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Global Care

ANNUAL REPORT 2021/22

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 2022

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

Engage. Empower. Expect.

Contents

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

Contents
Who are Global Care? 4
Structure, governance and management 5
Objectves and actvites 6 -10
What we said we would do in 2021/22 11
Project and locatons 2021/22 11
What we are intending to do in 2022/23 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

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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 2021 to 31st March 2022.

Staff Establishment

Global Care House 2 Dugdale Road Coventry CV6 1PB www.globalcare.org Email info@globalcare.org Phone 030 030 21 030 Fax 08445 009 138 Registered Charity No. 1054008

Head of Operations Head of Communications part time Donor Development Officer Finance Officer part time Communications Officer part time Communications and Fundraising Manager part time Operations Officer Admin PA to CEO Programme administrator –Trusts part time Office assistant

Board of Trustees

John Scott Chair & Policy & Compliance Jayne Edwards Relief & Development Jonathan Foss Project & Financial Management Sue Matejtschuk Financial Management Kathryn McCann Financial Management Reverend Keith Parr Pastoral Helen Tucker Policy & Compliance James Patrick Retail (joined September 2021)

Advisors

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

Council of Reference

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

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

Solicitors

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

Chief Executive Officer

John White

Bank

Finance Sub Committee

Lloyds Bank Plc 30 High Street, Coventry CV1 5RE

Jonathan Foss Sue Matejtschuk Claire McCann John White

Independent Examiner

Policy Sub Committee

Tom Sydney Independent Examiner 32 Bankfield Drive Nottingham NG9 3EG

John Scott Helen Tucker John White

Executive Secretary to the Trust John White

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

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.

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.

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

The Board normally meets three times a year and on other occasions as required. Two of the meetings were via MS Teams and one at the charity’s headquarters.

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

Some Trustees may occasionally visit projects overseas, attend relevant conferences and training seminars and strategic planning

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responsibility for major financial matters and strategic developments.

meetings. They are also involved in public meetings, speaking engagements, fundraising activity and are involved in investment opportunities.

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 names of the Trustees who served from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022, all of whom are non-executive, are set out on page 3 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 fully audited by a registered auditor, 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 Board is served by its CEO (who is also the Executive 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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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 and 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, self-sufficiency 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:

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OBJECTIVE 2

Furtherance of Education & Training

and encourages girls to attend school and complete primary education.

academic and social skills. Children received one-to-one tuition as necessary alongside activities aimed at improving academic concepts and knowledge as well as social skills.

Schools began re-opening during 2021, but some remained closed into 2022. During lockdowns, many schools relied on online learning. Most children in our projects were unable to access the internet and found themselves educationally disadvantaged when schools reopened.

The public benefit of these activities is to ensure equitable access to quality education for girls.

The coronavirus pandemic in India led to full lockdowns in June and October 2021. Through our ‘Children at Risk’ programme, 405 students at Calcutta Emmanuel School (CES), who could benefit from online learning, were supported through the provision of computers, a printer, textbooks, whiteboards, and hygiene equipment, which enabled our partners to deliver online lessons during lockdowns. When schools were allowed to reopen, they delivered a mix of online and face-to-face lessons enabling socially distanced smaller offline classes.

Through our ‘Back to School’ programmes we supported children with masks, hygiene supplies and backpacks as necessary when formal and informal schools reopened. 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 90 children with basic literacy and numeracy, and a safe space to play and access therapeutic support.

Our 2021 Lent Appeal raised £22,088, which funded educational support programmes in Guatemala and Bangladesh. Partial school closures continued in Guatemala into 2022. The Lent Appeal paid for the first year of a tuition programme for 33 children on the mentoring programme, who attended smallgroup catch-up classes on weekdays. A home tuition initiative began in Bangladesh for students of our partners’ preschools, with teachers visiting village children for small group and one-to-one lessons. The Lent Appeal provided three months funding from April 2021. We also funded the development and provision of home learning study packs for children at our centres in Sri Lanka and Patripul, India during lockdowns, none of whom could access online learning.

OBJECTIVE 1 Poverty, Sickness & Distress Worldwide

stimulation and exercises the children would have received at our centre. In 2021 we moved to a permanent community outreach model and a Disability Community Officer (DCO) was employed in Soroti. The DCO supports up to 35 children per year who are isolated because of disability. The programme improves care for children within their family setting, and helps families connect to peer support networks.

provide relief for children in crises resulting in economic impacts on food, medical care, and education.

This year, we continued to provide relief aid to marginalised families struggling in coronavirus lockdowns. In Garissa, Kenya, 106 extremely vulnerable households received food and hygiene supplies. All 106 families live in severe poverty and included households with orphans, people with disability, and the elderly. In Uganda, we funded food parcels lasting 20 days for 589 families during a 42-day lockdown. Beneficiaries included families with sponsored children, and children at Disability Support Groups in At ra and Abeko.

Our 2021 Christmas Appeal raised £67,350 to launch a new anti-trafficking project in Sri Lanka, addressing challenges arising from the migrant housemaid industry. The project aims to empower impoverished women to stay in Sri Lanka, and to earn a sustainable income without having to leave the country to find work. Working overseas puts themselves and their children at risk. The team is currently establishing communitybased organisations, run by women, to enable skills training and networking, to safeguard women and children, and to support victims of abuse. The project started in February 2022 with 242 women currently taking part.

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.

The public benefit of these activities is to ensure marginalised children have access to equitable quality education in crises that result in short-term disruption to education.

The public benefit of these activities is to enable disabled children and their families to be better aware of their rights, responsibilities, and the services available and to support children’s future independence and well-being.

In partnership with the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), we funded the construction of a girls toilet block at Agok Primary School in South Sudan. Providing female students with a dedicated toilet block enhances their privacy and dignity

In Albania we funded a ‘Summer School’ at New Day Centre in Bathore, a suburb of Tirana. The programme provided children with a safe environment to strengthen

Our 2021 Harvest Appeal and Shack Challenge raised a total of £21,447 to support an emergency feeding programme for children attending our centres in Patripul, India, and Covid needs in other slum communities. Many parents could not afford to send their children to school and feed their family, so children were often sent out to work. Just three children returned to our Patripul centres when they reopened in July. Following provision of food at the centre, 250 children returned. By the end of the year, even after the feeding programme ended, 230 children were attending the centres, 176 of whom were also attending school.

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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 Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Morocco.

The public benefit of these activities is to provide vulnerable women and children with economic stability, welfare and social support, and to provide safety for women and children in dangerous situations.

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 Soroti, Uganda, our day centre for children with disabilities closed in the first Covid lockdown in 2020. Staff visited the children at home, training families to provide the

The public benefit of these activities is to

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retaining our focus on working for some of the most vulnerable children in the world. What we are intending All planning was in place to enable this to to do in 2022/2023 happen on 1st April 2022

What we said we would do in 2021/2022

Planning for a year of celebrations marking our 40th anniversary starting in Spring 2023

Complete the review of our values and ensure we are better at communicating them both inside and outside the charity. Enculturate them into all we do. We completed the review and have begun to use new graphics and a logo to better communicate them within and without the organisation. Policies have changed to include reference to the Values.

Seek to make the project in Poi Pet Cambodia self-sufficient so that from January 2022 it can function without further funding from the UK. The project no longer receives regular support from Global Care. A visit to the project is planned within the coming reporting period to ensure that the project has been able to keep supporting the vulnerable children under their care.

As our partner organisations navigate their way out of Covid restrictions we plan to provide extra support to ensure that as many children as possible make a successful return to education

Reintroduce supporter team trips to partner projects – take a UK team to our partner project in Kenya to celebrate their 20th anniversary

Develop the use of virtual technology such as Zoom and WhatsApp to train, manage and build relationships with our overseas partners. We have made much more use of Zoom and video calls via WhatsApp and Signal to improve our communications with our overseas partners.

Projects and locations 2021/2022

OBJECTIVE 3

Any Charitable Purpose

Further develop our website to streamline the donation experience, and increase the number of interested users through more effective use of development tools like the Google Ads grant and Google Analytics

Global Care has this year been operational in 17 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.

parents and children to live together. It also generates income to support a new preschool initiative planned by our partners, Victory Church. Many of the families in the village don’t have enough money to pay for school, and income from hog sales will help to pay teachers’ salaries. At the start of the project, 15 piglets were given to 5 families to rear. The pigs went to market in June 2021 and proceeds were shared by the families and our partner. Some of the partner’s share has been invested in the preschool. The 5 families received a further 10 piglets. After a year the families should be able to continue buying and rearing pigs without our support, and we can extend the programme to other families.

and can make informed decisions for their families, including sending their children to school. Global Care also supported a similar project in Shashamene, a semi-rural area about 150km from Addis Ababa. We used Children At Risk funding to cover costs in Shashamene for one year from April 2021. Here, 150 women belong to 10 established SHGs, and have already launched successful small businesses and have been able to send some children to school.

We provided 411 solar lamps to marginalised families in Uganda, through an ‘alternative gift’ programme at Christmas and at Valentine’s Day. The solar lamps are intended to replace kerosene lighting, which is highly damaging to the environment, causes respiratory diseases, and is a frequent cause of household fires. Lamps are also distributed to families with no source of artificial light.

Fundraise and start a major new project in Sri Lanka working with our partners there to develop women’s self-help groups both South of Colombo and in the northern part of the Country. After careful planning and fundraising we were able to start the project in February 2022.

Launch a new campaign to promote our child sponsorship programme to new audiences

The countries of operation included:

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

Having investigated the possibility of merging with the charity Global Care Volunteers we are now planning to go ahead to give a better legal structure for future development whilst

The public benefit of these activities is to improve health and safety for vulnerable children and support their education by enabling them to study after dark. In addition, these activities reduce climate change and support Global Care’s move to becoming carbon neutral as an organisation, through carbon-offsetting.

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

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

In remote Tapouk Village, in north-western Cambodia, we supported the development of a pig-rearing project. The initiative aims to enable families to generate sustainable income and provide for basic needs without needing to travel for work. Previously, parents – especially mothers – frequently worked away from home or travelled long distances, leaving their children in the care of neighbours or relatives. The project enables

From September 2020 to August 2021, 147 women took part in 10 self-help groups (SHGs), established through our new Family Empowerment for Education project in Koshe, a disadvantaged rural area in southern Ethiopia. The self-help groups empower women through peer support and training to build economic independence, so they have more influence in their homes

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CHARITY POLICIES

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

As at 31st March 2022

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 £14,277 (This does not include any debtors as funds would be received after the year end).

Auditor

The Trustees appointed Burgis & Bullock as the Auditor for the next financial year 2022/2023.

Approval of accounts

A full meeting of the Board of Trustees was conducted on 14th May 2022 where we unanimously approved the Financial Accounts and Annual Report of Trustees for the year ending 31st March 2022.

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

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		 2022
2022
2022
Unrestricted Restricted
Total
£
£
£
16,251
727,004
743,255
414
84
498
644
-
644
-
-
-
24
-
24
17,334
727,088
744,421
(25,663)
(5,586)
(31,249)
(246,231)
(438,460)
(684,691)
(12,056)
(3,796)
(15,852)
(283,950)
(447,842)
(731,792)
(266,616)
279,246
12,630
247,585
(247,585)
-
(19,031)
31,661
12,630
240,420
393,365
633,785
221,389
425,026
646,414		 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
37,241
959,276
996,517
(28,356)
(2,790)
(31,146)
(263,081)
(584,188)
(847,269)
(11,520)
(738)
(12,258)
(302,957)
(587,716)
(890,673)
(265,716)
371,560
105,844
281,086
(281,086)
-
15,370
90,474
105,844
225,050
302,890
527,940
240,420
393,365
633,785

The trustees consider that this present level of reserves is acceptable.

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

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BALANCE SHEET

As at 31st March 2022

Note
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		 2022
£
190,203
8,587
198,790
8,321
-
578,771
587,092
139,468
447,624
646,414
425,026
221,389
646,414		 2021
£
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

The attached notes form an integral part of these statements.

Approved by the trustees

John Scott, Chair of trustees

Sue Matejtschuk, trustee

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2022

Accounting Convention

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.

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

Funds

Income is accounted for on an accruals basis.

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.

Expenditure

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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4 TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2022

RESULT FOR THE PERIOD IS STATED AFTER CHARGING 2022 2021 £ £ Auditor's remuneration - - This year's accounts are not subject to audit

1

2 TRUSTEES REMUNERATION

No Trustees are remunerated for their service to Global Care.

3 DONATIONS & LEGACIES

DONATIONS & LEGACIES
Unrestricted Restricted Total
£ £ £
Donations 13,842 598,527 612,369
Grants - - -
Trusts - 49,339 49,339
Gift Aid tax recovered 2,409 79,138 81,547
16,251 727,004 743,255
COST
At 1 April 2021
Additions
Disposal
At 31 March 2022
DEPRECIATION
At 1 April 2021
Disposal
Charge for the period
At 31 March 2022		 Property
Office
equipment
£
£
205,384
28,976
688
205,384
29,664
15,181
17,236
-
3,842
15,181
21,078		 Total
£
234,360
688
235,048
32,417
3,842
36,259

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2022

NET BOOK VALUE
At 1 April 2021 190,203 11,741 201,944
At 31 March 2022 190,203 8,587 198,790
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
Aggregate of debtors falling due in over one year		 2022
2021
£
£
-
22,517
-
-
8,321
4,391
8,321
26,908
-
-

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2022

ANALYSIS OF CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

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Cash at bank and in hand
Investment account		 578,771
135,847
-
420,680
578,771
556,527

To ease the process of the merger the investment account was closed and all funds placed into the current account. During the coming year a review of investment options will be carried out.

CREDITORS DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

7

Creditors
Deferred income
Accruals		 11,330
9,390
126,123
140,768
2,016
1,436
139,469
151,594

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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 2022

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 2022

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 (2,593) 2,609 (188) (2) (731) (904)
Bangladesh 2,429 13,053 (11,116) (216) (3,655) 494
Burma 1,474 1,396 - (103) (391) 2,376
Cambodia - 12,576 (8,410) (58) (2,822) 1,286
Ethiopia 14,153 14,773 (12,577) (23) (4,136) 12,189
Guatemala 7,827 29,416 (19,144) (408) (8,236) 9,454
Honduras - - - - - -
India 14,892 69,772 (42,659) (306) (19,536) 22,163
Kenya 13,449 102,980 (58,648) (4,523) (28,834) 24,423
Lebanon 14,611 26,633 (12,134) (1,324) (7,457) 20,330
Morocco 4 2,476 (1,868) 16 (693) (65)
South Sudan 5,177 1,063 (700) (45) (298) 5,197
Sri Lanka 4,447 34,010 (22,308) (660) (9,523) 5,966
Uganda 45,728 202,816 (114,280) (6,870) (56,788) 70,606
Zambia 4,269 16,270 (7,601) (72) (4,556) 8,310
Zimbabwe 9,930 9,155 (5,655) (63) (2,563) 10,803
Other Restricted Funds
Spurgeons Income 3,808 - - - - 3,808
Children at Risk 74,729 110,668 (87,524) (1,411) (30,987) 65,476
Emergency Relief Fund 15,000 50 - - (14) 15,036
Designated Response 164,031 77,372 (19,522) (7,441) (66,363) 148,077
Total Restricted 393,365 727,088 (424,334) (23,508) (247,585) 425,026
Total Unrestricted Funds 240,420 17,334 (2,613) (281,336) 247,585 221,389
GRAND TOTAL 633,785 744,421 (426,948) (304,844) - 646,414

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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

For the year ended 31st March 2022

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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.

2022 2021 £ £ Free Reserves 14,277 11,567

EMPLOYMENT COSTS

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The total employment costs are: 2022 2021 Salaries 168,707 181,168 Employers National Insurance 9,888 10,274 Employers Pension Contributions 25,320 25,284 203,914 216,726 Average number of full time equivalent employees 7.4 7.4 Average employment cost per full time equivalent employee 27,556 29,287

No employee was paid over £60,000

POST BALANCE SHEET EVENT

On 1 April 2022 the activities of Global Care and Global Care Volunteers were merged. All activities, assets and liabilities are now held by Global Care International (Charity number 1142624 and Company number 07560813). The registered working title is Global Care.

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 2022.

Independent Examiner’s statement

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

Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner

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

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.

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.

Basis of Examiner’s statement

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

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.

Mr. Tom Sydney

Independent Examiner 6th July 2022

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A new home for Jaylon

afford to build a house. However, in February 2021 he was told the family could no longer live at the tea stall.

When *Jaylon’s father abandoned him as a tiny baby, his grandfather, Promoth, took him in. But some years later, Promoth lost his home to river erosion, an increasingly common problem in low-lying Bangladesh.

Jaylon and three friends at the Home of Love were keen to help. With funds from our partners they hired a mason, purchased materials, and provided the unskilled labour themselves.

Jaylon was due to finish sponsorship when he took his final exams, but these were delayed by Covid. In April our partners wrote: “Jaylon wants to go back to his grandparents’ house to help them as they are very old – he thinks this is the right time to take responsibility for the family.

He set up a roadside tea stall, where the family also slept, but they often went without food. Worried about his grandson’s health and education, Promoth approached our partners at the Home of Love, and they took him in. Jaylon was seven years old. As a sponsored child, Jaylon thrived, and for fifteen years benefited from good food and education.

“We pray to God that He helps Jaylon in every step of his life. May this family never forget the love of God to them through Love Your Neighbour and the sponsor of Jaylon.”

Over the years Promoth scraped together money to buy a piece of land, but couldn’t

Vera’s story

*Vera’s parents died of HIV/AIDS within seven months of each other, when she was just a little girl. The family of six siblings was split between relatives, and Vera went to her uncle in Kampala, Uganda.

Because her uncle already had a large family, he sought help, and Vera was accepted onto Global Care’s child sponsorship scheme.

14 years later, Vera has just completed high school (S4) and passed her O’level exams. She is the only one of her siblings to complete secondary education. One sister was married off while still in S2, and other siblings dropped out to earn a living as family members could only support them for a limited time.

Vera has been helping her aunt with her tailoring business, and hopes to set up her own business now she has left school and completed sponsorship. As she steps into independent adulthood, she is confident that her solid education will provide a great foundation for her future hopes.

Thanks to her sponsor, Vera has avoided these pressures. Our Kampala team write: “She has attended classes without any disruptions because Global Care paid her school fees, paid for her feeding at school and met all her school requirements for all the years.”

‘Take a Vulnerable Child Grow a ’ , Strong Adult www.globalcare.org/sponsor

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