2024-03-31-accounts

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From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	Day 1st	Month April	Year 2023		Day 31st	Month March	Year 2024

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name[Hope and Kindness Ministry ]

965558.

Registered charity number (if any) 1108996 1 Mulgrave Road Middlesbrough North Yorkshire Postcode TS5 6PU ~~——~~ 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) 1 Mr Terry Mott Treasurer 2 Mrs Judith Mott Secretary 3 Mr Robin Baker Chairman 4 Mr Jonathan May 5 Dr Tim Kenny ~~ae~~ Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) ~~Oo~~ Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

• (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust Deed

How the charity is constituted

• (eg. trust, association, company) Trust

Trustee selection methods

• (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

1) The advancement of the Christian Faith

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its 2) The relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or governing document distress or who are orphaned, aged or sick in the United Kingdom, Kenya and elsewhere.

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3) The advancement of education, in the United Kingdom, Kenya and elsewhere, on the basis of Christian principles and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the provisions of such education in any educational establishment and if the trustees so decide the provision of one or more charitable educational establishments for the general education of children or adults on the basis of such Christian principle.

• 4) The provision of resources and financial support in the United Kingdom, Kenya and elsewhere that enable poor and needy people to improve their quality of life.

• 1) The advancement of the Christian Faith. Following a challenging year in 2022 - 2023 the church grew stronger in 2023 - 2024 and continued to provide spiritual and practical support to church members. The church leaders gained valuable experience and confidence in this period. The church benefitted from developing stronger links with Elim Gospel Church Kenya, who provided support to the leadership team.

• 2) The relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship, or distress or who are orphaned aged or sick . As a trusted and reliable support for many families and individuals Hope and Kindness was able to provide food relief, money to meet medical needs and assistance with housing costs to needy and vulnerable families and individuals.

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)

• Hope and Kindness Ministry continues to provide residential care for children and young people in Kosele, Western Kenya. The number of children permanently cared for in the Children’s Home remained at 12.

• 3) The advancement of education, in the United Kingdom, Kenya and elsewhere . The Nursery and Primary Schools that Hope and Kindness maintain continued to provide for the educational needs of 250 children.

Teacher training continued during the year, particularly in developing skills in using ICT resources in teaching and learning.

The Junior High School expanded in January 2024 to include Grade 7 and Grade 8 pupils. Despite the challenges of recruiting enough suitably qualified and experienced teachers (a problem experienced in many public and private schools in Kenya) teaching and learning was maintained at a high standard.

4) The provision of resources and financial support in the United Kingdom, Kenya and elsewhere that enable poor and needy people to improve their quality of life .

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As in previous years Hope and Kindness Ministry has been able to maintain its provision of food and medical assistance to needy members of the local community in this period. Rent payments were maintained to meet the housing needs for needy families during this period.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Despite global economic uncertainties during this period Hope and Kindness has maintained the level of funding generated in previous years through a combination of sponsorship and donations.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grant making;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Volunteers have continued to raise funds for Hope and Kindness and we are extremely thankful for their continuing commitment to our work in Kenya.

Income generation in Kenya is challenging. Hope and Kindness works in an extremely poor part of Kenya where subsistence farming is the predominant economic activity. Agribusiness has the most potential for generating significant funding for Hope and Kindness. The fingerling business continued to expand with more orders for fingerlings. In addition, trees planted on Hope and Kindness land have grown well and should produce a good contribution to the work in 2026 – 2027 (depending on weather conditions.) The trees are being grown for the housing market.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

• Continuous provision of care for 12 orphans at the orphanage in Kosele, Western Kenya. As in previous years all running costs for the orphanage are met without incurring any debts or running an overdraft. The children receive a high standard of care, nutrition and education from a long-established team of Kenyan care staff and teachers.

• Continuing provision of full-time nursery and primary education for 250 children. All of these children receive free breakfast and lunch at school.

• Successful addition of a second class to the Junior High School.

• Establishment of a well-resourced computer room for use by school pupils. This includes a bespoke Learning System which gives the pupils access to thousands of videos and other learning resources (all stored on the school system.) The Learning System overcomes the challenges of providing such resources via the Internet.

• The fish farming project was expanded again during this period. The market for fingerlings fluctuates and is affected by ecological factors outside the control of Hope and Kindness. Significant losses of fish in cage farming systems on Lake Victoria have created setbacks for Hope and Kindness’s customers. Hope and Kindness remains committed to developing the fingerling production system and continues to be optimistic about the longterm profitability of the business.

• The cricket farming project continued during this year. Rearing crickets to produce fish and chicken feeds remains one of our goals as part of a portfolio of income generating activities for future sustainability. However, the ongoing challenges of producing fingerlings makes significant investment of time and manpower in the cricket project difficult. The cricket project will be reviewed and modified in 2024 – 2025.

• Hope and Kindness provided assistance to local community members in this year (as has been the case in previous years) – meeting food, housing, employment, medical and other family needs.

• Hope and Kindness is still a major employer in the local community in Kosele. Hope and Kindness staff enjoy good working conditions and regular, appropriate, Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Hope and Kindness staff are covered for the Kenya National Health Insurance Fund, (NHIF). This fund provides a significant benefit to employees. Hope and Kindness also pays the required NSSF (National Social Security Fund) contributions on behalf of employees.

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Section D Achievements and performance

• Continuing to maintain sufficient financial support for the organisation’s work and sustaining income derived from sponsorship and donations during this period. Hope and Kindness is very thankful for the loyalty and commitment of long-term sponsors and donors who make the work in Kosele possible.

• Hope and Kindness owns all of the land and buildings that it works from and has no debt.

• During 2023 Judi Mott was treated for cancer. This meant that she and her husband Terry were unable to spend as much time in Kenya, working with the Hope and Kindness team, as had planned to. Despite this setback the management and leadership teams that have been established over a number of years proved their worth and the work of Hope and Kindness in Kosele was able to continue. This is a testimony to the staff in Kenya who carry out the day to day work in Kosele and creates confidence in longer term plans for safeguarding the long-term sustainability of Hope and Kindness.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

charity’s policy on reserves

Hope and Kindness owns all of the land, buildings and resources needed for the work carried out in Kenya and has no debt. Fundraising work on behalf of Hope and Kindness has created a healthy financial position for the work going forward. In addition, the Agribusiness operations (see above) currently underway in Kenya give continuing grounds for optimism about future financial security.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

• the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

• how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

• investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

• The charity’s funding comes from regular monthly sponsorship, donations during the year and fund-raising events.

• Hope and Kindness Ministry has successfully maintained a commitment to keep administrative costs low.

• In a changing educational sector in Kenya, Hope and Kindness has been able to maintain high standards of education, care and resourcing in our schools. Teacher training has always been a strength of our approach to education and this year has was no exception. Hope and Kindness has developed very good relationships with the County Education Office and our schools have a good reputation locally. We will maintain this approach to running our schools going forward and plan to further develop links with the County Education Department and local Public Schools - especially in respect of ICT training where we have significant expertise to share.

• We will continue to invest time, resources and care into our staff and project development going forward. We remain committed to the evolution of Hope and Kindness into a Kenyan led organisation which serves the needs of its community from a position of informed knowledge of local community concerns and compassion for those people in that community who experience poverty and all of he challenges of life at the margins.

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)	Signature(s)
Full name(s)	Full name(s)Terry Brian Mott		Judith Mott
Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)	Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)Treasurer		Secretary
Date19		19thJanuary 2025

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	Hope and Kindness Ministry	Hope and Kindness Ministry	Hope and Kindness Ministry				1108996	1108996
	Receipts andpayments accounts									CC16a
For the period from ~~ee~~			01/04/2023 Period start date ~~ee ~~			To ~~ee ~~		31/03/2024 Period end date ~~ee~~
Section A Receipts and payments
	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds	Restricted		Endowment funds		Total funds		Last year
	to the nearest £	to the nearest	to the nearest £	to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations	35,670		-	-		-		35,670		75,900
Sponsorship	77,214		-	-		-		77,214		75,145
Gift Aid Received	-		-	-		-		-		29,581
Interest Received	2		-	-		-		2		6
Just Giving	6,091		-	-		-		6,091		-
Paypal to NW Account	4,770		-	-		-		4,770		-
Paypal Sponsorship	1,200		-	-		-		1,200		-
Paypal Donations	1,391		-	-		-		1,391		-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	126,338		-	-		-		126,338		180,632
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - _Sub total _ - - - - - Total receipts 126,338 - - 126,338 180,632 ~~=——=~~
A3 Payments
IMT Commission	96		-	-		-		96		261
IMT Kosele	85,000		-	-		-		85,000		150,550
Just GivingFees	360		-	-		-		360		418
Trustee Air Fare	-		-	-		-		-		-
PayPal ProcessingFees	205		-	-		-		205		-
Account Correction	1,500		-	-		-		1,500		315
Bank Charges	666		-	-		-		666		-
	-		-	-		-		-		-
	-		-	-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	87,827		-	-		-		87,827		151,544
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total - - - - - Total payments 87,827 - - 87,827 151,544 ~~—————=~~
Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end	38,511 - - 38,511 29,088 - - - - - 36,829 - - 36,829 7,741 75,340 - - 75,340 36,829 ~~—=S=S=>>~~

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

20/01/2025

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

				Unrestricted Restricted		Endowment
Categories		Details		funds funds		funds
				to nearest £ to nearest £		to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	- - - - - - - - - - - - Total cash funds ~~S—Se=~~
		(agree balances with receipts and payments	(agree balances with receipts and payments
		account(s))		Agreement Error OK		OK
				Unrestricted Restricted		Endowment
				funds funds		funds
		Details		to nearest £ to nearest £		to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~=——===~~
		Details		Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets	- - - - - - - - - - ~~===~~
		Details		Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~a~~
				Fund to which Amount due		When due
		Details		liability relates (optional)		(optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities CCXX R2 accounts (SS)	- - - - - Date of approval 19/01/2025 Signature Print Name TERRY BRIAN MOTT 2 20/01/2025 ~~a~~

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Charity Name

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Hope and Kindness Ministry

On accounts for the year	31stMarch 2024		Charity no	1108996
ended			(if any)
Set out on pages
		(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)		(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended DD / MM / YYYY .

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with 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 the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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 did not accord with the accounting records; or

• the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

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.

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

Signed: JM Scott

Date: 19[th] January 2025

Name:

Relevant professional qualification(s) or body

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IER

(if any):

Address:

38 Park Lane Bewdley Worcs, DY12 2EU

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

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

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