2022-02-28-accounts - Global Challenge

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Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod
From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	1	March	2021		28	February	2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Global Challenge

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1121686

Charity's principal address	2 Queens Road	2 Queens Road
	Broadstairs
	Kent
	Postcode	CT10 1NU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
	Christopher Knight		June 2021 to Feb 2022
	Elizabeth Roberts	Secretary
	Angela Harding
	Anne Cave
	Naomi Brown		Feb 2021 to June 2021
	TimothyShingles
	Diana Jones	Treasurer
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
	Name		Dates acted if not for whole year
	None

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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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)

Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointment by Charity Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. trust, association, company)
(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

The charity is an outreach from Queens Road Baptist Church (QRBC) in Broadstairs and its five Trustees usually meet each month.

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

Information about the charity's work is provided on our website (www.globalchallengecharity.com) and in leaflets, through newsletters distributed to supporters, on the notice board at Queens Road Baptist Church (QRBC) and on the Charity commission website. We fund a coordinator based in Soroti, Uganda to progress our work and provide reports, and in addition we fund a special needs coordinator to work with people with learning and/or physical difficulties. We contribute towards the transport costs for one person to visit Uganda each year to support our workers, ensure high standards of accountability are achieved and to progress our work. (However this has not been possible since our last visit in April 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic).

●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 in April 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic). major risks and the system and procedures to manage QRBC provides some funding from its 'mission budget' to be used by the charity them. as the trustees see fit- particularly administration and church ministry. This funding is not guaranteed.

Funds are held in one UK sterling account, Funds are transferred to a GC account in Uganda as required. Emails are sent to confirm how the funds are to be allocated. We aim to take full advantage of favourable exchange rates. Crossroads school has a separate bank account. Our coordinator is one of 3 Ugandan signatories for both Ugandan accounts. A summary of spending each month is provided to trustees by the coordinator.

Financial summaries are produced regularly during the year, representing our UK and Ugandan operations. The charity trustees give ongoing consideration to potential risks the charity is exposed to and that systems or procedures are established in order to manage these risks. This includes: complaints, data protection, declaration of business interest, finance and management of associated risks, fundraising, governance, health and safety, privacy, public relations, risk management, safeguarding, serious incidents, volunteering.

Section C Objectives and activities

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document 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)	Our updated Objectives have been proposed: ● To support the work and ministries of the churches of Soroti through their leaders and communities. ● To provide financial and professional support for Crossroads School, Soroti, such as teacher salaries, school meals, resources and continuing professional development. ● To provide holistic health care and support for families and individuals in Soroti, co-ordinated by our medical officer and volunteers. ● To enable families and individuals to become self- sufficient through our livestock project. ● To provide financial support, both accountably and sustainably, for disadvantaged people in Soroti through awareness and fundraising. A special meeting was held in October 21 to review our constitution.
	Crossroads School, Soroti. All secondary education in Uganda is fee paying. The empty school building was re-opened by GC in 2007 to provide education for children who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend school - those orphaned and/or come from very poor families. The school can currently accommodate up to 400 children. Fees are paid according to circumstances (many children pay no fees at all) and are in most cases lower than in state schools. Other charities also fund some children to attend Crossroads. GC funds teacher salaries and pensions, school lunches and some essential capital costs. 2. Learning Difficulties and Special Needs GC funds operations and equipment to improve or correct disabilities along with walking aids and equipment in Soroti and the surrounding districts. Prosthetics have also been provided for both young people and adults needing them due to accidents and injury rather than birth defects. We currently fund 6 children to attend a specialist school for the deaf, at Ngora, through both primary and secondary phases. These pupils have either never been to a local primary school or have had a very difficult time attending their mainstream local schools. 2 of the pupils started on a new 2 year programme for teenagers, so they are learning a new skill (wood work, needlecraft) rather than starting in the Ngora Primary One class. They are due to attend until November 22. They are learning basic American Sign Language (ASL) alongside their new vocational skill curriculum. Initial assessments of language, learning, sensory and medical needs are funded and any subsequent therapies are received where needed. Support for transport costs to and from the hospital appointments and surgeries is also provided. Our vision is to provide further training to church leaders, medical and teaching staff to enable them to consider the needs of the disabled and to provide for them in their own settings. 3. Livestock Project

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

Our updated Objectives have been proposed:
●
To support the work and ministries of the churches of Soroti
through their leaders and communities.
●
To provide financial and professional support for Crossroads
School, Soroti, such as teacher salaries, school meals,
resources and continuing professional development.
●
To provide holistic health care and support for families and
individuals in Soroti, co-ordinated by our medical officer and
volunteers.
●
To enable families and individuals to become self- sufficient
through our livestock project.
●
To provide financial support, both accountably and
sustainably, for disadvantaged people in Soroti through
awareness and fundraising.
A special meeting was held in October 21 to review our
constitution.

Crossroads School, Soroti.
All secondary education in Uganda is fee paying. The empty school
building was re-opened by GC in 2007 to provide education for children
who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend school - those
orphaned and/or come from very poor families. The school can currently
accommodate up to 400 children. Fees are paid according to
circumstances (many children pay no fees at all) and are in most cases
lower than in state schools. Other charities also fund some children to
attend Crossroads. GC funds teacher salaries and pensions, school
lunches and some essential capital costs.
2. Learning Difficulties and Special Needs
GC funds operations and equipment to improve or correct disabilities
along with walking aids and equipment in Soroti and the surrounding
districts. Prosthetics have also been provided for both young people and
adults needing them due to accidents and injury rather than birth defects.
We currently fund 6 children to attend a specialist school for the deaf, at
Ngora, through both primary and secondary phases.
These pupils have either never been to a local primary school or have
had a very difficult time attending their mainstream local schools. 2 of the
pupils started on a new 2 year programme for teenagers, so they are
learning a new skill (wood work, needlecraft) rather than starting in the
Ngora Primary One class. They are due to attend until November 22.
They are learning basic American Sign Language (ASL) alongside their
new vocational skill curriculum.
Initial assessments of language, learning, sensory and medical needs are
funded and any subsequent therapies are received where needed.
Support for transport costs to and from the hospital appointments and
surgeries is also provided.
Our vision is to provide further training to church leaders, medical and
teaching staff to enable them to consider the needs of the disabled and to
provide for them in their own settings.
3. Livestock Project

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GC funds the purchase of sheep/goats/chickens for very poor families in the Soroti district, to help them become self-sufficient. Some families are now self-sufficient, enough to sell livestock to purchase a cow or just more goats/chickens/pigeons and medicine for their special needs children. These families also pass on livestock once their own have produced offspring so the cycle of supporting one another continues. Families train each other to care for the livestock within their own village. This year we have also been able to support 2 of our volunteers with livestock and fishing nets to enable them to become more self-sufficient following medical issues and loss of crops.

We have enabled some women to train in sewing and provided sewing machines, in the hope that they will then train others as part of our selfsufficiency scheme.

4. Annual Trustee Visits

We review the charity's work during these visits. We provide support and encouragement to our coordinator, our special needs representative and to the teachers at the school. We attend meetings with interested parties. We talk to the children at Crossroads about their lives and their education. We visit families in outlying areas who have children with Special Needs. We visit families who are recipients of livestock and meet with the few volunteers who support and identify the special needs families in the surrounding villages and districts.

Since Covid 19 we have been unable to travel and so instead we have set up some meetings via Zoom, in order to be able to have some closer contact and more personal discussions further to the emails and phone conversations, in order to monitor and ensure clarification in our communications.

5. Publicity and Fundraising

We publicise our work widely (including social media) to create awareness about GC and hold various fundraising events throughout the year. These include talks to school children and staff, updates to the church members and congregation at Queen’s Rd Baptist Church (QRBC) which are all now also available on the QRBC Youtube channel.

Statutory Declaration

The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. We have many examples of people that have benefitted from our work - children who have had life changing operations, prosthetics or walking aids, the teachers and students at the schools, and also families whose lives have been helped through the livestock project.

GC funds are used solely to further the charity's objectives. The Trustees are all volunteers and claim no payment for their work. Expenses are kept to a minimum. GC funds the salaries of the teachers at the school, lunches for staff/pupils and a charity coordinator and a special needs coordinator in Uganda.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Enabling better health, education and quality of life through sustainable partnerships with local communities in Soroti, Uganda, is our new vision statement to reflect our work.

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

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

COVID-19

The work of Global Challenge (GC) was affected due to the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Our income and expenditure was largely in line with expectations, however, the operations of the charity were affected in a range of ways, including:

no trustee visit due to travel restrictions
Crossroads School (and Ngora school for the Deaf) were closed for some of the year groups due to government restrictions
Funding was used to provide PPE and other necessary requirements due to the pandemic, in line with our objective ‘to alleviate poverty and suffering’ and to ensure the school could reopen in a limited capacity.

Crossroads School

GC has continued to fund teacher salaries throughout the school closure due to the pandemic. This was a great relief to the staff. Once the school reopened, GC continued to fund lunches for pupils.

S3 started in March 2021 with 10 full time teachers and 7 part time teachers

39 enrolled for the senior three class consisting of 18 boys and 21 girls 51 students in senior four completed the UCE exams in March 2021. There is a new national curriculum and so additional teacher training and new textbooks were required

Following the pandemic the measures to make the senior three class complete the syllabus include: extra lessons planned for saturday, early morning lessons at 7:00am to 8:00am before start of normal day lessons, after class evening lessons at 4:40pm to 6:00pm. Monitoring of lesson attendance, students group discussions.

Communication continues to be a challenge, which is being addressed by requesting regular updates from our co-ordinator based in Soroti. In addition, the trustees had forecast a deficit budget during this reporting year for Crossroads School support from GC.

Due to the donations of supporters and some reduced expenditure, reductions in support for salaries were avoided. However, the plans for possible reductions in financial support have been generated and shared with stakeholders in Soroti, which may be needed if future deficits in the budget are identified.

New School

The charity has been steadily working towards the development of a new school to support the charity’s aim to advance education. The first stage has been to identify and purchase suitable land for the building of a school. Following on from the identification of land during the 2019-20 reporting year, GC is pleased to report that the land was purchased in December 2020. This was purchased from allocated funds that had been raised, particularly from local schools in the UK, for the development of this project. Following the Pandemic we have released further funding for the land to be surveyed and its ownership legally finalised. Efforts are being made to secure further funding from the business and financial community. At present we anticipate the need to raise somewhere in the region of £350,000 and the project will be phased as and when further funding becomes available. Once the land is securely registered in the

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Section D Achievements and performance

	name of Global Challenge the first phase will be land-clearance and fencing. Special Needs project This year far fewer children have received operations (16 children in total in March 2021) to provide greater mobility and to clear any bone infections. Surgery is completed at local hospitals in and around Soroti with our special needs coordinator (a medical officer) ensuring the most competitive prices are secured. After care is given by him and his team at his clinic in Soroti town. This year we have purchased a further 3 new wheelchairs to enable pupils to be able to get to school. Our special needs playground has been maintained by volunteers and local pupils. Sadly this year we have lost 2 of our children who have had long term complications and medical issues and who have become good friends of our trustees and supporters. 6 children at Ngora school for the Deaf have been attending since the return to school and so we continue to finance the board and education for those willing and able to attend. We continue to maintain the motorbike for our special needs coordinator so that he can visit the remote villages to assess recovery after medical treatment, to visit new children and families identified by the volunteers in the 4 districts. However, the repairs for the old bike mean that this is not as cost effective and so we are considering quotes for another second- hand motorbike. We will also enable the volunteers to be able to maintain their bicycles too when needed or contribute towards their mobilisation. Livestock Project Following a medical condition that left her blind our volunteer Rose was donated some livestock to enable her to look after herself now that she is unable to visit and monitor the special needs families Another volunteer Possiano lost all of his crops and so GC has given him fishing nets to make his own living A further 6 families have benefited from goats/chickens this year Publicity and fundraising Social media is the main source of publicity and for advertising our fundraising events. Monthly updates on QRBC YouTube broadcasts are helping to share our events further afield. Local schools in Broadstairs and Thanet receive updates and newsletters together with our regular supporters who have signed up to our mailing list. Beneficiaries have been received from several members and their grieving families at QRBC This summer we produced a mid year newsletter for the first time as well as our usual Christmas newsletter which is generally distributed by email (and posted to those we have no way of contacting electronically). Our first ever Variety show was aired on Youtube in May 21 and was a fun evening and great success. 40 Acts of Kindness raised a lot of money during Lent this year as people gave instead of giving up something A man, originally from Uganda, completed a sponsored run which was well supported by our volunteers for the last few miles within Broadstairs. In order to purchase new sewing machines and to repair damaged ones at Crossroads school a GC supporter made bunting which was purchased by many. A choral concert was held at Christmas and was well attended

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Section D Achievements and performance

Policies and Conduct

Over the year we have reviewed and ratified at least 6 policies and written a new code of conduct for trustees.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

We currently have sufficient funds to keep the project running for approximately 6 months should we stop receiving gifts. As this is a project being run through Queens Road Baptist Church, this is unlikely and should we have cash flow issues, the church would not let this project fail.

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 funding come from the membership of Queens Road Baptist Church plus friends and family and from local schools and fund raising functions.

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

We are encouraged by the regular donations from our many supporters any fundraising); –we have lost a few and gained others. However, funds allocated for ● how expenditure has Crossroads are projected to be below the required expenditure. As stated supported the key objectives in Section D, plans have been prepared to reduce expenditure and a full of the charity; budget for 2021-22 has been drafted.

investment policy and objectives including any We continue to commit to improving the quality of life of children in Soroti, ethical investment policy Eastern Uganda. 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)[A J Harding]

Full name(s)[Angela Harding]

Position (eg Secretary, Special Needs Chair, etc)

Date 28/02/2022

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Independent examin re on the accounts FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Report to tho trusteesl mèmbers of GLCEAL LLL BJ On account5 for the year ended Charlty no (if any) Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examinatlon of the account5 of the above chartty I'the Trust") for th8 year end8d Responsibilities and As the charity Iruslees of the Trust, you are responslble for the preparatlon basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111"the Act.). I report in respect ol my examinatlon of the Trust's aGcounts carried out nder section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have follow8d the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5llb) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters h8ve come to my 8ltenlion (other than that disclosed below ') in conneGtion with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respecl,. accountlng recDrds were not kept in accordance with sectlon 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord wlth the accounting records Independent examiner's ststement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examin81ion to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reaGhed. Please d8lele Ibe words in the brackets if they do not apply. '2zliil.RoaL Slgned: D2te: Namo: Relevant profe$51onal qualificatlonls) oy body (if any).. Mts-ThJ I Address: IER October 2018

s.ect.ion B. .DiscIosure. Only complete If the examlner needs to highllghi matters of Goncern (see GG32, Independent examination of charity aGcounts.' directions 8nd guidanGe for eX8mln8rsl. Glve here brlef detalls of any items that the examlner wlshes to d¥sclose. IER October 2018

GLOBAL CHALLENGE Accounts for the perlod 01103121 to 28102122 Income CroT08d$ Furthei Educatlon Newschool Llvestock Speclal Needs That's Pants Other Glft Ald EldÈrly Support QRBCIMlsslon In Uganda Advancès ReSee 26473.82 270.00 loo.00 373.34 7366.24 390.00 13989.46 5359.77 292.50 0.00 811.08 2815.61 58241.82 Expenditure Crossroads Further Edu¢atlon New School Livestock Special Needs That'$ Pants Olher Gift Aid Elderlysupport QRBCIMi58ion in Uganda Writè Off IOct'171 Adv&nce$ 24888.38 85.78 ii.ii 168.89 3534.44 565.56 6201.01 3710.13 240.00 3000.01 911.39 1128.15 Excess of Income over Expenditvre Balance brought forward February 2021 Income avallable 13796.97 33266.79 47063.76 Represented by 2810212022.. Bank Account UK Ugandan Bank Account Bank Transfer Credlted to Ugandan 8ankAccount 113122 Total 32033.72 4990.04 10040.00 47063.76 Designated Funds Crossroads Advances Further Educaon Newschool Livestock Spetlal Need5 8083.73 139.94 4284.89 266.27 8738.66 til That's Pants Expenses Glft Ald Eldeil support QRBCIMIsslon In U 8nda Wrlte Off I0rt'171 Reselve 8861.17 6824.31 176.91 5518.52 5421.88 47063.76