside world and reduce the incidence of early marriage. AMOUNT GIVEN £2.0K

Centre for Advancement of Peace

Initiatives sites.google.com/site/capijerusalem This Jerusalem-based organisation supports Jewish/Palestinian coexistence and provides legal aid to Palestinians whose homes are demolished.

BSST’s funding helped CAPI build a web-based resource for disseminating information about East Jerusalem produced by the Jerusalem

Municipality. There will also be workshops training lay people to understand and utilise these voluminous and often complex municipal documents. AMOUNT GIVEN £2k

Palestinian women watching homes being demolished

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Coexistence Through Art - Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery www.umelfahemgallery.org

Based in a Palestinian city in north eastern Israel, near to the Green Line, the Gallery is a Palestinian initiative with a growing international reputation and the first Arab museum of contemporary art in the country. Its request that BSST fund an ambitious annual art project bringing together Palestinian and Jewish primary school children and their teachers, included these reflections:

‘. . . . most (coexistence projects) are initiated and presided over by foreign organisations or by Israeli Jewish NGOs. The Palestinian partners often come as ‘inferior’ . . . without any recognition of the inequalities of wealth, resource allocation and political power suffered by the Arab population . . . . .

(Our) project is unusual in that it is an entirely Arab initiative, which will take place in an Arab institution, in an Arab city. It will promote an important message . . . . . that Arab citizens should accord themselves

respect and should expect it from their Jewish partners’

AMOUNT GIVEN £4.1k

Six year old Palestinian and Jewish children working together on a

project at the Umm el-Fahem Gallery.

Gaza Drama Long Term www.aztheatre.org.uk is a remarkable cross-continent joint

project between the internationally renowned Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Gaza’s own Theatre for Everybody, and two British partners, the Az and Soho Theatres, all of whom contribute both expertise and a huge amount of voluntary effort.

BSST is privileged to provide a second tranche of supporting finance for this ten-year programme of drama and therapeutic support for traumatised and disabled young people in Gaza. In this phase, the project is focusing on drama and training with deaf, partially hearing and hearing children.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2k

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HILA - for Equality in Education www.hila-equal-edu.org.il, a grassroots training and

advocacy group, shows parents from marginalized communities (especially immigrants, Israeli Arabs and Israelis Jews of north African and Asian origin) how to stand up for their children’s rights. This includes rejecting inadequate education provision.

Parents signing in to a seminar

Earlier BSST-funded training resulted in more cooperation between Ethiopian Jewish mothers and Arab/Bedouin parents and improved examination successes amongst children whose parents had attended HILA seminars. BSST funded a further project teaching parents from Jewish and Arab low income communities how to prevent their children being denied the full school curriculum or the text books to which they are entitled.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2k

Hope Flowers School www.hopeflowersschool.org

BSST has a long association with this Palestinian coeducational multi-faith school based in Bethlehem and mainly serving the children of the refugee camps.

In a community where children with disabilities often have no schooling at all, Hope Flowers has taken the opposite approach, actively seeking to integrate them into mainstream education. For a second time, BSST has funded 10 scholarships for children from the refugee camps who have special needs.

AMOUNT GIVEN £3k

Huda’s kindergarten - Machsom (Checkpoint) Watch www.machsomwatch.org/en Once

again, BSST funded the preschool in Khashem-Al-Daraj, an isolated Bedouin village in the South Hebron Hills. The grant covers the teacher’s salary plus basic educational supplies. This project is supported by several Israeli women members of Machsom Watch and the joint Jewish/Palestinian

Villages Group, which visits the school regularly. This outside involvement is crucial:

Without the funding from BSST, the preschool would not be in operation today because, without a salary, (Bedouin teacher) Huda would not have been able to continue . . . BSST funds, together with our commitment, played a crucial role in the decision of UNWRA to build a new preschool.’ (Machsom Watch)

AMOUNT GIVEN £3k

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Humans without Borders www.humans-without-borders.org This Israeli group was set

up to assist Palestinian children who need medical treatment that is only available in Israeli hospitals. As well as funding the treatment, it negotiates entry permits to Israel and provides free transport from checkpoint to hospital via a team of volunteers.

Now, recognising the lack of play facilities for West bank children, HWB also organises summer day trips to the Ramallah Funland Water Park and to the sea – which BSST is funding a second time

‘HWB believes it is every child’s right to grow and develop in a caring and supportive environment . . . . . . By promoting direct friendly contact between Palestinians and Israelis, HWB is contributing significantly to greater mutual respect in this troubled area’.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2.1k

Interfaith Centre for Sustainable Development www.interfaithsustain.com This Jerusalem-based group promotes ‘co-existence, peace and sustainability by engaging religious leaders and communities and articulating a common religious vision for sustainable development’.

BSST granted funding for the Centre’s ground-breaking project, planned jointly with Rabbis for Human Rights, for interactive workshops on environmental issues bringing together young Jewish, Muslim and Christian seminary students within Israel.

Young religious leaders talking interfaith sustainability

Teaching these future religious leaders about climate change, water shortage and renewable energy, all crucial for everyone in the Middle East, will, it is hoped, help them mobilise their communities to act together to promote sustainable ecological policies, coexistence and religious tolerance. AMOUNT GIVEN £2.8k

Israel Social TV www.tv.social.org.il is an

independent media organisation which exposes human rights violations and supports activist groups and communities threatened by the Israeli Occupation. It focuses on events largely ignored by the mainstream media.

BSST repeated its funding to ISTV, this time for ‘Project Watch Dog: Olive Harvest’, recording violence and harassment from the Israeli Defences Forces and the settlers, which are encountered by Palestinians every year when they seek to harvest their olives.

AMOUNT GIVEN £3k

Jama’ah - Leadership Development & Community Empowerment is a Palestinian group in northern Israel near the Green Line. Following their Youth Theatre project last year, in 2012 BSST supported a successful initiative to teach young people leadership skills, including training in democracy and human rights, conflict transformation and social activism.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2k

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Jenin Creative Cultural Centre jenincreativeculturalcenter.wordpress.com Located in one of

the West Bank’s most traumatised communities, this centre engages in an impressive range of activities, providing vital cultural and educational services to young Palestinians.

BSST has supported many projects at the

centre and this time is funding photography and journalism training for forty participants so they can document and publicise their own circumstances and surroundings. Taking part will be twenty secondary school students, ten university students and ten hearing impaired children. AMOUNT GIVEN £2k

Madaa Silwan Centre www.madaasilwan.org Close to hotly contested archaeological sites in

East Jerusalem, this community centre is in an area under constant harassment from the Israeli Defence Forces and settler groups. Its year-round cultural, educational and sports activities are crucial in creating a little normality for hundreds of local young Palestinians.

Highlight of the year is its Summer Games, bringing joy to 250 six-to-twelve-year-olds. BSST was the main funder of the games for the seventh successive year. AMOUNT GIVEN £4k

Min-El-Bahar Group, Seaside Holidays for Palestinian Children www.minelbahar.com Israeli restrictions prevent

Palestinian families on the West Bank, who live only a few miles from the Mediterranean, reaching the sea. Min-El-Bahar (‘From the Sea’), an Israeli group of Jewish women, negotiates each year with the Israeli authorities to enable over 1000 Palestinian children and 400 adults have a day on the beach. BSST funded this project for a second year. The words of the organisers testify to its success:

‘The project has resonated on the Palestinian side, yearning for the sea, and the requests to join this fun at the beach project are too numerous to be facilitated.

The joy of the children meeting the sea, the waves and the sand is heart-warming, as is the afternoon they and their parents spent with us at the Arab-Jewish Community Center in Jaffa . . . . After lunch, the children are active in workshops of theatre, creativity, storytelling and social games, and at 5 p.m. we part with our guests, always with a taste for more’.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2.5K

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Mizrachi Democratic Rainbow www.ha-keshet.org.il is an Israeli social justice organization

established by Mizrachi Jews ( ‘Jews from Arab and Muslim lands and the East’) who tend to be among the most disadvantaged in the Israeli Jewish community. The group campaigns on human rights, multiculturalism, unemployment and education. It is also is keen to bridge what it considers is the artificial gulf between Mizrachi Jews and Arabs who have much shared heritage. BSST funded a joint workshop programme for Mizrachi Jews and Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel AMOUNT GIVEN £2.5k.

Plastic sheeting - Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality www.dukium.org

NCF, a Jewish and Arab organisation based in the Negev, campaigns for human rights, equality and coexistence. In a heartbreaking letter to BSST, NCF asked for emergency aid for Bedouin families whose homes are being demolished by the Israeli Land Administration:

‘the village of Al-Arakib was demolished for the 39th time. . . . . .the ILA convinced seven Bedouin citizens to demolish their own homes to avoid paying fines. . . . . . the ILA even demolished solar panels, the only source of electricity. . .

. . . .we think it is important to bring the families whose homes were demolished a plastic cover as a kind of first aid. Each cover is 30 square meters and we would like to buy 50 at a cost of £80 each’.

AMOUNT GIVEN £2.2K

Sowing Seeds of Coexistence www.dlhschool.com The Jewish Democratic School at Lev

HaSharon and the nearby Palestinian Democratic Community School of Kfar Qara have united in a joint project bringing Jewish and Palestinian children together. This is a rare opportunity, as their pupils, like Jewish and Palestinian youngsters generally in Israel’s highly segregated society, grow up totally apart. The initial programme includes traditional Jewish and Arab music, drama and a photography exhibition where the children display work jointly. It is hoped this will be the first of many shared initiatives. BSST contributed to the project staffing costs. AMOUNT GIVEN £1.5k

Shiraa Association for Development www.shiraa.org works in Bethlehem and its nearby refugee camps, providing vocational skills training from embroidery, to food production to computing, equipping workers to know their legal rights, and establishing leisure and sports activities.

BSST has supported many of these initiatives and this year is funding the women’s sewing cooperative, to enable their members to supplement their families’ incomes.

Shiraa had previously received a donation of new sewing machines and BSST agreed to pay for training in their use.

AMOUNT GIVEN £1.5K

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The Peacock of Silwan sites.google.com/site/peacocksilwan is an interactive drama examining the

implications for Jews and Palestinians of Israel’s land and house seizures in Silwan. It entailed a series of workshops involving Silwan residents, from which grew a theatre production performed by nine young Israeli and Palestinian actors, amateur and professional.

Together they developed stories around imaginary yet ‘true’ participants in the Silwan conflict: an archaeologist, a Palestinian family that owns a beauty salon (the Peacock of Silwan) located above the excavation site, and a young Jewish woman seeking her grandmother's (former) house. There are also a Palestinian and a Jewish activist, a settler, a Russian security guard and a stuttering Arab boy. All become entangled in a tragic drama of family and nationality.

The main performances took place at the Akko Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre in a partially occupied old house in Acco’s historic Arab centre.

The Bahar family who still live in the Acco house

used for the ‘Peacock’ performance

Co-director Sinai Peter on site in Akko with members of the cast

The impact of the production is shown by co-director Chen Alon’s story:

‘After one show, a man wearing a skullcap came up to me. He waited until everyone else had left. He told me how deeply moved he was by our play. He said, 'I saw myself in the mirror.' He was a settler from Gush Etzion.’

BSST is proud to have contributed to the success of this production, which received hugely enthusiastic reviews and won the Festival’s best actress and best (co) Directors awards.

AMOUNT GIVEN £3K

Tamkin Association works among the deprived

Bedouin communities of Rahat and Lakiya where crime, severe unemployment and high dropout rates from education are prevalent. Children with disabilities stand little chance at all, and are frequently violently rejected by their families.

BSST assisted Tamkin’s ambitious ‘Abilities Project’ to produce positive outcomes for children with learning disabilities and their families and teachers. Tamkin provides diagnostic assessments, remedial teaching and speech therapy for the children, while for parents and teachers they run conferences and

workshops to increase understanding of the children’s conditions, and to equip the adults with coping strategies. The Abilities Project works in two schools with twenty five ten-year-old children and their families. AMOUNT GIVEN £2.6K

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Projects Assisted by our Post Box Service

BSST manages income receipts for organisations in Israel/Palestine that have secured donations here but lack a British charitable arm. BSST transfers the funds they have raised and, as a charity, is able to obtain Gift Aid for them. During 2012/13 BSST‘s Post Box transferred to

Combatants for Peace www.cfpeace.org

This is a grassroots movement comprising Palestinians and Israelis who have participated in violent conflict and now work together to end it.

£ 4.9k

Gilboa Theatre, Haifa

An acting workshop at the Freedom Theatre

These funds paid for performances in a Haifa Theatre in memory of Juliano Mer Hamis, assassinated Director of the world famous Freedom Theatre based in Jenin.

BSST was an early supporter of the Freedom Theatre and enabled it to secure its first British income.

£20.0k

Physicians for Human Rights (Israel) www.phr.org.il

This medical and campaigning organisation is a leading Israeli human rights body, with close links to Palestinian health groups, bringing essential medical supplies into the Occupied Territories in times of crisis. Among many services, it runs a Tel Aviv clinic for asylum seekers and foreign workers excluded from mainstream healthcare.

£ 3.3k

St John’s Eye Hospital www.stjohneyehospital.org

Specialist Palestinian eye hospital located in Jerusalem

£ 0.5k

Sindyanna of Galilee www.sindyanna.com

This women-led Palestinian organisation works in northern Israel and the Occupied Territories. It produces award winning fair trade organic olive oil, za’atar spice mixes, carob syrup, honey, olive oil soaps and traditional baskets

£ 2.2k

Tent of Nations www.tentofnations.org

This Palestinian Christian project brings together young people of different cultures and religions. Its core project is Daher’s Vineyard, an organic farm near Bethlehem,

£ 3.4k

which maintains a constant struggle to prevent Israeli State confiscation of the land.

Villages Group

villagesgroup.wordpress.com

Jewish/Palestinian support group working in villages in the South Hebron Hills and in Salem near Nablus. Funding here included support from the Stonehage Trust for the highly valued and very successful Umm al Khair kindergarten.

£15.8k

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Finance & Administration

In 2012-13 BSST’s income was around £101,000, nearly all from individual donations and Gift Aid. Some £115,000 of charitable expenditure was made. Publicity, administration and other non-charitable costs amounted to around £1,000. All labour was provided on a voluntary basis.

Accounts for the year ending 28 February 2013

Income and Expenditure

2012-13

2011-12

Unrestricted Restricted Total

Income Note

£

£

Donations received (1) 40,933 60,350 101,283

89,697

Bank interest

3

3

13

Total income

40,936 60,350 101,286

89,710

Expenditure

Charitable Activities (2) 47,391 66,159 113,550

117,288

Publicity/fundraising (3) 1,202 0 1,202

900

Governance (4) 0 0 0

0

Administration (5) 54 0 54

1,147

Total expenditure

48,647 66,159 114,806

119,335

Surplus / Deficit

-7,711 -5,809 -13,520

-29,625

Balance Sheet

28.2.13

29.2.12

Assets Note £

£

Cash at bank

21,241

35,269

Debtors (8) 3,835

3,328

25,076

38,597

Reserves (9)

Reserves b/fwd

38,597

68,222

Current year surplus / deficit

-13,520

-29,625

Reserves c/fwd

25,077

38,597

Notes to the accounts

Basis of accounting These accounts have been prepared on the basis of historic cost in accordance with applicable accounting

standards, the Charities SORP 2005 (Accounting and Reporting by Charities) and comply with the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2005 issued under the Charities Act 1993

(1) Donations received 2012-13

2011-12

Donations for unrestricted funds 39,016

44,516

Gift Aid on donations for unrestricted funds 1,917

2,141

Donations for restricted funds 57,049

40,502

Gift Aid on donations for restricted funds 3,301

2,538

£101,283

£89,697

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(2) Charitable Activities 2012-13

2011-12

Grants from unrestricted funds 66,159

65,651

Grants from restricted funds 46,600

50,800

Bank charges 791

837

£113,550

£117,288

(3) Publicity/fundraising

Events 0

0

Printing, postage & stationery 538

450

Website and leaflets 664

450

Miscellaneous 0

0

£1,202

£900

(4) Governance

Travel 0

0

Miscellaneous 0

0

£0

£0

(5) Administration

Bank charges 54

6

Printing, postage & stationery 0

0

Travel 0

0

Miscellaneous 0

1,141

£54

£1,147

(6) Trustee expenses

Number of trustees who were paid expenses 0

0

(7) Fees for examination or audit of the accounts

Independent examiner’s or auditors’ fees 0

0

for reporting on the accounts

Other fees (for example: advice, consultancy, accountancy 0

0

services) paid to the independent examiner or auditor

(8) Debtors Amounts falling due

Amounts falling due

within one year

after more one year

2012-13

2011-12

2012-13

2011-12

Charities Aid Foundation 0

0

0

0

HMRC (Gift Aid) 3,835

3,328

0

0

Total £3,835

£3,328

£0

£0

(9) Reserves b/fwd

2012-13

c/fwd

Unrestricted funds 24,349

-7,711

16,638

Restricted funds 14,248

-5,809

8,439

£38,597

-£13,520

£25,077

The Accounts and Annual Report have been approved by the Board of the British Shalom-Salaam Trust and signed on their behalf by

Dr Gill Yudkin, Chair Colin Wainwright, Treasurer

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the British Shalom-Salaam Trust (BSST) Trustees

I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 28th February 2013, which are set out on pages 13 and 14.

Respective responsibilities of the trustees and examiner: The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under s43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to

examine the accounts under s43 of the Act

follow the procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under s43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act, and

state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Independent Examiner’s Report: My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and explanations from you as trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair view’ and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

Independent examiner’s statement: In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

John Sharp, 36 Longlands Road, Sidcup, Kent DA15 7LT 30 May 2013

BSST Trustees

BSST has no paid staff and relies on its Board of trustees to review grant applications, communicate with projects, generate income and manage finance. Trustees have extensive voluntary sector experience and in-depth expertise on the situation in Israel/ Palestine. New Board members are appointed, trained and inducted by existing trustees.

During 2012-13 the Board comprised

CHAIR: Dr Gillian Yudkin, retired GP

SECRETARY: Naomi Wayne, retired charity chief executive

TREASURER: Colin Wainwright, IT specialist

Dr Simon Sandberg, health policy consultant

Vavi Hillel, special needs teacher (from 14 January 2013)

Young people at a celebratory event organised by the Jenin Creative Cultural Centre

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Donations are used at the trustees’ discretion unless you specify a purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

GIFT AID DECLARATION If you are a UK taxpayer, BSST can claim back tax that you have paid. It costs you nothing, but BSST recovers 25 pence for every £1 you give. You must pay income tax and/or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax that BSST reclaims.

(please tick) I want BSST (Charity No 1103211) to treat all donations that I have made in the last four years, and all future donations, to be Gift Aided until I notify you otherwise.

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Please complete and post this form to: British Shalom-Salaam Trust, PO Box 39378, London SE13 5SW. Alternatively, you can scan the signed form and e-mail it to bsst@bsst.org.uk

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