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2025-08-31-accounts

LES AMIS – BURKINA FASO Registered Charity 1120772

FOR THE PERIOD: 1[ST] SEPTEMBER 2024 – 31[ST] AUGUST 2025

2) Talks and presentations

Gillie made a successful appeal in the parish of Cranleigh and Bramley in September 2024.

3) Trip 2025

For the seventh year running, there was no trip due to terrorist activity

4) Our Regular Projects

The fund currently assists 20 handicapped children and 20 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.

Madonna & Child 7,000

b) Diocese of Koupéla: protecting and educating girls

We have continued 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. Increasingly, girls are being taken in due to having fled massacres/terrorist activity. Our giving contributes towards the cost of 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 have continued to include OCADES in our giving. OCADES is an organisation which works to give training to disadvantaged girls and women.

give training to disadvantaged girls and women.
Baskouré Refuge 9,100
St Monique Home 2,000
OCADES 2,000
13,100
c) We continue to give funds to assistex-St Monique girlsand alsoother studentsto help them
access further vocational training.
Students / further education
7,500		 We continue to give funds to assistex-St Monique girlsand alsoother studentsto help them
access further vocational training.
Students / further education
7,500
Students / further education 7,500

d) We continue to support a small home for vulnerable girls in the village of Ziniaré. At this time there are seven girls.

Ziniaré Home 1,000

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e) Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Fada N’Gourma

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-Burkina Faso.

Give away and projects 14,600

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 areas.

of women to access training in specific areas.
Individuals (education) 1,500
Individuals (not education) 1,000
Training centre for women 2,000
Schools (food and equipment) 3,000
Give away 1,000
8,500

g) 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. Like the home in Baskouré, more girls are arriving fleeing the terrorists which now operate in much of Burkina Faso.

St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada 3,000

h) Our giving to Tenkodogo this year is to support the education of young and disadvantaged girls in the diocese.

Tenkodogo Diocese 2,500

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

Income
£
Major donations (over £500) 26,965
Other cash and cheque donations (under £500) 7,797
Gift Aid from HMRC 6,489
Donation from GN to cover bank fees and charges 365
Standing Orders 27,619
Total income 69,235

b) Outgoings

Outgoings
£
Madonna & Child 7,000
Diocese of Koupéla 13,100
Students / further education 7,500
Ziniaré Home 1,000
Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Fada N’Gourma 14,600
Priest of the Catholic Diocese of Kaya 8,500
St Joseph’s Training Centre, Fada 3,000
Tenkodogo Diocese 2,500
Bank fees and charges 365
Total outgoings 57,565

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1120772
Les Amis - Burkina Faso
Receipts and payments accounts
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
To
For the period
from
CC16a
— ~~SSS~~		 1120772
Les Amis - Burkina Faso
Receipts and payments accounts
01/09/2024
31/08/2025
To
For the period
from
CC16a
— ~~SSS~~
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
69,235
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69,235
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Sub total(Gross income for
AR)69,235
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69,235
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A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts
69,235
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69,235
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A3 Payments
Grants and donationspaid
57,200
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57,200
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Bank fees
365
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365
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Sub total 57,565
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57,565
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A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total -
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Total payments
57,565
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57,565
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Net of receipts/(payments)
11,670
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11,670
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A5 Transfers between funds
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A6 Cash funds last year end
46,399
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46,399
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Cash funds this year end
58,069
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

07/10/2025

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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
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))
Bank balances
Details
Details
Details
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
58,069
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58,069
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OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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asset belongs
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liability relates
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David Nicholls
Gillie Nicholls		 Endowment
funds
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funds
to nearest £
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
David Nicholls 07/10/2025
Gillie Nicholls 07/10/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

07/10/2025

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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 2025.

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.

Teak

Jonathan Pepper FCMA

Oaklands, Grosvenor Road, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1NZ

28 September 2025