2025-03-31-accounts

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 April 2024 31 March 2025 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name[ACTION WITH AWARENESS REGARDING EDUCATION ] FOUNDATION

Other names charity is known by AWARE FOUNDATION (AF, 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)
1 Ja	1 Jayesh R. Patel	ManagingTrustee	Whole Year	Board of Trustees(BoT)
2 Ra	2 Rajesh Bhat	Founder Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
3 Prashant Patel	3 Prashant Patel	Treasurer	Wholeyear	BoT
4 Amit Patel	4 Amit Patel	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
5 Rakesh Patel	5 Rakesh Patel	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT
6 Allan Bla	6 Allan Blaydon	Trustee	Wholeyear	BoT

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Not Applicable ~~SS~~ Name Dates acted if not for whole year 1

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Name Address

Type of adviser

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

(e.g., trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

Charity Trust

(e.g., trust, association, company)

Appointment by the Board of Trustees. Trustee selection methods

(e.g., 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 (3) To organise events to generate awareness on specific developmental charity set out in its issues, especially related to children governing document (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.

The period covered by this report (April 2024 to March 2025) was marked by complete recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as AWARE had committed to support children who lost one/both parents to the pandemic, this was the last year of support. AWARE Foundation (AF) collaborated with five project partners and supported nine projects, all focused on the education and rehabilitation of some of the most vulnerable children in India.

With regards to the first objective of mobilising funds, AWARE Foundation (AF) is happy to report having mobilised £ 172K which after deduction of expenses to organise the events, (£148K) which includes release of grants to projects in India (£103K) and adding previous bank balance as on 31/3/2025 (£13K), resulted in a net surplus of £ 34K at the end of the financial year ’24-‘25 (audited a/c. submitted).

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)

This year 2 events were organised to mobilise funds in the U.K. namely golf day and a fundraising walk, we also receive regular donations from associated businesses and families. We use CAF platform to receive regular donations, and they are our nominated platform to receive gift aid from these donations, some of donations are made directly to our bank account.
AF had collaborations in India with five organisations (and nine projects) during the year. The collaborating organisations this year were five: (i) Citizen’s Alliance for Rural Development & Training Society (CARDTS), Bengaluru, which manages two shelter homes, one for HIV-affected children at a village 120 kms south-west of Bengaluru and a second one for HVIinfected children at Mangalore (ii) Vishwagram is a Mehsanabased Trust and was managing a shelter home for male Street Children at a village near Mehsana in North Gujarat but is now working with children of conflict-torn state of Manipur in the N-E part of India; (iii) Swapath Trust manages educational programmes for some of the most vulnerable children in Gujarat and supports students in conflict areas of Kashmir. Swapath Trust also is the secretariat for a state-level network called Child Rights Collective Gujarat (CRCG) (iv) Shaishav Trust manages a programme called Aranyak (The Forest Dwellers) with the children of disadvantaged Tribal children. (v) Ganatar (meaning ‘life-skills’) is a pioneering VO on child rights and currently works for children who have not done well at schools with regular curricula.
As mentioned above, during the financial year 2023-24, AF directly supported nine projects in India through 5 organisations. Brief details follow:
The first project supported by AF 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 43 boys whose parents were HIV infected, whereas Samvedana supported 9 HIV infected girls. Thus, CARDTS was responsible for taking care of 51 children in all.

Vishwagram with the help of over 100 volunteers conducted the following activities in Manipur, a N-E state in India, wherein two communities have been at loggerheads and violence has affected thousands for over two years now. Vishwagram worked in relief camps for both the communities. (AWARE offered crucial bridge funding support to Vishwagram and most of the other funds were mobilised or voluntarily contributed by other sources):
Workshops with children: Over a span of 21 days, 109 camps were organised with the help of over a hundred volunteers reaching out to 6,732 children in relief camps.
Math and science workshops for teachers: Over a three-month period, and 33 2-day workshops, 1773 participants were reached by expert teachers from Gujarat.
Distribution of sports kits: the group provided a sports kit to each of the 49 relief camps.
Small Libraries: 16 small libraries were set up in as many camps for children to read in their spare time.
o Film-making workshops: During 3 workshops in Imphal, 170 children learnt to conceptualise, plan, shoot and edit films to let their expressions an outlet.
o Medical camps: The work was spread over 57 visits in 16 camps covering 1364 patients.
o Community Health Volunteers’ (CHV) training: In two different phases, the CHV training prepared a cadre of 37 CHVs. In the second phase, local doctors trained the CHVs. All put together, from 123 relief camps 262 participants underwent this health training.
Vocational training: nine youth trained in automechanic training in Gujarat whereas 29 women were trained by SEWA in Manipur.
o Music festivals: Two folk singers, one from M.P. and another from Bengal, presented at 15 camps at different times with a sizeable audience to enjoy the folk music.
Swapath Trust: o Under its School Retention Programme (SRP), 102 children in the insurgency affected regions, were supported for their schooling
o Higher Education Support Programme (HESP): Under HESP, 31 students at universities were supported and mentored during their higher studies.
Covid-19 affected children: 184 children who lost their parents to the pandemic were supported and mentored for the fourth consecutive year (apart from this direct aid from AWARE Foundation, 350 other students were

supported by Vishwagram through other sources). A total of 534 students were supported.

Sex workers’ and HIV positive parents’ children in Surat: 225 children from this categorise were financially aided and guided for their career in Surat.
o Bal Wadi Project (Education component of the government managed Kindergarten in Dang villages): In 16 villages, under 20 Bal wadis, around 400 children were educated (the numbers of these children of 3 to 6 years fluctuates)
Seasonal Hostels Project: AWARE supported three seasonal and one permanent hostel in Dang villages sheltering and educating 214 children whose parents migrate for sugarcane cutting for six months. (Apart from direct AWARE support, Swapath mobilised funds for five other hostels sheltering another 200 children in five other villages). Thus, a total of 414 children were offered hostel facilities in the Banphul project of Dangs District.

Thus, 1156 children were directly supported through AWARE funds in different ways by Swapath Trust. Apart from this, Swapath manged a 44-day campaign against Child Labour reaching out to about 1500 families through 9 partner organisations creating awareness about child labour abolition.

Shaishav’s Aranyak project: Under the Amli Timli programme, which engages intensively with 267 children every day at two Ashram Schools whereas under the Ashram Shala project, which visits Ashram Schools once a week, 1720 children were reached out.
Ganatar: Under the Tarun Shala (School of life skills training) 42 drop out boys were trained in life skills and at the same time are prepared for the Board Exams.

Thus, 1249 children were directly supported by AWARE funds and over 5,000 were reached through various activities by the five partner organisations.

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.
AF’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
AF believes in working in partnerships and aims at evolving a network of organisations working with common objectives and converging activities.
Currently AF plans to concentrate its partnerships in India and mostly in the state of Gujarat. Unless and until a regional or global level agenda evolves on its own, it has no immediate plans to spread to other countries/regions. By end of December 2025, AF will terminate its collaboration with CARDTS, Bengaluru as the two have been working together for over ten years now.
AF encourages partners to use its funds as a leverage and mobilise more local and international funds.

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

During the F. Y. 2024-25, AWARE Foundation supported or reached out to 1249 children directly and another 200 children with funds from other resources. The break-up is: 51 children were supported in 2 shelter homes for HIV affected(42) and infected (9) children; 425 children of migrant families were sheltered at the seasonal hostel facilities for the 7 months of the migration season; 400 children in the age group 3 to 6 years benefitted by the Early Childhood Care & Education (ECCE) through 20 Balwadis (Kindergartens); 31 students were supported at the university level; 184 children who lost parents to the Covid-19 pandemic received educational aid for the final year; 1575 children were reached through training/workshops/camps/ other activities. In the relief camps of Manipur, 12,000 children participated in activities during the two vacation periods; 102 students were given educational aid in Kashmir whereas 42 drop-out boys were studying at the Tarun Shala (an experimental life-skill school).

Two projects worth highlighting this year were (a) the Manipur project which reached out to the children deprived of their basic human rights due to an internal conflict and (b) the 44-day campaign against Child Labour. Both these projects mobilised substantial resources apart from AWARE’s in terms of the time, money, energy and skills of volunteers and collaboration organisations.

In the UK, AWARE raised £ 172K through dedicated work of its trustees and volunteers from the civil society to help raise funds. The financial year of 2024-25 closed with an unspent balance of £ 34K to support more children in the coming year.

Section E Financial review As AF plans to raise most of its funds from donations by individuals or Brief statement of the companies, AWARE will use funds judiciously and will generally try and charity’s policy on reserves 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) 1. AF’s principal source of funding is contributions by individuals and You may choose to include private companies. Most donations are collected at fund-raising events additional information, where inviting ongoing / new supporters, well-wishers, and corporate relevant about: companies. • 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 ~~___~~ A REQUEST TO THE CHARITY OFFICE: AWARE Foundation would welcome suggestions and recommendations from your good office on the matter of raising more funds through other international charities, bilateral organisations like the UNICEF and the UK Government itself. AF can submit proposals for the same. This has become necessary as AF’s credibility and teams in the existing projects in India have opened up new avenues and need more resources, which may not all come only through fund raising events and small donors.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Mr Prashant Patel Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date 12/01/2026

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 01/04/2024 31/03/2025

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ £ A1 Receipts Donation Receipt including Gift Aid 171,600 - - 171,600 87,582 Direrct Debit in BMM Account 1,110 - - 1,110 1,684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total (Gross income for 172,710 - - 172,710 89,266 ~~==~~ AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). ~~= ===~~ - Sub total - - Total receipts 172,710 - - 172,710 89,266 ~~———————~~ A3 Payments Cost of Fund Raising Events 20,011 - - 20,011 14,558 Donations Made 103,123 - - 103,123 148,664 NGO Reimbursement 13,000 - - 13,000 4,900 Advertising - Bank Charges 133 - - 133 134 Charity Insurance 320 - - 320 310 Administration 11,800 - - 11,800 7,800 Other 27,560 - - - - - Sub total [ 148,387 ] - - 148,387 203,926 ~~===~~ A4 Asset and investment ~~= ===~~ purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - Sub total [ - ] - - - - ~~—~~ Total payments ~~————~~ 148,387 - - 148,387 Net of receipts/(payments) 24,323 - - 24,323 A5 Transfers between funds - 3,000 - - - 3,000 - A6 Cash funds last year end 13,099 - - 13,099 - Cash funds this year end 34,422 - - 34,422 - ~~SS SSS54~~

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

29/12/2025

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 34,422 - - 34,422 - - Details *Total cash funds* Opening Balance 01/04/2025 B1 Cash funds ~~—~~	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 34,422 - - 34,422 - - Details *Total cash funds* Opening Balance 01/04/2025 B1 Cash funds ~~—~~	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 34,422 - - 34,422 - - Details *Total cash funds* Opening Balance 01/04/2025 B1 Cash funds ~~—~~	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 34,422 - - 34,422 - - Details *Total cash funds* Opening Balance 01/04/2025 B1 Cash funds ~~—~~
	(agree balances with receipts and payments	(agree balances with receipts and payments
	account(s))	OK OK	OK
		Unrestricted Restricted	Endowment
		funds funds	funds
	Details	to nearest £ to nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~===~~
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets		-	-
		-	-
		-	-
		-	-
		-	-
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use	- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~ase~~
		Fund to which Amount due	When due
	Details	liability relates (optional)	(optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities	- - - - - Date of approval 29/12/2025 Print Name Mr Prashant Patel Trustee Signature ~~====~~
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)	2		29/12/2025

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 2023.

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: 12/01/2026