## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 1st March 2024 **Period start date To** 29th February 2025 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** Global Challenge Charity
**Charity registration number:** 1121686
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Global Challenge's Objectives are:**
We are working in the community of Soroti,
Uganda and its districts:
●To alleviate poverty and suffering for
persons who are in conditions of
need or hardship or who are aged or
sick. To relieve the distress caused
thereby.
●To advance education.
●To advance the Christian faith of
these communities, by provision of
support to develop the work and
ministries of the churches and their
leaders.
●To promote and fulfil such other
charitable purposes beneficial to the
community.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Crossroads Secondary school:**
GC funds teachers' salaries and pensions as
well as school lunches.
**Special needs project:**
GC funds operations and equipment to
improve or correct disabilities in Soroti and
the surrounding districts. These have
included walking and mobility aids and
prosthetics for young people and adults.
We currently fund 5 children to attend a
specialist school for the deaf in Ngora and 1
child to attend St Francis School for the
blind.
We fund initial assessments for language,
learning, physical, sensory and medical
needs. Any subsequent therapies are
provided for if required and if funds allow.
Support for transport costs to and from
surgeries is also provided if the parents are
not able to afford this.|
|||Our vision is to provide training for church
leaders, medical and teaching staff enabling
them to consider the needs of the disabled
and to provide for them in their own settings.
Access to teaching resources are being
offered through our website special needs
pages too.
**Livestock and self-sufficiency support:**
GC funds the purchase of
sheep/goats/chickens for very poor families
in the Soroti district, to help them become
self-sufficient. Some have been successful
enough to be able to sell smaller livestock to
purchase a cow or just more
goats/chickens/pigeons. This enables them
to buy medicine for their children with special
needs or afford transport to get to a medical
centre for medical assessments. Income
generated can also enable famiilies to
provide supplementary food for
malnourished children. Families support one
another in the care for the livestock within
their villages.
**Tailoring project:**
We have enabled some adults and young
people to train in tailoring and GC have
provided sewing machines, in the hope that
they will then train others as part of our self-
sufficiency scheme.
**That's pants:**
GC provides training for girls about reusable
sanitary towels, how to wash them with
clean water and soap and how to clean their
hands. Body positive lessons have also
been taught. GC provides reusable sanitary
wear to girls and female staff. All students
(boys and girls) receive pants each year and
the girls are also bought bras.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|All trustees have read and regard the
guidance on public benefit to be relevant to
the role of trustee and to Global Challenge.
**Annual Trustee Visits**
We review the charity's work during these
visits. We provide support and
encouragement to the GC coordinator, our
Special Needs Coordinator 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.
Annual face to face visits were resumed in
March 2023 after it was safe to travel
following covid and outbreaks of Ebola.
**Publicity and fundraising**|
We publicise our work widely, to create awareness about GC. This includes social media, talks to school children and staff, and updates to the congregation at Queen’s Rd Baptist Church, (QRBC) (which are available on the QRBC YouTube channel) and church publications. Supporters are given regular email updates too if they do not attend the church or access QRBC websites. We hold a variety of fundraising events throughout the year. **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 benefited from our work - children who have had life changing operations, prosthetics or walking and mobility aids, the teachers and students at the schools, those who have been sponsored to continue their education post S4 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, as well as the salaries of a charity coordinator and a special needs coordinator in Uganda. The flight and travel cost for one trustee are funded once a year for accounting and auditing purposes essentially.
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The Vision of Global Challenge Charity:**
Enabling better health, education and quality
of life through sustainable partnerships with
local communities in Soroti, Uganda.|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|GC has volunteers to help fundraise and
often volunteers will accompany trustees on
visits to Soroti, Uganda, to support the
projects.
We are grateful for the many hours
volunteers (including the trustees) have
given. Without this valuable contribution of
time, energy and expertise we would not
have been able to achieve so much.|
The Special Needs Coordinator in Soroti is supported by local volunteers to enable many of the families to receive ongoing support, care and training, as well as to signpost families to clinics, training and events. Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Crossroads School**
February 2024:
S1 Boys 32 Girls 53 Total 85
S.2 Boys 51 Girls 57 Total 108
S.3 Boys 34 Girls 39 Total 73
S.4 Boys 36 Girls 31 Total 67
Feb 2025:
S1 Boys 22 Girls 45 Total 67
S2 Boys 29 Girls 40 Total 69
S3 Boys 51 Girls 42 Total 93
S4 Boys 24 Girls 32 Total 55
It would appear that this year the levels of
students returning are slower than previous
years. This can be attributed to parents
finding even very minimal fees challenging. It
is anticipated that enrolment figures will
continue to rise. With other Ugandan
schools, if fees are not paid, pupils are sent
away. At Crossroads, no pupil is turned
away but sometimes parents are slow in
providing the most basic needs for students,
for example uniforms. The meal provided at
school is the only meal a lot of the pupils
have that day. The meal has also increased
attendance for afternoon school.
The new Ugandan Secondary school
curriculum is being taught in S1, 2 and 3 and
S4 and this year the S4 students took the
new style national examinations. 55 students
sat the examinations and all passed and
obtained UCE LCBC certificates. This was
paid for by GCUK
This year we have been able to pay for 6
students to continue their education at S5
and S6 level.
This year we have again been able to
provide 8 lap-tops for use by staff and|
students. Together with sanitary products for the girls. In addition textbooks relating to the new curriculum have been purchased. **Special Needs Project:** During this reporting year there have been 10 surgeries completed ranging from gluteal fibrosis, to correcting bone infections and fractures as well as a serious accident at work. In March 24 we had 4 children return to Ngora school for the deaf after the holidays for the new academic year. The one child sponsored by GC so that she can attend St Francis school for the blind is progressing well with learning braille at the special school, thanks to a sponsor who is paying for her primary education. In October 2024 trustees returned for a visit to Soroti to ensure that support remains in place for the families and children requiring help. It was great to return and see so many familiar faces and to see how they have gained more independence through the livestock project. We met the young man who made shoes that we purchased and the shop where is learning his trade. We held 2 clinics while we were there to meet potential beneficiaries and to hand out a wheelchair. Training for local volunteers and teaching staff as well as church leaders was held in 3 of the subcounties and the work was well received. The workshops were to help us all to understand how frustrating it can be to do things where there is a physical difficulty as well as how exhausting it can be. Also we were able to discuss the unseen disabilities and provide some examples of how to support. **Livestock** The livestock has continued to provide at least 6 families with goats. Many families are now only requiring one goat as they are able to mate with another goat in the village. So we can provide for more families each time. Self-sufficiency for the volunteers – where necessary GC has provided some livestock to support the Special Needs Project volunteers to help them pay for medical bills or housing requirements. 2 new mobile phones were also purchased for 2 of the 4 volunteers to support with efficient communication with our special needs coordinator.
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|To alleviate poverty and suffering to
persons who are in conditions of need or
hardship or who are aged or sick and to
relieve the distress caused thereby in
Soroti and its districts, in Uganda.
● Continued provision of livestock
for families and also for volunteers
in Uganda who are continuing to
experience poor health and loss
of crops
● Continued support for further
education and skills training e.g.
tailoring, shoe making, mechanic
and carpentry courses
● Christmas bonuses provided for
school staff and our 2
coordinators
To advance education in Soroti and its
districts, in Uganda.
● Trustees updated the internet
facilities and access to on-line
messaging systems.
● Maintenance of school
photocopier and printer
● To advance the Christian faith of
the communities in Soroti and its
districts in Uganda, by the
provision of support to develop
the work and ministries of the
churches and their leaders.
● The provision of Bibles annually to
all new students at Crossroads
School
● Trustees were able to visit to give
spiritual encouragement and
support to those at Crossroads
School as well as the Special
Needs project.
To promote and fulfil such other
charitable purposes beneficial to the
community in Soroti and its districts, in
Uganda -
● Crossroads students are now
involved in recycling projects as
an extension of their curriculum
and to support the local
environment in and around Soroti
● 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. Along
with the regular GC update articles
in the QRBC church magazine and
monthly
updates
at
Sunday
morning services at QRBC.
● Local schools in Broadstairs and
Thanet
receive
updates
and
newsletters
together
with
our
regular
supporters
who
have
signed up to our mailing list.
● Donations have been received in
memory
of
some
regular
supporters who have passed on.
We continue to provide a summer
and a Christmas newsletter to our
supporters|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**To alleviate poverty in Soroti and its**
**Districts, in Uganda**
● A special school in Ramsgate
raised funds at their Christmas
Market making a variety of items
to sell and serving at stalls or
spending their money on the
games provided
**To advance education in Soroti and**
**its districts, in Uganda.**
● Christmas Craft fair
● Take away Indian meal
● Information afternoon and
Ugandan food sampling
All raised funds for teachers salaries
Writing letters from one school in UK to
students at Crossroads school
developed increase in literacy levels in
both UK and UG schools
**To advance the Christian faith of the**
**communities in Soroti**
● provision of Bibles for pupils at
Crossroads School
● UK trustees lead worship
sessions at Crossroads school
assembly and within the local
churches during the annual
monitoring visits
**To promote and fulfil such other**
**charitable purposes beneficial to the**
**community in Soroti and its districts,**
**in Uganda**|
|||● Gift cards for supporters in the UK
to buy as presents for family and
friends. The donor may specify
which GCproject to support|
|---|---|---|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21||
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We currently have sufficient funds to
keep the project running for
approximately 3 months should we stop
receiving donations. 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.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£9000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Increase in financial and medical needs
(especially due to poor or malnutrition) of our
beneficiaries due to drought, as well as a
sharp rise in cost of living, food, transport
and cooking fuel in Uganda.
The on-going challenge of keeping the
school resourced for the new national
curriculum.
Ensuring that the teaching staff are trained
and work to a high standard whilst not being
able to compete with the salary levels of
other schools in the area.
Rising costs in the UK means that our
regular supporters are also stretched.|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Trust|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Invitation and agreement by majority of
trustees.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|---|---|---|
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Global Challenge Charity|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1121686|
|Charity’s principal address|Queens Road Baptist Church,
2 Queens Road
Broadstairs|
CT10 1NU
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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19|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of**
**person (or**
**body)**
**entitled to**
**appoint**
**trustee (if**
**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Anne Cave|Treasurer|||
||Angela Harding|Secretary|||
||Tim Shingles||Sabbatical from
12.2.25 to May 2025||
||Tracey Mason||||
||Katy Morgan||Resigned 11.7.24||
||Stephen Cave||||
||Brenda McCall||||
||Brian Langsdon||Started 11.4.24||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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|**N/A**|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|**N/A**|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|**N/A**|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|**N/A**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
||**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
Other optional information
## **Declarations**
**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 **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 10.08.25
|||**Global Challenge**||||||||||
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|||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**||
|||01/03/2024
28/02/2025
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
~~(__t__[_{_}~~||||||||||
||**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 £**||**to the nearest £**||
||**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
||Crossroads School|**53,877**||**-**||**-**||**53,877**||**35,513**||
||Special Needs|**4,513**||**-**||**-**||**4,513**||**5,654**||
||Elderley|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**270**||
||Gift Aid|**7,053**||**-**||**-**||**7,053**||**6,554**||
||Other Income|**156**||**-**||**-**||**156**||**- 801**||
||Sent to Uganda|**2,042**||**-**||**-**||**2,042**||**- 855**||
|||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_(Gross income for_
_AR)_**67,641**||**-**||**-**||**67,641**||**46,335**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**67,641**
**-**
**-**
**67,641**
**46,335**
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||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
||Crossroads School|**42,126**||**-**||**-**||**42,126**||**40,439**||
||Special Needs|**5,778**||**-**||**-**||**5,778**||**7,304**||
||Elderly|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**240**||
||Co-ordinators|**5,926**||**-**||**-**||**5,926**||**4,647**||
||Other Expenditure|**400**||**-**||**-**||**400**||**3,449**||
|||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**_Sub total_ **|**54,230**||**-**||**-**||**54,230**||**56,078**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**54,230**
**-**
**-**
**54,230**
**56,078**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**13,411**
**-**
**-**
**13,411**
**- 9,744**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**27,144**
**- -**
**27,144**
**36,888**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**40,555**
**-**
**- 40,555**
**27,144**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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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**|||
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|**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
|||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
~~See=~~||||
||account(s))|Agreement Error
OK||OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|
|||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|
||**Details**|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Details**
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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|||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**||**When due**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
19 04 25
Print Name
Anne Cave
Signature
**Details**
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
> **Report to the trustees/** Global Challenge **members of On accounts for the year** 28 02 25 **Charity no** 1121686 **ended (if any) Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **28 / 02 / 2025**
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 19[th] April 2025 ~~po fF~~ **Name:** Julia Shepherd ~~pe~~
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Address:** 10 Palmerston Ave Broadstairs Kent CT10 1TQ
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
2
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
3
**October 2018**
**IER**