## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date O1 04 2024 31 03 2025 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Cameron’s Orphanage Project **Other names charity is known by** Itala Foundation (Previous name) **Registered charity number (if any)** 1119132 **Charity's principal address** 25, Coopers Close Burgess Hill **Postcode RH5 8AN** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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1 Amanada Jayne Chairperson
2 James White Secretary
3 Jill Silvey Trustee
4 Abigail Howard Trustee
5 Miranda Holliday Trustee
6 Dominic Andrews Trustee 14/05/2024-31/03/25
7 Katie Boaks Trustee 09/05/24-31/03/25
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of**|**advisers (Optional information)**|**advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**| |**Accountant**|Constance Rutter|| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Declaration of Trust 31[st] January 2007 as amended 08 July 2008, s208A Type of governing document resolution 25/01/2025 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. trust, association, company) - (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; - 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** TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS AT ITALA COMMUNITY SCHOOL, MKUSHI, ZAMBIA BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOL AND PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR PUPILS UNABLE TO AFFORD AN EDUCATION. 2. RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP: (BY PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES OF EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT (II) BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE POOR LIVING IN ITALA EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY. 3 COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING - TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN IN THE COMMUNITY OF ITALA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO HELP MEET THEIR NEEDS. March **2012** **TAR** 2 The trustees acknowledge their duty to have due regard to the commission's public benefit guidance (under section 4 of the 2006 act) when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant and within this framework the main activities carried out in the year are as follows: 1. Supported 12 vulnerable orphans within Cameron’s Children Home (CCH). Employed two local Mamas and one local security guard to run CCH. **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)** 2. Taking an expedition in April 2024 of 12 volunteers to help with various projects. 3. Community support for various hardships. 4. Fence in the entire compound for security and safeguarding 5. Complete the plastering and floors of new 3x1 Classroom at Itala Foundation School ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** The trustees have agreed to create assets in Zambia that will generate an income for the Orphanage (CCH) to help with running costs and to employ local people adding to public benefit. The following has been started or agreed to start: 1. Continue to farm maize to help with feeding of children You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; 2. Vegetable growing program in extended gardens of CCH to help with feeding of children 3. Extra teaching of Orphans to help them progress at school 4. Find education program for Mamas to gain higher qualifications 5. Refurbishing boys toilets for Itala Foundation School - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance ## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Itala Foundation Community School now has 1800 pupils and a total of 35 staff. Our continued support of local teachers and infrastructure has been a major contribution to its success. We have just completing a new 3x1 classroom which will allow smaller classes as there can be over 100 pupils in a class and we are planning another 3x1 classroom for 25/26. Our mid-term goal is to help CCH become self-sufficient through creating assets in Mkushi which generate an income. We now have three house to rent out to teachers, and we have reinstated our chicken coup and have had a chicken breeding program in 2024/25. We have managed to purchase another 1/3rd hectare farm for growing fruit and vegetables to help feed the children and make CCH more selfsufficient. We are proud that we only employ local persons for all the works in Mkushi, no payments are made to UK trustees so that every penny raised goes to public benefit. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** ## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The bare minimum to run CCH for one year is £10,000 and it is the trustees view that we should always have this in reserve. Cash reserves at 31[st] March 2024 stand at £18,229. Additional reserves of £18,000 are invested into high interest accounts until we have built sufficient funds that can be managed by a third-party investment house on behalf of the charity. (See resolution s280A) ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** **Further financial review details (Optional information)** The charity’s principal source of funding is through donations. We now You **may choose** to include have regular ‘sponsors’ who make monthly contributions by ‘sponsoring’ additional information, where and orphan. On top of this we have donations through our website relevant about: www.camsorphanage.org and donations that come from an individual  the charity’s principal fundraising activity or through friends of friends. sources of funds (including any fundraising); Key expenditure relates to wages and salary costs and orphanage  how expenditure has running costs, with minimal costs incurred in the UK, except for expedition costs which are typically incurred by the volunteers, expensed supported the key objectives to the charity and reimbursed to the volunteers of the charity;  investment policy and Our long-term plan is to build a fund in the UK where the interest covers objectives including any the running costs of CCH as well as maintenance and repair of both Itala ethical investment policy Foundation Community School and CCH. This will be through finding adopted. ~~__~~ more ‘Sponsors’ and encouraging larger fundraising events. **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)** Amanda Jayne **Full name(s)** James White **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary Chair **etc) Date** 14/01/2025 March **2012** **TAR** 5 |**Charity Name**|||||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
ee ee
ee|||||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**CC16a**||| |Donations
**61,392**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**61,392**|**61,392**||**29,551**|**29,551**|| |Gift Aid
**13,015**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**13,015**|**13,015**||**1,707**|**1,707**|| |Interest
**72**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**72**|**72**||**56**|**56**|| |Rental Income
**724**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**724**|**724**||**256**|**256**|| |Other income
**181**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**181**|**181**||**414**|**414**|| |**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**75,384**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**75,384**|**75,384**||**31,984**|**31,984**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**Loan repayment received**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 2,500**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**77,884**
**-**
**-**
**77,884**
**31,984**
**A3 Payments**
Projects
**824**
**-**
**-**
**824**
**547**
———~~——~~|||||||||||||||| |Running cost orphanage Zambia
**7,627**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**7,627**|**7,627**||**6,918**|**6,918**|| |Infrastructure orphanage Zambia
**2,369**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,369**|**2,369**||**1,294**|**1,294**|| |Infrastructure school Zambia
**17,288**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**17,288**|**17,288**||**4,866**|**4,866**|| |Education sponsorship Zambia
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**594**|**594**|| |Community support Zambia
**1,306**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,306**|**1,306**||**875**|**875**|| |UK Costs
**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**7,547**|**7,547**|| |Bank charges
**184**||||||||||**184**|**184**||**91**|**91**|| |Volunteer Expenses
**18,652**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**18,652**|**18,652**||**3,338**|**3,338**|| |FX Losses
**1,936**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,936**|**1,936**||**1,188**|**1,188**|| |**_Sub total_ 50,186**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**50,186**|**50,186**||**27,258**|**27,258**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**Transfer to investment acc**
**18,000**
**-**
**-**
**18,000**
**7,000**
Loans made
**2,500**
**-**
**-**
**2,500**
**_Sub total_ 20,500**
**-**
**-**
**20,500**
**7,000**
**_Total payments_**
**70,686**
**-**
**-**
**70,686**
**34,258**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**7,198**
**-**
**-**
**7,198**
**- 2,274**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**11,033**
**- -**
**11,033**
**13,307**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**18,231**
**-**
**- 18,231**
**11,033**
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SSSS=|||||||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 27/01/2026 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **----- Start of picture text -----**
|||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Categories|Details|funds|funds|funds| |to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £| |B1 Cash funds|-|-|-| |-|-|-| |-|-|-| |Total cash funds|-|-|-| |—====| |(agree balances with receipts and payments| |account(s))|Agreement Error|OK|OK| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |funds|funds|funds| |Details|to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £| |B2 Other monetary assets|-|-|-| |-|-|-| |-|-|-| |-|-|-| |-|-|-| |-|-|-| |——===| |Fund to which|Current value| |Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)| |B3 Investment assets|Cash funds held in high interest account|Cameron's Orphanage|-|25,000| |Project| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |ee| |Fund to which|Current value| |Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)| |B4 Assets retained for the|School & Creche and Buildings|Cameron's Orphanage|65,000|52,000| |Project| |charity’s own use|Orphanage Building|Cameron's Orphanage|22,000|17,600| |Project| |Teachers Houses|Cameron's Orphanage|15,000|15,000| |Project| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |-|-| |meee| |Fund to which|Amount due|When due| |Details|liability relates|(optional)|(optional)| |B5 Liabilities|-| |-| |-| |-| |-| |Signed by one or two trustees on|Date of| |Signature|Print Name| |behalf of all the trustees|approval| |Mr James White|26/01/2026| |Ms Amanda Jayne|26/01/2026| |===| |CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2|27/01/2026| **----- End of picture text -----**
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Cameron’s Orphanage Project **On accounts for the year** 31 March 2025 **Charity no** 1119132 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) - I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2025** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 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 **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and 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 brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed: Date:** 21.01.2026 ~~(fot fF~~ **Name:** Constance Rutter **Relevant professional** Member of the ICAEW – Part Qualified Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 16 Triangle Road Haywards Heath RH164HW 1 **October 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the** No matter has come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that **examiner wishes to** accounting records have not been kept properly, or the accounts do not accord **disclose** . with the records. 2 **October 2018** **IER**