## _“Bringing Hope and Comfort To_
## _Needy Families in Kenya”_
## **ABIGAIL MINISTRIES ANNUAL REPORT Year ended 31[st] Aug 2021**
## **CHARITY NUMBER 1106824**
Registered address: 26, Kingsfield Avenue, North Harrow, Middx. HA2 6AT England, UK Tele: 020 8861 1674 Email abiministries@aol.com Web www.abigailministries.org
Signed Roger Smith 10th June 2022
Chairman of the Trust and on behalf of the Trustees
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## **ABIGAIL MINISTRIES ANNUAL REPORT for the year ended 31[st] Aug 2021**
## **Objects, Status and Trustees of the Charity for the year 2020/2021**
The Trustees have complied with the duty in Section 17 (5) of the 2011 Charities Act to have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in relation to the activities being for the public benefit.
PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVIIES
The charitable objects of the Trust are given below and are taken from the governing document, the Trust Deed, as follows:
- 1) To relieve hardship and distress of persons who live in deprived conditions or need in such parts of the world as the trustees deem appropriate from time to time.
- 2) To promote and achieve these charitable purposes so as to be of benefit to the communities in those parts of the world where the trustees deem appropriate.
- 3) To advance the teaching and understanding of the Christian Religion within the area of benefit.
The activities of the Trust are exclusively charitable and remain fully in accordance with the Deed.
The trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on Public Benefit. We believe that we have complied our duty to have due regard to the commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
STATUS
Abigail Ministries was established as a Charitable Trust by a Trust Deed dated 30[th] Sept 2004.
TRUSTEES
The following Trustees served during the year 2020/2021:
Roger Smith (Chairman & Treasurer) Lindsay Smith Kevin Smith Rebecca Smith (Secretary)
The power to appoint new Trustees rests solely with the existing Trustees.
## **Summary of Main Activities and Achievements**
All activities are focussed on the needs in Kenya and match the activities described in the Trust Deed as the way in which the Objects are fulfilled. No visits were possible in the year in question due to Covid restrictions and the health of the Trust Chairman.
- More food parcels to over 100 families during Covid lockdown in Nov 2020 and in 2021
- Funding of support staff in the baby unit for school age single mothers at Uplands continues.
- Further outreach and provision of home “comforts” for needy families.
- Additional students sent to High School and Colleges.
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- Some rural ladies supporting others who had been poor like themselves.
- New Ladies groups and a Church started Bible studies with more new Study Guides produced.
- Abigail Health Care Centre fully functional with many patients from a rural community.
- Lobbying of Local and National Health Authorities to be granted National Health Insurance registration to enable AHCC to become self-funding.
## **Summary of Financial Position and Reserve Statement**
Compared to 2019/20, income decreased by just under 16% and expenditure decreased by just under 17%. Sufficient funds remain to cover salaries for Abigail Health Care Centre staff during time awaiting National Health Insurance Registration (NHIF) being issued by Kenya Government.
No grants to beneficiaries or general expenses in 2020 to 2021 were funded and paid via Trustee’s account. Foreign currency amounted to the equivalent of £1591 was held at year end pending future expected visits which in the event of Covid and other health problems were not possible in the year 2020 to 2021. Funds carried forward to 2021/22.
With no UK payroll, utility bills or ongoing overheads a reserve level of £24,496 was viewed as adequate at any one time to cover on-going sponsorship and fourth year of salaries for six AHCC staff.\
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## **Charity Name Abigail Ministries**
**No (if any) 1106824**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1st Sept 2020 31st Aug 2021
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £**
**Total funds**
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to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Sponsorship of Children 11,715 - - 11,715
Comfort for Families & Hope 368 - - 368
Education 500 - - 500
Projects - - - -
General 16,502 - - 16,502
Medical 620 620
Gift Aid 10,266 - - 10,266
Bank Interest 2 - - 2
New Hope 3,090 - - 3,090
Travel and Trips - - - -
Evangelism - - - -
43,063 - - 43,063
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts 43,063 - - 43,063
A3 Payments
Sponsored Children 3,061 - - 3,061
Education 7,685 - - 7,685
General 2,384 2,384
Comfort for families 8,193 - - 8,193
Hope 139 - - 139
Projects - - - -
Medical 15,185 - - 15,185
Banking Costs 718 - - 718
Evangelism 181 - - 181
Travel and Trips - - - -
New Hope 3,594 - - 3,594
Currencl Gain/Loss 62 - - 62
Sub total [ 41,204 ] - - 41,204
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - -
- - -
Sub total [ 41,204 ] - - 41,204
Total payments 41,204 - - 41,204
Net of receipts/(payments) [ 1,868 ] - - 1,868
A5 Transfers between funds - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 22,628 - - 22,628
Cash funds this year end 24,496 - - 24,496
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Current Account
Reserve Account
Education Reserve
Cash|Account|**to nearest £**
**1,567**
**21,338**
**-**
**1,591**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||(agree balances|**_Total cash funds_**
with receipts and payments
account(s))|**24,496**
OK|
OK|**-**|
||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|
||||**funds**||**funds**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**
**Details**
Computer -Asus||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**Cost (optional)**
**649**||
|**charity’s own use**|Laptop - HP
Laptop - Dell
Projector
Printer|||
|**758**
**736**
**450**
**80**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name||
||||Roger Smith|||
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## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**11,511 1,506 - - 25,230 120 10,109 33 2,705 - - 51,214**
**51,214**
**3,905 8,062 6,585 5,696 786 - 17,898 668 1,044 1,027 3,466 305 49,442**
**49,442 49,442 1,772 - 20,856 22,628**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - -**
OK
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -**
**Current value (optional)**
**Current value (optional) 10 40 40 100 25 - - -**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 16th June 2022
Independent ExamAner'5 Report to the Trnslees of Ablgall Ministrles
I rep)rt to the truste¢s on tny examinaiion of the accounts uf Abigail Minlstries ('the chariry.)
for the year ended 31 August 2021 which comprise the summary of receip(s and payments and
the statement of &ssets and liabili(ies.
This repx)n is made solely to ihe chariry's tnisiees. &8 a body. in accordance with sec(ion 145
of the Charities Aci 2011. My work has been undertaken so thai I might siaie to the charlty's
trySS thvse matlers l am Tequired io them in this report and for no other purpose. To
the fullesi exienl permiited by law. I do not accew or &ssume rcsponsibilily to anyone other
than the charity and the charily's Inistees a body, for my work. for this report, or for the
opinions I have forn)ed.
Responslbllltles and basts of report
As ihe trustccs of ihc charity you rcsponsible for the preparaiion of the acc()unts in
accordance with the requirements of the Charitics Aci 2011 ('the Act.).
I rewrt in respeci of my examinaliun of Ihe Charity's dccuunts carried oui under seclion 145 of
(he Aci and in carrying out my examinalion I have followcd all the applicable Directions given
by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Aci.
An independent examination does noi involve gathering all the evidence that would be required
in an audit and consequently does not cover all the matters thal an audiior considers in giving
their opinion on the accounls. The planning and conduci of an audii goes beyond the limiled
assurance that an independeni examinaiion can provide. Consequenily l express no audit
opinion on th¢ accounts and my rewn is limiied io thosc specific matters set ()Ul in the
independent examiner's lilaiemenl.
Independent examlner's statement
I hav¢ complclcd my examination. I confinn (h no malerial ma(ier5 have cume to my attention
in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material rcspect:
accouniing records were no( kw in respect of the charity as required by section 110 of
the Act; or
the accounis do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other mailers in conneclion with the examination
to which attention should b¢ drawn in thi's r¢port in order to enable a proper understanding of
the accounts to be reached.
Lyndon Perez
TCAEW
RDP NEWMANS
Lynwood House
373-375 S(ation Road
Harrow
Middlesex
HAI 2AW
Date..
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