The Good Shepherd Project
| Registered Charity Number 1076035 | |
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| Annual Report and Accounts to 31 December 2024 | |
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| Trustee’s Annual Report | 2 - 3 |
| Statement of Financial Activities | 4 |
| Balance Sheet | 5 |
| Notes to the Accounts | 6 - 7 |
| Report of the Independent Examiner | 8 |
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The Good Shepherd Project
Trustees Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024
Trustees
The Trustees who served during the year and to the date of this report are:
Rachel Campos Chairwoman Stephen Medhurst Joseph Campos Jan Davies
Under the Declaration of Trust, new Trustees may be appointed by a resolution of the Trustees passed at a meeting of the Trustees and where there is a majority of the Trustees present.
The Trustees present their annual report and independently examined accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Management Committee
In addition to the Trustees, members of the Management Committee during the year were:
Samara Bedore Nathanael Last (Treasurer) Catherine Farndon
The role of the Management Committee is to assist the Trustees in the management and operations of the Charity. This includes assisting with secretarial, treasury and administrative functions, and providing input and advice to the Trustees.
Independent Examiner
The Trustees have appointed Mr Robert Felix FCA as an Independent Examiner of their financial statements and accompanying notes.
Bankers
Barclays Bank Plc, 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP
Status
The Good Shepherd Project (the ‘Charity’), whose principal office is 35A Haugh Shaw Road Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX1 3AH, was established by Declaration of Trust dated 1 April 1999 and is registered in England with the Charity Commission number 1076035. In carrying out its activities, the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
Purpose of the Charity
The Charity was formed with the primary purpose of supporting vulnerable children in Brazil. Since its formation, the Charity has supported a variety of projects in order to fulfill this purpose. In recent years, the main focus of the Charity has been supporting the Projeto Bom Pastor (PBP). The objectives of these projects have principally included:
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Advancing the Christian faith in Brazil
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Providing relief, particularly (though not exclusively), to children and young people who are in conditions of hardship in Brazil
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Advancing education in Brazil in accordance with Christian principles
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Promoting and fulfilling other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in such locations as the trust may be working, and as the trustees may think fit.
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Achievements and performance
PBP is based in Fatima, near Belo Horizonte in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. The Charity supports PBP by making regular grants to contribute to the work of this project. The Charity is not involved in the day-to-day management of PBP. The activities of PBP are instead coordinated locally in Fatima by the PBP leadership team. The Charity receives updates from the PBP leadership team on its activities. Rachel Campos (Trustee/Chair of the Charity) has regular weekly meetings with Rogerio Muneron, who works on the PBP team on the ground, to talk about what PBP have been doing. This year the GSP trustees have also had some contact with the board of PBP directors, to encourage the directors to be more involved in the running of the work.
The activities and initiatives undertaken by the Charity during the year 2024 included:
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Regular communication with PBP through Rogerio Muneron.
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The sending out of a total of six volunteer young people from the UK, at various times in the year between April and July. The volunteers helped with PBP programmes, spent time at the Safe House relating to the children and helping with activities, and painted a mural running up the stairs in the main building. They also planned and ran workshops, particularly workshops teaching English
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The updating of a programme to sponsor children in Fatima. Previously, individual children were sponsored, but this could be tricky due to the constant movement of children and families. The programme now sponsors where most needed, in education, health and social care of children involved with PBP.
Activities and initiatives undertaken by PBP during the year:
PBP has two main sides to its work:
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Safe House - for children who the local social services have removed from their family homes for various reasons, where their rights have been violated. The safe house houses between 10 and 20 children, aged up to 18, for varying lengths of time. The children live here full-time for the length deemed fit by the social services and the judge. They then move on to adopted homes, or back to homes of family members or relatives, where appropriate. Some stay here until they are 18, when they are then helped to live an independent life.
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Community activities. This year these were: football, futsal, circus skills, IT skills, jiu-jitsu. Up to 200 children are registered on these programmes.
Financial review
Income for the year was £32,651 (2023: £20,994). The total expenditure was £36,811 (2023: £17.918), resulting in net deficit for the year of £4,160 (2023: surplus £3,076).
Alongside the regular, ongoing giving by our supporters, we were very grateful to receive several one-off gifts during the year, including £1,627 from Frampton Park Baptist Church and £3,000 from the Kenyon Charitable Trust.
Reserves policy
Reserves are that part of unrestricted funds that the Charity is freely able to spend. The Charity is not legally obligated to continue making grants to any project or incur any future expenditure. Nevertheless, in furtherance of the Charity’s objectives, the Trustee’s aim is to maintain sufficient reserves to continue making the regular monthly grant to PBP for six months, and so are careful not to enter into any commitments that would put this level of reserves at risk. Reserves at 31 December 2024 covered ten months of grant making, which has been £,1700 since January 2025. The reserving policy will continue to be regularly reviewed in light of the Charity’s principal funding objectives.
Rachel Campos
Chairwoman,
06 September 2025
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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 December 2024
| Notes Income from: Donations Tax recoverable under gift aid Total income Expenditure on: Grants payable and donations Fundraising Marketing Team trip Travel Administrative Governance Total expenditure Transfers between funds Net movement in funds 8 Reconciliation of funds: Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward |
Unrestricted Restricted Funds Funds £ £ 17,985 12,715 1,228 723 19,213 13,438 22,960 4,204 55 - - - - 8,747 138 - 414 200 93 - 23,767 13,044 - - (4,554) 394 21,232 195 16,678 589 |
2024 Total £ 30,700 1,951 32,651 27,164 55 - 8,747 138 507 200 36,811 - (4,160) 21,427 17,267 |
2023 Total £ 19,832 1,162 |
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| 20,994 | |||
| 15,327 - 853 - 1,056 282 400 |
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| 17,918 | |||
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| 3,076 | |||
| 18,351 | |||
| 21,427 |
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Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024
| Notes Current Assets Cash at bank 7 Debtors Current Liabilities Creditors Total Net Assets The funds of the charity: Funds Unrestricted 8 Restricted 8 |
2024 £ 16,156 1,311 17,467 200 17,267 16,678 589 17,267 |
2023 £ 19,138 2,489 |
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| 21,627 200 |
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| 21,427 | ||
| 21,232 195 |
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| 21,427 |
Rachel Campos
For and on behalf of the Trustees,
06 September 2025
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Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024
1. Accounting policies
These accounts are prepared under the historic cost convention on an accruals basis and in accordance with the Charities Act 2011, Financial Reporting Standard FRS 102 (‘FRS 102’) and the Statement of Recommended Practice on Accounting and Reporting by Charities 2015, last revised in 2018 (the ‘SORP’).
These accounts are prepared on a going concern basis. In performing the going concern assessment, the principal risks and uncertainties facing the Charity have been reviewed These include the risk of the charity being unable to maintain the regular monthly grant to PBP, and the risk of not having enough volunteers to fulfil the trustee and management committee roles. Based on this review, it has been concluded that these risks do not cast significant doubt on the Charity’s ability to continue as a going concern.
Regular standing order donations are monitored on an ongoing basis, and we are confident of maintaining the monthly grant to PBP at the agreed level for the foreseeable future.
2. Income
Donations receive (including legacies), tax recoverable under gift aid and deposit interest are recognised on an accruals basis.
3. Volunteers
The Trustees and Committee Examiner all serve the charity on an unpaid basis.
4. Expenditure
Expenditure of the Charity (excluding grants payable) is recognised on an accruals basis.
5. Tax recoverable under gift aid
Tax recoverable under gift aid is £1,230 for the current year (2023: £1,163).
6. Grants payable
All grants made by the charity in the current and prior year were to PBP, a charitable institution operating in the Minas Gerais region of Brazil. This support is provided to assist PBP in undertaking its activities.
7. Cash at bank
Cash at bank comprises current account balances with Barclays Bank Plc.
8. Funds
Details are included overleaf.
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8. Funds (continued)
| Unrestricted General Restricted: Alice Safe house Safe house boy Team |
Balance Incoming Outgoing Balance 1 Jan 2024 Resources Resources 31 Dec 2024 21,232 19,213 (23,767) 16,678 |
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| 21,232 19,213 (23,767) 16,678 - 1,300 (1,300) - 195 1,210 (1,080) 325 - 63 (50) 13 - 10,865 (10,614) 251 |
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| 195 13,438 (13,044) 589 |
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| 21,427 32,651 (36,811) 17,267 |
The Charity does not possess any fixed assets. The Charity continues to review opportunities to distribute its funds for its charitable purposes.
9. Related parties
Total donations by related parties during the year are £300 (2023: £827). No other related party transactions have taken place in the year to 31 December 2024. Trustees claimed £10,657 (2023: £1,056) in expenses for travel.
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Independent Examiners Report for the year ended 31 December 2024
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2024.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner's statement
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 believe that in any material respect:
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Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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The accounts do not accord with those records; or
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The accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Financial statements and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Robert Felix, FCA 33 Broomhill Road Woodford Green Essex IG8 9HD
29 September 2025
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