## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01/01/2024 Period start date To 31/12/2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name:THE ANDREW CLARK TRUST**
## **Charity registration number:1104134**
## **Objectives and Activities**
|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|**Objectives and Activities**|
|---|---|---|
|SORP reference|||
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document
Para 1.17
The charity’s object is to provide free
education healthcare and social welfare to
relieve poverty, contribute to vocational
training and aid the development of the
people of rural Myanmar|||
|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
Providing financial support to enable
children with no funding to receive state
education including material needs,
additional tuition fees and clothing.
Providing English language classes from 3
years of age to adulthood, preschool
facilities for 3-5 year olds, maths classes
for 4-10 year olds, computer classes,
teacher training, music tuition, and social
welfare for children in need.|||
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All trustees have regard to this guidance|
**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|
||Para 1.38|
|Contribution made by||
|volunteers||
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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SORP reference
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
|---|---|---|
|SORP reference|||
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|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|In the face of continued conflict in the
region including forced displacement of the
population and resulting extreme hardship
and food shortages, the trust has continued
to provide education and maintain its
objectives. The provision of social and food
aid has been increased considerably.|
## **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|The trust has enjoyed continued
considerable support via its donor and
sponsorship programmes|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The policy of maintaining strong reserves
continues to protect our future plans in a
politically unstable region|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£206,544**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|NONE|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|
Pupil sponsorship and donations|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed|
|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|Election of trustees and re-election of
officers 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|Mandatory ICPC check for any prospective
trustee|
|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||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name The Andrew Clark Trust
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number 1104134
Charity’s principal address Courts Cottage, Acrise, Kent CT188LJ, UK
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Robert Howell Chair
2 Patricia Wilkinson Administration officer
3 Susan Ozturk
4 Sahin Ozturk
5 William Hamilton
6 Steven Clark
7 Geoffrey Eggleton
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– 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||
|---|---|
||Robert Allen Howell|
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Chair|
||23.07.2025|
||23.07.2025|
## **Andrew Clark Trust**
## **For the year ended 31.12.2024 Receipts & Payments Accounts**
|**Details**
RECEIPTS
Sponsorship & donors
HMRC gift aid
Other & myanmar
Capital introduced
**subtotal**
asset Sales
**Total receipts**
**PAYMENTS**
School & tuition fees
Healthcare & food costs
Wages
Charitable activities
Other & website
subtotal
Assets & Investments
**Total payments**
**Net Receipts**
cash funds from last year end
cash funds from this year end|**Unrestricted Restricted Total funds**
**Total funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**2024**
**2023**
£59,144
£59,144
£62,333
£0
£0
£7,317
£0
£0
£0
£0
£0
£0
**£59,144**
**£0**
**£59,144**
**£69,650**
£59,144
£0
£59,144
£69,650
£4,100
£0
£4,100
£7,041
£6,495
£0
£6,495
£7,348
£20,676
£0
£20,676
£29,998
£15,729
£0
£15,729
£1,340
£3,313
£0
£3,313
£960
£50,313
£0
£50,313
£46,687
£0
£0
£0
£0
**£50,313**
**£0**
**£50,313**
**£46,687**
**£8,831**
**£0**
**£8,831**
**£22,963**
£197,713
£0
£197,713
£174,750
£206,544
£0
£206,544
£197,713|
|---|---|
**Statement of Assets & liabilities As at the 31.12.2024**
|**As at the 31.12.2024**||
|---|---|
|Bank Account 1|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
£193,723|
|Bank Account 2|£12,821|
|**closing balance**|**£206,544**|
**Approved and signed on behalf of all the trustees**
**Signature**
**Print name date** ROBERT HOWELL 23.07.2025
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the trustees of The Andrew Clark Trust Charity no. 1104134.**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31 December 2024.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Charitable Trust ’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
- (1) I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention which in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records.
- (2) I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Chaweevan Williams FCCA**
Date: 24 July 2025
Chartered Certified Accountant Verdant Accountants Limited 20-22 Wenlock Road London N1 7GU
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