2021-10-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report					for theperiod
**From **	Period start date			To	Period end date
	1	11	2020		31	10	2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Kimbuta Rural Development Programme

Other names charity is known by KRDP

Registered charity number (if any) 1093008

Charity's principal address c/o 9 Howey Rise Frodsham Cheshire Postcode WA6 6DN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole **year **	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Gareth John Morgan	Chairman
	Richard William Curry	Treasurer/Secretary
	Janet Elizabeth Stockton
	Sarah Elizabeth Savage
	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
	Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Trust Deed dated 21 May 2002 Type of governing document Supplementary Deed dated 13 July 2002 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Second Supplementary Deed dated 6 October 2008 Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment by resolution of the Trustees at a specific meeting called in Trustee selection methods accordance with the Trust Deed (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• A policy is in place for the vetting of potential trustees before appointment.

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of To avoid mis-use of funds in Uganda, our policy continues to be that we major risks and the system only consider project proposals received via our representative in the and procedures to manage country and that evidence of satisfactory completion of projects is them. provided before further grants are made.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

“To promote any charitable purpose particularly but not exclusively for the benefit of the inhabitants of Mbale, Manafwa and Tororo Districts in Eastern Uganda”

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In selecting our project programme for this year, the Trustees have ensured that the work we carried out was consistent with the guidance from the Charity Commission on public benefit and with our charitable aims and objectives.

We have continued to provide support to established NGO’s in Eastern Uganda whose activities deliver improvements in education, healthcare, water supply and community facilities that are open to all members of the community in the areas concerned.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

Our policy on grant making remains as in previous years. We partially or fully fund projects which have the support of, and will be to the benefit of, local communities in Uganda, as set out in the policy document written during 2011-2012 and referred to in our report for that year. No grants are made to meet the needs of individual people, other than where UK donors have asked us to do so on their behalf.

No investments are made.

All UK activity in support of the Charity, including all work carried out by the Trustees, is on a voluntary basis.

• contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

• We have continued to support organisations in Uganda whose activities deliver public benefit in the area where they work and are consistent with our objects. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Uganda went into national lockdown in March 2020. Our work continued in a normal pattern until then, but subsequently became curtailed due to severe limitations on the ability of people to travel and to mingle. Those restrictions were eased somewhat during this financial year, but not completely. So, an attempt to reopen schools in January 2021 was short lived, and schools were quickly closed again. As a result, projects in the educational sector were difficult to carry out, although we did fund some work to improve school facilities in anticipation of schools reopening in the future. We have been able to carry out work in other sectors, through our Ugandan partners, albeit at a lower level of activity than before the pandemic 1. KRDP-Uganda is a registered Company Limited by Guarantee that delivers projects within Manafwa District. Their approach continues to be, so far as possible, to use the capabilities of local people and locally-sourced materials to build new facilities. In this way, there is benefit to the community during the implementation phase, as well as from the facilities provided by the completed projects. Our work in 2020-2021 built on the achievements of previous years and includes projects that were forecast in our 2019-2020 report. i. We have continued to support Kimtab Clinic in the provision of nurse-led health, ante-natal and maternity care to the entire community. • The Safe Motherhood Programme has continued to provide education on ante- and post-natal care to women in remote parts of the community, as well as children’s immunisations and general health awareness. The restrictions on gatherings of people which were part of Ugandan lockdown arrangements were eased, and the programme was able to revert to the previous pattern of holding 8 clinics per month, providing a range of health-care services to all age groups. At the request of the District Health Officer, the programme continued to include instruction on coronavirus protection measures, such as hand-washing and distancing. The number of patients being seen each month has returned to pre-pandemic levels

• • We have continued to fund the motorbike ambulance based at the clinic. Our support covers all running costs, i.e. driver’s wages, fuel, repairs etc., which enables the service to be available without charge to the local community. It continues to be of great value to the community by enabling expectant mothers with childbirth complications to be brought to Kimtab Clinic and by transporting seriously ill patients to hospital.

• ii. In 2019-2020 we reported the start of work to reinstate the Negina River bridge which had been destroyed following very heavy rain in late 2019. The river divides the community in which KRDP-Uganda operates and loss of the bridge left people needing to travel considerable distances to cross the river. We have provided funds for the construction of a new, more substantial bridge, which is large enough to accommodate pedestrians, bicycles, motorbikes and animals. Work commenced during 2019-2020 and was completed in 20202021.

• iii. We provided funds for two projects at Butta Primary School, in

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

	anticipation of schools reopening. The first was the installation
	of a public address system in the school hall. The second was
	the construction of a latrine block, including washing facilities.
	Both projects will be completed in 2021-2022.
	iv. Similarly, in anticipation of Kimaluli High School reopening, we
	provided funds for 60 single seat desks to meet Government
	requirements for examinations. These were all built by local
	carpenters and provided some much needed work during the
	pandemic.
	v. St John’s Church and Community Centre, which had been built
	in 2001, had developed some leaks from the roof with
	consequent damage to roof timbers. We provided funds for
	repairs to the roof.
	vi. In view of continuing unreliability of the national electricity
	supply, we funded an extension to the solar panel and storage
	battery system at Kimtab Clinic, to ensure the fridge used for
	vaccine storage can continue to operate through power
	interruptions.
	vii. We provided funds for the protection of a local spring which is
	an important source of water. We have completed several such
	projects which use locally developed construction design to
	improve access by people wishing to draw water and prevent
	access by animals, so avoiding water contamination.
	viii. We have continued to provide funds to enable KRDP-Uganda to
	continue to meet their legal obligations under the regulations
	which Ugandan NGOs have to comply with to retain their status.
	This includes the annual audit of their accounts and submission
	of an annual report of their activities to the relevant government
	department
2.	We have continued to support The Foundation for the Development
	of Needy Communities (FDNC), a registered NGO working in Mbale
	District, with programmes for orphan rehabilitation, clinic-based
	health care, vocational training and special needs education. FDNC
	has lost a significant proportion of its overseas support over recent
	years and KRDP support has been important as it implements
	changes to its programmes. As well as contributing to staff and
	premises costs, projects we have specifically supported are
	i. The repairs and maintenance needed for the vehicle purchased
	in 2016-2017
	ii. The internet facilities that the organisation needs, particularly to
	communicate with KRDP in UK on behalf of KRDP-Uganda.
3.	The “Shout Out For The Girls” project, which we launched during
	2017-2018, to provide girls sanitary protection and avoid them
	missing several days of schooling per month, has continued in a
	restricted way in Uganda using sewing machines we provided in
	2019-2020. Lockdown restrictions in UK have meant that our
	established sewing groups could not meet and so production of
	packs was limited to the efforts of individual people. We hope groups
	will be able to meet again when lockdown restrictions end. We have
	continued to accumulate and store packs until we are able to visit
	Uganda again

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

charity’s policy on reserves

No formal policy on reserves has been adopted. However, grants are made to specific projects in Uganda only when sufficient funds are available in UK. We have no regular on-going expenses, such as employment of staff. The Charity is therefore not exposed to future liabilities.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

The accounts are prepared on a Receipts and Payments basis.

Funds have been raised from three principal sources

1. Presentations to churches, schools, men’s groups, women’s groups and other organisations in various parts of the UK. Donations have been received from many of these organisations. Our ability to carry out these activities came to an end in March 2020 as a result of UK coronavirus restrictions, and we continued to be unable to carry out these activities through 2020-2021. We have remained in contact with those who have been consistent supporters and some donations were received during the second half of the financial year.

2. Donations have been received from numerous individual donors. As well as those who were established donors, we also received some additional donations from people who understood that our fund-raising activities had become severely restricted. Wherever these donors have been eligible, income tax has been reclaimed on these donations under the GiftAid scheme.

3. Our grant from the Burdett Trust for Nursing to support Kimtab Clinic and its outreach programmes came an end in June 2021.We were able to find another donor to support this programme for the year to June 2022.

The Charity does not make investments

Section F Other optional information

The Trustees have noted the continuing attention being paid by regulators to the need for charities working internationally to ensure funds are used for their intended purpose. Our project procedure, written in 20112012, describes how we establish the purpose of a project before we approve the funds that are needed. It sets out the confirmation we expect to receive that the project concerned has been completed satisfactorily and that funds have been used for their intended purpose. We have worked to this policy since it was written, and we believe it continues to provide satisfactory control of funds donated to organisations in Uganda.

The Trustees have all been DBS checked, either by employers or by another voluntary organisation.

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