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2022-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 01 2022 To 31 12 2022

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
95 Primrose Hill
Widmer End
High Wycombe
Postcode HP15 6NT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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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
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
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
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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

By invitation of existing trustees Trustee selection methods

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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

As a faith-based humanitarian organisation, trustees are selected on the basis of a known and practised Christian faith. The trustees ensure that all funds donated are used for humanitarian and development purposes, irrespective of the faith or no faith of the beneficiaries. No donations are used for the furtherance of the Christian faith.

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

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

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. 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.

Section D Achievements and performance

Our 2022 accounts show a near 20% increase in funding from donors. This increase is wholly as a result of a single significant donation for building work at the Kasimba Lwala Primary School. This consisted of installing a water supply and building a new classroom block, toilets and kitchen. This has made a tremendous improvement to the school.

This single donation tends to obscure an underlying reduction in unrestricted funding which has reduced the funding we in turn have been able to give towards our core work – the 50 community groups in the Oyugis and Ringa areas in Kenya. The year-end financial position was retrieved by some one-off donations we received at the end of the year.

During the year we were awarded a grant from the Shalom Trust and this is being used to “invest” in 10 community groups in order to accelerate their progress towards self-sustainability. At the very end of the year we also learnt that we were being awarded a grant from the Mercury Phoenix Trust to help fund our Healthy Choices work with young people relating to the prevention of HIV / AIDS infections.

Another success during the year was the response to our continuing Buy a Gift for Kenya programme which brought in an increase in income of over 11% compared to 2021. Most of the funds raised through this programme go directly to our core activities. Income for our Keep a Girl in School programme increased by 31% compared to 2021 when exceptional income is excluded. This will be of great help for us to continue supporting our current schools whose numbers are increasing whilst sanitary towel costs are rising sharply. Our income for the Ted Rayner Memorial Clinic was lower than in 2021 but the regular monthly giving remains strong.

Following the easing of the Covid pandemic, we have resumed visits to Kenya on a small scale. In 2022 we made just the one visit in May and the intention is to make 2 visits in 2023 with full team visits resuming in 2024. This is just one of the fall-outs of the pandemic with another being the difficulty we are having in regaining momentum for our school links programme. Schools in both the UK and Kenya have had to give an even higher priority to their academic work and this has been at the expense of other important initiatives such as learning “first hand” about children from other cultures – a priority of our school links programme. The writing of our own policy documents and our work with the Upendo Foundation (our NGO partner in Kenya) helping them in the creation of their own policy documents is mostly complete. Now we must ensure that these policies are followed and during our May visit we carried out Safeguarding training of the Upendo staff. Thankfully, we have had no safeguarding concerns of our own to report to the trustees during the year.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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:

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. Section

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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Date June 3 2023 TAR April 2009

Charity Name No (if any)
Amani UK 1073357
Receipts andpayments accounts CC16a
For the period
from		 Period start date
01/01/2022		 To Period end date
31/12/2022
Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
44,411
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237
958
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
-
2,678
-
-
12,049
4,295
3,088
11,459
17,042
-
1,550
40,393
5,000
6,564		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 Total funds
to the nearest £
44,411
2,678
237
958
12,049
4,295
3,088
11,459
17,042
-
1,550
40,393
5,000
6,564		 Last year
to the nearest £
Donations 44,411 - - 44,411 49,230
Buya Gift for Kenya - 2,678 - 2,678 2,400
Exp. Admin & support 237 - - 237 238
Educational support 958 - - 958 -
Ted Rayner Clinic - 12,049 - 12,049 14,476
Trade Relief - 4,295 - 4,295 3,786
School Links - 3,088 - 3,088 6,715
Keepa Girl in School - 11,459 - 11,459 13,716
Individual support - 17,042 - 17,042 27,312
Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund - - - - -
Smithin Fund - 1,550 - 1,550 -
Scanlon Fund - 40,393 - 40,393 -
Shalom Trust - 5,000 - 5,000 -
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 6,564 - 6,564 7,033
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)

45,606		 104,118 - 149,724 124,906
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-		 -
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A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments		 45,606
46,352
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237
958
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64
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-		 104,118
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2,842
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9,082
4,052
3,179
9,096
18,974
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850
30,322
1,656
12,778		 -
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-		 149,724
46,352
2,842
237
958
9,082
4,052
3,179
9,096
18,974
64
850
30,322
1,656
12,778
124,906
General 46,352 - - 46,352 51,146
Buya Gift for Kenya - 2,842 - 2,842 2,498
Exp. Admin & support 237 - - 237 238
Education support 958 - - 958 -
Ted Rayner Clinic - 9,082 - 9,082 10,246
Trade Relief - 4,052 - 4,052 4,021
School Links - 3,179 - 3,179 7,618
Keepa Girl in School - 9,096 - 9,096 14,392
Individual support - 18,974 - 18,974 28,523
Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund 64 - - 64 282
Smithin Fund - 850 - 850 -
Scanlon Fund - 30,322 - 30,322 -
Shalom Trust - 1,656 - 1,656 -
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 12,778 - 12,778 789
**Sub total ** 47,611 92,831 - 140,442 119,753
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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		 47,611
(2,005)
780
2,126
901		 92,831
11,287
- 780
41,391
51,898
- 140,442 119,753
- 9,282
(2,005) 11,287 - 9,282 5,153
780 - 780 - - -
2,126 41,391 - 43,517 38,364
901 51,898 - 52,799 43,517

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

05/06/2023

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

Categories
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities		 Hazlemere JAM
(HSBC)
Hazlemere JAM
Loan/Savings
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
Amani UK (Barclays Bank PLC)
PayPal
Currency deposit - Equals
Total cash funds
Details
HMRC Gift Aid tax reclaim
Details
Details
Details
Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
901
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901
OK
Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
3,644
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
liability relates
HSBC		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £
26,020
67
20,405
2,504
2,902
51,898
OK
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
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-
-
-
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-
Cost (optional)
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-
Cost (optional)
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Amount due
(optional)
2,532
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-		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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-
-
-
-
-
OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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-
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Current value
(optional)
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-
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya HSBC 2,532 -
- -
- -
- -
- -

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature Print Name
Adrian Goode
W E Jim Leftwich		 Date of
approval
Adrian Goode
W E Jim Leftwich

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts + Section A Independent Examlner s Report Report to the tntsteesl members of Amani UK On acwunts for the year ended 31" December 2022 Charity no (rf any) 1073357 Set out on pages CCXXR1 accounts (SS) to CCXXR21SS) I report to the t￿￿tee$ on my exam1￿n of the ￿￿Unts of the above charty fihe Tfusf) forthe year erKled 31112r2022. Responsibilities and As the tharity trustees c¢ Ihe TrusL are respcnsible for the preparation basis of report of the acc(wJnts in accordm rylh the requiremwts of the Ctrities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I repjrt in respect of my examinalion of Ihe Trusys account5 carried out under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Att and in carying oul my examination. I have foll￿￿d the ap￿1¢able Dir&liLTh given by the Charity CommisS￿n uThJer Secti(￿ 145(5>(b) of the A Independent I have my examinabon. I confimi that no material matters have examinerfs statement come to my attentt(m in ￿Ineth"on ¥Mih the examinatK)n Nthid) gives me cause to believe that in. any material resFect.' a(xJwnting records not kept ￿ aLtordance V￿th seCtiC￿ 130 of the Act or I have no COn￿mS and have come aeross no other matters in connection ith the exam￿a￿0n to vthich attent￿ shcyjld be drawn in order to enable a Signed: May 2023 Name: Relevant professional qualificationlsl or body frf any)- FCA AddrESS: 1 Rushm¢)or Ayefi￿, Hazl*nern, High w￿ornbe Bucks HP15 7NT IER October 2018