## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/04/22 Period start date To Period end date 31/03/2023** ## **Charity name:Gap Ministries** ## **Charity registration number:1111373** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17||Gap Ministries, ( also known as Gap Kenya)
Exists to help Street children, and the
children that live on or near the Mwakirunge
Garbage Dump on the outskirts of
Mombasa. It is Mombasa’s main municipal
dump site.| |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||The Charity runs 3 projects:
**Stepping Stones**
A day care centre, for street children in the
city to access food, showers , laundry,
teaching, medical care, recreation and
counselling. We have begun giving both
Computer and Tailoring classes with a plan
to open up employment opportunities for
them. To share the love of Jesus with the
children by showing them love and respect
alongside the practical care they receive.
**Foster Family Home**
A foster family home where 12 chidren live
with foster parents who love and care for
them,the children attend school.
**Joseph Centre for Children.**
A centre for over100 children whose parents
live on or survive from the main garbage
site. The centre is open for children from the
age of 2 years upwards who are unable to
attend school due to lack of school fees etc.
The centre provides learning activities for the
children to enable them to become literate
and numerate. The children learn to play and
have fun, increasing their social skills and
cognitive development. The centre also
helps with medical care for the children. The
charity currently pays for 43 children from
the centre to attend primary school and is
funding 2 children to attend boarding High
School.| ||Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustee’s can confirm that all the above
projects have shown great public benefit to
the children supported by Gap Kenya, as
well as the wider Mombasa’s public.| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|N/A| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Gap Kenya has a great team of volunteer
Trustee’s, whose roles are vital to the work
of Gap Kenya, providing the governance and
accountability required.
We also have support volunteers who fund
raise to provide some of finance required
needed to finance our projects.
Volunteers also visit the projects in
Mombasa,helping outinthe centres.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference||| |---|---|---|---| |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|**1.**
**The Stepping Stones Centre**
continues to provide a safe place for street
children to access food, showers, laundry,
teaching and recreation alongside love,
respect and fun.
Many children attending the
centre have been repatriated back
to their families.
One of the aims of the Stepping
Stones Centre is to help street
children to adapt to routine and
discipline in preparation for leaving
street life should they desire to do
so. Several Stepping Stones
children have been invited to live in
various children’s homes and are
now attending school. Several
children’s homes visit the centre
when they have vacancies in their
home to offer places to the children|| |attending. Stepping Stones.| |---| |Stepping Stones has now become a| |Centre of Excellence’ in day care| |and other organisations are sent by| |the Mombasa Children’s Dept to| |see our work and programmes.| |2.
F**amily Foster Home**| |Twelve street children have left street life| |and now live with foster parents in the foster| |family home. The foster parents love and| |nurture the children who are able to attend| |school and live their lives in a safe and| |loving environment .Having had one boy| |complete his degree in Mechanical| |Engineering, he is now employed as a| |mechanical engineer in Finland, we have| |had another boy just finished his3rd year at| |Teacher training College, he is now working| |as a teacher at a primary school in| |Mombasa.| |All the others boys are in school and| |progressing well in their Academic| |Studies.Their personal development| |goes from strength to strength and| |combined with their academic| |achievements they are radically| |changed boys, who have used the| |opportunity given them extremely well,| |3.
**The Joseph Centre For Children**| |A centre for over100 children whose parents| |live on or survive from the main garbage| |site. The centre is open for children from the| |age of 2 years upwards who are unable to| |attend school due to lack of school fees etc.| |The centre provides learning activities for the| |children to enable them to become literate| |and numerate. The children learn to play and| |have fun, increasing their social skills and| |cognitive development. The centre also| |helps with medical care for the children. The| |charity currently pays for 43 children from| |the centre to attend primary school and is| |funding 2 children to attend boarding High| |School.| |**.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||||| |---|---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||| ||||Post Covid, and the difficult
economic climate has| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||produced a huge challenge
to raising funds. However we
raised £79340, against an
expenditure of £87554, which
included the purchase of a
new vehicle costing £16000| |---|---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||The charity’s policy is not to
invest monies, but to forward
plan and ensure that all
commitments can be met.| |Other|||N/A| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the
period|Para 1.21|Full details of the income and expenditure are
contained in the charities submitted accounts.
The income receipts were £79,340 and after
deducting payments of £87554 we had a deficit
of expenditure over income. We also purchased
a much needed vehicle for £16000.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|We have no financial deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|We have no concerns about the charity
continuing as a going concern.| ## **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|There are a number of Churches and small
businesses who support the charity and a Uk
Rotary Club, some on a regular basis and
others on an ad hoc basis. Post covid Fund
Raising has been a challenge, but we are
pleased to report that we raised £79340
against an expenditure total of £87554, but
also bought a vehicle for £16000
There are also a number of individual people
who give a regular, monthly donation to the
charity.| |---|---|---| |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|Gap Ministries is an Unincorporated 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|The 3 existing trustees remain in post.| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |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|The charity works closely with the Childrens
Dept. and the Education, and Health Dept’s
in Mombasa| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Gap Ministries| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Gap Kenya| |Registered charitynumber|1111373| |Charity’s principal address|4 Manor Farm Close,
Ashton-U-Lyne
Gtr Manchester
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Gayle Woods|||| ||Gill Barber|||| ||Paul Woods|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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)** Gayle Woods **Full name(s)** Paul Woods **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** **Charity Name No (if any) GAP MINISTRIES** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/04/2022|**To**|Period end date
31/03/2023|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,650**
**15,600**
**18,145**
**13,615**
**-**
**10,975**
**8,355**
**-**
**79,340**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,340**
**23,924**
**2,713**
**8,962**
**3,873**
**5,745**
**1,234**
**182**
**632**
**145**
**7,165**
**745**
**3,288**
**365**
**1,865**
**785**
**45**
**26**
**24**
**5,905**
**14,997**
**1,993**
**4,340**
**3,264**
**717**
**230**
**1,279**
**553**
**19**
**456**
**5,500**
**16,865**
**216**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
1|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,650**
**15,600**
**18,145**
**13,615**
**-**
**10,975**
**8,355**
**-**
**79,340**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**79,340**
**23,924**
**2,713**
**8,962**
**3,873**
**5,745**
**1,234**
**182**
**632**
**145**
**-**
**7165**
**745**
**3288**
**365**
**1865**
**785**
**45**
**26**
**24**
**5905**
**14,997**
**1,832**
**4,304**
**3,264**
**717**
**230**
**1,279**
**553**
**19**
**456**
**5,500**
**16,865**
**216**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Donations from Business|**12,650**||||**-**| |Online Donations|**15,600**||||**-**| |Regular Donations|**18,145**||||**-**| |Ad Hoc Giving|**13,615**||||**-**| |Charitable Trusts|**-**||||**-**| |Churches|**10,975**||||**-**| |Gift Aid|**8,355**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**79,340**||||**-**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||| |**Stepping Stones Centre Total**|**23,924**||||**-**| |Rent|**2,713**||||**-**| |Salaries|**8,962**||||**-**| |travel|**3,873**||||**-**| |food|**5,745**||||**-**| |utilities|**1,234**||||**-**| |staionery|**182**||||**-**| |repairs|**632**||||**-**| |health|**145**||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| |**Family Home total**
Salaries
rent
travel
food
utilities
clothing
furniture
repairs
**Education Costs**|||||| ||||||| ||||||| |**Joseph Centre**|**14,997**||||| |
rent|**1,993**||||| |salaries|**4,340**||||| |**food**|**3,264**||||| |**utilities**|**717**||||| |**repairs**|**230**||||| |**bags/materials**|**1,279**||||| |**health**|**553**||||| |**stationery**|**19**||||| |**car servicing**
**education taylor taylor**
**car purchase**
**just giving**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|||||28/01/2024| **----- Start of picture text -----**
house rental 5,400 5,400
car insurance 479 479
website 1,080 1,080
Sub total [ 87,554 ] - - -
Total payments [ 87,554 ]
Net of receipts/(payments) 87,554 - - -
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - - - - -
- - -
Cash funds this year end
**----- End of picture text -----**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 28/01/2024 2 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||OK| |||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||Date of
approval| |||||||| |||||||| CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 28/01/2024 3 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Roport to the truslees h•r41y Gap Ministries On accounts for the ythv •nded 202212023 Charlty no (rf any) 1111373 Sot out on pages 111,'.ii¢r,-*)er I report to the I￿￿eBS ￿ my examination of ts accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended Responslbllltles and basls of report As th8 chartrf's trustees. YCAJ are reswnsib18 for the preparatirn of the accounts in aCcrydar￿e with the reQ￿rements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Acr). I re￿1 in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried oul LfKler seclmm 145 of 2011 Act and in caryiro oul my examination, I have fcknied all the ap￿￿ab￿ D￿ctIonS glven by the Charity Commlssion seclM)n 14q5}(b) of Act. Ind•p•ndent rrhe ctrority's gross Incune exceeded £250.CKK) and l am qualrfled to •xamlnerfs statement undertake the examinati￿ by beiry a qualrfwj member of linsert name of a￿liCable Isted bc*]]. Delete l ] If not 8pplkable. I have G￿nP￿ted my examir0tK￿. I confimi that rK) material matters have come to my attention in connectlon with the examination (other than that disclosed bel)w ') which gwes me cause to b8beva that In, any malerial respect: the accounting records were rK)t kept in aGc(*dance wlth seclon 130 of Ihe Charities Act,. or the accounts dhj not accord wllh the accrAJntiryJ records: or the accounts did r￿t ccrfnply wlth the applicable requirements conceming the fonn and ¢¢)ntent of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts arKI Rewrts) Regulaticns 2008 other than any requlrement that the accounts gNe a 'true and fair. VI￿ which Is nol a matter Consi￿ as part of ￿ Indewthnt examinatKJn. I have no concerns ￿ have come across no other matters in ccffinectM)n wtlh th8 examinalK)n to which attents'on slM)ukJ be drawn in tNs report in order to enable a pr￿r Under￿ing of accounts to be reached. . Please delete the words in the braGkets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Dato: 29101123 Name". John Grantham Relevant professlonal qualifi&*ion(s) or body Managing Diwli Home Estate Agents IER Oct 2018 (rf any): Address: Section B Disclosure Onty compiete rf the examiner needs to hwjhlighl malerial matters of concern (see CC32, IndeFwKlent examination of charity acc￿ntS.. dr8ctions and glIdarr￿ f(K examiners). Giv• h•r• brief d•tail$ of any Items that the examiner wlshes to d16close. IER Oct 2018