## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 January 2020 **Too** 31
**From**
**Too** 31 December 2020
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1119275
## SaltPeter Trust
**Charity's principal address** 23, Dan y Bryn Ave,
Radyr Cardiff **Postcode** CF15 8DD
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Ian Flower Chairman
2 Helen Flower Treasurer
3 Stuart Gerrish Secretary
4 Ros Gerrish Trustee
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**Medical Advisor**|Dr Mark Vaughan
FRCGP|6, Ygarreg Lwyd, Llanedi, Pontarddulais, SA4 0ZL|
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust Deed, date 23/10/06
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Trust How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods
- (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 relieve poverty & sickness in needy communities in Africa; to promote urban or rural regeneration in these areas; to facilitate training in the Christian religion.
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All trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit & all activities have been undertaken with a view to them being beneficial to the public.
These activities include:
- funding and supporting women’s and widows’ cooperative projects, - supporting income generating projects,
- providing maintenance on project buildings,
**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)**
- providing support, management & medical training to Soroti Baptist Medical Centre
- funding orphans’ & needy children’s education & training - providing support to Soroti Baptist Church
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Soroti Baptist Medical Centre (SBMC):** SaltPeter Trust continued to **Summary of the main** support the Medical Centre throughout the year both financially and **achievements of the charity** practically. **during the year** A medical & maintenance team of 8 visited in January 2020, when free Pop Up Clinics were held in outlying villages, and in Soroti, treating over 1200 patients. Screening clinics were also held for the local Childrens’ Development Centres (CDCs) using SBMC, following up on the 2019 visits. Once again the clinics were considered an overwhelming success. Three or four seriously ill children were identified during the clinics, and were referred on to local or Kampala based hospitals for further treatment, including a colostomy, and one for heart surgery. A fundraising appeal for the latter raised over £6000 for surgery at Kampala Heart Institute, although was delayed because of Covid restrictions. Unfortunately, a plan for further Pop Up Clinics in May 2020, supported by a visit of SPT volunteers, was also thwarted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The UK lock down of March 2020 prevented flights and vehicle movements in Uganda were subsequently banned. SPT responded to a request for support from the Soroti District Health Officer, by donating Pop Up Clinic funds towards fuel for vehicles, allowing them to collect and transport Covid-19 patients to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital. The work of the Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL) Project continued, offering financial help enabling children to travel to Kampala for life-saving treatment. The links established between the major cancer treatment centres (UCI) in Uganda, SBMC, & Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, were maintained, and extended to include the Cancer Centre at Gulu hospital, following visits there from UK volunteers in February 2020. Several patients presented themselves and of those 3 were funded to travel to UCI in Kampala to receive treatment. The work in 2019 highlighted the need to find ways of locating cases & of disseminating information about the illness & the scheme, and so in February 2020 several training sessions in the identification of BL in children were held for Village Health Team workers (VHT’s). An electronic recording system for patient records was developed on WhatsApp, linking medics and researchers in Soroti, Kampala and UK. During the February 2020 trip, maintenance work on the Medical Centre was undertaken. The solar system within the Centre was enhanced with the addition of further solar panels and batteries, improvements were made to the water system in the building, and a blocked rainwater and foulwater soakaway was repaired. Covid-19 severely affected patient numbers attending the Centre when movement was only possible on foot or bicycle, and further financial support for the maintenance of medical equipment was provided from the UK. **Women’s & Widows’ Cooperatives** : UK trustees visited groups while in Uganda in early 2020. Agricultural practice & food security has been the focus in the cooperatives since the 2017 crop failure & famine. The rotresistant cassava cuttings introduced in 2018 proved to be immensely successful giving a much higher yield thus helping with food security. Cuttings continue to be shared among the group members.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Trials of an improved quality of gnuts also provided a larger nut & much increased yield. Each recipient of the new strain passes seeds on to others following harvest to share the benefit of the improved stock. In addition, training sessions on ‘Farming God’s Way’ were funded, for 90 attendees to learn techniques of reduced ploughing, controlled planting, and mulching the ground to reduce evaporation in dry seasons. The increases in yields in the trials which followed were notable. A grain storage project was undertaken in the Kachumbala area in 2019, purchasing 22T of maize, storing for 2 months, and selling to the market. The scheme provided gainful employment for 6 workers, and produced a 30% profit. The exercise was repeated in 2020, with only 18T purchased, (because of higher prices) but this time stored in GrainPro bags for 4 months. This reduced the losses caused by weevils, and provided continued employment for several workers, but only yielded a profit of 5% because of price fluctuations. The funds remain in Uganda to be used again when maize is available for purchase.
Soroti Baptist Church has been seriously affected by Covid closures, so Ainon Baptist Church through SPT have provided funds for Bibles in both English and Ateso, and the printing of weekly bible study notes, permitting groups of up to 10 to meet in homes whilst the church has been closed. **Education** : 6 children/young people continued receive financial support for education from SaltPeter Trust, although this has been seriously affected by school closures from April 2020 due to Covid-19:
- 1 in Primary
- 1 beginning O levels in Secondary
- 1 doing A levels in Secondary
- 1 following a course in Construction
- 2 at University, 1 4[th] yr Mech Eng, 2[nd] yr Education.
Monthly support has also been provided for 2 Pastors and one SPT graduate who are involved in essential guidance and support for the agricultural projects.
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## **Section E Financial review**
Most income is specific project related & once received, is transferred to **Brief statement of the** projects or educational establishments at regular intervals as required. **charity’s policy on reserves** Where money may accumulate it is put into accessible interest bearing accounts. In addition a large sum of money has been given for a specific children’s cancer project which is at present deposited in a savings account.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **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);
- 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**
|**ed** **on behalf of the charity’s trustees**|**’s trustees**|**’s trustees**||
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|**Signature(s)** I W Flower
H M Flower
**Full name(s)** Ian William Flower
Helen Margaret Flower
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
Chair
Treasurer
**Date** 25thOctober 2021`|I W Flower
H M Flower|||
||Ian
**air,**
**etc)**|William Flower
Helen Margaret Flower||
|||Chair
Treasurer||
|||25thOctober 2021`||
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Independent examinerfs report on the
accounts
Séction A
Independènt Examiner's Report
Report to the trustwsl
Sa]tPeter Trust
On accounts for the year
31112r20
Charity no
(rfany)
1119275
Set oirt on pages
I Tel to the trustees my examinati¢)n of the accourrts of the above
arity (Ihe Trusf) for trt year erthd3 1 111 11020
Responsibililies and
basis of Teport
As the chartils trustees, you are respK)nsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordan with the requirements of the Chariti'es Act 2011
(Ihe Acr).
I report in resFect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying (xrt my examination, I
have follo1 all the ap1¢able t*re(aions given by the Charty Commission
uThler sedion 145(5)(b) of the Ac*.
Independent
examinerfs statement
I have o)mpleted my examinats'on. I ccxffinn that no material matters have
come to my attention in connethon wrth the examinats'on
a09e& which gNes me cause to believe that in. any matenal
respectr.
the accounting recc*ts we rK* krfl in accordarKe with seth.on 130
of the charrt Act. or
the accounts not accfjrd *ith the acc(xJrtirKJ records.. or
the accounts did not comply wÈth the applicab requirements
cOnmi the form and content of accounts set in the Charrties
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter
considered as part of an irvJeFendent examinatTron.
I have no concems arKI have come across no ¢)ther matters in connecti
wrth the examination to which attenb.on should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understandirKJ of the acwunts to be read)ed.
. Please delete tts words in the brad(ets rfthey (k) not appy.
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Signed:
Dats:
Martin David Thole
Relevant professional
qualifiG*ion(s) or body
Charter•J Accountant (ACA)
IER
Oct 2018
(rf any):
Address:
6. Patrnore Close,
Gwaelod y Garth,
Cardiff. CF15 9SU.
Section 8
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, IndeperKJent examination of charity accounts". directions and
guidan for examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
Oct 2018