2022-04-05-accounts - St Peter's Life-Line

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 6 Apr 21 Period start date To 5 Apr 22 Period end date

Charity name: St Peyter’sLife-Line

Charity registration number: 1136150

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	“To promote education, and to prevent and relieve poverty in Kenya.”
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	We are a small grass-roots charity working in an impoverished, marginalised, semi-arid area of Kenya (County of Tharaka Nithi), based in the parish of St Peter’s, Kajuki, supporting a struggling community with a wide range of projects. These range from child education, capital projects for schools, feeding programmes for primary school children, micro finance scheme for women, caring for disabled children, provision of water and irrigation, the eradication of the foul scourge of FGM, the manufacture and provision of low/no cost sanitary pads, and cricket farming to provide high protein food.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	It is confirmed that the Trustees have taken regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

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	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	Our policy on grant making is in principle to give priority to our core projects – education and care for the disabled – and for other priorities on other projects to be decided by our Kenyan Management Board, with the available funding.
Policy on social investment including program related investment	Para 1.38	The only investments we make are: - time, effort and commitment of all concerned, whether it be our supporters, or the people of the St Peter’s community - much prayer.

		both of which help to fulfil those needs of the community. We tend not to be too rigid in setting hard objectives – we have aspirations, and are made aware of major or minor requirements or situations – and if we feel called – we attempt to meet and sustain them. All these as described in the Report, and as in previous years, have been achieved by the grace of God, who has always met our needs (not necessarily our wants!). We work and consult with local community authorities and organisations. This empowers ‘local ownership’, and our donors’ ‘spending intentions’ are validated by us during our regular visits by seeing the results ‘on the ground’, as well as examining the relevant accounts during our visits. We very much value our 7-person local Management Board who give of their time and experience – as respected community leaders – to meeting with probity and integrity, the needs of their community.
Contribution made by volunteers	Para 1.38	In UK we are an ‘all volunteer’ organisation and are deeply grateful for their unstinting and selfless efforts.
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	By God’s grace, the unstinting generosity of our donors, and the wholehearted and committed efforts of the community leaders and project participants, great strides continue to be made on all fronts, despite the very challenging conditions of emerging and recovering from Covid restrictions.

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	Progress: This period saw the lifting of Covid restrictions and the return of ‘normal’ life in general. Schools opened in full, but with no online facilities or structured homework/home study, pupils effectively missed a year of full education. Many micro finance ladies suffered losses or reduction of their business ventures; the Clinic had to close, although we were able to make some home visits ‘at a distance’; and the FGM programme was halted, resulting in loss of traction and a regrettable rise in FGM cases as well as teenage pregnancies. But now we are getting our projects back up and running in full, and indeed developing new inititiatives. Funding has been particularly difficult, and with the ‘cost of living crisis’ will continue to be our biggest challenge to keep our projects fully funded, and aspirations to introduce new work will no doubt be frustrated. Schools:The two parish schools we directly support are picking up again after lockdown, and from recent national and regional exam results, continue to maintain their high performance rankings. St Peter’s underwent a substantial refurbishment programme funded by us. We have restarted in full ourFGM programmeand intend getting back on the front foot, making up for lost momentum during Covid, and a regrettable rise in FGM cases, with circumcisers taking advantage of lock down. The programme re-started with the formation and running of children’s rights awareness clubs in 8 local primary schools, the staging of 8 community education and discussion forums, visits to individual girls and their families. The culmination of our programme is our one- week residential Alternative Rite of Passage seminar from which 286 girls were empowered to say NO! to FGM, bringing the total to over 2,800 girls who have attended the programme. We are very happy to report that ourmicro finance projectfor women is now completely sustainable and handed over in full for the ladies to run autonomously without any further financial or administrative input from us.

At handover there were 2,898 ladies in the scheme, with some now taking 2[nd] , 3[rd] or 4[th] loans to build and consolidate their businesses. We wish them all the very best! Our feeding programme for 9 local primary schools continued with at year-end 1,786 children receiving daily lunch. This continued to affirm the known benefits of increasing and stabilising daily school attendance, as well as visibly raising individual and overall academic results (as measured by national exam results). Our Clinic for disabled children regained traction after the Covid closures, with some 120 families on our books and 84 children receiving regular weekly rehabilitative therapy. We continue our efforts on a wider reach to have these families accepted by the wider community – as hitherto these children had been hidden away as being cursed. Our custom designed Respite House continues to give 24/7 care to the two boys with muscular dystrophy, the girl paralysed from waist down, and two young boys who have mobility difficulties. We sponsor 6 children at 3 specialist schools for the disabled , allowing them the precious gift of education that they would not otherwise receive. Our sanitary pad factory at St Peter’s is ready for business while we patiently await the bureaucratic battle being fought by our partner charity, Loving Humanity, in exporting the materials and equipment from UK required to start production and distribution to school girls in our area. We have investigated Cricket farming as a means of producing a protein-rich foodstuff with Nairobi University, and are satisfied that we could take this up as a viable and valuable project. We have built a cricket breeding house (dubbed the ‘cricket pavilion!), whilst we await funding to build the mill house and purchase milling equipment. With the lifting of Covid travel restrictions we were able to resume our regular visits from UK to the community and re-establish face to face contact and strengthen working and social relationships and understanding.

		We continue to sponsor education at all levels for orphan and impoverished children, with 54 in our primary schools’ Transforming Lives programme, 24 in secondary & tertiary educationand 3 in university. Despite the continuing very challenging fundraising environment, we have successfully achieved all our objectives.
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	UK Achievements – Fundraising: As ever, we are very grateful indeed for the committed group of donorswho make regular monthly payments (c£24,000 pa) and form the basis of our budget planning to meet core projects such as school fees, and allowing us to plan or develop other projects. We are also very grateful for other individuals, corporate, church and school communities, with whom we work, and who donated sums over £1,000 giving us a total of £62,940. With these and other minor individual donations we raised £111,112 this financial year. We continue to apply to major grant-giving organisations for funding, although we do lack expertise and resources to research and apply with only limited success in today’s very competitive funding environment. Schools’ interaction: We have re-started our twinning programme with our two Somerset primary schools, with visits and illustrated talks to the schools and the exchange of posters and letters, and some welcome fundraising by the school pupils. Engendering ‘Children caring for children’. A huge debt of gratitude to those individuals, children and groups who go to extraordinary lengths in devising and executing a wide range offundraising eventsfrom cake sales to sponsored walks to auctions and virtual balloon races! Massive gratitude to the members of our extensive and committedPrayer Support Chain, who offer their support and prayers on a regular basis, and without whom we could not function_._


Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	We achieved all our charitable objectives with financial deployment as follows: Education fees – £24,460 FGM campaign – £12,000 Disabled Action Plan – £23,342 Sanitary pads project – £3,367 Crickets project – £2,886 Capital works – £2,615 Salaries/gratutities – £13,120 Schools’ feeding prog – £25,830 Kenya transport – £1,060 May trip – 1,764 Sewing machine – £542 Bank & Justgiving charges – 809 Expenses – £0 Overheads – £0 Total expenditure – £111,795
Other		We also receive a lot of work in kind (pro bono) from many generous people who have the know-how and are prepared to give their time, expertise and enthusiam.

Financial Review

Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	The opening balance in our current account was £19,880. Our Income was £111,112 giving us a credit total of £130,992 at the start of the year. Our Expenditure was £111,795, leaving a credit balance of £19,195 carried forward to the next FY.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	We aim to maintain a minimum balance of £2,000 in our current account in UK, to cope with any unforeseen situations in Kenya–usually medical emergencies.
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£2,000
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	N/A We will not seek an overdraft or incur any debts.
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	See principal risks, below.

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See para above on Fundraising activities. Para 1.47

The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46	Our only investment is in prayer, and in our people, both in UK and in Kenya.
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46	Principal risks: - a destabilisation of national or local government, causing lack of access to Kenya or the area - a drought period so severe as to outstrip our resources to meet it - although low where we work, the risk of terrorism in Kenya, and subsequent imposed travel restrictions. - Pandemic restrictions which could (and have previously) deny access to Kenya or the area. If these risks materialise there is little that we as a small charity can do to actively ameliorate or manage them
Other		We are not an ‘arm’s length’ charity, we work directly with, and know personally, the Principals involved in running the schools and community, as well as local government and church officials, parents, school staff and most importantly, the children and other project participants. We are a Christian based, all-volunteer organisation. However, whatever faith, or lack of it, is not an issue or a barrier for our work in UK or Kenya. None of us take fees, claim any expenses for governance, nor do we levy any expenses or overheads against the charity’s income for any administration or running costs (unavoidable bank charges excepted). So, all donations go to our projects.

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Trust Deed
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	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	As proposed by the two Co-founders, and unanimously endorsed by the remaining Trustees. In keeping with ourpro bonopolicy of not levying any charges for governance or any other overheads (unavoidable bank charges excepted), our Trustees give freely of their time, for which we are very grateful.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements	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	Any new Trustee will normally be familiar with all aspects of our work. We will ensure induction with Charity Commission requirements.
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51	We have informal links and contacts with other aid organisations working in UK and Kenya, particularly on FGM, feeding, disability, period poverty and cricket farming whereby we exchange information and experiences, and seek contextual advice when necessary.
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51	No formal or any affiliation with any other organisation.
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	St Peter’s Life-Line
Other name the charity uses
Registered charity number	1136150
Charity’s principal address	4 Admiral’s Mead, Butleigh, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8UE England.

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
D Baldwin	Chair
S Curtis	Secretary
D Inglis
M Read		Ended on 1 Sep22
V Adeya

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of adviser Name Address




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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	(in the original)	(in the original)
	David Baldwin	Susannah Curtis
	Chair	Secretary
	2 Jan 23
	2 Jan 23

Charity Name No (if any) St Peter's Life-Line

Receipts and payments accounts

For the period Period start date Period end date To from 6-Apr-21 5-Apr-22

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Major donors < £1,000 62,940 - - 62,940
Minor & monthly donors 38,544 - - 38,544
HMRC Gift Aid 9,628 - - 9,628
- - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 111,112 - - 111,112
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total receipts 111,112 - - 111,112
A3 Payments
Schools/uni fees 24,460 - - 24,460
FGM/ARP 12,000 - - 12,000
Disabled Action Plan 23,342 - - 23,342
San pads project 3,367 - - 3,367
Crickets project 2,886 - - 2,886
Capital works 2,615 - - 2,615
Salaries/gratuities 13,120 - - 13,120
Schools' feeding prog 25,830 - - 25,830
Kenya transport 1,060 1,060
May trip 1,764 1,764
Sewing machine 542 542
Bank & JG charges 809 - - 809
Sub total 111,795 - - 111,795
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total payments 111,795 - - 111,795
Net of receipts/(payments) - 683 - -
A5 Transfers between funds - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 19,880 - -
Cash funds this year end 19,195 - - 19,195
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

			Unrestricted		Restricted
Categories	Details		funds		funds
B1 Cash funds	Current Account *Total cash funds*		to nearest £ 19,195 - - 19,195		to nearest £ - - - -
	(agree	balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK
			Unrestricted		Restricted
			funds		funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details		to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -
B4 Assets retained for the	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -
charity’s own use					- - - - - - - -
			Fund to which		Amount due
B5 Liabilities	Details		liability relates		- - - - - (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature	Print	Name
	(in the original)		David Baldwin MBE

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CC16a
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Last year
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to the nearest £
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104,225

90,655

90,655 13,570 - - 13,570

Endowment funds to nearest £

OK

Endowment funds to nearest £

Current value (optional)

When due (optional)

Date of approval 8-Dec-22

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the St Peter’s Life-Line trustees/ members of 5 Apr 22 Charity 1136150 On accounts for the no (if year ended any) Set out on pages

(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 DD / MM / YYYY .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the basis of report preparation of the 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 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 examiner's matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed statement below *) 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 Act or  the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns 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 the brackets if they do not apply.

Signed: (in the original) Date: 8 Dec 22 Name: JA Goolden Relevant MATT professional

IER

October 2018

qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 6 Admiral’s Mead, Butleigh Glastonbury Somerset BA6 8UE

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

IER

October 2018

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

IER

October 2018