## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] May 2023 Period start date To Period end date** ## **30[th] April 2024** ## **Charity name: Children in Bangladesh** ## **Charity registration number:1124389** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education and welfare of**
**poor children and Families in Bangladesh**
**by making grants of money or paying for**
**items, services or facilities.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The main activities have been to continue**
**the projects started in the past 3 years.**
**To relieve the poverty aggravated by**
**Covid and Dengue fever.**
**Paying the salaries of 8 teachers in 2**
**schools for 5 to 11 year olds in villages**
**outside Bandardban until the government**
**takes them over.**
**Grants for students to continue nurse**
**training and college education. Grants for**
**secondary school children to attend**
**Moanoghar residential School.**
**Grants to start to develop a hostel for**
**secondary school children near to**
**Bandarban.**
**Machinery to increase rice cultivation.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have followed the guidance**
**on public benefit**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**To receive email requests for grants from**
**persons known to us in Bangladesh.**
**It has not been possible to visit due to**
**covid and dengue fever.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Short term deposit held with Cambridge**
**and Counties.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**None**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**1.**
**Establishment and Maintenance or**
**2 schools for 5 to 11year olds for**
**the Khayeng community outside**
**Bandarban. These will be taken**
**over by the government after 5**
**years. This means that some 140**
**children 7 to 11 years ld will get a**
**basic education**
**2.**
**Grants to maintain 32 Kheyang**
**students at Moanoghar residential**
**secondary school.**
**3.**
**Purchase of a used building to be**
**converted for use as a hostel for**
**village children to attend**
**secondary school in Bandarban.**
**4.**
**Grants for girls to train as nurses.**
**5.**
**Grants to buy rice field irrigation,**
**soil turn over and rice threshing.**
**6.**
**Grants to train women in clothes**
**making; provision of sewing**
**machines, cloth etc and building a**
**workshop to house sewing**
**project.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We are a small charity with a reserve on**
**deposit with a building society.**
**Expenditure has been balanced by**
**personal donations.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Some of the reserves have been used**
**due to increased expenditure and it is**
**expected that they will be reduced again**
**in the following year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**On going commitments to the**
**maintenance 2 junior schools including**
**eight teachers for the first 5 years. Fees**
**for Khayang students at board at**
**Moanoghar school and nurses in**
**training.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Individual donations**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Short term deposit bond with Cambridge**
**and Counties**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**None. The expenditure is dependent on**
**the income of the charity. Reserves are**
**kept in order to cover education fees for**
**children in secondary, university and**
**nursing education.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Trustees**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed January 2008**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charity created by a Trust Deed to be**
**administered by the Trustees.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Selected with regard to skills, knowledge**
**and experience.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**In UK supported by the Rotary club of**
**Wrexham Erddig;**
**In Bangladesh by the Rotary Club of**
**Kawran Bazaar in Dhaka; in Rangamati**
**Moanoghar residential school and ; the**
**Community in Bandarban .**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Children in Bangladesh| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1124389| |Charity’s principal address|40 Trem yr Eglwys,
Wrexham,
LL13 7QE| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Graham Arthurs|Chairman||| ||Jacqueline Cliff|Treasurer||| ||Malcolm James|||| ||Menai Arthurs|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the None charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for None safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser None** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** ra “a \ i Sa SN Me Malcolm James **Full name(s)** Graham Arthurs **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 10/07/2024 n ||**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~|**Children in Bangladesh**
**No (if any)**
**CC16a**
**Children in Bangladesh**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
May 1st 2022
**April 30th 2023**
Period end date
May1st 2023
April 30th 2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee ee_~~| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**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**||||||||||| |Deposits to Bank|**58,500**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**58,500**||**20,600**| |HMRC Gift Aid|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**9,500**| |Interest|**1,713**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**1,713**||**2,079**| |Transfer from Cambridge & Counties|**42,368**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**42,368**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**102,581**
_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**|**-**||**-**||**102,581**||**32,179**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 102,581**
**-**
**-**
**102,581**
**32,179**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
~~——=———~~||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||| |To Bangladesh|**76,822**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**76,822**||**30,100**| |Transfer Charges|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**43**| |HSBC Bank charges|**60**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**60**||**60**| |Others|**384**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**384**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ 76,882**|||**-**|**-**||**-**||**76,882**||**30,203**| |**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 76,882**
**-**
**-**
**76,882**
**30,203**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
~~——=——=—=~~||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**25,699**
**-**
**-**
**25,699**
**1,976**
**42,638**
**-**
**-**
**42,638**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**91,416**
**68,337**
**-**
**-**
**68,337**
**93,392**
~~===>=~~|||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
Cambridge & Counties
**42,368**
**-**
**-**
HSBC
**8,155**
**-**
**50,523**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
~~—~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
Cambridge & Counties
**42,368**
**-**
**-**
HSBC
**8,155**
**-**
**50,523**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
~~—~~| |---|---| ||Agreement Error
OK
OK
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))| ||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**| ||**funds**
**funds**
**funds**| ||**Details**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===>~~| ||**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===>~~| ||**Details**
**Cost (optional)**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~====~~| ||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**
**When due**| ||**Details**
**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Signature
Print Name
Graham Arthurs
28.07.2024
Malcolm James
**28.07.24**
Date of
approval
~~———~~| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Indepeiident Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Children in Bangladesh On accounts for the year ended April 2024 Charity no (if any) 124389 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ('the Trust.) for the year ended As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). Responsibilities and basis of report I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5)