## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] January 2023 Period start date To 31[st] December 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: See Ability First International** ## **Charity registration number: 1117305** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To relieve the financial hardship or other
charitable needs of people with disabilities in
Tanzania and East Africa to enable them to
obtain training in appropriate skills by such
means as the trustees determine from time
to time providing they are recognised as
charitable according to the charitable law of
England and Wales| |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|To raise funds to:
- support Neema Crafts Workshop,
Iringa, Tanzania
- support the expansion of
marketing of crafts made by
people with disabilities through the
establishment of a new Centre, See Ability
First, in Arusha, Tanzania| |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 acted in accordance
with the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit. It has
focussed on activities to support people
with disabilities in Tanzania and East
Africa by supporting training and
employment.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers 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|The charity has continued to relieve hardship
of disabled people in East Africa the
following achievements:
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enabling through financial and other
support the former Directors of the
Neema Crafts Centre in Iringa to
move to Northern Tanzania to
establish a new centre in Arusha
(See Ability First, Tanzania)
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funding the allowances of new
volunteer Directors for the Neema
Crafts Centre, Iringa
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support the activities of the Neema
Crafts Centre in Iringa, Tanzania,
through grants for general activities,
sponsored staff families bicycle
maintenance, and Football outreach,
In addition interim funding has been
provided to enable the purchase of
some items from international
suppliers.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|During 2023 receipts were £57,396 of which
£39,778 was to support the new Directors at
Neema Crafts Workshop, Iringa. Total
payments were £60,536. At the end of the
year the Trust held cash balances of
£88,643.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|At the meeting of the trustees on 7th
February 2017 it was agreed £10,000 should
be held in reserve. This was approximately
the cost of two months’ wages at Neema
Crafts in Iringa. This reserve could be used
to cover two months’wages.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£10,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|Part of the reserve has been used to provide
interim funding for the purchase of supplies
by Neema Crafts Workshop, Iringa| |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|| |---|---|---| |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|Model Declaration of Trust for a Charitable
Trust| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|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|Appointed by the existing Trustees| ## **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|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|See Ability First International| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Neema Crafts Workshop| |Registered charity number|1117305| |Charity’s principal address|20 Rycroft Avenue
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr BarryAustin|Chairman||ExistingTrustees| ||Malcolm Crawford|Treasurer||ExistingTrustees| ||Mrs Deborah M
Austin|||Existing Trustees| ||Mr Martin Davies|||ExistingTrustees| ||Mrs Susanna E.
Davies|||Existing Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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) Full name(s)** Malcolm James Crawford **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** **Date** 24[th] October 2024 CHARITY COMMIS510N FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectlon A Independent Examlner's Report Rèport to the trusteesl member5 of See Ability First Inlemational (Neema Crafts Workshop UK) On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023 Charity no lif any) 1117305 Set out on poges 3and4 report to thè Iruslees on my examinatitrn of the accounts of the ab)ve charity I￿￿e Trust'l lor the year endad 3111J2023 Rgsponslbllitigs and basls of r8port As the charity's trustees. you are responsible forthe pr•paration of the ac￿unt$ in accordance wrth the requirements of the Chanties Act 2011 I'the Act'i. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried oul under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have follow8d 811 the applicable Dire¢tion$ given by the Charity Comrnission under section 14515llbl of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have cA)mpleted my examination. I confirm that no matenal matters have coffe to my attention in connection with the ¢xamination ¢3￿¢1￿) which gives mè Cause to believe that in. any material spect. the ac£ounting records were not kept in awordance with sec*'on 130 of the Chanties Act". or the accounts did not a(Lord with the accounting reo)rds," or thtr a(￿ountS did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the form and ￿nIent of ￿)untS set out In thè Charites (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the a￿unt$ give a'lrue and fair view which 1$ ftot a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and com& across no other matters in connection with the examination to whith attentson should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of th• a¢counts to b& reached. . Pleas& d818tg th61 WO￿ in the brackelsrflhey do not appty. Dat•: Nam?: quallficationlsl or body b-y IER Oct 2018 Ilf onyl.. Addrn88: 8 Kestr￿ Pl St Neots I PE19 1TR Section B Disclosure Only compleie I, the examiner needs 10 highlight malenal Tayers o, cop,r.erp Isee CC32. Independent examination of charrty accounts.. dir¢cliC￿5 and guidance lor examiners). GThf• hère btief del•ll• of any Items that the èxaminerwhhes to IER O¢t2018 **Charity Name No (if any) See Ability First International (Neema Crafts Workshop 1117305 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1st Jan 2023 31st Dec 2023 ## **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 £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Sale of Goods|**75**||**-**||**-**||**75**||**4,257**| |General Donations|**11,111**||||**-**||**11,111**||**6,580**| |Bank Interest|**1,639**||**-**||**-**||**1,639**||**337**| |Individual sponsorship|**-**||**805**||**-**||**805**||**902**| |Volunteers Support|**-**||**39,954**||**-**||**39,954**||**-**| |Football Fund|**-**||**504**||**-**||**504**||**504**| |Housing Fund|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**400**| |Bicycle Repair Fund|**-**||**3,485**||**-**||**3,485**||**-**| |Therapy Fund|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Lets Hear|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**12,824**||**44,748**||**-**||**57,572**||**12,981**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**Total receipts**|**12,824**||**44,748**||**-**||**57,572**||**12,981**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Payments to Neema Tz - General|||**4,412**||**-**||**4,412**||**29,531**| |- Volunteer Expenses|**-**||**35,810**||**-**||**35,810**||**-**| |- Supplies|**14,587**||**-**||**-**||**14,587**||**-**| |- Housing Fund|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,569**| |Payments to SAFI|**-**||||||**-**||**6**| |Other|**1,002**||**-**||**-**||**1,002**||**8,965**| |Web hosting|**33**||**-**||**-**||**33**||**-**| |Bank charges|**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**81**| |Development Fund|**-**||**586**||**-**||**586**||**4,950**| |Bike Fund|**-**||**4,045**||**-**||**4,045**||**1,445**| |**Sub total **|**15,682**||**44,854**||**-**||**60,536**||**46,546**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Sub total **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**Totalpayments**|**15,682**||**44,854**||**-**||**60,536**||**46,546**| ||||||||||| |**Net of receipts/(payments)**|**- 2,858**||**- 106**||**-**||**- 2,964**||**- 33,565**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 9,805**||**9,805**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**19,818**||**71,965**||**-**||**91,783**||**125,348**| |**Cash funds thisyear end**|**7,156**||**81,664**||**-**||**88,819**||**91,783**| ||||||Page 3||||| **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Balance at Bank||||**7,156**|**81,664**||**71,966**| |||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**Total cash funds**
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**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||**Cost (optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Cost (optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|||**Amount due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|Neema Crafts Workshop Tanzania|||||**-**||**3,945**| |||||||||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||Date of
approval| ||||||Malcolm Crawford|||30/09/2024| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||||||Page 4||||