## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] May 2024 Period start date To Period end date** **30[th] April 2025** ## **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 no 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. Grants for girls to train as nurses.**
**4. Grants to buy rice field irrigation,**
**soil turn over and rice threshing.**
**5. 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**
**inthe following year.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**On going commitments to the**
**maintenance 2 junior schools including**
**the teachers for the first 5 years. School**
**fees for Khayang students at Moanoghar**
**school and nurses intraining. **| |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)**
Youmay choose toincludefurtherstatements||whererelevant 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|**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; the Community in Bandarban .**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Children in Bangladesh| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1124389| |Charity’s principal address|40 Trem yr Eglwys,
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser **
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**Address**||| |**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** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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**Full name(s)** Graham Arthurs ~~BS~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 18/11/2025 Malcolm James n ||**Children in Bangladesh**|**Children in Bangladesh**|**Children in Bangladesh**||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Children in Bangladesh**||||||||||| |May1st 2024
April 30th 2025
Period end date
**Apr-25**
**For the period**
**from**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
May 1st 2022
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~~ee~~||||||||||**CC16a**|| |**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 £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||| |Deposits to Bank|**72,050**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**72,050**||**58,500**|| |HMRC Gift Aid|||**-**|**-**||**-**|||||| |Interest|||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**1,713**|| |Transfer from Cambridge & Counties|**45,845**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**45,845**||**42,368**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||||| |_AR)_|_AR)_**117,895**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**117,895**||**102,581**|| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**117,895**
**-**
**-**
**117,895**
**102,581**
~~—————~~|||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |To Bangladesh|**113,850**||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**76,822**|| |Transfer Charges|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |HSBC Bank charges|**60**||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**60**|| |Others|||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**384**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**113,910**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**113,910**||**76,882**|| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**113,910**
**-**
**-**
**113,910**
**76,882**
~~——————~~|||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**3,985**
**-**
**-**
**3,985**
**25,699**
**- -**
**42,638**
**91,416**
**- -**
**91,416**#
**-**
**-**
**68,337**
~~—_—=S=S=>~~||||||||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 11/02/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,081**
**-**
**14,818**
**-**
**-**
****
**-**
**-**
Cambridge & Counties
HSBC
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
~~——~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,081**
**-**
**14,818**
**-**
**-**
****
**-**
**-**
Cambridge & Counties
HSBC
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
~~——~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,081**
**-**
**14,818**
**-**
**-**
****
**-**
**-**
Cambridge & Counties
HSBC
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
~~——~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,081**
**-**
**14,818**
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**-**
****
**-**
**-**
Cambridge & Counties
HSBC
**B1 Cash funds**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
~~——~~|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44,081**
**-**
**14,818**
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**-**
****
**-**
**-**
Cambridge & Counties
HSBC
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**Details**
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(agree balances with receipts and payments
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approval
02-Dec
**09-Dec-25**
**Details**
Print Name
Graham Arthurs
Malcolm James
Signature
~~—===~~|||| |CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2|||11/02/2026| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees** Charity Name Children in Bangladesh **On accounts for the year** 2025 April 30th **Charity no** 1124389 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 t0 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** . **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”). 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)(b) of the Act. **Independent** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._ I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - 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. 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. - _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ |**Signed:**|_RA Fogg_|**Date:**|04/02/2026| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |**Name:**|RA FOGG||| **Oct 2018** 1 **IER** ## **Relevant professional** A.C.Al **qualification(s) or body (if any):** ## **Address:** 98 Erddig Road Wrexham LL13 7DR ## **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** . **Oct 2018** 2 **IER** > 3 **Oct 2018** **IER**