2021-03-31-accounts

ANNUAL REPORT 2020/21

DOING MORE FOR MORE CHILDREN WHO ARE MORE VULNERABLE

The annual report and financial statement of the trustees of Global Care for the year ending 31st March 2021

Global Care is an international Christian Charity providing Relief, Development and Education for vulnerable children.

Engage. Empower. Expect.

Albania Central Asia Bangladesh Cambodia Ethiopia Guatemala Honduras India Kenya Lebanon Morocco

Myanmar South Sudan Sri Lanka Syria Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Contents

Contents
Who are Global Care?	4
Structure, governance and management	5-6
Objectves and actvites	7-10
What we said we would do in 2020/21	11
Project and locatons 2020/21	11
What we are intending to do in 2021/22	11
Charity policies	12
Comments on funding	12
Auditors	12
Approval of accounts	12
Statement of fnancial actvity	13
Balance sheet	14
Notes to the accounts	15–20
Auditor’s report	21
Coronavirus response infographic	22

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Who are Global Care?

The board of trustees of Global Care present their annual report, together with the financial statements, for the year from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021.

Global Care House

2 Dugdale Road Coventry CV6 1PB Website www.globalcare.org | Email [e-mail] Phone [phone] | Fax [phone] Registered Charity No. 1054008

Board of Trustees

John Scott Chair & Policy & Compliance Mark Curran Project & Financial Management (retired Feb 2021) Jane Edwards Relief & Development Jonathan Foss Project & Financial Management Sue Matejtschuk Financial Management Claire McCann Financial Management (joined Feb 2021) Reverend Keith Parr Pastoral Helen Tucker Policy & Compliance

Staff Establishment

Head of Operations Head of Communications part time Donor Development Officer Finance Officer part time Communications Officer part time Communications and Fundraising Officer part time Operations Officer Admin General Management Officer – redundant post Sept 2020 PA to CEO Programme Administrator – Trusts part time Office Assistant

Advisors

Oliver Batchelor – Training non-salaried volunteer Dr Tom Heyes – Projects Advisor

Patrons of the Trust

Fiona Castle, OBE The Baroness Cox of Queensbury Douglas Wood The Lord Mayor of Coventry Bishop of Coventry; Rt Rev Christopher Cocksworth

Chief Executive Officer

John White

Finance Sub-Committee

Jonathan Foss Sue Matejtschuk Claire McCann John White

Policy Sub-Committee

John Scott Helen Tucker John White

Executive Secretary to the Trust

John White

Council of Reference

Dr Janet Goodall (Cons. Paediatrician retired) Premila Pavamani (Director, Emmanuel Ministries, India) George Verwer (Founder of Operation Mobilisation)

Solicitors

Fiona Bruce & Co Justice House 3 Grappenhall Road Warrington WA4 2AH

Bank

Lloyds TSB Bank Plc 30 High Street Coventry CV1 5RE

Independent Examiner

Tom Sydney Independent Examiner 32 Bankfield Drive Nottingham NG9 3EG

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STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing Document

Global Care is constituted under a Trust Deed.

Appointment of Trustees

Trustees are appointed by invitation from the Board of Trustees. Potential candidates are identified by the full board and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) undertakes initial enquiries on the basis of their suitability, personal qualities, specific knowledge and the expertise which they can offer to the charity. Candidates usually meet the Trustees informally in the first instance and then attend as ‘observers’. They are then formally

selected and invited to join the Board. Each board member has a Role description, relating to specific areas of responsibility. New Trustees are invited to the charity’s headquarters to meet management staff and to familiarise themselves with all aspects of the charity’s work. New Trustees are encouraged and invited to attend external seminars, workshops and courses concerning their work as charity Trustees.

The Responsibilities of Trustees

The Board of Trustees remain responsible for all the ultimate strategic decisions of the charity, having regard to the policies of the

Charity Commission and on the advice of the CEO and senior management staff. The Board of Trustees is governed by a recently adopted Code of Governance. The Trustees fully recognise and accept all of the legal and financial responsibilities and are kept fully informed of charity law changes.

The Board normally meets three times a year and on other occasions as required. During this reporting year all meetings were held via MS Teams due to the Coronavirus pandemic. This has worked remarkably well. In future two meetings each year will continue to be held via MS TEAMS with the third held at the charity’s headquarters.

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Some Trustees may occasionally visit projects overseas, attend relevant conferences and training seminars and strategic planning meetings. They are also involved in public meetings, speaking engagements, fundraising activity and investment opportunities.

The Board is served by its CEO (who is also the Secretary to the trust) and also by a Minutes Secretary.

All the Charity’s policies are approved by the full Board of Trustees however The Policy Sub-Committee (PSC) carries out most of the oversight of Policies in the charity. The purpose of this sub-committee is to monitor Global Care’s policies to ensure that they are kept up to date, to write drafts of any new policies needed and to report at each main Trustees meeting, if a new policy has been drafted, to seek ratification. The PSC is made up of two trustees, the CEO, the Head of Operations and other staff if needed.

Overall day to day operational/management decisions are taken by the CEO and the senior management team. Considerable authority has been delegated to the CEO for the overall

management of the Charity, however the Trustees retain ultimate accountability and responsibility for major financial matters and strategic developments.

The names of the Trustees who served from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021, all of whom are non-executive, are set out on page 4 of this Report. The Trustees have received no remuneration for their services. The Trustees appreciate that charity law requires them to provide comprehensive financial statements for each financial year, these being independently examined, together with a report of the activities which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of Global Care both financially and of its charitable activities, according to its Trust Deed.

The Trustees ensure, by means of its Finance Sub-Committee (FSC), which meets three times a year, that the charity keeps proper accounting records which disclose the financial position of the charity. All Trustees are provided with financial ‘Management accounts’ and approve the Annual Budget proposals. These are scrutinised beforehand by the FSC who also monitor and control

the charity’s financial affairs in detail for the Trustees. They are also assisted in the preparation of the Annual Report and Financial Statements by the charity’s staff. The FSC is made up of three trustees and the CEO. The Trustees annually appoint an independent examiner for the charity. The full Board of Trustees remains ultimately responsible and accountable for all major decisions, policy approval and all financial matters.

The Trustees have taken full account of all the SORP requirements.

The Trustees are provided with appropriate ‘Trustee Indemnity Insurance’ which the Charity Commissioners have approved.

Executive Staff

The Charity’s CEO is also the Trust Secretary to the Board of Trustees. The CEO and the senior staff meet regularly to oversee and manage the day to day operations of the charity and participate in strategic planning.

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OBJECTIVES

1. The relief of poverty, sickness and distress worldwide

2. The advancement of education and training

3. The furtherance of any exclusively charitable purpose as the trustees in their absolute discretion determine, in order to help vulnerable children, their families and communities, in promotion of the Christian values and ethos of the trust.

These objectives are further clarified by Global Care’s Mission Statement, which is, as follows:

Global Care is an international Christian Charity providing Relief, Development and Education for vulnerable children.

The charity trustees and staff believe in the intrinsic value and worth of every child as a unique individual born in the image of the creator God.

Our Charity seeks to operate on Christian values and principles in all we do. We care for needy people regardless of their faith (or no faith).

Global Care’s work expresses its public benefit by being culturally sensitive, exemplary, innovatory and empowering of people. Our projects work with, and for, people (especially vulnerable children and young people) regardless of race, gender, politics, age, sexual orientation or financial situation. The Charity seeks to build selfrespect, dignity, self-esteem and inter-dependence. It strongly opposes and seeks to combat any forces that cause people to be oppressed, abused and exploited. It seeks to eliminate discrimination of all kinds, inequality and poverty.

Our projects seek to build in people positive self-help, selfsufficiency and self-determination – avoiding long-term dependency wherever possible. Within the communities in which Global Care works, we seek to ensure the long-term sustainability of projects through local capacity building.

ACTIVITIES

The Charity’s main planned areas of work during this past review year have remained focused on the following:

• Emergency and Relief Aid This involves working in the context of natural disasters, famines, war and conflict, specifically working with refugees and internally displaced people. (Objective 1)

• Sponsorship Encouraging donors to have a direct relationship with a particular child over a period of years. This fosters a strong link and enables the donor to understand how Global Care works with the individual in our overseas projects. (Objective 2)

• Project Partnership As with sponsorship, we encourage a relationship but with a project rather than a particular child. This is vital for certain projects as the project might be working with people who are transient and so it is harder to form a relationship with a particular individual. For example a project might be working with street children who regularly move from place to place. (Objective 3)

• Children At Risk This fund seeks to address need wherever children are vulnerable. The fund is able to respond quickly and can be used for start-up projects whilst Global Care seeks donors and partners for these new initiatives. (Objective 1)

• Food & Future Global Care’s Food and Future programme links education and feeding by providing food, or the means to produce food, so that education can be attained. (Objective 2)

• Informaton and Educaton Global Care has the privilege of working in some difficult situations around the world, economically, socially and politically. Global Care attempts to make its donors and the general public aware of situations that people face in other parts of the world. (Objectives 1, 2, 3)

• Work in Partnership Wherever appropriate, Global Care seeks to collaborate with other registered charities and non-governmental organisations to ensure maximum efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of its main areas of work. However, at all times Global Care retains its own absolute independence, autonomy, control and unique identity. We have also provided support and training to other charities and NGOs on such matters as ‘Child Protection’. (Objectives 1, 2, 3)

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OBJECTIVE 1

The relief of poverty, sickness and distress worldwide

We responded to crisis situations, enabling our partners to provide relief to vulnerable children and their families. This year, much of our relief work focussed on supporting our partners during coronavirus lockdowns and enabling support for families impacted by the pandemic.

Our Coronavirus Response Appeal raised almost £150,000 between March 2020 and March 2021, enabling overseas partners to provide feeding and hygiene support for over 11,000 children, their families and communities, all affected by coronavirus lockdowns. As countries began to lift restrictions, or re-imposed lockdowns and curfews, we continued to prioritise child safety by providing essential feeding and support for rent payments, on an as-needed basis.

In August 2020, an explosion in the port of Beirut left hundreds killed, thousands injured and around 300,000 people homeless. Global Care provided funding to support 110 affected families with feeding and non-food essentials (for example nappies, hygiene supplies and medicines) for one month.

The public benefit of these activities is to provide relief for children in crisis experiencing shortterm environmental and economic impacts on food, medical care, and public health measures.

The Covid crisis reinforced the value of child sponsorship, as all sponsored children received extra support throughout the pandemic (although our Covid response was not limited to sponsored children). Our child sponsorship programme continues to support vulnerable children living in extreme poverty in Sri Lanka, India, Guatemala, Uganda, Zambia and Kenya, and orphaned and abandoned children in residential settings in Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, and Morocco. Our sponsorship programme in Myanmar concluded in December 2020, however we are continuing to support our partners for a further six months due to the impact of the pandemic on measures intended to provide self-sufficiency. A military coup on 1st February 2021 has further destabilised their position. In Cambodia, our sponsorship programme was also due to end in December 2020, but we extended the programme for a further year while our partner’s preschool sustainability project is fully established. This was also affected by the pandemic.

The public benefit of these activities is to provide vulnerable children with health, welfare and educational support, and to provide safety and security for children in dangerous situations.

In addition, our Medical Response Fund (MRF) enables international partners to meet the urgent health needs of children where families are unable to meet medical costs, including transport costs and accommodation for a carer, key factors affecting access to healthcare for rural communities. In Bangladesh we funded hospital treatment and ongoing care for Elliot following an accidental burn. In Guatemala, Vicky received treatment for convulsions and Denzel for a bowel problem. In Kolkata, India, Anand was able to receive hospital management and medication for an abscess on his finger. In Uganda, William received surgery for a hernia which affected his walking, and Frank had emergency surgery for a fractured elbow after a fall from a mango tree while he was scavenging for food during lockdown. Evie* lives in Kibera slum in Kenya and has sickle-cell disease and is HIV+. The MRF paid for three months of hospital treatment when she developed meningitis.

The public benefit of these activities is to enable extremely vulnerable young people to access medical support and treatment, which would otherwise be unavailable to them.

*Names changed to protect identity

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The advancement of education and training

OBJECTIVE 2

Schools across our projects closed from mid-March 2020 in response to pandemic restrictions. Many are still not fully open in March 2021. Global Care local partners responded in a variety of ways, depending on local circumstances.

In Sri Lanka, our Coronavirus Response Appeal funded the development of home study packs, delivered to homes with food parcels, which could be returned to our partners for marking. In Bangladesh, we funded covid prevention supplies to enable pre-school teachers to carry out visits for homeschooling.

When restrictions were lifted, we funded our partners in Guatemala City to provide extra tuition classes to help street children catch up with peers who had been able to access online learning. In September 2020 schools in Albania reopened part-time to limit class sizes and maintain social distancing. Assignments were set via WhatsApp or email. Without access to technology, many children attending our partners’ New Day Centre fell behind. We funded an expansion of the existing Homework Club, employing a qualified teacher and a teaching assistant to support 30 children, in small groups, before or after their shift at school. In Zambia we supported

booster classes for 38 children preparing for primary leaving examinations, for one month.

We supported partners providing educational services to ensure their schools could reopen in a covid-secure way. In Kenya, we funded the construction of two temporary classrooms and provided facemasks for children at Spurgeon’s Academy, Kibera. In Ethiopia, we funded the provision of facemasks, sanitisers and school essentials to 363 children at three preschools previously supported by Global Care. In Uganda, Olungura Primary School, host to a disability playgroup we support, was initially unable to open as it could not provide Covid-protection measures. Global Care funded water containers, soap and disinfectant, two temperature guns, and masks and sanitisers for all 299 pupils and staff. Olungura Primary School fully re-opened in February 2021.

The public benefit of these activities is to ensure marginalised children have access to equitable quality education in crises resulting in short-term disruption to education, and to help schools respond to changes in government requirements for health and safety protocols during the coronavirus pandemic.

Where schools are open, we continue to provide both formal and informal schooling. In Kenya and India, we enabled the poorest children to receive free education at formal schools run by our partners. We continue to support our partners at House of Hope in Damascus, Syria, providing 94 children with basic literacy and numeracy, and a safe space to play and access therapeutic support. We supported children with little or no previous education to receive ‘informal’ schooling in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Cambodia. Providing basic education, these preschools equip children for formal schooling at government primary schools. Children in Uganda, Guatemala and Zimbabwe are enabled to access formal education at government schools as a focus of the sponsorship programme.

The public benefit of these activities is to improve educational facilities, ensure children have access to equitable quality education, and provide a stable foundation for educational opportunities for disadvantaged children.

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OBJECTIVE 3

The furtherance of any exclusively charitable purpose as the trustees in their absolute discretion determine, in order to help vulnerable children, their families and communities, in promotion of the Christian values and ethos of the trust

We launched a new four-year initiative with our Ethiopian partners, establishing 10 self-help groups for a total of 147 women in Koshe, a disadvantaged rural area in southern Ethiopia. Local families, dependent almost entirely on agriculture, struggle to feed their children or to make enough money to live. As a result, many children miss school or drop out altogether so they can help their families to generate income. The self-help groups support women to set up small businesses to increase family incomes, so children do not have to go out to work. In addition, the groups empower women through peer support and training, so they can make more informed decisions for their families, including sending their children to school. Through our 2020 Christmas Appeal and our involvement in the Big Give Christmas Challenge we raised £54,057 for this Family Empowerment for Education project.

The public benefit of these activities is to enable women to become financially secure and consequently improve health, welfare and access to education for their children.

Building on previous work constructing accessible school toilets in southern Uganda, we funded the building of two accessible latrines at Olungura Primary School in Abeko in northeast Uganda. The school hosts a playscheme for children with disabilities, supported by Global Care. Having accessible latrines enables children with disabilities to use the toilet with dignity, and reduces the burden for carers and playworkers. The project was completed in December 2020 and will improve latrine facilities for 24 children currently attending the Abeko disability play scheme and six children who have progressed from the play scheme to the school. The school can now offer places to disabled children who would otherwise be unable to attend the school. In Kabompo, Zambia, we started constructing an accessible latrine block at M8 Primary School as part of our ongoing support for this rural community school. In Zambia, the government had no accessible latrine construction guidelines and we worked with the local team to obtain special permission from the

Local Authority to use Ugandan national specifications. It is the first accessible latrine at a primary school in this district and has created considerable interest.

The public benefit of these activities is to help children access education, which was previously denied to them, to improve mobility and social inclusion for children with disability, and to improve community awareness and at udes to disability, which together support children’s future independence and well-being.

We also funded the development of a new community business initiative in Albania, with the aim of helping our partners become selfsufficient over the next three years. The ‘Learn to Fish’ project supports small-scale farmers to grow organically-certified plants for medicinal and aromatic use, and dries the products ready for national and international markets. All profits from the business will support the work of the New Day Centre, supporting vulnerable families in the disadvantaged suburb of Bathore.

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What we said we would do in 2020/2021

Due to the spread of the coronavirus in March 2020 many of our plans had to be changed. We will support our international partners, as appropriate, in their efforts to reduce the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic in their communities. We launched a Coronavirus response appeal to raise funds to help our overseas partners to respond to the emergency. We raised almost £150,000 and were able to support over 10,000 children in 12 countries during the pandemic. (See infographic on page 22 for further details).

Start a new project in Ethiopia concentrating on using microfinance schemes to enable mothers to provide support for their children to attend school. The project started in September 2020 and is seeking to support 225 women and 675 children from a rural, vulnerable community in Ethiopia.

Extend our project in South Sudan to enable more primary school teachers to be trained in Wau. The academic year was interrupted and the final exams for the teacher trainees were delayed. In March 15 graduated with a further 14 needing to re-sit some of their final exams.

Seek to make the project in Yangon selfsufficient so that from January 2021 it can function without further funding from the

UK. Due to the coronavirus pandemic it was not possible to achieve this during the reporting period. Extra support is being provided. As the recent coup has caused further uncertainty, Global Care will continue to provide support with the aim that by December 2021 the project will become selfsufficient.

Use social media and other online tools to promote our work more widely and reach a more diverse audience. We have managed to extend our social media presence, with an increased focus on Facebook, to communicate how we have responded to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Projects and locations 2020/2021

Global Care has this year been operational in 18 countries, on four continents, with currently 36 projects directly serving many thousands of children and young people, plus hundreds more in temporary relief aid situations.

The countries of operation included:

Albania, Central Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Myanmar, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

What we are intending to do in 2021/2022

Complete the review of our values and ensure we are better at communicating them, both internally and to external audiences. Embed them into all we do.

Develop the use of virtual technology such as Zoom and WhatsApp to train, manage and build relationship with our overseas partners.

Fundraise and start a major new project in Sri Lanka to develop women’s self-help groups, south of Colombo and in a northern region.

Having investigated the possibility of merging with the charity Global Care Volunteers we are planning to go ahead. We believe the move will give us a better legal structure for future development whilst retaining our focus on working for some of the most vulnerable children in the world.

Seek to make the project in Poi Pet, Cambodia, self-sufficient so that from January 2022 so it can function without further funding from the UK.

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CHARITY POLICIES

Reserves Policy

As a Christian charity, Global Care takes the position of its reserves very seriously and therefore prayerfully considers its position with regards to reserves in the continuing changing environment facing all charities. The Trustees, in consultation with executive staff, have reviewed the reserves policy.

Given the current economic environment, it is prudent that Global Care ensure that its reserves policy provides a transparent understanding of the costs required to manage the charity. Following a review of the policies and procedures of Global Care, it was determined that windup costs for the charity should be the method employed when determining the reserves of the charity.

All contracts that Global Care enters into as well as costs to cover redundancies are now reviewed on an annual basis by the Finance sub-committee which is then presented to the full board. This review indicated for the following year Global Care wind up costs totalling £40,000 against free reserves totalled £11,567 (This does not include any debtors as funds would be received after the year-end).

The trustees consider that this present level of reserves is acceptable given the need to use some of the reserves during the last quarter but are looking to ensure that reserves are built up over the coming year.

obligations, following an examination of each fund. There are no material transactions other than those disclosed in the accounts.

Independent Examiner

The Trustees again appointed Mr Tom Sydney as an independent examiner for the next financial year 2021/2022.

Approval of accounts

A full meeting of the Board of Trustees was conducted on 14th May 2021 where we unanimously approved the Financial Accounts and Annual Report of Trustees for the year ending 31st March 2021.

We confirm that the Accounts comply with current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity’s governing document and the requirements of the State of Recommended Practice (“Accounting and Reporting by Charities”).

Signed on behalf of all the Trustees

John Scott Chair of trustees

Comments on Funding

Global Care met all its financial obligations, with reserves sufficient to cover any income shortfall. Its assets are available and considered adequate to meet all of its

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

As at 31st March 2021

Note INCOME FROM: Donations & legacies 3 Charitable activities Investment income Other income (volunteers' trips) UK Government Grant TOTAL EXPENDITURE ON: Raising funds Charitable activities Governance TOTAL Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before transfers Transfers between funds NET FUNDS MOVEMENT Funds brought forward Funds carried forward	2021 2021 2021 Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ 22,000 957,751 979,751 494 1,525 2,019 1,076 - 1,076 - - - 13,671 - 13,671 37,240 959,276 996,516 (28,356) (2,790) (31,146) (263,081) (584,188) (847,269) (11,520) (738) (12,258) (302,957) (587,716) (890,673) (265,717) 371,560 105,843 281,086 (281,086) - 15,369 90,474 105,843 225,050 302,890 527,940 240,420 393,365 633,785	2020 2020 2020 Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ 19,780 773,811 793,591 644 375 1,019 2,492 - 2,492 20 10,643 10,663 - - -
		22,936 784,829 807,765
		(24,129) (3,517) (27,646) (239,460) (522,074) (761,534) (13,555) (420) (13,975)
		(277,144) (526,011) (803,155)
		(254,208) 258,818 4,610
		224,895 (224,895) -
		(29,313) 33,923 4,610
		254,363 268,967 523,330
		225,050 302,890 527,940
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BALANCE SHEET

As at 31st March 2021

FIXED ASSETS 4 Property Office Equipment TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 5 Investments 6 Cash at bank and in hand 6 TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES Creditors 7 Current Assets less Current Liabilities Total Assets less Total Liabilities FUNDS OF THE CHARITY Restricted income funds 11 Unrestricted funds	190,203 11,741 201,944 26,908 420,680 135,847 583,435 151,594 431,841 633,785 393,365 240,420 633,785	190,203 4,728
		194,931
		25,100 316,604 64,697
		406,401
		73,393
		333,008
		527,940
		302,890 225,050
		527,940

The attached notes form an integral part of these statements.

Approved by the Trustees

The attached notes form an integral part of these statements.

Approved by the trustees

John Scott, Chair of trustees

Sue Matejtschuk, trustee

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

Accounting Convention

The accounts have been prepared on the historic cost basis, and in accordance with applicable Financial Reporting Standard (FRS102) and the Charities Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP).

Income

Depreciation

Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost of tangible assets over their expected useful lives, using the straight line method. The rates used are stated in the notes to the accounts.

Funds

Income is accounted for on an accruals basis.

Expenditure

Restricted use income funds are to be used for projects designated by donors. The Unrestricted use income fund allows the Trustees to budget for anticipated commitments and short term emergency needs.

Grants are accounted for on the basis of the cash paid and the expenditure incurred in the period to cover specific project commitments. Other expenditures are accounted for on an accruals basis, and are apportioned where necessary between the relevant headings on the basis of time and resources expended.

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

1 RESULT FOR THE PERIOD IS STATED AFTER CHARGING 2021 2020 £ £ Auditor's remuneration - - This year's accounts are not subject to audit

2 TRUSTEES REMUNERATION

No Trustees are remunerated for their service to Global Care.

3 DONATIONS & LEGACIES Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ Donations 19,013 781,207 800,220 Grants - - - Trusts - 79,575 79,575 Gift Aid tax recovered 2,987 96,969 99,956 22,000 957,751 979,751 4 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Property Office Total equipment £ £ £ COST At 1 April 2020 205,384 18,773 224,157 Additions 11,282 Disposal (1,079) At 31 March 2021 205,384 28,976 234,360 DEPRECIATION At 1 April 2020 15,181 14,045 29,226 Disposal (1,079) Charge for the period - 4,270 4,270 At 31 March 2021 15,181 17,236 32,417	3 DONATIONS & LEGACIES Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ Donations 19,013 781,207 800,220 Grants - - - Trusts - 79,575 79,575 Gift Aid tax recovered 2,987 96,969 99,956 22,000 957,751 979,751 4 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Property Office Total equipment £ £ £ COST At 1 April 2020 205,384 18,773 224,157 Additions 11,282 Disposal (1,079) At 31 March 2021 205,384 28,976 234,360 DEPRECIATION At 1 April 2020 15,181 14,045 29,226 Disposal (1,079) Charge for the period - 4,270 4,270 At 31 March 2021 15,181 17,236 32,417	3 DONATIONS & LEGACIES Unrestricted Restricted Total £ £ £ Donations 19,013 781,207 800,220 Grants - - - Trusts - 79,575 79,575 Gift Aid tax recovered 2,987 96,969 99,956 22,000 957,751 979,751 4 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS Property Office Total equipment £ £ £ COST At 1 April 2020 205,384 18,773 224,157 Additions 11,282 Disposal (1,079) At 31 March 2021 205,384 28,976 234,360 DEPRECIATION At 1 April 2020 15,181 14,045 29,226 Disposal (1,079) Charge for the period - 4,270 4,270 At 31 March 2021 15,181 17,236 32,417
	Property Office equipment £ £ 205,384 18,773 11,282 (1,079) 205,384 28,976 15,181 14,045 (1,079) - 4,270 15,181 17,236
		234,360
		29,226 4,270
		32,417

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

NET BOOK VALUE At 1 April 2020 At 31 March 2021	190,203 4,728 190,203 11,741	194,931
		201,944

Depreciation rates of 20%, 25% and 33.3% are used. No Loans or guarantees are secured against the above assets.

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DEBTORS Intergroup balance - Global Care Volunteers Other debtors Prepayments	2021 2020 £ £ 22,517 23,076 - - 4,391 2,024
	26,908 25,100

Aggregate of debtors falling due in over one year

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

6 ANALYSIS OF CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS Cash at bank and in hand Investment account 7 CREDITORS DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Creditors Deferred income Accruals 8 CREDITORS DUE AFTER ONE YEAR There are no creditors due after one year 9 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES The Trustees are not aware of any contingent liabilities 10 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS for the year ended 31 March 2021	135,847 64,697 420,680 316,604
	556,527 381,301
	9,390 10,149 140,768 61,176 1,436 2,068
	151,594 73,393

No separate Statement of Cash Flows has been provided since there is no significant difference between the SOFA report and any Statement of Cash Flows.

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

ANALYSIS OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES,

Income and Activities, grants made and Support Costs

Country	Note	Opening	Income	Remitted	Other	Internal	Closing
		Balance			Project	Transfers	Balance
					Expenses
Albania		(4,384)	2,583	(64)	(4)	(723)	(2,591)
Bangladesh		3,041	11,907	(9,124)	(62)	(3,334)	2,428
Burma		6,865	2,374	(7,290)	(94)	(382)	1,473
Cambodia		1	13,182	(23,932)	(118)	10,867	-
Ethiopia		1,566	34,246	(11,623)	(447)	(9,589)	14,153
Guatemala		7,225	29,426	(20,324)	(267)	(8,233)	7,827
Honduras		-	991	(708)	-	(284)	-
India		4,688	77,335	(45,097)	(380)	(21,654)	14,892
Kenya		(2,449)	104,216	(58,183)	(954)	(29,181)	13,449
Lebanon		12,987	26,667	(17,515)	(62)	(7,467)	14,610
Morocco		409	2,724	(2,360)	(6)	(763)	4
South Sudan		3,965	8,087	(4,506)	(105)	(2,264)	5,177
Sri Lanka		4,034	28,609	(19,972)	(213)	(8,011)	4,447
Uganda		24,889	194,121	(117,612)	(1,317)	(54,354)	45,728
Zambia		5,925	15,837	(12,911)	(147)	(4,434)	4,270
Zimbabwe		9,353	8,193	(5,258)	(63)	(2,294)	9,931
Other Restricted Funds
Surgeons Income		3,808	-	-	-	-	3,808
Children at Risk		72,898	218,590	(152,614)	(2,268)	(61,878)	74,728
Emergency Relief Fund		15,009	13,067	(9,807)	-	(3,269)	15,000
Designated Response		133,060	167,121	(49,415)	(12,894)	(73,841)	164,031
Total Restricted		302,890	959,276	(568,316)	(19,400)	(281,086)	393,365
Total Unrestricted Funds		225,050	37,240	(9,332)	(293,625)	281,086	240,420
GRAND TOTAL		527,940	996,516	(577,648)	(313,025)	-	633,785

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2021

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Free Reserves

This figure has been calculated by looking at our total investments and cash at bank and in hand and then deducting the restricted reserves, the creditors due within one year and the creditors due after one year.

13

Free Reserves The total employment costs are: Salaries Employers Pension Contributions Average employment cost per full time equivalent employee EMPLOYMENT COSTS Employers National Insurance Average number of full time equivalent employees	2021 2020 £ £ 11,567 5,017 2021 2020 £ £ 181,168 170,209 10,274 9,450 25,284 24,222 216,726 203,881 7.4 7.5 29,287 27,184	2021 2020 £ £
		11,567 5,017

No employee was paid over £60,000

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT

To the Trustees of Global Care (registered charity no. 1054008)

I report on the accounts for the Charity for the period ended 31 March 2021.

Independent Examiner’s statement

Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

As the Charity’s Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 144(2) Charities Act 2011 does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified by the Charity Commissioners under section 145(5)(b) of the Act whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of Examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out under 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 in the accounts. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence required in an audit, and I therefore do not express an audit opinion. At the Trustees instructions I have performed validation tests as I deemed necessary, to provide extra reassurance on the accounts.

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements

a) to keep accounting records

• b) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act 2011 have not been met; or

2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

3) The extra validation tests revealed nothing that should be brought to your attention.

Mr. Tom Sydney Independent Examiner 3rd August 2021

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Global Care's Coronavirus Response £182,911 raised at 12/05/2021 B￿e￿Clariesjnd￿d]ng 13,068 chiLdren % Spend by Area Edu(ation 34 Pastoraj 19,408. 13,068" HwrE& FbThJ 57% s% FOOdpa￿ls14,0I6) Mealboxes11,9701 IZ Countries: 20 Projects 5,986. 1mpi0￿dHygIené 24,000" PeO￿e Spend By Country B￿k U)tol￿rning 4,22T Chlldre Rapid response & partnership in artion... nya Ongoing needs - Recovery phase PLJnded by the generosity of donors Delivered tILtough grassrwts partners Rmted iti prayer Page 22

CORONAVIRUS: NOT JUST NUMBERS BUT LIVES

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Lockdown closed the market where Immaculate sold second-hand clothes. As the breadwinner for 15 children and four adults, this was catastrophic.

She used all her savings to feed the children and buy medication. Then she borrowed in every shop and was indebted everywhere.

One of the children in her care attends the Disability Play Scheme (DSG) supported by Global Care in Abeko, a disadvantaged rural community in eastern Uganda. Immaculate was at the end of her resources

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KENYA
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One family with seven children in Patripul, a slum near Mumbai, planned to poison themselves to prevent a slow death from starvation in lockdown.

They had used up every single rupee they had left, and when the husband went out to beg for money, he was beaten by the police.

Then Global Care’s local partners arrived at their door with a food parcel. They wept with joy.

when she heard that all 113 families at the DSG would receive a food parcel from Global Care.

Our local team said: “The aim was to make every child and family linked to Global Care feel the same sense of belonging, to know that this is not the time to segregate but to share whatever little we have.”

“Eyalam noi, Global Care,” said Immaculate, repeatedly, to our local team. That’s ‘thank you’ in the local language. We repeat it back, to you, our generous donors. See what a difference you made.

Precious and Shayla had to fend for themselves when their foster mother was stranded in the countryside by Kenya’s rapid lockdown.

She’d left Kibera to visit her village for a funeral, leaving the girls with their teenage foster brother, who is in his last year of secondary school.

Both girls are pupils at Spurgeons Academy, supported by Global Care, where they receive breakfast and lunch every day. So the girls would be safe in the day, and she wouldn’t be gone long… No-one anticipated lockdown.

‘God has sent you to us’, they cried.As Dalits, the lowest of the low in the ancient caste system, families like this know their lives are worth less than nothing in wider society.

Yet Global Care’s local partners demonstrated that their lives are in fact precious, and there is a God who loves and provides for them.

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UGANDA
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The girls received weekly food parcels from our partners at Spurgeons for more than three months. “We are thankful to God for the food, and money for buying other food,” says 11 year-old Precious. “We miss Mum and coming to school. In the slums there is nowhere to play.”

The girls were two of 35 Spurgeons pupils in newly-child-headed households in Kenya’s first lockdown, as several parents and guardians were stranded outside Kibera in similar circumstances. Our partners worked hard to monitor the children’s wellbeing and keep them fed, until families were reunited.

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*Shrinay’s mum arrived two hours early and waited in the rain to receive a special food parcel from our partners in Bangladesh. She was desperate to give something nutritious to her poorly son.

Since 21-month-old Shrinay was diagnosed with a thyroid disease, the family live constantly on the edge of ruin.

They mortgaged their only asset and took on day jobs and loans, to travel to India every two months for medicine unavailable locally.

The coronavirus pandemic brought disaster: They could not travel, so could not access treatment for Shrinay. Work stopped in lockdown, so they could not eat, nor pay their mortgage or loans.

Shrinay’s brother, six year-old Shrithik, attends a preschool supported by Global Care. Early in lockdown our partners gave food parcels to 500 families connected to the preschools, followed by a second delivery targeted at 0-4s, to fight malnutrition in the early years, when it is most detrimental to development.

On the day the delivery was due, Shrinay’s mum was first in the queue, two hours before the centre was due to open, so she could get the first packet of food and rush back to her baby boy. Later she returned to thank the team, saying it was his first proper meal for 12 weeks.

The team delivered food parcels of powdered milk, porridge and sugar to 361 families with children aged four or under.

Global Care, 2 Dugdale Road, Coventry CV6 1PB Tel: [phone] | Fax: [phone] Email: [e-mail] |Web: www.globalcare.org Registered charity no. 1054008