## **Devon Development Education REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS**
## **and**
**UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS for the year ending 31st March 2024**
Charities Commission Registration Number: 1102233 Company Registration Number: 04824296
(a company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital)
**Devon Development Education** _at the Global Centre Devon_ **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st March 2024**
## **Contents Page**
|Report of the Trustees|3|
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|Independent Examiner’s report|13|
|Statement of Financial Activities|14|
|Balance Sheet|15|
|Accounting policies|16|
|Notes to the financial statements|17|
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**Devon Development Education** _at the Global Centre Devon_
## **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st March 2024**
The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the unaudited financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Charities Act 2011, the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities issued in March 2005 (‘the Charities SORP 2005’), the Companies Act 2006 and the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective April 2008).
## **Reference and administrative information**
Charity number: 1102233 Company number: 04824296
## **Bankers:**
The Co-operative Bank PO Box 250 Delf House Southway Skelmersdale WN8 6WT
Santander Bridle Road Bootle Merseyside L30 4GB
## **Independent Examiner:**
Exeter Community Accounting Unit 89792 PO Box 7169 Poole BH15 9EL
**Directors and Trustees** The directors of the company are also the charity trustees for the purposes of company law. The trustees at date this report was signed together with any special responsibilities they held were:
Des Kumar – Chair Julian Davey – Vice Chair Carolyn Hallett Chris Sargeant
Sue Kay – Company Secretary
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## **Devon Development Education: Annual Report 2023-24**
## **Overview of the year.**
Another busy year, where we have continued to work at full capacity. It is very pleasing to see requests for Cultural Champion school visit and advice to combat racism increasing, although there is still much more which could be done. Progress on the National Lottery Heritage Fund project ‘Telling Our Stories. Finding Our Roots. Devon’s Multi-Cultural History’ is progressing very well and it’s good to see the re-energising of Food For Thought primary school links with Uganda. ‘Windrush’ continues to challenge our Devon Windrush Group is to be more creative, bringing to the fore all aspects of Caribbean culture. As always shortage of funding, and therefore capacity, is our major weakness, but we are excited that we have successfully recruited some additional trustees to help us achieve more.
## **DDE’s objectives.**
DDE was established to promote, maintain, improve and advance public education, particularly the promotion of global education in Devon. We aim to provide a wide range of global learning opportunities for communities and schools in the South West to increase knowledge and understanding of global issues.
Global education encompasses enabling people:
- To understand the links between their own lives and those of people throughout the world;
- To increase understanding of the economic, social, political and environmental forces which shape our lives;
- To develop skills, attitudes and values which enable people to work together to bring about change and take control of their own lives;
- To work towards achieving a more just and sustainable world in which power and resources are more equitably shared.
## **Structure and organisation.**
The charity is a company limited by guarantee and operates in accordance with the provisions of its Memorandum and Articles of Association. The charity may act only in accordance with its objects and may not trade otherwise.
DDE is managed by a Board of Trustees. Our chairperson, Desmond Kumar, is a member of DDE’s Windrush group who has worked in a range of roles locally, including teaching and the police. Our vice chair, Julian Davey, was a Special Educational Needs advisor for Torbay and is now working for a PhD at the University of Exeter. Our Treasurer, Fiona Readman, is an accountant and former teacher. The following trustees also sat on the Board during 2023-24: Carolyn Hallett is a retired Special Needs Teacher; Sue Kay is a former teacher now working as a researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Three trustees stepped down during the year: Harri Best, Amal Ghusain and Andrew North. We are express our thanks to all three of them for their ideas, energy and commitment to DDE during their time on the Board.
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Fiona Readman is stepping down at the 2024 AGM. The trustees are very grateful for the work Fiona has done to bring our finance systems up to date, to oversee our accounts and to provide timely and useful financial information.
Chris Sargeant, a retired headteacher and long term friend of DDE, was welcomed to the Board in May 2024.
We are very grateful for all the time and support provided by our excellent trustees. We are pleased to have been able to maintain a very strong Board with a wide range of skills and experience. With some trustees departing during the year we are currently recruiting new Board members and we have been pleased by the response to our advertising.
Details of the Board of Trustees for April 2024 - March 2025 are summarised below. For purposes of company law the trustees are directors of the company. New trustees may be appointed by the Board, by ordinary resolution on recommendation of the existing Trustees. Each member has undertaken to contribute up to £1 to the assets of the company in the event of its being wound up with insufficient assets to meet its liabilities.
Desmond Kumar – Chair Julian Davey – Vice Chair Fiona Readman – Treasurer (until July 2024) Carolyn Hallett Sue Kay Chris Sargeant (from May 2024)
The charity trustees have had due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and duties. A statement of the charity’s activities, performance and achievements is given here, followed by our financial report _._
## **Work carried out in the academic year 2023-2024**
## **Schools work.**
## **Cultural Champion School Visits. Diversity and Inclusion work.**
We have seen an increase in requests for Cultural Champion (CC) visits to schools this year. 25 full and half day visits were made, covering a range of topics. For RE, there have been requests for different faiths - Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism. Other issues included Black History, diversity and multi-culturalism, and anti-racism; the last is often in response to an incident, especially in primary schools. One school were concerned that children had said things, used words, sometimes meaning them as jokes. The school invited CCs in to enable pupils to have a better understanding of their words and actions.
We produced a new publicity leaflet to explain the range of diversity and anti-racism training which we offer. Wendy has emailed this out to schools each half term and it has generated enquiries – but sadly some schools do not have the funding to book a session with us.
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Sandhya and the CC team have also run ‘Celebrating Diversity Impact Days’ taking 5 trainers to work with a whole school year. These have been very successful in Torquay Girls Grammar, West Exe School and Ilfracombe Junior School.
## **Youth Cultural Champions** .
Sadly, this year, we have had no grant funding to train Youth Cultural Champions (YCCs). However, there was a small grant, co-funded by the school, to respond to a request from the YCCs in Okehampton School to provide an opportunity for their friends, and later their parents, to find out about the training YCCs had received.
We also had a small grant from the Grocers’ Fund to run a YCCs Networking and Leadership Conference (in March), working with students before and after, to help them gain full benefit from the conference. To highlight the successes achieved in Exeter and Devon by people from diverse backgrounds, we invited five local leaders to speak to the students: Bindhu Arjoon (CEO of Exeter City Council, of Guyanese heritage), Krish Madray, also of Guyanese heritage, Kalkidan Legesse of Ethiopian heritage, Agnieszka Szpinda, of Polish heritage, and Somin Griffin-Dave of Indian heritage. Some YCCs also gave presentations about their home countries, including Ukraine and Bulgaria. The students would like to see this conference repeated.
We have received some public recognition for this work. Sandhya presented DDE’s work about the ‘Catalysts’ project at the Emergence Foundation’s summer weekend in Kent last July. We were invited to attend and take part in Exeter Diocese’s ‘Exeter Feast’ event in January, where head teachers, CEOs of Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and governors of MATs were invited. Church of England’s national diversity and inclusion officers took part, and also the only two Devon primary school head teachers whose heritage is not white British.
## **Food For Thought School Linking Programme**
This long-established programme is flourishing in Uganda, but most of the pre-pandemic schools links in UK have not continued – adversely affected by the Covid pandemic, changes to the national curriculum and the ending of all grants for teacher exchange visits through the British Council. However, where the school links continue, teachers and pupils recognise the immense value in having a direct personal connection with pupils and teachers in another country and continent! So we decided we would renew the programme, created a new explanatory leaflet and found funding to employ Angela Redmond, an experienced teacher and food grower, eight hours a week for a year. An important part of her role is to advise and guide schools in planning their gardens and growing their plants.
We have been very pleased with the response so far and hope to engage more schools – perhaps schools are emerging from the shadow of Covid and interested in new initiatives.
Alongside promoting Food For Thought to schools, we decided to fund a visit by two colleagues from Uganda, Bernadette Aketch Olokojo, head teacher of Rock View Primary school, in Tororo town, and Godfrey Kisakye, FFT co-ordinator for Mubende and Kassanda and a successful organic farmer in his own right. Sadly, and incomprehensibly, Bernadette was not given a visa so could not come – we will reapply next spring or summer. Godfrey’s application was successful and he visited us from 1[st] -18[th] June 2024.
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A main part of Godfrey’s visit was to participate in the three pupil conferences we organised – in Cornwall, Devon and Plymouth. Altogether, 12 primary schools attended those conferences and Godfrey worked with another three schools. He also took part in a workshop with a special school at Shillingford Organic Farm School. Angela worked with Godfrey to make bag gardens, so all these schools now have a growing connection to Godfrey and their link schools. Godfrey also enjoyed visiting the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show and two farms, paddling in the sea and being a tourist in London.
## **Community education, events and meetings.**
**Telling Our Stories. Finding Our Roots. Devon’s Multi-Cultural History – in Honiton and Ilfracombe,** funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund **.**
This project is progressing very well and has now passed half way. The team of four (Hilda and Judy based in Exeter, Jess in Honiton and Abi in Ilfracombe) work very well together; Jess and Abi have created two close-knit groups of volunteer community researchers in the two towns. Major parts of the project have been completed, including recruiting the researchers and volunteers; training them in archival research, in conjunction with the Devon Heritage Centre; then carrying out the research and finding the stories. Next came training in oral history interviewing techniques so that interviews can be carried out with identified people. Interviews have to be transcribed and from these and the stories, key points and stories have to be identified to form part of the walking-tour booklets and the exhibitions. One exhibition will be held in the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, and one in Ilfracombe Museum both in October/November. Public events to tell these stories are also planned for the autumn.
Many fascinating stories have been found. In Honiton, staff and volunteers have found Roman history, American GIs stories, the story of Indian ayahs (nannies) and Spanish refugees – plus the story of the Ugandan Asians transit camps in the town in 1972.
In Ilfracombe: the story of the sinking of the ‘London’ ship in horrific weather in 1796, with the loss of almost 100 lives, still intrigues researchers. There's also the story of George Klee, a German musician born in 1851, who travelled to the UK to perform with his Brass and String band. He married a Barnstaple woman (Hannah Clark) in 1880, moved to Ilfracombe by 1881 and became a professor of music. And Thornton Thomas, a half-Jamaican football player, who played for the Ilfracombe team through the 1930s - evidently he was very talented judging by the glowing praise from a lot of the press at the time!
Hilda’s special skills and experience are in communication. The increase in ‘traffic’ to the social media sites are proof of her success. Hilda has also successfully engaged BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall to record stories from the project. Many magazines have featured the project, including a major 4-page spread in July’s ‘Devon Life’.
Schools have also been involved and schools’ teaching resources are another piece of work to be done in due course. Dr Donna Poade, from Falmouth University is carrying out an evaluation of the project. The project has benefitted from the great interest and support offered by many colleagues, including those involved in the two earlier ‘Telling Our Stories’ projects. We anticipate the findings will be useful for a variety of different groups and in many different ways for several years into the future.
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## **Celebrating Windrush in Devon in 2023 and 2024** .
Windrush celebrations focus on National Windrush Day, 22[nd] June, each year and then grantfunded events can continue until the end of August.
In 2023, the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush ship, we held our celebrations in Exeter’s museum on 22[nd] June and then organised a very popular ‘Front Room’, taking over a show room in central Exeter for 2 weeks, furnishing it resemble a 1950s Caribbean family’s Front Room. People enjoyed coming in, reading the exhibitions, sitting down and discussing what happened before and more recently. We also held evening presentations. A very successful venture.
The final event was the Caribbean Cricket Festival at Exmouth Cricket Club, with guests West Indies United Cricket Club from London.
For 2024, we applied again for a grant and once again we were successful. We have five main activities: Devon Windrush flag-raising at County Hall on Friday 21[st] June and the ‘Library Lates: Windrush’ evening on 22[nd] June, in Exeter Central Library, attended by 220 people of all ages. We had live music, craft activities, dramatic performances, video screening of our ‘Not Just Rice and Peas’ food stories, dominoes, exhibitions - and discussion about our new exhibition. This was a very successful event.
The new exhibition is called ‘From Indentureship to Windrush: Voices of the Indo-Caribbean Windrush Generation’ and includes the family stories of five members of the Windrush group who all have Indian heritage (and one also Chinese heritage).
Our fourth activity is training young people to be Youth Ambassadors. This is underway, with one young person giving a presentation at the Library Lates.
Finally, on Sunday 11[th] August, Exmouth Cricket Club will host our second Caribbean Cricket Festival, with the return of the United West Indies Cricket Club. They hope to be taking home the trophies this year. Children’s, women’s and men’s games are planned - plus, music, food, dancing, activities, discussions and much more.
## **Fairtrade Devon** .
DDE continues to convene zoom meetings of Devon’s 13 Fairtrade towns, but also inviting other Fairtrade groups across the south-west to join if they wish. Sue Errington represents the South West on the National Campaigns’ Committee.
We were delighted to welcome Michael Gidney, the CEO of the Fairtrade Foundation to visit us, as Fairtrade Devon, on 21[st] and 22[nd] November. He came to see how we operate as a Fairtrade County. We organised a busy programme, including a meeting with the Leader of Devon County Council (DCC is our sponsoring council); a breakfast meeting with/at Owen’s Fairtrade Organic Coffee Roastery in Ivybridge; a zoom meeting with the whole group for us to ask Mike questions; a schools’ conference in Exmouth; lunches in Exeter’s Guildhall and Honiton’s Heron Farm.
2024 is the 30[th] anniversary of the creation of the Fairtrade Foundation and the Fairtrade Mark. The Foundation decided to move Fairtrade Fortnight from February-March to September this year. This has caused confusion for schools, where Fairtrade is written into their curriculum for
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February/March. We consulted schools and we may keep to the February/March dates in future. For this year we ran just one Fairtrade Schools Conference in Chudleigh.
Given the confusion over dates for Fairtrade Fortnight, we did not invite producers to come to Devon this year. However we are planning a Fairtrade conference (for adults) on 14[th] September to mark the 30[th] Anniversary and we will have a Kenyan Fairtrade tea grower as our guest speaker.
## **Community programme** .
Wendy, Sue K and Sue E continue to pull together a termly programme. The regular events are: Book Clubs on zoom in Exeter and live/hybrid in Plymouth; World At Lunch on a Thursday 1- 2pm on zoom, including participants in Jamaica and North America; Gown Meets Town, when university staff explain their research; Globe Trotters social evenings; plus the Summer Party, new Social Evenings and other occasional events.
We continue to highlight climate change and were delighted to hear from Baroness Kate Parminter, Chair of the House of Lords Climate and Environment Select Committee (June 2023), on how the government could change human behaviour, to achieve net zero by 2030. James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University, gave us an update on COP28 held in Egypt in November 2023.
We had Globe Trotters back from Bali, Uganda and Sri Lanka. Andrew Bell explained his great grandfather’s connections with Sri Lanka and his Archaeological Survey of Ceylon (as the country was then named). We always have a significant presence at the Exeter Respect Festival (June) and a small stall and speaker at the International Women’s Day (March) event in the Phoenix.
## **Devon Diversity Consultants.**
This consultants’ group was set up to work with companies, organisations and community groups requesting advice and support with diversity and inclusion issues. Led by Sandhya, their work has been quite limited this year, with one member leaving the group and others very busy with other work commitments. However, it remains available to work on diversity issues if requested.
## **Legacies of Devon Slave Ownership Group.**
This is a small informal group of researchers operating under the umbrella of Devon Development Education at Exeter Community Centre. They are interested in investigating the historic links between Devon and transatlantic slavery. Their work is here on the DDE website https://www.globalcentredevon.org.uk/project_type/ldsg/
## **Staffing**
During the past year, DDE has continued to have a mixture of paid and unpaid staff.
- Unpaid staff continued to cover the main administrative roles, including website updating, emailing, book-keeping, community programme development and publicity.
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These included **Wendy Milne, Carolyn Hallett (as bookkeeper), Sue Errington, Mark Errington (IT).** We are very grateful to them: their contribution is essential for enabling the work of DDE to continue and flourish.
- **Sandhya Dave** continues to work as the Cultural Champions Co-ordinator. and as a Diversity Consultant. Sandhya also works on other projects, including Devon Diversity Consultancy, and co-facilitates the Windrush gatherings with Sue and Wendy.
- **Ghee Bowman** assists Sandhya with Celebrating Diversity Impact Days and is a member of the Telling Our Stories Advisory Group.
- **Victoria Everett** works for DDE as Administrative Officer, working three mornings a week and her work is very much appreciated.
- To run the Telling Our Stories Project, we appointed **Hilda Kalap** , as Co-ordinator, **Judy Smith** , as Project Admin Assistant, **Jess Huffman** , as Community Heritage Officer in Honiton and **Abi Obene** as Community Heritage Officer in Ilfracombe.
- **Angela Redmond** has been appointed as the Food For Thought School Gardens Partnership Officer, 8 hours a week, initially for 12 months
- The **Cultural Champions** continue to work on a sessional basis.
- **Alison Derrick** works with Sue Errington, planning the schools workshops for Fairtrade Fortnight and delivering them. She also works on Food For Thought School Linking.
- **Sue Errington** is acting as Coordinator and also works on Fairtrade Devon, the Food For Thought School Linking Programme with Uganda and Community Programme.
- **The Devon Windrush Group** continues to meet regularly to plan and deliver the Windrush projects. Key members are Anne and Krish Madray, Faye Doris, Nadia Gorton, Ricky Croal, Desmond Kumar, David Samuels, Lucy MacKeith. The work is coordinated by Sue Errington, Sandhya Dave and Wendy Milne. (as mentioned above)
- We also appreciate the on-going encouragement and help offered by our regular participants, **Angela Samuel** , **Gill Allen** , **Peter Wingfield-Digby, Lucy MacKeith, Di Cooper, Hilary Noakes, Peter Nickol, Peter Harding and many more.**
**DDE Strategic Plan, funding and grants.** We continue to focus on our key areas: diversity, anti-racism and multi-cultural understanding; also wider issues of global understanding and equity, including climate justice. We will continue to work in school settings as well as the community.
We hold workshops with staff and trustees to plan for the future, most recently in February 2024 with a focus on fundraising.
In April 2023, we were awarded a National Lottery Heritage grant of £100,000 for the 3[rd] version of our ‘Telling Our Stories’ project. We were pleased to work with Laurel Miller on this application. Laurel worked as the Okehampton Community Heritage Co-ordinator on the 2[nd] project.
In April we also were successful with a Windrush 75 grant of £19,000, from the Government Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Awards For All have now awarded us £9,900 to work on the Caribbean Cricket Festival, which was not part of the government grant.
The Grocers Trust has awarded us £5000 to run a conference in the autumn, bringing together YCCs from the various schools where we have worked.
We have been working on two major, grant-funded projects. One is ‘Telling Our Stories’, funded by a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It started in July 2023 and runs until
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December 2024. It has been very successful. The second is a Windrush Grant to celebrate, commemorate and educate people in Devon about the contributions made to our county and the South West by people of Caribbean heritage. This is funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
An important source of on-going funding is the monthly or annual donations from our friends and supporters. We have also been fortunate to receive some larger donations from generous supporters which have enabled other projects to continue. We are very grateful for this support.
**Trustee appointment and induction.** We are always pleased to find potential new trustees, and we recruit by a mixture of advertising and word of mouth. Prospective trustees hold discussions with the Chair and Coordinator and are invited to attend a Board meeting as observers. Once agreement had been reached among the existing trustees, their appointment can be confirmed at the following Board meeting, in accordance with our Memorandum and Articles. A character reference is taken up for prospective trustees not already known to us. All new trustees are provided with information to familiarise them with the charity’s work, its structure and its governance.
**Summary of work done to promote the charity’s purposes for the public benefit.** As detailed above, Devon Development Education has undertaken a wide range of educational work. We have worked with schools and in the wider community across Devon, Plymouth and Torbay to raise awareness and understanding of lives in other cultures and other parts of the world, through both formal and informal education. Our work has enabled:
- school students to meet Devon residents from different faiths and cultural backgrounds.
- schools in the Food for Thought programme to work with a farmer trainer from Uganda.
- people in Honiton and Ilfracombe to share stories and uncover their diverse history.
- Devon residents to learn about the enduring contribution of the Windrush generation and other people from the Caribbean to life in the UK today.
These and all the other activities of DDE encourage people to reflect on the connections between their own lives and those of others around the world.
## **Conclusion**
Devon Development Education had a bustling year in 2023-24 with various impactful projects and initiatives. The charity's work on promoting global education in Devon highlighted the importance of understanding and addressing global issues. Despite the successes, challenges like funding shortages persist, limiting the charity's capacity for further growth.
One key project, 'Telling Our Stories. Finding Our Roots. Devon’s Multi-Cultural History', funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made significant progress. The project aimed to uncover and share diverse stories within communities, shedding light on multi-cultural history. The engagement with schools, community events, and partnerships with local leaders showcased a commitment to fostering understanding and inclusivity.
The Cultural Champion School Visits and Youth Cultural Champions programmes also played a crucial role in promoting diversity and combating racism. Despite funding constraints, the dedication to providing impactful sessions and conferences for youth is commendable.
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The Food For Thought School Linking Programme, while facing challenges due to the pandemic, continued its efforts to connect schools in the UK with those in Uganda, emphasizing the value of global connections in education.
Devon Development Education's involvement in Fairtrade initiatives, community events, and ongoing projects like the Legacies of Devon Slaver Ownership Group indicates a holistic approach towards promoting diversity, equity, and global understanding.
Overall, the charity's dedication to its objectives, despite challenges, reflects a strong commitment to fostering a more just and sustainable world. Through a mix of educational programs, community engagement, and impactful projects, Devon Development Education continues to make a positive impact on promoting global education and cultural awareness in the region.
## **Responsibilities of the board of trustees in relation to the financial statements**
The trustees (who are the directors of Devon Development Education for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the trustees’ 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 the trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). 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 surplus or deficit of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements the trustees are required to
- Select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently,
- Observe the methods and principles in the charities SORP,
- Make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent,
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.
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 the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the board of trustees on 8 July 2024 and signed on their behalf by
Mr D Kumar
Chair
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
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## **Report to the trustees/ Devon Development Education members of** ~~a~~ **On accounts for the year 31[st] March 2024 Charity no 1102233 ended (if any)** ~~reee~~ **Set out on pages 1 Respective responsibilities** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The **of trustees and examiner** charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
- **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the **examiner’s statement** Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
- **Independent examiner's** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention which gives **statement** me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
- have not been met.
**Date:** 30/09/2024 **Signed:** ~~—~~ **Name:** Veronica Mathieson ~~OO~~ **Relevant professional** Exeter Community Accounting **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Exeter Community Accounting, 48 Willeys Avenue, Exeter EX2 8EP ~~OO~~
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## Devon Development Education Statement of Financial Activities
## Incorporating the Summary of Income & Expenditure Account and Statement of Recognised Gains and Losses For the Year Ended 31st March 2024
|Notes
Incoming Resources
Grants Receivable
2.1
Donations
2.2
Miscellaneous
2.4
Sales & Services
2.3
Investment income - bank interest
2.4
Total Incoming Resources
Charitable Activites
Global Dimension for Schools
Informal Community Education
Governance Costs
3
Total Expenditure
Net incoming resources/expenditure before transfers
9.1
Transfers between funds
Net movement in funds
Reconcilliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward|Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
£
£
-
75,660
9,719
21,805
90
784
200
16,604
9
-
10,018
114,853
-
45,168
19,332
66,967
346
-
19,677
112,135
(9,659)
2,718
3,143
(3,143)
(6,515)
(426)
14,604
55,168
8,089
54,742
2024|Total Funds
Total Funds
2024
2023
£
£
75,660
15,636
31,524
30,633
874
754
16,804
27,305
9
1
124,871
74,329
45,168
51,599
86,299
42,804
346
830
131,812
95,233
(6,941)
(21,796)
-
-
(6,941)
(21,796)
69,772
91,568
62,830
69,772|
|---|---|---|
The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derived from continuing activities.
The notes attached form part of these accounts
Company Registration number: 04824296 Charities Commission Registration number: 1102233
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## Devon Development Education Balance Sheet
## For the Year Ended 31st March 2024
|||Notes||2024|2023|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Current Assets||||||
||Trade Debtors & Accrued Income|Trade Debtors & Accrued Income|6|2,320|11,177|
||Cash At Bank & In Hand||7|79,201|58,661|
|Creditors||||81,521|69,838|
|Net Current Assets|Liabilities Falling Due Within One Year||8|(18,691)|(66)|
|||||62,830|69,772|
|Net Assets||||||
|||||62,830|69,772|
|The Funds of the Charity||||||
||Restricted Funds|||||
||General|||||
||Total Charity Funds|||54,742|55,168|
|||||8,089|14,604|
|For the financial year ended 31 March 2024, the charity was entitled to|For the financial year ended 31 March 2024, the charity was entitled to|For the financial year ended 31 March 2024, the charity was entitled to||62,830|69,772|
For the financial year ended 31 March 2024, the charity was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charity to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with section 476.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime and with the Financial Reporting
Approved by the board of trustees on 27[th] November 2024 and signed on their behalf by:
D Kumar Chair of Trustees DDE
**Devon Development Education** _at the Global Centre Devon_ **Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31st March 2024**
## **Statement of Accounting policies**
## **Legal Status of the charity**
The charity is a company limited by guarantee and has no share capital. The liability of each member in the event of winding up is limited to £1.
## **1. 1 Basis of preparation**
The financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis. The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the entity.
## **1.2 Going concern**
There are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.
## **1.3 Reserves**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees to further any of the charity's purposes. Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular future project or commitment.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure declared by the donor or through the terms of an appeal. These are maintained in specific project classes and allocated against budgeted spending.
## **1 A Incoming resources**
All income is included in the statement of financial activities when entitlement has passed to the charity, it is probable that the economic benefits associated with the transaction will flow to the charity and the amount can be reliably measured. The following specific policies are applied to particular categories of income:
- income from donations or grants is recognised when there is evidence of entitlement to
- the gift, receipt is probable and its amount can be measured reliably.
- legacy income is recognised when receipt is probable and entitlement is established.
- income from the rendering of services is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract. The stage of completion of a contract is measured by comparing the costs incurred for work performed to date to the total estimated contract costs. Turnover is only recognised to the extent of recoverable expenses when the outcome of a contract cannot be estimated reliably. .
## **1.5 Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be fully recovered, and is classified under headings of the statement of financial activities to which it relates:
- expenditure on raising funds includes the costs of all fundraising activities, events,
- non-charitable trading activities, and the sale of donated goods.
- expenditure on charitable activities includes all costs incurred by a charity in undertaking activities that further its charitable aims for the benefit of its beneficiaries, including those support costs and costs relating to the governance of the charity apportioned to charitable activities.
- other expenditure includes all expenditure that is neither related to raising funds for the charity nor part of its expenditure on charitable activities.
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## Devon Development Education Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31st March 2024
|2
**Analysis Of Income**
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted Funds
£
£
**Voluntary Income**
**Grants Receivable**
2.1
Global Dimension For Schools
-
7,000
Informal Community Education
-
68,660
-
75,660
2.2
**Donations**
Global Dimension For Schools
-
18,019
Informal Community Education
9,719
3,786
9,719
21,805
2.3
**Sales & Services**
Global Dimension For Schools
-
10,714
Informal Community Education
200
5,690
200
16,404
2.4
**Summary of Incoming Resources**
Global
Dimensions For
Schools
Informal
Community
Education
£
£
Grants Receivable
7,000.00
68,660
Donations
18,019
13,506
Miscellaneous Income
770
104
Sales and Services
10,714
5,890
Bank Interest
9
-
36,512
88,159
3
**Governance**
2024
2023
£
£
Meeting costs
-
817
Accountancy etc
346
13
346
830
2024|Total Funds
Total Funds
2024
2023
£
£
7,000.00
0
68,660
15,636
75,660
15,636
18,019
19,420
13,506
11,212
31,524
30,633
10,714
20,844
5,890
6,461
16,604
27,305
Total 2024
Total 2023
£
£
75,660
15,636
31,524
30,633
874
754
16,604
27,305
9
1
124,671
74,328|
|---|---|
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## **Devon Development Education Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31st March 2024**
## 4 **Transactions with trustees and connected parties**
During the year none of the trustees nor any connected parties received renumeration directly or indirectly from the charity
## 5 **Staff costs & numbers**
|Total staff costs were as follows:
Salaries
Staff Pension|2024
2023
£
£
45,704
19,407
195
121.00
45,899
19,528|
|---|---|
No employee was paid over £60,000 Renumeration paid to trustees during the year was £Nil (2023: £Nil)
The average number of staff (headcount) employed during each year were
|Project activities
Management & Administration
All staff are part time
**6**
**Debtors & Prepayments**
Debtors
Prepayments
**7**
**Cash at band & in hand**
Santander deposit account
Co-op current account
**8**
**Creditors**
Creditors
Other Creditors
Deferred revenue|2024
2023
4
1
1
1
5
2
2024
2023
£
£
2,320
11,177
-
-
2,320
11,177
2024
2023
£
£
2,866
2,847
76,335
55,814
79,201
58,661
2024
2023
£
£
7,461
66
1,230
-
10,000
-
18,691
66|
|---|---|
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## Devon Development Education Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31st March 2024
|**9.1**
**Restricted funds**
Black Lives Matter (BLM)
Coordinator CC
Cultural Champions
Emergence Foundation / Catalysts
Fairtrade Devon
Food for Thought
LDSG/RAMM
New Build Uganda
TOSFOR Devon
Windrush Project
DDE community programme|**Balance at End**
**of Period**
**31/3/2023**
Incoming Resources
Resources
Expended
Transfers
**Balance at End of**
**Period 31/3/2024**
4,798
3,900
(3,886)
4,812
-
(7,271)
7,271
-
7,848
17,263
(21,475)
(1,055)
2,581
1,613
(1,613)
-
2,341
597
(762)
2,176
19,634
19,440
(16,422)
22,652
10,701
600
(827)
10,474
560
560
-
40,000
(34,773)
(5,000)
227
7,673
33,053
(26,600)
(2,866)
11,260
-
(120)
120
-
**55,168**
114,853
(112,135)
(3,144)
**54,742**|
|---|---|
## **9.2 Description of restricted funds 2022-23**
Black Lives Matter (BLM) Coordinator CC
Cultural Champions
Emergence Foundation / Catalysts
## Fairtrade Devon
Food for Thought School Linking Programme
Legacy of Devon Slave Ownership Group
New Build Uganda TOSFOR Devon
Windrush Project
DDE community programme
Funds to work on diversity and ant-racism issues in communities and schools. Co-ordination of requests for DDE Cultural Champion visits.
Devon residents with different nationalities, faiths, cultures, visiting & working with schools.
Project in 2 secondary schools to raise self-confidence of BAME and vulnerable white British students.
Promoting Fairtrade and the Fairtrade Schools Award to schools and communities in Devon.
Linking schools in Devon & Cornwall with schools in Uganda, with a focus on food.
A group of researchers focused on Devon's links with transatlantic slave trade.
An associated project of volunteers which benefits schools in Uganda. Telling Our Stories Devon project funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund.
A project working with Devon residents of Caribbean and Windrush heritage & their impact in South West.
A series of community events to enable discussion of global issues, including World at Lunch, the Global Book Club, Gown Meets Town.
|Retained in the charity
**Analysis of net assets between funds**
Current Assets
Current Liabilities
**Unrestricted Funds**|Balance at start of
period
£
14,604|
Incoming resources
Resources
expended
Transfers
Balance at end of
period
£
£
£
£
10,018
(19,677)
3,144
8,089
Unrestricted Funds
Restricted
Funds
Total Funds
£
£
£
5,865
49,833
55,697
2,224
4,909
7,133
8,089
54,742
62,830|
|---|---|---|
## **Unrestricted Funds 9.2**
## **10 Analysis of net assets between funds**
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