## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] April 2024 Period start date To 31[st] March 2025 Period end date Charity name: Kathryn’s Mercy Home Trust (UK) Charity registration number: 1129791** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The advancement of education, training**
**and work skills, the relief of**
**financial hardship and medical need and**
**community development among**
**poor and needy people in the region of**
**Devakottai, Tamil Nadu, South**
**India.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Provision of hostel accommodation for**
**village girls, and support of village**
**boys in accommodation provided by**
**others, to enable them to attend**
**school. Support of former hostel**
**children in college and vocational**
**courses. Support of destitute elderly**
**ladies alongside the girls’ hostel.**
**Provision of nursery and primary**
**education for poor children. Outreach**
**educational and social programmes to**
**children and adults in remote**
**villages. Provision of tailoring and**
**computing classes for poor village**
**people.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**In preparing this report the trustees**
**have had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**The trustees make grants only to KMHT**
**(an Indian Trust) with whom we work**
**closely to ensure that the charitable**
**objects are delivered.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**a) Support of 95 village girls and 20**
**elderly ladies accommodated in our**
**hostel (supplying education materials,**
**medical care and clothes)**
**b) We are supporting in further**
**education village girls and boys: In Arts**
**& Science College 40, Polytechnic 15,**
**B.Sc. Nursing 16, B.Ed., Training 14,**
**vocational courses Engineering College**
**10 (our trust pays fees, supplying**
**education materials and clothes)**
**c) Employment of staff at the girls’**
**hostel: 3 wardens, 1 supervisor, 2**
**cooks, 1 helper, 1 driver, 1 scavenger;**
**and for the elderly ladies: 1 helper, 1**
**scavenger.**
**d) Kathryn’s Nursery and Primary**
**School educating 360 deprived poor**
**background children with the help of 18**
**teachers, 3 helpers, 1 watchman and 1**
**scavenger.**
**e) For the year of 24 and 25 we have**
**conducted 3 KMH trust meetings and all**
**the trust members participated in the**
**meetings; we presented the ongoing**
**trust activities at Joan’s Grace Home as**
**well as Kathryn's Nursery and Primary**
**School. All the trust members eagerly**
**participated and gave their valuable**
**suggestions.**
**f) To improve the level of primary**
**education we have erected new digital**
**smart boards to enhance the children’s**
**academic development.**
**g) The Child Rural Development Centres**
**are functioning well in 5 villages,**
**working with 290 children. Our KMH**
**projects are providing evening**
**education, educational materials and**
**snacks.**
**h) In our Joan's Grace Home compound**
**our project is offering free tailoring**
**training and computer training to the**
**unemployed young girls. Now there are**
**42 young ladies getting training with 10**
**tailoring machines and 1 tutor. Free**
**computer training is also going well.**
**i) In our KMH project 3 medical camps**
**were conducted. Out of which 2 phases**
**were first conducted for the students**
**staying in our hostel and the elderly**
**ladies, and one medical camp was**
**conducted for the nearby public in**
**which about more than 250 rural people**
**benefited.**
**j) In Kathryn’s School there were Annual**
**day, Sports Day, Colours Days, Pongal**| **celebration and Christmas celebrations in grand manner. k) At Joan’s Grace Home we conducted 3 parents’ meetings as well as in Kathryn’s School. l) On 5th March 2024 we conducted a sports and cultural event for all the girls and elderly ladies at Joan’s Grace Home m) Every month our JGH has conducted the Home Management Meeting with the District Child Welfare Officer, Child Protection Officers, local ward members, staff from Medical Department, our wardens and 2 girls from our home. n) Every year we have obtained and submitted to the government Social Welfare Department the Sanitary, Fire, and Building Stability certificates.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The trustees are satisfied that the**
**charity’s financial position remains**
**healthy.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The trustees’ policy on financial**
**reserves is not to hold any monies**
**longer**
**than required, but to expend them as**
**soon as practicable on the charity’s**
**work. The charity has no debts,**
**commitments or liabilities.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At the end of the year £15,272.**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**There are no funds in deficit.**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Not applicable.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**The charity’s only source of funds is**
**donations from its supporters.**
**Administration expenditure is minimal.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy|Para 1.46|| adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Trust deed**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**Charitable trust**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed by a resolution**
**of the trustees as provided in the**
**governing document.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**Kathryn’s Mercy Home Trust (UK)**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**KMH(UK)**| |Registered charity number|**1129791**| |Charity’s principal address|**48 Ditton Road**
**Surbiton, Surrey**
**KT6 6RB**| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**1**
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5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Ian Howarth**|**Chair**||| ||**William Allberry**|**Secretary**||| ||**Kathryn Flenley**|**Trustee**||| ||**Hazel Cook**|**Trustee**||| ||**Rachel**
**O’Callaghan**|**Trustee**||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year None** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **Not applicable** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **Not applicable** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **Not applicable** safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** > **Signature(s)** Ian Howarth William Allberry William Alan John Allberry **Full name(s)** Ian Howarth **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Secretary **Chair, etc)** Date 30° July 2025 **Charity Name Kathryn's Mercy Home Trust (UK)** **No (if any) 1129791** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |For the period|Period start date|Period end date| |To| |from|1st April 2024|31st March 2025| |ee|ee| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Regular sponsorship|-|47,541|-|47,541|47,888| |Special grant|-|-|-|-|1,800| |Additional contributions|-|30,375|-|30,375|25,202| |Gift Aid|-|9,953|-|9,953|15,092| |Bank interest received|-|413|-|413|72| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|88,282|-|88,282|90,054| |Sub total|(Gross income for AR)| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|[ - ]|-|-|-|-| |——————|Total receipts|-|88,282|-|88,282|90,054| |A3 Payments| |Sent to Kathryn's Mercy Home Trust (India)| |-|118,300|-|118,300|70,000| |Bank charges|-|60|-|60|60| |Travel costs (Indian visitors)|-|-|-|-|204| |Website costs|-|149|-|149|7| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|118,509|-|118,509|70,271| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases, (see table)| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |—|Total payments|————|-|118,509|-|118,509|70,271| |Net of receipts/(payments)|-|- 30,227|-|- 30,227|19,783| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|-|-|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|-|45,499|-|45,499|25,716| |Cash funds this year end|===|-|15,272|-|15|>=|,272|>|45,499| **----- End of picture text -----**
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
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behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
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Ian Howarth
William Allberry
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William Allberry
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approval| ||Ian Howarth|Ian Howarth|| ||William Allberry|William Allberry|| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES ' Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees Kathryn's MerGy Hotne Trust (UK) On accounts for the year ended 311t March 2025 Charity no (if any> 1129791 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of tha accounts of the above Chanty (Ihe Trusf) for the year en¢Je(J 3110312025. Responsibilitfes and basis of report AS the chanty's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011 (7he Acr). 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 Commi88ion under sedion 145(5)(b) of the Ad. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have éxaminer's 8tstement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respeGt." the accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Charities Act. or the aGcounts did not aGGord with the aGGounting reGords, or the accounts did not comply wtth the applicable requirements con￿mIng the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Gharrties (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whiGh attention Should be drawn in thi5 report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Slgned: Dats: 11109125 Namè: Timothy Lucas Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): ACA Address: 10 Presburg Road, New Malden, Surrey. l(r3 SAH IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here briel details of any items that the examiner wi8he8 to disclose. NIA IER Oct 2018