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2021-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date Period end date
1st April 2020 31st March 2021
From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Support and Love via Education International

Other names charity is known by S.A.L.V.E. International Registered charity number (if any) 1126793 Charity's principal address 69 Thornbridge Crescent Chesterfield Derbyshire Postcode S40 2JH

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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7		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint
trustee(if any)
Helen Huthwaite
(nee Bolton)		 Whole Trustee Board
Hannah Bird (nee
Graham)		 Chairperson Whole Trustee Board
Lis Silver Vice Chairperson Whole Trustee Board
Euan Graham Whole Trustee Board
Claire Lister Treasurer Whole Trustee Board
Ruth Till Whole Trustee Board
Paul Mosley Whole Trustee Board

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name
Address		 Type of adviser Name
Address		 Type of adviser Name
Address
Legal Kirkland & Ellis
International LLP		 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8AF, United Kingdom

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Nicola Sansom: CEO Alfred Ochaya: Ugandan Director

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document :

Trust Deed

How the charity is constituted:

Charitable Trust

Trustee selection methods:

Unanimous vote by trustee board after consulting all of the team.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Induction and training of new trustees:

New trustees will be inducted and trained by existing trustees and the CEO. Materials from the Charity Commission such as “The Essential Trustee” and Bates Wells Braithwaite’s “Duties of a Charity Trustee” and the “Charity Good Governance Code” will be referenced as part of this induction to give them a wider base of knowledge about the roles and responsibilities of becoming a trustee.

Organisational structure:

S.A.L.V.E. International in the UK, is working to raise funds and increase learning, partnerships and advocacy to further our programme work in Uganda and to champion the rights of street-connected children all over the world. S.A.L.V.E. International in Uganda, is focussed on our direct programme work in Uganda. S.A.L.V.E. International is governed by both a UK and a Ugandan board, recruited for their specific skills and expertise, to ensure S.A.L.V.E. is delivering the best quality work possible. The UK and Ugandan boards work together to set the number of staff needed to run the programmes in both Uganda and the UK, based on project plans and budgets available. This is further supported by volunteers in Uganda and the UK, who enrich our team capacity and skill base.

Wider network and partnerships:

S.A.L.V.E. is dedicated to working with others to continuously improve our programmes so that we are offering the best service possible to the children and adults we exist to benefit. S.A.L.V.E. is a member of the Consortium for Street Children - a global network which raises street children’s voices, promotes their rights and improves their lives. S.A.L.V.E. is also a member of the Small Charities Coalition and the Small International Development Charities Network – to share good practice and learn from other organisations.

Major risks, safeguarding and risk management:

The policies and systems to mitigate risk and ensure safeguarding of adult and child service users are laid out in our organisational policy documents and registers which are reviewed and updated at board meetings as needed, and on an annual basis as a minimum. Staff and volunteers are given training in these key policies in their induction and then on an annual basis as a minimum. We also actively look for additional training to help to further develop our knowledge in this key area and keep developing our safeguarding policy and practice. Extra-ordinary board meetings can be called in the rare occasion that it is needed to manage risk or any safeguarding cases.

Section C Objectives and activities

Support and Love Via Education International:

S.A.L.V.E. International has been working since 2008, to meet the needs of children living and working on the streets of Jinja, Uganda. S.A.L.V.E. is providing opportunities so that no child should have to call the streets their home in Jinja, Uganda. Specifically as set out in our governing document by;

i) The advancement of education for children living rough on the streets of Uganda (who in this document will be referred to as the “children”).

ii) The provision of housing, food and clothing for the children.

iii) The advancement and improvement of Ugandan education facilities.

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The trustees have had to regard the guidance set out by the Charity Commission on public benefit. The Charity is working for the public’s benefit by reducing homelessness, increasing access to education and reducing poverty in Uganda.

S.A.L.V.E. does this specifically through:

Additional details of objectives and activities

Grant making:

We are a programme delivery organisation and as such do not offer grants to other organisations.

Volunteers:

S.A.L.V.E. is able to make such an impact due to the dedication and hard work of our incredible volunteers in the UK and Uganda.

S.A.L.V.E.’s volunteers allow us to increase our knowledge and skills in a variety of areas such as communications, fundraising, design, law, HR, video making, finance, business skills and entrepreneurship, social work, teaching, environmental building, permaculture etc.

S.A.L.V.E. offers learning and development opportunities to all volunteers and many of them have gone on to work in the charity sector to further share their skills.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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FOUCATIQ FU£l￿E￿6 Et4FQCEf chlldren have been supported through our Educatlonal Sponsorshlp programme rbew bu51ftes¥es were Iteate part tsf our Btjslhess 119 30 Our£duCat￿n31 Support prollramme helpsthlldren toacce55 an edtscaiion. who mayotherwlse ftot beable to. streei-connetted chlldren donYKetto go t05chool. Ow Pro￿3￿mE supports these Ihlldren toartend edL)ca￿n Instvtions and/or4ttatlonal programm 50tly can buill a briBhterfyture forthernSe￿ artdtheirfafflity. owefme These buslnesses Included speclallsed support In these 7 Childre have graduated this year, we're so excited to seo what they (Jo nextl io PoTmatuluro taTmin8 btss5Atsses io Sln8le mothÉr'5 bLt51rte55e5 10 urban fotussed bussnesses www.salveinternational.org UK CharSty Number." 1126793 Ugandan NGO number.. MIA/NDI201910712297 AOrfC2CACY FAtT￿E£6 WIF6 We believe in the powerof partneiship5and we are luiky to ha¥e some amazlng partners who support our proBrammes in Uganda. Here are two of our am32In8 Partners from thls year. Tales to In5Dire Talesto InSp￿e continueto kir%Jtyshare the story ol >A.L.V.E. through livè events, blo85, books and podcast They have In5plred m3Dy peg￿et0￿ Invo￿￿ wlth ourwork and have 8enerously donated part of ihÈ proceeds from their new book to proyide childreD bein8 resettieo home a fruit treeto plantto sl8nrfy new beglnnlngs. Inequality Question at the Youth Climate Summit hlBhll8hted attheyouth Olme 5umfflttln November 2020. In the last year, trjf dèbattforum been vknÈd by I1￿13 peop￿at￿￿Ke1)e1ated 751 responses. Nalu Afrika S.A.L.V.E. in the media Nalu Afrika 8enerouslydofjate ptrtentage of their profitsto support S.A.L.V.L'sslngle mothers trtjsiness tralnlng and Start-up programme. Thèir kind doDatlon5 havè gÈven Single mothers the opportunfty We reachedtywr53 mlllloi peosle IhlsyearthTOU8h our radIo, TV nd nlwpETart4t￿5 toverln8tyrssuth a55treet-connEcted d4ldren andthelrneeds thrLwghCOW[￿I9. child ￿tI)ur and 8enthrased ￿lentr. thre￿posS￿W￿￿eQpPortun￿eS to chlldren themse1¥È5to lortht 8hts. www.salveinternational.org UK Chaflty Number.. 1126793 Ugandan NGO number.. MIAINBI201910712297 TAR

Section E Financial review

[Charities reserve policy:]

The reserves policy of S.A.L.V.E. International is set by the Trustees as part of the budget setting process for each financial year. We have taken into account Government and Charities Commission guidance on setting a reserves policy, in particular Annex 1 of the Government’s guidance.

Whilst many recommendations suggest reserves of between 3 and 9 months operating costs, we have to balance this against the fact that we are a small charity, and are mindful of the very real need every day of our service users, and the still large number of young people living on the streets that we are unable to reach.

The 2020-21 financial year has proved to be successful in terms of raising funds, however, one thing we have learned from the “new post pandemic world”, is the increased uncertainty around income flows, as well as potentially life threatening impacts of lockdowns on our service users, who we would seek to potentially provide emergency support to where we are able.

Whilst we have always reviewed our reserves policy annually previously, the “new post pandemic world” has meant that the Trustees have considered our policy more regularly, and continue to do so. Two things are worth noting :

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Our reserves policy is currently set to keep unrestricted reserves of at least three months’ running (operational) costs. This would enable core activities to continue for three months should the charity need to wind up operations completely, or should an unforeseen, significant or temporary shortfall in income and/or cash flow occur. We believe that three months would be enough time for us to do an emergency fundraising campaign to be able to raise the funds needed to continue operating (and indeed, the response to our emergency appeal for the sudden loss of a large grant during the pandemic was outstanding). Additionally any redundancy costs that the charity would incur if winding down operations is also included in the financial reserve on top of the three months of running costs. This is to ensure that the charity could meet all of its legal obligations in case of closure.

In the 2020- 2021 financial year, our target was to have reserves of three months’ running costs, calculated at £50,000 (based on a budgeted expenditure of £197,000), plus £7,809, which we estimate would cover redundancy costs should the charity have to close. So our aim was to have unrestricted reserves of £57,809 in total for the financial year April 2020 – March 2021.

Our unrestricted reserves at the end of March 2021 were in fact £76,340, which is higher than the minimum required by our reserves policy. This is due to the fact that some of our budgeted expenditure for the 2020-21 financial year could not take place due to COVID-19 restrictions. However, we anticipate that this will rectify itself in the new financial year as some of the COVID-19 restrictions in Uganda are lifted and the activities that had been postponed with in the last financial year will be able to take place. Our operational expenditure will increase as we plan for increased activities, thus the reserves target has been increased for the April 2021 – March 2022 financial year. In this financial year, the reserves target has been set at £65,680, which would cover three months running costs, and £7,751 of redundancy costs that would legally be owed in case of closure.

[Details of any funds materially in deficit: ]

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Fundraising:

S.A.L.V.E. has a mixed approach to fundraising to reduce risk so that we are not overly reliant on one source of income. This includes; grants from Trusts, Foundations and Corporates, specific project or salary funding, regular and one off giving (including child educational sponsorship), community fundraising events (sponsored challenges, community events and dances), running a small charity Lottery and claiming gift aid. We have adapted some of these events or explored new virtual options to help us to continue raising much needed funds while complying with COVID regulations.

We are also growing and developing both a goat and a briquette (environmentally friendly cooking fuel) social enterprise income generating programme within Uganda and selling second-hand items and Ugandan crafts within the UK.

S.A.L.V.E. complies with the fundraising code of practice; we do our own fundraising through our staff and volunteers and don’t hire professional third party fundraisers to fundraise on our behalf. Most of our fundraisers are volunteers being supported by our staff team. We offer training to anyone fundraising for us on how to safeguard vulnerable people both in terms of the way the service users and the work of the charity is portrayed, and how requests for donations are made. The charity received no complaints about its fundraising practice in the last year.

Expenditure in relation to charity’s core aims:

S.A.L.V.E. is continuing to invest in assets in Uganda, developing our five acre site by building upon it. This will help to improve the organisation’s self-sustainability by reducing monthly outgoings such as rent and

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food and increase the number of services that we can offer. This financial year we invested in improving our Permaculture farm so that we could grow more of our own food to allow us to be able to support more children by reducing our food bill. It also teaches the children useful farming skills they can put into practice when they are resettled home to their families.

Investment:

S.A.L.V.E. trustees review higher interest, risk free, ethical investment opportunities for the charities reserves at board meetings and make decisions accordingly. The Co-operative Bank has been chosen to be our main UK Bank Account as we felt their ethical investment policy was in keeping with our values and vision and it also offers the practical advantages of a high street bank. We also have a Barclays bank account that we continue to operate as a backup option, but we hold very little money within it.

Currency exchange:

S.A.L.V.E. is proactive in following the currency exchange between Ugandan shillings and British pounds. We aim to have a minimum of 3 financial brokerages services that fit our ethical investment policies who we invite to bid for our currency exchange transactions. The CEO works with our Finance Committee to make sure that we get the best deal possible in the market for our currency. In this financial year we invested in forward contracts to help us to budget and plan more effectively with a fixed exchange rate guaranteed for part of our expenditure. This helps us to be less easily affected by the exchange value of the pound fluctuating.

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) Hannah Bird Ruth Till Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc.) Chairperson Trustee

14/12/2021 Date

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Charity Name No (if any) S.A.L.V.E. International 1126793 Receipts and payments accounts For the period Period start date Period end date To from 1st April 2020 31st March 2021

CC16a

Section A Receipts and payments

Section A Receipts and payments payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£		 Restricted funds
to the nearest £		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £		 Total funds
to the nearest £		 Last year
to the nearest £
COVID Emergency 17,579 - 17,579 4,130
Educational Sponsorshipsubscriptions - 41,539 - 41,539 33,139
Fundraisingevents 380 - 380 390
General donation 9,858 - 9,858 2,951
Gift Aid 21,350 - 21,350 4,203
Grants (Trusts, Foundations, Corporates
and Individuals)		 20,117 76,570 96,687 68,906
Legacy/ In Memory gifts 2,031 2,031 -
Lotteryfor Change - 1,986 - 1,986 1,987
Manchester University Fundraising and
Project Costs		 - - 19,979
Regular donation 10,005 - 10,005 8,284
Shopsales 2,456 - 2,456 769
Social enterprise sales 1,641 - 1,641 2,277
Sponsored challenge 13,615 - 13,615 15,042
Sub total(Gross income for AR) 79,812 139,315 - 219,127 162,056
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
N/A - - -
Sub total - - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
162,056
Advocacy and Community
Campaigning		 4,833 2,000 - 6,833 5,030
Business trainingand Familysupport 10,684 - 10,684 9,931
COVID Emergency 4,995 23,583 - 28,579 3,116
Dropin Centre and Street Outreach 1,038 14,500 - 15,538 14,891
DrugRehabilitation Programme 11,569 6,000 - 17,569 18,632
Educational Support Programme 39,479 - 39,479 51,415
HalfwayHome Programme 4,824 11,764 - 16,588 16,006
Fundraisingand Admin Costs 19,645 - 19,645 17,886
Home resettlement and Follow up 14,277 - 14,277 10,713
Manchester UniversityProject - - - - 19,983
Sustainable FarmingProgramme 2,325 5,300 - 7,625 4,164
Social Enterprise in Uganda
(Briquettes)		 627 1,641 - 2,268 2,719
Programmes that have ended - - -
Sub total 49,857 129,229 - 179,086 174,485
-
49,857
29,955
46,385
76,340		 -
129,229
10,086
14,864
24,950		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-		 -
-
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
179,086 174,485

40,041
29,955 10,086 -
40,041
- - -
46,385 14,864 - 61,249
76,340 24,950 - 101,290 101,290

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period assets and liabilities at the end of the period assets and liabilities at the end of the period assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B1 Cash funds
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use		 UK Account
Details
Total cash funds
Ugandan account		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
10,328
66,012
76,340		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £
8,243
16,707
24,950		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
10,328 8,243 -
66,012 16,707 -
76,340 24,950 -
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 OK OK OK
Signature
N/A
Details
N/A
One motorbike and safety equipment
SALVE Halfway Home (boys)
Details
5 Acres of Land in Butiki near Jinja, Eastern
Uganda with a 2 room house and large barn on
it.
Drug Rehabilitation Centre
Emergency Family House/ Halfway Home
(girls)
Details
Furniture for the Drug Rehab Centre, Halfway
Homes and Drop in Centres i.e. 34 beds, 5
sofas, 15 tables, 40 chairs, 8 benches, 8
shelves, 3 kitchen equipment, 2 white boards,
5 desks
Resilience equipment, 1 laptop, 1 camera, 1
public address system, dancing costumes,
sports equipment
Donated computers (14), 2 laminators, 4
digital cameras, 1 projector
2 Plastic bottle Classrooms, Library, Hall,
Briquette Workshop and machinary,
Playground and Football Pitch
Details*
N/A		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
asset belongs
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Restricted
Restricted
Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Restricted
Restricted
Fund to which
liability relates		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
Current value
(optional)
-
Current value
(optional)
17,399
-
12,740
24,500
12,740
When due
(optional)
Signature Print Name Date of
approval
Claire Lister 23/11/2021

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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(HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Ov On accounts for tho year ended Charity no (if any) Set out on pages I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the above harity {"the Trust") for the year ended > i 10 3 J Zuli Responsibiliti•s and basis of report As the Charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'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)Ib} of the Act. Independent examiner's statement ero Inse I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come lo my attention in connection with the examination lolher than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did nol accord with the accounting records- or the accounts did not Comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set oul 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 accounls lo be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: LOQ Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body AcLo¢Jiku IER Oct 2018

{rf any): Address: Section B Disclosure Only complete If the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concefn (see CC32, Independent examination of Charity accounts.. directions and gLJidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any Items that the examiner wishes to dlsclose. IER Oct 2018