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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO
A Company Limited by Guarantee - Year to 30 June 2025
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Company Number 06283224

Registered Charity Number: 1122222

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TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2025
INDEX
Legal and Administrative Information 2
Report of the Trustees : 3-6
Trustees’ Responsibilities 7
Report of the Independent Examiner 8
Income and Expenditure Account 9
Balance Sheet 10
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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO A Company Limited by Guarantee - Year to 30 June 2025

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

For the Year ended 30 June 2024

The organisation was registered with Companies House on 18 June 2007 and registered with the Commission later that year.

Trustees Rev'd Eugeniah Adoyo Mr. James Dobson Mrs Janet Dobson Rev'd Amiel Osmaston Mrs Betty Payne Mr. David Payne Mrs Balbena Wint Mrs Christine Morgan Dr. Annie Garden

Principal Officers Rev'd Eugeniah Adoyo Chairman James Dobson Treasurer Christine Morgan Secretary

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Registered Office 9 Five Acres Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 4JP : Business Address 9, Five Acres Dursley Gloucestershire GL11 4JP Independent Examiner R J Kenyon FCA 31 White Ox Way Penrith Cumbria CA11 8QP Bankers CAF Bank Ltd 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ Registered Charity 1122222 ,

Registered Company 06283224

Website

www.janddchildrenscentre.org

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| THE FRIENDS OFA Company JULIUSLimited & by DORA Guarantee CHILDREN’S CENTRE,Year to 30 June 2025 MASENO | REPORTOF THE TRUSTEES The trustees present their report and financial statements of The Friends of Julius and Dora Children’s Centre, Maseno for the year ended 30 June 2025. The Accounts are in the Receipts & Payments format with Balance Sheet.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing Document

The Friends of Julius and Dora Children’s Centre, Maseno (the Friends ofJ& D) is governed by its Memorandum & Articles of Association prepared according to The Companies Acts 1985 and 1989 as a Company Limited by Guarantee and Not Having a Share Capital.

Organisational Management

The trustees meet three times per year and run the business of the charity in a voluntary capacity, without paid staff. The trustees are resident in the UK, and all trustees are registered as Directors of the Company. Two of the three annual trustees meetings are held via Zoom internet link, and the third, in the summer, is held at the house of one of the trustees. Any trustees unable to make this meeting in person join via Zoom.

The main function of the Friends ofJ & D is to generate funds and provide support for the Julius and Dora Children’s Centre at Maseno, Kenya (the Centre). The Centre started operations in April 2008 as a registered NGO in Kenya providing a home for orphaned and abandoned children, including food, education and care, and offering them dignity and hope for a sustainable future.

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Recruitment and Training of Trustees

The Trustees’ policy is to appoint trustees with due consideration for the skills and experience required to assist the development of the Friends of J & D being careful to ensure a breadth of diversity. Trustees are required to retire from office on the third anniversary of the commencement of their term of office and may be reappointed. New trustees receive a copy of the Governing Documents, the previous annual financial statements, minutes of meetings and progress reports. The trustees are briefed on the current aims and objectives of both the Friends ofJ& D and the Children’s Centre and are fully advised on the financial position of the charity.

OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

Objects of the charity

The objects of the charity are to relieve poverty, hardship, sickness, homelessness and distress amongst destitute children and young people in particular in Western Kenya and at the Julius and Dora Children’s Centre, Maseno, through the provision of financial assistance for the establishment, provision and maintenance of accommodation, essential supplies (including water, food, medical treatment and clothing), facilities, education, counselling and carers and other charitable support.

Background

The problem of abandoned babies is increasing in Western Kenya. Children discarded and left to die sometimes end up with social services, who try to find suitable places to look after them. However, in that part of the country such places are few and inadequate and funding is extremely hard to find. For that reason, the Friends

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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO A Company Limited by Guarantee - Year to 30 June 2025

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of J & D was registered as a charity in the UK in 2007 in order to provide support for the Julius & Dora Children’s Centre in Kenya in caring for some of these children. The Centre was named after a Christian couple who fostered many children in their home during their lifetime. Their daughter, Flossie Adoyo, was appointed as Director and started operating the Centre in April 2008 in rented premises on the outskirts of Kakamega in Western Kenya. The Centre was relocated to its permanent site at Maseno in January 2014, when the first accommodation building was made ready for occupation. The Board of Directors of the Kenya NGO firmly believes that without the Friends of J & D’s support from the UK the provision of care for the children would have been impossible.

Most of our longer-term children were victims of attempted infanticide, having been abandoned outside and left to die. They were brought to us soon after birth. None of these children would be alive without the Centre’s help. There is no other charity or government agency in Kenya’s Western Province which is willing to take on the demanding work of providing long-term care for abandoned babies. The Centre was registered as a Children’s Home by the local authority in March 2014. In recent years, the Government of Kenya has closed many children’s homes, but has rated J&D as “Excellent” and has taken children there to be looked after. This has significantly increased the number of children in the Centre.

Principal Activities and Public Benefit The Friends ofJ & D’s main activity is fundraising and providing support for the Children’s Centre. The main beneficiaries are the children who receive the love and care provided by the Centre’s staff and volunteers. The local community benefits, too, from the rescue of abandoned children, who would otherwise not have lived. The Trustees are deeply grateful to Floice Adoyo for all that she does in ensuring the high standard of care that is provided for the children.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

The trustees acknowledge with gratitude the generous support of individual Friends, which accounts for the majority of income received during the year ended 30 June 2025. Information about the charity's activities may be found at www.janddchildrenscentre.org.

Fundraising activities in the year included:

Activities: from reports received from Floice Adoyo, Director of the Julius & Dora Children’s Centre:

Accommodation: Following the lightning strike which destroyed one of the original water tanks and some of the solar panels, we were able to replace these.

Education: At the start of the period, there were 10 children in boarding secondary schools, 3 children in boarding primary schools, with 4 in day primary schools and ten being home schooled. At the end of the period, there were 10 children in boarding secondary schools, 9 children in primary schools, with 4 in day primary schools and nine being home schooled. Education costs are a major part of the running costs of the Centre and these will increase again next year when more of the children start primary and secondary school, and the first two start University. Childcare and health: One of the children, who has cerebral palsy, was transferred to another home during the year, which has better facilities for children with disabilities. One of the children has HIV and his medication had been supplied and paid for by US aid. Now this has been withdrawn we are looking into alternatives before the supply runs out.

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During the year four children were reunited with their families/relatives. This is in accordance with the Government of Kenya policy that children with known parents or any relatives should not stay in a children’: home but should live with their relatives. We continue to try to place children in permanent family homes, anc the main route to this is via fostering, with a view to adoption The process is slow, with much documentatior required. During this financial year, four children were adopted.. At the end of the year, five children were being fostered with a view to being fostered, and documentation being prepared for more children.

In addition to the child with cerebral palsy, a further two children were transferred to another home. This home is nearer to the family of the two brothers and should make it easier to provide support to them.

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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO

RESERVES POLICY

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The trustees currently aim to hold a minimum of £1000 as ‘free reserves’ - other than funds which are restricted or set aside for a specific purpose - to finance publicity and fundraising events in the immediate future. (The trustees do not, at present, employ staff nor have significant overhead liabilities.) The trustees’ reserves policy is kept under review, considering the current needs and situation of the Centre.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The trustees are grateful to all donors for their contributions, together with the tax refund on gift aided donations, which amounted to £60,600,12 (2024 - £49,161.41) during the year.

A total of £50,500 (2024 - £50,370.00) transferred to the Centre during this period, representing more than 99% of the year’s expenditure, thanks to the trustees’ voluntary administration of the charity.

We continue to look for more sponsors of individual children in the Centre’s care, and for funds to continue the further education and cover the general running costs.

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TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITIES

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the applicable law, regulations and Memorandum & Articles of Association. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Notes to the accounts

  1. For the year ending 30 June 2025 the company was entitled to exemption under section 249A(1) of the Companies Act 1985.

  2. The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 249B(2) of the Companies Act 1985.

  3. The Directors acknowledge their responsibility for:

  4. i. Ensuring the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 221; and

  5. ii. Preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year, and of its profits or loss for the financial year, in accordance with the requirements of section 226, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act relating to accounts, so far as is applicable to the company.

  6. The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in Part VII of the Companies Act 1985 relating to small companies.

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  1. The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller entities effective January 2005.

Approved by the board on 5" February 2026

And signed on behalf of the Trustees by :

Fvigeurala Koono Eugeniah Adoyo — Chairman

CAIN MD Christine Morgan - Secretary

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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES

| report on the accounts of the Friends of Julius & Dora Children’s Centre for the year ended 30 June 2025 set out on pages 9 - 10.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The trustees (who are also the directors of the company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 43(2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

Having satisfied myself that the charity is not subject to audit under company law and is eligible for independent examination, it is my responsibility to:

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Basis of independent examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the general directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a “true and fair view” and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:

  1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements: a. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and

  2. b. to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records, comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities have not been met, or

  3. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

R J Kenyon FCA

31 White Ox Way Penrith Cumbria CA11 8QP

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THE FRIENDS OF JULIUS & DORA CHILDREN’S CENTRE, MASENO A Company Limited by Guarantee - Year to 30 June 2025

INCOMEAND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT
FortheYearended 30June 2025
2025
£		 2024
£
INCOME:
Donations received:
Regular donations 22,870.00 16,689.92
One-offdonations 29,062.25 24,138.60
Received via CharitiesTrust 2,040.98 1,734.20 ©
Tax Refund on Gift Aid 8,879.39 6,598.69
Bank Interest 38.03 23.34
Total Income 62,890.65 49,184.75
LESS EXPENDITURE:
Contributions to
J & D Children's Centre 50,500.00 50,370.00
Costs:
Companies House 34.00 34.00
Bank Account Fees 60.00 60.00
BankTransferCharges 75.00 125.00
169.00 219.00
TotalExpenditure 50.669.00 50,589.00
Netincome(Deficit)inYear 12,221.65 (1,404.25)

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BALANCE SHEET

As at30June2025
2025 2024
£ £
Current assets
Bank Balance 24,495.20 14,526.05
Debtor 8,492.25 6239.75
NetWorth 32,987.45 20,765.80
Capital and reserves
General funds brought forward 20,765.80 22,170.05
Net Income (Deficit) in Year 12,221.65 (1,404.25)
Balancecarriedforward 32,987.45 20,765.80

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