## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 05 April 2023 Period start date - To 04 April 2024 Period end date Charity name: Homeopathy in Africa Charity registration number: 1125981** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 05 April 2023 Period start date - To 04 April 2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Homeopathy in Africa**
**Charity registration number: 1125981**
**Objectives and Activities**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 05 April 2023 Period start date - To 04 April 2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Homeopathy in Africa**
**Charity registration number: 1125981**
**Objectives and Activities**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 05 April 2023 Period start date - To 04 April 2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Homeopathy in Africa**
**Charity registration number: 1125981**
**Objectives and Activities**| |---|---|---| |SORP
reference||| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document
Para 1.17
1- The relief and prevention of sickness in
various parts of Africa, in particular Ghana,
West Africa, through the promotion of
homeopathy, working in partnership with
local community developments and
initiatives.
2- Community health education in conjunction
with local health workers and practices.
3- Support in the development of homeopathic
education and vocational training facilities in
Africa, together with local partners.||| |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 work of the GHP team has been more
successful through the creation of visible and
accountable yearly contracted roles among
Ghanaians on the ground. Consequently, the
work being done this year has been becoming
better co-ordinated, more specific to actual
needs and shared better on a team basis.
Led by our General Coordinator, the GHP
_Operational Team_with regular meetings for
mutual support and shared concerns regarding
project development. These personnel changes
are included in the regularly updated reports
distributed for all to view and reflect the ongoing
administrative infrastructure of GHP and HiA
since 2023; some in response to
recommendations in the External Evaluation of
early 2022.
Much of our funding this year has been taken
up with:
**1.**Building the GHP Operational Team for team
members’**role fees in 23-24.**
**2.**For the Practitioner’s Grant Scheme (£1k per
grad over 1-2years) for financial support
to set-up in practice in which, so far, there has
been success in the**ten new**
**practitioners**who now have operational clinics
or Outreach clinic arrangements in their locales.
**3.**To meet various**Funding Requests**for
services and necessary purchases/conference
costs etc. in Ghana.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit.|Para 1.18|**We have had regard to the guidance issued**
**by the Charities Commission 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|**After due consideration of the reported**
**needs, endorsed by trusted contacts, grants**
**are made to facilitate improvements to**
**buildings used as clinics or to help with the**
**furtherance of education of merited**
**students.**
**Also practice set-up grants have been**
**provided to graduates who satisfy the**
**charity’s criteria.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**The charity has no investments.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**VOLUNTEERS**
**The charity is able to offer financial**
**assistance, to covers some of teaching**
**volunteers’ expenses.**
**In the past this has really helped facilitate**
**volunteers to visit, thus increasing the**
**numbers going. They are fully inducted and**
**supported as much as they require, while**
**they are there.**
**These visits are extremely valuable to our**
**newly graduated homeopaths.**| |Other||**HiA Charity’s longer-term vision is to about**
**working towards becoming a**
**predominantly funding organisation that**
**supports Ghana-based homeopathy, with**
**the majority of graduate being self-**
**sustaining in their practices now with the**
**support of Homeopathic Education &**
**Practitioners Association (HEPA) that was**
**formed in July 2023. HEPA is run**
**predominantly by existing and new**
**Ghanaian homeopaths for the continuing**
**professional development and (as well as**
**providing help with legal registration etc.)**
**benefit of all interested homeopaths in**
**Ghana.**| **HEPA is now also being recognised as a legal entity in Ghana (TMPC) with several student referrals recently being made to HEPA.** ## **Achievements and Performance** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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reference
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**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 and
Achievements against
objectives set,|Para
1.20|**The homeopaths that were trained by the charity**
**now operate in a number of areas in Ghana,**
**namely, VOLTA REGION, KUMASI CITY,**
**TEMA (OUTER ACCRA), and**
**KASOA DISTRICT (OUTER ACCRA) through**
**establishing their own or joint clinic.**
**By providing low-cost health care to many, the**
**graduated homeopaths are achieving one of the**
**main goals of the charity.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |||| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**The charity has no investments.**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charities financial position may be**
**regarded as healthy.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**With the knowledge of estimates of potential**
**amounts of expenditure, the charity holds**
**sufficient funds to operate for at least 12**
**months, with an exceptional contingency**
**reserve.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£4,000.00**| |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|**Loss of our main benefactor would have a**
**severe adverse effect on the charity’s ability**
**to continue.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |||| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Charities funding is in the main through**
**personal donations.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**Not applicable.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Misfortune affecting principal benefactor**
**and / or Co-ordinator.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution adopted on 18th May 2008**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**By Association**| |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|**Potential trustees are recommended to the**
**trustees by other trustees or those**
**associated with the charity.**
**Candidates fill in an application form and**
**submit a CV, which are considered by all**
**before the appointment.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**HOMEOPATHY IN AFRICA**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**GHANA HOMEOPATHY PROJECT**| |Registered charity number|**1125981**| |Charity’s principal address|Foxgloves, The Ridge
LITTLE BADDOW
Essex
CM3 4SA| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or body)
Office (if Dates acted if not
Trustee name entitled to appoint trustee (if
any) for whole year
any)
1 Jacqueline SMITH Chair
2 Soroush EBRAHIMI-GHAJAR Treasurer
3 Sian ALCOCK Trustee
4 Milan BIJELIC Trustee 23/01/2024
5 Bonsu BOATEN Trustee
6 Linda SHANNON Trustee
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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**||| **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|| |---|---| ||Soroush EBRAHIMI-GHAJAR| ||
Hon. Treasurer| ||| ||| Homeopathy in Africa Charity Number: 1125981 ,Governing document CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 18 MAY 2008 Area of benefit AFRICA AND GHANA Charitable objects THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF SICKNESS IN VARIOUS PARTS OF AFRICA AND GHANA IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF HOMEOPATHY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS AND INITIATIVES . COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION IN CONJUN￿10N WITH LOCAL HEALTH WORKERS AND PRAcficES SUPPORT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOMEOPATHIC EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FACILITIES IN AFRICA TOGETHER WITH LOCAL PARTNERS , Classiflcatlon EDUCATION fTRAINING" THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR SAVING OF LIVES Income & Expenditure 2024 2023 Income Donations IIXI,817.82 156.39 40500.LNJ Fund Raising Loan Refunds Interest recelved 569.54 1,945.20 1,119.43 5.00 39.35 Total Income 104,038.84 41,113.89 ' Expenditure Medlcines / storage / shipping Support costs Teaching fee5 Clinic Build ITravel & Subsistence Printing, postage and Stationery Publicity (previous Web support) Miscellaneous 513.90 5528.69 10550.00 212.13 13,452.90 18,550.00 14,329.43 1006.45 899.43 551.55 1.979.55 6263.42 'Total expenditure 49.211.31 24,626.14 , Surplus/lDeficltl 54,827.53 16,487.75 Balance Sheet Bank current account Openin8 balance Movement 57.988.44 54827.53 41,500.69 16,487.75 57.988.44 Closing balance 112815.97 ' Surplu511Deficit} 54,827.53 16,487.75 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl Homeopathy in Africa members of On accounts for the year 4th April 2024 ended Charity no 1125981 (if any) Set out on pages I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust.) for the year ended 0410412024 Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of basis of report the accounts in accordan￿ 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examiner's statement I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which 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. Slgned: Date: Name.. Relevant professional qualification(s) or body {if any): IER October 2018 Address: 5 Bower Farm, Bower Road Mersham, Ashford Kent TN25 6NW Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts" directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detsils of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018