2022-09-30-accounts

Chair’s Annual Report for the Year ending 30[th] September 2022 to Building Better Futures International Annual General Meeting

Held on Tuesday, 13[th] December, 2022

This Report is to the fourteenth Annual General Meeting following upon our registration as a Charity by the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Our Trust Deed was signed and submitted on 17[th] November 2008 and a letter from the Charity Commission dated 25[th] November 2008 confirmed our registration as a charity in England and Wales as of that date. We have been assigned the Charity number 1126907. We are therefore duty bound to keep the Commissioners updated on any change to our details on the Central Register and to comply with all other requirements of Charity Law. Our Trustees are currently Simon Bell, Emily Brown, Philip Brown, Andrew Crighton, Laurie Green, Andrew Sentance and John Wilde.

Christian Jervis Read resigned as a trustee during the year due to ill health. We thank him for his service to the charity over many years

The Trust Deed for the Charity states that the objects of our Charity are “1. the relief of financial hardship, either generally or individually, of neglected poor people living, in particular but not exclusively, in the State of Tamil Nadu, South India, and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may decide, primarily by providing or paying for items, services or facilities and by aiding small businesses and other activities to create sustainable incomes.2. The advancement of the education of the public, in particular persons living in the State of Tamil Nadu South India and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may decide. 3. The relief of sickness, the protection and preservation of health, in particular but not exclusively of persons living in the State of Tamil Nadu, South India, and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may decide.”

All expenditure from our accounts has been in accordance with the aims of our Charity. All meetings have been carried out in accordance with the regulations and procedures agreed in our Trust Deed, as above.

Activities during the year ended 30[th] September 2022 have included the following. The Trustees have met on three occasions during the last twelve months with minutes of the proceedings being kept in the minute book. Due to the constraints caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, all meetings were conducted remotely via Zoom.

We are grateful to all our officers and other trustees for their care and hard work. This year, Mr Andrew Crighton was elected Secretary, Mr John Wilde was elected Treasurer and Mr Philip Brown was elected as Chair. The Trustees have received regular and full reports of our financial situation and transactions. We have applied for and received Gift Aid tax rebates where applicable.

We seek to keep all our donors fully informed of our activities by means of our website at www.bbf-intl.org.uk which was developed and is overseen by Emily Brown, and by continuing email and postal communication, including our occasional Newsletter.

We have continued to maintain close communications with our two partner NGOs in Tamil Nadu. During the year, trustee Emily Brown visited projects run by our partner NGO, Rural Institute for Community Health

We expect strict ethical standards to be always maintained by our partner projects in India and note that they have now undertaken safeguarding training, using UK online training resources. We receive continuing reports from all our funded projects in India and are pleased to see that our donations assist in the transformation of many poor rural villages and groups.

This year has seen our sponsorship of the continuing development of the Coconut Plantation, the completion of the new training centre at Natham, in addition to regular maintenance and further development of programmes continuing from former years. The lockdown of most activities in India because of the pandemic meant that for part of the year tailoring training projects had to be suspended; schools were shut. All our training and education programmes have now reopened and we are pleased to report that 113 women received tailoring training and 237 primary school children received educational support through evening tuition classes. During this period, we supported the formation of a tailoring co-operative by women trained at one of our centres. This co-operative is thriving and has enabled the women to avoid sexual harassment from some of the agents of the smaller garment factories. Our partner NGO continued to provide sanitary product support to more than 100 women and girls.

We have fully conformed to Government Data Protection regulations and have published our Privacy Policy and a Legitimate Interest Statement. Personal data information is securely protected.

Our work continues to expand with emphasis on financially self-sustaining projects and such educational and building projects which underpin this employmentcreating process. For our ongoing work we rely increasingly on the regularity of generous donations often made by Standing Order.

We continue to remain true to the distinctiveness of the work of our Charity as follows:

• We have good local access and knowledge of all the projects we fund

• We support financially self-sustaining projects and programmes.

• When possible, we personally visit and monitor the projects, ensuring transparency

• Trustees claim no expenses and no one is employed in the UK by our Charity.

• We encourage self-help, by funding co-operative groups to build better futures - and all this in one of the poorest parts of our world

In this fourteenth year of our existence as a charity, our total giving to date exceeds £475,000. We are very pleased that we managed to continue our support for so many important programmes during the pandemic and look forward to the year 2022-23 greatly encouraged and with much gratitude to all our donors.

Additional to this Report is our Treasurer’s Financial Statement for the year ended 30[th] September 2021.

Philip Brown, Chair 13[th] December, 2022

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examlnerfs Report Roport to the tru$ts• mem￿￿ of Building eetter Futures Intemational On accounts for th¢ y¢•r ended September 2022 Charlty no Ilf anyl 1126907 Sot <Mrt on paggs 1to3 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the abova char￿Y l-lhe Trust'l for the year ended 3010912021 As the tharity Iruslees. you are ￿sponsIb￿ for the preparation of the Re8ponsiblliti¥ and accounts in accordance Mth the Charities Act 2011 rthe A(¥l. bo•10 ol report I report In ￿Spect of rny examination of the Trust's accounts carried out uNl¢r $e¢tion 145 of the 2011 Act ané In carrying out my examination. I have followed all the 8P￿1¢2b1e cm￿610n5 given by the Charty Commi$5ion uTrJer saction 14515llbl ¢f Ihe knt. Ind•pendènt I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have èx4minerf8 statemènt come lo my attention (other than that disc￿sed below'l in connection wth examination which gives me Cause to belk?ve that in, any material respect,: the accounting recfjrds were not kapt In a¢rxJrdan¢e *ith seL#ion 130 of the Act. or account5 did not accA)rd wrth the accounling records.. or the accounts did not compty with the applicable requirements coneeming th8 form and content of accounts sel out In the charit￿￿ (Accounts and Reports) Rryulations 2008 otherthan any reqU1￿ment that the atcounl$ give a Irue and fair, view wh¢h 1$ noi a matter conside￿ as part of an indÈpendent exarninalion. I have no concerns and have come a¢ro$s no other matters In connÈ¢tK)n with the examination lo whi¢h attention should be drawn In this rewrt in order lo ena￿8 a proper understaThJing of the a¢￿U￿$ to be rexhed. Slgn•d'. Oate: Name: Arro R•l¥v¥nt Professional quallfl¢ationlsl or body Ilf any1= Addros•- IER October 2018

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Building Better Futures Intemational (BBFI) STATEMENT AS AT YEAR END 3019122 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS Ro¢0 Ilncome Donations Th￿ Year 45.620 13 La8tYoar 78.17270 Total Rocolpts 45.628 13 £78.172 70 mont•lEx Gronts Other ex ses- Web$il8 ¢OSt Pa ment In error G Bell in last dmurg Thlo Year 48 921 97 LAStYo•r 85.674 32 21973 220 00 ear Total Payments SufpluslDoficit Cheqvel51 not presented Bal¥nc£ Bffi trom twotss yegr. 48,921 97 $6.114.05 8,406.21 16.347 56 8gL4n(lsl jnhgnd. 5.112 37 8,408.21 8aLlr￿S.. The actual a￿￿tiOnS and grafils for each of the re5thGted fvnds art 8s folkTh¥8. 8uildin98 0￿￿1￿9 balance £586.14 4 Income£6.400 94= É6.987 08 less g￿nIS É6.987.08= £0 Bikes opening balance £3.201.63 ￿5S grants £1,370.59= £1,83104 5etr note 1 Summary offunds hpkl. Unrestncted 3,002.37 8ee nots 2 BuiKling Borehole Total 2,110.00 5,112.37 Some restr￿￿ts funds a￿ notfulty funded by 6pe¢thc donaiw)n9trerefore Currenly paid outol unre51nGl8d. These are as tdlDW8 8$ 313019tt2' Natham-£799 05 NapKin8 4176 11 Dindigul Lan9dDn Hills month￿1 paweni h85 ceased so now included in unrestricted Nots 2. Ill August some grants were sent lo the wrong account in India We could not r￿1Ve the grants bxk a¥ sterting th9￿fOre all￿81ed Ihest Ind￿Tr Rupoo's to granis tor November and part for r)ecember This situat￿￿ h88 teen corrected in the first quartef of the ac¢oufits Ako Included Un￿5thGted as frorn 1110r21 15 remaining fvnds Iransftrrred frorn th8 parcels appeal as the Indiar Govefflrffdnl are now supplying fc( All of the bikes fuel and mainlenan¢e Is now Included In eh projectfrom 1110122 therefore all gr8nts in Unreskncied