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CHILD's Trust Annual Report 2024/25
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
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Section F: Declaration
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Charity Name: CHILD’s Trust
Formal charity name as recorded with Charity Commission: Children’s Home Improvement Learning and 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)
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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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SECTION B: STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE ANDMANAGEMENT A sro —
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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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 from 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.
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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 and Bangladesh.
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 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 and school/college celebrations.
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ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE . “fz “he La , ‘ oo -¥ {
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 the financial year the following visits took place:
September: Mark visited the projects in Bangladesh and held meetings with project leaders in Delhi.
October/November: Mark and Julie were accompanied by their
granddaughter, Lily, who helped them visit projects in India. Later in the trip Mark travelled alone to Bangladesh and returned to India where he visited some of the projects.
January/February (25): Julie and Mark visited Bangladesh and India where they visited all of the projects.
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SECTION E: & 3 e ey . vis we _ Aye) FINANCIAL REVIEW ' i
Income:
CHILDs Trust gratefully received £68,595
£1.69m 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 been 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 £62,450 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 2026
Full Name Mark Thomas
Date: January 2026
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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 2024 to 30 April 2025
| 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 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 |
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| — — — — — 8,041 |
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| — — — — — 8,041 35,571 — — — 35,571 41,364 — — — — — 40 50 — — — 50 130 (16) — — — (16) — — — 1,275 — 1,275 1,412 — 787 — — 787 900 — 9,579 — — 9,579 9,871 — 4,415 — — 4,415 4,515 — 3,425 — — 3,425 3,966 — 9,307 — — 9,307 10,515 — 956 — — 956 1,070 — 250 — — 250 250 53 — — — 53 55 — — — — — 16 |
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| 65,653 35,657 28,721 1,275 — 74,106 2,942 — — — 2,942 2,530 |
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| 2,942 2,942 — — — 2,530 |
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| 38,599 28,721 1,275 — 84,677 68,595 |
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| Resources used Charitable Activities 8101 - General 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 8710 - Generation Bangladesh 8810 - Pinewood Foundation School 9001 - DPS - KHW 9701 - Immanuel School 9710 - Jehova School 9802 - Roshni Playgroup Charitable Activities Totals |
301 — — — 301 628 2,268 — — — 2,268 1,992 — — — — — 40 275 — — — 275 385 — — 4,690 — 4,690 6,847 — 9,649 — — 9,649 14,590 — — 1,847 — 1,847 — — 13,155 — — 13,155 10,448 10,000 13,591 — — 23,591 16,129 — — — — — 753 — — — — — 500 — 4,086 727 — 4,813 1,320 — — — — — 2,821 — — — — — 2,971 — 1,857 — — 1,857 2,973 |
| 62,450 12,844 42,339 7,265 — 62,402 |
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| Unrestricted | Designated | Restricted | Endowment | This year | Last year | ||
| Resources used Grand totals | 12,844 | 42,339 | 7,265 | — | 62,450 | 62,402 |
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r . CHARITY COMMISSION _ Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES 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 forthe year 3074 APRIL 2025 ended
Charity no 1078151 (if any)
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust’) for the year ended 30/04/2025.
Responsibilities and As the charity 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’).
| 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, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent | have completed my examination. | 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
| 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: Ele otg, Name: COLLEEN ELDRIDGE
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Date: 20 12.2025
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Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):
Address: Drewitts Ash, Hannington
Tadley, Hampshire
RG26 5UA