## **Trustees' Annual Report 2020** 

Period start date Period end date 01 01 2020 31 12 2020 **From To** Section A                        Reference and administration details **Charity name** Uganda Humanist Schools Trust **Other names charity is known by** UHST **Registered charity number (if any)** 1228762 **Charity's principal address** 31 Greenmeadows Road Madeley Crewe **Postcode CW3 9EY Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Steve Hurd Chair 2 Prof Hilary Hurd Scholarships 3 Paul Ewans 4 Christine Smith 5 Glenda Miller 6 Krystal White 7 Daniel Hurd Finance 8 Lee Denison 9 Derek Miller 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~=~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

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

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Trust Deed 

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods 

By invitation of current trustees 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

UHST raises funds to support education in humanist schools in Uganda. Our funds go to schools that belong to the Uganda Humanist Schools Association: Isaac Newton High Schools at Kateera, Masaka, Mustard Seed High School, Busota, Kamuli, Katumba Parents Humanist Primary School, Bundibugyo, Kanungu Humanist Primary School, Kasese Humanist Schools. We also provide scholarships to allow bright but needy children to attend Humanist schools. 

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As in previous years, Uganda Humanist Schools Trust places considerable emphasis on keeping supporters informed about the progress of the schools. We normally visit the schools each year and write detailed reports for donors. Covid prevented the visit in 2020. 

**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

By having a trustee on the Management Board of each school we are able to play a full role as partners in key decisions concerning the development and management of the schools. 

We have improved the tracing of funds. We receive the accounts of the school board and can see that funds that we provide a properly recorded. Furthermore, from 2017, we receive school bank statements, so we can see where money is received and each time it is transferred e.g. to builders for construction projects. UHST employs and accountant in Uganda to produce audited accounts for the 4 schools in which we have a Director. 

Our focus throughout has been on allocating funds so as to have the maximum impact of the quality of learning and the welfare of students and staff. 

As reading is such an important skill we have been running a very successful Reading for Pleasure Project in the schools. 

We have also promoted a Humanist Ethos Project to increase awareness of Humanist values and their application to the day to day operation of the schools, where discipline is based upon guidance and empathy and not on coercion. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

- In 2020 our main achievements were to: 

   1. provide 120 scholarships to enable bright but needy children to attend the Humanist secondary schools. 

   2. To provide supplementary funds to help the schools through Covid, which raised school costs and reduced their income as children had long periods out of school. 

   3. We continued to promote independent learning by providing money for books, science and other learning materials. 

   4. Our provision of re-useable sanitary pads continued to maintain high level of participation by girls. 

   5. At Isaac Newton School we completed the construction of a new multi-purpose Hall. 

   6. At Mustard Seed School we completed the construction of a new boys’ dormitory. 

   7. We made progress building new primary schools on safer sites for the communities of Katumba and Kanungu. 

   8. We provided funds for books and learning materials at the two primary schools and provided financial support. 

   9. Both secondary schools have shown substantial improvements in educational outcomes. They stand 5[th] in the ranking of 35 schools in their Districts. Isaac Newton School is 40[th] out of 3,600 secondary schools in Uganda measured by “value added” between primary leaving and O-level. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

We have brought target reserves down to £20,000 by making regular **Brief statement of the** monthly transfers to schools. Reserves rise when we need to have funds **charity’s policy on reserves** to complete building projects. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

UHST funds come from pubic appeal. We have built up a loyal group of You **may choose** to include supporters, many of whom send us regular annual or monthly amounts additional information, where by standing order. relevant about: 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

## ~~a~~ **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)** Stephen John Hurd ~~oo~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** ~~es~~ **Date** 10 May 2021 ~~PO~~ 

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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**UGANDA HUMANIST SCHOOLS TRUST**|||||**1128762**||||
||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date||||
||||**01/01/2020**|||**31/12/2020**||||
|||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricte**<br>**d funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowmen**<br>**t funds**||**Total**<br>**funds**||**Last year**|
||**to the**<br>**nearest £**||**to the**<br>**nearest £**||**to the**<br>**nearest £**||**to the**<br>**nearest £**||**to the**<br>**nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations - unrestricted|115,096||-||-||**115,096**||**91,237**|
|Donations- restricted|-||21,087||-||**21,087**||**21,788**|
|Donations- scholarships|-||37,958||-||**37,958**||**41,904**|
|Gift aid|33,495||-||-||**33,495**||**-**|
|Interest|294||-||-||**294**||**247**|
|Bank charge refund|25||||||**25**|||
|**_Sub total (Gross income for AR)_**|**148,911**||**59,044**||**-**||**207,955**||**155,176**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**|**148,911**||**59,044**||**-**||**207,955**||**155,176**|
|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Isaac Newton Kateera - unrestricted|61,145||||-||**61,145**||**48,296**|
|Isaac Newton Kateera - restricted|||-||-||**-**||**1,378**|
|Isaac Newton Kateera - scholarships|||22,573||-||**22,573**||**21,340**|
|Mustard Seed School - unrestricted|56,618||||-||**56,618**||**33,893**|
|Mustard Seed School - restricted|||1,087||-||**1,087**||**24,142**|
|Mustard Seed School - scholarships|||17,517||-||**17,517**||**21,714**|
|Kasese Humanist Primary School -<br>unrestricted|937||||-||**937**||**400**|
|Katumba Humanist Primary School -<br>unrestricted|22,940||||-||**22,940**||**2,800**|
|Katumba Humanist Primary School -<br>restricted|||34,000||-||**34,000**||**6,000**|
|Kanungu Humanist Primary School -<br>unrestricted|20,670||||||**20,670**|||
|Bank charges|134||||-||**134**||**121**|
|**_Sub total_**|**162,443**||**75,176**||**-**||**237,620**||**133,415**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_**|**162,443**||**75,176**||**-**||**237,620**||**133,415**|
|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**(13,533)**||**(16,132)**||**-**||**(29,665)**||**26,805**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**44,887**||**18,412**||**-**||**63,299**||**41,403**|
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**31,354**||**2,280**||**-**||**33,634**||**68,208**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|<br>**Categories**|<br>**Details**||<br>**Unrestricte**<br>**d funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowmen**<br>**t funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|
|**B1 Cash funds**|Donations - unrestricted||||**2,280**||**-**|
||Donations - restricted||**31,354**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Total cash funds_**||**31,354**|**2,280**|||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts andpayments account(s))||OK||OK||OK|





CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
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members of
On accounts for thè year
ended
Charity no
(if any)
III S7 6L
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity {'the Trust") for the year ended
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 {"the Acr).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried OLrt
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examinalion, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515)(bl of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters hav8
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 Acl or
the accounts do not accord with the a￿oUnting records
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no COn￿rnS 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 Ihe br8ckets rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
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Name:
Relevant professional
qualificationW or body
(if any):
Address:
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October 2018

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Disclosure
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Independent examination of charity accounls.. directions and guidance for
examiners).
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examiner wishes to
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IER
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