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Annual Report 2020 MISSION: SAFE HAPPY KIDS We provide love, hope and dignity.

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Contents

Contents
Objectives, Aims and Activities 3
Mission Statement 3
Significant Activities 3
Projects in India
Faith Sansthan, Jaipur, India 4
Vatsalya Jalore 6
The Skill Development Project 7
Fund A Mom 9
Diwali Fundraiser 10
Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programme 12
Projects in Africa
Becky’s Foundation, Senya Beraku, Ghana 13
Fund a Mom Ghana 15
Ikageng Itireleng, Soweto, South Africa 15
Operation Bobbi Bear, Durban, South Africa 16
Nkosi’s Haven, Johannesburg, South Africa 17
Global Initiatives
Sponsor a Child 18
Vocational Impact 19
Public Benefit 21
Achievements & Performance 21
Monitoring, Evaluation & Site Visits 21
Funding
Donations 22
Art Auctions 22
Farm Feast Events 22
Christmas Online Auction 23
Financial Review 24

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Objectives, Aims and Activities

  1. Relief for orphaned and vulnerable children living in extreme adversity .

  2. We work for the preservation of health among children affected or at risk of HIV/AIDS. We help children residing in India and South Africa by raising awareness and providing the essential social and medical care needed to support healthy and safe lives.

  3. To advance education and awareness.

  4. We work to raise knowledge around children rescued from slavery, trafficking and abuse or living in child-headed households continue to through education, social outreach and campaigns.

  5. To Make Lasting Change

We continue to educate governments and health agencies to the needs of children in the above-mentioned circumstances.

Mission Statement

Arms Around The Child (AATC) is a global charity building a better and kinder environment for children living in extreme adversity.

This could be children who are orphaned, abandoned, at risk of child abuse – sexual or otherwise, affected by HIV, trafficked or living in child-headed households.

With years of experience in direct care, Arms Around The Child are committed to working with people on the ground and involved with the communities affected. We support our partner organisations to train and implement programmes in a scalable way including reintegration and development programmes to help children stay within their families and extended families. We know that providing the kind of joy, love, peace and respect that children need leads to a brighter future.

AATC advocates for their needs and invests in their futures. They provide support and outreach for their extended families and strive to make their futures bright and happy.

Significant Activities

Arms Around The Child UK work closely with our on-ground partners in India, South Africa and Ghana to support them in:

Arms Around The Child focuses on: Community-based fundraising in the UK, grant applications and funding through one-off events and campaigns.

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Projects in India

(Registered organisation Arms Around The Child India)

Faith Sansthan, Jaipur, India

Overview

Smriti Singh founded Faith as a safe home for HIV+ orphans and children affected by HIV/AIDS providing specialized care. The numbers of children she took in grew rapidly as there was no other care home who would take in HIV+ Orphans in Jaipur.

Application for Government Funding

Arms Around The Child India has applied for government funding to support Faith Sansthan homes for girls and for boys under the ICPS (Integrated Child Protection Scheme) and submitted an application to the Department of Child Rights at the Government of Rajasthan. The application has also been forwarded to the Ministry of Women and Child Development with the Government of India. We are waiting for the final decision but have been informed that the application is being considered.

Building A Home for Children Project

Arms Around The Child has supported Faith Sansthan with all the applications to fund the building of a permanent home for the children in the project in Jaipur. We are currently getting the completion and utilisation certificates sanctioned in order to release the final funds for the completion of the building in Jaipur.

Additionally, we have also coordinated with Shri Harvardhan Singh Ji (Hon’ble MP) for funding of 10 lakh rupees (approx. £10000) to support the construction of the first floor at a later date under the Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme.

New Partnership

AATC India introduced the organisation Cienvidas (Spanish organization headed by Director Mr Antanasio Flores De Haro) to support two programmes. These are: ‘Sponsorship for Education’ and a project building a home for girls affected by HIV/AIDS in Alwar, India.

In preparation to move forward with the proposed building AATC India supported the land purchase (The title of the land is in Faith Sansthan’s name.) Plans have been finalised and approved for the home. Currently, there are further contractual negotiations taking place and we are looking forward to an agreement being signed between Faith and Cienvidas to start the new build in 2021.

AATC India has received funds from Cienvadas through the UK website campaign ‘Sponsor A Child’ . These funds will cover all the educational needs of 5 of the girls at our Faith home in Jaipur.. We look forward to this relationship developing and sponsoring more children with their education.

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After Care Support

Some of the children, who have been cared for at AATC funding sites in India, have turned 18 and have moved out. Some have moved in with their relatives and others have continued to receive support from us to live independently . AATC India representatives are in contact with the children who have now left the home and provide support with day to day living, job seeking, further training or education and to share their progress.

A group of boys from Faith (Jyoti, Bilal, Mohan, Kalidas and Deepak), who had reached the age limit for care in Jaipur, got together and with the support of one of their family members and our AATC Director in India, were able to connect with a factory to buy clothes, blue pottery and jewellery of Rajasthan. The team now exhibit and sell throughout Southern India where there is a demand for Rajasthani handicrafts. They have been very successful and, despite the lockdown, are expanding their team.

Shubham from Faith is following another former resident’s footsteps and now has an apprenticeship at the same studio that Vivek works at. Vivek now successfully manages the studio which shoots for fashion magazines and Shubham is looking forward to learning all about the trade.

Vivek at his studio

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Vatsalya Jalore

Daily yoga at Vatsalya home

Overview

Vatsalya Child Care Home and Care Centre is a residential home for boys affected by HIV/AIDS in the Narbada Colony, Jalore and is currently caring for 22 boys. Run by Jaipur Network for Positive People (JNP+) the organisation receives government funding for the home which was implemented through AATC India. There were 2 new admissions in the year 2020 and 6 in 2019.

All the children at Vatsalya Child Care Home attend school (virtually through the pandemic) and tutors also help them in their education. 6 children are attending skill development programmes run by other organizations with government support in the year 2020. Food and nutrition is being provided as per the diet chart and being monitored by the staff. The adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) is being maintained with the support of staff.

Update

Sadly, Mr. Jagdish Saini, the founder of Vatsalya Child Care Home and JNP+ Jalore passed away in May, 2020. It has been such a great loss for everyone. Mr. Ramesh Kumar Gehalot has taken over JNP+ as President and continues to provide funding to the home along with the Government. JNP+ recently mobilised local support to build a boundary wall and put covering over the rear portion of the Vatsalya Home.

Covid Response

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic it has been essential to protect the children as most of them have compromised immune systems through HIV. The staff and children have all adhered to the government guidelines and were instructed on how to follow protocol. Schooling has predominantly been at the home throughout 2020.

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4 boys from the home in Jalore reached the age of independence from the care home and have been encouraged and supported to find work or training. To give some examples, Ganpat is managing a clothes shop in Hyderabad, Naresh is a sales manager in a clothing shop in Surat and Deeraj has found work in Goa. Ashok is finishing his education in Delhi and will hopefully be joining the Government-run railways in a clerical position.#

The Skill Development Project

Overview

Arms Around The Child India has prepared a proposal for the Skill Development project CHEER (Children, Happy, Educated, Empowered and Responsible) which has been submitted to the AAVAS FOUNDATION for funding consideration. The proposal covers skills development for children at the homes in painting, photography, beauty and wellness, medicare, science, fashion, music, computer design including photoshop, computer basics, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Corel (design) and Tally (accounting).

Arts and Crafts as part of the skills programme Young women engaging in the skills programme

The Skills Centre has 10 computers, a printer, a projector located in the new home in Jaipur that should be fully completed by April 2021. The workshops will be delivered face to face once lockdown has eased. Currently, there have been workshops running online. Once the funding is in place we will be recruiting for the full delivery of the Skills Development Programme.

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Technical Support to Partners

To comply with the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 AATC runs regular capacity building and training programmes for staff and caretakers to build skills and update them on institutional Care Provisions. We cover protection, survival, development and participation making sure we are providing safe and secure accommodation, meeting the needs of food nutrition and healthcare with a strong focus on adherence to ART and management of opportunistic infections, education and development and making sure that each child has a holistic development plan which is monitored on a regular basis. We coordinate project management through various committees, coordinate meetings with child welfare and facilitate monitoring visits by various Government agencies.

Covid-19

During the Covid-19 pandemic, AATC has helped Faith and other partners in following the guidelines issued by the Indian Government. AATC trained all staff on how to implement and follow the Covid-19 guidelines as the majority of the children in our care have compromised immune systems due to their HIV+ status. Strictly no visitors allowed, all supplies properly sanitized and only one staff member allowed to manage the daily food supplies and the collection of drugs for the children from ART Centre. The children and the staff were instructed on social distancing, use of masks and hand washing at regular intervals. To date, no members of staff and none of the children have been affected by Covid-19

During lockdown the children at the homes engaged in various extracurricular activities, cooking, kitchen gardening, computing, arts & crafts, music and dance, watching films and attended online classes on Photoshop along with all the academic classes which were also online.

Students engaging in online classes

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Fund A Mom

Overview of the Project

The concept behind Fund a Mom is simple - to provide a universal basic income to mothers in need. AATC India has been instrumental in planning and implementing Fund A Mom in India.

The programme was created in 2018 with 25 destitute and vulnerable mothers from five slums of Jaipur City and already in 2020 we saw a huge difference in the mothers lives. They had regained their confidence, their children were in education, they felt safe knowing they could provide healthcare, food and nutrition for the family and were in a better position to buy clothes for their children and themselves.

At the end of 2019, some of the mothers started income generation initiatives with market stalls selling vegetables, fruits and clothing which they have been able to carry on through the pandemic.

During Covid-19 when the entire world was locked down, many daily wage earners lost their income overnight and had to fight for survival. These uncertain times made Fund A Mom essential for survival for the mothers involved in the project. AATC was in regular contact by phone with each mom and educated them around the guidelines and best practices to avoid infection.

One of the mothers, Pooja, with her two children.

New opportunities for the moms

The festival of Raksha Bandhan was approaching, a festival for which sisters of all ages tie a thread (the rakhi ,) around the wrists of their brothers which symbolically protects them. Some of the Moms expressed an interest in making Rakhis and which they did beautifully. AATC purchased the materials for the project and the moms successfully sold all the rakhis in shopping malls and at exhibitions. The moms are planning to make items for other festivals throughout the year which will support their basic income.

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Diwali Fundraiser

AATC India mobilized support to celebrate Diwali with the moms and developed ‘Happiness for 100 Mothers’ through crowdfunding. This was initially just for the moms we support but was so successful in raising funds for Diwali food parcels that we were able to extend to more needy households.

Narendra Jangid (AATC India Director) said “It was truly an amazing experience to see the happiness on their faces and to see the confidence to celebrate the light festival happily.”

The Moms receiving their food parcels

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Fund A Mom Skills Building

With Fund A Mom in its third year in India, the moms have requested support with income generation initiatives. Based on a detailed consultation with the moms, to understand their areas of interest and feasibility, AATC have proposed the following three job roles for a skills-building programme.

  1. Domestic Worker : Many of the mothers work or have worked part-time as a domestic worker in their neighbourhoods and there is ample opportunity to equip them with skills in a formal setup like using electronic devices including automatic washing machines, smart electrical goods, cookery skills, TV, toddler/baby/cradle care and care for elderly people.

  2. Gardener : The settlement of slums is often nearby affluent areas and is the case in Jaipur City. There are large homes with good open space in the front and rear. This space can be developed into a kitchen garden for organic food products. This is a fast-developing concept and for the moms to have a basic knowledge of farming would be a great advantage.

  3. Self Employed Tailor : Many mothers are skilled in domestic stitching, sewing and altering which takes many years to learn. The course will run for three months and will cover all the required skills for the mothers to use these skills for income.

Malti has started her own clothes stall

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Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Programme

Overview

The majority of the moms we support are widowed and, unfortunately, this is mostly because their husbands had alcohol addictions and died due to alcohol related accidents or health complications.

AATC met with Dr D.S. Poonia, a psychiatrist who is knowledgeable in the field of addiction and wanted to help in some way. He galvanised a team to be available for 2 days and offered to support with free and subsidised medication.

Soot Mill was selected for a one year programme and the goal to rehabilitate 21 people in 2021 with the support of Dr Poonia, the community, health and social services.

The implementation strategies for the programme:

  1. Interaction with Individual: for critical thinking and motivation for change.

  2. Family Support: This is a disease and we must treat it like that. How can the family support a person? Discuss and prepare the family, this may include neighbours and relatives as well.

  3. Medical Intervention: After the first two stages the patient visits the doctor who decides the line of treatment. The team follows up treatment and if there is any problem there is the contact number of the doctor available at every slip to contact with.

Dr Poonia has a mobile unit that will be at Soot Mill on the first and third Thursday of each month and will be activated in 2021.

As part of the programme several murals were painted around the Soot Mill area. “I have started escaping the darkness of the bottle. I have started climbing the mountain of happiness”

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Projects in Africa

Becky’s Foundation, Senya Beraku, Ghana

Overview of the Project

Arms Around The Child works with Becky’s Foundation, a care home for children in poverty. Offering orphaned children shelter, protection, support, and education.

Currently, there are 49 children in the care of Becky’s Home in Senya Beraku, 30 male and 19 females. It has been a challenging year with the global COVID-19 pandemic. Schools have been closed for most of the year and the children have been isolated at the home.

The open space around the school has meant there has been plenty of space and time for outdoor activities and this year the children have been working under instruction to set up some land for farming and growing vegetables. The children have all been homeschooling with the support of the teachers from ‘Happy Home’ school and the care workers. Everyone has tried their very best to keep the children up to speed but there are always challenges keeping within the lockdown guidelines and the children safe. No-one at the home has been infected with COVID-19 and the children and staff continue to adhere to the protocol outlined by the Government.

Children from Becky’s Foundation

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Throughout the year 5 children have been repatriated with extended family. The uncle of 2 sisters who had lost both of their parents came from Germany and set up his other sister in Accra with work and support to take care of the 2 girls. A brother and sister who live in Senya Beraku had been at Becky’s Home for some years while their parents were experiencing extreme poverty with ill health, no work, other children and extended family to look after. They have now both recovered their health and are working and able to care for both the children once again. The other boy has gone back to the Central Region supported by his Uncle to be with his mother as she is in ill health, he has enrolled in a school and will continue with his studies. Becky’s Home keeps in contact with all the children who move on or are repatriated from the home.

Despite the erratic school year with the schools opening and closing 5 of the children (3 girls and 2 boys) are graduating and will be going to Senior High School in 2021.

Building A School

The school that the children from Becky’s Home have been attending, ‘Happy Home“ school, has been constantly under repair and during the first major lockdown of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic has fallen into even further disrepair. The school was already suffering from the location under an electric pylon and on a hill which meant when it rained the water would flow through the school like a river. A decision was taken not to re-open the school. The children have all been allocated new schools within the area when the lockdown is lifted.

With the generous support of Christian Atsu, International Footballer we have been working on building a new school on land that was purchased again with Christians help. The urgency to complete the new school is paramount, however during the pandemic work came to a halt but resumed in September 2020, phase 3 was completed and we are looking forward to completing phase 4, the final phase. This incorporates all the woodwork for the roof frames, the roofing sheets, electrics, plumbing, ceilings, windows, doors, plastering, sanitation, decor and landscaping. The school building is expected to be finished in July 2021 subject to funds being available.

Plans for the new school building

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Fund a Mom Ghana

Overview

In October 2020 we made an application to DFID to set up the Fund A Mom program in Senya Beraku, Ghana. Providing a monthly stipend to mothers in the village in order to support them with their children.

The team have identified 11 mothers who have children at Becky's home in Senya Beraku supported by Arms Around The Child who could have their children back living with them if they were on the Fund A Mom programme.

AATC was not successful with the recent application but are continuing to make other applications and are hopeful that the programme can start in 2021.

Ikageng Itireleng, Soweto, South Africa

Overview of the Project

Ikageng, the non-profit organisation, was founded by Carol Dyanti (“Mum Carol”) in 2001 in Orlando West, Soweto. Through her work as a home-based care provider in Soweto, she saw an increasing number of children left to fend for themselves and knew she had to intervene.

Many of these children had lost their parents and guardians to HIV/AIDS and were now living in single parent-headed, grandparent-headed or child-headed households. This meant they were exposed to cramped living spaces, poor sanitary conditions, inadequate food, and rampant drug and alcohol abuse. By providing for all their basic needs, Ikageng relieved some of the pressure and despair faced by children who, having lost parents, are forced to take on adult roles.

Ikageng’s Unique Model

Instead of breaking families up, Ikageng provides the resources and services needed to maintain the family unit, keeping siblings together in their own homes. Based on the South African government’s social policy of cluster homes, Ikageng’s community-based model of care builds a strong family unit and ultimately ensures that the children have a stable support system to help sustain them through difficult times. 15,000 orphaned and vulnerable children and 3,500 families have been supported since Ikageng was established.

Arms Around The Child have been supporting Mum Carol for the past 12 years and continue to support Ikageng with development for staff training and policy implementation and the provision of food parcels for the child-headed households in Soweto, South Africa.

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Operation Bobbi Bear, Durban, South Africa

Overview

Visionary Jackie Branfield created Operation Bobbi Bear over 24 years ago to rescue and uphold the rights of sexually abused children in South Africa. By using a cuddly colored Teddy Bear to help the victims indicate what they experienced, it changed the level of trauma that they had to go through while describing the horrific incidents they had no words for.

Covid-19 Reponse

2020 has been a very difficult year for Operation Bobbi Bear - especially since the Hard lockdown in March. Unfortunately, it was virtually impossible to achieve the goals set for the year. The lockdown and government guidelines including the curfew made it very difficult for the team to reach children in high-risk areas. They were unable to attend workshops and could only do educational toy presentations in schools for a short time before lockdown commenced. This was the same for their public awareness talks.

The work of Operation Bobbi Bear was further hampered by the closure of schools and the Rescue Centre (apart from the continued caregiving to the children who are living at the home.) Staff were unable to come to the office and instead have gone directly to the satellite offices, resulting in much higher taxi fees and no school talks or public awareness talks.

During the hard lockdown, there has been a huge increase in domestic violence with children, rape and murders. Families have been locked up together for long periods of time and huge numbers of workers lost their employment which led to high levels of depression and aggression among males who could no longer support their families, which affected females and children in the households.

Bobbi Bear staff have also been under a lot of strain having to work from their homes and not being able to travel after curfew unless a police van escort could be arranged which was very challenging. Not having any volunteers has affected the support to the staff and also the children in the care of Bobbi Bear at the Rescue Centre.

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Bobbi Bear targets for 2021

Despite hard lockdown – Bobbi Bear still managed to give 300 children a Christmas Party with a small gift, cake, party pack and juice and continued to support and help child victims of abuse and rape resulting in the prosecution of the perpetrators.

Arms Around The Child's volunteer organisation, Vocational Impact, was able to send volunteers in the first part of 2020 but due to the lockdown we had to make sure that they returned home safely and for the remainder of 2020 Bobbi Bear has remained in lockdown and unable to take volunteers. Arms Around The Child has continued to send funds throughout the remainder of 2020 to support the running costs of Bobbi Bear and the various programmes run through the organisation.

Nkosi’s Haven, Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview

Supporting Nkosi’s Haven has mainly been through our Vocational Impact programme that sends University students to volunteer who are studying courses including Business or International Development, Psychology, Health and Social Care at graduate, post Grad, MA and PhD levels.The programme not only sends students to support the essential work of Nkosi’s but uses the fees to support Nkosi’s with donations throughout the year.

Nkosi’s Haven provides a home for children who have been orphaned by AIDS. A safe home for over 100 children and about 25 mothers. The children receive a quality education, health care, good nutrition, housing and support. The right to education is often a challenge for children who are infected with HIV/AIDS. Getting a good quality education is of the utmost importance at Nkosi’s Haven.

The children who live in Nkosi’s Haven receive their education at schools inside the community. Nkosi’s Haven is the dream project of Nkosi Johnson, to whom the International Children’s Peace Prize was dedicated posthumously in 2015. In his short life, Nkosi advocated for the rights of children with HIV/AIDS. Nkosi’s Haven was founded in 1999 by Gail Johnson, Nkosi’s foster mother.

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Global Initiatives

Sponsor a Child

Overview

The Arms Around The Child sponsor programme is dedicated to building a better and kinder environment for orphaned and abandoned children. The sponsorship programme gives children a healthy start in life and the donations have provided homes, health care, medications, food, and nutrition.

The sponsors are able to have a special relationship and build a lasting friendship with the sponsored child’s community. By receiving photos, messages, and a handwritten letter, they can reply or (in normal times) even go and visit.

This special relationship encourages long term donations that make it possible to provide long term care and financial support to communities. By securing funding for our ‘on the ground’ partners in India and Africa we can ensure that sustainable, long term solutions are found.

The Sponsor a child programme has been successful and we look to continue to grow it in the coming years.

Children from Becky Foundation in Senya Beraku, Ghana

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Vocational Impact

Overview of the Project

For over a decade, Arms Around the Child have been working with international volunteers from around the world who have invested in their important work. In January, February and March 2020, Vocational Impact Project (VIP) attended two university events to encourage students to sign up for volunteer placements in Ghana. Specifically for students studying in the medical field, as these students are required to complete a compulsory medical elective and this can be abroad.

Medical students can receive grants and internal university funding, so we continued to focus on tapping into these courses and these students. We attended an event at Bristol UWE and Portsmouth university. Vocational Impact recruited past-volunteers to help engage and sell placements to potential new volunteers. This personal touch increased our credibility and meeting directly with lecturers helped to develop relationships with university departments.

Changes due to Covid-19

In early March, we started to see universities swiftly change their travel policies, and we had various requests to cancel placements due to the evolving Covid-19 situation. By March 16th it was very apparent that Covid-19 was going to change international travel and we decided to postpone all of our placements, reaching out to all volunteers who had put a deposit down and explained a future date could be rescheduled.

Vocational Impact had to let go of our freelance staff with immediate effect, realising that we would not bring in any income and would miss our key sales period and prime volunteer dates between May-August, the university summer holidays. We had four volunteers on placement in South Africa as the travel restrictions gained momentum and countries locked their borders, they were all advised to leave immediately and return to their home countries.

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New Objectives

In April, VIP supported the AATC Charity Commission audit request and provided accounts, compliance and key documentation requested. The commission were extremely happy with all the information supplied and were fully satisfied with all the outcomes.

A VIP career advice service was trialled, with hourly support offered on an individual basis to university students. However, as all VIP expenditures were cancelled, including the email marketing platform, ConvertKit, which meant there was no advertising applied.

During the summer, and as the Covid-19 situation seemed to be easing, we decided to take the opportunity to redesign and simplify operations and update the VIP website, with the aim to relaunch and attempt to pick up sales for summer 2021 placements. All digital content was reviewed, edited and uploaded, but before the redesign could take place, the second wave of Covid-19 started to take hold and once again international travel was halted and universities were no longer supporting or advertising international placements.

Despite the challenges, VIP received 271 applications in 2020 to participate in one of the volunteer placements.

A VIP Volunteer teaching a Lesson

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Public Benefit

The trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake in order to achieve its aims and objectives.

Arms Around The Child promotes public benefit by fundraising to support children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS, children who have been abandoned, abused, who live in child-headed households, rescued from slavery & trafficking and orphaned and other associated projects.

Arms Around The Child does not discriminate against anyone who has been affected by HIV/AIDS and welcomes fundraising from any members of the public.

Achievements & Performance

AATC has worked closely with the Board of Trustees on strategy, budgeting, funding and grant applications for all of the sites that we support and are active in the support, development, training, finding and recruiting new board members and developing fundraising strategies within the communities of the sites we fund in South Africa, India and Ghana. AATC has outlined our achievements and performances with each site we support in the notes above as well as the information below outlining our UK fundraising achievements and performances.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Site Visits

Arms Around The Child aims to visit the sites and countries we work with at least once every 2 years. With the Vocational Impact students who are working at most of our supported organisations, we are able to connect more closely on a regular basis with the organisations. A similar trip was organised to India to visit the homes that we support and to devise a new programme for volunteers and also to follow up with the Fund A Mom project, however, due to the global lockdown, these plans have been put on hold and will hopefully be revisited in 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic during 2020 meant AATC were unable to directly visit the but were able to coordinate with other organisations on the ground who were able to visit the sites on AATC’s behalf.

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Funding

Donations

AATC was delighted to be the recipients of funds from The Cecil Rosen Charitable Trust. Additional Donations were received from The Tula Trust and The Christadelphian Samaritan Fund, Sono Global continues to support our work in Ghana. Christian Atsu continued to donate throughout 2020 to support the school building in Ghana. AATC has a database of regular monthly donors and gratefully received one off fundraising initiatives through Just Giving and other fundraising platforms including our platform through the website. Victorious Festival was unable to make a donation to AATC in lieu of us hosting The World Music Village as the event didn’t go ahead but is due to be reinstated in 2021.

Art Auctions

After the cancellation of the ‘heART & SOUL’ Art Auction scheduled on 13th March 2020 at St. John's Waterloo AATC went ahead with an online Art Auction hosted by Paddle 8 and some of the art was sold. The remainder is being stored. AATC connected with Christies who are supporting the rescheduling of the Art Auction at their Auction House in London, hopefully Autumn 2021.

Farm Feast Events

During a small window of opportunity within the country's lockdown Arms Around The Child were able to host 2 Farm Feasts on a farm in the South of England. Keeping within the lockdown guidelines of 30 people for restaurant-style dining and sponsored by Filippo Berio the event was hugely successful in raising funds for the charity. This was followed by The Hungry Herbivores hosting 2 lunch meze events where Arms Around The Child were the beneficiaries.

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Christmas Online Auction

AATC partnered with Superstars online auction platform to deliver a successful Christmas Auction. Due to the lockdown and experiences being difficult to fulfil AATC were able to secure some exciting zoom connections with top music industry experts offering advice and guidance and how to get heard in the industry along with artists including RAMZ, Beverley Knight and Emeli Sande offering chats, advice and exclusive recordings of their music.

Pro Bono

We have received pro bono support for our Vocational Impact website building and maintenance and also support with Google Ad Words through Seb Weller (Trustee) through his company Weller Media Agency. We also receive pro bono support from Kandi London for AATC redesign and Fund A Mom website creation. design-build and all graphic design work including logo design.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial report for the year

A summary of the year's results can be found on page 27.

Total incoming resources amounted to £114,405 (2019: £220,076). All of this relates to charitable donations.

The balance sheet shows total funds of £48,079 (2019: £34,250).

Reserves policy

At the balance sheet date the unrestricted fund was £44,956 (2019: £34,250) the restricted fund was £3,123 (2019: £NIL). Last year the charity had net current assets of £34,250 of which £42,595 was held as cash at the bank. The bank balance at 12 December 2020 was £56,059.

The trustees are planning future fund raising events and exploring potential sponsorship opportunities. In addition, the trustees are reviewing the model for their fundraising events with the aim of reducing the costs involved in staging them, therefore ensuring an increase in the amounts raised for the charity's programmes.

The trustees' policy is to work towards building a sustainable level of reserves over the next five years to fund the charity's programmes and running costs for at least the following twelve months.

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing document

The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust and constitutes an unincorporated charity.

Recruitment and appointment of new trustees

Trustees are appraised of their duties and obligations under charity law and Charity Commission guidelines and recommendations. The trustees adhere to corporate governance policies and are required to register and declare any potential conflicts of interest on a regular basis. Trustees are encouraged to attend appropriate external courses to enable them to carry out their role.

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

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INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF ARMS AROUND THE CHILD (UK)

Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Arms Around The Child (UK)

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of Arms Around The Child (UK) (the Trust) for the year ended 12 December 2020.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation 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 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I 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 Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I 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.

Kevin Richards FCCA Rothmans LLP Chartered Accountants Fryern House 125 Winchester Road Chandlers Ford Hampshire SO53 2DR

26/04/2021

Date: .............................................

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 12 DECEMBER 2020

Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
Notes
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
2
94,354
3,394
Other trading activities
3
16,656
-
Investment income
4
-
1
Total
111,010
3,395
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
5
13,817
413
Charitable activities
6
Raising awareness, campaigns and education
12,390
14,446
Grants to projects and associated costs
59,510
-
Total
85,717
14,859
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
25,293
(11,464)
Transfers between funds
12
(14,587)
14,587
Net movement in funds
10,706
3,123
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
34,250
-
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
44,956
3,123		 2020
Total
funds
£
97,748
16,656
1
114,405
14,230
26,836
59,510
100,576
13,829
-
13,829
34,250
48,079		 2019
Total
funds
£
161,347
58,725
4
220,076
26,109
89,054
77,595
192,758
27,318
-
27,318
6,932
34,250

The notes form part of these financial statements

28 ARIAS AROUND THE CHILD {UK) 8ALANCE SHEET 12 OECEMBER 2020 2020 Totsl funds 2019 Total lunds Unrestri¢ted fund Restricted fijnd CURRENT ASSErs Cash at bank 52.936 3,123 56.059 42,595 CREDITORS Amounts tslling dL* wthin Or￿ year 17.980) 17.9801 (Q3451 CURRENT ASSETS 44.956 3.123 48,079 34,250 TOTAL ASSEfs LESS CURRENT UABILITIES 44,956 3.123 41079 34.250 34 250 FUNDS Un￿$tr+C￿ ft￿d6 Restntxed fiJnd5 12 34,250 3,123 TOTAL FUNDS 48,079 34,250 26/0412021 The finanaal ststements were approved bythe Board ofTrustees and athhorised forissu9 On........................... ............... . 8nd wer8 sgned on rts behalf by.. Mr F Runge- Tru6t The noles fomt parl of t￿ finanaal slalements

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 12 DECEMBER 2020

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Basis of preparing the financial statements

The financial statements of the charity, which is a public benefit entity under FRS 102, have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)', Financial Reporting Standard 102 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Charities Act 2011. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Going Concern

The trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis.

At the balance sheet date the charity had net assets of £48,079 and reserves of £44,956. The trustees consider that it will be in a position to meet its obligation as they fall due.

Income

All income is recognised in the Statement of Financial Activities once the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Expenditure

Liabilities are recognised as expenditure as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to that expenditure, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is accounted for on an accruals basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all cost related to the category. Where costs cannot be directly attributed to particular headings they have been allocated to activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources.

Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year end date are noted as a commitment but not accrued as expenditure.

Charitable activities

Costs of charitable activities includes grants made.

Allocation and apportionment of costs

Support costs have been allocated to costs of generating funds and then are apportioned between fund raising and generating voluntary income. Support costs have been apportioned based upon the income under each of these headings.

Taxation

The charity is exempt from tax on its charitable activities.

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes.

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2.
DONATIONS AND LEGACIES
Donations
Vocational Impact volunteer donations
3.
OTHER TRADING ACTIVITIES
Fundraising events
4.
INVESTMENT INCOME
Interest receivable
5.
RAISING FUNDS
Raising donations and legacies
Consultancy
Event costs
Support costs
6.
CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES COSTS
Raising awareness, campaigns and
education
Grants to projects and associated costs		 Grant
Direct
funding of
Costs
activities
£
£
24,856
-
-
59,510
24,856
59,510		 2020
£
113,595
13,597
127,192
2020
£
16,656
2020
£
1
2020
£
1,928
5,641
1,984
9,553
Support
costs (see
note 7)
£
1,980
-
1,980		 2019
£
182,685
37,391
258,731
2019
£
58,725
2019
£
4
2019
£
4,765
14,790
6,554
26,109
Totals
£
26,836
59,510
86,346

Further information on grants made to projects is given in note 14.

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7. SUPPORT COSTS

Support costs are allocated equally between fund raising activities and raising awareness, campaigns and education.

8. TRUSTEES' REMUNERATION AND BENEFITS

No trustees received remuneration or other benefits for their services as trustees of the charity for the year ended 12 December 2020 nor for the year ended 12 December 2019.

Ms E Milner received payment in respect of other services provide to the charity, further details are given in note 13.

Trustees' expenses

There were no trustees' expenses paid for the year ended 12 December 2020 nor for the year ended 12 December 2019.

9. EMPLOYEE NUMBERS

During the current and prior years the charity had no employees.

10. COMPARATIVES FOR THE STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

Unrestricted
Restricted
fund
fund
£
£
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM
Donations and legacies
123,960
37,387
Other trading activities
58,725
-
Investment income
-
4
Total
182,685
37,391
EXPENDITURE ON
Raising funds
23,373
2,736
Charitable activities
Raising awareness, campaigns and education
32,572
56,482
Grants to projects and associated costs
77,595
-
Total
133,540
59,218
NET INCOME/(EXPENDITURE)
49,145
(21,827)
Transfers between funds
(21,827)
21,827
Net movement in funds
27,318
-
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS
Total funds brought forward
6,932
-
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
34,250
-		 Total
funds
£
161,347
58,725
4
220,076
26,109
89,054
77,595
192,758
27,318
-
27,318
6,932
34,250

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued FOR THE YEAR ENDED 12 DECEMBER 2020

11. CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR

Trade creditors
Accruals and deferred income		 2020
£
6,540
1,440
7,980		 2019
£
5,945
2,400
8,345

12. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS

MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
Net Transfers
At movement between At
13/12/19 in funds funds 12/12/20
£ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 34,250 25,293 (14,587) 44,956
Restricted funds
Vocational Impact - (11,464) 14,587 3,123
TOTAL FUNDS 34,250 13,829 - 48,079

Net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Incoming Resources Movement
resources expended in funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 111,010 (85,717) 25,293
Restricted funds
Vocational Impact 3,395 (14,859) (11,464)
TOTAL FUNDS 114,405 (100,576) 13,829
Comparatives for movement in funds
Net Transfers
At movement between At
13/12/18 in funds funds 12/12/19
£ £ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 6,932 49,145 (21,827) 34,250
Restricted funds
Vocational Impact - (21,827) 21,827 -
TOTAL FUNDS 6,932 27,318 - 34,250

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12. MOVEMENT IN FUNDS - continued

Comparative net movement in funds, included in the above are as follows:

Incoming Resources Movement
resources expended in funds
£ £ £
Unrestricted funds
General fund 182,685 (133,540) 49,145
Restricted funds
Vocational Impact 37,391 (59,218) (21,827)
TOTAL FUNDS 220,076 (192,758) 27,318

Restricted funds

Vocational Impact - Vocational Impact have a deep passion and drive to link professional volunteers and university students to the Arms Around the Child projects in Africa and India. With a core mission to drive international skills exchange and empowerment, they recognised the need of NGOs, and the skills university students can bring to them. During the year Volunteer Invest changed its name to Vocational Impact.

Each year the charity uses funds from the unrestricted fund to support the administrative costs incurred by the Vocational Impact fund.

13. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

During the year the charity made payments to Ms E Milner, a member of the key management personnel of the charity and from 8 March 2019 a trustee of the charity.

The payments totalling £9,000 (2019: £45,620) were in respect of raising awareness of the charity and its aims, fundraising, management, event management services and payment of consultant fees to support AATC. In addition, during the year expenses directly relating to the activities of the charity and the running of the charity totalling £3,400 (2019: £Nil) were reimbursed to Ms E Milner.

14. GRANTS MADE TO PROJECTS

During the year the following grants were paid to support projects and individuals in India and South Africa;

Carmel Jyoti - the project provides nutritional support, medical care and education at a care home in Manipur, India for children affected by HIV/AIDS. During the year the charity provided funds of £NIL (2019: £NIL).

Faith Sansthan - the project supports care homes in Jaipur, india, which provide care for children affected by HIV/AIDS. During the year the charity provided funds of £15,560 (2019: £34,279).

Mr Narendra Kumar Jangid - Mr N K Jangid is the India Programmes Consultant, during the year the charity provided him with funding and expenses of £1,500 (2019: £5,649) to provide direct supervision to the charity's projects in India, making sure that project goals and objectives are met on a timely basis, and that projects are in compliance with the funding agreements.

Becky's Home - The project supports the running costs, education, food and staffing for 55 orphans rescued from Slavery and Trafficking in Senya Beraku, Ghana. During the year the charity provided funds of £31,880 (2019: £11,409)

Moya Family - The Charity funds and supports an extended family who were left orphaned having lost their parents and elder brother to AIDS and some of the family are HIV+. During the year the charity funded the family's rental costs totalling £NIL (2019: £Nil)..

Bobbi Bear Fund - the project in Durban, South Africa, provides support for children who are victims of abuse, abandonment and rape. During the year the charity provided funds of £9,470 (2019: £9,419) .

Ikageng Itireleng - the project in Soweto, South Africa, provides support and care for children affected by HIV/AIDS. During the year the charity provided funds of £1,000 (2019: £Nil).

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14. GRANTS MADE TO PROJECTS - continued

Nkosi's Haven - Johannesburg, South Africa. During the year the charity provided funds of £Nil (2019: £796).

Friends Without Borders Refugee Children. During the year the charity provided funds of £100 (2019: £Nil).