Uganda Humanist Schools Trust
17th Annual Report on Financial Year 2025
P7 Girls at Kanungu Primary School
20[th] Anniversary of Isaac Newton High School
Kasese Municipal High School library
P4 children at Katumba Primary School
Revised September 2026 https://ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/ UHST Charity Registration Number 1128762
UHST Annual Report for 2025
2025 Financial Report
Long-term sustainability
Under the current Humanist Schools Sustainability Programme our aim is to enable the schools to become independent and self-sustaining by 2028, or as soon after that as possible.
To further this goal we are working hard, with the help of UHST supporters, to enable schools to complete their essential infrastructure, to ensure that existing buildings and services are in a decent state of repair, to improve the stock of books and learning materials, to ensure that science is well developed and that the Humanist Ethos is robust. We are stepping up support for training for senior staff, for general staff development and to support collaboration among the Humanist schools through the Organisation of Humanist Schools in Uganda (OHSU) .
Breaking dependence upon charity
An essential step towards school selfreliance is learning to cope without regular monthly donations from international charity sources such as UHST. These take the form of transfers to Humanist high schools for scholarships and to primary schools to help them to cover their essential cash-flow needs. If schools are to become truly independent then they must be able to cover these recurrent expenditures on salaries, food and consumables from local sources.
In future, UHST will move towards a more conventional charity model where, at specific intervals, e.g. every 6 months, we will invite individual schools or their umbrella organisation, OUSU, to apply for non-recurrent grants to improve education and welfare or to promote their Humanist Ethos, but not towards running costs.
There is a danger that schools come to rely upon UHST money, due to its dependability, as their prime source of funds for salaries and other staple costs. Consequently, they put insufficient effort into collecting local fees. Hence, fee arrears grow and, as some parents see others getting away without paying fees, they themselves do not pay. This is unsustainable and will leave schools in a vulnerable position when UHST money is no longer forthcoming.
We are encouraging schools to promote their own scholarship programmes to enable them to recruit bright children from challenging circumstances.
Our aim as a charity is to make ourselves redundant. We have been proud to have had an opportunity to partner the schools during their development. We look forward to seeing these pioneering schools becoming completely self-reliant and acting as beacons of Humanist schooling for many years to come.
As a charity we intend, henceforth, to phase out all regular monthly transfers. We need schools to take responsibility for covering day-to-day expenditures from local fee income.
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Receipts
T otal receipts to UHST in 2025 were £229,638. Gift Aid from UK taxpayers rose to £28,602. Increased drawings on our savings account to meet contingencies reduced interest earnings to £877.
Donations to provide Scholarships for the education of bright children in challenging circumstances fell back slightly to £59,907, as a large batch of scholarship children completed their secondary education.
Unrestricted donations, for use at our charity’s discretion, showed a marked recovery to £99,811, much of this linked to the broad Sustainability Appeal.
Donations from kindred organisations in Europe and the United States brought a further very welcome boost. UHST very much appreciates the opportunity to work in partnership with groups in other countries. It spreads the burden of supporting the schools and spreads knowledge internationally of the unique achievement of the Humanist schools.
Our friends in the Ethical Society of St Louis raised £39,675 to help the Humanist schools. This continued their funding of 36 boarding scholarships, which enable bright girls from challenging home circumstances to attend Humanist high schools. The group maintained its commitment to providing reuseable sanitary pads ( Afripads ) for menstruating girls and female teachers in the following schools: Isaac Newton, Mustard Seed, Katumba, Kanungu, Eagle’s View and the four Kasese schools.
Successful fund-raising from St. Louis also provided invaluable additional support across the schools. This included the construction of a dormitory to enable Primary 7 girls at Katumba Parents’ Humanist Primary School to stay in the safe environment of the school for their final year of schooling. The St Louis group also funded much needed toilets for girls at Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School near Buwenge, Jinja.
Funds raised by Humanist Aid in Sweden have made a real difference to Katumba Parents’ Humanist Primary School. Money sent monthly enables the school to give partial and full waivers of school fees for children from parents (mainly widowed mothers) who struggle to make ends meet. Funds from our Swedish friends are also helping the school to tackle a dire shortage of water. Large tanks have been purchased to harvest rainwater from the classroom roofs, and it has enabled the school to contribute to the repair of a small dam which supplies water to the entire village.
For some years we have had a close relationship with the Free Religious Congregation of Pfalz in Germany. Renate Bauer, from the community, has twice joined us on International Friendship Visits to the schools in Uganda. In 2025 the group raised a record sum of £3,008. This funds two continuing scholarships for needy students. The rest will be used to pay for additional furniture for Kanungu Parents’ Humanist Primary School, a growing school
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that operates in difficult circumstances near the Congo border.
As well as getting more support from Humanist organisations and their members internationally, in 2025 we received a growing number of large donations from generous individual donors, including almost 50 donations of £500 or more.
Leaving a legacy in your will can make a lasting contribution to the education of children in the Humanist schools. Previous bequests have funded a science lab, student hostels/dormitories and the purchase or construction of whole schools. In 2025 we learned from his family the sad news of the death of Dr. Alan Chitty. Alan was a long-term Humanist and supporter of UHST. He left money in his will to help the Humanist schools in Uganda. Alan’s son and daughter responded to the need for a boys’ dormitory at Katumba Parents’ Humanist Primary School to enable Primary 7 boys to stay in school in their final year, as they prepare for their Primary Leaving Examination. The finished building will be named in their father’s memory as the Dr Alan Chitty Boys’ Dormitory .
Dormitory being built in Alan’s name
The dormitory will provide a safe living space for 50 boys for years to come.
The late Humanist: Dr. Alan Chitty
In a tribute to their father, to be read out at the opening, his son and daughter describe Alan as:
a loving, kind and compassionate man who was fun, engaging and energetic and always interested in people and their stories.
Alan obtained A-levels in Maths, Applied Maths and Physics, a degree in Mechanical Engineering and, later, a PhD.
After a brief period in industry, Alan found his vocation in teaching, initially lecturing degree students. He went on to become an Inspector of Further Education and then a College Principal.
Having dedicated his professional life to education, Alan would be proud that his legacy has been used to build this dormitory that will help to improve the lives of young people here in Uganda.
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Payments
Every £1 donated to UHST is used to support Humanist schools in Uganda. All administrative costs, including travel to visit the schools, is covered personally by our trustees.
In 2025, UHST school-related spending from donations amounted to £228,755.
A full list of grants made during 2025 is given at the end of this report.
Scholarships
Generous donations from individual sponsors provided scholarships that enabled 181 bright children from challenging home circumstances to be educated in Humanist schools.
Scholarship girls cleaning their dormitory
Building works & repairs
While new schools claiming to be Humanist come forward all the time, we decided two years ago to focus on completing the schools we already supported. These schools are nearing completion and 2025 is likely to be the last year when we devote substantial funds to large new buildings.
This decision leaves Eagle’s View School in limbo. We have been helping the school in a small way, but the investment required to complete the school is beyond our current capacity. Only if a large donor or legacy arrives would we be able to launch a major building programme at the school.
Major building works
School Halls
School halls are important multi-use facilities. They are used for all sorts of school assemblies, debates, music, dance and drama and for community meetings. They are also a requirement if the school is to be approved as an examination centre. This enables children to take their examinations in the familiar setting of the school, rather than in some far-off, regional exam centre.
We began the year by funding the completion of a school hall at Kanungu Humanist Primary School.
Kanungu children taking school exams
In previous years, to take Primary Leaving Examinations, Kanungu children had been forced to travel each day to a regional centre, a great distance from the school. This placed the children at a considerable disadvantage. Since October 2025, national examinations have been taken in school and the hall has already been used for many other functions involving the children, their parents and the wider community.
Thanks to the generous donation from two supporters in the UK, we were able to fund the construction of a similar hall at Isaac Newton Primary School.
The hall was inaugurated by hosting a large community celebration. The school’s carpenters are now making exam desks and chairs so that it can apply to become an examination centre.
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Grand opening of Isaac Newton Primary Hall
Primary Boarding
We have been reluctant to pay for the construction of boarding facilities in Humanist Primary Schools. It has been our firm belief that primary schools should operate as day schools serving the immediate community around them. In this way children benefit from living at home with parents where they can learn domestic skills and local history and culture in the oral tradition of Africa.
Juma Siriwayo at Katumba Parents’ Humanist Primary School has persuaded us that for his school we need to revise our views. He argues that in schools such as his there is a need to provide some boarding places. Due to deaths in periodic outbreaks of social unrest they have many orphaned children, some of whom are left in difficult circumstances at home. Orphaned girls can suffer sexual harassment in the community. A few children within the natural catchment area of the school live in remote upland locations and have lengthy time-consuming walks to school. In view of these challenges, we have been persuaded of the need for two small boarding houses for up to 50 boys and girls.
In 2025 we were able to fund a dormitory for girls thanks to the generosity of members of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, who have been particularly concerned to improve educational opportunities for girls.
Money from the will of Dr. Alan Chitty, paid for a similar facility for boys (pictured on page 4).
Priority in both dormitories will be given to children in their final year of school, so they can concentrate on their preparation for the Primary Leaving Examination. Other places will be allocated on personal circumstances.
Promoting a Reading Culture
Fostering high standards of reading and a love of reading for pleasure is one of the central ambitions of UHST and of the humanist schools that we support. Robert Magara at Kanungu Humanist School shares this goal.
Installing bookshelves in Kanungu book room
The school has most of the basic infrastructure that it needs but it was lacking a safe place to store books where children could browse them before borrowing. Work started on the book room late in 2025 and it will be finished in early 2026.
Repairs and maintenance
In 2024 UHST provided funds for substantial refurbishment work at Municipal Humanist High School and the primary school on the Rukoki site of Kasese Humanist schools. This year we gave funds to facilitate a major facelift at the Kasese Humanist schools at Kahendero fishing village on Lake George and Muhokya
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Humanist Primary School linked to the Bizoha orphanage.
Repairing outer wall of Kahendero School following elephant damage
Conditions at all 4 Kasese Humanist Schools have been improved. After a final lick of paint the buildings look good and staff and children feel proud of their new-look schools.
Utilities & services
Since we started the charity in 2008 a constant worry in all the schools has been to maintain adequate supplies of water. We thought we had solved it in some schools by connecting them to mains water supplies from government water utilities. However, mains supplies have proved to be unreliable with interruptions in supply sometimes lasting for several weeks.
Isaac Newton Schools have their own reserves of water harvested from roofs and stored in a large underground tank. However, its main back up source is a well half a mile away in the bottom of the valley from which water is pumped into a large plastic storage tank. For the past 10 years this has been achieved using a trusty, British-made diesel pump. However, the pump has become obsolete and spare parts are no longer available. In 2025 we provided funds for a replacement electric pump and this seems to have restored a reliable supply.
Replacing water pipe to Katumba village dam
At Katumba Parents’ Primary School the village dam sprung a leak and, in any case, supplies had become intermittent. Through our Sustainability Appeal it was possible to provide money to repair the dam and pipe that supplies the whole village and to set up rainwater harvesting from school classrooms into storage tanks. This should make a big difference for school hygiene and for the preparation of meals.
For both comfort and hygiene purposes all schools need decent separate toilets for boys, girls and adults. In 2025 with help from the Ethical Society of St Louis and a supporter in Crete we were able to fund the construction of a complete set of new toilets at Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School. We funded separate toilets for adults at Kanungu School and, at the end of the year, started work on toilets on the new site of Isaac Newton Humanist Primary School.
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Eagle’s View girls welcoming the new toilets
Having completed a new kitchen/cook house at Eagle’s View Primary School in 2024, it is Isaac Newton Primary School’s turn to get a similar facility. The efficient wood burning stoves that it will have will use one-quarter the amount of wood fuel as conventional cooking on an open fire. Work on the facility began in December. It will be finished in February 2026.
Isaac Newton Primary’s cookhouse nearing completion
Supporting Learning
Books & materials
An essential part of the ethos of Humanist schools is to empower children to become independent learners. Having access to a variety of books and being given opportunities and encouragement to use them matters. Learning science by doing science experiments is also important if students are to learn scientific methodology where knowledge is tentative and developed by making and testing hypotheses.
New books at Eagle’s View Primary School
As the main building requirements are completed, we intend to continue switching more of our spending towards supporting learning.
Staff Development
We should like to congratulate Juma Siriwayo the Director at Katumba Parents’ Humanist who was awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Education in December. Such an educational qualification will afford the understanding and confidence required to function well as school Director.
Juma at his Postgrad Dip.Ed. graduation
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Most teachers in the Humanist primary schools have only a basic Teachers Certificate, which is gained after two years of post O-level study. In 2026 we hope to be able to pay for senior staff in other schools to raise the level of their qualifications from this basic level to a bachelor’s in education, B.Ed.
In January we funded a workshop led by Solomon Masereka at Kasese Humanist Schools. The workshop brought together teachers from the three Kasese primary schools of Rukoki, Muhokya and Kahendero on the Rukoki campus. The aims were to share ideas on Humanism and on overcoming obstacles to raising educational standards across the schools.
Such workshops help to develop a shared culture and foster a sense of common endeavour as a team. We hope to support more such workshops in 2026.
Afripads
Each year, using funds raised by members of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, packs of re-useable sanitary pads are purchased for girl students and female teachers in every school, primary as well as secondary. These are essential in promoting girls’ learning. Since we started to buy Afripads, girls’ absence from school and from lessons has fallen to the same level as that for boys. Furthermore, girls’ attainment has started to rise above that of boys.
Girls receiving training on the use of Afripads
Sad end to Mustard Seed partnership
When Moses Kamya went off to pursue a political career he left Mustard School in a sorry state.
When, in January 2025, Moses relinquished control of the bank account and allowed us to ask our Ugandan auditor, Dan Kasanda, to administer the school we did hope that we could build a new future for the school. We took immediate steps to appoint a new headteacher. We cleared the arrears of pay to staff and paid what was owed to suppliers of food and firewood. Money was put into the school for a computer lab and science lab so that it could be restored as a centre for national examinations. Furthermore, we maintained support for scholarship students. This involved substantial repairs to the boys’ dormitory, buying additional books and replacing computers that had been sold off. All in all in 2025 UHST injected over £42,000 into the school.
Our renewed support gave confidence to staff and students and the school seemed to be on the path to recovery. However, in July Moses learned that he was not going to be adopted as a candidate for a parliamentary seat. He returned to the school with huge election debts hanging around his neck. Money started to disappear from the school again and in July half of the fund set aside to pay salaries was diverted to other purposes. When
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other Mustard Seed Directors made moves to force Moses to step down as Director he refused.
In September we used our Ugandan lawyer to invoke the conditions in the articles of association of the non-for-profit company only to find that Moses had submitted false papers to the Registrar of Companies and only he and his immediate family members had been registered as Directors. The lawyer was astonished to find that papers that he had prepared had been falsified. It meant that we were completely powerless. As Moses was not willing to act reasonably, UHST had no other legal recourse than to end support for the school.
We have to console ourselves with the knowledge that the support we have given to the school since 2009 had educated generations of students from extremely poor circumstances. Many have gone on to technical and professional training, including such fields as nursing, other medically related occupations and teaching. A few each year have made it to university and moved on to high-level professional careers.
All the children at Mustard Seed who were on UHST scholarships have been offered places at Isaac Newton Humanist High School from the new school year in February 2026, and it looks as though most will be taking up the offer.
2028 Sustainability Appeal
We have had an excellent response from UHST supporters to the second phase of our Humanist School Sustainability Appeal that was launched in October.
Progress of the 2028 Sustainability Appeal can be followed on the UHST website: https://ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/ progress-of-2028-appeal/
Grant-making Policy
UHST Objectives
Object 1: To support the educational work of Humanist Schools in Uganda.
Object 2: To provide support to enable needy children to attend those schools.
The Charity supports schools providing a broad general education consistent with the principles embodied in the following Humanist Inspiration.
The Trust offers grants to Humanist schools in Uganda. We expect the schools we support to be not-for-profit organisations and to be members of the Organisation of Humanist Schools in Uganda (OHSU). Our mission is to help the schools provide a good educational experience for children attending them. A condition of support is that a proportion of places are made available to disadvantaged children from the local community.
Grant procedure
UHST funds items that contribute to improvements in the education and welfare standards of children attending the schools. The Trust gives grants for learning materials, staffing costs, staff development activities and towards the improvement of school buildings and infrastructure or for additional buildings and such other items that meet the objects of the Trust.
Trustees will consider applications for funds from (a) individual Humanist schools and (b) from organisations offering services on a collective basis to the schools (for example, to pay for professional development events for teaching staff). Applicants are advised to approach the Trust on an informal basis and to seek advice before they make a firm application for funds. Where bids exceed the funds available the Trust reserves the right to
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offer a proportion of the funds requested or to mount an appeal for additional funds to meet a need that has been identified.
From time to time, the Trust may offer grants to schools for specific purposes determined by our Trustees. The Trust may also announce a total amount of money available for a specific purpose and invite applications from schools either individually or on a cooperative basis.
In most cases, successful grants go through the following stages: (1) initial enquiry and outline bid, (2) full application with reasonable and realistic cost estimates from suppliers, (3) on approval of larger projects payments may be sent as each stage is completed, (4) recipient supplies evidence of completion with a list of outcomes, including photographs, and (5) a final account with receipts are submitted.
UHST requires a copy of the relevant annual accounts and bank statements of each school supported and we expect the amount and purpose of each grant to be recorded in those accounts as well a record of how the money donated has been spent.
Should you wish to donate to help take forward the pathbreaking work in Uganda, please visit our website:
https://ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/ donate/make-a-donation/
Gift Aid
However you donate, if you are a UK taxpayer, we can boost your donation by 25% by reclaiming Gift Aid from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs*. Gift Aid provides a substantial boost to the capabilities of our charity. We direct all gift aid receipts to meeting the most pressing current needs of the Humanist schools in Uganda. To enable UHST to gain access to this valuable additional source of funds,
please send us your name, full address and your permission to claim the gift aid by email to: stevehurd@uhst.org.
* it is the charity’s policy for gift aid on restricted donations to be treated as an unrestricted donation in accordance with HMRC guidance and to allow maximum flexibility for the charity in terms of the allocation of funds in accordance with the charities objectives.
Steve Hurd, Chair of UHST
August 2026
Uganda Humanist Schools Trust
Charity Number 1128762.
The UHST (UK) is a charity that raises funds to support education in Humanist Schools in Uganda.
Postal address: Uganda Humanist Schools Trust 31 Greenmeadows Road, Madeley Crewe, CW3 9EY, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 7773 972601 Email: stevehurd@uhst.org
Website: https://ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/
Board of Trustees in 2025
Steve Hurd B.Sc., M.A.(Econ), PGCE (Chair)
Professor Hilary Hurd, B.Sc., Ph.D., PGCE, FRES, FRSTMH, MIBiol (Scholarships Manager)
Daniel Hurd, B.Soc.Sci., ACA., MABRP (Hon. Accountant, EY-Parthenon Partner)
Christine Smith, B.Sc., PGCE (Dorset Humanists)
Glenda Miller, B.A. (Hons) (Lawyer)
Derek Miller, LL.B. (Lawyer)
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| UHST Grants Awarded in 2025 | UHST Grants Awarded in 2025 | UHST Grants Awarded in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Date | Amount | Details |
| 06/01/2025 | £400.00 | Bursar's salary Eagle’s View Primary |
| 06/01/2025 | £2,000.00 | School start-up grant Isaac Newton Schools |
| 06/01/2025 | £4,000.00 | School Hall Kanungu Primary |
| 09/01/2025 | £1,500.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 14/01/2025 | £5,278.00 | January scholarships and support payments |
| 27/01/2025 | £1,200.00 | Accounting expenses |
| 28/01/2025 | £2,900.00 | Bike, books & Kasese Schools staff dev |
| 29/01/2025 | £300.00 | Bookshelves & Handwashing Eagle’s View |
| 31/01/2025 | £500.00 | High school expenses Katumba students |
| 03/02/2025 | £500.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 03/02/2025 | £2,700.00 | School Hall Kanungu Primary |
| 04/02/2025 | £2,220.00 | Mains electricity Muhokya Primary, Kasese |
| 07/02/2025 | £800.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 11/02/2025 | £300.00 | Directors Honorarium |
| 11/02/2025 | £2,000.00 | Girls' toilets Eagle’s View |
| 12/02/2025 | £750.00 | Mains electricity Muhokya Primary, Kasese |
| 13/02/2025 | £4,000.00 | Girls' dormitory Katumba Primary |
| 14/02/2025 | £2,250.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 18/02/2025 | £800.00 | 15 bunk beds Isaac Newton |
| 18/02/2025 | £4,500.00 | School vehicle donation Isaac Newton |
| 18/02/2025 | £300.00 | Directors Honorarium |
| 18/02/2025 | £5,345.00 | February scholarships and support payments |
| 18/02/2025 | £250.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 20/02/2025 | £600.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 06/03/2025 | £4,000.00 | Girls' dormitory Katumba |
| 10/03/2025 | £2,000.00 | Girls' dormitory Katumba |
| 13/03/2025 | £5,000.00 | Primary School Hall Isaac Newton Primary |
| 14/03/2025 | £870.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 14/03/2025 | £4,040.00 | Scholarships & Headteacher expenses |
| 17/03/2025 | £500.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 18/03/2025 | £978.26 | Headteacher salary Mustard Seed |
| 18/03/2025 | £616.00 | Directors' honoraria |
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| 18/03/2025 | £7,785.00 | March scholarships and support payments |
|---|---|---|
| 24/03/2025 | £4,500.00 | Boys' Dorm & bed repairs Mustard Seed |
| 26/03/2025 | £460.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 26/03/2025 | £4,000.00 | Girls' dormitory Katumba Primary |
| 31/03/2025 | £3,316.80 | Afripads – all schools |
| 31/03/2025 | £5,000.00 | Primary School Hall Isaac Newton |
| 31/03/2025 | £1,400.00 | Girls' toilets Eagle’s View |
| 02/04/2025 | £500.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 02/04/2025 | £5,000.00 | Computer & Science labs for Exams Mustard Seed |
| 07/04/2025 | £1,500.00 | Muhokya, Kasese refurbishment |
| 07/04/2025 | £870.00 | Hygiene & salary assistance Kanungu |
| 17/04/2025 | £875.00 | Humanist club activities all schools |
| 17/04/2025 | £2,320.00 | Repairs & Headteacher salary Mustard Seed |
| 17/04/2025 | £7,191.00 | April scholarships and support payments |
| 22/04/2025 | £470.00 | Administration Costs Mustard Seed |
| 22/04/2025 | £700.00 | PGDE course expenses Director of Katumba Primary |
| 28/04/2025 | £5,000.00 | Primary School Hall Isaac Newton |
| 02/05/2025 | £1,500.00 | Muhokya, Kasese refurbishment |
| 08/05/2025 | £300.00 | National Debating Final Expenses for Isaac Newton Students |
| 13/05/2025 | £500.00 | 20th Anniversary Celebrations Isaac Newton |
| 15/05/2025 | £1,416.72 | Staff anniversary dinner & accommodation Isaac Newton |
| 19/05/2025 | £500.00 | Staff food Mustard Seed |
| 19/05/2025 | £8,918.00 | May scholarships/support payments/Katumba girls dorm £1,056 |
| 20/06/2025 | £1,000.00 | Directors' honoraria |
| 20/06/2025 | £7,753.00 | June scholarships and support payments |
| 27/06/2025 | £2,000.00 | Boys' toilets Eagle’s View |
| 03/07/2025 | £3,000.00 | Toilet improvements Kanungu Primary |
| 03/07/2025 | £700.00 | PGDE course expenses Katumba Director |
| 04/07/2025 | £5,000.00 | Primary School Hall Isaac Newton |
| 04/07/2025 | £2,500.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba Primary |
| 14/07/2025 | £2,500.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba Primary |
| 14/07/2025 | £430.00 | Books Katumba Primary |
| 14/07/2025 | £850.00 | Books – Aristoc bookshop – Kasese Schools |
| 17/07/2025 | £900.00 | Books – Aristoc bookshop – Isaac Newton |
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| 17/07/2025 | £900.00 | Field Trip to QE National Park – Katumba Primary children |
|---|---|---|
| 21/07/2025 | £900.00 | Books – Aristoc bookshop – Mustard Seed |
| 21/07/2025 | £3,218.88 | Accounting fees & expenses (advance payment) |
| 21/07/2025 | £7,810.00 | July scholarships and support payments |
| 23/07/2025 | £2,000.00 | Boys' toilets Eagle’s View |
| 23/07/2025 | £1,605.00 | Science materials – Isaac Newton, Mustard Seed, Kasese |
| 04/08/2025 | £1,540.00 | Boys' toilets Eagle’s View |
| 05/08/2025 | £850.00 | Books – Isaac Newton, Mustard Seed, Eagle’s View |
| 05/08/2025 | £550.00 | Books – Katumba and Kasese |
| 08/08/2025 | £2,500.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba |
| 11/08/2025 | £65.65 | Legal costs - articles search |
| 14/08/2025 | £5,783.00 | August scholarships and support payments |
| 21/08/2025 | £2,500.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba |
| 22/08/2025 | £2,027.00 | August scholarships and support payments |
| 05/09/2025 | £2,500.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba |
| 11/09/2025 | £2,000.00 | Emergency salary funding Kanungu |
| 19/09/2025 | £1,000.00 | Directors' honoraria |
| 19/09/2025 | £5,963.00 | September scholarships and support payments |
| 08/10/2025 | £500.00 | Primary School Hall Isaac Newton |
| 14/10/2025 | £100.00 | October scholarships and support payments |
| 14/10/2025 | £6,573.00 | October scholarships and support payments |
| 16/10/2025 | £300.00 | PGDE graduation fees Katumba Director |
| 27/10/2025 | £400.00 | Computer repairs Isaac Newton |
| 10/11/2025 | £400.00 | Accounting expenses |
| 10/11/2025 | £2,000.00 | Boys' dormitory Katumba |
| 13/11/2025 | £5,813.00 | November scholarships and support payments |
| 14/11/2025 | £47.00 | Information Commission for UHST Data Protection |
| 28/11/2025 | £2,027.47 | Electric water pump Isaac Newton |
| 08/12/2025 | £5,700.00 | Kitchen Isaac Newton/Book room Kanungu/Beds Katumba |
| 08/12/2025 | £1,200.00 | Directors' honoraria |
| 10/12/2025 | £5,813.00 | December scholarships and support payments |
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UHST Accounting Summary
| RECEIPTS | 2024 | 2025 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| General Donations | £150,552 | £141,828 |
|
| Scholarships | £64,734 | £58,331 |
|
| Gift Aid | £26,159 | £28,602 |
|
| Interest | £1,332 | £876.60 |
|
| Total Receipts = | £242,778 | £229,637 |
|
| PAYMENTS By Purpose | |||
| Scholarships | £75,505 | £59,907 |
|
| New classrooms & other infrastructure | £61,250 | £65,640 |
|
| Learning materials, field trips & sports | £17,692 | £9,385 |
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| Repairs, maintenance, refurbishment | £15,170 | £15,220 |
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| Storm repairs | £10,912 | 0 |
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| Supplementary cash-flow support | £26,070 | £18,386 |
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| Utilities (water & electricity) | £7,220 | £4,997 |
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| School accounts, bursar training & audit fees | £7,880 | £8,472 |
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| School furniture: tables, chairs, bookshelves | £7,300 | £1,100 |
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| Sanitary pads (Afripads) | £4,650 | £4,317 |
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| Directors' honoraria for managing UHST projects | £4,500 | £4,800 |
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| Staff development & community engagement | £2,429 | £2,400 |
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| Other expenditure | £14,816 | £33,631 |
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| Total Payments = | £255,394 | £228,755 |
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| GRANTS by School | |||
| Isaac Newton Humanist High School | £78,450 | £54,197 |
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| Mustard Seed Humanist Secondary School | £46,009 | £42,131 |
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| Isaac Newton Humanist Primary School | £44,469 | £26,200 |
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| Kanungu Humanist Primary School | £23,108 | £20,132 |
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| Kasese Humanist Schools | £21,603 | £18,937 |
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| Katumba Parents’ Humanist Primary School | £21,381 | £41,634 |
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| Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School | £6,867 | £16,594 |
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| Unspent reserves carried forward to next year | £22,167 | £23,048 |
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UHST Annual Report for 2025 Recel ts and ments accounts CC16a (HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO ANO WALE5 Ftsrthe perfod 01101M25 To 31112r2025 Section A Receipts and payments R•8triet•d funds Endowm•nt funds funds Total lund• Last y•ar A1 R•cel ts ,811 n811 41ts17 331 41017 50.331 .oJ6 H731 241S• 1.332 871 877 A2 Aset •nd Inv¢sln¥nt ¥•l•¥. Sub totsl 121 2417n A3Pa m•nt8 11719 1s&gc 27.481 0.1 27.U1 •1IYT 113 1.251 400 21.JB1 rJ.10B 17.574 754 1275 Mus klusL¥d s¢S 13.79) 12m 162 117 Kan ¥E5eHunwl 19.970 IZ216 132 11210 &920 'É S¢ 12$ 52T2 kc 3JTr) 4472 8ankcfvai 47 2.9761 Sub total A4 ASS and Invèstsnènt puhaS¥. tabl•l Sub to 25JgS A5 Tran8fern between lund8 A6 Cash funds last year•nd Cash lunds thlsfftr•nd 1&16S a165 X7B2 16
Charity Name No UGANDA HUMANIST SCHOOLS TRUST 11
Recei ts and a ments acco p p y
For the period Period start date Pe To from 01/01/2025 3
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted funds
to the nearest £
Restricted Endowment funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £
| A1 Receipts | 99,811 - - 28,602 877 129,290 - - - 129,290 12,719 - - 27,444 - - 28,762 19,970 12,216 12,590 5,272 295 116 47 2,976 122,407 - - |
- 42,017 58,331 - - 100,348 - - - 100,348 - 27,481 40,197 - 897 13,790 12,872 162 - 801 5,920 4,004 3,200 - - (2,976) 106,348 - - |
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| Donations - unrestricted | 99,811 | - | |
| Donations- restricted | - | - | |
| Donations- scholarships | - | - | |
| Gift aid | 28,602 | - | |
| Interest | 877 | - | |
| Sub total (Gross income for AR) | 129,290 | - | |
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
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| Total receipts A3 Payments |
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Isaac Newton Schools unrestricted |
12,719 | - | |
| Isaac Newton Schools restricted | - | - | |
| Isaac Newton Schools scholarships | - | - | |
| Mustard Seed Schools unrestricted | 27,444 | - | |
| Mustard Seed Schools restricted | - | - | |
| Mustard Seed Schools scholarships | - | - | |
| Katumba Parents' Humanist School | 28,762 | - | |
| Kanungu Humanist PrimarySchool | 19,970 | ||
| Kasese Humanist Schools unrestricted | 12,216 | - | |
| Kasese Humanist Schools restricted | |||
| Kasese Humanist Schools scholarships | |||
| Eagle's View PrimarySchool | 12,590 | ||
| Accountingservices | 5,272 | - | |
| Staff development | 295 | - | |
| Bank charges | 116 | - | |
| Postage of books | |||
| Information Commission Registration Fee | 47 | ||
| Drawn from unrestricted funds | 2,976 | ||
| Sub total | 122,407 | - | |
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
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| Total payments | 122,407 | 106,348 | - | ||
| Net of receipts/(payments) | 6,883 | (6,000) | - | ||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - | - | - | ||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 16,165 | 6,000 | - | ||
| Cash funds this year end | 23,048 | - | - |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the pe
Unrestricted Categories Details funds to nearest £ Donations - unrestricted 23,048 B1 Cash funds Donations - restricted - Total cash funds 23,048 (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK Unrestricted funds Details to nearest £ - B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B3 Investment assets - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B4 Assets retained for the - charity’s own use - - - - - - - -
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Details
Signature
Fund to which liability relates
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| (if any) 28762 ounts eriod end date 31/12/2025 |
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Total funds Last year
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
| 99,811 | 81,516 | |
|---|---|---|
| 42,017 | 69,036 | |
| 58,331 | 64,734 | |
| 28,602 | 26,159 | |
| 877 | 1,332 | |
| 229,638 | 242,778 |
| - | - | |
|---|---|---|
| - | - | |
| - | - | |
| 229,638 | 242,778 | |
| 12,719 | 22,620 | |
| 27,481 | 60,469 | |
| 40,197 | 39,830 | |
| 27,444 | 12,352 | |
| 897 | 1,257 | |
| 13,790 | 32,400 | |
| 41,634 | 21,381 | |
| 20,132 | 23,108 | |
| 12,216 | 17,574 | |
| 801 | 754 | |
| 5,920 | 3,275 | |
| 16,594 | 6,867 | |
| 8,472 | 7,880 | |
| 295 | 5,466 | |
| 116 | 114 | |
| 13 | ||
| 13 | 35 | |
| - | - | |
| 228,755 | 255,395 |
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| - | ||
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| 228,755 | 255,395 | |
| 883 | (12,617) | |
| - | - | |
| 22,165 | 34,782 | |
| 23,048 | 22,165 |
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| Chair of trustees) | 01/09/2026 |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees Uganda Humanist Schools Trust On accounts for the year ended 31 De&mber 2025 Charlty no {If any) 1128762 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust") for the year ended Responslbilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for Ihe preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requiremenls of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Acl'}. I report in respect of rny 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)(b) of the Act. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination E&tkepth 96. which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements oncerning the form and content of accounts set out 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 accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rf tljey do not apply. Slgned: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body ICAEW IER Oct 2018
(if any): Address: 14 7IIE PAAKL4NlJJ IhJUlSiÉ J•Ith4MPlofv i wv3 qb Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidan for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NJoTht. IER Oct 2018