
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From:  06/04/2022   To   05/04/2023** 

**Charity name: Sausage Tree Charity** 

## **Charity registration number: 1102336** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education and welfare of**<br>**children and in particular the provision**<br>**and assisting in the provision of**<br>**education materials, teachers and**<br>**accommodation.**|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**We continued to fund our yearly projects**<br>**which involves paying for termly**<br>**resources - books/pens etc, paying**<br>**teachers salaries and paying for 2**<br>**students to study in tertiary education.**<br>**We also had enough funds to start**<br>**supporting another school - Msoro, and**<br>**continued to renovating a classroom**<br>**block and providing desks and building**<br>**a dormitory for girls boarding. We**<br>**hosted our bi annual party in the park**<br>**which was a huge success and enabled**<br>**us to support the new school - Msoro.**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes the trustees have had regard to the**<br>**guidance issued by the CC on public**<br>**benefit.**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making 



Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**The charity provides educational**<br>**resources to 1 large primary school of**<br>**over 1000 pupils and a secondary school**<br>**with approx 400 students.  It pays for the**<br>**salaries of 6 teachers, 1 librarian and a**<br>**gardener.**<br>**Sponsorship of 1 student through**<br>**tertiary education.**<br>**Provision of desks and materials for**<br>**desks at Msoro Secondary School.**<br>**Funds for the building of a dormitory at**<br>**Msoro Secondary School**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|Achievements against<br>objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||





|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Other|||



## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is in a strong financial**<br>**position was able to host our yearly**<br>**fund-raising event this year. We have**<br>**continued to support 2 schools with**<br>**resources, pay teachers salaries and**<br>**also support with building of desks at**<br>**one secondary school and support with**<br>**building a dormitory at a second school**<br>**Msoro. We are also supporting a student,**<br>**Frank, through tertiary education - he is**<br>**training as a doctor. We supported him**<br>**through school and he managed to get a**<br>**grant to pay for his tuition fees but**<br>**needs support for living costs and**<br>**learning resources.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We need to find approx £18,000 each**<br>**year to keep our annual maintenance**<br>**programme going. It is important to keep**<br>**a float in case of any shortfalls with**<br>**fundraising.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**This year end held £42,364 in reserve.**<br>**We plan to donate part of this towards a**<br>**building project at a secondary school**<br>**which is currently in the planning**<br>**process.**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**Regular fundraisers are usually planned**<br>**for so as no real need for reserves as**<br>**these are tried and tested events.**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||





|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|---|---|---|
|Other|||



## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**trust deed**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Appointed by existing trustees**|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Sausage Tree Charity|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1102336|





||Charity’s principal address<br>Merryview, Merryfield Road, Monkwood, Alresford, Hants<br>SO24 0HE|
|---|---|





## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1 <br>2 <br>3 <br>4 <br>5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee**<br>**(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Lucinda<br>Chignell|Chairperson|||
||Will Chignell|Treasurer|||
||Libby Morrison|Secretary|||
||Kylie Haycock||||
||||||



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<br>held in this capacity|n/a|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the<br>charity on whose behalf the<br>assets are held and how this<br>falls within the custodian<br>charity’s objects|n/a|
|Details of arrangements for<br>safe custody and<br>segregation of such assets<br>from the charity’s own assets|n/a|



## **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)** Lu  Chignell **Full name(s)** Lucinda Chignell 

**Position (eg** Chairperson **Secretary, Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 13th Jan 2023 



||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||||||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date|||
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**29,857**||**-**||**-**||**29,857**||**22,381**|
|ClayShoot 2021|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**22,257**|
|PartyinthePark 2022|**24,474**||**-**||**-**||**24,474**||**5,760**|
|Clay shoot 2023|**725**||**-**||**-**||**725**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|<br>**55,056**||**-**||**-**||**55,056**||**50,398**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|**_Sub total _**|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|<br>**55,056**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**55,056**||**50,398**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Clay Shoot 2021|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**8,364**|
|Insurance|**855**||**-**||**-**||**855**||**730**|
|Bank Charges|**30**||**-**||**-**||**30**||**30**|
|Unfulfilled Auction Promise|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,600**|
|Grants for education resources teachers<br>student building works|**44,385**||**-**||**-**||**44,385**||**7,191**|
|Party in the Park 2022|**15,956**||**-**||**-**||**15,956**||**2,840**|
|Flights to Zambia to see projects|**1,713**||**-**||**-**||**1,713**||**-**|
|clay shoot 2023|**402**||**-**||**-**||**402**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**63,341**||**-**||**-**||**63,341**||**20,755**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**||||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|<br>**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|<br>**63,341**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**63,341**||**20,755**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|**-**<br>**8,285**||**-**||**-**||**-**<br>**8,285**||**29,643**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**50,650**||**-**||**-**||**50,650**||**21,007**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|<br>**42,365**||**-**||**-**||**42,365**||**50,650**|
|||||||||||
|||||||||||
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|



||||||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||||**- 0**|||||**-**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||||**- 0**|||||**-**||||||
|||**_Sub total_ **|||**- 0**||||**- 0**|||||**- 0**|||||**-**||||**- 0**||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||**_Totalpayments_ **||||**63,341**||||**- 0**|||||**- 0**|||||**63,341**||||**20,755**||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||||**-**|**8,285**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|**8,285**||||**29,643**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||||**-0**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||||**50,650**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**50,650**||||**21,007**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|||||**42,365**||||**-**|||||**-**|||||**42,365**||||**50,650**||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|**Section B Statement of assets**|||||**and liabilities at the**|||||||**end of the period**|||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted funds**|||||**Endowment**||
|**Categories**||||**Details**||||||||||**funds**|||||||||**funds**||
|||||||||||||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**||||||||||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||||||||||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||
|||||||||||||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||



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||**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**|**_Total cash funds_**||**42,365**||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))||||OK||||OK|
||||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**<br>**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||||
|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf<br>of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval|
||Lu Chignell||||Lucinda Chignell||||12/01/2023|
|||||||||||



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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Sausage Tree Charity
On accounts for the year
ended
0510412023
Charlty no
{If any)
1102336
Set out on pages
I report to the tru$tee$ on my 8xamination of the accounts of the above
charity {'the Trust") for the year ended 0510412023.
Re8pon8lbllltle8 and As the charity tTUStees of the Trust. you are respon8ible for th8 preparation
basls of roport of the accounts in accordance wth 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 Ihe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Oirections given by the Charity Commission
under section 145151(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no malerial matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination vthich gives me
cause to believe that in, any material respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examlnerf8 Statement
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination lo which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in the brackets rf they do not 8ppIy.
Slgn•d:
Date:
0110212024
Name:
Robert Alistair Sadler FCA
Relevant professlonal
qualification{s) or body
(If anyl:
ICAEW- Chartered Accountant
Addre88:
Robert Sadler & Company Ltd
30B Southgale, Chichester
West Sussex, P019 1DP
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for
examiners}.
IER
October 2018

Give here brief details of
any items thal the
examiner wSshe8 to
disclose.
Nothing to disclose
IER
October 2018

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