2021-01-06-accounts - The Kianh Foundation

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		From		Period start date						T o	Period end date
				Day 07	Month 01				Year 2020		Day 06	Month 01		Year 2021

Section A			Reference and administration details

	Charity name					The Kianh Foundation

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any)							1094902

Charity's principal address								79 Forfar Road
								Liverpool

								Postcode					L13 8DX

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
Helen Wakefield	Chair
NancyBaker	Treasurer
Susan Marie Boyle (née Phillips)
Laura Mitchell
Dee Jethwa
Jacqueline Yvonne Marsh













Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for wholeyear

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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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 Type of governing document TRUST DEED DATED 16 OCTOBER 2002 (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted TRUST (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods APPOINTED BY THE EXISTING TRUSTEES (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Additional governance issues (Optional information) You may choose to include We have a charity-specific insurance policy that covers trustees and additional information, where individual liability, employment practices liability, professional and legal relevant, about: liability. ● policies and procedures Our Child Protection Policy is reviewed annually. All trustees, staff, adopted for the induction and volunteers and partners must sign up to, and abide by, our Code of training of trustees; Conduct. ● the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; ● relationship with any related parties; ● trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

The relief of poverty and sickness and the advancement of education amongst children in Viet Nam and in particular, those living in Hoi An Summary of the objects of the Orphanage. charity set out in its governing document

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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)

During a difficult year in which we, like many other NGOs, businesses and
private individuals, saw our programmes and finances affected by
Covid-19,
we
continued
to
run
our
special
school
and
therapy
programmes
as
best
we
could.
In
addition
to
running
our
core
programmes, we:
●
learned how to most effectively continue to help our students to
develop during times of lockdown. Our staff developed greater skills in
online teaching, and mentoring for families.
●
We were supported to create and open a large, organic garden
behind our centre, to use as an additional part of our teaching programme
and to increase biodiversity in the area where our school is based.
●
A local resort, the Anantara, provided short holidays for some of
our older students at their luxury resort in the South of Vietnam. This was
a big first for many things for our students and a really big step in opening
their eyes to the outside world.
●
Despite the challenges of the Pandemic, we were able to take on
13 new students, and provide training in special education teaching to
another NGO and one mainstream school.

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;

● contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

2020 began off peacefully, like other places in the world, with everyone unaware of the type of year it was to turn out to be. The usual activities were prepared for the end of the school year and the end of the lunar year, with meetings with students’ families to discuss the goals that should be set for their children in the new term, visits and gifts from government officials, and a government ceremony for NGOs, in which the Kianh Foundation received an award. We closed for Tet (the Lunar New Year) on January 17th and were getting ready to open again in February, when the first stirrings of Covid-19 in China began to be known. Having had experience of SARS and other infectious viruses, the Vietnamese government immediately put schools and businesses in Vietnam into lockdown. Week by week, we waited for the notice allowing us to re-open. When that didn’t happen and the weeks continued to pass, we realised we had to find some way to work with our students remotely. While it would be possible to have online sessions with the students in our Mainstream class and some of the older children in the Early Numeracy and Literacy class, we knew that this would not be possible with a large number of our students, due to age or cognitive disability. Our teachers and therapists therefore began to work with the families. They set them a goal to work on with their children each week. At the end of the week, the family had to send a video of themselves and their child working on this goal. They would then have an online meeting with the teacher/therapist, who would give them advice and guidance on how to improve things. This was not achievable with all of our families, either due to no internet, no smart phone, or sometimes some learning difficulty that they themselves had. However, after a bumpy start, some good progress was made with some of the students and their families.

On May 11th, schools were finally allowed to re-open and our students and staff returned to the centre. However, the early stages of Covid were already starting to impact our finances. Whilst Vietnam had opened again internally, the government had permanently closed its borders until Covid was resolved. Where we are based is very much a tourist economy, but hotels and restaurants started to close, and several of our students’ families who worked in hotels, gift shops, restaurants and laundries, lost their jobs. A major resort, the Anantara, who supported us with a significant amount each month, was no longer able to do so. Jackie Wrafter and Do Le To Quyen, the Kianh Foundation Director and the Manager of the centre, had a meeting with the local government authorities to discuss options for if there was not enough money to keep the centre open.

Whilst all this was happening, something positive had also been happening simultaneously. The year before, Do Le Thi Quyen, had received a grant to attend a workshop on increasing biodiversity, run by the US Forestry Department and held in Chicago and New York. As a result of her attendance, we were given a further grant to develop a large organic garden on the piece of land behind our centre. The garden was designed and built by local organic organisation, An Farm, in conjunction with Green Vietnam. The garden was completed on July 15th, with an opening ceremony. The garden allows us to grow our own vegetables and herbs, provides an ‘outdoor classroom’ for our students and has already started to attract a wide variety of birds to the area.

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In August we closed for our annual summer holiday and re-opened for the new term on September 7th. A fundraiser for the Kianh Foundation was organised by the Australian Chamber of Commerce at Ba Na Hills golf course on September 26th. Jackie Wrafter attended, accompanied by some of our older students who have Cerebral Palsy. Although the Anantara Resort was not able to help us financially at this time, it did continue to support us in other ways and invited us on an all-expenses trip on its private train to stay in its resort in Quy Nhon, in the South of Vietnam. Groups of older students were accompanied there by staff in October and December. For all of our students, it was their first time on a train, their first time away from their families and most certainly their first stay in a luxury resort. Being able to take our students on these trips was certainly one of the highlights of this year. The Anantara also invited our students to have an art display at the ‘Art Space’ in their resort. The purchase of one of these pictures, and the subsequent advertising, by a Vietnamese influencer led to all of these pictures being purchased and was a good source of much needed income.

Also in October and November (and after a series of delays due to Covid), we ran training sessions for student teachers working on projects run by the Metropolitan Community Church (US) and mainstream teachers from Quang Ngai Province.

From October - December, central Vietnam experienced a series of tropical typhoons and the most severe floods it had had in several years. Hundreds of people lost their lives and hundreds others lost their homes. Despite our own struggling financial fortunes, we ran fundraisers to help the families in our care who were affected by this severe weather.

We closed the year with 83 students, 13 of them new intakes. Despite some of the setbacks caused by Covid-19, Vietnam at this point was one of the few countries in the world managing to keep on top of what had turned into a global Pandemic.

Section E Financial review

We hold a total cash balance of £112,834 in our bank accounts at the end Brief statement of the of the financial year. charity’s policy on reserves

As part of our policy of demonstrating good financial management practice, we aim to hold 9 to 12 months of operating funds in reserves at the end of each financial year. The total cash balance of £112,834 represents approximately 6 months of expenditure at current monthly expenditure rates.

The coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on our finances. We are committed to ensuring that the organisation remains sustainable for the foreseeable future. The setting aside of these reserve funds is

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therefore intended to guard against possible future loss or reduction of income, and ensure continued delivery of services in Viet Nam.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

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.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Susan Boyle (by email, susan.phillips@talk21.com) Full name(s) Susan Marie Boyle

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Trustee

Date 9[th] October 2021

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts memb•rs of The Kianh Foundats. January 2021 Charlty no 111 any) 1094902 I retth to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the aix)ve chanty (kne Trusf) ts the year ended 0610112021. Resp(sIbIlitieS and the dwrty tntslees of the TMSL you are reswnsible f(w the weparation 2011 (kne Acr). I rew1 in resperl of my examinati1 of the Ttust's accounts carried out under secthjn 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I ve followeAI the aKWicable DireL*ions given by the Chafity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent I have npleted my examination. I Clfin that no material matters have examinerfs statsment ttAne to my attention in connection with the examination whith gives me 13Use to believe that in. any material respect accnting recuds were not kept in a(dance ryth seclion 130 of the Act or the aCcnts do not accord wth the accnting rec(Kds I have no concerns arxl have come auoss no other mattets in clneCtIOn iththee ttentim shoujd be drawn in ¢xder to enable to be reathed. IN VIETNAM A.B.N. 98.460.4I: Signed: iO,ac&i

Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(s) or body {If any): MEARING AND BEYOND INXW. A B.N 98.46C Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of tharity accounts: direclions and guidance for examiners).