The Streetlight Trust
Charity Name and Number
The Streetlight Trust: registered charity number 1117789
Principal Addre55
1 Warners Ck)se, Great Brickhill, Milton Keynes, MK17 9BJ
Trustees
Revd M Adams
Mr A J Barton Jreasurer)
MrMJGale
Revd I C Herbert (Chairman)
MsMMLane
Ms L Lynch
Revd C McAllister
Revd N J Taylor
Professional Advisors
Bankers.. Co-operative Bank plc, PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP
Independent Examiner." Mr O H Hennes
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Trustees Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2024
The trustees present their annual report and financial statement for the year ended
31 December 2024. The financial statements have been prepared on a cash basis.
Structure. Governance and Management
The Streetlight Trust was established on 4 February 2006 under a twst deed. The
charity is constituted as a Trust.
The trust is managed by the trustees. There are no staff employed by the Trust. The
trust deed provides for a minimum of three trustees. There were eight Trustees at the
end of the year.
New trustees are appointed by the existing Trustees. All new Trustees are appointed
for an initial temi of three years. During the year, Mary Lane, Rev Crystsl McAllister
and Rev Jim Taylor were reappointed as Trustees. We were also delighted to appoint
Lian Lynch to join the Trustees in November 2024.
At trustees. meetings, the strategy for Streetlight is agreed, finances and fundraising
are reviewed, along with the achievements being made with the funds provided to
Kanlungan.
During 2024, three Trustee meeting were held including a strategy day. The Tnjstees
dealt with other matters via e-mail. In future the Tnjstees expect to continue holding
some of its meetings via Zoom in order to reduce carbon footprint.
Objectlves and activitles for the Public Benefit
The objects of the Streetlight Trust as set out in its trust deed are "to improve the
lives of the poorest and most vulnerable children and their families in the Philippines
by making grants of money available to non-governmental organisations (NGO'S)
operating with a Christian ethos."
The Trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public
benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake.
Achievements and performance
Street families in Metro Manila continued to find lrfe very tough as the Philippines.
Kanlungan Sa ERMA the NGO that Streetlight supports, experienced significant
demands upon it.
One of the sad realities of the pandemic has been the explosive growth of online
sexual exploitation in the Philippines. Kanlungan estimate that over of the
children in their care have experienced some kind of online sexual exploitation.
Kanlungan operates in the metro-manila area in the Philippines, and runs projects
covering:
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street education and child protection for street children,.
day centres for street children living in urban slums, where children can get an
education and a meal;
a temporary shelter and short-term residential care centre for street children
who need coun5elling and support
long term residential care and training centres, one for girls and one for boys;
after care to reunite children with their families, provide educational
assistance and help the parents take care of the children;
social enterprises (a farni growing coffee in Cavite province, south of Manila)
to provide employment opportunities for older boys.
The grants made to Kanlungan are largely unrestricted to cover the core stsffing
costs of the organisation, as well as utilities and food for the children.
The trustees ensure that the public benefit stated in the Trusys objects are being
achieved in several ways. Normally, the prime means is from visits to see Kanlungan's
projects in action.
In April 2024 several Trustees were able to visit tsking a group from the UK. The
Trustees also kept in contact with Kanlungan via online attendance at staff devotions,
and regular online and telephone communication. The Chair of StreetlighL lan
Herbert, remains a member of the Board of Trustees at Kanlungan.
The trustees are very conscious of the impact of climate change, especially on the
world's poorest people, and now has a policy to carbon offset air travel. This will be
done by any travellers to the Philippines on Streetlight business.
The trustees are extremely grateful to all Streetlight's supporters. Thanks to modem
technology we are able to bring our supporters into contsct with the stsff team at
Kanlungan. In January 2024, we ran a "virtual tea" event with Sol Balbero the
Executive Director of Kanlungan. This event was appreciated by all who attended.
Reserves Policy
The Trust regularly reviews its reserves policy. During the year, the reseNes level was
maintained at £18,400 equal to two of the regular payments that are made every two
months.
The unrestricted cash balance at year end was £30,584 which is above the minimum
reserve. The charity's cashflow is always at its highest in December, During 2024, the
reserves did go below the minimum, but with a clear cashflow plan the charity was
able to restore balances by the year end.
Financial Review Detalls
The fundraising environment was challenging across the sector in 2024. The diverse
range of Streetlighys fundraising income streams helped the charity withstand these
challenge5 better than many.
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Financial erformance: income
During the year, cash receipts totalled £72.773 (up 7% on 2023) and cash expenditure
£67,708 (down 11% on 2023).
As trustees, we have yet again been greatly encouraged by the remarkable generosity
and commitment of our supporters. Thank you.
Individual Regular giving totalled £18,457 (down 5% on 2023). The number of
regular givers fell by 2 to 45 during the year.
Indlvidual Single Giving totalled £16,337 (up 59% on 2023). This stream of giving
does vary year on year because it is highly dependent on a small number of
individuals who have been long-standing supporters of Streetlight. We are so
grateful to you.
Gift aid of £6,485 was claimed during the year, a 16% decrease on 2023.
Fundraising events and activities grew substantially as the impact of Coronavirus
lifted. Income was £14,605 (up 2% on 2023). Events ranged from the Christmas Ball in
Bletchley, to a golf day, and brass band concerts.
We were delighted that Kwon Sale partnered with Streetlight contributing £2,750
from their sales of good quality children's clothing, equipment and toys.
Dlrert f￿ancial support from churches amounted to £11,514 (down 11% on 2023).
During the year. six churches provided direct financial support. We are grateful to all
the churches for their financial and prayer support.
We did not receive any legacy gifts in 202
Other giving remains unpredictable. In 2024, the total was boosted by two gifts from
the Vera Outhwaite Charitable Trust. We are very gratefvl for their trust in Streetlight.
Financial erformanc
ex
enditure
During the year, remittances to Kanlungan sa ERMA totalled £60,480 (down 8% on
2023). Of the total in 2024. £58,900 was from unrestricted funds and £1,580 from
restricted funds.
Streetlight maintained its regular gwing of £55,200 to Kanlungan which is provided
on an unrestricted basis to support staff salaries, rents, food and utilities. This
funding is of great strategic value to Kanlungan as many grant funder will not fund
general costs. Additional gifts were made, mainly to support Kanlungan staff costs.
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The costs of fvndraising events and activities totalled £5,622 (down 24 % on 2023)
This was partly a timing issue as the 2023 expenditure included some payments
relating to the 2022 Ball. We are grateful to the team at Wilton Hall for their strong
partnership with Streetlight and all their hard work
Administrntion costs of £361 covered costs of child protection, and charges fro
managing online payments. All of the remittances to the Philippines are now
managed without bank charges thanks to the switch to Equals Money. All
administration costs are covered by the Trustees, financial contributions.
Travel costs of £1,246 were incurred by the Trust to part offset Trustee costs in
visiting Kanlungan.
The Trustees, policy that any travel costs must be more than funded by the Trustee5
pooled financial contributions to Streetlight remains in place.
Lookin
fopward
2025 will be a challenging year for Kanlungan. Our prayer is that Kanlungan staff will
continue to be able to help children heal from trauma and unlock their inner, God-
given, potential.
The challenge for Streetlight will be to sustain and grow income against the
continued backdrop of the cost-of-living challenge and the fragility of church
finances. Streetlight has been blessed with very committed supporters and so we
look forward to 2025 in faith.
lan Herbert, Chair of Trustees,
March 2025
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
The stre￿I1ght Tnst
111T189
Receipts and pa
ments accounts
CC16a
For the perlod
from
01Jan-24
31-Dee-24
To
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
Tot41 funds
Last year
to th• nMrnst£ to th• hMr•¥t £ to th• n￿r•St £
t¢ tho £
A1 Recel
Indiwdu81 Regular Giving
Individual Singlg Giving
Fundraising Events and Ac*lvRie8
Chur¢h Giviny
Leg8CI88
Other Giving
Other
GiftA
18.097
15,177
14.605
11.514
18.457
16,337
14.605
11.514
19,457
10,295
14,305
12,931
5,375
5.375
88
7,751
6.395
Sub total{Gmss income for
AR)
A2 A88et and Inve8tmont sales,
(800 tsble).
Salo of 208 Bar¢lay• share•
71.163
1.61
72.773
67,947
Sub total
71.183
1.810
71773
68,189
A3Pa
•nts
RemlttBncgs to K8nlung8n
Cost of Fundraisln
Evont3 & Acbviti•$
Admln Costs
Travd Co$ts
65.620
7.400
447
2.718
0.822
381
1,246
5,622
361
1,246
Sub total
128
67,708
76.110
A4 A88•t and Inve•tm•nt
ur¢hase8,
See table
Sub total
78.1
Net of re¢•lpts/(p•ym•nts)
AS Tran8fer8 between fund•
A8 Cash fund8 la8t year end
Cash funds thls year end
25,549
289
25,838
a0.￿3
33,835
31
CCXX R1 attounts {SS>
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted
Restrlcted
funds
funds
to rwrest£
to n￿rest£
Endowmenl
funds
to noar8st £
Categories
Details
B1 Cash fund8
Cash at Bank
319
Total cash fun(ts
319
Unrestrlcted
funds
to ngjrnt £
Restrlctod
funds
to n9arest E
Endowment
funds
to n￿r￿•t £
Details
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behalf of all the trustees
Dale of
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Print Name
Androw James Barton
lan Charl8s Herbert
Its
CCXX R2 accounts {SS}
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the truste
members of
ckna￿ Name
The Streetlight Trust
On accounts for the year
ended
31 December 2024
Charity no
(rf any)
1117789
Set out on pages
", emeri.ber tg In¢liJde the page numbers ol additional sheel*'
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
responsibilities of The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Charits'es Act 2011 (the Charits"es Act) and that an
independent examinats'on 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)(b) of the Charities Act, and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given
examIne￿S statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts
presented wth those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual
items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the
trustees conceming any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not
provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and
consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true
and fairf view and the rèport is limited to those matters set out in tha
statement below.
Independent In connection with my examinab'on, no material matters have come to my
8xamln8¢s statement attention
") which gives me c2use to believe
that in, any material ￿SpeCt.
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Charities Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to
which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding
of the accounts to be reached.
' Please delete the words in the bRckets rf they do not apply.
Slgned:
Name:
Oliver Hemies
Relevant professlonal
qualification{s) or body
(il any):
Address:
18 Hamilton Lane, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 SLU
IER
December 2017

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
examiners).
Give hete brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
December 2017