2022-05-31-accounts

Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31 May 2022

Review of Progress and Achievement

1. Fund raising : We were able to run (a) the annual Craft Stall for the Baptist Church at their coffee morning in September 2021. This raised a modest but healthy amount and generated a lot of interest in the work of the charity. (b) The big fund raiser of the year was in November when we ran the Art Exhibition that was originally planned for 2020. It was well attended and the quality of art was very high. We raised a record £4000. We plan to run this event every two years. (c) we sold Christmas cards in late 2021 and these continue to be popular despite a fall in card sending. We do not make a big profit but they generate interest due to the artists being local.

2. Publicity– we sent out our annual newsletter in August 2021. This is mostly done electronically but we still have a substantial number of letters to post. We are trying to reduce this.

3. Education – there are three schools within the Basic Cycle terminology: Nursery (3-7 year olds); Lower Basic (LBS) (8-13 year olds) and Upper Basic (UBS) (14 - 16 year olds). They operate under one Head Teacher. There are 640 pupils in the whole school. The UBS has expanded in 2020 to two classes per year group giving us 240 pupils. The Grade 9 (final year) results were very good and Yalding BCS cam within the top ten of pupils gaining the highest marks. The focus is upon every child reaching his or her potential rather than giving priority to the “clever” children.

4. In the Nursery School All four teachers are qualified but one has been absent due to a broken ankle so we have had to temporarily employ an unqualified teacher. The other three teachers have been working in the school for twelve years or more and operate really well as a team. The Head of the Nursery department has worked in the school for nearly twenty years and knows her teachers well. They are all open to new ideas and are prepared to support each other. The Reading scheme, using our own Gambian First Readers was working really well with the older class until the teacher went absent. It is now being revived and we look forward to more sustained progress when the Nursery 4 teacher returns from maternity leave.

5. The Lower Basic School - the newly qualified teacher has joined the team as teacher in charge of pupils who need extra time to learn. He is also responsible for running the small library. The young teacher previously responsible for this role is now being sponsored by SchoolGambia to attend teacher training college. She does her teaching practice in the school. The teachers who we sponsored last

year will complete their qualifications in the summer of 2022. Both have received very high marks so far. The results of the National Attainment Tests for Grade 5 were very good. There are six teacher trainees from the Gambia College of Education who are doing their training in the school.

1. The Upper Basic School - this continues to be run by a team rather than one manager. For the most part this works. The UBS attends during the second shift in the afternoon and operates more or less separately to the other two departments.

2. The new trainee Bursar has had a few problems settling into the job but she has been supported by one of our trustees as well as the Senior Management Team in the school.

3. Buildings and maintenance– the plans for refurbishing the school are still on hold due to the impact of travel restrictions. However, in March 2022 two trustees were able to visit the school (after 2 1/2 years of absence) to sort out plans and employ a reliable builder. The Nursery School refurbishment will take place in 2023 and the Library will be built in November/December 2022. The pump has had to have a replacement motor and that operation was carried out in March 2022 by one trustee, the night watchman and the teacher in charge of the environment. It was a very good opportunity to train local people to maintain the operations.

4. The Board of Directors supports the Senior Management Team (SMT), together with the Head Teacher. The Board is a team of volunteers from the village, some of whom have been involved with the school since it started in 2000. The members are a very supportive group who have a good range of experience (bank manager, schoolteacher, Peace Corps manager, executive in the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education) and meetings have been much more frequent this year and the working relationship with the school has been productive.

5. Volunteers and Visits: Two trustees visited for two weeks in March 2022 but the team from a school in Sandwich have not been able to volunteer since March 2020. They plan to return in March 2024.

CC16a

Charity Name No (if any) SchoolGambia Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date Period end date To from 6/1/2021 5/31/2022

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations and other income 3,150 - - 3,150 1,500
Sponsorships 11,722 - - 11,722 13,764
Fundraising 13,113 - - 13,113 2,534
Deposit Account Interest 57 - - 57 45
Mini Bus - - - - -
Other - - - - -
Travel Refund - - - - -
Cancelled cheques 324 - - 324 -
Gift Aid Reclaim 2,260 - - 2,260 2,245
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 30,625 - - 30,625 20,089
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts 30,625 - - 30,625 20,089
A3 Payments
Other - - - - -
Christmas Cards 245 - - 245 -
Transfer to Gambia - salries and expenses 20,000 - - 20,000 10,000
Travel Costs - - - - -
Bank Charges 134 - - 134 237
Goods to the Gambia 325 - - 325 325
Event Costs 8,471 - - 8,471 80
Printing and Advertising - - - - -
Fundraising Expenses 130 - - 130 -
Insurance - - - - 248
Commission for Fundraising 381 - - 381 212
-
Sub total 29,686 - - 29,686 11,101
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 29,686 - - 29,686 11,101
Net of receipts/(payments) 939 - - 939 8,988
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 74,624 9,727 - 84,351 -
Cash funds this year end 75,563 9,727 - 85,290 8,988
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

			Unrestricted	Restricted Endowment	Restricted Endowment
	Categories	Details	funds	funds funds
B1	Cash funds	to nearest £ Bank Accounts 75,563 Unpresented cheque - 75,563 Total cash funds		to nearest £ to nearest 9,727 - - 9,727	£ - - - -

	(agree	balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK		OK
			Unrestricted		Restricted	Endowment
			funds		funds	funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details		to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -	to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -		- - - - - Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -		- Current value (optional)
charity’s own use					- - - - - - - -	- - - - - - - -
			Fund to which		Amount due	When due
B5 Liabilities	Details		liability relates		- - - - - (optional)	(optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature	Print	Name		Date of approval

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