Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 01 2023 To 31 12 2023
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 14 Maxwell Drive Hazlemere High Wycombe Postcode HP15 7BX ~~————~~
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any) |
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| 1 Darren Bignell | |||
| 2 Peter Fish | International Coordinator | ||
| Mrs Suzannah Browne |
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| 4 Mrs Ruth Moffat | |||
| 5 Robert Insley | Secretary | ||
| 6 John Prestwich | Chairman | ||
| 7 Jim Leftwich | |||
| 8 Adrian Goode | Treasurer | ||
| 9 Sue Smithin | |||
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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 |
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| 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 Close, Beaconsfield, 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 St, Gt. 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 training of trustees; Nearly all trustees and advisors have visited and know Kenya, with a
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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.
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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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 schools 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 had regard to the guidance The trustees are keenly aware of the need for all activities to be clearly issued by the Charity for the public benefit in every respect, in line with the guidelines PB1, 2 Commission on public and 3. 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.
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
2023 was a very positive year from a financial point of view and also operationally. Although total income was slightly down on 2022’s total, when the 1off exceptional donation received in 2022 is discounted, 2023 showed a strong financial growth in almost every area of both restricted and unrestricted giving. Of particular note was the 250%+ growth in donations made through our Buy a Gift for Kenya (BaG) scheme. The growth in Educational Support funding reflects the resumption of team trips to Kenya as we slowly recover from the effects of the Covid pandemic. It is also encouraging to note that unrestricted giving increased by over 20%
The funding of our NGO partner in Kenya, the Upendo Foundation, was also boosted by a rapidly improving exchange rate which reached levels of almost 50% better than a couple of years previously. This enabled us to make additional funds available locally whilst maintaining the restricted use of the original donations, where applicable.
During the year we also received the funding from the Mercury Phoenix Trust (mentioned in our 2022 report) and a second grant from the Shalom Trust. The former is still being used to expand and develop the Healthy Choices programme which provides mental and physical health services to adolescents and young adults. The services are offered at a number of localised community gatherings with free HIV testing being a core provision.
In 2022 we reported on the first funding from the Shalom Trust which has been used to provide Economic Empowerment to 10 community groups. This programme has been and continues to be very successful. We have learnt some valuable lessons from this and the second Shalom Trust grant is being used to provide an enhanced version of the economic empowerment programme where the “investment” per community group will be at a higher level. Seven community groups are involved in this second phase. Our feedback on this will form part of our 2024 report.
This still leaves 33 community groups in the Ringa and Oyugis areas who have not yet received Economic Empowerment funding. We will continue to seek out new funding sources to provide this but in the meantime we are still supporting these remaining groups with farming inputs etc as we have been doing for many years as one of our core activities.
Our Keep a Girl in School (KaGiS) programme has continued to expand and well over 3000 girls are now supported with the provision of sanitary towels.
We have carried out a review of our School Links programme to ensure the on-going commitment of the linked schools. This has resulted in a small number of schools dropping out of the programme but with the growing capability of Kenyan schools to communicate electronically with their linked UK school and vice versa, we expect it to become easier to maintain these links providing that each school has an effective link “champion”. As a consequence of good cultural links, UK schools continue to raise money for their Kenyan linked school.
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Section D Achievements and performance
We continue to focus on our safeguarding responsibilities and are happy to report that there were no reportable safeguarding concerns in 2023. However, we continue to stress the importance of safeguarding to the Upendo Foundation and are happy to report that the foundation now has a trained safeguarding officer.
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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:
- 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. Section
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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 Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) International Coordinator Date 17th. June 2024 ~~|~~
John Richard Prestwich Chairman
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FINAL DRAFT - CS
| FINAL DRAFT - CS | ||||||||||
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| FINAL DRAFT - CS | Charity Name | No (if any) | ||||||||
| Amani UK | 1073357 | |||||||||
| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||||||||
| For the period from |
For the period | Period start date 01/01/2023 |
To | Period end date 31/12/2023 |
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| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||||
| Unrestricted funds |
Restricted funds |
Endowment funds |
Total funds | Last year | ||||||
| to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | to the nearest £ | ||||||
| A1 Receipts | ||||||||||
| Donations 46,841 1,448 - 48,289 44,411 Buya Gift for Kenya - 6,618 - 6,618 2,678 Exp. Admin & support 339 - - 339 237 Educational support 7,868 - - 7,868 958 Ted Rayner Clinic - 13,023 - 13,023 12,049 Trade Relief - 3,116 - 3,116 4,295 School Links - 4,338 - 4,338 3,088 Keepa Girl in School - 12,862 - 12,862 11,459 Individual support - 20,538 - 20,538 17,042 Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund - - - - - Smithin Fund - 1,400 - 1,400 1,550 Scanlon Fund - 1,800 - 1,800 40,393 MercuryPhoenix Trust - 4,547 - 4,547 - Shalom Trust - 5,000 - 5,000 5,000 KTCT Supplementary - 5,200 - 5,200 - Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 7,927 - 7,927 6,564 Sub total(Gross income for AR) 55,048 87,817 - 142,865 149,724 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total receipts 55,048 87,817 - 142,865 149,724 ~~==~~ |
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| A3 Payments | ||||||||||
| General 38,251 1,523 - 39,774 46,352 Buya Gift for Kenya - 4,895 - 4,895 2,842 Exp. Admin & support 339 - - 339 237 Education support 7,867 - - 7,867 958 Ted Rayner Clinic - 11,017 - 11,017 9,082 Trade Relief - 3,129 - 3,129 4,052 School Links - 4,740 - 4,740 3,179 Keepa Girl in School - 16,622 - 16,622 9,096 Individual support - 17,446 - 17,446 18,974 Coordinator's DiscretionaryFund - - - - 64 Smithin Fund - 1,180 - 1,180 850 Scanlon Fund - 11,862 - 11,862 30,322 MercuryPhoenix Trust - 3,932 - 3,932 - Shalom Trust - 1,704 - 1,704 1,656 KTCT Supplementary - - - - - Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 6,847 - 6,847 12,778 Sub total 46,457 84,897 - 131,354 140,442 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - ~~areas~~ |
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| Total payments | 46,457 | 84,897 | - | 131,354 | 140,442 | |||||
| Net of receipts/(payments) | 8,591 | 8,591 | 2,920 | 2,920 | - | 11,511 | 11,511 | 9,282 | ||
| A5 Transfers between funds | 964 | 964 | (964) | - | - | - | ||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 901 | 901 | 51,898 | 51,898 | - | 52,799 | 52,799 | 43,517 | ||
| Cash funds this year end | 10,456 | 10,456 | 53,854 | 53,854 | - | 64,310 | 64,310 | 52,799 |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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FINAL DRAFT - CS
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Unrestricted Restricted |
Endowment | ||||
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| Categories | Details | funds funds |
funds | ||
| to nearest £ to nearest £ |
to nearest £ | ||||
| B1 Cash funds | 10,456 26,282 - - 1,301 - Hazlemere JAM (HSBC) - 9,487 - Hazlemere JAM Loan/Savings - 779 - - 16,005 - 10,456 53,854 - Total cash funds Amani UK (Barclays Bank PLC) PayPal Currency deposit - Equals ~~—===~~ |
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| (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
(agree balances with receipts and payments | OK OK |
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| Unrestricted Restricted |
Endowment | ||||
| funds funds |
funds | ||||
| Details | to nearest £ to nearest £ |
to nearest £ | |||
| B2 Other monetary assets | 3,678 - - - - - - - - - - - - HMRC Gift Aid tax reclaim ~~—__—~~ |
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| Details | Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) |
Current value (optional) |
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| B3 Investment assets | - - - - - - - - - - ~~——===~~ |
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| Details | Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) |
Current value (optional) |
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| B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use |
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| Fund to which Amount due |
When due | ||||
| Details | liability relates (optional) |
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| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities |
HSBC 779 - Equals 2,833 - - - - - - - Date of approval 18/06/2024 18/06/2024 Signature Print Name Adrian Goode W E Jim Leftwich Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya Currency deposit ~~au~~ |
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| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) | 2 | 19/06/2024 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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 accounts for the year ended 31° December 2023 Charity no (if any) 1073357 Set out on pages CCXXR1 accounts (SS) to CCXXR2 (SS) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (the Trusf) for the year ended 3111212023. Responsibllltles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {'Ihe Arf). 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 ACL I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination Yknich givos me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounting records wern not kept in accordance %*ith section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no concems 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. Signed: 28° May 2024 Name: Colin George Stephenson Relevant professional quallfication(s) or body (if any): FCA Address: 1 Rushmoor Avenue, Hazlemere. High Wycombo Bucks HP15 7NT IER October 2018
Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (se8 CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts". direth'ons and guidance for examiners). Give hore brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018