**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