## **Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership**
## **Chairpersons Report 2023**
## **UK Reg Number** : 1136225
**Registered Address** : 2 Ivy Close, Akeley, MK18 5GZ
**Chair** : Katharine Rhiannon James, **Treasurer** : Michael Layland James, **Other Trustees** : John Greener, Alison Greener and Keith Hare.
The Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership [ZMCP] is managed by the trustees, who meet for a minimum of two ordinary meetings and an annual general meeting each year. New recruits are identified by getting interested people involved with the work of the charity and then discussing trusteeship with them.
## **Activities, Achievements and Performance**
This year saw continued support of our Ngoli Scholarship in Zambia and our projects in Malawi go from strength to strength.
- Ngoli Scholarship – The aim of the scholarship is to support intelligent but disadvantaged and vulnerable students, who would not otherwise be able to afford it, to get a good secondary and tertiary education. We also support them to find employment or a means of supporting themselves as we believe this is the main benefit we hope to achieve from our work. It benefits them, their families, their communities and the Zambian economy. We are currently supporting:
- A degree qualified teacher who runs his own small business to support him and his family. He is hoping for government employment in the next round of recruitment.
- Two qualified nurses – one has been successful in gaining employment in NHS Scotland and in 2023 contributed some funds back into the scholarship. The other is working in Northern Province Zambia.
- Five qualified nurses/midwives working as volunteers and one more repeating one course module in order to qualify. Some of these young people have been supported to start small businesses to sustain themselves.
- Three students at medical school.
- Two students doing business courses, one of whom is being mentored by one of the trustees and is now doing paid remote book-keeping for his business. In 2024 we are hopeful she will start an internship, with support from ZMCP at a UK/Zambian development organisation.
- Two students doing further professional development while working.
- Four students who successfully completed Grade 12 exams and are due to start tertiary education during 2024.
- Three students at high school.
- Ngoli School
- We continue to support the school with a budget for the science lab. Science exam results are higher than before the science lab was built although covid has severely damaged all results.
- Tafika – Youth organisation in Malawi
- We continue to support Tafika in delivery of a self-grown feeding programme at 10 schools in northern Malawi as a pilot project with Mary’s Meals (UK NGO). Tafika mobilise the community to prepare land designated by the chief, sew biofortified maize and soya (with extra vitamins and iron), then tend the crops, harvest them, mill the maize, build cook shelters, prepare daily porridge and feed it to the school children. Early measurement indicates that attendance in the schools rose from 65% to 85% following the start of feeding. This is a significant step in the
need to support improvements in education and benefits the children themselves as well as having a wider societal benefit.
- Tafika are keen to have their own income and to determine how it is spent to benefit their communities rather than continued reliance on aid. We worked with them during 2023 to find sympathetic investors and build a hostel for students from the local nursing college. This has been a challenging project to undertake but we are really pleased that the hostel is complete and will be filled with paying tenants in 2024.
- We have supported the planting of a 12-acre commercial forest. In 10 to 15 years’ time this will provide a steady income as an acre per year is cropped on a rolling basis and the stumps left to re-sprout. In 2023 Tafika were supported to develop a successful tree nursery to provide all the saplings for 2023 planting.
- Tomato Greenhouses – Following our 2022 work to support Tafika to link with Malawi Fruits (a Scottish/Malawian Not for Profit business) to construct a borehole and five greenhouses, the first two were constructed and planted in 2023. The business case demonstrates the income the women hope to achieve in this ‘guaranteed price, farm-gate deal’. It also benefits Tafika as the women will put time into tending the forest as well as the tomatoes.
- Cookstoves – Tafika volunteers were shown how to teach communities to build simple mudbrick cook stoves that use 1/3 of the wood and generate less smoke. They are now demonstrating how to build these in a number of communities.
- Boreholes – A successful relationship with US NGO Formidable Joy has resulted in more than 10 boreholes being drilled in Tafika communities in 2023 (as well as 8 the year before). This has increased the availability of clean safe water and its proximity to the schools.
- IT Equipment
- We have successful persuaded NHS Lanarkshire to channel their surplus IT equipment to Turing Trust who send equipment out to Malawi for lease to schools rather than send the equipment to a crusher. We are working on other organisations.
- Tiko
- We continue to support Tiko community in Zambia by providing an online route for donors to make donations and claim UK tax relief.
## **Objectives for 2024:**
- To continue to support the students in our Ngoli Scholarship, with as many as possible of them finding paid employment or a means to sustain themselves at the end of their studies and contributing back into the scholarship to sustain the support of future students.
- To grow the capacity of Tafika volunteers in project management and financial skills so that they can manage and expand the self-feeding programme in conjunction with Mary’s Meal without ZMCP support.
- To maximise the income generating potential of the two income generating projects with Tafika (hostel and forest). We aim to bring the income generation of the hostel into a profit situation in 2024. The forest will not start generating income until approximately 2032, although the tree nursery could be developed to make profit sooner than that.
- To support the Tomato Greenhouse project through to production of income generating tomatoes and management of the project without ZMCP input.
- To raise sufficient funds directly, through grant funding or finding investors to cover the current liabilities of seeing the existing Ngoli Scholarship students through to the end of their tertiary education and the income generating projects with Tafika through to income generation.
||**Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership**
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|Donations via DonorSee||**3,971**|||**-**||**-**||**3,971**||**705**|
|Tax reclaimed from HMRC||**1,754**|||**-**||**-**||**1,754**||**5,364**|
|Donations via Sustainably||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**106**|
|Interest Earned||**132**|||||||**132**||**83**|
|Payroll GivingIncome||**5,760**|||**-**||**-**||**5,760**||**5,261**|
|Donations via CAF donate||**3,623**|||**-**||**-**||**3,623**||**2,943**|
|MonthlyDonors||**1,989**|||**-**||**-**||**1,989**||**858**|
|Donations via JustGiving||**7,888**|||**-**||**-**||**7,888**||**5,666**|
|Other Donations||**18,232**|||**-**||**-**||**18,232**||**26,370**|
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|_(Gross income for AR)_|**43,349**|||**-**||**-**||**43,349**||**47,358**|
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**_Total receipts_ 43,349**
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**43,349**
**47,358**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|Payment for Ngoli Projects||**34,073**|||**-**||**-**||**34,073**||**19,543**|
|Payments for Tikondane Projects||**1,675**|||**-**||**-**||**1,675**||**11,300**|
|Payments for Tafika Projects||**39,333**|||**-**||**-**||**39,333**||**40,080**|
|Payments for Bakashana Projects||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**2,057**|
|Bank Charges||**60**|||**-**||**-**||**60**||**81**|
|Foreign Exchange Charges||**200**|||**-**||**-**||**200**||**300**|
|Other Expenses||**556**|||**-**||**-**||**556**||**885**|
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**75,896**|||**-**||**-**||**75,896**||**74,246**|
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**_Total payments_ 75,896**
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**75,896**
**74,246**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 32,547**
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**- 32,547**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**38,023**
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**38,023**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 5,476**
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**5,476**
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**64,911**
**38,023**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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**B1 Cash funds**
CAF Cash Account
**3,533**
**-**
**-**
CAF Gold Account
**1,943**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,476**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**_Total cash funds_**
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**Details**
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
CAF Cash Account
**3,533**
**-**
**-**
CAF Gold Account
**1,943**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,476**
**-**
**-**
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|**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
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|**B4 Assets retained for the**
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Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**-**
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Signature
Print Name
Michael James
3/25/2024
Katharine James
**3/25/2024**
Date of
approval
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the trustees/ members of**
Charity Name
Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership
2023
1136225
**On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) Set out on pages**
1-2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2023.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
The charity’s gross income was between £25,0000 and £250,000 and I am suitably capable of undertaking the examination of these accounts.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination 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 concerning 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.
**Signed:**
1
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
**Date:**
17/08/2024
**Name:**
DEE MCINTOSH
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE AND FACULTY OF ACTUARIES SINCE 2006
**Address:**
27 JUNIPER PARK ROAD
EDINBURGH
EH14 5DX
## **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** .
2
**Oct 2018**
**IER**