2022-03-31-accounts - Action With Awareness Regarding Education Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date
From	01	April	2021	To	31 March	2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name[ACTION WITH AWARENESS REGARDING EDUCATION ] FOUNDATION

Other names charity is known by THE AWARE FOUNDATION (TAF, in short)

Registered charity number (if any) 1119897

Charity's principal address

“URMILA”, TESTON ROAD, OFFHAM, KENT Postcode ME19 5NB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Jayesh R. Patel	ManagingTrustee	Whole Year	Board of Trustees(BoT)
Rajesh Bhat	Founder Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
Prashant Patel	Treasurer	Wholeyear	BoT
Amit Patel	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
Rakesh Patel	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
Allan Blaydon	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Not Applicable

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

TRUST DEED

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Charity Trust

(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointment by the Board of 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.
Policy to appoint trustees who commit time/ideas/skills/other resources
Policy to train/sensitize the trustees by visits to field projects and interacting with the filed staff and other local resource persons
AWARE encourages partner organisations to mobilise local and other funds, using AWARE’s funding as a leverage. Most partners have multiple funding and AWARE’s funds are used mostly on expenses on activities towards achieving the objects of the project
Internationally/ locally recognised individuals are invited to be Patrons with the aim of enhancing the credibility of the Trust in various countries and communities. Currently, Mr. John Wright (New Zealand), and Mr. Paul Kenyon (U.K.) are the Patrons of the AWARE Foundation.

Section C Objectives and activities

(1) To mobilise funds for projects related to underprivileged children in other countries, esp. India.

(2) To mobilise resources for calamities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

(3) To organise events to generate awareness on specific developmental issues, especially related to children
(4) To collect regular contributions by “pay roll paying” or “Direct Debit” (5) To partner with organisations for better services (6) To identify partners/projects/programmes for support (7) To build up capacities of partners
(8) To monitor/review projects, if & when required
(9) To advocate for policy changes (10) To conduct campaigns/ research etc.

(11) To organise seminars, workshops etc.

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)

Just at the beginning of the reporting period of this report (1/4/2021 to 31/3/2022), the second wave of the Covid -19 pandemic spread fear and terror in India. In April 2021, India witnessed the peak of a single-day’s number of cases at 100,000 cases on April 4. This alarmed two of The AWARE Foundation’s (TAF’s) partners viz. Swapath Trust and Vishwagram, who came together and formed a network of volunteers to respond to this situation and take the required action. A Zoom meeting of some 60 concerned people, including 14 public health experts/epidemiologists was convened by TAF, which concluded that “action must be taken to arrest the unnecessary flow of patients with mild symptoms to the overworked hospitals and instead tret them at/near their homes.” The Niramay Network, as the group called itself, came up with a plan to prepare the required kits; offered para-medical services and space for treatments (generally, shut down schools or other public buildings) as centres for treatment. 18 such centres were managed across the state of Gujarat equipped with 108 volunteers and guided by a retired head of the PSM department and ex-Director of state government’s health department. Training was offered to the paramedics and a team of doctors was made available to each centre when cases became serious or for any advice. 603 patients were treated. The programme was then wound up as the burden on the hospitals gradually alleviated. TAF supported this initiative. The network also pledged support the education of 600 of those children who lost either one or both parents to the Covid infection for at least coming three years along with mentoring support. (1) With regards to the first objective of mobilising funds, The AWARE Foundation (TAF) is happy to report having mobilised £ 141,546/which after deduction of expenses (£ 111,701/-) which includes release of grants to projects in India (£ 88,448/-) and adding previous bank balance as on 31/3/2021 (£94,730/-), resulted in a net surplus of £ 134,311/- at the end of the financial year ’21-‘22 (audited a/c. submitted). (2) TAF did take the Covid pandemic as a serious global calamity like none before and therefore mobilised funds for it during the financial year and responded to the calamity as mentioned above in the paragraph preceding point no. 1. (3) After serious restrictions last year and continued pressure, TAF only managed to host only one fund raising event which was golf by following Golf England Covid event rules. As always, this event is well supported by many business associates and supporters. Despite all restrictions we managed to engage close to 140 players to come and enjoy. This event raised staggering £22K with all the corporate sponsorship and donations. Trustees are planning more events to raise funds in UK to continue supporting our charitable partners on an ongoing basis. Throughout the year we are lucky to be supported by many UK businesses who continue their regular contribution to TAF. TAF also benefit from many small donations from friends and families through our CAF platform in UK.

(4) TAF had collaborations in India with four organisations (and six projects) during the year. After the pandemic leaving its fear behind but direct effects dwindling, most of the projects in India made efforts to establish normalcy. The collaborating organisations this year were four: (i) Citizen’s Alliance for Rural Development & Training Society (CARDTS), Bengaluru, which manages a shelter home for HIV affected children at a village 120 kms south-west of Bengaluru and a second one for HVI infected children at Mangalore (ii) Vishwagram is a Mehsana-based Trust and manages a shelter home for male Street Children at a village near Mehsana in North Gujarat; (iii) Swapath Trust manages two educational programmes in Gujarat for some of the most vulnerable children. Swapath Trust also monitors TAF programmes in India and is the secretariat for a state-level network called CRCG (iv) Shaishav Trust manages a programme called Aranyak (The Forest Dwellers) with the children of disadvantaged Tribal children. (5) As mentioned above, during the financial year TAF directly supported six projects in India through 4 organisations. Brief details follow: ▪ The first project supported by TAF was “Samaadan”- a shelter home for HIV affected children at a village called Girigowdanapalya near Kunigal about 120 kms south of Bengaluru and a shelter home called Samvedana at Mangalore for HIV infected children. This year, Samadaan supported 33 boys whose parents were HIV infected, whereas Samvedana supported 38 HIV infected boys and girls. Thus, CARDTS was responsible for taking care of 71 children in all. ▪ The second project took care of 18 street children & orphans . This project, known as “Karuna Gram”, was managed by a charity called “Vishwagram”. These children lived at a rehab centre at village Basna near Mehsana in North Gujarat. Under the NIramay Network banner, Vishwagram volunteers aided 300 children who lost their parents to the pandemic. (This money, however, was not by TAF. They were local funds). ▪ Swapath Trust: The first of Swapath Trust’s projects was called “School Retention Programme” has been discontinued since the pandemic and no activity could take place. o Higher education Support Programme (HESP): This financial year, only 35 university-level students were offered educational aid compared to around 60 every year as the colleges were still limping back to normalcy. The support covered students in faculties like Agriculture, teacher’s training (M. Ed.), Physical Education, Chemistry, Nursing, and master’s courses in languages like Gujarati and Hindi. 31 students were given tablets during the pandemic period to help them in the on-line education. One of the students, Ms. Dharti Rana, bagged a Gold Medal at her Master’s (with Hindi). o In Dangs, one of the poorest districts in the country, TAF supported four seasonal hostels (SHs) for the children of migrant labourers after a gap due to the pandemic in the 2020-21 season. This year, Swapath reached out to 160 children through four SHs. o TAF also supported Child Rights Collective, Gujarat (CRCG) – a state level network of around 75 organisations working with / for children. CRCG works on networking and advocacy on child rights and children’s right to education. CRCG organised networking meetings and 6 training sessions on the Zoom platform for its member organisations.

Swapath Trust supported 180 children who lost their parents to Covid-19. These are spread over 5 districts. in 5 districts. These children were also mentored during the year by designated volunteers, mostly teachers.
Through Swapath and Vishwagram, TAF supported education of 100 orphaned/injured/needy children in the conflict-affected state of Jammu & Kashmir.
The fourth organisation partnering with TAF was Shaishav Trust for a project in the tribal area of Dediyapada. TAF supported Aranyak (Forest Dwellers) Project, which was active in 14 villages trying to make them child-friendly villages. 851 children have been outreached in 14 villages through this initiative. Apart from this, two special schools (Van ShalasForest Schools) cater to 389 children.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grant making.
policy programme related investment.
Contribution made by volunteers.
TAF’s policy is to select partners very carefully so that all the four basic rights (as defined by UNCRC) of the children are protected/promoted.
For educational support, a need-based approach (rather than a meritbased one) is adopted
TAF believes in working in partnerships and aims at evolving a network of organisations working with common objectives and converging activities.
Currently TAF plans to concentrate its partnerships in India. Unless and until a regional or global level agenda evolves on its own, it has no immediate plans to spread to other countries/regions.
TAF encourages partners to use its funds as a leverage and mobilise more local and international funds.

Section D Achievements and erformance p The AWARE Foundation during the recouping phase in 2021-22, Summary of the main supported or reached out to 1704 children directly and another 300 achievements of the charity children with funds from other sources. 89 children were supported in during the year 3 shelter homes; 160 were offered hostel facilities; 35 were supported at the university level; 480 children who lost parents to the Covid and 1240 children were reached through the Aranyak project.

In the UK, AWARE did well to raise £ 141,546/- through dedicated work of its trustees and volunteers from the civil society to help raise funds. The financial year of 2021-22 closed with an unspent balance of £ 134.311/- to support more children in the coming year.

Section E Financial review

As TAF plans to raise most of its funds from donations by individuals or Brief statement of the companies. AWARE will use funds very carefully and will generally try charity’s policy on reserves and utilise 80% of the funds raised in the following three years’ time. There is no corpus being accumulated by AWARE Foundation.

Details of any funds materially None in deficit

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);
TAF’s principal source of funding is contributions by individuals and private companies. Most donations are collected at fund-raising events inviting ongoing / new supporters, well-wishers, and corporate companies.
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

Signature(s) Prashant Patel Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date 16/01/2023

Charity Name No (if any) Action With Awareness Regarding Education 1119897 Foundation CC16a Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/04/2021 31/03/2022

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 149,662 1,620 - - - - - 151,282 - - - 151,282 11,235 88,448 4,800 - 141 237 6,840 - 111,701 - - - 111,701 39,581 - 94,730 134,311	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £	Total funds to the nearest £ 149,662 1,620 - - - - - - 151,282 - - - 151,282 11,235 88,448 4,800 141 237 6,840 - 111,701 - - - 111,701 39,581	Last year to the nearest £
Donation Receipt includingGift Aid	149,662		- - - - - - - - -	149,662	139,809
Direrct Debit in BMM Account	1,620			1,620	1,737
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	151,282			151,282	141,546

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts* A3 Payments
			-	151,282	141,546

Cost of Fund RaisingEvents	11,235		- - - - - - - - - -	11,235	10,007
Donations Made	88,448			88,448	59,571
NGO Reimbursement	4,800			4,800	10,097
Advertising	-				-
Bank Charges	141			141	273
CharityInsurance	237			237	247
Administration	6,840			6,840	6,360
Other
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**Sub total **	111,701			111,701	86,555

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
			-	111,701	86,555

	39,581	-	-	39,581	54,991
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	94,730	-		94,730	-
	134,311	-	-	134,311	54,991

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

09/01/2023

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Opening Balance 01/04/2022 Details Details Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - 134,311 - 134,311 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Mr Prashant Patel Trustee	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
		Mr Prashant Patel	09/01/2022
		Trustee

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

09/01/2023

Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of AWARE Foundation

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the AWARE Foundation for the year ended 31 March 2021.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 30 of the Act; or
The accounts do not accord with those records.

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.

Signed:

Name: Nirav Patel

Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies (if any):

ICAEW (membership number 2260748)

Address: 3 Windmill Rise, Warlingham, Surrey, CR6 9FB Date: 09/01/2023