## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.01.2024 Period start date To 31.12.2024 Period end date Charity name: Rainbows4children (UK) Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1116387** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|(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 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 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|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 donor in 2024
supported supplementary food due to the
continuing food crisis after the Civil war.
The project funds in 2024 have been used
for 2 main purposes: to pay the school staff
and to provide training materials, food and| |||medical assistance for the staff and the
school children.
The Nicolas Robinson School continues to
educate 1400 students from kindergarten
(aged 3.5 years) to graduation at Grade 12,
aged 18 years) On a temporary basis, it
has extended this commitment, and 1,900
children are being educated. This is seen a
s a temporary situation until other schools
are able to reopen.
The building work of the essential buildings
to run the school is now complete. Due to
instability in Ethiopia, we will not make
major capital investments in the short term.
The cessation of hostilities was signed in
November 2022 and school resumed in
early March 2023. Since then, education
has been running intensively with very
short breaks between semesters. This has
enabled 3 years of education to be
completed in less than 2 years. As a result,
4 year-groups of grade 8 have passed their
regional exams, with 100% pass rate.
Three batches of grade 12 students took
their exams in this period and we achieved
a 98% university pass rate. (National
average is about 5%.)
The staff were trained in coping with their
trauma and, also, to help the children
recover from the stress and trauma of war
and family bereavements.
The school continues to grow vegetables
and other crops to provide better nutrition.
All monies raised go directly to further the
aims of the Trust. No trustees
receive any remuneration. There are no
employees of the Trust.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have read and understood the
Charity Commission guidance on public
benefit are in compliance. The activity in
the continuing education and care of
children’s health and well-being
demonstrates this.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|All monies raised go directly to further the
aims of the Trust. No trustees
receive any remuneration. There are no
employees of the Trust.| |||| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers travel to Ethiopia to help in the
school either at their own expense or
supported directly by the founders, Max
and Kathryn Robinson. Exceptionally, in
2021-2023 there were no volunteers at the
school due to the ongoing civil war in the
region and consequent security issues for
the volunteers. One volunteer from| Sweden visited in November 2024. Kathryn and Max Robinson visited twice in 2023 and twice in 2024 for 4 weeks each time. Normally, volunteers visit the school on a regular basis to help train the teachers and management staff. All volunteers are DBS checked (or equivalent from their country of residence) and must sign that they are in compliance with the school’s child safety policy as well as sign a contract for their work. ## **Achievements and Performance** |||| |---|---|---| |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|The Nicolas Robinson School continues to
educate 1400 students from kindergarten
(aged 3.5 years) to graduation at Grade 12,
aged 18 years) On a temporary basis, it
has extended this commitment, and 1,900
children are being educated. This is seen
as a temporary situation until other schools
are able to reopen.
Since March 2023, education has been
running intensively with very short breaks
between semesters. This has enabled 3
years of education to be completed in less
than 2 years. As a result, 4 year-groups of
grade 8 have passed their regional exams,
with 100% pass rate. Three batches of
grade 12 students took their exams in this
period and we achieved a 98% university
pass rate. (National average is about 5%.)
Rainbows4children, through sponsors, now
helps the education of about 650 students
at the school and a further 80 who have
gone on to study at University.
School graduates are continuing to achieve
success overseas. Successes in 2024
included full scholarships to African
Leadership Academy, African Science
Academy, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, US International
University in Africa (Nairobi). Others have
gone to Ethiopian Universities, including 8
to Addis Ababa.
Plans were made to reopen the training
college in January 2025.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|As a small charity, the policy agreed by the
trustees is to keep the equivalent of a
minimum 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 can be paid their
salaries.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Any cash reserves are invested in the
deposit account at the bank, generating
bank interest. No risk investments are
made with the funds. As a small charity, the
policy 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 can be paid their
salaries.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£536,259**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**| ## **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|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.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|The Trust document does not allow any
investment of funds in high-risk
investments, so funds are invested in a
bank deposit account. No risk investments
are made with the funds. As a small charity,
the policy 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 can
be paid their salaries.| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|If peace is not sustained in the region,
there is a danger that donors lose
confidence in the use of their funds, and it
becomes difficult to fundraise and/or
maintain the running of the school.| |||| ## **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|| |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|Trustees are nominated by one of the
other, existing trustees, their credentials
presented, and they are invited to the
board if all trustees are in agreement.
Trustees are preferred who have already
visited to the school in Mekele or have a
strong interest/connection with the region.| ## **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|Rainbows4children (UK) Trust works
closely with Rainbows4children Stiftung,
registered in Switzerland. Funds are raised
for the same purpose and The Swiss
Foundation makes transfers of funds to
Ethiopia to the Nicolas Robinson School
bank accounts for the running costs of the
school and other related activities linked to
the health and well-being of students, staff
and their immediate families.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Rainbows4Children(UK)Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Rainbows4children, R4C| |Registered charity number|1116387| |Charity’s principal address|16 Taunton Close
Sutton
Surrey
SM3 9NG| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
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7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Richard Max
Robinson|President||| ||Kathryn Robinson|Secretary||| ||George Potts|||| ||PhilipStockbridge|||| ||Alison Burgh|||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Declarations** **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)Richard Max Robinson**|**Kathryn Warburton Robinson**| |**Position (eg Secretary,**|**President & co-founder**|**Secretary & co-founder**| |**Chair, etc)**||| |||| |**Date**13 April 2025|13 April 2025|| ||**Rainbows4children (UK) Trust**|**Rainbows4children (UK) Trust**|**Rainbows4children (UK) Trust**|||**1116387**|**1116387**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**|| ||01.01.2024
31.12.2024
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|| ||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |Private donations|**-**||**130,915**||**-**||**130,915**||**156,103**|| |Bank interest|**9,582**||**-**||**-**||**9,582**||**6,255**|| |Gift aid refund|**9,528**||**-**||**-**||**9,528**||**9,730**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_|||||||||| |_AR)_|_AR)_**19,110**||**130,915**||**-**||**150,025**||**172,088**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**19,110**
**130,915**
**-**
**150,025**
**172,088**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |Bank charges|**61**||**-**||**-**||**61**||**62**|| |Transfers to Rainbows4Children||||||||||| |Foundation for Mekele School building|**-**||**120,000**||**-**||**120,000**||**20,000**|| |Membershipfees|**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**135**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**121**||**120,000**||**-**||**120,121**||**20,197**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**121**
**120,000**
**-**
**120,121**
**20,197**
~~—————~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**18,989**
**10,915**
**- 29,904**
**151,891**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**56,060**
**450,295**
**-**
**506,355**
**354,464**
**75,049**
**461,210**
**- 536,259**
**506,355**
~~===~~|||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 31/03/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**| |---|---| ||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**| |**Categories**|**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**Details**| ||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**73,607**
**461,210**
**-**
**922**
**-**
**-**
**520**
**-**
**-**
**75,049**
**461,210**
**-**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
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**Endowment**| ||**funds**
**funds**
**funds**| ||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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~~===>~~| |**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
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**Details**
~~=—===~~| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**When due**| |**B5 Liabilities**|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
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**Details**
~~—===~~| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Date of
approval
13/01/2025
13/01/2025
Print Name
Richard MaxRobinson
Kathryn Robinson
Signature
~~——~~| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 31/03/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Rainbows 4 Children UK Trust On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 Charity no (if any) 1116387 Set out on pages CC16a 1 to 2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charily {'Ihe Trust.) for the year ended > Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examinar's statsment 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.. Ihe 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. Signe Date: 31 March 2025 Name: Jake Jones Relevant professional qualification(s> or body (if any): MAAT, ACA Address: 11 Elleray Road Middleton, Manchester IER March 2025