## **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)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|1 Darren Bignell||||
|2 Peter Fish|International Coordinator|||
|Mrs Suzannah
Browne||||
|4 Mrs Ruth Moffat||||
|5 Robert Insley|Secretary|||
|6 John Prestwich|Chairman|||
|7 Jim Leftwich||||
|8 Adrian Goode|Treasurer|||
|9 Sue Smithin||||
|10||||
|11||||
|12||||
|13||||
|14||||
|15||||
|16
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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**|
|---|---|---|
|**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
- 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 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.
- policy programme related investment;
- 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**
- 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 **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|||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|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|||
|**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**
~~==~~|||||||||||
|**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~~|||||||||||
|**_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)
19/06/2024
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**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
~~—===~~|||||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|(agree balances with receipts and payments|OK
OK||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**3,678**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
HMRC Gift Aid tax reclaim
~~—__—~~|||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~——===~~|||||
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~qa~~|||||
||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**||**(optional)**|
|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~~|||||
|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