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## 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
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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|
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||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.|
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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|
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|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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