Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements
For the Year to 31 March 2021
Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non -profit organisations specialising in the prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable populations. Our mission is to improve lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, e vidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote child and maternal health.
UK Registered Charity No: 1099776 Company Number : 4785712
Company Number: 4785712 Charity Number: 1099776
Malaria Consortium
Trustees’ Report and Financial Statements For the Year to 31 March 2021
| Contents | Page |
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| Reference and Administrative Details | 1 |
| Report of the Trustees | 3 |
| Structure, Governance and Management | 3 |
| Mission and Objectives | 6 |
| Strategic Report | 7 |
| Independent Auditor’s Report | 20 |
| Statement of Financial Activities | 24 |
| Balance Sheet | 25 |
| Cash Flow | 26 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 27 |
Malaria Consortium
The Green House, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA, UK
Reference and Administrative Details
Status Malaria Consortium is a registered charity and is incorporated under the Companies Act as a company limited by guarantee not having a share capital. The company is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association dated 3 June 2003, under which each member has undertaken to contribute to the assets in the event of a winding-up a sum not exceeding £1. Company Number 4785712 Charity Number 1099776 Registered Office The Green House, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Road London E2 9DA, UK Malaria Consortium, during this period, also had offices in Uganda, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Nigeria, Togo, Thailand, Cambodia and Myanmar. Patron The Right Reverend Dinis S Sengulane, Retired Anglican Bishop, Mozambique
The Trustees
The Trustees, who are also Directors under company law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report were as follows:
(CHAIR) Professor Marcel Tanner (TREASURER) Canisius Anthony Dr Allan Schapira Dr Neil Squires Dr Precious Lunga Dr Simon Kay Mark Clark Sarah Veilex The Rt. Hon. Baroness Sheehan Professor Jayne Webster Dr Linus Igwemezie Ian Boulton Jehangir (Joe) Ghandhi (Appointed 12 November 2020) Sheri Adigun (Appointed 12 November 2020) Sarah de Tournemire (Appointed 12 November 2020 )
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Malaria Consortium
Chief Executive Charles Nelson Bankers HSBC Bank PLC Westminster Branch 22 Victoria Street, London SW1H ONJ, United Kingdom Auditor KPMG LLP Chartered Accountants 15 Canada Square, London, E14 5GL, United Kingdom
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Report of the Trustees
The Trustees present their report and the audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021. The Trustees’ Report also contains the information required in a Strategic Report as set out on pages 7 to 16.
Reference and administrative information set out on page 1 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with the current statutory requirements, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice (2015) - Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
A copy of the Trustees’ Report and financial statements can be obtained by writing to the organisation at the registered address as detailed on page 1 of this report.
Structure, Governance and Management
Trustees and organisational structure
Malaria Consortium is a charitable company, governed by a Board of Trustees [minimum 3 - maximum 18] under the Articles of Association. The Board meets quarterly, and for the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in July, where the audited accounts are normally approved. Also, at the AGM one third of the trustees retire, and are eligible for re-election as long as they have not served for a continuous period exceeding six years. After six years, trustees must retire, unless a temporary extension of one year is granted for a committee chair while a suitable replacement is found.
There are three sub-committees of the Board:
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The Governance Committee to review and make recommendations regarding Board effectiveness, and ongoing Board development and lead the process of Board renewal. Currently, the Committee comprises four trustees, and the Chief Executive (non-voting).
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The Finance, Audit and Risk Committee (FARC) to provide assurance to the Board that an effective internal control and risk management system is maintained and that financial performance is being effectively managed. Currently, the Committee comprises four trustees, one non-trustee member, and the Chief Executive and Finance Director (non-voting).
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The Compensation & HR Committee (C&HR) to review and make recommendations on the Chief Executive’s remuneration, the framework for the Global Management Group’s remuneration and the organisation’s human resources strategy and policies. Currently, the Committee comprises a minimum of three trustee members, including the Chair of the Board of Trustees. The organisation has a well-established job evaluation mechanism linked to a normalised pay and benefits framework. This framework is reviewed regularly for cost-of-living increments and benchmarked country by country in a rolling plan, using established market indices. The Chief Executive’s level of remuneration is similarly linked to that framework.
There are Trustees specifically designated as the leads for Safeguarding, Global Data Protection and Good Distribution Practice, the latter necessary to review ongoing alignment of practice with the needs of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licence required as a UK NGO moving pharmaceuticals across international borders.
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Meetings and attendance for the financial year are shown in the table below:
| Meeting | Number of meetings | # trustees in attendance (average) |
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| Annual General Meeting | 1 | 11 |
| Board Meeting | 4 | 12 |
| Governance Committee | 4 | 4 |
| FARC | 4 | 3 |
| C&HR | 2 | 5 |
New trustees are recruited for their skills in areas relevant to the governance, aims or the changing nature of strategy and activities of Malaria Consortium. They are recruited in a variety of ways including public advertisement, and/or by recommendation from those working for or with Malaria Consortium, or from existing trustees. Candidates are scrutinised by the Governance Committee and by the Board as a whole. All new trustees receive an induction to the organisation by the Chief Executive and may be invited to attend a Board Meeting prior to election.
The Board of Trustees approves the major strategic decisions for the organisation. It uses an annual retreat to review progress against the agreed strategy and to take a measure of the performance as a Board. This is usually a self-assessment against a clear set of criteria and a review of progress against priorities set the previous year. In this reporting period the Board also commissioned and received the results of an independent external review of Board effectiveness covering all key aspects of alignment with Charity Commission Guidance.
Each year, unless curtailed by a pandemic, a number of trustees are invited to make field visits to be fully informed about Malaria Consortium’s activities, thus enabling them to effectively support these strategic decisions. The Board of Trustees delegates the day-today operational decision-making to the Chief Executive, who, with the Global Management Group (GMG), runs the organisation and signs all contracts. The GMG is supported by Senior Management Teams at regional and country level who are responsible for all aspects of our programmes.
Malaria Consortium inducts new staff to enable a strong understanding of the organisation covering structure, policies, and procedures along with expected conduct and other role-relevant information. Core policies that are fundamental to Malaria Consortium’s work and which staff are required to read fully are: the Code of Conduct; the Safeguarding Policy; the Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Policy; the Anti-Money Laundering Policy; the Conflict of Interest Policy; the Whistle Blowing Policy; and the AntiBribery Policy. Managers are also introduced to people management policies, procedures, budgeting and planning.
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Malaria Consortium utilises annual performance and development reviews to enable managers and staff to identify learning initiatives to bridge skills and/or knowledge gaps.
Malaria Consortium’s head office is in London, United Kingdom, with regional offices for East and Southern Africa in Kampala, Uganda covering Uganda, Mozambique, South Sudan and Ethiopia; for West Africa in Abuja, Nigeria covering Nigeria, Chad, Burkina Faso, Togo and Cameroon, and for Asia in Bangkok, Thailand covering Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. Regional offices coordinate and supervise programmes and projects at country level in the three regions. Global activities and any work in other parts of the world are directed through the head office in the UK. For more detail on our programmes and offices, please refer to our website www.malariaconsortium.org.
At a country level, we work with Ministries of Health (MOH), local and regional UN offices, regional organisations in West, East, and Southern Africa, National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCP), bilateral donors, international foundations, civil society organisations, development projects, private sector and most importantly, communities suffering from malaria, other communicable diseases and malnutrition.
Close collaborations are maintained with academic institutions. In the UK including the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at The University of Leeds, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Imperial College and University College London. Internationally, we collaborate with Karolinska Institute, Institute Pasteur, University of Oslo, Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand), University of Nigeria, University of Praetoria, and Makerere University (Uganda)
Malaria Consortium’s income is predominantly restricted, but the funding portfolio is changing. 57% of our income is raised through project-based contract and grant applications. Income on these projects is recorded at the same time as expense is incurred. There continues to be increased funding from philanthropy around the world, particularly from those who support charities that have achieved GiveWell’s Top Charity status. For us this is mainly, though not exclusively, linked to closing gaps in coverage for seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) across the Sahel, maintaining and further developing life-saving interventions for children under the age of five and in broadening our funding base.
Givewell continues to award grants but will be releasing funds during the SMC season itself and not providing funds in advance of the season. These commitments from our donors and the restricted funds at the end of the financial year 2021 allow us to plan for both continuities in existing areas for the following three years, and expansion to cover further eligible children.
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Mission
The mission of Malaria Consortium is to improve lives in Africa and Asia through sustainable, evidence-based programmes that combat targeted diseases and promote child and maternal health. We have referred to the guidance in the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public Benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how these activities will contribute to the aims and the objectives of the charity, as shown below, that guide all our work serving those suffering from communicable diseases and malnutrition in Africa and Asia.
Objectives
It was our intention to roll out a new strategy in March 2020, linked to revised strategic objectives. Due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as noted in the Report and Accounts for 2020, it was agreed to hold the formal launch of a new strategy until 2021, and focus on supporting our host governments on maintaining/adapting existing programmes and research, while accommodating the public health necessities of the pandemic, and to extend our existing objectives for the reporting period.
These objectives are:
1. To guide international and national policies and strategies to enhance control and accelerate elimination of targeted diseases and malnutrition.
2. To reach at least 10 million people (in the strategy period) with preventive treatment, supporting the appropriate uptake of emerging vaccines and drug-based prevention approaches.
3. To engage in at-scale delivery of effective vector control interventions and develop, investigate, promote and implement novel, vector-focused approaches that reduce targeted disease transmission.
4. To improve access to, and the quality of services for, the diagnosis and treatment of targeted diseases and/or those that enhance child and maternal health.
5. To improve health system effectiveness and efficiency, through enhanced surveillance, outbreak response, referral, reporting, and capacity and market development.
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Strategic Report
Achievements and Performance
The reporting period for 2020/21 has been difficult operationally. We cannot ignore the significant challenge and loss faced around the world, and we honour those who have been at the frontline of serving their communities, and mourn with those who have lost loved ones, directly or indirectly as a result of the pandemic. Malaria Consortium has taken a risk-based approach to duty of care of our staff and, despite the pandemic, seen significant operational successes against our objectives. We have had to source and procure significant quantities of personal protective equipment (PPE) and hygiene materials for staff, community distributors and health workers involved in our programmes, in the context of global shortages due to the pandemic. Thanks to the professionalism of our staff, and the agreements with our existing and new donors, we were able to do so such that no programmes were stopped due to PPE unavailability. No staff were furloughed or laid off in the UK, but we have been saddened to have to end some programmes prematurely due to funding changes and cuts by Her Majesty’s Government.
In this context of a global pandemic, we present a selection of key achievements and challenges for the year, linked to our objectives:
To guide global and national policies and strategies to enhance control and accelerate elimination of targeted diseases and malnutrition
Malaria Consortium, both at international and national level, has remotely maintained a presence in key partnerships and working groups linked to policy and advocacy. Globally these include at the WHO’s Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) and Vector Control Working Group. We continue to host the Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (SMERG) and through the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria. We also hosted the Vector Control and Surveillance working groups of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN) in Asia. In the UK, we continued to work with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and BOND, and we are an active member of the UK Coalition against NTDs. We partner with the Ministries of Health where Malaria Consortium works, and work with local advocacy partners in endemic areas, aiming to change policy and practice. We continue to participate in WHO Technical consultations.
This year, as soon as the pandemic became a reality, we advocated for interventions in malaria and other infectious diseases to be recognised as ‘essential services’ so that, where possible, trade-offs, between the lives of children under the age of 5 and adults who may suffer the consequences of severe COVID, could be avoided. We rapidly modified the protocols for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, to include the necessary protections against COVID in training Community Distributors and all distribution activities. These protocols, with some adaptation, were adopted by WHO for all SMC activity globally. In addition, we engaged in modification of iCCM guidelines at global and at country level - particularly Uganda and Mozambique.
In Nigeria, as the chosen partner for the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for the implementation of the Support to the National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP2), we continued working alongside the government to develop sustainable
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public and private sector interventions in six states, although we are saddened to report that this programme is a casualty of FCDO’s recent spending review.
During the reporting period we have achieved Independent Research Organisation status, only the second UK charity in the health space to do so. This allows us to access funding directly, although often in a competitive bid environment, for a wider set of research opportunities. This is a great step forward for Malaria Consortium.
To reach at least 10 million people (in the strategy period) with preventive treatment, supporting the appropriate uptake of emerging vaccines and drug-based prevention approaches
The primary intervention contributing to this objective continues to be seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) for children of three to 59 months. This intervention is approved by WHO for this age group for regions where malaria transmission is at a peak during a period of around four months, using a combination of sulphadoxine pyrimethamine and amodiaquine (SPAQ). The total eligible group for this intervention is now in excess of 32 million children across the Sahel region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria Consortium has directly reached 12 million children in the reporting period, up from 6 million in the prior period, with the major increase in being in Nigeria with new funding from the Global Fund, releasing philanthropic funding to then launch SMC in two new, previously uncovered states. We have also conducted trials for suitability/acceptance/effectiveness for SMC in two districts of Nampula Province, Mozambique covering 100,000 children. This is the first trial of its kind in a part of Africa where there is known resistance to sulphadoxine pyrimethamine (SP) as a treatment, and has been made possible in this timeline through immediately accessible philanthropic funding. Results are very encouraging and we are repeating/widening the trial. Should it be shown conclusively that SPAQ is currently effective in this belt of Africa, where there is an identifiable season, it opens up significant new life-saving opportunities for many more eligible children.
The trials of the RTSS vaccine for malaria and the speed of development of the COVID-19 vaccine has led to renewed hope that a malaria vaccine may be able to be developed, fast-tracked and widely deployed – though equitability in supply/availability remains a challenge. We continue to follow these developments and look forward to the arrival of new effective tools in the fight against communicable disease.
To engage in at-scale delivery of effective vector control interventions and develop, investigate, promote and implement novel, vector-focused approaches that reduce disease transmission
Malaria Consortium continues to be involved in distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), which remains one of the key, high-value interventions against malaria. In this reporting year, we distributed nets directly in South Sudan and Nigeria as part of our role as a Global Fund sub-recipient. In Uganda, we further monitored the durability and performance of the last wave of nets distributed, that demonstrated the improved effectiveness of pyrethroid-impregnated nets when accompanied by an adjuvant chemical, piperonyl butoxide (PBO), where there is resistance of the mosquito population to pyrethroids alone.
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In Cambodia, we completed an integrated vector management programme for dengue control in Cambodia. While successful in demonstrating that vectors can be managed to an extent, no new funding has yet been identified to expand this work, and resources have been reallocated to the management of COVID-19. We are privileged to be continuing and extending our work with mobile and migrant populations in forested areas in the north and north-east of the country, where most of the residual falciparum malaria is to be found, having received funding from the Global Fund funding round for 20212023 to work with the Government to accelerate progress towards elimination.
In Myanmar, our schools-based programme for promoting dengue control, has been put on hold, initially due to the pandemic and then further delayed by the takeover of the government by the military.
Funded with a grant through GiveWell, Malaria Consortium used a multi-factoral, riskbased modelling approach to malaria at a much more granular level in Uganda and Nigeria. This has allowed a reprioritisation by the government of deliveries in the 2021 net distribution in Uganda to the populations most vulnerable to malaria risk, and identified two key states in Nigeria where there was a significant funding gap in high risk areas. This has in turn resulted in the release of funding to run two net campaigns to reach 11.4 million in the next reporting period.
As noted above, we hosted and provided technical support through both the Vector Control Working Group and the Surveillance Working Groups of the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN). This is based out of our regional office in Thailand, working together with all the countries of the Asia Pacific Leaders’ Malaria Alliance (APLMA) to assure and push forward the most appropriate technical interventions in the region.
To improve access to, and the quality of, services for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and/or those that enhance child and maternal health
This objective is targeted at improving access to and quality in diagnosis and treatment at all levels of the health system, and has clearly been impacted to different levels country –by-country by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Despite that, overall, more than 15 million patients accessed quality assured treatment for malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia with Malaria Consortium support, with protocols re-written and programmes continuing through community-based interventions. We cannot, however, understate the likely risk of other fever-inducing disease outbreaks where limited resources are reallocated, stretched health-workers are exposed without appropriate protection, and communities fear to present with fever in light of the pandemic. We envisage there will be a need to respond to outbreaks of disease in the coming years and the importance of communitybased surveillance will become even more evident.
In Uganda, we conducted now-published research into the interrelationship between malaria and COVID-19, demonstrating a clear correlation between high exposure to malaria and a reduced likelihood of suffering severe COVID-19. Though the correlation is clear, the ‘mechanism’ is not, and new variants of COVID-19 are showing themselves to have some different characteristics in ease of transmission and degrees of severity.
Unfortunately, in northern Uganda, the UK’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)-supported programme, Supporting Uganda’s Response to Malaria
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(SURMa), was an early casualty of the cuts in UK Government funding, with activity significantly reduced from October 2020 and closed at the end of the reporting period. Gladly, our sister organisation (Malaria Consortium US) released funding to maintain some of the core activities through to September, when it is hoped that it will be replaced with Global Fund funding.
In South Sudan, activities to support parts of the health system by implementing the Health Pooled Fund there, have continued in Aweil in the north-west, and with more humanitarian funding in the north-east. We do have to note the sad loss of one of our staff there, as one of 300 killed in inter-community fighting, though not connected with his role.
To improve health system effectiveness and efficiency, through enhanced surveillance, outbreak response, referral, reporting, and capacity and market development
COVID-19 has revealed the fragility of many health systems, even those which are relatively well-funded and resourced. We will be living with COVID-19 for a while to come and our work to support the emergence of health systems from the pandemic is in its early stages, and there will be backward steps first in many countries as backlogs of demand appear. The pandemic has driven us all to look more deeply at how technology can be used to support remote education, training and supervision, and, where possible, support enhanced quality of access, protocol-driven diagnosis and treatment, and referral.
In Mozambique, we have been able to expand the functionality of our community health worker-focused, smart phone-based application called upSCALE. This supports household and birth and death registration, family planning and protocols for integrated community case management (iCCM) of malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea, to include advice on the identification of COVID-19 symptoms and referral and tracking for post-partum haemorrhage. This tool also provides data in a form that can be integrated directly with the country’s health management information system. A version of this tool is also being piloted in Uganda to provide similar support to village health workers, and looking how similar data can be captured through private sector providers.
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Financial Review
Income
Total income received during the year amounted to £68 million, a decrease of £3 million (4%) on the previous year. The decrease in income was primarily due a change in the way GiveWell will release grant funding for SMC. Grant funding committed for future SMC seasons will be released during the financial year for which the funding has been granted. We continue to receive significant philanthropic funding for SMC amounting to 85% of the funds required for targeted expansion until 2024. Funding from UKAID was up £2.2 million to £8.9 million (2020: £6.7m) with the additional procurement contract for SuNMaP2 in Nigeria. The US government agency, USAID, directly and via sub-agreements including Pathfinder and Abt Associates contributed 8% of total income. We saw a welcome increase in funding from Global Fund to £12.3 million (2020: £5.5m) [Up 118% from the prior year] with the continuation of malaria activities in Nigeria. Other donors contributed the balance. Please refer to note 2c on page 20 for the full list of our funding partners.
Expenditure
Charitable expenditure on programmes increased by £22.6 million (2021: £66.4 million, 2020: £43.8 million). This increase in charitable expenditure from 2019/20 is primarily due to the expansion of the SMC program (+£7 million), Global Fund Reducing the Malaria Burden program, Nigeria (+£5.8 million), Sunmap2, Nigeria (+£2.5 million), Gates Foundation funded Surveillance project, Mozambique (+£1.5 million), MasterCard Foundation funded distribution of PPE equipment in Uganda(£0.95 million). Note 3 on page 30 shows this expenditure categorised according to our five strategic objectives. Preventive Treatment and Health Systems are our two biggest areas of work representing 48% and 23% respectively of the total programme expenditure for the year; 39% of expenditure occurred in Nigeria and a further 14% in Uganda. Multi-country expenditure in Africa relates to the procurement of commodities for the SMC initiatives. Support costs as a proportion of direct costs are 6% (2020:10%). Increase in programme spending has enabled greater recharge of support costs.
Result for the year
The total net movement in funds for the year was an increase of £1.2 million (2020: £26.84 million). The increase in funds in the year principally reflects £1 million increase in unrestricted reserves to £6.1 million (2020: £5.1 million). At the end of the year, restricted funds for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention activities were £67.8 million (2020: £67.6 million) reflecting SMC grants received in advance of the seasonal activity for SMC.
Included in creditors is £4.1m due to funds received in advance from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Catholic Relief Services, which will be utilised in the next financial year.
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Reserves Policy
The Board of Trustees recognise the importance of building and maintaining unrestricted reserves at an appropriate level and entrust the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee to annually assess the charity’s level of unrestricted funds. The majority of the organisation’s operational commitments relate to activities funded by restricted funds. The contractual agreements cover the completion of such tasks and related financial commitments. The Finance, Audit and Risk committee reviewed future needs, opportunities, commitments or risks, the likelihood of future income falling short of the amount of the anticipated costs and considered the level reserves that are necessary to make up the shortfall.
Malaria Consortium’s reserve policy is “ to hold reserves, sufficient to cover existing commitments relating to staff and operational leases and four months of support costs to maintain the organisation’s shape in the event of timing differences in funding.”
General Reserves (Unrestricted)
General reserves are reserves that are not restricted to or designated for a particular purpose. Based on the current reserves policy, the minimum level of reserves required is £3.1 million, which is sufficient to meet existing contractual commitments of £1.8 million and £ 1.26 million for the support costs for four months. The current level of unrestricted reserves is £5.6 million (2020:£3.7 million). In addition, the Board of Trustees decided it was prudent and necessary to set aside a designated reserve of £0.49 million from unrestricted reserves. Total unrestricted reserves including designated reserves as at 31 March 2021 were £6.1m (2019: £5.1 m)
£0.49 million has been designated by the Board as below:
| Designated Funds | 31st March 2021 31st March 2020 |
31st March 2021 31st March 2020 |
31st March 2021 31st March 2020 |
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| £000s £000s |
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| Foreign Exchange Movements Programme Co-finance Research Scholarship Learning & Development |
263 78 51 54 44 |
1,050 78 80 63 44 |
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| Total | 490 1,315 |
Investment Policy and Performance
Funds received during the year for seasonal activities are invested in long-term interest bearing notice accounts. Funds received for on-going charitable activities and reserves are held in interest-bearing accounts that can be called on without notice. Monies are held in the most likely currency of expenditure in order to manage foreign exchange risk. The charity does not speculate on currency.
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Disclosure of information to auditor
The trustees who held office at the date of approval of the Trustees’ Annual Report confirm that, so far as they are aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the company’s auditor are unaware, and each trustee has taken all the steps they ought to take to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the company’s auditor are aware of that information.
Compliance with Trustees Duties under Section 172(2) Companies Act 2006
Trustees must act in the way they consider, in good faith, would be most likely to promote Malaria Consortium’s success to achieve its charitable purposes. The Trustees, in doing so, delegate day to day management and decision-making to the Chief Executive , who, with the Global Management Group, is required to act to further Malaria Consortium’s strategy and to ensure that the activities are carried out in compliance with agreed plans and policies. The Trustees receive updates on Malaria Consortium’s performance and plans at each Board of Trustee meeting. In carrying out their duties the Trustees have regard (amongst other matters) to:
The likely consequences of any decision in the long term
From October 2019 onwards, Trustees have regularly considered the new strategy. It was the intention of the Trustees to roll out a new strategy in March 2020, linked to revised strategic objectives. Due to the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as noted in the Report and Accounts for 2020, it was agreed to hold the formal launch of a new strategy until 2021, and focus on supporting our host governments on maintaining/adapting existing programmes and research, while accommodating the public health necessities of the pandemic, and to extend our existing objectives for the reporting period. In doing so, they considered the likely long-term consequences of their decisions. See the Strategic Report (Page 7-10).
The interest of the charity’s employees
The organisation had a plan to engage with staff during 2020 which had to be postponed as a result of the impacts of COVID-19. Malaria Consortium plans to engage with all staff through a series of employee engagement surveys in 2021 and 2022. The design of the surveys was enhanced to reflect the changes in conditions following COVID.
The need to foster the charity’s business relationships with suppliers, customers and others
Our network of collaborators includes research activities, local partnership organisations, global and local working groups, Ministries of Health where Malaria Consortium works, local advocacy partners in endemic areas, academic co-investigators in research projects and WHO Technical consultations. These partnerships are key to our work worldwide. Mutual respect for each other, together with transparency and accountability underpins our work with other.
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Our values govern our procurement process and all our suppliers must comply with our Code of Conduct and principles of our Procurement Policy.
There are Trustees specifically designated as the leads for Global Data Protection and Good Distribution Practice, the latter necessary to review ongoing alignment of practice with the needs of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licence required as a UK NGO moving pharmaceuticals across international borders.
The impact of the charity’s operations on the community and the environment
We have continued to invest and improve our safeguarding to ensure that we better protect all those we work with. One of our Trustees is specifically designated as the lead for Safeguarding. Our Safeguarding work in 2020/21 included review of safeguarding policy and identifying and training safeguarding focal points in each country we operate in.
There are Trustees specifically designated as the leads for Safeguarding, Global Data Protection and Good Distribution Practice, the latter necessary to review ongoing alignment of practice with the needs of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) licence required as a UK NGO/Company moving pharmaceuticals across international borders.
Malaria Consortium continues to consider the impact of its work on the local environment and climate change and reviews the need to travel internationally in keeping with the need to reduce its carbon footprint.
Maintaining a reputation for high standards of business conduct
As we strive to achieve our strategic objectives, we lead by example and seek to demonstrate in all areas high standards of business conduct. Our Procurement and recruitment policies reflect our values and commitment to safeguarding and high standards of conduct.
Malaria Consortium inducts new staff to enable a strong understanding of the organisation covering structure, policies, and procedures along with expected conduct and other role-relevant information. Core policies that are fundamental to Malaria Consortium’s work and which staff are required to read fully are: The Code of Conduct; the Safeguarding Policy; the Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Policy; the Anti-Money Laundering Policy; the Conflict of Interest Policy; the Whistle Blowing Policy; and the AntiBribery Policy. Managers are also introduced to people management policies, procedures, budgeting and planning.
We require all our partners, suppliers and employees to adhere to our anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy as well as our code of conduct which prohibit fraud, bribery and nepotism.
The need to act fairly as between members of the charity
This criterion has negligible application to Malaria Consortium as the trustees are the sole members of the charity and the Charity is not run in the interest of the members but to deliver the objects of the charity.
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Compliance with Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)
Malaria Consortium is classified as a low energy user under the UK Government’s Energy Reporting standards, and so information on its energy and carbon usage is not disclosed in this report.
Auditor
KPMG LLP were appointed as auditor by the Board of Trustees on 22 November 2012. Pursuant to section 487 of the Companies Act 2006, the auditor will be deemed to be reappointed and KPMG LLP will therefore continue in office.
Going Concern
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Board of Trustees considers to be appropriate. The reasons for preparing accounts on this basis have been provided in the Note 1 a to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021.
Plans for Future Periods
Malaria Consortium will continue to have a primary focus on malaria whilst expanding our portfolio in our identified business areas. This will be done under a new strategy for 2021-2025, that is currently being rolled out. The strategy does not fundamentally change the direction of travel, but does acknowledge: the spectrum of progress on the roadmap to elimination; the importance of data and the shift from evidence to modelling; the unfinished nature of the pandemic; the likely change in the pattern and severity of diseases in light of that pandemic and the need for adaptability; the changing role of technology; and the continued shift in the way funds are released both domestically and internationally.
The new strategy has four key areas of focus:
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Accelerating burden reduction to elimination. This will see the continuation of our work supporting governments and communities to reduce the burdens of disease with a combination of existing and new tools and approaches at all levels of endemicity, against a backdrop of changing epidemiology and climate variation.
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Strengthening data-informed decision-making and digital approaches. This will include: modelling and visualising disease-risk at more granular levels to better prioritise and target interventions; promoting public health surveillance of diseases, vectors, genomes and molecular markers and the integration of disease surveillance and response in the wider health system; and enhancing local capacity to interpret and respond to the available data.
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Supporting health sector resilience to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. Each country is at a different place in its journey towards UHC and the pandemic has shown us the fragility of even well-established systems to infectious disease shocks, further highlighting the need to build resilience, starting at the community-level, for our health systems. But there is no one right answer about the pathway to be taken and we plan to work to support the governments and communities we serve to identify and take the action they can to move along that
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pathway, leveraging both public and private sectors for ‘public-health-good’ and evidencing impact and value for money as key elements of the decision-making processes.
- Influencing policy and practice. This remains at the heart of what Malaria Consortium has been and still is. Leveraging our IRO status and the support of our partners and donors around the world, we plan to: continue to carry out high quality operational and implementation research and evaluations to continuously improve existing interventions and in support of new, evidence-based interventions; help national programmes interpret WHO’s technical guidance, using context-specific evidence, into policy and practice on the ground; help prioritise country-led research agenda; carry out technical advocacy and strategic communications and document and share research findings and lessons learned.
We have been deeply encouraged through this last year with the thoughtful generosity of those that support our work. Being a ‘GiveWell top charity’ for SMC, and the wider support this has engendered from the Effective Altruist community around the world enables us to see consistency in our ability to intervene and a degree of financial certainty in uncertain times, not just to stand still, but to pioneer work and generate evidence of impact and effectiveness in new areas as we look ahead.
Principal Risks and Uncertainties
The responsibility for overseeing the management of risk has been delegated by the trustees to the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee (FARC) that reports to the Board. The FARC reviews the Risk Register quarterly, which shows the impact and likelihood of the major risks, and Risk Assessment and Risk Management processes.
Risk Assessment
The achievement of our objectives depends on many factors, both inside and outside the control of the organisation. The identified risks, and our approach to their management, include:
- Strategic: More competition due to other organisations expanding into areas of Malaria Consortium’s interest resulting in reduced funding opportunities.
There is much increased competition for resources driven by political pressure on international aid budgets, proposals for funding becoming less linked to specific diseases and an increased interest from multi-sectoral organisations. To mitigate this, Malaria Consortium works with a wide combination of international partners, is building experience of working across additional disease conditions and interventions in the communities at risk of malaria, and is constantly tracking the balance of the portfolio of research and implementation programmes.
- Governance : Failure to ensure proper corporate governance from a lack of appropriately skilled trustees leading to poor reputation .
The trustees acknowledge the importance of reflecting the diversity of its stakeholders and areas of work amongst themselves. We have established clear plans, based on a
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diversity and skills matrix, for further promoting diversity. Furthermore, in light of recent revelations elsewhere in the charity sector, the trustees have reviewed Malaria Consortium’s Code of Conduct and all key policies and guidelines linked to safeguarding beneficiaries and employees and are reassured that appropriate safeguards are in place.
- Performance: A failure to deliver a project through internal and external factors, resulting in a loss of reputation.
To gain funding in an increasingly competitive sector, the organisation needs to demonstrate consistently to funders our ability to deliver. The programmatic achievements of the organisation remain impressive, with repeated and increased funding from donors. In addition, the organisation has increased its accountability, transparency and assurance to demonstrate good value for money to donors and strengthen our safeguarding approach. Operational calls between senior management in the head office and in the regional offices continue to review performance and expenditure on a monthly basis and a quarterly performance review is shared with the Board.
- Operational (including Safeguarding and Staffing) : A failure to safeguard operations and staff adequately particularly in high-risk areas resulting in a serious incident.
We have worked at strengthening our safeguarding policies and procedures and provided relevant training to our staff. The greatest need for our services is often in areas with high, and changing, security threats, particularly in South Sudan, Northern Nigeria, Northern Mozambique and parts of Myanmar. Security of beneficiaries, personnel and property is paramount. We keep up-to-date information about the security situations where we work, and have suitable insurance to cover our work and staff. If security threats are persistent, we relocate, and/or suspend operations. No relocations/suspensions were required in the reporting period.
- Financial : A deficit in cash flow to meet expenditure requirements, therefore a delay in implementation .
Continued growth, exchange rate fluctuations and any requirement for post-, instead of pre-financing of projects can challenge the quality of delivery, the level of reserves and the availability of cash. The Chair of the FARC monitors cash flow and reserves monthly and reports to Trustees quarterly on cash flow and reserves. With careful control of support costs, we are able to maintain our reserves in line with policy and continue to make ongoing investments in our future.
The trustees have given consideration to these major risks to which the charity is exposed and satisfied themselves that systems or procedures are established in order to manage those risks.
A reflection on the impact of COVID-19
It is also appropriate to reflect more on the potential impacts of COVID19 on our operations as part of the overall risk assessment. In the places we work, trade-offs are necessary, not just between economic impact and public health good, but, in many cases, between one infectious disease and another. During the pandemic, Malaria Consortium has been working with governments and multilateral agencies to describe how existing programmes can continue, but with due consideration to the additional challenges of preventing the spread of COVID-19 and its risk to staff and beneficiaries.
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Ongoing forecasts suggest that, while there will be some slowdown of activities, impact of any slowdown will be mostly offset by the need for re-training to deliver under new COVID-19-safe protocols, and with the purchase of personal protection equipment (PPE) for staff and health workers. In addition, Governments have generally accepted the need for anti-malarial (and other infectious disease) programming to continue as ‘essential services’; donors are encouraging continuation of programming wherever possible, with necessary adjustments; 50% of the activity for Malaria Consortium in the coming financial year is aligned with pre-funded Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC); no staff have been furloughed or laid off since the onset of the pandemic; there have been no issues with the receipt and movement of funds; and we have demonstrated our capacity to operate remotely medium term.
We envisage, therefore, while we are keeping this under constant review, we will be able to continue our mission and operate at or near current levels and maintain the life-saving impact of our work.
A note of thanks.
How to conclude our narrative in a year like this? Some thanks…
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again to those (new and ongoing) who have continued to express their generosity by supporting us through giving. We have seen a notable increase in ongoing income from individuals and donor advised funds. This means we can continue our work.
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to the staff that have worked tirelessly to make real progress on our mission. There have been immense pressures, and highs and lows of morale, in and out of lockdowns and we recognise that without their own and their families’ support, none of this would be possible.
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to Linklaters for their ongoing support on legal matters,
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to LEK Consulting Advance Pro Bono for their support in thinking through the digital landscape that underpins our strategy for technology
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to Neil Squires, Canisius Anthony and Mark Clark who have all come to the end of their tenure as Trustees for their partnership in and commitment to the mission of Malaria Consortium
Marcel Tanner Chair 23.09 2021
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Malaria Consortium
Statement of Trustees' responsibilities in respect of the trustees’ annual report and the financial statements
The trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law they have are required to prepare the financial statements in accordance with UK Accounting Standards and applicable law (UK Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland .
Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the excess of income over expenditure for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and
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assess the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern; and
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use the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charitable company’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are responsible for such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and have general responsibility for taking such steps as are reasonably open to them to safeguard the assets of the charitable company and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company’s website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.
Approved by the trustees on 28[th] July 2021 and signed on their behalf by:
Marcel Tanner
Chair
23.09.2021
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Independent auditor’s report to the members of Malaria Consortium
Opinion
We have audited the financial statements of Malaria Consortium (“the charitable company”) for the year ended 31 March 2021 which comprise the group and charity Statement of Financial Activities, the group and charity Balance Sheet, the Group Cash Flow Statement and related notes, including the accounting policies in note 1.
In our opinion the financial statements:
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give a true and fair view of the state of the group’s and of the charitable company’s affairs as at 31 March 2021 and of the group’s incoming resources and application of resources, including its income and expenditure, for the year then ended;
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have been properly prepared in accordance with UK accounting standards, including FRS 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland ; and
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have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.
Basis for opinion
We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (“ISAs (UK)”) and applicable law. Our responsibilities are described below. We have fulfilled our ethical responsibilities under, and are independent of the group in accordance with, UK ethical requirements including the FRC Ethical Standard. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is a sufficient and appropriate basis for our opinion.
Going concern
The trustees have prepared the financial statements on the going concern basis as they do not intend to liquidate the group or the charitable company or to cease their operations, and as they have concluded that the group and the charitable company’s financial position means that this is realistic. They have also concluded that there are no material uncertainties that could have cast significant doubt over their ability to continue as a going concern for at least a year from the date of approval of the financial statements (“the going concern period”).
In our evaluation of the trustees’ conclusions, we considered the inherent risks to the group’s business model and analysed how those risks might affect the group and charitable company’s financial resources or ability to continue operations over the going concern period.
Our conclusions based on this work:
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we consider that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate;
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we have not identified, and concur with the trustees’ assessment that there is not, a material uncertainty related to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the group or the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for the going concern period.
However, as we cannot predict all future events or conditions and as subsequent events may result in outcomes that are inconsistent with judgements that were reasonable at the time they were made, the above conclusions are not a guarantee that the group or the charitable company will continue in operation.
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Fraud and breaches of laws and regulations – ability to detect
Identifying and responding to risks of material misstatement due to fraud
To identify risks of material misstatement due to fraud (“fraud risks”), we assessed events or conditions that could indicate an incentive or pressure to commit fraud or provide an opportunity to commit fraud. Our risk assessment procedures included:
• Enquiring of management as to the high-level policies and procedures to prevent and detect fraud as well as whether they have knowledge of any actual, suspected or alleged fraud.
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Reading Board minutes.
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Using analytical procedures to identify any unusual or unexpected relationships.
We communicated identified fraud risks throughout the audit and remained alert to any indications of fraud throughout the audit.
As required by auditing standards, we perform procedures to address the risk of management override of controls.
Professional standards also require us to make a rebuttable presumption that the fraud risk from income recognition is a significant risk. We have not rebutted this risk for Malaria Consortium, which receives a significant amount of grants in the form of restricted or unrestricted funding.
Due to the nature of the entity in the not-for-profit sector, expenditure recognition (existence and accuracy) has also been identified as a fraud risk due to the risk that the payment is overstated or does not exist, in order that matching income can be recognised
We performed procedures including:
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Identified journal entries to test based on risk criteria and comparing the identified entries to supporting documentation. These included journals with no description and journals posted to seldom used accounts.
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Reviewed a sample of grant funding agreements and agreed the payment profile back to the bank statements to confirm income has been recognised at the correct amount in the appropriate period
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Tested a sample of receipts and payments made close to the year-end to assess cut off processes for revenue and expenditure
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Assessed the completeness of disclosed related party transactions in the financial statements.
Identifying and responding to risks of material misstatement due to non-compliance with laws and regulation
We identified areas of laws and regulations that could reasonably be expected to have a material effect on the financial statements from our general commercial and sector experience and through discussion with management (as required by auditing standards). We identified the following areas as those most likely to have such an effect: health and safety, anti-bribery, employment law, recognising the nature of the Group’s activities. We discussed with management the policies and procedures regarding compliance with laws and regulations.
We communicated identified laws and regulations throughout our team and remained alert to any indications of non-compliance throughout the audit.
The Charity is subject to laws and regulations that directly affect the financial statements including financial reporting legislation. We assessed the extent of compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our procedures on the related financial statement 21 items.
Whilst the Charity is subject to many other laws and regulations, we did not identify any others where the consequences of non-compliance alone could have a material effect on amounts or disclosures in the financial statements.
Context of the ability of the audit to detect fraud or breaches of law or regulation
Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it.
In addition, as with any audit, there remains a higher risk of non-detection of fraud, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. Our audit procedures are designed to detect material misstatement. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance or fraud and cannot be expected to detect noncompliance with all laws and regulations.
Other information
The trustees are responsible for the other information, which comprises the Trustees' Annual Report, and identify any additional “other information” included in the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, accordingly, we do not express an audit opinion or, except as explicitly stated below, any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether, based on our financial statements audit work, the information therein is materially misstated or inconsistent with the financial statements or our audit knowledge. Based solely on that work:
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we have not identified material misstatements in the other information;
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in our opinion the information given in the Trustees' Annual Report, which constitutes the strategic report and the directors’ report for the financial year, is consistent with the financial statements; and
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in our opinion those reports have been prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.
Matters on which we are required to report by exception
Under the Companies Act 2006 we are required to report to you if, in our opinion:
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the charitable company has not kept adequate accounting records or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or
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the charitable company financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or
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certain disclosures of trustees’ remuneration specified by law are not made; or
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we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.
We have nothing to report in these respects.
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Trustees’ responsibilities
As explained more fully in their statement set out on page 19, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view; such internal control as they determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; assessing the group’s and the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern; and using the going concern basis of accounting unless they either intend to liquidate the group or the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.
Auditor’s responsibilities
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue our opinion in an auditor’s report. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but does not guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of the financial statements.
A fuller description of our responsibilities is provided on the FRC’s website at www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities.
The purpose of our audit work and to whom we owe our responsibilities
This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and its members, as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.
Joanne Lees (Senior Statutory Auditor)
for and on behalf of KPMG LLP, Statutory Auditor Chartered Accountants
Joanne Lees
KPMG LLP
15 Canada Square Canary Wharf London
E14 5GL
24 September 2021
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Malaria Consortium
Statement of Financial Activities (incorporating an Income and Expenditure Account) for the year ending 31 March 2021
| Note Income from: Donations 2a Legacies 2a Donated Goods 2b Charitable activities Grants, contracts & consultancy income 2c Investments - Interest received Other Total Income Expenditure on: Raising funds Charitable activities 3 Total Expenditure 7 Net (expenditure) / income Net movement in funds Reconciliation of funds Total fund brought forward Total fund balances at end of year 8 |
Unrestricted Total SMC Other Funds Funds £000s £000s £000s £000s 528 - 452 980 - - - - - - 159 159 28,859 33,417 4,482 66,758 104 - 22 126 - - 41 41 29,491 33,417 5,156 68,064 - - 335 335 29,291 33,417 3,779 66,487 29,291 33,417 4,114 66,822 200 - 1,042 1,242 200 - 1,042 1,242 67,596 - 5,074 72,670 67,796 - 6,116 73,912 2021 Restricted Funds CHARITY* |
Unrestricted Total SMC Other Funds Funds £000s £000s £000s £000s 528 - 452 980 - - - - - - 159 159 28,859 33,417 4,482 66,758 104 - 22 126 - - 41 41 29,491 33,417 5,156 68,064 - - 335 335 29,291 33,417 3,779 66,487 29,291 33,417 4,114 66,822 200 - 1,042 1,242 200 - 1,042 1,242 67,596 - 5,074 72,670 67,796 - 6,116 73,912 2021 Restricted Funds GROUP* |
CHARITY GROUP 2020 2020**** |
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| Total Total Funds Funds £000s £000s 638 638 - - 253 253 69,252 69,252 766 766 54 54 |
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| 70,963 70,963 |
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| 303 303 43,819 43,819 |
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| 44,122 44,122 |
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| 26,841 26,841 |
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| 26,841 26,841 45,829 45,829 |
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| 72,670 72,670 |
All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.
The notes on pages 27 to 35 form an integral part of these financial statements.
* Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC)
Malaria Consortium received £29.15 m in FY 2021 from Good Ventures (£18.02 m) and Give Well (£11.3 m)for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention. This fund, together with other donations, asterisked in Note 2c, cannot be utilised until July 2021 as it is for a seasonal activity.
Other restricted funds
These are funds earned during the financial year for other restricted activities as per the strategic objectives of the organisation.
** 2020 Comparative of Total Funds
The split of funds for 2020 is shown in full in note 18 on page 35 of the financial statements
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Malaria Consortium
Cash Flow Statement for the year ending 31 March 2021
| Notes Cash flows from Operating Activities Cash inflow / (outflow) from operating activities A Cash flows from Investing Activities Interest income Purchase of fixed assets Net cash (used in) / provided by investing activities Increase / (Decrease) in cash in the year Cash at the beginning of the year B Cash at the end of the year B |
2021 £000s 4,225 126 (81) 45 4,270 76,584 80,854 |
2020 £000s 32,145 766 |
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| 766 | ||
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| 43,673 | ||
| 76,584 |
Notes to the Cash Flow Statement for the year ending 31 March 2021
A Reconciliation of Net Income / (Expenditure) to Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities
| Net income for the year Depreciation charge Adjustment for depreciation Decrease / (Increase) in stock Decrease / (Increase) in debtors Increase / (Decrease) in creditors Increase / (Decrease) in provisions Investment income Cash inflow / (outflow) from operating activities B Analysis of cash Cash at bank and in hand Total cash |
2021 £000s 1,242 28 (2) 1,890 114 1,079 (126) 4,225 At 1 April - 2021 £000s 80,854 80,854 |
2020 £000s 26,841 55 - - 1,257 4,126 632 (766) |
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| At 1 April 2020 £000s 76,584 |
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
1 Accounting Policies
a Basis of Financial Statements
The financial statements have been prepared under the historic cost convention and in accordance with applicable Financial Reporting Standard (FRS102) and the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 2015 “Accounting and Reporting by Charities”. The format of the Income and Expenditure Account has been adapted from that prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 to better reflect the special nature of the charity's operations. The accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006.
Malaria Consortium meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS102.
Key judgements and assumptions that apply to these accounting policies are listed where applicable. There are no areas of material estimation or judgement in the Accounts.
The financial review in the Trustees' Report reviews the finances of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2021 in comparison to the prior year. The Trustees' report explains how the charity is structured and managed and how major risks are dealt with.
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which the Board of Trustees considers to be appropriate for the following reasons.
The Board of Trustees has reviewed cash flow forecasts for a period of 12 months from the date of approval of these financial statements. After reviewing these forecasts the Board of Trustees is of the opinion that, taking account of severe but plausible downsides, including the anticipated impact of COVID-19 the charity will have sufficient funds to meet its liabilities as they fall due over the period of 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements (the going concern assessment period).
The charity has a healthy cash balance and a large proportion of grant funding required for 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2022/24 has been received in advance from donors. The charity has received funds in advance from philanthropic funders including grant funding of £29.15m in FY 2021 from the Good Ventures (£18.02 m) and Give Well (£11.3 m) for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention. £67.79 million is held in restricted funds for this programme which is sufficient to fund the programme for the next two financial years. During the FY 20201 we have also received further commitments for further $24.5 million for this programme.
Funds from other donors like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Global Fund are received in advance for programme activities and retained as deferred income. £80.85 million held as cash and bank balances reflects the restricted funds as well as Malaria Consortium unrestricted funds. In the light of the ongoing COVID 19 situation, the Board of Trustees has undertaken a strategic review of the finances, secured and committed funding for the next three financial years and consider the current level of cash balances, restricted funds , unrestricted reserves sufficient to meet programme and organisational needs.
Consequently, the Board of Trustees is confident that the charity will have sufficient funds to continue to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements and therefore have prepared the financial statements on a going concern basis.
b Funds Accounting
Unrestricted funds are general funds that are available at the Trustees' discretion for use in furtherance of the objectives of the charity.
Designated funds represent unrestricted funds that are set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes.
Restricted funds are those provided by donors for use in a particular area or for specific purposes, the use of which is restricted to that area or purpose.
c Income
Income for a specific purpose is credited to a restricted fund.
All income becoming available to the charity is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities on the basis of entitlement. In respect of income not tied to time-limited grants, income is recognised as soon as it is prudent and practicable to do so. In the case of performance related grants or long term contract income, income entitlement is considered to be conditional upon delivery of the specified level of service, in accordance with FRS102 and the Charities SORP 2015 . Income is therefore recognised to the extent the charity has delivered the service or activity, with the grants less the management fee being credited to restricted income in the SOFA. The expenditure incurred to date is used as a reasonable estimate or approximation of the charity's performance and so income entitlement. Any such income not recognised in the year will be carried forward as deferred income and is included in liabilities in the balance sheet.
d Expenditure
- Expenditure is recognised in the period in which it is incurred and includes attributable VAT which cannot be recovered. Expenditure is allocated to a particular activity where the cost relates directly to that activity.
Support costs of technical, financial and management oversight and direction are apportioned on a project by project basis, in line with the requirements of the various funding agencies.
The costs of raising funds are those incurred in seeking voluntary contributions and institutional income.
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
1 Accounting Policies continued
e Donated goods and services
Donated goods and services are valued and brought in as income when the items/services are received and expenditure when the items/services are distributed. Any undistributed items/services are treated as stock. Where the gift is a fixed asset, the asset is capitalised and depreciated. Where this intangible income relates to project activities it is included as an activity in furtherance of the charity's objects. The values attributable to donated goods are an estimate of the gross value to the organisation, usually the market value.
f Foreign Currencies
Transactions in foreign currencies are recorded using the rate of exchange ruling at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated using the rate of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Non-monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are not retranslated. Gains or losses on transactions are included in the statement of financial activities.
g Intangible Fixed Assets
Intangible fixed assets purchased from restricted funds for a particular project are charged to that project and are not capitalised. Intangible fixed assets purchased from unrestricted funds and costing more than £1,500 are capitalised and included at cost. Depreciation is provided on all intangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off cost on a straight line basis over four years.
h Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation
Tangible fixed assets purchased from restricted funds for a particular project are charged to that project and are not capitalised. Tangible fixed assets purchased from unrestricted funds and costing more than £1,500 are capitalised and included at cost. Depreciation is provided on all tangible fixed assets at rates calculated to write off cost on a straight line basis over four years, except for buildings which are depreciated on a straight line basis over 25 years. The value of the land is not depreciated.
Malaria Consortium commissioned a report in 2016 for the revaluation of the buildings, but the change in value was considered not significant enough to warrant a revaluation.
i Debtors
Amounts due from donors and other debtors are recognised at the settlement amount. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid.
j Cash at bank and in hand
Cash at bank and in hand includes petty cash and bank accounts including short term deposit accounts.
k Creditors and Provisions
Creditors and provisions are recognised where the charity has a present obligation resulting from a past event that will probably result in the transfer of funds to a third party and the amount due to settle the obligation can be measured or reliably estimated. They are normally recognised at their settlement amount.
l Financial Instruments
Malaria Consortium only has financial assets and liabilities of a kind that qualify as basic. These basic financial instruments are shown in the balance sheet and initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.
m Pension Costs
The company makes agreed contributions to individual "Defined Contribution" pension schemes for certain employees. The assets of the scheme are held separately from those of Malaria Consortium in independently administered funds. The cost represents amounts payable in the year.
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Malaria Consortium Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
1 Accounting Policies continued
n Operating Leases
Rentals payable under operating leases, where substantially all the risks and rewards of ownership remain with the lessor, are charged to the statement of financial activities in the year in which they fall due.
o Group accounts
The financial statements present information about the Company as an individual undertaking and its Group. The operation of the subsidiary company Malaria Enterprise Limited in the year has been considered and is not material to the Company for the purpose of giving a true and fair view. The Company has therefore taken advantage of the exemptions provided by Section 405 of the Companies Act 2006 not to consolidate Malaria Enterprise Limited. However the operations of Malaria Public Health Limited have been considered materia to the company for the purpose of giving a true and fair view and have been consolidated.
| 2a Income from donations Restricted Funds Restricted donations Subtotal Unrestricted Funds Other donations Subtotal Total |
CHARITY GROUP 2021 2021 £000s £000s 528 528 528 528 452 452 452 452 980 980 |
CHARITY GROUP 2020 2020 £000s £000s 194 194 |
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| 194 194 |
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2b Donated Goods
Donated goods received this year were health centre supplies in South Sudan with a market value of £92k (2020: 89k); Microsoft licenses in the UK valued at £67k (2020: £57k); and malaria drugs worth £141 provided directly by Population Services International to the RAI2e project in Cambodia (2020: £nil).
| 2c Income from charitable activities * Good Ventures* GiveWell USAID Department for International Development Catholic Relief Services / The Global Fund * Effective Altruism* Health Pooled Fund Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) / Department for International Development Population Services International / The Global Fund United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Mastercard Foundation United Nations for Project Services (UNOPS) / The Global Fund James Percy Foundation Global Fund / Institut Pasteur University of Southern California / BMGF Abt Associates Inc. / USAID Norwegian Research Intrahealth / USAID Global Health / Department for International Development Comic Relief WHO The Against Malaria Foundation Good Ventures (non-SMC) Reachout Fundacion Empresa y Sociedad Médecins Sans Frontières Pathfinder / USAID Cynara Foundation ICRA USAID adjt Transfer to unrestricted SMC Transfer to unrestricted Other MCUS SMC Donors of less than £100,000 each Grants and Contracts for projects of less than £100,000 each Total income from charitable activities** |
Restricted funds Unrestricted funds £000s £000s 18,022 - 11,130 - 5,687 - 7,151 - 9,890 - 2,463 - 1,980 - 2,912 - 1,709 - 1,903 - 1,076 - 1,043 - 425 - 147 - 143 - 102 - 90 - 79 - 73 - 60 - 58 - 55 - 41 - 36 - 12 - 7 - 1 - - - - - - - (2,867) 2,867 (1,284) 1,284 - - - 255 - - 104 - 28 76 2021 CHARITY |
Restricted funds Unrestricted funds £000s £000s 18,022 - 11,130 - 5,687 - 7,151 - 9,890 - 2,463 - 1,980 - 2,912 - 1,709 - 1,903 - 1,076 - 1,043 - 425 - 147 - 143 - 102 - 90 - 79 - 73 - 60 - 58 - 55 - 41 - 36 - 12 - 7 - 1 - - - - - - - (2,867) 2,867 (1,284) 1,284 - - - 255 - - 104 - 28 76 62,276 4,482 2021 GROUP |
Restricted funds Unrestricted funds £000s £000s 28,535 - 11,952 - 5,885 - 4,843 - 3,802 - 2,996 - 1,822 - 1,789 - 1,810 - 1,301 - 934 - - - 396 - 212 - 153 - 229 - 93 - - - 91 - - - 538 - 390 - 536 - - - - - 121 - 128 - 163 - 110 - (63) - (2,116) 2,116 (2,609) 2,609 - - - - - - 219 - 267 - CHARITY 2020 |
Restricted funds Unrestricted funds £000s £000s 28,535 - 11,952 - 5,885 - 4,843 - 3,802 - 2,996 - 1,822 - 1,789 - 1,810 - 1,301 - 934 - - - 396 - 212 - 153 - 229 - 93 - - - 91 - - - 538 - 390 - 536 - - - - - 121 - 128 - 163 - 110 - (63) - (2,116) 2,116 (2,609) 2,609 219 267 - 2020 GROUP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62,276 4,482 |
64,527 4,725 |
64,527 4,725 |
- Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC): the funds provided by these donors are designated for use in SMC Activities and are planned to be expended from July 2021, reflecting the seasonal nature of this activity.
** Malaria Consortium was awarded the DFID Support to National Malaria Programme Phase 2 (SUNMAP2) in Nigeria which started in January 2019. Payments of fees on this contract are triggered under a risk-based, payment-by-resu Income from FCDO for Sunmap2 received during the year was £7.09 m; Expenditure on Sunmap 2 was £6.16m
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3 Details of charitable activities
| The amount spent on charitable activities, including support Guide Policies Preventive Treatment Vector Control Case Management Health Systems Total spent - charitable activities Burkina Faso Chad Ethiopia Mozambique Nigeria South Sudan Togo Uganda Africa multi country Cambodia Myanmar Asia multi country United Kingdom Total spent - charitable activities 4 Support costs These costs are apportioned across the work of the charity i Communications Finance Human Resources Information Technology Management Programme Support Governance 5 Personnel and staff costs Average number Project and technical staff Operations and logistics staff Management, finance and administration staff Aggregate costs Fees, salaries and agency staff costs Social security costs Pension contributions Overseas staff allowances Higher Paid Employees The number of employees whose emoluments excluding em £60,000 - £69,999 £70,000 - £79,999 £80,000 - £89,999 £90,000 - £99,999 £100,000 - £109,999 £110,000 - £119,999 £120,000 - £129,999 |
costs analysed Operationa programme £000s 115 26,800 4,629 12,436 13,142 |
by programme area is l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s - 7 3,434 1,822 982 338 106 756 1,064 856 CHARITY |
as follows: 2021 s Total £000s 122 32,056 5,949 13,298 15,062 66,487 2021 s Total £000s 4,632 3,825 242 4,444 26,041 4,591 194 9,008 12,212 867 133 95 203 66,487 1. CHARITY 2021 Total £000s 363 1,008 451 236 372 1,198 151 3,779 Total 201 86 62 349 CHARITY 2021 Total £000s 8,466 545 148 456 9,615 n contributions that a CHARITY 2021 Number 7 6 2 2 1 2 0 |
Operationa programme £000s 115 26,800 4,629 12,436 13,142 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s 7 3,434 1,822 982 338 106 756 1,064 856 GROUP |
2021 s Total £000s 122 32,056 5,949 13,298 15,062 66,487 2021 s Total £000s 4,632 3,825 242 4,444 26,041 4,591 194 9,008 12,212 867 133 95 203 66,487 GROUP 2021 Total £000s 363 1,008 451 236 372 1,198 151 3,779 Total 410 116 81 607 GROUP 2021 Total £000s 12,667 616 472 456 14,211 g the year was as follows: GROUP 2021 Number 7 6 2 2 1 2 0 |
Operationa programme £000s 245 12,796 5,036 7,375 8,259 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s - 28 3,681 1,872 1,004 686 118 851 835 1,033 CHARITY |
2020 s Total £000s 273 18,349 6,726 8,344 10,127 43,819 2020 s Total £000s 2,928 2,421 465 1,395 14,545 3,577 - 8,964 7,516 1,246 383 253 126 43,819 CHARITY 2020 Total £000s 343 891 454 202 393 2,018 169 4,470 Total 208 94 56 358 CHARITY 2020 Total £000s 8,077 540 143 424 9,184 CHARITY 2020 Number 7 7 2 2 2 1 1 |
Operationa programme £000s 245 12,796 5,036 7,375 8,259 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s - 28 3,681 1,872 1,004 686 118 851 835 1,033 GROUP |
2020 s Total £000s 273 18,349 6,726 8,344 10,127 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57,122 | 5,586 3,779 |
57,122 | 5,586 3,779 |
33,711 | 5,638 4,470 |
33,711 | 5,638 4,470 |
43,819 | ||||
| Operationa programme £000s 2,328 2,260 228 3,903 24,127 3,943 183 7,514 11,518 712 125 90 191 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s 2,041 263 1,348 217 - 14 288 253 434 1,480 387 261 - 11 982 512 - 694 106 49 - 8 - 5 - 12 |
Operationa programme £000s 2,328 2,260 228 3,903 24,127 3,943 183 7,514 11,518 712 125 90 191 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s 2,041 263 1,348 217 14 288 253 434 1,480 387 261 11 982 512 694 106 49 8 5 12 |
Operationa programme £000s 791 861 418 1,253 12,530 2,908 - 6,543 6,749 974 344 227 113 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s 1,838 299 1,313 247 - 47 - 142 531 1,484 304 365 - - 1,507 914 - 767 145 127 - 39 - 26 - 13 |
Operationa programme £000s 791 861 418 1,253 12,530 2,908 - 6,543 6,749 974 344 227 113 |
l Grants to Support s Partners cost £000s £000s 1,838 299 1,313 247 - 47 - 142 531 1,484 304 365 - - 1,507 914 - 767 145 127 - 39 - 26 - 13 |
2020 s Total £000s 2,928 2,421 465 1,395 14,545 3,577 - 8,964 7,516 1,246 383 253 126 |
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| 57,122 | 5,586 3,779 |
57,122 | 5,586 3,779 |
33,711 | 5,638 4,470 |
33,711 | 5,638 4,470 |
43,819 | ||||
| n note 3 on the ployers nation |
basis disclosed in note 2021 CHARITY |
mounted to m | 2021 GROUP |
2020 CHARITY |
1 | 2020 GROUP |
GROUP 2020 Total £000s 343 891 454 202 393 2,018 169 |
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| 4,470 | ||||||||||||
| UK Overseas 19 182 1 85 33 29 |
UK Overseas 19 391 1 115 33 48 |
UK Overseas 16 192 2 92 32 24 |
UK Overseas 16 339 2 122 32 41 |
Total 355 124 73 |
||||||||
| 53 296 |
53 554 |
50 308 |
50 502 |
552 | ||||||||
| al insurance and pensio | ore than £60,000 durin | GROUP 2020 Total £000s 11,263 593 392 424 |
||||||||||
| 12,672 | ||||||||||||
| GROUP 2020 Number 7 7 2 2 2 1 1 |
During the year, pension costs on behalf of these employees amounted to £40,674 (2020: £46,860).
The total remuneration of ten key management personnel, including employer national insurance and pension contributions, was £636,182 (2020:, £831,597). The salary of the Chief Executive was £112,201 (2020: £115,093). The Chief Executive did not receive any pension contributions in 2020 (2019: Nil).
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Malaria Consortium Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
6 Taxation
The charity is considered to pass the test set out in paragraph 1 schedule 6 Finance Act 2010 and therefore it meets the definition of a charitable company for UK tax purposes. As such, the charity is potentially exempt from taxation in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by chapter 3 part II Corporation Tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation and Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extend that such income or gains are applied exclusively to charitable purposes. Country Offices are subject to local tax regulations.
| 7 Expenditure The expenditure figures are stated after charging: Operating lease rentals Depreciation Auditors' remuneration: Trustees' reimbursed expenses Auditors' remuneration is further detailed as follows: KPMG Ethiopia South Sudan Uganda UK (including VAT) Total KPMG Fees PKF Nigeria Total fees paid to PKF Total Audit Fees (including VAT) |
CHARITY GROUP CHARITY GROUP 2021 2021 2020 2020 £000s £000s £000s £000s 639 639 657 657 28 28 55 55 172 175 119 125 2 2 1 1 Statutory Accounts USAID FRR Project Audit Tax Advisory TOTAL £000s £000s £000s £000s £000s - - 1 - 1 4 4 45 1 46 75 44 119 120 44 5 1 170 5 5 5 - - - 5 125 44 5 1 175 |
|---|---|
Trustees are not remunerated. Trustees' reimbursed expenses represents the travel and subsistence costs relating to attendance at meetings of the trustees and overseas field trips. There were no field trips in 2021 (2020: 0). Three trustees were reimbursed £1,483 during 2021 (2020: 0).
| 8 Statement of Funds Restricted Funds Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) Other Total Restricted Funds Total Unrestricted Funds Free reserves Designated funds Total Unrestricted Funds Total Funds |
As at Total Total Inter-fund 1 April 2020 Income Expenditure Transfers £000s £000s £000s £000s 67,596 28,859 (29,291) 632 - 33,417 (33,417) - CHARITY |
As at 31 March 2021 £000s 67,796 - 67,796 5,626 490 6,116 73,912 |
As at Total Total Inter-fund 1 April 2020 Income Expenditure Transfers £000s £000s £000s £000s 67,596 28,859 (29,291) 632 - 33,417 (33,417) - 67,596 62,276 (62,708) 632 3,759 5,788 (3,289) (632) 1,315 - (825) - 5,074 5,788 (4,114) (632) 72,670 68,064 (66,822) - GROUP |
As at 31 March 2021 £000s 67,796 - |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67,596 62,276 (62,708) 632 3,759 5,788 (3,289) (632) 1,315 - (825) - |
67,796 5,626 490 |
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| 5,074 5,788 (4,114) (632) 72,670 68,064 (66,822) - |
6,116 | |||
| 73,912 |
Purpose of Designated Funds
The balance of designated reserves as at 1st April 2021 of £490 k is to provide against future exchange losses (£263 k), Sylvia Meek Scholarship Fund (£54 k), Research Fund (£51 k), Staff Development (£44K) and Programme CoFinance (£78k).
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| 8 Statement of Funds (continued) Further analysis of restricted funds by project is shown below: Restricted Funds Support to the APMEN Vector Control WG World Malaria Day Karolinska Institute Workshop ACCESS SMC SMC third party funding MCUSA SMC funding Implementation of SMC & Support to NMEP Mastercard PPE Distribution Malaria Action Program for Districts 2nd Universal Coverage Campaign LLINs RHITES-E Anti-malaria activities SESR-based strategies on dengue control VC IDIQ MY SCHOOL WHO Active Surveillance UG Good Ventures non-SMC MZ MC US Covid UG MC US Covid ARIDA Protocol and Field Trials Services RAI2e Reducing the Malaria Burden Implementation of RAI2E Strengthening Uganda response Niger State TA for CBHW Program Strengthening Community Based Malaria Global Fund ATM Forest RAI2E Cambodia iCCM+: Access to quality health service MSF & MC US Inc North NTD-Support Centre IPTi Effect SMC BMGF Global Fund NFM3 Rai3e Regional Scaling Up for Universal Coverage SuNMaP 2 Lot16-Essential Health Care Serv-Aweil Lot15-Essential health Care Srv-lolstate Lot18-Essential Health Care Srv-Warrap UNICEF-Digital HSS-MZ BMGF-Functional Malaria Surv-MZ SS-UNICEF-LOT-4 SuNMaP 2 - PBR SS-UNICEF-LOT-7 SuNMaP Commodities MERG RAFT LSHTM UK 5% Initiative Cameroon UG MC US Covid Total restricted funds Unrestricted funds - Free reserves Unrestricted funds - Designated funds Total Funds |
As at Total Total Inter-fund 1 April 2020 Income Expenditure Transfers £000s £000s £000s £000s - 90 (90) - 5 (5) - 20 (20) - 2 (2) 67,596 28,859 (28,763) 104 - - (528) 528 - - - - 941 (941) - 5,094 (5,094) - 61 (61) - 69 (69) - 26 (26) - 7 (7) - 78 (78) - 125 (125) - 43 (43) - 31 (31) - 43 (43) - 33 (33) - 1 (1) - 222 (222) - 9,238 (9,238) - 370 (370) - 1,805 (1,805) - 178 (178) - 157 (157) - 148 (148) - 60 (60) - 1 (1) - 66 (66) - 28 (28) - 49 (49) - 170 (170) - 51 (51) - 1,694 (1,694) - 1,687 (1,687) - 1,804 (1,804) - 127 (127) - 7 (7) - 458 (458) - 2,955 (2,955) - 302 (302) - 2,357 (2,357) - 396 (396) - 2,118 (2,118) - 24 (24) - 57 (57) - 11 (11) - 208 (208) |
As at 31 March 2021 £000s - - - - - - - 67,796 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
|---|---|---|
| 67,596 62,276 (62,708) 632 3,759 5,788 (3,289) (632) 1,315 (825) 72,670 68,064 (66,822) - |
67,796 5,626 490 |
|
| 73,912 |
9
| Cost At 1 April 2020 Additions Disposals At 31 March 2021 Depreciation At 1 April 2020 Charge for the period Disposals At 31 March 2021 At 31 March 2021 At 31 March 2020 |
Intangible Assets Software Applications £000s 171 - - - - - 171 (168) - (1) - - - (169) 2 3 |
Land & Buildings Office Equipment Furniture & Fixtures Motor Vehicles £000s £000s £000s £000s 542 103 10 633 - - - 81 - - - - 542 103 10 714 (82) (103) (10) (579) (7) - - (20) - - - - (89) (103) (10) (599) 453 - - 115 460 - - 54 Tangible Assets |
Total £000s 1,288 81 - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,369 | |||
| (774) (27) - |
|||
| (801) | |||
| 568 | |||
| 514 |
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
| 10 Stock Commodities Medical Supplies 11 Debtors Amounts due from donors Other debtors Prepayments 12 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Trade creditors Other creditors Taxation and social security Accruals Deferred Income (note 14) Creditors |
CHARITY 2021 £000s - 2 2 CHARITY 2021 £000s 2,794 349 344 3,487 CHARITY 2021 £000s 948 650 474 2,090 4,585 8,747 |
GROUP 2021 £000s - 2 2 GROUP 2021 £000s 2,794 344 344 3,482 GROUP 2021 £000s 948 650 474 2,090 4,585 8,747 |
CHARITY 2020 £000s - - - CHARITY 2020 £000s 4,239 678 460 5,377 CHARITY 2020 £000s 1,008 886 532 1,719 4,488 8,633 |
GROUP 2020 £000s - - |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | ||||
| GROUP 2020 £000s 4,239 678 460 |
||||
| 5,377 | ||||
| GROUP 2020 £000s 1,008 886 532 1,719 4,488 |
||||
| 8,633 |
Pension contributions were made during the year to defined contribution schemes in Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Uganda, and the UK. As at 31 March 2021, there were £62k (2020: £25k) of outstanding contributions to such schemes, that are included in Other Creditors above.
| 13 At the beginning of the year Utilised during the year Charged to the SoFA for the year As at 31 March 2021 Provisions for Liabilities |
2021 Programme Overseas tax Staff costs Grants Total £000s £000s £000s £000s £000s 301 256 144 474 1,175 - 161 - - 918 1,079 462 256 144 1,392 2,254 |
2020 Total £000s 543 (246) 878 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,175 |
The provision for overseas tax relates to obligations in countries where Malaria Consortium is operating or has operated in the past. The staff provision includes amounts for severance payments on contract completion. The programme provisions are potential liabilties on contracts that may become payable. The grant provision is for the payment by results risks from Sunmap2. It is expected that Malaria Consortium will settle these obligations within the next financial year.
14 Deferred Income
The deferred income relates to funding received for activities in a future period and is analysed as follows:
| Deferred income at 1 April Incoming resources deferred in the year Amounts released from previous and current year 15 The amount payable on leases expiring: Within 1 year Between 2 -5 years 16 Fixed Assets Net Current assets less provisions Operating lease commitments - land and buildings Analysis of net assets between funds |
2021 £000s 4,488 34,259 (34,162) 4,585 2021 £000s 420 22 442 Restricted Unrestricted Total funds funds funds 2021 2021 2021 £000s £000s £000s - 570 570 67,796 5,546 73,342 67,796 6,116 73,912 |
2020 £000s 2,708 23,351 (21,571) 4,488 2020 £000s 488 152 640 Restricted Unrestricted Total funds funds funds 2020 2020 2020 £000s £000s £000s - 517 517 67,597 4,556 72,153 |
2020 £000s 2,708 23,351 (21,571) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,488 | |||
| 2020 £000s 488 152 |
|||
| 640 | |||
| 67,597 5,073 72,670 |
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
17 Related Parties
Malaria Consortium has a 100% interest in Malaria Public Health Limited, Nigeria, a company registered in Nigeria. Malaria Public Health Limited, Nigeria has net liabilities of £91k at 31 March 2021 (2020: £100k) and expenditure of £4.8 million in the financial year (2020: £3.706m). The Board of Trustees as key management personnel are considered related parties. During the year transactions with the Board of Trustees were limited to the reimbursement of expenses as disclosed in note 7. Additional disclosure in connection with organisations that the trustees are affliated to or involved with is provided below:
Summary of related parties 2020/21
| Summary of relatedparties 2020/21 | Summary of relatedparties 2020/21 | Summary of relatedparties 2020/21 | Summary of relatedparties 2020/21 | Summary of relatedparties 2020/21 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Description | Related Parties (Trustees) | Income | Expenditure |
| GBP | GBP | |||
| Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) |
Flights for Chair to attend Board Meeting |
1. Marcel Tanner is a former Director of Swiss TPH |
330 | |
| London School Hygiene and Tropical Medicine(LSHTM) |
Publication Charges | 1. Precious Lunga is a company director of LSHTM |
3,920 |
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Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2021
18 Statement of Financial Activities for the year ending 31 March 2020
| Income from: Donations Legacies Donated Goods Charitable activities Grants, contracts & consultancy income Investments - Interest received Other Total Income Expenditure on: Raising funds Charitable activities Total Expenditure Net (expenditure) / income Net movement in funds Reconciliation of funds Total fund brought forward Total fund balances at end of year |
Unrestricted Total SMC Other Funds Funds £000s £000s £000s £000s 194 - 444 638 - - - - - 84 169 253 41,817 22,710 4,725 69,252 597 - 169 766 - - 54 54 42,608 22,794 5,561 70,963 - - 303 303 16,477 22,872 4,470 43,819 16,477 22,872 4,773 44,122 26,131 (78) 788 26,841 26,131 (78) 788 26,841 41,465 78 4,286 45,829 67,596 - 5,074 72,670 CHARITY 2020 Restricted Funds |
2020 GROUP |
|---|---|---|
| Unrestricted Total SMC Other Funds Funds £000s £000s £000s £000s 194 - 444 638 - - - - - 84 169 253 41,817 22,710 4,725 69,252 597 - 169 766 - - 54 54 Restricted Funds |
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| 42,608 22,794 5,561 70,963 |
||
| - - 303 303 16,477 22,872 4,470 43,819 |
||
| 16,477 22,872 4,773 44,122 |
||
| 26,131 (78) 788 26,841 |
||
| 26,131 (78) 788 26,841 41,465 78 4,286 45,829 |
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| 67,596 - 5,074 72,670 |
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