**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 2025 **To** 31 12 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** Amani UK
## **Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1073357
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Charity's principal address 14 Maxwell Drive
Hazlemere
High Wycombe
Postcode HP15 7BX
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
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12
13
14
15
16
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|
|**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|
|**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; 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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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.
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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.
**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)**
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)**
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.
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Section D Achievements and performance
.
The 2025 GB£ / KES exchange rate improved slowly during the year enabling us to achieve an average rate better than our budgeted figure. Our income was higher than our budgeted figure due mainly to some exceptional designated gifts. Even so, our remaining income, both restricted and unrestricted, was strong and this enabled us to increase spending above our budget whilst still maintaining our reserves and a small additional reserve for exceptional items in 2026. The trustees also agreed to fund salary increases for the staff at the Upendo Foundation, our partner NGO in Kenya. Many areas of the work we fund have continued at a steady pace. Notable achievements during 2025 were: • The successful completion of four further spring protection projects. • The continued growth of the Healthy Choices programme providing mental and physical health services, counselling and HIV testing to young adults, supported by funds from the Mercury Phoenix Trust • Further expansion of the community group Economic Empowerment (EE) programme using grants from the Shalom Trust and other benefactors. • Continued funding and growth for the Ted Rayner Memorial Clinic. • Expansion of the Keep a Girl in School programme which now supports over 4,000 female students with the provision of sanitary towels. • Our young adult team visits restarted, having ceased because of Covid. We intend that these visits will continue in the years ahead, but team members will tend to be in the 21+ age range rather than the previous model where members were 17+. • In February we held our “Amani UK Expo 25”. The event was highly successful with many visitors and lots of discussions about the work we fund. Amongst many other things, this highlighted the need for us to grow our support base so that we can continue to fund the work in Kenya for many years to come. • The above Expo and general growth in our operations has prompted a major review of our structure and roles. The significant part of this review should be completed and implemented in 2026/7, subject to trustee approval, with the anticipation that a few other changes will take an additional 1-2 years. We are happy to advise that there were no reported safeguarding concerns in 2025 and good safeguarding practices are now being established within our NGO partner the Upendo Foundation.
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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**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
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.
## **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 Chairman
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** International Coordinator
**Date** May 16th 2026
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**1st DRAFT**
**Charity Name No (if any) Amani UK 1073357 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations 81,891 - - 81,891 51,175
Buy a Gift for Kenya - 3,600 - 3,600 3,605
Exp. Admin & support - - - - -
Educational support 10,379 - - 10,379 7,081
Ted Rayner Clinic - 15,518 - 15,518 11,574
Trade Relief - 3,064 - 3,064 8,588
School Links - 1,711 - 1,711 2,532
Keep a Girl in School - 24,816 - 24,816 11,466
Individual support - 13,264 - 13,264 14,577
Coordinator's Discretionary Fund - - - - -
Smithin Fund - 2,700 - 2,700 1,400
Scanlon Fund - - - - -
Mercury Phoenix Trust - - - - 9,989
Shalom Trust - 5,000 - 5,000 -
KTCT Supplementary - - - - -
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 6,378 - 6,378 7,042
Sub total (Gross income for
92,270 76,051 - 168,321 129,029
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 92,270 76,051 - 168,321 129,029
A3 Payments
General 74,995 358 - 75,353 54,764
Buy a Gift for Kenya - 3,507 - 3,507 5,228
Exp. Admin & support 305 - - 305 296
Education support 10,127 - - 10,127 7,030
Ted Rayner Clinic - 14,601 - 14,601 12,533
Trade Relief - 3,040 - 3,040 8,826
School Links - 2,507 - 2,507 1,729
Keep a Girl in School - 22,263 - 22,263 6,297
Individual support - 8,842 - 8,842 18,040
Coordinator's Discretionary Fund - - - - -
Smithin Fund - 1,258 - 1,258 1,455
Scanlon Fund - - - - -
Mercury Phoenix Trust - 4,776 - 4,776 615
Shalom Trust - 5,647 - 5,647 6,017
KTCT Supplementary - - - - 5,195
Kenya Staff Loan/Savings Fund - 3,482 - 3,482 7,676
Sub total [ 85,427 ] 70,281 - 155,708 135,701
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 85,427 70,281 - 155,708 135,701
Net of receipts/(payments) 6,843 5,770 - 12,613 - 6,672
A5 Transfers between funds 1,272 (1,272) - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 8,373 49,265 - 57,638 64,310
Cash funds this year end 16,488 53,763 - 70,251 57,638
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
10/06/2026
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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 £**
**16,488**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,488**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,950**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
HSBC Loan
Equals
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**40,086**
**448**
**4,353**
**807**
**8,069**
**53,763**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**807**
**1,856**
**-**
**-**|**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
11/05/2026
11/05/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
10/06/2026
Report to the trusteesl
membern of
Amani UK
On aGcounts for the year
ended
31st December 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1073357
Set out on pages
CCXXR1 accounts ISSI to CCXXR2 (SS)
I report to the ttustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (Ihe Trust") for the year ended 3111212025.
Responsibllities and As the chanty 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 {'the Act.).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I
have followed the appli&?ble Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5)(b} of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
Come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
Cause to believ8 that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
th& Act or
the accounts do not a¢cord with the accounting records
Independent
examinerfs ststemont
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
wrth the examination to vthich attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Slgned:
Dato:
21" April 2026
Name:
Colln George Stephenson
Relevant professional
qualificationls) or body
lif any):
FCA
Address:
1 Rushmoor Avenue,
Hazlemere. High Wycombe
Bucks
HP15 7NT