## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] October 2023 Period start date To 30[th] September 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: SalGO Assist** ## **Charity registration number: 1101811** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To support the charitable work of Salem**
**Gospel Outreach in Education & Rural**
**Care Organisation in Andhra Pradesh, S.**
**India. **| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Maintain two Children’s Homes, one for**
**boys and one for girls; provide**
**educational grants to poor students;**
**support for widows; support for**
**HIV/Aids families; support for poor**
**families; support for elderly men;**
**support for 6 teachers; respond to**
**emergencies.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the charity**
**commission on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers help with fundraising events**
**alongside the trustees.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**All projects – two Children’s Homes,**
**support for widow’s, poor families’**
**support enabling the children to remain**
**in school, educational grants to poor**
**students, help for HIV/Aid+ families, and**
**teacher’s salaries in two Tuition Centres**
**- have been maintained.**
**We have continued to support the**
**children in the two Homes. We have**
**paid for the education costs of three**
**unsponsored boys within the Home and**
**those of two girls waiting to join the**
**Girls Home.**
**£1000 Emergency Aid was sent**
**following the Michaung Cyclone, to feed**
**families who had lost their homes and**
**were unable to work.**
**We have sent money for 7 permanent**
**mosquito window screens to protect the**
**children from Mosquito borne diseases.**
**Money was also raised to upgrade the**
**computer and provide a TV for the Boys**
**Home.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We started the year bolstered by**
**substantial donations from companies, and**
**fundraising efforts from individuals. This**
**enabled us to meet all our commitments**
**and support****_all_ the students requesting**
**help with their educational fees. Costs have**
**gone up in India, so money sent per child**
**was increased. The children’s sponsors**
**were asked to increase their giving if they**
**were able, to cover the additional amounts**
**we are sending. **| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**SalGO Assist reserves are sufficient to**
**enable the Children’s Homes to continue**
**for 6 months and their Education to**
**continue for 3 months, to enable the**
**beneficiaries time to make alternative**
**arrangements, should problems arise.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Children’s Homes £6000 & Education £3000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The ability to raise sufficient funds to meet**
**project needs continues to be a concern.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Sponsorship of children in care and widows**
**are fully funded by regular income whereas**
**other projects are partially funded. The**
**partially funded projects are supplemented by**
**our events and appeals during the year.**
**These include stalls with tombola’s &**
**tabletop sales, etc. Less income was**
**generated from these this year. Gift Aid**
**received from sponsorship and donations is**
**collected twice a year.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Maintaining enough funds to support**
**projects without additional fundraising**
**events or donations going forward will be**
**difficult.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**By election at AGM**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**The trustees are developing new**
**policies and updating existing ones**
**throughout the year.**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**Donation matching with Cisco is now**
**administrated by Benevity. Donations**
**from other companies have come in via**
**CAFA.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**SalGO Assist**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|**1101811**| |Charity’s principal address|**33, King Street Lane,**
**Winnersh,**
**Wokingham,**
**Berks,**
**RG415AX**| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Denise Wardale|Chairman||| ||Peter Langdown|Treasurer||| ||Alan Hall|Secretary||| ||Clifford Smith|||| ||Anne Warner|||| ||Sue Barrett|||| ||Debbie Brunt|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Denise Wardale **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** ~~|~~ **Date** 21.06.2025 ~~Po~~ ALGO ASSIST 3alance Sheet- 30th September 2024 Sep-23 Current Assera Barclays Bank Community Account 23.448 Total Net Assets 23,448 21,498 Capitsl & Resreves Reserves B/F Surplus for Year 21,491S 1,950 )2.448 23,448 21.498 21,498 Total Capitsl & Reserve5 SALGO ASSIST Income & Expenditure Account For the Year to 30th September 2024 2023 INCOME estricted Education Katchem Old Men's Home Family Support Pro. C.A.F.A. Appikatla Medical Assist Orphanage Children Staff salaries Teachers S31aries Widows with Children Other Restricted Emergencies Note 3 6,422 420 780 5,170 420 Note 4 Note 3 1,111 10,184 150 150 494 930 954 20,483 10,278 150 2.150 479 2,878 Note1&4 Note2&4 24,891 Unrestricted Unrestricted Fund Income Tax refunds Suspense 3,895 4,119 8,074 4,217 8,014 12,290 Total Income 28,496 37,182 EXPENDITURE Restricted Education Katchem Old Men's Home Family Support Pro. Medical Assist Orphanage Children C.A.F.A. Appikatla Staff salaries Teachers Salaries Widows with Children Other Restrirted Emergencies -7,162 420 -2,510 428 -10,249 -595 -817 -1,565 462 -1,268 -1,000 -26,476 -5,605 -420 -2,597 -443 -10,336 -1,223.00 -905 -1,617 -477 -2,775 Note 3 Note I Note 2 -26,398 Non-transfer iterns Rounding Bank overpaid charges Note 5 Overheads (Insurance, printing) Note 6 13 -120 -165 -285 -71 Total Expenditure 26,547 26,683 Surplus for theyear 1,950 10,499 SALGO ASSIST Notes to the Accounts: l- Orphanage Staffing, including Councilling. 2- Orphanage repairs taken from Other Restricted e.g. Toilet block. 3 - International receipts from CAFA changed in September'23 to Benevity and the funds, at Sponsors request, now support Education and not the Appikatla Project. 4- There were no large ' One Off contributions in 2023/24 5 - There was a 8ank Error so a credit in compensation ha5 led to this being Positive. 6- Insurance payments are now paid monthly, hence reduced amount this year: Restricted Education Katchem Old Men's Home Family Support Pro. C.A.F.A. Appikatla Medical Assist Orphanage Children Staff salaries Teachers Salaries -1,176 35 -2,325 5Note3 -1,114 3,367 -1,532 -2,442 435 35 -2,595 600 -2,686 3,432 -2.865 -6,027 Widows with Children Other Restricted Orphanage & Fostering Reserve Education Reserve Emergencies 782 -812 6.000 3,000 46 3,742 750 474 6.000 3,000 1,265 Unrestrirted Unrestricted Fund Bank Charge5 Overheads Suspense Tax refund 15,658 13 Note 5 -84 Note 6 18,831 -120 -165 4,119 19,706 4,217 22,763 Bank Balance £ 23,448 21,498 Accountants statement In connection with my examination no mattter has come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that the requirements.. To keep accounting records in accordance with the relevant sections of the 211 Act & To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirments of the Act have been met. signed Date John Penney I declare in my capacity of charity trustee that.- l. the trustees have approved the report above. and 2. have authorised me to sign on their behalf. P Langdown Treasurer Date 40./21 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees** Charity Name SalGO Assist **On accounts for the year** 30[th] September 2024 **Charity no** 1101811 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/09/2024. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner's statement** **Oct 2018** 1 **IER**