**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**
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|Registered charity number (if any)|1073357|
|Charity's principal address|14 Maxwell Drive|
|Hazlemere|
|High Wycombe|
|Postcode|HP15 7BX|
|ee|
|Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity|
|Name of person (or body)|
|Dates acted if not for|
|Trustee name|Office (if any)|entitled to appoint trustee (if|
|whole year|
|any)|
|1|Darren Bignell|
|2|Peter Fish|International Coordinator|
|Mrs Suzannah|
|3|
|Browne|
|4|Mrs Ruth Moffat|
|5|Robert Insley|Secretary|
|6|John Prestwich|Chairman|
|7|Jim Leftwich|
|8|Adrian Goode|Treasurer|
|9|Sue Smithin|
|10|Colin Knight|
|11|
|12|
|13|
|14|
|15|
|16|
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|Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)|
|Name|Dates acted if not for whole year|
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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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
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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 (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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|**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|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.|
|---|---|
||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
money to provide adequate hygienic means for themselves. This
programme has since been enlarged to include a Healthy Choices
programme which delivers health, sex and relationship education to both
girls and boys with a view to informing and changing attitudes.
.
The trustees are keenly aware of the need for all activities to be clearly
for the public benefit in every respect, in line with the guidelines PB1, 2
and 3.|
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
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.
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
.
Contrary to the trend in 2023, we were challenged by a sharp GB£ / KES exchange rate deterioration of approx. 20% at the start of 2024, after the 2024 budget had been agreed. However, having set a relatively conservative budget and due to continued generosity from our donors, we were able to more than meet our 2024 budgeted objectives. • The spring protection projects funded by a grant from the Kitchen Table Charities Trust and another donor at the end of 2023 were all completed successfully. This has resulted in reliable, clean water now being accessible to hundreds of people in rural areas. • The grant from the Mercury Phoenix Trust (MPT) mentioned in last year’s report has enabled our NGO partner in Kenya (the Upendo Foundation) to continue the Healthy Choices programme providing mental and physical health services, counselling and HIV testing to adolescents and young adults. Another grant was received from MPT during the year enabling the Healthy Choices programme to continue throughout 2025 and 2026. • The grant received from the Shalom Trust for the purpose of expanding the community group Economic Empowerment (EE) programme has been distributed. Approx. 40% of all the community groups we support have now been incorporated into the EE programme and the results are impressive. Virtually every group has increased their fund value significantly whilst also giving support to the most vulnerable widows and orphans within the group. • Whilst the EE programme continues, we are still equipping those groups which have not been selected to participate in the programme with farm inputs and equipment, as has been the case for many years. • Fundraising for the Ted Rayner Memorial Clinic has been strong and this has enabled further capital investment in the clinic as well as the re-instigation of community medical camps where anyone from the local community can come to the clinic on a specific day for free medical care. These days attract hundreds of patients. • Fundraising for Keep a Girl in School has also continued strongly, enabling the number of female students supported with the provision of sanitary towels to be increased by over 15% to 3,500+. • Team visits are now fully re-established following the Covid pandemic, with three visits taking place during the year. • We are reducing our orphan support programme in favour of using our resources to support community groups. This reduction is happening gradually, as it must, ensuring that supported orphans can complete their education and are given additional help to enable them to become self-sufficient. The trustees decided to make the substantial commitment to hold an “Amani UK Expo” in February 2025. The purpose of this is to create an opportunity for everyone in the Hazlemere area to come and witness for themselves the positive impact we are making. The results will be reported in next year’s report. We continue to focus on our safeguarding responsibilities and are happy to advise that there were no reported safeguarding concerns in 2024. Further safeguarding training has taken place within the Upendo Foundation and they are disseminating the safeguarding concept to local organisations and schools where it has been received very positively.
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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.
- 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** May 10th 2025 ~~|~~
John Richard Prestwich Chairman
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||**Charity Name**|||||||**No (if any)**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Amani UK**|||||||**1073357**||||
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||**CC16a**||
||**For the period**
**from**|**For the period**|Period start date
01/01/2024||**To**|||Period end date
31/12/2024||||
|||||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Endowment**|**Total funds**||**Last year**||
||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|Donations
**50,663**
**512**
**-**
**51,175**
**48,289**
Buy a Gift for Kenya
**-**
**3,605**
**-**
**3,605**
**6,618**
Exp. Admin & support
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**339**
Educational support
**7,081**
**-**
**-**
**7,081**
**7,868**
Ted Rayner Clinic
**-**
**11,574**
**-**
**11,574**
**13,023**
Trade Relief
**-**
**8,588**
**-**
**8,588**
**3,116**
School Links
**-**
**2,532**
**-**
**2,532**
**4,338**
Keep a Girl in School
**-**
**11,466**
**-**
**11,466**
**12,862**
Individual support
**-**
**14,577**
**-**
**14,577**
**20,538**
Coordinator's Discretionary Fund
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Smithin Fund
**-**
**1,400**
**-**
**1,400**
**1,400**
Scanlon Fund
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,800**
Mercury Phoenix Trust
**-**
**9,989**
**-**
**9,989**
**4,547**
Shalom Trust
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,000**
KTCT Supplementary
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,200**
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund
**-**
**7,042**
**-**
**7,042**
**7,927**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**57,744**
**71,285**
**-**
**129,029**
**142,865**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**57,744**
**71,285**
**-**
**129,029**
**142,865**
o~~s~~||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|General
**53,510**
**1,254**
**-**
**54,764**
**39,774**
Buy a Gift for Kenya
**-**
**5,228**
**-**
**5,228**
**4,895**
Exp. Admin & support
**296**
**-**
**-**
**296**
**339**
Education support
**7,030**
**-**
**-**
**7,030**
**7,867**
Ted Rayner Clinic
**-**
**12,533**
**-**
**12,533**
**11,017**
Trade Relief
**-**
**8,826**
**-**
**8,826**
**3,129**
School Links
**-**
**1,729**
**-**
**1,729**
**4,740**
Keep a Girl in School
**-**
**6,297**
**-**
**6,297**
**16,622**
Individual support
**-**
**18,040**
**-**
**18,040**
**17,446**
Coordinator's Discretionary Fund
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Smithin Fund
**-**
**1,455**
**-**
**1,455**
**1,180**
Scanlon Fund
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,862**
Mercury Phoenix Trust
**-**
**615**
**-**
**615**
**3,932**
Shalom Trust
**-**
**6,017**
**-**
**6,017**
**1,704**
KTCT Supplementary
**-**
**5,195**
**-**
**5,195**
**-**
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund
**-**
**7,676**
**-**
**7,676**
**6,847**
**_Sub total_ 60,836**
**74,865**
**-**
**135,701**
**131,354**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**60,836**
**74,865**
**-**
**135,701**
**131,354**
~~—~~||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**(3,092)**||**(3,580)**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**- 6,672**|**- 6,672**|**11,511**|**11,511**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**1,009**|**1,009**|**(1,009)**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**10,456**|**10,456**|**53,854**|**53,854**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**64,310**|**64,310**|**52,799**|**52,799**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**8,373**|**8,373**|**49,265**|**49,265**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**57,638**|**57,638**|**64,310**|**64,310**|
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|Hazlemere JAM
(HSBC)
Hazlemere JAM
Loan/Savings
Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya
Loan/Savings Fund owed to Kenya
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
HMRC Gift Aid tax reclaim
**Details**
Amani UK (Barclays Bank PLC)
PayPal
Currency deposit - Equals|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,373**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,373**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**3,554**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
HSBC
Equals
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**33,263**
**684**
**4,456**
**794**
**10,068**
**49,265**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**794**
**2,184**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
|Signature|Print Name
Adrian Goode
W E Jim Leftwich|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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