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Educate for Change

Trustees Annual Report

Year Ending 31 January 2025

Registered Charity Number: 1134736

Trustees Annual Report

Year Ending 31 January 2025

REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATION DETAILS

Charity Name: Educate for Change Registered Charity Number: 1134736 Charity’s Principal Address: 5 Nunnery Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3LS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity:

Trustee Name Office (if any) Dates acted if not
for whole year		 Name of person (or
body) entitled to appoint
trustee (if any)
Olivia Stanton Chief Executive
Officer
Chloe Dinsdale Financial Officer

Name of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year
Matthew Cornet

Name and addresses of advisors (Optional Information)

Type of Advisor Name Address
Bank The Co-operative Bank plc PO Box 101, 1 Balloon Street,
Manchester, M60 4EP

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

Olivia Stanton

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document: Trust Deed dated 27 January 2010
How the charity is constituted: Charitable Trust
Trustee selection methods: Trustees are appointed or reappointed
on a 5 year basis by a resolution of the
Trustees passed at a special meeting
called pursuant to the charity’s governing
document.
Additional governance issues: Educate for Change works closely with 2
Community Based Organisations in
Kayunga, Uganda - Kayunga Orphans
Education, Care and Support Programme
(KOEC&SP) and Nakabango Aids
Patients Support (NAPSU).
All trustees give their time voluntary and
received no remuneration or other
benefits.
Risk Management: The trustees have assessed the major
risks to which the charity is exposed,
and are satisfied that systems are in
place to mitigate exposure to the major
risks.

OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES

Summary of the objects of
the charity set out in its
governing document		 To promote the education of orphaned and other
vulnerable children and young people in Kayunga,
Uganda and the prevention or relief of poverty in
Kayunga, Uganda by providing grants, items and
services to individuals in need and/or organisations
working to prevent or relieve poverty and by assisting in
the provision of education, training, healthcare projects
and other support to enable individuals to generate a
sustainable income.
Summary of the main
activities undertaken for
the public benefit in
relation to these objects		 The focus of our activities is finding sponsors to cover
the day school or boarding school fees or other
educational fees of orphans and other vulnerable
children in Kayunga, Uganda and by the end of the
reporting year, 24 children and young people were
benefitting from our sponsorship programme with 48
children and young people having benefitted from the
programme in total. We believe that the children benefit
from receiving an education as it improves childhood
development and life skills which helps reduce poverty.
School offers children a safe environment with support
and supervision and education is acknowledged as a
fundamental right for children. As some of the children
we have been sponsoring are now becoming young
adults, the sponsoring can also include paying for
training and vocational fees. All orphans and other
vulnerable children in the Kayunga district of Uganda
are eligible to benefit from the programme.
Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit.		 In planning the activities of the charity for the year, the
Trustees have kept in mind the Charity Commission’s
guidance on public benefit and in particular, the
supplementary guidance on the prevention or relief of
poverty for the public benefit.
Additional details of the
objectives and activities
(Optional information)		 A great contribution is made by the trustees, volunteers
and donors and we are grateful for all the time and
money they have donated to the charity, especially
considering the current financial climate. We are also
grateful for the work and support of Tom Maxwell Ngobi
and all the others in Kayunga, Uganda. Without their
valuable contribution, we would not have been able to
achieve so much.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity during the
year		 SPRING
The children went back to school in January 2024.
One of our children was sick and we were able to send some
money to cover her medical costs.
SUMMER
2 of our sponsored young people who have finished school
were successfully enrolled on a government sponsored
midwifery course at the Ntungamo School of Nursing and
Midwifery. We ran a successful fund raising campaign to
cover some of the costs for the 2 young people. This brings
the total number of young people on a nursing course to 4.
We are delighted with their progression and that we are able
to continue to support them in the programme.
One of our other young people who is also doing a nursing
course was on a placement at Kiryandongo General Hospital
We were also able to fund some tuition for the children
during the school holidays to enable them to continue with
their studies.
AUTUMN
The children returned to school to continue with their studies.
We received some funding to pay for some goats which help
with food security issues for the children and their guardians.
We had the sad news that one of our young sponsored
children is HIV+. We were able to fund some treatment for
them and hope that they will continue to be able to thrive.
WINTER
Each year, there is a Christmas party for a number of
children from the local area (including our sponsored
children). We received numerous donations for the party.
The party was a great success (as always) and the children
were treated to turkey, rice, matooke, cake and soda.
We are also able to donate some money to buy new bedding
as a gift for the children attending the party.
We were also able to fund some repairs to the van that Tom
uses to transport the children.
The Trustees acknowledge that it has been another difficult
year for all involved in the charity and especially for the
children who have been making up for the studying they
missed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, our

financial position remains challenging as the costs continue to increase each term. Special thanks goes to Tom Ngobi in Uganda for looking after the children’s welfare this year. We are extremely grateful that all the children in the sponsorship programme stayed safe and well this year. We now have 24 young people who have graduated from our sponsorship programme, every single one of whom finished school and has done further education and now they all have jobs (including 2 nurses, a trainee doctor, metalworkers, carpenters, a computer scientist and one of them is running his own business now doing wedding and graduation photography.) We could not be prouder of what these young people have achieved. None of it would be possible without the support of our sponsors and volunteers. 2 of our Trustees are set to visit Uganda in March 2025 and we look forward to their update following their visit.

Financial Review

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Review of the charity’s The charity is struggling financially due to the increased costs
financial position at the end it is facing for school fees and requirements for the children
of the period and the cost of living crisis is affecting the number of
sponsors.
Statement explaining the We aim to hold at least £300 at the bank in unrestricted
policy for holding reserves funds at any given time in order to meet any unforeseen
stating why they are held expenditure such as vehicle repairs or sponsors dropping out
of the sponsorship programme.
Amount of reserves held £2,000
Reasons for holding zero
reserves
Details of fund materially in The school fees continue to increase and we do not have
deficit sufficient sponsorship money to cover them. Many of our
children are nearly at the end of the programme and we are
looking to negotiate bulk fees to cover fees to the end of their
education.
Explanation of any We are not taking any more children on to the programme at
uncertainties about the present until the position is consolidated.
charity continuing as a
going concern
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DECLARATION

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

……………………………………… Signature

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees

Charity Name Educate for Change

On accounts for the year 31 January 2025 Charity no 1134736 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/01/2025.

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

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 Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Date: 28/11/2025 Signed: ~~a~~ Name: Kathryn Morris Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 15 St. Helen’s Crescent, Low Fell, Gateshead. NE9 6DH.

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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 brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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