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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Section A Reference and administration details Charity name Kairos Media Trust ~~—————~~ Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1105476 ~~oS~~ Charity's principal address P.O.Box 8 Cheadle Cheshire Postcode SK8 1DS ~~———~~ Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) Chairman 1[Mr Christopher ] Papworth 2 ~~——~~ Rev Nicholas Hall Secretary 3 Rev Gillian Hall Mr Peter 4 Cottingham 5 ~~a~~ Mr Jon Hargreaves 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year ~~—~~

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the
charity set out in its
governing document
Summary of the main
activities undertaken for the
public benefit in relation to
these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)
Additional details of objectives		 To advance a wider knowledge and understanding of the Christian faith,
and Christian moral values, particularly, but not exclusively, by way of the
production and distribution of Christian media (TV programmes, DVDs,
Internet material).
The Trustees are aware of the need to demonstrate public benefit
and in every area of our activity can confirm with confidence that
this is happening. The Trustees confirm that they comply with the
requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and insofar as they are
appropriate, to accounting standard FRS102.
We raise funds to facilitate wide-scale distribution of culturally
suitable media content which aims to meet the physical, emotional
and spiritual needs of all, irrespective of religious or ethnic
affiliations. We prioritise the provision of resources for vulnerable
women and children in Central Asia and more widely.
Additionally, we facilitate the free distribution of all our materials in
various languages for communities in Central Asia and more widely.
We assist local Church and community leaders in their use of the
electronic media to present relevant guidance and inspiration to
their communities.
We commission local producers to make specific programmes
relevant to social issues in Central Asia, especially in the areas of
domestic violence, forced prostitution and other significant needs.
We fulfil a modest advocacy role in Britain for the needs of Christian
and other minority groups in the region.
We oversee training projects to equip local people in media
production skills particularly within the “free-to-air” context.
The trustees occasionally make discretionary grants to agencies
helping people recover from the effects of domestic violence or
exploitation.
and activities (Optional information)

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Kairos has maintained good working relationships with a variety of local, skilled professionals in various countries within Central Asia. We depend highly upon and greatly value their contribution at all stages of the production process.

During 2024, we continued to be involved with culturally-relevant films and social media products in various local languages of the region and beyond. As well as high quality cartoons for children (a frequent request from local friends) we continued to produce material that tackled difficult and challenging societal issues (e.g. domestic violence and trafficking).

Our volunteers continued to practise modest advocacy for the needs of Christian and other minority groups in the region..

We have continued to tailor our material for the needs of the deaf community. To this end, we have produced ‘parallel versions’ of many of our materials with the addition of a signer. The programmes are signed in standard Russian sign language. This has opened up access to the programmes to those with hearing loss across the entire Russian speaking world.

Our religious materials have been selected on the basis of their cultural suitability, and are helping to raise awareness of, and tolerance towards religious minorities within the region. The spiritual and moral values of our material are welcomed among people who are anxious about the effect of radicalisation among their children.

The related issues of domestic abuse of women and children, slavery and trafficking strongly inform our strategy as we move forward. The film “Mahabbat” (our own production) is being welcomed as a good way to raise the issues and develop strategies. We continue to dub this into other languages, including those outside the Central Asian countries.

During the year we have developed several small but effective ‘Social Media Ministry’ (SMM) projects which have increased awareness and distribution of our materials. They have also fostered a willingness for online discussion about the issues raised.

We have continued to support and promote the ‘Arise!’ ministry among women leaders from Central Asia and beyond. We were successful in raising sponsorship to enable more regional women to attend the conferences.

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Section E Financial review

The Trust seeks to operate with sufficient reserves to maintain its Brief statement of the operations for three months ahead. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially None in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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		 Christopher Papworth Nicholas Hall
Christopher Papworth Nicholas Hall
Chairman Secretary
10thOctober 2024

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Kairos Media Trust
1105476
CC16a
Receipts andpayments accounts
Period start date
To
Period end date
24-Dec-23
23-Dec-24
For the period
from
~~a~~
Section A Receipts and payments
Total funds
Last year
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations
42,937
-
-
42,937
27,651
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
-_-
-
-
-
-
42,937
-
-
42,937
27,651
- _-
- _-
- _-
-
-_-
-_-
-_-
-
-_-
Sub total - _-
- _-
- _-
-
- _-
Total receipts 42,937
-_-
-_-
42,937
27,651
Sub total(Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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A3 Payments
Overseas partners
31,113
-
-
31,113
31,270
Travel expenses
2,627
-
-
2,627
1,144
Promotion
60
-
-
60
2,369
Admin/Office expenses
2,550
-
-
2,550
2,353
Phone/postage
60
-
-
60
329
Media development
-_-
-
-
-
-
UK Staff costs
-_-
-
-
-
-_-
-_-
-
-
-
-_-
-_-
-
-
-
-_-
Sub total 36,410
-
-
36,410
37,465
~~=aaee==~~
Misc capital items
1,093
-_-
-_-
1,093
747
-_-
-_-
-_-
-
-_-
Sub total 1,093
-_-
-_-
1,093
747
-
Total payments 37,503
-_-
-_-
37,503
38,212
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
~~——————~~
Net of receipts/(payments) 5,434
-
-
5,434
- 19,846
A5 Transfers between funds
-_-
-
-
-
A6 Cash funds last year end
35,129
-
35,129
45,960
Cash funds this year end 40,563
-
-
40,563
35,129
-
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B5 Liabilities
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees		 Details
General funds
Project-designated funds
Details
Details
Details
Details
Signature
C.J.Papworth
N.C.Hall
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 to nearest £
Unrestricted
funds		 to nearest £
Unrestricted
funds
35,129 -
-
- -
40,563 -
OK
to nearest £
Unrestricted
funds
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
Fund to which
asset belongs
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
Fund to which
liability relates
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-
-
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-
C.J.Papworth Christopher Papworth
N.C.Hall Nicholas Hall

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of ~~a~~ On accounts for the year Charity no ended (if any) ~~Pe~~ Set out on pages (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) ~~pO~~ Respective The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year responsibilities of (under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act),as amended by s.28 trustees and examiner of the Charities Act 2006) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given examiner’s statement by the 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 I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.

Independent In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other examiner's statement than that disclosed below *)

  1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the trustees have not met the requirements to ensure that:

  2. proper accounting records are kept (in accordance with section 41 of the Act); and

  3. accounts are prepared which agree with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Act; or

  4. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

  5. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): ~~a~~ Address:

IER

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

IER

April 2007

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