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2024-05-31-accounts

2023-24 ANNUAL REPORT FOR CHARITY COMMISSION

SchoolGambia has had a busy year. The Library building was completed and opened in November 2024 and SchoolGambia appointed one of the Lower Basic School teachers to be the full-time Librarian during the afternoon shift. His responsibility is to enable groups of pupils to use the Library frequently and regularly to borrow fiction and reference books, to join chess, draughts and scrabble clubs and to meet for Book Clubs and poetry readings.

Our Gambian First Readers reading scheme has been completed, resulting in ten graded books with supplementary books for consolidation. They follow the Gambian government guidelines for a phonics based system and the stories involve Gambian families, food, culture and adventures. We are embarking upon a programme for training other schools in the area to use the scheme. A team of our own teachers has been selected and the Cluster Monitor works closely with us.

We have trained two teachers to work with pupils who are struggling in the classroom and the results of this Independent Learning Scheme are encouraging. Many of the pupils respond well to the extra help and have achieved good results in school and national tests.

We now have two classes for each of the Grades (7-9) in the Upper Basic School. Pupils from our own Grade 6 automatically gain a place in Grade 7 and we set an entrance exam for pupils applying from other schools in order to maintain an equilibrium of standards. Our Grade 9 pupils performed very well in the national exams and most have gained entrance to the Senior Secondary School of their choice.

We welcomed back a team from Sir Roger Manwood’s School in Sandwich, Kent. Since 2007 this school has been sending twelve VIth form students and two teachers to work in the school but had to suspend visits in 2000. The students teach in the classrooms for two weeks and spend the weekends exploring the culture of the village and surrounding country, visiting compounds, learning local skills and joining in with Yalding Basic Cycle School students for debating, volleyball and football competitions.

The biggest project of this year has been to renovate the Nursery School building. The original two classrooms were originally built in 2000 by the villagers themselves. Two more classrooms were added, two offices, a storeroom and capacity for solar batteries. The renovation involves replacing the roof, putting in electricity throughout the block, inserting new ceilings, cupboards, lights, fans and retiling floors and repainting all walls.

We hope to start on renovating the Lower Basic storey building and adding an extra staircase by the end of 2025.

Charity Name No (if any) SchoolGambia

Receipts and payments accounts

CC16a

For the period
from		 Period start date
6/1/2023		 To Period end date
5/31/2024

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Endowment
funds		 Total funds Last year
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations and other income 24,108 3,300 - 27,408 9,000
Sponsorships 11,038 - - 11,038 15,826
Fundraising 13,084 - - 13,084 3,267
Deposit Account Interest 1,687 - - 1,687 471
Mini Bus - - - - -
Other 1,710 - 1,710 -
Travel Refund - - - - -
Cancelled cheques - - - -
Gift Aid Reclaim 2,111 - - 2,111 2,138
Sub total(Gross income for AR) 52,028
(Gross income for AR)		 5,010 - 57,038 30,702
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Sub total -
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Total receipts 52,028
5,010
-
57,038
30,702
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
~~——__———~~
A3 Payments
Other
-
-
Christmas Cards
-
-
Transfer to Gambia - salries and expenses 17,562
-
Travel Costs
1,350
-
Bank Charges
185
-
Goods to the Gambia
-
-
Event Costs
8,198
-
Printingand Advertising
-
-
Fundraising Expenses
404
-
Insurance
272
-
Commission for Fundraising
2,571
-
Sub total 30,542
-
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17,562
1,350
185
-
8,198
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404
272
2,571
-
30,542		 -
204
27,000
-
177
1,110
50
25
388
-
729
29,683
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Sub total -
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Total payments 30,542
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-
30,542
29,683
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
~~———=—~~
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
**Cash funds this year end **		 21,485
5,010
-
26,495
1,019
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-
-
-
-
76,582
9,727
-
86,309
-
98,067
14,737
-
112,804
1,019
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
~~ee~~
Categories
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B5 Liabilities
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Details
Bank Accounts
Unpresented cheque
Details
Details
Details
Details
Signature
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 to nearest £
to nearest £
98,067
14,737
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-
-
98,067
14,737
OK
OK
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Cost (optional)
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Cost (optional)
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Print Name
TonyDiMarco
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
liability relates
Amount due
(optional)		 to nearest £
Endowment
funds
-
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OK
to nearest £
Endowment
funds
-
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Current value
(optional)
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
TonyDiMarco 7/2/2024

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees ScF¥c>oua-A 61 On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) Set out on pages Iremembei to InCI￿le the Daae numbers of addrtional sheetsl I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Yhe Trust°> for the year ended 31 G5 Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (°the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chartty Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent tThe charty's gross income ex￿eded £250,000 and l am qualtfied to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualtFied member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] rf not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below y which gives me c2use to believe that in, any material spect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records", or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements con￿MIng the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ttrue and faiff view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no cOn￿mS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not apply. Signed: Date: Name= Relevant professional qualification(s) or body IER Oct 2018

(if any): Address: c4 f.Afi KNEi¥ èl)L. Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018