MALAWI SUPPORT ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 1 JANUARY – 31 DECEMBER 2021
A. Charity Details
Name: Malawi Support
Charity No: 1115747 - registered in England and Wales Address: 32 Corston Lane, Corston, Bath BA2 9AE Contact email: tonyhaines47@gmail.com
Trustees:
Chair – Tony Haines Treasurer – Diane Haines Trustee – Rick James Trustee – Beverly Stark Trustee – Cathy James
B. Charity Structure
Malawi Support is a small charity governed by five trustees. Trustees are selected to contribute a range of skills, knowledge and experience that is needed to perform the charity’s duties in administering grants to Eagles Relief and Development Programme in Malawi (Eagles) and in monitoring the work and the use of the funds. Current trustees have skills in finance, international development, education, organisation development and communications.
Trustees hold at least two ordinary meetings a year. New trustees are appointed by a resolution at a special trustee meeting. The charity keeps records of appointments, contact details and resignations.
C. Malawi Support’s Aim
Malawi Support was established with the following object: to develop the capacity and skills of socially and economically disadvantaged communities in Malawi in such a way that they are better able to identify and help meet their needs and participate more fully in society; and in particular to support the charitable work of Eagles Relief and Development Programme.
D. Malawi Support 2021 expenditure
Malawi Support’s 2021 income was £102,482, an increase of 14% from the previous year, in addition to £45,852 carried over from 2020. Its total expenditure amounted to £75,840, enabling Malawi Support to carry over £72,494 to 2022.
In 2021 99% of Malawi Support’s expenditure went directly to Eagles’ work in Malawi. The remaining funds covered e-learning platform costs and bank charges. The funding for Eagles included the Malawi Support annual commitment to the national church and community work; the Catalyse initiative where individuals support 40 villages over three years; and the cost of an innovative rope pump irrigation project. Malawi Support intentionally uses its funding to cover core costs that are hard to fully meet through institutional donors. However, other funders have not done this, contributing to the shortfall Eagles experienced at the end of 2020. Malawi Support therefore gave an additional £15,000 to cover this shortfall and added £5000 to its annual budget to cover more administrative and support costs. It also helped Eagles lobby other funders to help with the shortfall and improve the quality of their funding.
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E. Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The charity’s policy is:
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to ensure that it can contribute to an annual agreed budget for Eagles national programme, recently increased to £45,000 a year
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to retain enough surplus to use flexibly to respond to specific needs that arise, such as natural disasters and shortfalls in institutional funding
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to forecast giving for the next year, as far as feasible, to retain enough to support core commitments
F. Summary of the main activities in 2021
Public benefit
When planning our activities for the year, the Malawi Support trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and have ensured that the charity is compliant. Throughout its work, Malawi Support and Eagles ensure that projects reach those who are in need, regardless of their tribe, faith, ethnicity, gender or disability. It aims to mobilise churches to work with their local communities to identify and find solutions to their own needs, encouraging them to develop methods of doing things that will last and supporting them in appropriate ways that do not create dependency. Eagles trains churches and communities to work with local and national government as well as with non-government services.
Malawi Support activities
Management and roll-out of Eagles’ online Church and Community Mobilisation course
Malawi Support facilitated the online CCM pilot course which ended in October 2021. Participants in the course carried out ‘acts of love’ after each session, even before working more strategically with their community. Below a participant, James, and his team visit a 24year old young man with a disability, replacing the tyres on his broken wheelchair and helping his mother take forward her idea of selling tomatoes and cooking oil to cover their basic needs.
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Other acts of love included:
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Conflict resolution in families
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Educating the community to avoid selling land for short-term gain
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Identifying those with disability and helping them access government grants
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Supporting youth struggling with alcohol and drugs
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Helping child-headed families
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Paying off a debt to release someone from jail
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Intervening in domestic abuse
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Visiting the elderly
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Linking cancer sufferer to health care and providing basic needs
A number of large international NGOs such as Tearfund, Compassion, Liebenzell Mission and Mothers Union took part, in addition to church leaders from Malawi. Their feedback included:
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“It has been one of the most significant learning experiences of my life and is directly applicable to Compassion International's ministry to release children from poverty.”
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“It has been a life transforming course that has brought about positive change in the church and community at large.”
Malawi Support monitoring, technical support and advocacy:
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a) Management and roll out of Eagles eLearning Church and Community Mobilisation (CCM) Following the pilot, Tearfund agreed with Malawi Support and Eagles to run seven courses a year to roll it out across their staff. Liebenzell mission also launched a course for their partner churches and staff. Malawi Support contracted a communications partner to put together a video to advertise the course and created other publicity materials.
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b) Monitoring and support to Eagles’ leadership: During 2021, Malawi Support trustees met twice to review progress and also held regular WhatsApp/Skype calls with Eagles’ leadership in Malawi, acting as a sounding board for the director and other management staff. In January 2021, two trustees also met with the Eagles Malawi board to strengthen understanding of the role that Malawi Support plays and to demonstrate the impact of Eagles’ work on the sector internationally. Trustees highlighted some strategic issues to the board that needs their serious consideration. These issues included:
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Priority for CCM: much of Eagles’ energies still focus on more traditional projects that are less sustainable and less cost-effective than CCM. The focus needs to move from measuring success through donor income to investing in the work that brings impact.
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Succession: much of the CCM work still depends on the faithful staff who have been with Eagles since the beginning. Although some progress has been made in raising up other CCM facilitators, there is need for greater understanding of CCM across all staff.
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Better quality funding: Eagles has an excellent reputation with international funders and needs to negotiate more strongly with them to ensure that they provide good funding that covers administrative and support costs as well as direct project costs.
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c) Communications and advocacy support: Malawi Support continued to produce good quality newsletters, circulating three in 2021 updating supporters on the innovative rope pump irrigation project; the e-learning course; and Eagles’ work with churches and communities to
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support those with disability to access education and health and to become more included in society (see front cover photo). Malawi Support also contracted a communications partner to begin work on updating the Malawi Support/ Eagles website, including a process to develop a new logo and branding guidelines. Trustees also advocated to local MPs to put pressure on the government to support the COVAX scheme more so people in Malawi and - other developing countries could gain better access to COVID 19 vaccinations.
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d) Intern support for Eagles: Malawi Support oversaw the work of Steffie Kemp who managed and facilitated the e-learning course, after setting it up for Eagles the previous year. She did an immense amount of work in running the pilot course so effectively and helping participating agencies and individuals look at next steps to implement their learning and roll out the course. Another intern also played a key role in helping Eagles write up the rope pump irrigation project results and a newsletter sharing the learning and impact.
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e) Fundraising: Malawi Support continued to help Eagles secure more good quality funding, negotiating with All We Can to cover 50% of the eLearning platform costs, as well as to help fill the Eagles’ 2020 budget shortfall. Malawi Support also facilitated the second disbursement from the Coles-Medlock Foundation for the rope pump project and carried out the reporting requirements. It continued to share information with UK individual and church supporters, including securing some donations from a high networth donor.
Eagles activities 2021 core-funded by Malawi Support
Rope pump irrigation project
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Eagles piloted an innovative irrigation project that recognised the value and importance of local knowledge and took a much more participatory approach than others. The farmers took part in every stage of design, prototyping and implementation.
Findings of an evaluation in 2021 showed that the rope pumps work just as well as the more common treadle pumps, but are more sustainable and easier to use by those who are vulnerable. Some of the key lessons that emerged included:
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Participatory design works: farmers actively contributed to the design, improving its efficiency and demonstrating ownership, understanding and responsibility
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Rope pumps can be built using local materials: farmers sourced materials from their communities, avoiding creating dependency on outside sources
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Rope pumps have increased irrigation: they enabled farmers to cultivate larger areas of land efficiently and improved food security. The elderly, sick and those with disability were able to use them too
Church and Community Mobilisation
In 2021, Eagles continued to work with local churches and communities, mobilising and empowering them to take responsibility for their own development and address social and economic challenges they face to achieve change. Communities brought about transformation in their standard of living, health, education, relationships and in their environment. Eagles helped communities become self-reliant and resilient, able to identify their problems, find lasting solutions and take action for themselves.
Eagles work in 2021 reached a total of 742,722 people. Out of these, 204,040 people were helped by the 525 local churches that Eagles mobilised – up by 36% from 2020. Of these churches, 377 (72%) were Living Waters and 148 were from a range of other denominations. Eagles trained these local churches to work with their communities, using their own resources to address their priority issues. Their work in 2021 reached people in these areas:
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Training church leaders in CCM
Eagles also trained a further 31 church leaders (6 women and 25 men) in the Bible School in ‘God’s heart for the poor’, equipping them in the Church and Community Mobilisation approach so they are able to work with their communities to respond to needs holistically. 205 trainee leaders (54 women, 151 men) cumulatively have benefitted from this work over the past six years (2016 to 2021).
Outcomes achieved through Eagles’ work core-funded by Malawi Support
Improved standard of living
In 2021, Eagles helped over 7000 people improve their food security and nutrition through better seed varieties, irrigation support, fish farming, livestock rearing, permaculture and food gardens. Local Village, Savings and Loans groups enabled 1,587 people to save money and take out loans for small business to generate more income for their families.
Improved health
1,800 families accessed clean water through the church and community activities and raised awareness about how to use waste water from the bore holes to reduce malaria, as well as planting lemon grass. Communities also improved hygiene by constructing toilets.
Improved education
Communities helped 2,308 children improve their safety and learning by running Community Based Childcare Centres for the under-fives and by helping primary age children with materials. They also helped a further 3,784 orphans and vulnerable children with uniforms and notebooks so they could go to school (see photo right of a young woman, Memory, who looks after all her younger siblings, including a sister with disability – the local church has supported the family with coaching, visits and income generation).
Improved relationships
Churches and communities cared for 920 people living with HIV/AIDS and supported 583 widows. They helped
these groups and other vulnerable people such as those with disability become more included in society, restoring relationships and promoting their safety. Eagles has trained church and community leaders in safeguarding, leading to communities reporting abuse cases to government authorities and protecting children at risk.
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Improved environment
Eagles helped 7,094 people from local communities respond to climate change through prevention and mitigation. They protected trees by building fuel efficient stoves and planted 104,145 trees in 2021. They helped people diversify crops to withstand floods and drought. Communities put in place plans to deal with climate shocks.
Improved resilience
Eagles’ work helps local churches and communities take the initiative to solve their own problems, recognising and strengthening their skills and speaking out and influencing others. Eagles helps ensure the sustainability of the approach by supporting local churches to set up Social Action Committees. These committees are then responsible for overseeing and supporting the work with communities. In 2021, 436 churches had these committees and 366 were active (84%). Eagles will continue to work with the inactive ones and those without one to set up their own committees.
G. Conclusion
Eagles’ work in 2021, supported by Malawi Support and other donors, was effective in reaching more churches and communities. The action that these communities took using their own resources to address their problems enabled them to achieve changes in all planned outcome areas. The Eagles online CCM course helped extend Eagles’ cost-effective and sustainable approach to other organisations and countries.
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| 2021 Unrestricted fund Notes £ INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM Donationsandlegacies 102,478 Investment income 2 4 Total 102,482 EXPENDITUREON Raising funds 3 976 Other 74,864 Total 75,840 NET INCOME 26,642 RECONCILIATIONOFFUNDS Total funds brought forward 45,852 TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD 72,494 |
2020 Total funds £ 71,926 21 71,947 198 43,055 |
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| 43,253 2&,694 17,158 45,852 |
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MALAWI SUPPORT
BALANCE SHEET 31 DECEMBER 2021
| BALANCE SHEET 31 DECEMBER 2021 |
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| 2021 | 2020 | ||
| Unestcted fnd |
Total fnds |
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| Notes | £ | £ | |
| FIXED ASSETS | |||
| Tangible assets | 6 | 39 | 59 |
| CUENT ASSETS | |||
| Debtors | 7 | 12426 | 7,500 |
| Cash at bank | 60,619 | 38,853 | |
| 73,045 | 46,353 | ||
| CREDITORS | |||
| Amounts flling due within one year | 8 | (590) | (560) |
| NET CURNT ASSETS | 72,455 | 45,793 | |
| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT | |||
| LIABILITIS | 72494 | 45,852 | |
| NET ASSETS | 72,494 | 45,852 | |
| FUNDS | 9 | ||
| Unresticted fnds | 72,494 | 45,852 | |
| TOTAL FUNDS | 72,494 | 45,852 |
on The financial statements were approved by the Board of Trustees and authorised for issue .29 August 2022 and were signed on its behalf by:
D Haines - Trustee
The notes form part of these financial statements
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| Raising donationsandlegacies | ||
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| 2021 | 2020 | |
| £ | £ | |
| Support costs | 797 |
| Unrestricted | |
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| fund | |
| £ | |
| INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM | |
| Donations and legacies | 71,926 |
| Investment income | 21 |
| Total | 71,947 |
| EXPENDITURE ON | |
| Raising funds | 198 |
| Other | 43,055 |
| Total | 43,253 |
| NET INCOME | 28,694 |
| RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS | |
| Total funds brought forward | 17,158 |
| TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD | 45,852 |
| COST At 1 January 2021 and31December 2021 DEPRECIATION At I January 2021 Charge for year At_3_I December 2021 NET BOOK VALUE At31December 2021 At31December 2020 7. DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Prepayments and accrued income 8. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR Other creditors 9. MOVEMENTINFUNDS Unrestricted funds General fund TOTAL FUNDS Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows: Unrestricted funds General fund TOTAL FUNDS Atl.1.21 £ 45,852 45,852 Incoming resources £ 102,482 102,482 |
Computer equipment £ 447 388 20 408 39 59 - - 2021 2020 £ £ 12,426 7,500 -- 2021 2020 £ £ 590 560 -- Net movement At in funds 31.12.21 £ £ 26,642 72,494 26,642 72,494 -- Resources Movement expended infunds £ £ (75,840) 26,642 (75,840) 26,642 |
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| Net | |||
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| movement | At | ||
| At 1.1.20 | infunds | 3 I .12.20 | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Unrestricted funds | |||
| General fund | 17,158 | 28,694 | 45,852 |
| TOTAL FUNDS | 17,158 | 28,694 | 45,852 |
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| Comparativenetmovementinfunds, included in the above are as follows: | |||
| Incoming | Resources | Movement | |
| resources | expended | infunds | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Unrestricted funds | |||
| General fund | 71,947 | (43,253) | 28,694 |
| TOTAL FUNDS | 71,947 | (43,253) | 28,694 |
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| movement | At | ||
| Atl.1.20 | in funds | 31.12.21 | |
| £ | £ | £ | |
| Unrestricted funds | |||
| General fund | 17,158 | 55,336 | 72,494 |
| TOTAL FUNDS | 17,158 | 55,336 | 72,494 |
| Incoming resources £ Unrestricted funds General fund 174,429 TOTAL FUNDS 174,429 |
Resources Movement expended infunds £ £ (119,093) 55,336 (119,093) 55,336 |
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