2025-03-31-accounts - The Kabanda Trust

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Annual Accounts and Report for the year ending

31 March 2025

Index

Index
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Trustees Annual Report	2
Independent Examiners Report	6
Receipts and Payments Account	7
Balance Sheet	8
Notes to Accounts	9 - 12

The Kabanda Trust Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Full name

The Kabanda Trust

Registered charity number 1115939

Principal address

Trentham Mews Medical Centre Eastwick Crescent Trentham Stoke on Trent ST4 8XP

Trustees

Dr Gordon Thomas (Chair) Mrs Joanne McGuinness Mr Paul McGuinness (Treasurer) Dr Jane Parker Mrs Sue Thomas Mr Richard Woollacott

Bankers

The National Westminster Bank PLC Market Street Longton Stoke on Trent ST3 2HW

ABSA (formerly Barclays Uganda Ltd now Amalgamated Banks of South Africa) Kampala Road Kampala Uganda

Independent Examiner

Mr Michael Davis

The Kabanda Trust Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

The charity is operated under the rules of its trust adopted May 2005, and as amended by trust deed dated July 2012. Apart from the first trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution of the trustees passed at a special meeting called under clause 15 of the deed.

METHODS ADOPTED FOR THE RECRUITMENT AND APPOINTMENT OF NEW TRUSTEES

New trustees are appointed by invitation. In selecting individuals for appointment as trustees, the trustees have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the charity. Apart from the first trustees, every trustee is appointed by a resolution of the trustees passed at a special meeting called under Clause 15 of the trust deed.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

The aims and objectives are:

To advance the education of the pupils at Rock of Joy Children’s Centre, Lungujja, Uganda (RoJ) and other associated schools by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities and equipment for education at the schools.
To preserve and protect the health of the children attending Rock of Joy Children’s Centre (RoJ) and other associated schools by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities support services and equipment not normally provided by the state authorities. To advance the education of the public in healthcare in the Lungujja and Nansana districts by appropriate means.
The relief of financial hardship, either generally or individually of people living in the Nansana and Lungujja districts of Uganda by making grants of money for providing or paying for items, services or facilities for the relief of the sick/poor either generally or individually through the provision of grants, goods, services or scholarships for secondary schools.

SUMMARY OF THE MAIN ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

The Trustees are meeting their public benefit obligation by supporting and developing the education and healthcare of the pupils attending primary school at Rock of Joy Children’s Centre by assisting with and providing facilities and equipment for education and healthcare at the school.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Unfortunately, due to major illness our trustees have again not been able to visit Uganda during this year. This has also meant that administration and contact with our supporters has been at the minimum needed to maintain our work. However, regular contact was continued with the Rock of Joy via email and online meetings.

The Kabanda Trust Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025

We were pleased that this year our income allowed us to be able to fund a replacement bus, one of the vital sources of income for the school.

Despite the challenges that living in extreme poverty places on many of the children who attend RoJ, they continue to achieve excellent results in the Primary Leaving Exams (PLEs) and are now attracting families who can afford to pay to access the quality teaching that the school is providing.

We have encouraged this development as having a number of pupils who are able to pay a proportion of fees, as well as the funding we provide, means that they continue to provide at least one third of places free to children whose families cannot afford to pay whilst a significant number received partial bursaries.

We continue to provide quarterly payments to RoJ which help provide all that is needed for the day to day running of the school, the health project and their community fund.

The young people who receive a secondary education through our Rock Star program are continuing to shine and we are proud of their achievements in higher education and in securing on-going employment.

LONG TERM AIMS

The Trustees continue with their long-term aim for Rock of Joy to be a self-supporting school, housed in permanent buildings. The Trustees have designated funds for the completion of a building housing classrooms which continues to wait for formal planning consent.

We continue to discuss with RoJ future sources of income to enable them to be self-supporting and continue to review the income from our school buses and other transport options as a potential way forward.

Since Covid 19 our donations have decrease and whilst our base of regular givers provides us with a relatively consistent monthly income, which is transferred quarterly to RoJ, we recognise that financial challenges are likely to continue. To allow for this we continue to hold a Contingency Fund which will enable us to support RoJ for a year should the need arise.

MONITORING AND BANKING IN UGANDA

Joy Nakawala continues as our paid administrator and supports our work at ROJ.

We continue to be grateful to our lawyer, Edward Sekabanja, for his advice and help with overseeing withdrawals from our Ugandan bank accounts.

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Purposes of Funds

Designated Funds

Rock of Joy School Contingency Fund

The trustees have designated a portion of unrestricted reserves to this contingency fund. In the event of the charity experiencing a decline in funding they will be able to support the educational needs of Rock of Joy school in Uganda for a year.

Restricted Funds

Rock of Joy School

At Rock of Joy, we provide whatever is needed for the day to day running of the school. The fund therefore embraces all aspects of the schools’ needs. As well as school meals, uniforms, books and classroom equipment we fund the purchase and upkeep of vehicles for Rock of Joy School which run as part of the public transport system in Uganda and earn income which pay their staff salaries. We continue to fund permanent brick classrooms and the development of their property. We may also designate other monies to this fund.

Health projects

We employ a School Nurse at Rock of Joy. Her role is to provide free healthcare, health education and health promotion to all the children and staff at the school. She also provides support, advice and some healthcare to parents and families of the children attending Rock of Joy School. Donations to this fund help towards the cost of her salary, rent of the building where she is based, health expenses such as medicines, vaccinations, treatment at hospital or other clinics as well as the purchase of mosquito nets and other health needs.

Hardship Support

This fund allows us to provide relief of financial hardship through a locally managed Community Fund in Lungujja which supports for vulnerable individuals and families in crisis.

Secondary School Sponsorship

We aim to provide 5 places at Secondary school each year for children graduating from Rock of Joy children's Centre. Donations to this fund allow fees for specific children to be paid with the children's requirements and expenses overseen by a Management Committee based at Rock of Joy.

Trustees' remuneration

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.