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← Les Amis - Burkina Faso

2024-08-31-accounts

LES AMIS – BURKINA FASO Registered Charity 1120772

ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE PERIOD 1[ST] SEPTEMBER 2023 – 31[ST] AUGUST 2024

Les Amis – Burkina Faso was registered on 5[th] September 2007

There were no talks or presentations given this year.

4) Our Regular Projects

This has been rebranded ‘Madonna & Child’ and is solely run by the Capucin Friars. The fund currently assists 20 handicapped children and 19 vulnerable women. The support the mothers of handicapped children receive is money which goes towards helping the women to meet food, housing, medical and physiotherapy costs, school fees and also materials with which to make things to sell (primarily soap). It remains an important aspect of this Foundation that the women and children get together socially regularly throughout the year. They continue to be given a meal every two months. The vulnerable older women are given food.

Total sent this year

Yoann Foundation (now Madonna & Child) 7,500

We continue to finance a refuge for girls in Baskouré which houses young girls who have run away from a forced young marriage or from areas of terrorist activity. Our giving covers food, electricity, housing, clothes, healthcare costs and training the girls in a trade (making clothes, embroidery, brewing the local beer, weaving, soap-making, raising of livestock and growing vegetables being some of their past/current activities).

We continue to fund St Monique Home in Gounghin (for secondary school-aged girls), all of whom are orphaned of either one or both parents.

We continue to include OCADES in our giving. OCADES is an organisation which works to give training to disadvantaged girls and women.

Giving to the Diocese of Koupéla this year:

Giving to the Diocese of Koupéla this year:
Baskouré Refuge 7,000
St Monique Home (for 10 secondary schoolgirls) 3,000
OCADES 3,000
13,000

We continue to give funds to assist ex-St Monique girls and also other students to help them access further vocational training. This is an extremely successful project and is run by Ab Pascal SILGA.

Ex-St Monique Home students / students 6,500

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c) We continue to fund a small home for girls in the village of Ziniaré where there are currently just five girls.

Ziniaré Home 1,000

d) Priest of the Fada N’Gourma Diocese

We continue to give funds for the purpose of his being able to help, in a direct and practical way, the many individuals who approach us for assistance. This method of reaching out to the destitute is extremely valuable to Les Amis.

Give away and projects 8,900

e) Priest of the Kaya Diocese

We continue to give funds for the purpose of helping not only various individuals, but also a group of women to access training in specific skills: cooking, hairdressing, sewing, embroidery and handicraft. At the end of their training each one receives support to set them up in business.

Individuals (education) 1,000
Individuals (non education) 1,200
Training Centre for women 1,300
Schools 3,300
Projects and Give-Away 1,200
8,000

f) St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada: we continue to help with the costs of training a group of runaway girls as seamstresses at the St Joseph's Training Centre in Fada.

St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada 2,000

g) Our giving to Tenkodogo this year was to support the education of young and disadvantaged girls in the diocese, and also support of a family displaced by terrorism.

Tenkodogo Diocese 3,000

Each area of activity is consistent with the objectives of the charity set out in the Trust Deed lodged with The Charity Commission for England and Wales.

5) FINANCES FOR THE YEAR 1[ST] SEPTEMBER 2023 TO 31[ST] AUGUST 2024

a) Income

Income
£
Major donations (over £500) 10,600
Other cash and cheque donations (under £500) 7,318
Gift Aid from HMRC 5,725
Donation from GN to cover bank fees and charges 450
Standing Orders 27,053
Total income 51,146

b) Outgoings

£
Yoann Foundation 7,500
Diocese of Koupéla 13,000
Ex-St Monique Girls / students, now at university 6,500
Ziniaré Home 1,000
Priest of the Fada N’Gourma Diocese 8,900
Priest of the Kaya Diocese 8,000
St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada 2,000
Tenkodogo Diocese 3,000
Bank fees and charges 446
Total outgoings 50,346

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CC16a
1120772
Les Amis - Burkina Faso
Receipts and payments accounts
01/09/2023
31/08/2024
To
For the period
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
Total funds
Last year
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations
49,545
1,600
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51,145
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)49,545
1,600
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51,145
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A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts
49,545
1,600
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51,145
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A3 Payments
Grants and donationspaid
48,746
1,600
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50,346
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Sub total 48,746
1,600
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50,346
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A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total -
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Total payments
48,746
1,600
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50,346
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Net of receipts/(payments)
799
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799
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A5 Transfers between funds
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A6 Cash funds last year end
45,600
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45,600
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Cash funds this year end
46,399
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- 46,399
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

26/10/2024

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period 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
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets		 Signature
Details
Details
Bank balances
Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
46,399
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46,399
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OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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liability relates
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David Nicholls
Gillie Nicholls		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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funds
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
David Nicholls 26/10/2024
Gillie Nicholls 26/10/2024

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

26/10/2024

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF

LES AMIS BURKINA FASO (Registered charity no. 1120772)

| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Les Amis Burkina Faso for the year ended 31 August 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

| report in respect of my examination of the accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

| have completed my examination. | 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:

  1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. The accounts do not accord with those records

| 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.

Jonathan Pepper FCMA

Oaklands, Grosvenor Road, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1NZ

15 October 2024