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Heart of the Father

Report of the Trustees

Year End 31[st] March 2022

Management and governance

Trustees for the charity are prosed and seconded at a trustees’ meeting before appointment. Trustees meet quarterly. Trustees in position as at 31st March 2022:

Tiffany Needham, Crystal Meering, Ami Wagner, Robert Clare, Deborah Randall

Objectives

The principal objective of the charity in the period under review was to promote the Christian religion, to relieve poverty and to pursue such charitable purposes as the trustees shall from time to time think fit, provided that the trustees shall have no power to advance any religion other than the Christian religion.

The trustees referred to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.

Vision, History and Current Work

Founded by Fr Paul Uwemedimo in 1999 with a blended vision of service and evangelisation. From the outset, HOF had a dual vision for bringing young people to know the love of God. Firstly, the charity aimed to develop the potential of children and young people in disadvantaged parts of the world in a way which would also announce to them the love of God the Father. Secondly, HOF aimed to evangelise young people in the UK, in particular by connecting them with the young people helped by HOF overseas, thus nurturing in them Christian solidarity and an awareness of the needs of mankind.

Since 2000, HOF’s work has centred almost entirely in the Philippines, working in Payatas, a lowincome township in Metro Manila. Since 2005 the work in Payatas has been managed by Puso Ng Ama (PNA), established as a local partner organisation for HOF in the Philippines.

HOF’s Projects in Payatas have included: funding a project manager, administrator, teachers and community-based youth workers; supporting an excellent pre-school facility; funding youth scholarships, for example training young people as teachers and automotive and electrical engineers; and in 2006 buying land and constructing a youth centre. Since 2008, HOF has organised trips for young people from Payatas and to another project in Negros to visit each other, to work together, and to organise their own social outreaches, particularly with vulnerable families.

In 2012 PNA took on a new board of trustees and HOF committed to funding their core costs at a sum of around £7,000 pa.

In 2017 we changed the designation of our regular transfers to support scholars rather than salaries although we support and fundraise for other projects we were still funding emergency food support for the Covid-19 related emergency earlier on in the year, we have sent £750 for computer equipment and more recently have been receiving donations for Fr Paul medical costs which were passed on in July 2022. In Dacutan (funded via Comsol) we sent additional funds for a laptop to add to the computer and printer from last year for home schooling.

In 2007 HOF’s Project Director, Emma Randall, moved with her three daughters to work full-time for HOF and Gawad Kalinga (a nation-wide social action network that sprang from the vision of Couples for Christ), based in the mainly agricultural island of Negros. While there she developed a particular concern for the people of the fishing village of Dacutan, where HOF has supported a teacher, and in 2009, bought a house for use as a youth centre through Comsol, another local partner organisation for HOF in the Philippines. Although she returned to the UK in 2010 to pursue mission studies Bristol Baptist College, Emma has continued to visit the Philippines regularly: to oversee our projects in Dacutan and act as a trustee for PNA.

Since her first involvement in HOF in 2004 Emma has organised mission trips for young people from the UK, involving building work, children’s activities, medical outreaches and health training, worship workshops and fellowship with the people of Payatas & Dacutan.

Basis of our current work:

1. Payatas (PNA)

2. its trustees and the youth centre

3. its staff members and students

4. the relationships and trust that Emma has with PNA, and with the people of Payatas

5. Dacutan

6. a small regular contribution to the income of a teacher

7. the relationships and trust that Emma has with the Kapit Bahayan (village council), and with a female village leader, and with the villagers as a whole

8. Emma, our Project Director: Emma is a valued servant in respect of

9. the goodwill and respect she has in Payatas and Dacutan

10. the experience and understanding of Filipino ways and culture

11. the skill and experience she has in organising mission trips from the UK

12. her profound personal commitment to social justice, and to the people of the Philippines in particular.

13. Our funding base: especially our regular givers

Financial review of the charity

Income totalled £31,299 (2020: £39,985) and the total expenditure was £23,011 (2020: £37,458) resulting in a surplus of £8288 (2020: £2,527) for the year. These funds will be applied to the objects of the charity. The financial position at the end of the year was such that the charity had sufficient liquid funds to cover its liabilities.

Income from Charitable Activities

Designated Donations for PNA £12,636

Designated Donations for Comsol	£ 600
Designated Donation for Fr Paul Medical	£ 10,129
Undesignated Donations	£ 3969
Other Income	£ 3964
Interest	£ 1
TOTAL	£31,299

Expenditure on Charitable Activities

Banking fees	£	296
Membership fees	£	293
Project Manager	£	705
Transfers to PNA	£	17,544
Transfers to Comsol	£	4,174
TOTAL	£	23,011

Unspent designated donation carried over from previous years

£853.00 E Randall project director flight donation

Unspent designated donations carried over into next year

£10,129 For Fr Paul medical bills

£3,895 PNA/Payatas