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## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Rainbows4Children (UK) Trust
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1116387
**Charity's principal address** 16 Taunton Close
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**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (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) How the charity is constituted
Trust deed
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by existing trustees
- (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;
Rainbows4Children (UK) Trust is linked to Rainbows4Children Foundation, registered in Switzerland. Its aims are in harmony with those of the Swiss foundation, and all funds raised go to the same purposes as those of the Swiss Foundation. (See below, objectives)
Both the UK Trust and the Swiss Foundation are founded in memory of Nicolas Robinson 1991-1996.
Trustees are asked to be active in fundraising and to have an interest in breaking the cycle of poverty in Ethiopia through education. Trustees are asked to retire aged 70, and new trustees from the next generation are sought. It is preferred that trustees have visited the Nicolas Robinson School in Mekele, Ethiopia, at least once, as this the primary project of Rainbows4children (UK) Trust.
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
**(1) to relieve poverty and suffering in sub-Saharan Africa and particularly (but not exclusively) Ethiopia (the “** Region **”) through the support and provision of aid for construction and development projects with particular emphasis on projects relating to healthcare (including the equipping of health facilities such as hospitals, clinics and health centres), and self-help projects supporting local communities (such as securing water supplies and the development of small agricultural projects), but**
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**excluding support for any commercial activities or projects which are of a purely political, religious or pacifist nature; (2) to promote and support the advancement of education in the Region in particular through projects supporting the establishment and support of schools, and the provision of teaching and education for children and young people;**
**(3) to relieve poverty and financial hardship among beneficiaries in the Region, by providing or procuring, amongst other things, financial assistance and support for the welfare and health of beneficiaries , who by reason of their social and economic conditions are in need of such assistance.**
**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)**
Fund-raising takes place in the UK to raise money for the projects, which are currently in Ethiopia only. Most of the donations received from UK citizens are from individuals who sponsor a child to attend the Nicolas Robinson School in Mekele, Tigray, Ethiopia. The biggest single donor in 2020 supported supplementary food during the Covid pandemic for and medical support for the Nicolas Robinson School. The project funds have been used to build and run the Nicolas Robinson School, which educates 1400 Ethiopian children who are the children of disadvantaged families. The parents of these children are, in the main, suffering from disabilities as a result of injuries in war, land mines and illness, including blindness caused by infections. The school currently educates kindergarten (3 years) and primary school aged children (grades 1-8) and the secondary school (grades 9-12). This takes students to the age at which they can apply to University or other further education. The building work of the essential buildings to run the school is now complete. In 2020 we continued to improve facilities. However formal school was suspended in mid-March due to the Covid pandemic and teachers prepared work for students at all levels as paper handouts, which we collected and distributed by family members. This continued until the end of June. During September/October the Education Bureau discussed how to resume teaching with input from the School. School had just re-started for grades 8 and 12 (exam years) when war broke out in the region. Since the war started no school has been possible. All contact was lost for 6 weeks, as phone and internet services were blocked. From 12[th] December phone calls were possible again and the city of Mekele was less damaged than the rest of the region. We are optimistic that school can resume in February 2021 and we can assess the condition of the children. Effectively a year of schooling for all children has been lost in the region and many will be suffering from malnutrition. The focus for 2021 will be on restitution and recovery.
The trustees have read and understood the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit are in compliance. The activity in building work and education of children demonstrates this.
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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
All monies raised go directly to further the aims of the Trust. No trustees receive any remuneration. There are no employees of the Trust. Volunteers travel to Ethiopia to help in the school either at their own expense or supported directly by the founders, Max and Kathryn Robinson. In 2020 there were 3 volunteers from the UK at the school and about none from other countries (due to Covid).
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
Volunteers visit the school on a regular basis to help train the teachers and management staff. All volunteers are DBS checked and have to sign that they are in compliance with the School’s child safety policy.
The UK independent examiner is also a volunteer, and gives his time free of charge, to enable the charity to focus 100% of the donations on the work in Ethiopia, as stated in its aims and charter.
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance In 2020, the quality of the training and quality of education given by the **Summary of the main** school continued to increase. **achievements of the charity** Rainbows4children, through sponsors, now helps the education of about **during the year** 490 students at the school and a further 70 who have gone on to University. Volunteers focus on training trainers and upgrading skills, particularly on spoken English and practical science. The School was donated a borehole by a local NGO, the Relief Society of Tigray (REST). Funds are being used also to store the water and distribute it around the school. Students can take water home with them if needed, as many homes in the city do not have access to regular clean water. **Section E Financial review** Any cash reserves are invested in the deposit account at the bank. No **Brief statement of the** risk investments are made with the funds. As a small charity, the policy **charity’s policy on reserves** agreed by the trustees is to keep the equivalent of one years’ running cost of the School available (in the bank accounts) at all times, so that if funds cannot be raised in a particular year due to unforeseen circumstances, the school can still function and the staff of the school paid their salaries. **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
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## **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);
Fundraising is mainly from private donations and regular giving. This is mainly to support the sponsorship of Ethiopian children's education and provide funds for building the School and providing the running costs of the School.
The Trust document does not allow any investment of funds in high-risk investments, so funds are invested in a bank deposit account.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
## **Signature(s)**
**Full name(s) Richard Max Robinson[Kathryn Warburton Robinson] Position (eg Secretary, Chair, President & co-founder Secretary & co-founder etc)**
**Date** 13th January 2021
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Rainbows4children (UK) Trust 1116387
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01.01.2020 31.12.2020
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from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Private donations - 50,117 - 50,117 84,956
Bank interest 247 - - 247 325
Gift aid refund 9,662 - - 9,662 8,308
Paypal Giving Fund 909 - - 909 23
Transfer from Rainbows4children paypal
- - - - 100
account, International
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Sub total (Gross income for
AR) [ 10,818 ] 50,117 - 60,935 93,712
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 10,818 50,117 - 60,935 93,712
A3 Payments
Bank charges - - - - 3
Transfers to Rainbows4Children
Foundation for Mekele School building - 100,000 - 100,000 60,000
SAFE (Child safety) 56 - - 56 -
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Sub total [ 56 ] 100,000 - 100,056 60,003
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 56 100,000 - 100,056 60,003
Net of receipts/(payments) 10,762 - 49,883 - - 39,121 33,709
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 8,753 175,823 - 184,576 150,867
Cash funds this year end 19,515 125,940 - 145,455 184,576
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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behalf of all the trustees
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**B2 Other monetary assets**
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**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
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Date of
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
12/01/2021
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Independent examinerfs report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Rainbows 4 Children UK Trust
On accounts for the year
ended
31° December 2020
Charity no
(rf any)
1116387
Set out on pages
CC16a 1 to 2
Respective The chantys trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
responsibilities of The charity's tnjstees consider that an audtt is not required for this year
trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an
independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibilty to=
examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 145(5)Ib) of the Charities Act. and
to state whether particular matter5 have come to my atterrtion.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordan general Diredions gNen
èxaminerfs statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the Ghartty and a comparison of the accounts
presented wtth those rerds. It also includes consideration of any unusual
items or disclosures in the accounts. and seeking explanations from the
trustees conMIng any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provide all the evKlence that would be required in an audit, and
consequently no opinion is gNen as to whether the accounts present a Irue
and fairf view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
statement below.
Independent In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention
examiner's statement (other than that disclosed below ")
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect,
the requirements:
to k&p accounting rernrds in accordance th section 130 of the
Charities Act., and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and
comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
have not been met,. or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brackets rfihey do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
28° January 2021
Name:
Ronald Victor Fairhead
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any}:
B Sc FCMA CGMA
IER
Jan 2021
Address:
12 Latchmoor Way
Gerrards Cross
Buckinghamshire SL9 8LP
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
IER
Jan 2021
CHARIIY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WA
Receipts and payments accounts
CC16a
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from
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
Restricted
Endowment
Total funds
L*t year
A1 Recelpts
Private donstsut15
B£nk interest
Giliad refurxl
Paypal Qving Furyj
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1.117
50.117
247
9.662
247
9*62
100
Sub tOtal(GSS income for
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1Q818
117
93.712
A2 Asset and investment sale4
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50.117
fll.935
93,712
A3 Payments
Bank charges
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