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**CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2023/24**
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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
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- « i Oo mn « — ere iy —- **SECTION A:** ‘ + . > « ew = ial ’ **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS** q ‘ taal
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)
**3.19% ADMIN COSTS OF TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
Mick Boys (since Jan 2018)
Key Personnel: Julie Thomas, Co-Founder
## : Office Support
Maggie Thompson Finance & Admin Laura Thomas Publicity & Events
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1a \ ¥ : | P, = * Sis —_ “ le : **SECTION B:** nA pee **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND**
## 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.
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## ne” OLE ee we » eS **SECTION B:**
## 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. 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. In May 2023 a sponsored walk along the coast of Dorset and Hampshire took place with significant involvement from our supporters.
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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.
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HOUSES OF HOPE
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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 email, 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.
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## UK Based Developments:
Regular emails, 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.
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## South Asian Developments
During this financial year there were three visits to South Asia. In July 2023 Mark visited both India and Bangladesh. In Nov 2023 and February 2024 both Mark and Julie visited all of the projects in India and Bangladesh.
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## Income:
CHILDs Trust gratefully received £84,677
**£1.62m 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 maintained in such tough times. 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 £62,402 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 saw 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.
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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 2025
Full Name Mark Thomas Position Operational Director Date: January 2025
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**CHILDREN'S HOME IMPROVEMENT'S LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT (CHILD'S) TRUST - 1078151**
## **Analysis of income and expenditure**
## **Selected period: 01 May 2023 to 30 April 2024**
|**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
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**|
|---|---|
||—
8,041
—
—
8,041
2,220|
||8,041
—
8,041
—
—
2,220
41,364
—
—
—
41,364
51,010
40
—
—
—
40
120
130
—
—
—
130
275
—
—
—
—
—
7
—
—
1,412
—
1,412
1,360
—
900
—
—
900
960
—
9,871
—
—
9,871
10,255
—
4,515
—
—
4,515
4,580
—
3,966
—
—
3,966
5,065
—
10,515
—
—
10,515
11,002
—
1,070
—
—
1,070
2,118
—
—
—
—
—
3,107
—
250
—
—
250
250
55
—
—
—
55
33
16
—
—
—
16
31|
||74,106
41,606
31,087
1,412
—
90,177
2,530
—
—
—
2,530
709|
||2,530
2,530
—
—
—
709|
||44,136
39,128
1,412
—
93,107
84,677|
|**Resources used**
**_Administration_**
8100 - Office Costs
**_Administration Totals_**
**_Charitable Activities_**
8101 - General
8102 - Administration
8104 - Birthday Gift
8107 - Christmas Gift
8112 - Further Education
8201 - HoH Asha Kunj
8301 - HoH Vishwa Jyoti
8401 - HoH Nizhum
8710 - Generation Bangladesh
8810 - Pinewood Foundation School
9001 - DPS - KHW|—
—
—
—
—
192|
||—
—
—
—
—
192
628
—
—
—
628
—
1,992
—
—
—
1,992
1,465
40
—
—
—
40
95
385
—
—
—
385
470
—
—
6,847
—
6,847
5,023
—
14,590
—
—
14,590
7,345
—
10,448
—
—
10,448
12,162
—
16,129
—
—
16,129
9,248
—
753
—
—
753
250
—
500
—
—
500
527
—
1,320
—
—
1,320
2,640|
_**There may be minor discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown**_
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||**Unrestricted**|**Designated**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|**This year**||**Last year**|
|9701 - Immanuel School|—|2,821|—|—|2,821||3,524|
|9710 - Jehova School|—|2,971|—|—|2,971||2,426|
|9802 - Roshni Playgroup|—|2,973|—|—|2,973||—|
|**_Charitable Activities Totals_**|3,045|52,508|6,847|—|62,402||45,178|
|**Resources used Grand totals**|3,045|52,508|6,847|—|62,402||45,370|
_**There may be minor discrepancies in the totals if the pence are not being shown**_
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**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 2024 **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 **30/04/24**
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- **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. _._
|~~Ae.~~ Edad|**Date:**|~~ee~~
**10.12.2024**|
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|COLLEEN ELDRIDGE|||
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|Drewitts Ash, Hannington|||
|Tadley, Hampshire|||
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