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2025-11-30-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Liberty Children’s Home

Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1136713 ~~———~~

Registered charity number (if any) 1136713

Wilmington Dartford, Kent DA2 7DP

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Mrs Meryl O’Shea Chairman 2 Mr Douglas Hunter Treasurer Secretary 3[Mrs Jeanette ] Hunter 4[Mrs Susan ] Sebborn 5 Miss Helen Case ~~———~~ 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year ~~———————~~

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Trust. 30/05/2010

How the charity is constituted Trust (eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods Appointed by trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

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Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

1) To relieve poverty and advance the education of school age children and college age adults resident at the Liberty Children’s Home and Student Hostel Located in Chintalapudi, Andhra Pradesh, India, (administered by the Indian charity Abundant Life Ministries, Indian registration number 390/2001), by providing funds to enable the provision of educational equipment, shelter, food, clothing and medical care.

2) To prevent or relieve poverty of adults and children in Andhra Pradesh, India by providing: grants, items and services to individuals in need through Abundant Life Ministries (registered as charity number 390/2001 in India).

To avoid confusion in this summary, the term ”the charity” refers to the English charity Liberty Children’s Home and the term “the Home” refers to the actual Liberty Children’s Home in Chintalapudi village, India. The trustees are aware of the importance of complying with the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and have considered this when awarding grants to Abundant Life Ministries in India. They also recognise the need to confirm the use of the funds, once transferred, by either periodic visits to the Liberty Children’s Home in India or live video communication with the Home and proof of purchases.

Provides grants to Liberty Children’s Home and Student Hostel

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The charity funds the Home, which is a foster home for some children, with one or both parents alive, and an orphanage for others, who do not have parents, providing a secure place for the children and students to live in. The orphan children have usually been looked after by aged grandparents or close relatives. Some of the children have been rejected in re-marriage situations where the new step-parent does not want the child in the house. Others have parents who have long term illness or had an accident and cannot earn enough to look after their children. What they all have in common is that, without the Home, they would not grow healthily or regularly go to school to receive an education. The children, who this year were aged between 5 and 22, are provided for by the Home through to university education or completion of training in a trade. The funding from the charity enables the Home to provide food, clothing, medical care and meet the costs associated with the children attending the village schools and colleges. The children come from Chintalapudi and other villages in Andhra Pradesh and there is a much greater demand than can be met by the Home.

Education

The children are provided with all of their educational equipment such as notebooks and pens, etc and have any fees paid at the schools or colleges that they attend. The elementary and high school children are also provided with after-school tutors to help them understand their school work and homework. Other children in the village are invited to join with the Liberty children at the Home for extra tuition, at no cost to their parents. The Home, from our charity funding, provides some of the village children with notebooks, pens, etc and with clothing to enable them to attend school.

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Self-supporting project

The Home is dependent upon the funds that are sent from the UK from our charity. Financial markets can be very unsettled, resulting in variations in the exchange rate, which can make the Home vulnerable when the exchange rates fall. Therefore, to give some security, the charity is working with the Home to locally develop a means of income. The Home has approximately 4 acres of farm land and we have previously worked with the Home to utilise this for their benefit. The land has been used for growing crops, housing a dairy farm, leasing to local farmers and raising chickens. Each use has presented its own problems and whilst we have gained valuable experience, none of the projects have been economically sustainable for a long term. The extreme climate conditions, crop and animal diseases and unreliable labour have played major parts in these results together with difficulties in obtaining rent from those who have leased the land. The current project is growing palm oil trees to produce cooking oil for sale.

Helping Chintalapudi village residents

Many people in the village are poor and when funds permit, we try to help both children and adults, close to the Home, with the greatest need. This has also included provision of items to the village schools that the Liberty children attend.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity
during the year		 To avoid confusion in the following summary, the term “the charity” refers
to the English registered charity Liberty Children’s Home and the term
“the Home” refers to the actual Liberty Children’s Home in India.
The charity “Liberty Children’s Home” was started on 1stDecember 2009
and attained registered status at the Charity Commission of England in
July 2010. The charity was started to provide financial support for an
Indian registered charity having the name of Abundant Life Ministries, run
by a Pastor Hezekiah, in a village called Chintalapudi. Abundant Life
Ministries runs a children’s home, called Liberty Children’s Home
and also provides help to residents in the village. The Indian charity
submits requests to the English charity, for funds to maintain the Home
and carry on its work. The English charity considers the requests and
issues grants where it is deemed suitable.
This report refers to all the young people supported by the Home as
“children”. This does not necessarily mean that they are immature, as
some are late teens or early twenties, but relates to the Home being a
“family home” and not an “institutional home”, they being treated as sons
and daughters.
There were no visits to the Home during 2025. However, daily contact
with Pastor Hezekiah was maintained. This was by phone, WhatsApp
and Teams. We have therefore managed to keep up-to-date with all of
the needs of the children. We have continued to hold a minimum of
weekly and monthly Teams meeting with Pastor Hezekiah, for him to
inform us of the Home’s expenses and give him the opportunity to justify
them. Funds have only been transferred once we were fully satisfied. We
are confident that the funds are being used for their designated purpose.
The Home- children
For some children, with one or both parents living, the Home is a foster
home and for those children without either parent it is an orphanage.
Nevertheless, no matter what their situation, the Home provides a secure
place to live in a healthy environment. Usually through each year, some
of the children will leave for various reasons, including an improvement in
family circumstances, their nearest relatives have moved away or they
may have to care for a sick parent or grandparent.
We have to make the decision as to how many children we can support
at the Home, in June. The reason for this happening in this month, is that,
for a child to move from their village, they require a school transfer
certificate which normally can only be obtained at the start of the
academic year in June. The Home has dormitories large enough to
accept up to 60 children, depending upon the number of boys and girls.
The demand for places at the Home is great, but the number is restricted
by the funds available for their daily needs – sufficient food, decent
clothing and provision of school books and medical care. Each summer,
in May or June, the Government insist that the children are given the
opportunity to return to their villages for a short break. Sometimes this
results in the children not returning to the Home. This is for various
reasons, including having to look after sick parents and break up of
marriages. Although, happily, sometimes the child’s parent or relative has
had a change of circumstances and find that they can now provide for
their child or children.

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Section D Achievements and performance

By the end of June, the Home knew that 14 children would not be returning, including one student who had graduated and was now working and supporting themself. This reduced the number of children that the Home was supporting, to 41 children. The Trustees decided that the number of children be increased to 58, for the year. From a list of children applying to join the Home, 17 children were selected, which increased the number to 58. This did not include 2 students, who were waiting to take their final exams and would not need support beyond October. In November, we were asked by a “struggling” mother, whose son was at the Home, if we could accept her 5 year old, pre-school, daughter. Following Hezekiah’s enquiries into her situation, we agreed for the girl to join the Home. This now means that there are 59 children being provided for, of which 22 are girls and 37 are boys.

Once again this year, the Home has been a place of safety, providing care and protection for the children. All of the children, of all ages, have been supplied with all their clothes, food and medical care. Two resident cooks are employed to provide the children with 2 or 3 meals each day, depending upon whether it is a school day, as they receive a mid-day meal at school. The general health of the children is good although they have suffered with normal seasonal colds and fevers. However, three of the children did have accidents. One injured her foot, one injured his eye and one broke his elbow. All three required operations and they were given the best treatment, in private hospitals, paid for by the Charity.

We have managed to provide finance to the Home so that they can continue to celebrate each child’s birthday, with a new set of clothes and a cake. The children really look forward to this and it also means that the cost of purchasing one set of new clothes is spread through the year.

They all receive their second set of clothes at Christmas. Joining with New Year, this is the largest event of the year. We provided a relatives evening before Christmas Day, when the children’s parents or nearest relative, are invited to the Home. The children put on a concert in the evening and they all shared a meal together. On Christmas Day and New Years Day they had special meals with evenings of fireworks.

As stated in our “summary of main activities”, the Home will commit to supporting a child through to at least obtaining their first job. Although for various reasons, as previously mentioned, very few of the of the children stay to achieve this. However, at the start of this year there were 5 boys in college, training to obtain qualifications which should eventually help them obtain a good job:

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Section D Achievements and performance

There were also some children who attended 6[th] form college and who continued to live at the Home.

The Home – building, grounds and facilities

The Home, which was constructed in 2007, has no major building problems. However, the buildings and services have required maintenance and some equipment replacement, producing a bill for the year of just over £4000. This included providing extra ground drainage because of flooding, replacement of the drinking water filter unit, refurbishment of the dining hall and repairs to the much used washing machines, which are only used for the elementary school children’s clothes.

Self-supporting project - Farm

The farm, which is planted with palm oil trees, once again produced some fruit this year, which was sold and the money used for the Home, but it was only a small amount. These have been growing well but do require some expenditure on fertilisers and labour to periodically clear the ground of weeds, trim the palms and spray them. The palms will still take a number of years to produce significant quantities.

Helping Chintalapudi village residents

The Home is close to the centre of Chintalapudi and through the efforts of Pastor Hezekiah, representing Abundant Life Ministries, adults and children in the village are being helped. Not only does this benefit the villagers but it creates a supportive community for the Home and satisfies Indian government inspectors that Abundant Life Ministries is a “Social” charity. Once again, we have managed to provide the following support:

1) Two tutors are provided for the children at the Home, after school each day, to help them with any problems they may have in understanding their day’s lessons. The children, in the part of the village close to the Home, can come and benefit from this free of charge.

2) This year we again funded notebooks, which were given to some of the poorest children in the village to enable them to complete their primary school lessons

3) The Charity’s main objective is to support the Home, but we also have a concern for the people of the village. This year, at Christmas, we have again helped 29 of the neglected old women and 8 old men in the village, buying the women saris or fleeces and provided the men with a towel and lunghi.

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Section D Achievements and performance

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Section E

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Financial review
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The primary concern ofthe charity is to raise sufficient funds to provide
Briefstatement ofthe the children ofthe Home with a minimum of their basic daily needs. The
charity’s policy on reserves funds that are transferred to India, at the beginning ofeach month, is the
exact amount that has been spent or committed to, in the previous
month. The Charity’s policy regarding the amount of reserves that it
keeps, is to have an estimated minimum ofthree month’s of “basic
needs’ funds. With a number of children on college courses, we also
ring-fence some as a separate reserve, to ensure thatwe have sufficient
funds to always be able to pay all their fees, books and living expenses.
We would normally decide, in the period June to August each year, how
many children we can support forthe coming year, based on our
rojected income and our reserves.
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Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
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30/11/2025

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poo | | CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's | FOR ENGLAND AND WALES | report on the accounts

Section A

Independent Examiner’s Report

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Report to the trustees/ | ; ;
members of | Liberty Children’s Home
On accounts for the year | 30/11/2025 Charity no | 1136713
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust’) for the year ended 30/11/2025

| 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, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

| 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.

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Name: | Mr J R Nunns
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Relevant professional qualification(s) or body

(if any):

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Address: | 21 Tile Kiln Lane
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Bexley, Kent

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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).

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