Institute for Indian Mother and Child UK
IIMC(UK)
www.iimcuk.org.uk
UK Co-ordinator Mrs Ivy Silk 13 Olivers Close Potten End Berkhamsted Herts HP4 2SL iimcukcoordinator@gmail.com
TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT April 2020 TO April 2021
Trustees
Ivy Silk Tony Jackson Laurie Porter Caryl Horscroft Ai Ling Chang Abu Siddique
Our Aims: To provide funds to advance the education of children through sponsorship and relieve the poverty, sickness and distress of women and children in particular in West Bengal by supporting the work of the IIMC India.
Well, continuing on from last year this is another strange year. We have been in and out of lockdowns with the pandemic continuing in full swing. We have however, recruited sixteen new sponsors in the last year. Mostly as usual, this has been down to the efforts of Ivy who never passes up an opportunity to tell people about the charity. We have not lost any sponsors this year. After our appeal to friends and sponsors in April about the dire situation facing the rural poor and IIMC’s response to try to feed as many people as possible through the pandemic, we received many generous personal donations totalling £4,837 (shown on the extra donations sheet)
We have tried to send out news updates through the year on email to keep friends and sponsors abreast of the situation in India. They have had much to contend with this last year. All the schools have remained closed as part of their restrictions and they have been trying to work remotely with the children. Keeping in touch and sending work to them in their villages. They have managed to get the medical facilities back up and running and the feeding programme has been colossal, up to 500 food packs a week have been distributed at times by the volunteers. If a pandemic wasn’t enough they also had a super typhoon which brought much devastation and flooding. Many people died locally. There was also a follow up typhoon two months later. IIMC used some of the empty schools to house families. At the beginning of this year their president died as a result of complications from Covid. He had been an old friend a supporter of DR Sujit’s from the beginning. Fortunately the staff/Volunteers have been vaccinated and due to the demographic of the population people are often spaced out which helps with their situation.
The Indian government decided all NGO’s had to have government bank accounts which did cause some problems as it took several months to be issued with the new details and in between we were unable to send any money. The total amount sent to India this year Is £33,160 and we have reclaimed £6,866 in Gift Aid.
We held our AGM 11/8/20 online which was a new experience for us all. Abu sadly had great trouble with his connection and so missed some of the meeting.
During the year Ivy, Ai Ling and Caryl have managed to meet a few times to sort out Gift Aid reclaim and updating sponsorship details and banking matters. However as Ai Ling was stranded out in Singapore from December to June this year some matters were less easy.
Ai Ling continues to update the website and she has done a marvellous job on the new look. It is much easier to navigate and has a modern fit for purpose feel.
Caryl Horscroft 26/10/21
IIMC Accounts ending 31[st] March 2021
Bank balances 1[st] Apr 2020
Opening Balance
£21800.46 ___ £21800.46
Income
Regular donations £15440.50 Easy Fundraising £52.69 One off donations £3667.89 In Memory £1052.62 Bank interest £2.14 Gift Aid £6884.93 Total £27100.77
Payments
Sent to India £33100 Bank Fees £60 Total £33160
Bank balances at 31[st] March 2021 £15741.23
| Bank Accounts | Opening Balance | Closing |
|---|---|---|
| Balance | ||
| Business Account | £18835.61 | £13653.49 |
| Treasurers Account | £2864.85 | £2087.74 |
| Online Account | £100 | £0 |
| Total | £21800.46 | £15741.23 |
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the Institute for Indian Mother and Child UK (IIMCUK) trustees/ members of
31[st] March 2021 Charity 1066834 On accounts for the no (if year ended any)
Set out on pages Attached
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended DD / MM / YYYY .
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the basis of report preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material examiner's matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed statement below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Date: Name: M. Bradley PO Relevant professional
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October 2018
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Section B Disclosure
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October 2018
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October 2018