# **making a difference one child at a time** **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **----- Start of picture text -----**
CONTENTS
**----- End of picture text -----**
Section A: Reference and Administration Details Section B: Structure, Governance and Management Section C: Objectives and Activities Section D: Achievements and Performance Section E: Financial Review Section F: Declaration **100% STAFF ARE VOLUNTEERS** **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **02** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION A:
REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION
DETAILS
**----- End of picture text -----**
Charity Name: CHILD’s Trust Other name charity is known by: Children’s Home Improvement Learning Development Trust Registered Charity Number: 1078151 Charity’s Principal Address: PO Box 6056, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 5YS ## C **harity Trustees:** Ben Davies, Chair (Trustee since 2003) Mark Thomas, Operational Director (since 1999) Maggie Thompson (since 2016) **1.57% ADMIN COSTS OF TOTAL EXPENDITURE** Mick Boys (since Jan 2018) Joe McIlvenny (since Jan 2018) Key Personnel: Julie Thomas, Co-Founder : Office Support Maggie Thompson Finance & Admin Laura Thomas Publicity & Events **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **03** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION B:
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND
MANAGEMENT
**----- End of picture text -----**
## Structure: CHILD’s Trust is governed by a Deed of Verification and the charity is constituted by Trust. Trustees are selected and elected to sit on the Board by the Board of Trustees. There have been no serious incidents to report within the time period of this report. ## Governance: The charity is made up entirely of volunteers who receive no payment for their services. It is governed by a Board of Trustees who delegate the day-today running of the charity to its Operational Director who is supported by volunteers. The Trustees have stated that they are satisfied with CHILD’s Trust’s risk management policy and procedure. To clarify, CHILD’s Trust has no trading subsidiaries. The charity has two volunteers, excluding Trustees all of which are voluntarily working and receiving no financial gain from supporting the charity. DBS checks are made on all UK based individuals who will work unsupervised with children when visiting them in South Asia. **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **04** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION B:
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND
MANAGEMENT... CONTINUED.
**----- End of picture text -----**
## Financial Support Sources: Funds are raised from the public through fundraising activities such as sponsored walks and one-off events. Individuals can also donate funds online on our website. All fundraising is carried out by volunteers. We have been blessed with grants that have supported the developmental work in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Grants are not however, the main income for the charity. CHILD’s Trust is not financially supported by any government or local authority. Most of the donations received by CHILD’s Trust were by UK based supporters. All of our financial and administrative volunteers are UK based, but all beneficiaries are located in South Asia. All of our projects are covered by the need to send funds through official banking systems. However, on occasions we have given small cash gifts when one of our team visited a project. During this financial year no formal fund-raising activities have taken place except those undertaken informally by individuals. **05** **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION C:
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
**----- End of picture text -----**
The aim of CHILD’s Trust is to provide financial and practical support to underprivileged children throughout the world. The Board of Trustees have decided that at present the work of CHILD’s Trust should be focused on the countries of India, Bangladesh and Nepal. **3 HOUSES OF HOPE** The Board of Trustees apply the statutory guidance issued by the Charity Commission. To ensure that overseas spending is monitored CHILD’s Trust Founders and/or Board Members would normally visit each project, every year, to check how the funds are spent. In addition to the above, there is monthly contact via Zoom and WhatsApp with our larger projects such as the Houses of Hope. This keeps us up to date with day-to-day developments as well as the usual birthday celebrations. **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **06** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION D:
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
**----- End of picture text -----**
## UK Based Developments: Regular phone and WhatsApp calls as well as video based activities enabled us to keep in touch with all our projects. In addition to the above we have maintained close links with those who support us, updating them via phone calls and meetings with larger groups such as Churches. Several presentations have been made by the Founders both in person and via Zoom calls. **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **07** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION D:
ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE
**----- End of picture text -----**
## South Asian Developments During this financial year there have been two visits in South Asia. In November, Julie, and Mark (CT Founders) were joined by Maggie and Ian Thompson as they visited all of the projects in India and Nepal; it was an exhausting schedule for us all. In Feb 2023 Julie and Mark visited India and Bangladesh. They saw everyone from the projects in Bangladesh and some of the projects in India. **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **08** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION E:
FINANCIAL REVIEW
**----- End of picture text -----**
## Income: CHILDs Trust gratefully received £93,107 **£1.54m DONATED SINCE 1999** Income Generation: The majority of financial gifts are given monthly from a large number of individual supporters, through our Child or Project sponsorship programmes, regular monthly donations and generous one off gifts. We have been amazed to see that our income has grown in such a tough year with 35% of the previous year’s income being achieved. This has been achieved with no formal fund raising activities except those undertaken by individuals. During this financial year we have continued to reduce the number of individual Child sponsorship transferring them into project sponsorship. ## Expenditure: Supporting and developing CHILD’s Trust existing projects cost £45,370 for the year. Reserves: CHILD’s Trust retains funds in reserve that enables all the educational projects to be funded for 1 year. Additionally there are funds reserved for the House of Hope projects to be supported for 2 years. We are predicting and expecting a significant increase in the cost to support children from our Houses of Hope projects. In the next few years, we are expecting to be supporting 6 -8 children though degree level education. This is a significant increase in our costs, on average £10,000/year. **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **9** **----- Start of picture text -----**
SECTION F:
DECLARATION
**----- End of picture text -----**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Full Name Ben Davies Position Chair Date: January 2024 Full Name Mark Thomas Date: January 2024 **10** **CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2022/23** **CHILDREN'S HOME IMPROVEMENT'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT (CHILD'S) TRUST - 1078151** ## **Analysis of income and expenditure** ## **Selected period: 01 May 2022 to 30 April 2023** |**Incoming resources**
**_Fund Raising_**
7401 - Fundraising Events
**_Fund Raising Totals_**
**_Voluntary Income_**
1101 - General
1102 - Birthday
1103 - Christmas
1111 - Administration
1112 - Further Education
1113 - Education
1200 - HoH General
1201 - HoH-Asha Kunj
1301 - HoH-Vishwa Jyoti
1401 - HoH-Nizhum
1810 - Pinewood Foundation School
2001 - DPS - KHW
2301 - Immanuel School
2501 - Roshni Playgroup
7403 - Every Click/GYL
7404 - Amazon Smile
**_Voluntary Income Totals_**
**_Investment Income_**
9900 - Interest Received
**_Investment Income Totals_**
**Incoming resources Grand**
**totals**|**Unrestricted**
**Designated**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**
**Total**
**This year**
**Last year**| |---|---| ||—
2,220
—
—
2,220
—| ||2,220
—
2,220
—
—
—
51,010
—
—
—
51,010
30,863
120
—
—
—
120
105
275
—
—
—
275
225
7
—
—
—
7
(37)
—
148
1,211
—
1,360
1,232
—
960
—
—
960
845
—
10,255
—
—
10,255
9,833
—
4,580
—
—
4,580
4,432
—
5,065
—
—
5,065
4,774
—
11,002
—
—
11,002
10,072
—
—
—
—
—
125
189
1,929
—
—
2,118
2,637
—
3,107
—
—
3,107
3,303
—
250
—
—
250
250
33
—
—
—
33
42
31
—
—
—
31
15| ||90,177
51,666
37,299
1,211
—
68,721
709
—
—
—
709
15| ||709
709
—
—
—
15| ||52,376
39,519
1,211
—
68,737
93,107| |**Resources used**
**_Administration_**
8100 - Office Costs
**_Administration Totals_**
**_Charitable Activities_**
8102 - Administration
8104 - Birthday Gift
8107 - Christmas Gift
8112 - Further Education
8201 - HoH Asha Kunj
8202 - HoH AK & VJ Land/Building
8301 - HoH Vishwa Jyoti
8401 - HoH Nizhum
8502 - Bethany Vision Nepal HoH|192
—
—
—
192
627| |---|---| ||192
192
—
—
—
627
1,465
—
—
—
1,465
2,583
95
—
—
—
95
115
470
—
—
—
470
585
—
—
5,023
—
5,023
5,826
—
7,345
—
—
7,345
13,830
—
—
—
—
—
112
—
12,162
—
—
12,162
14,553
—
9,248
—
—
9,248
20,466
—
—
—
—
—
1,800| _**There may be minor discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown**_ 17 February 2024 Page 1 |||||||**Total**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Unrestricted**|**Designated**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|**This year**||**Last year**| |8503 - Bethany Vision Nepal Education|—|—|—|—|—||3,500| |8710 - Generation Bangladesh|—|250|—|—|250||1,000| |8810 - Pinewood Foundation School|402|125|—|—|527||1,003| |9001 - DPS - KHW|—|2,640|—|—|2,640||5,280| |9701 - Immanuel School|—|3,524|—|—|3,524||3,846| |9710 - Jehova School|—|2,426|—|—|2,426||2,393| |9802 - Roshni Playgroup|—|—|—|—|—||4,543| |**_Charitable Activities Totals_**|2,432|37,722|5,023|—|45,178||81,440| |**Resources used Grand totals**|2,624|37,722|5,023|—|45,370||82,067| _**There may be minor discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown**_ 17 February 2024 Page 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** CHILDREN’S HOME IMPROVEMENTS LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT **members of** (CHILD’S) TRUST **On accounts for the year** 30[th] April 2023 **Charity no** 1078151 **ended (if any)** **Set out on pages** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30/04/23** . - **Responsibilities and basis of report** As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 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 Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: • accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns 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:** **Date: 6 February 2024** **Name:** COLLEEN ELDRIDGE **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** 1 **October 2018** **IER** **Address:** Drewitts Ash, Hannington Tadley, Hampshire RG26 5UA **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). 2 **October 2018** **IER** ## **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 3 **October 2018** **IER**