THE BOARD'S REPORT                                 FOUNDERS                                   PARTNERS                  Board Member

Our mission is to enable Albanian-speaking refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to:

- Settle fully and participate in society
- Gain confidence and make progress in their life

Strategic aims

- To develop appropriate needs led services that meet the need of Albanian community
- To increase the capacity of Shpresa Programme through developing a team of well-trained paid staff and volunteers
- To ensure the sustainability of Shpresa Programme through developing a diverse funding base

Values of the projects

- Develop service based on needs of users and make best use of resources
- Work collectively and be accessible and open
- Partnership work with projects
- Be open and accountable to all stakeholders
- Ensure anti-discriminatory practise
- Be flexible and supportive in the way we work
- Provide responsive and compassionate services
- Be reliable, friendly and professional
- Provide a welcoming and dignified environment
- Be flexible and proactive in the way we provide services and work with other agencies

Core Values

- Be well informed on the rights and options
- Feel valued and respected
- Improve their quality of life
- Be open and accountable to all stakeholders
- Be responsible for running the project and developing services
- Develop skills and access training
- Have access to a range of services/agencies necessary meet their needs

Ethos

- Seeking justice
- Accepting Albanian speaking women and men of all faiths, cultures and race
- Working with the Albanian speaking community
- Enabling people to grow into their full potential

The Report of the chair of the management board:

It has been a year of significant development for Shpresa programme and we have important achievements to celebrate.
Shpresa started in July 2000 with one Albanian speaking volunteer helping her own Albanian speaking community. Since then we have grown as an organisation. We have over 170 paid-up members, and more than 800 people from the community have accessed our services this year.
Currently we are running the following activities and project :

- A woman's project
- A children's project
- A Youth project
- A Volunteering and befriending project

We have successfully applied for funding that has enable us to develop projects and recruiting a volunteers and befriending project coordination. We now therefore have the following staff:

- A full time paid coordination
- A part time paid women's development work
- A part time paid youth development worker
- 10 volunteers

We work in close partnership with a number of organization some of : LBN community education, one love community, centre Sure Star RAMP children's Society, The NHS, Vicarage primary school and Little Ilford Youth Centre. We are very grateful to our founders whose support has been vital in developing and delivering important services and support to our community.
Special thanks to:

- A Glimmer of Hope
- Little Ilford sure start
- Newham neighbourhood community chest
- The Tudor trust
- Trust for London

We believe that we can fairly claim to be supporting our community effectively. By supporting our families and individuals resilience and independent, we can ensure their successful interaction, contributing significantly to the cohesion of the diverse community around us.
Our thanks for the success of Shpresa programme goes to Luljeta Nuzi for all that she has done to ensure that coordination and development of the work. In all honestly and I write on behalf of the board, Shpresa Programme would not exist without her expertise drive tireless work and commitment. She has given much more than we could reasonably expect of any coordinator and the positive effects on the community are now in evidence.The management board comprises of the 10 members and meets every 6 weeks. We have undertaken our duties to ensure that staff are supported, that the programme is monitored and that we fulfil our legal obligations. I am very grateful to the continued involoment and interest of all the members of the board. Their expertise and participation has been invaluable. The board are looking forward to success in the coming year.

Blerina Haskaj
Chair of Shpresa Programme

FUNDING

A special thank goes to our founders:

2005 - 2006

- A Glimmer of Hope
- Manor Park Sure Start
- Volunteering England
- Big Lottery Funding
- Trust of London
- The Tudor trust
- Stratford partnership development for regeneration
- LBN
- The children's network fund

  2004 - 2005

- A Glimmer of Hope
- Manor Park Sure Start
- Volunteering England
- Vicarage Sure Start
- Community chest
- Trust of London
- The Tudor trust
- Stratford partnership development for regeneration
- SRB6 access to excellence
- Awards for all
 

PARTNERSHIP

We have worked in partnership with a number of organization such as:

- Ramp
- Fraud centre
- Vicarage School
- Mayfield School
- SSE
- Newham council
- Hand in Hand
- Community Links
- NHS
- Community education
- Maudsly Hospital
- Barbara Melinsky refugee youth
- Newham youth centre
- Redbridge Children's service
 

Board member

Board member  2005-2006

- Mirela Lopez

- Fisnik panxha

- Timm Spafford

- Arsim Canolli

- Marnie Freeman

- Rozina Thaci

- Denada Krasniqi

- Besurie Hasaj

- Bedrije Heta

Bord members 2004-2005

- Enkeleida Tahiraj

- Timm spafford

- Marnie Freeman

- Defrim Abdullai

- Bedrije Heta

- Besurije Hasaj

- Fisnik Panxha

- Ibrahim Islami

- Armando Reci