**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 06 04 2024 **To** 05 04 2025
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
An African Dream
**Other names charity is known by** AAD
|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|**Registered charity number (if any)**1123231
**Charity's principal address**
46, Fairacres,
Prestwood
Buckinghamshire
**Postcode**
**HP16 0LE**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1123231
**Charity's principal address**
46, Fairacres,
Prestwood
Buckinghamshire
**Postcode**
**HP16 0LE**
~~——~~|**Registered charity number (if any)**1123231
**Charity's principal address**
46, Fairacres,
Prestwood
Buckinghamshire
**Postcode**
**HP16 0LE**
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||||||
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**||
|2 Ms Sam Pink|2 Ms Sam Pink|Chair|||Trustees||
|3|Mrs Sophie
Campbell-Wynter||||Trustees||
|4 Mr Trevor Cook|4 Mr Trevor Cook||||Trustees||
|5 Hannah Jo|5 Hannah JoyLittler|Treasurer|||Trustees||
|7 Charlotte Callicott|7 Charlotte Callicott|Secretary|||Trustees||
|10|10||||||
|11|11||||||
|12|12||||||
|15|15||||||
|16|16||||||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** ~~—=$—~~ **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ~~i~~ **TAR** 1 March **2012**
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
A Trust Deed
How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
A Charitable Trust
Trustee selection methods Appointed by Trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
The following is the list of policies that are in place
- a. Financial Policy and Guidance b. GDPR c. Anti-Corruption Policy d. Safeguarding Policy e. Microenterprise f. Trustee expenses.
- Minor amendments were made to the GDPR and Safeguarding policies The remaining policies continued unamended.
The charity carries out DBS checks for everyone going on trips to Uganda.
In November 2021 Trustees adopted a set of Charity Values,
- a. A heart for the vulnerable
- b. partnership with the local community
- c. empowering people to create sustainable futures. d. to uphold and proclaim the Christian message.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The relief of poverty, sickness, and distress, primarily but not exclusively in the East Kasese District of Western Uganda
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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Education of Children Training of Pastors Development of microenterprise activities Support of Widows Provision of Healthcare at St Marks
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Support of Christian Youth work
Visits from Trustees and supporters to further the aims and objectives.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
In February 2024 two Trustees made a trip to Kampala as it was deemed unsafe to visit the work in the West around the Kyanya region due to aggression and violence in the area. It was deemed that Westerners could be a target. Our colleagues from Kyanya came to Kampala for meetings. The charity also used this opportunity to introduce two Ugandan colleagues based in Kampala to assist with the proposal to set up a CBO, (Community Based Organisation).
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Education
||•|St Marks re-opened the new school year in January 2025 with 601
pupils of whom 152 were classified as orphans.There were 23|St Marks re-opened the new school year in January 2025 with 601
pupils of whom 152 were classified as orphans.There were 23|St Marks re-opened the new school year in January 2025 with 601
pupils of whom 152 were classified as orphans.There were 23|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||staff, 17 teaching staff and 6 non-teaching staff.|||
||Pastors Training/Youth work||||
||.||||
||•|Pastor training and youthwork continued in 2023/24|||
||•|The Teens Development Ministry continued its work with its|||
|||regular Christmas conference but was no longer financially|||
|||supported by AAD.|||
||Micro-enterprise||||
||•|The girls’ tailoring project has taken off well and|several girls||
|||continue to be sent out with their own equipment funded by the|||
|||charity following a period of training.|||
||Buildings||||
||•|The Trustees have decided to no longer support the finance for|||
|||the building of church roofs, as it is not considered a priority|||
||Health Work||||
||•|A two day health visit was held in August 2023 with a follow up in|||
|||September specifically for dental treatments|||
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Section D Achievements and performance
## Trustee Visits
- A Trustee visit took place between 6[th] to 22nd February 2024, but only to Kampala where staff from Kyanya came for meetings
Community Relief
- The Charity has kept some small funds available for ongoing Community relief,but has decided it is appropriate to use some of the funds for community related activities.
Community Based Organisation.
- During the year we supported our locally partners to set-up a Community Based Organisation (CBO). This is a locally run organisation with members of the UK charity on the board. The CBO is a separate entity and the board makes decisions as to how funds should be distributed to support the Kasese community. The majority of An African Dream funds go directly to the CBO which in turn provides funds to St Mark school and other projects. The CBO is currently 100% funded by An African Dream in the UK.
## **Section E Financial review**
AAD operates with minimal overheads and is a natural conduit of **Brief statement of the** donations flowing through to Uganda from the UK. As such there is no **charity’s policy on reserves** requirement other than the temporary targeting of specific project requirements and for obtaining short term interest on deposit accounts with instant access to build reserves.
Notwithstanding the above the Trustees agreed in September 2010 to keep in reserve a sum to cover 50% of one year’s wages for teachers at St Marks. This is currently about £5,000.00
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
AAD’s principal source of funding is from individuals, schools, and churches.
There have been several significant fundraising events held by trustees and supporters, typically raising between £500.00 and £1,500.00.
- how expenditure has The charity receives a substantial regular annual donation specifically to fund travel for Trustees visits, in order to enable them to visit regularly
- supported the key objectives and carry out tasks on behalf of the Charity, and to be able to afford the
- of the charity; more expensive but safer private transfers.
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Sam Pink Charlotte Callicott **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Secretary **etc) Date** 29/01/2026
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|**Charity Name**
**An African Dream**|**Charity Name**
**An African Dream**|||||||**No (if any)**
**1123231**|**No (if any)**
**1123231**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period**
**from**
06/04/2024
**To**
05/04/2025
ee||||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**CC16a**|
|Donations
**17,158**||**36,715**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**53,873**|**53,873**||**52,357**|
|Interest
**337**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**337**|**337**||**326**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**17,495**||**36,715**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**54,210**|**54,210**||**52,684**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**17,495**
**36,715**
**-**
**54,210**
**52,684**
**A3 Payments**
Supprt for Orphan's at Primary School
**8,267**
**19,023**
**-**
**27,291**
**29,385**
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|Support for Orphan's at Secondary School||**6,950**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**6,950**|**6,950**||**5,962**|
|St Mark's Primary School Building costs
**7,309**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**7,309**|**7,309**||**5,651**|
|Support for widow's
**-**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,489**|
|Community Microenterprise support||**2,022**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,022**|**2,022**||**2,864**|
|Pastor conferences||**2,194**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,194**|**2,194**||**2,898**|
|Teen & children's conferences
**-**||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**2,102**|
|Other community support
**-**|||||||||**-**|**-**||**574**|
|Support for trip to Uganda
**-**||**-**|||||||**-**|**-**||**3,089**|
|Fundraising
**1,234**|||||||||**1,234**|**1,234**||**600**|
|Charity admin
**585**||**2,496**|||||||**3,081**|**3,081**||**861**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ 17,396**||**32,685**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**50,081**|**50,081**||**56,475**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**17,396**
**32,685**
**-**
**50,081**
**56,475**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**99**
**4,030**
**- 4,129**
**- 3,791**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**3,820**
**- 3,820**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**8,248**
**10,508**
**-**
**18,756**
**22,547**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**12,167**
**10,718**
**- 22,885**
**18,756**
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|
Signature
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
CAF Cash account
CAF Gold account|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**9,110**
**3,057**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**10,718**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**12,167**
OK|**10,718**
OK|**-**
OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Samantha Pink**
**Hannah Littler**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval|
## cre SS . | “3 | CHARITY COMMISSION independent examiner's report on the L | FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts
## Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
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Report to the trustees ia
An African Dream
On accounts for the year | 5" April 2025 Charity no | 1123231
ended (if any)
Set out on pages | 1 to 3 of the Annual Report
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- | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024.
- Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). | 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, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
- examiner's statement Come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or e the accounts did 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. | 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.
- * Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Name: | Mrs D JH Aubin Relevant professional | Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales qualification(s) or body | (ICAEW) (if any): Address: | 4 Old Barn Close Christchurch 1 Oct 2018
IER
Dorset BH23 2QZ
## Section B
## Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose.
IER
2
Oct 2018