2021-12-31-accounts - Amani UK

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 01 2021 To 31 12 2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Amani UK Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1073357 Charity's principal address 95 Primrose Hill Widmer End High Wycombe Postcode HP15 6NT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Darren Bignell
	Peter Fish	International Coordinator
	Suzannah Browne	(Married name change)
	Mrs Ruth Moffat
	Robert Insley	Secretary
	John Prestwich	Chairman
	Jim Leftwich
	Adrian Goode	Treasurer
	Sue Smithin

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of adviser Name Address	Type of adviser Name Address	Type of adviser Name Address
Human Resource	Derek Hopwood	20 Tylers Rd. Hazlemere, High Wycombe HP15 7NS
Schools	Mrs Pauline Prince	7, Highwoods Close Marlow Bottom. Bucks. SL7 3PG
ICT Education	Julian Harty	22 Green St. Hazlemere, High Wycombe
Cultural	Benedict Mwendwa	11 Nicholas Gardens, High Wycombe, HP13 6JQ
Fund raising	Malcolm Corden	88 Cedar Avenue, Hazlemere, High Wycombe HP15 7EF
Keep a Girl in School	Mrs Peggy Bannister	2 Oldbury Grove, Beaconsfield Grove, HP9 2AJ
Ted’s Clinic	Mrs Jan Rayner	Little Burrows,36 Grange Drive, High Wycombe, HP13 5GQ
Management Training	Colin Knight	Forge House, 10 Church Street, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0AX

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Model Declaration of Trust dated 9th. January 1999 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust – Amended March 2002 How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) By invitation of existing trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

As a faith-based humanitarian organisation, trustees are selected on the You may choose to include basis of a known and practised Christian faith. The trustees ensure that additional information, where all funds donated are used for humanitarian and development purposes, relevant, about: irrespective of the faith or no faith of the beneficiaries. No donations are • policies and procedures used for the furtherance of the Christian faith. adopted for the induction and Nearly all trustees and advisors have visited and know Kenya, with a training of trustees;

Nearly all trustees and advisors have visited and know Kenya, with a significant percentage continuing to make regular self-funded visits there.

the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

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To relieve suffering, sickness and disease among families, widows & orphans in the Nyanza district of Kenya, particularly among those living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Provision of resources and training on health-care, housing, water supplies, sustainable agriculture and education and a community clinic, under the medical supervision of the District Hospital. Amani UK also acts as coordinator for a school’s link programme involving currently 19 UK schools linked to 19 schools in the Nyanza District of Kenya.

A programme was commenced in 2013 called Keep a Girl in School (KaGiS) providing sanitary towels for girl students to eliminate the many days of study lost during the menstrual cycle, due to not having the Summary of the main money to provide adequate hygienic means for themselves. This activities undertaken for the programme has since been enlarged to include a Healthy Choices public benefit in relation to programme which delivers health, sex and relationship education to both these objects (include within girls and boys with a view to informing and changing attitudes. this section the statutory declaration that trustees have The trustees are keenly aware of the need for all activities to be clearly had regard to the guidance for the public benefit in every respect, in line with the guidelines PB1, 2 issued by the Charity and 3. Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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The projects supported by Amani UK are all self-help community projects. As such, a major element of grant making decisions are based on the degree of local initiatives, the practical contribution in implementing and the nature of on-going participation.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;

Through Upendo Foundation, a fully Kenyan NGO founded by Amani UK, there is increased focus on developing a broader base of international support for the projects there, as they currently have Amani UK as sole sponsor. There has been limited success in gaining funding for specific projects, but it continues to be a challenge for longer term core sponsorship.

The focus continues to be on Income Generating Activities (IGA’s) to assist their core funding requirements.

policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

The year has been overshadowed by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. This has affected our ability to raise funds, as well as continuing to add additional cost burdens to the work we fund. Despite all this we were able to increase our income by ~2.5% year on year and this reflects well on our solid base of generous supporters.

During the year we were successful in applying for a grant from the Souter Charitable Trust (SCT) to fund a new initiative called Healthy Choices 2 (HC2). Young people in Kenya have been affected by school lockdowns due to Covid, followed by intense pressure from a condensed academic timetable created to get their academic studies back on course by the end of 2022. Combined with the increase in poverty caused by the pandemic which has led to girls and boys being used for sexual exploitation as well as succumbing to other social dangers, it was apparent that a mentoring programme would be of enormous benefit. HC2 was created to meet this need and is currently operating in 19 schools in the area. The SCT grant has enabled the course to be set up and for it to run until the end of 2022 after which we hope to have secured further funding to enable HC2 to continue.

The Buy a Gift for Kenya scheme, which enables people to buy a range of items on behalf of friends and family, resulted in us being able to distribute 40% more funding from the scheme than in 2020. This funding provides direct support to farmers, widows, orphans and schools.

The school links programme has suffered from there being no visits to Kenya during the year because it has not been possible to take hard copy letters etc out to Kenya or to return with the correspondence from Kenyan schools. Consequently, we have been trying to encourage Kenyan schools to communicate electronically but the lack of funds in Kenya for the necessary equipment and limited infrastructure where many schools are located, has resulted in a limited success with this initiative. Despite this, UK schools have continued to fundraise for their linked schools and have enabled essential Covid equipment to be purchased as well as funding for the more usual items required by Kenyan schools such as classroom furniture and toilets. We are looking forward to visits to Kenya re-starting in 2022 which will enable links to be strengthened.

Fundraising events for the Ted Rayner Memorial Clinic and Keep a Girl in School (KaGiS), both of which have been running for 10 years, had to be postponed / cancelled due to the pandemic but regular monthly support and one-off gifts for these aspects of our work has remained strong. The clinic now has 3 full time staff and an associate doctor. More clinic equipment has been funded during the year as well as maintenance work required by the Kenyan Health Department. The number of girls supplied with sanitary towels by KaGiS has now exceeded 3,100 – a record number.

A Safeguarding Policy has been agreed by the trustees in recognition that we are in contact with vulnerable people (children and adults). We have also been working with our NGO partner in Kenya, the Upendo

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Section D Achievements and performance

Foundation, to develop their own Safeguarding Policy. This has been adopted by their board of directors and the plan is to carry out safeguarding training when visits resume.

We now also have a Reserves Policy in place even though we have no employees in the UK. The trustees agreed that we have a moral responsibility to protect the salaries of the Upendo Foundation employees for a 3-month period and our Reserves Policy makes this provision.

We continue to focus on our core work funding community groups. During the year we provided funding to the Upendo Foundation to enable another 5 groups to be integrated into the support programme. We have also funded preparations to set up a new Community Based Organisation called Hope for the Future which will start operating in January 2022 and will be responsible for just over 20 groups. There is no doubt that there are going to be significant challenges in 2022 for the community groups. After 2 consecutive good harvests, the end of year harvest prospects are very poor because it seems that climate change has upset the reliability of the rainy seasons. In such a rural area, such events are likely to hold back some of the future progress we wish to make.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Amani UK operates without any overheads and is a natural conduit of donations, flowing through to Kenya from the UK. As such there is no requirement for a reserves policy for its totally voluntary UK situation. The Trustees are mindful however of the employee costs we are committed to within the Upendo NGO we support in Kenya and consequently maintain a reserves policy equivalent to a minimum of 3 months to cover these.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

Historically Amani UK’s funding has come from individuals and churches. This base continues to expand with the increasing number of both young and mature group visits. As many of the young people go off to university and then on into ever widening areas of employment, so the base of support grows. Amani UK also continues to be successful in obtaining funding support for specific projects through other trusts and charities.

how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Charles Peter Fish John Richard Prestwich Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) International Coordinator Chairman

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	Charity Name Amani UK	Charity Name Amani UK	Charity Name Amani UK	No (if any) 1073357	CC16a
	For the period from	01/01/2021 Period start date	To	Period end date 31/12/2021

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 49,230 238	Restricted funds to the nearest £ 2,400 14,476 3,786 6,715 13,716 27,312 7,033	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 49,230 2,400 238 - 14,476 3,786 6,715 13,716 27,312 - - 7,033	Last year to the nearest £
Donations	49,230		-	49,230	49,316
Buya Gift for Kenya		2,400	-	2,400	4,295
Exp. Admin & support	238		-	238	542
Educational support			-	-	3,000
Ted Rayner Clinic		14,476	-	14,476	13,891
Trade Relief		3,786	-	3,786	6,775
School Links		6,715	-	6,715	4,964
Keepa Girl in School		13,716	-	13,716	8,373
Individual support		27,312	-	27,312	17,700
Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund			-	-	-
Kitchen Table CharityTrust			-	-	6,000
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund		7,033	-	7,033	7,000
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	49,468	75,438	-	124,906	121,856
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A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments	49,468 51,146 238 282	75,438 2,498 10,246 4,021 7,618 14,392 28,523 789	- - - - - - - -	124,906 51,146 2,498 238 - 10,246 4,021 7,618 14,392 28,523 282 - 789
					121,856

General	51,146		-	51,146	46,582
Buya Gift for Kenya		2,498	-	2,498	4,412
Exp. Admin & support	238		-	238	542
Education support			-	-	2,857
Ted Rayner Clinic		10,246	-	10,246	9,503
Trade Relief		4,021		4,021	6,543
School Links		7,618	-	7,618	5,638
Keepa Girl in School		14,392		14,392	11,449
Individual support		28,523		28,523	14,822
Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund	282		-	282	77
Kitchen Table CharityTrust				-	6,000
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund		789		789	6,526
**Sub total **	51,666	68,087	-	119,753	114,951
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A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total **	-	-	-	-	-
*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*	51,666 (2,198) (2,244) 6,568 2,126	68,087 7,351 2,244 31,796 41,391
			-	119,753	114,951
			-	5,153
	(2,198)	7,351	-	5,153	6,905
	(2,244)	2,244	-	-	-
	6,568	31,796	-	38,364	31,459
	2,126	41,391	-	43,517	38,364

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Hazlemere JAM (HSBC) Hazlemere JAM Loan/Savings Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya Details Details Details Details HMRC Gift Aid tax reclaim Amani UK (Barclays Bank PLC) PayPal Currency deposit - Equals *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 2,126 - - 2,126 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 3,066 - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates HSBC	Restricted funds to nearest £ 28,354 880 2,073 8,758 1,326 41,391 OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Amount due (optional) 8,758 - - - -	Endowment funds to nearest £
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Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya	HSBC	8,758
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature	Print Name
	Adrian Goode
	W E Jim Leftwich

Date of approval May 21st 2022 May 21st 2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

22/06/2022

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Amani UK On a¢¢ounts for the year ended 31" December 2021 Chaiity no (rf any) 1073357 Set out on pages CCXXR1 accounts (SS) to CCXXR2 (SS) I rert to the trustees on my examrnation of the OUnts of the above charity rthe Trusf) for the year ended 3111212021. Responsibilities and As the thaiity trustees of the Trus( you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the aco)unts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 fthe Acn. I report in respect of my examination of the Trusfs aCCnts canied out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carryirvj out my examirkits"on. I have followed the applicable DirectIS given by tt18 Chanty Cthnmission urKler section 145(5)(b) of Ihe Act I have completed my examination. I confim that no materlal matter5 have come to my attention in connection wtth the examination gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: Independent examine¢s statemont the Act or I have no concems and have oyne across no other matters in connection with the exarninat#)n to whith attenti{ should be drawn in order to enab a proper understanding of the aCCnts bj be rea(d. Signed." 19" April 2022 Name: Colin George Steplnson Relevant professional qualifi¢ation(s) or body (If any): FCA Address: 1 Rushmoor Avenue. HazleMe. High Wycombe Bucks HP15 7NT October 2018