## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year|
|**From**|**1st**|**August**|**2023**|**To**|**31st**|**July**|**2024**|
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Himalayan Youth Foundation UK (HYF-UK)
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1124243
18 Holeyn Hall Road
Wylam Northumberland **Postcode NE41 8BB**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||GerrySlater|Chairman||HYF-UK|
||Koenraad Foulon|Trustee|||
||Catherine Kerr|Trustee|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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**Name**
**Address**|||
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Trust Deed
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by Existing 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;
The charity works closely with the Himalayan Youth Foundation in the USA (HYF-US), Mountaineers for Himalayas (M4H) in Andorra, and the Fontana Foundation in Switzerland.
Working with these organisations, support is provided to the following operational charities
- The Himalayan Children’s Foundation (HCF) which operates the Kailash Home in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- The Choki Traditional Arts School (CTAS) in Thimpu, Bhutan
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
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## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Objectives Summary of the objects of** To advance Education, relieve poverty, sickness and distress and **the charity set out in its** promote the good health of children, particularly those aged 6 to 18, living **governing document** in the Himalayan region, in such ways as the Trustees think fit. **Activities** The charity has continued to work with HYF-US and M4H to support the needs of both HCF in Nepal and CTAS in Bhutan. **HCF in Nepal** Mountaineers for Himalayas in Andorra (M4H) continues to have overall financial responsibility for HCF in Nepal. HCF in Nepal runs a hostel constructed in 2007 on the outskirts of Kathmandu which houses 100 underprivileged and/or orphaned students as well as mentoring and financial support to 25 students undertaking Higher Education in the community. The hostel provides general care and assistance for the children and provides for their education through local schools. In the past HYF-UK have supported HCF by providing individual sponsors for each child and raising funds for other purposes connected with the Buildings and Facilities at the Kailash Hostel. **Summary of the main** As advised last year, the Charity has scaled down it’s activities with **activities undertaken for the** respect to Fundraising and Sponsor support. We will continue to service **public benefit in relation to** the existing Sponsorship agreements and provide sponsor support or **these objects (include within** individual children, but will not actively seek additional funds or new **this section the statutory** sponsors. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the** The support we have provided to Students who have left the HCF facility **guidance issued by the** and are studying at University has come to a natural end as the students **Charity Commission on** have graduated. One student has had their course extended for a year, **public benefit)** and the fees or this have been provided **CTAS in Bhutan** The Fontana Foundation in Switzerland continues to have overall financial responsibility for CTAS in Bhutan, and we work with them to support the children at the Choki school. CTAS in Bhutan is a private school for traditional arts, set up to help children from broken and economically disadvantaged homes. The school provides free education, food and lodging and schools the children in the traditional arts of Lhadri(painting), Jinzo(sculpture) and Pap(carving). Construction of the Multi-purpose for which funds were raised in 2022/3 has progressed and work is nearing completion. The Charity will continue to support CTAS and additional donations have been received.
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**Charity Commission Guidance**
In managing the charity's activities, the Trustees have taken due notice of the Guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grant making.
- policy programme related investment.
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main HCF Nepal achievements of the charity** The number of children the Charity supports through sponsorship in the **during the year** Kailash Home in Nepal is now 20. We no longer support any students undertaking Higher education and training. **CTAS Bhutan** Over the years the number of students resident at the CTAS school in Bhutan has increased to 200. **Fundraising** The charity is pleased to record that the following sums have been raised and distributed during the year• Raised the sum of £81,942 • Distributed the sum of £87,112. The funds were distributed as follows: - **To Kailash Home in Kathmandu** § £36,095 to provide sponsorship of 20 children at the Kailash home. § £513 to cover the costs of 1 child at University. § £3,372 has been provided in additional Sponsor Support for individual children. **To Choki Arts School in Thimpu** § £46,637 was raised and donated to the Funds for construction of a new Multi-purpose Hall. And the General Fund.
## **Section E Financial review**
Recognising the responsibility of maintaining Sponsorship support for the **Brief statement of the** children at HCF the Charity operates a Reserve Policy, which provides **charity’s policy on reserves** financial cover in the event of a default by sponsors., Additional reserves are also in place to protect the charity from exposure to adverse movement in the currency exchange rate.
We work in close co-operation with M4H in Andorra and Fontana Foundation in Switzerland, and these organisations operate reserve policies aimed at ensuring that operating costs at HCF and CTAS are fully covered.
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**Details of any funds materially** None. **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising).
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity.
The principal sources of funding for the Charity have been individual Child Sponsorship agreements and donations from individuals and from other charitable organisations.
The Charity has been able to support its key objectives by maintaining and its register of sponsors, and by raising funds which enable it to contribute to the educational, caring and accommodation needs of HCF and CTAS.
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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## ~~Pd~~ **Section G Declaration** ~~a~~
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Gerald Slater ~~ee~~ Catherine Kerr **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc)** ~~a~~ Trustee **Date** December 2024 | ~~|~~ |
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|**No (if any)**
**Charity Name**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
**CC16a**
**1124243**
**Himalayan Youth Foundation UK**
01/08/2023
31/07/2024
~~i~~|
|---|
|**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 £**|
|**A1 Receipts**
HCF Child Sponsorship
**26,800**
**-**
**-**
**26,800**
**-**
HCF UniversitySponsoship
**545**
**-**
**-**
**545**
**-**
HCF General Donations
**934**
**-**
**-**
**934**
**-**
CTAS Donations
**7,065**
**-**
**-**
**7,065**
**-**
CTAS Donations$ **41,420**
**-**
**-**
**41,420**
**-**
Bank interest
**305**
**-**
**-**
**305**
**-**
HCF Gift Aid Recovery
**4,873**
**-**
**-**
**4,873**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**81,942**
**-**
**-**
**81,942**
**-**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total receipts_**
**81,942**
**-**
**-**
**81,942**
**-**
~~===~~
~~= ===~~
~~= ———~~|
|**A3 Payments**
HCF SponsorshipFees
**36,095**
**-**
**-**
**36,095**
**-**
HCF UniversityFees
**513**
**-**
**-**
**513**
**-**
HCF Sponsor Support
**3,372**
**-**
**-**
**3,372**
**-**
CTAS Donations
**46,637**
**-**
**-**
**46,637**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Fees and costs GBP Acc
**153**
**-**
**-**
**153**
**-**
Fees and Costs USD Acc
**345**
**-**
**-**
**345**
**-**
Forex adjustment
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Roundingerror
**- 3**
**-**
**-**
**- 3**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 87,112**
**-**
**-**
**87,112**
**-**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**- -**
**_Total payments_**
**87,112**
**-**
**-**
**87,112**
**-**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 5,170**
**-**
**-**
**- 5,170**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**37,437**
**- -**
**37,437**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**32,267**
**-**
**- 32,267**
**-**
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~~SSS~~
~~55~~
~~SSS~~
~~SS4~~|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
08/01/2025
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**
**funds**|
||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|**1,911**
**-**
**-**
**30,348**
**-**
**-**
**8**
**-**
**-**
**32,267**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
Treasurer Account
Savings Account
USD Account (converted)
~~—====~~|||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||OK
OK
OK|
||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**|
||||**funds**
**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===~~|||
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~ee~~|||
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~ace~~|||
||||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**
**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**|
|CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|2
08/01/2025
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
07-Jan-25
Print Name
Gerry Slater
Signature
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Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Himalayan Youth Foundation UK
On accounts for the year
ended
31st July 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1124243
Set out on pages
1&2
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
responsibilities of The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
trustees and examiner under section 43{2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the 1993 Act) and that an
independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
examine the accounts under section 43 of the 1993 Act,
to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the
Charity Commission (under section 43(7)(b) of the 1993 Act, and
to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given
examinevs statement by the Charity Commission. An examination incSudes 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 the
trustees 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 Irue
and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the
statement below.
Independent In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention
examiner's statement 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect,
the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the 1993
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and
comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act
have not been met . or
2. to which, in my opinion, 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.
Date:
1711212024
Signed:
Gary Kerr
Name:
IER
April 2009