2021-12-31-accounts - UK Friends Of Healing Focus Orphanage Centre

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 01 2021 31 12 2021 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name UNITED KINGDOM FRIENDS OF HEALING FOCUS Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1137190 Charity's principal address 211 HOLLY LODGE MANSIONS, OAKESHOTT AVENUE, HIGHGATE, LONDON

Postcode N66DX

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
PAMELA MULLINS
GERRY OHANNESSIAN
TENY OHANNESSIAN	ADMIN OFFICER AND TREASURER
RUBY VAN DER MEULEN A.K.A RUBY GORDON	CHAIR	QUORUM
JULIE BARTLETT
ALISON POOLE
TIMOTHY MAMO

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

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

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

TRUST DEED

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted

TRUST

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

APPOINTED BY CONSENSUS OF TRUSTEES

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

HEALING FOCUS ORPHANAGE CENTRE (HFOC) NGO IN UGANDA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERSEEING HEALING CHILDREN SCHOOL. UKHF WORKS WITH THEM AND INTERIM MANAGER ESTHER BAGOOLE.

ALTHOUGH CONTINUING TO WORK TOGETHER WITH LES AMICALES DES ENFANTS, THIS IS NOT A PARTNERSHIP, BUT AN INFORMAL ASSOCIATION. UKHF AIMS TO PLACE 5 CHILDREN PER ANNUM IN SECONDARY EDUCATION. LES AMICALES ARE NOW RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING 5 ORPHANS ONTO HIGHER EDUCATION.

UKHF DOES NOT DEAL DIRECTLY WITH CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL.

CONTACTS WITH THE SCHOOL PASS THROUGH ESTHER BAGOOLE.

WHERE IMAGES OF THE CHILDREN ARE USED FOR PUBLICITY/FUNDRAISING, PERMISSION IS SOUGHT AND THE CHILD’S ANONIMITY MAINTAINED.

ALL TRUSTEES ARE TO OBTAIN A DBS CHECK AND UK VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL ARE REQUESTED A BASIC DBS CHECK.

Section C Objectives and activities

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

THE OBJECT OF OUR CHARITABLE WORK IS TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATION, WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOME OF THE ORPHANED CHILDREN OF BUSIIRO VILLAGE, LUUKA DISTRICT, UGANDA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HEALING FOCUS ORPHANAGE CENTRE (HFOC).

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250 ORPHANED CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 4 &15 ARE EDUCATED AT THE FREE SCHOOL. 40 GIRLS ARE SHELTERED IN DORMITORY ACCOMMODATION WHERE NECESSARY. A MATRON/TEACHER HAS CHARGE OF THEM AND LIAISES WITH THOSE WHO GO ONTO SECONDARY SCHOOL. THE REMAINING PUPILS LIVE WITH GUARDIANS IN THE Summary of the main DISTRICT. activities undertaken for the THE SCHOOL STAFF NUMBERS 23. THERE ARE 14 TEACHERS, public benefit in relation to THE MAJORITY OF WHOM HAVE BEEN AT THE SCHOOL SINCE IT’S these objects (include within INCEPTION IN 2010 AND THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING STAFF this section the statutory NUMBER 3. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance PASS MARKS AT SCHOOL LEAVING AGE, P7, CONTINUE AT 100%. issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

UKHF HAS MAINTAINED A NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY AND ADHERENCE TO THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS PART OF OUR MOU AGREEMENT WITH HFOC. TO THIS END WE HAVE AVOIDED FUNDING FROM RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS.

You may choose to include WE ARE PROUD OF THE CONTINUING SUPPORT OF further statements, where GUARDIANS AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;

OUR TRUSTEES ARE VOLUNTEERS, AS ARE OUR BOOKKEEPERS. OUR ADMINISTRATOR AND TREASURER IS THE ONLY OFFICER PAID FOR SERVICES. THIS IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH GIFT AID OBTAINED FROM DONATIONS.

contribution made by volunteers.

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SECTION D ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE.

2021 BEGAN AMID HIGH POLITICAL TENSIONS IN UGANDA DUE TO THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. THERE WERE RIOTS, AGGRESSIVE ATTACKS AND POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE MAJOR CITIES WITH INTERNET BEING CUT OFF COUNTRYWIDE. WE HAD NO CONTACT WITH ESTHER BAGOOLE UNTIL MID-JANUARY WHEN PRESIDENT MUSEVENI WAS DECLARED THE WINNER AND INTERNET CONNECTION RESTORED.

HFOC WAS NOT AFFECTED BY THE RIOTS BUT REMAINED CLOSED DUE TO THE COVID-19 LOCKDOWN. HOWEVER, THE TEACHERS CONTINUED TO PROVIDE ‘STUDY PACKS’ TO THE STUDENTS AND 200 PUPILS ON AVERAGE CAME TO THE SCHOOL EVERYDAY TO PLAY, BE TUTORED INDIVIDUALLY AND FED A WARM, NUTRITIOUS MEAL.

80 GIRLS REMAINED LIVING IN THE DORMITORIES DURING THE LOCKDOWN. THEY WORKED IN THE SCHOOL GARDEN, TOOK CARE OF THE GOATS AND PARTICIPATED IN THE TAILORING WORKSHOP.

ESTHER BAGOOLE AND MEMBERS OF STAFF REMAINED IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH GUARDIANS AND PUPILS DURING THE LOCKDOWN. MANY BOYS IN THE COMMUNITY WENT TO WORK IN THE SUGAR CANE PLANTATIONS AND A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF TEENAGE GIRLS FACED UNWANTED PREGNANCIES, EARLY MARRIAGE AND CHILD LABOUR.

A LARGE NUMBER OF TEACHERS IN UGANDA FOUND ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF INCOME.

HOWEVER, THE HFOC STUDENTS AND TEACHERS DID NOT GO DOWN THIS ROUTE. UKHF CONTINUED TO FUND THE TEACHERS’ SALARIES AND ESTHER BAGOOLE ENSURED REGULAR CONTACT WAS MAINTAINED WITH THE STUDENTS TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE SAFE AND HEALHY.

AT THE END OF MARCH, SCHOOLS WERE OPENED FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS. 53 STUDENTS FROM THE GRADUATING P7 CLASS RETURNED TO SIT THEIR NATIONAL EXAMS AT THE HFOC EXAM CENTRE PRESIDED OVER BY EXTERNAL INVIGILATORS FROM THE DISTRICT.

THE 5 GRADUTATING STUDENTS FROM BUSIIRO SECONDARY SCHOOL SAT THEIR EXAMS AND THE GIRLS RETURNED TO LIVE AT HFOC IN THE DORMITORIES.

UKHF TRUSTEES AND MEMBERS OF THE HFOC BOARD HELD A VIRTUAL MEETING ON 20[TH] MARCH WHERE THE FUTURE OF HFOC SCHOOL WAS DISCUSSED. THE DILAPIDATED STATE OF THE NURSERY CLASSROOMS WAS RAISED HOWEVER UKHF FELT THAT FUNDRAISING FOR THE RUNNING OF THE SCHOOL, TEACHERS’ SALARIES AND FOOD WERE MORE URGENT THAN A NEW SCHOOL BUILDING. THE POSSIBILITY OF SHARING THE VTC WITH THE NURSERY SCHOOL STUDENTS WAS SUGGESTED.

DUE TO THE COMPLICATIONS IN UGANDA RESULTING FROM THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC, THE HFOC BOARD HAS BEEN UNABLE TO CONTRIBUTE FINANCIALLY TOWARDS THE SCHOOL. SINCE DECEMBER 2020 UKHF HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR FUNDING 100% OF TEACHERS’ SALARIES, SCHOOL RUNNING COSTS, NEW GUTTERING ON CLASSROOM BUILDINGS, 3 NEW WATER TANKS AND BUILDING AN ENERGY SAVING STOVE.

THANKS TO THESE ADDITIONS, HFOC HAS BEEN ABLE TO COLLECT LARGER AMOUNTS OF RAIN WATER FOR DRINKING, COOKING AND GARDENING.

IN ORDER TO MOVE TOWARDS GREATER SUSTAINABILITY, HFOC HAS ACTIVELY CULTIVATED THE SCHOOL GARDEN, GROWING CASSAVA, MAIZE AND A VARIETY OF VEGETABLES TO FEED THE PUPILS AND TEACHERS. THE AIM IS TO BE FULLY SELF SUFFICIENT IN FOOD BY NEXT YEAR.

HFOC REACHED OUT TO NGOs BASED IN UGANDA, SUCH AS LIVING WATER AND STRAIGHT TALK FOUNDATION TO BUILD PARTNERSHIPS BUT NOTHING CONCRETE HAS COME OUT OF IT SO FAR DO TO THE INSTABILITY OF THE COUNTRY DURING THE PANDEMIC.

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IN MAY, PRIMARY 1 TO 6 RETURNED TO SCHOOL WITH NURSERY CLASSES JOINING AT THE END OF THE MONTH. 15 TEACHERS RETURNED TO WORK WITH 3 VOCATIONAL TRAINING STAFF STARTING UP THE TAILORING AND HAIRDRESSING WORKSHOPS. A NEW BOOKKEEPER, FLORENCE NAIGULU, JOINED THE SCHOOL AND IS IN CHARGE OF MONTHLY ACCOUNTS AND BUDGETS.

ITEMS PRODUCED IN THE VTC WERE SOLD IN THE LOCAL MARKETS GENERATING A SMALL INCOME THAT WERE INJECTED BACK INTO THE PROJECT.

SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED AGAIN DUE TO A PEAK IN COVID-19 CASES IN JUNE. THE GENERAL LOCKDOWN LASTED 42 DAYS WITH SCHOOLS REMAINING CLOSED UNTIL JANUARY 2022.

ONCE AGAIN THE HFOC STAFF PREPARED STUDY PACKS AND ALL THE STUDENTS WHO DAILY CAME TO THE SCHOOL WERE FED.

THE UGANDAN GOVERNMENT REQUIRED ALL TEACHERS TO BE VACCINATED IF THEY WERE TO RETURN TO WORK. ALL MEMBERS OF THE HFOC STAFF ARE FULLY VACCINATED.

DESPITE MANY HARDSHIPS IN 2021, HFOC SHARED THREE WONDERFUL SUCCESS STORIES. ANNET KAUDA AND ZAINA NAKIBULE, BOTH ORPHANS AT A VERY YOUNG AGE WERE TAKEN IN BY HFOC AND WORKED VERY HARD AT SCHOOL. THEY WERE AWARDED PLACES ON THE UKHF SCHOLARSHIP FUND, CONTINUING THEIR SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION AT BUSIIRO SECONDARY SCHOOL. THANKS TO LES AMICALES, THEY WERE BOTH ABLE TO CONTINUE ON TO UNIVERSITY AND ARE THE FIRST GIRLS FROM HFOC TO GRADUATE WITH UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

ANNET HAS A BACHELOR’S DEGREE FROM THE UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY IN PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS AND ECONOMICS AND ZAINA HAS GRADUATED WITH A DEGREE IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FROM MAKERERE UNIVERSITY. THEY HAVE BOTH RETURNED TO HFOC AS MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS BRINGING HOPE TO THE YOUNG STUDENTS.

GLORIA NAKISIGE GRADUATED WITH THE HIGHEST PLE (PRIMARY LEAVING EXAMS) RESULTS IN THE DISTRICT AND THE ONLY STUDENT IN THE REGION (6 DISTRICTS) WHO SCORED A DISTINCTION IN ENGLISH!

THE HFOC STUDENTS CONTINUE TO REACH THE HIGHEST RESULTS IN THE PLE EXAMS WITH HFOC BEING THE OVERALL BEST SCHOOL IN THE DISTRICT.

Section E

Financial review

SUCH RESERVES AS THERE MAY BE ENTER A SPONSORSHIP Brief statement of the ACCOUNT TO MAINTAIN THE 5 CHILDREN ENTERING SECONDARY charity’s policy on reserves SCHOOL EACH YEAR. Details of any funds materially THERE IS NO DEFICIT in deficit

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Further financial review details (Optional information)

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

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;

WE ARE INDEBTED TO A BODY OF PRIVATE DONNORS AND ARE SUPPORTED BECAUSE OF THEIR TRUST IN UKHF.

UKHF’S EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS FOR 100% OF THE SCHOOL’S BUDGET.

UKHF HAS NO INVESTMENTS. LAND AND BUILDINGS ARE HELD IN TITLE WITH THE LAND REGISTRY IN JINJA OR IGANGA ON BEHALF OF HFOC.

investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Full name(s) Teny OHANNESSIAN

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)

Administrator

Date 01/04/2022

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Charity Name UK Friends of Healing Focus

Receipts and payments acco

For the period Period start date To from 1.01.21

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted funds

to the nearest £

Endowment Restricted funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £

Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £	Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £	Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Endowment funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts Donations 22 881 9 352 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Sub total(Gross income for AR)22 881* 9 352 -
Donations	22 881	-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	22 881	-

A2 Asset and	investment sales,
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	**Total receipts **	22 881	9 352	-

A3 Payments Grants and donations paid 16 847 - Fundraising costs 128 - - Governance costs (administration) 3 082 - - Capital projects 4 239 - - Sponsorship 1 268 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total 25 564 -	A3 Payments Grants and donations paid 16 847 - Fundraising costs 128 - - Governance costs (administration) 3 082 - - Capital projects 4 239 - - Sponsorship 1 268 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total 25 564 -	A3 Payments Grants and donations paid 16 847 - Fundraising costs 128 - - Governance costs (administration) 3 082 - - Capital projects 4 239 - - Sponsorship 1 268 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total 25 564 -
Grants and donations paid	16 847
Fundraising costs	128	-
Governance costs (administration)	3 082	-
Capital projects	4 239	-
Sponsorship	1 268	-
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**Sub total **	25 564

**Sub total **	- - - - 25 564	- - - - -	- - - -
	- - - 25 564 - 2 683	- - - - 9 352
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)*


	- 2 683	9 352

A5 Transfers between funds - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 20 777 22 078 Cash funds this year end 18 093 31 430 -

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the pe

			Unrestricted
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	Bank account		18 093


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	(agree balances with receipts and payments *Total cash funds*		18 093
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Categories Details

B1 Cash funds

B2 Other monetary assets

Fund to which asset belongs

Details

B3 Investment assets

Details

Fund to which asset belongs

B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use

Details

Fund to which liability relates

B5 Liabilities

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature

No (if any) 1137190 ounts Period end date 31.12.21

CC16a

Total funds

to the nearest £

Last year

to the nearest £

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32	233		35	865

16	847	7	854
	128	7	634
3	082	4	626
4	239	2	960
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25	564	23	074

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	42 854		30 064
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Name			Date of approval

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusto6s1 members of UK Friends of Healing Focus On acnts for the year ended 2021 Charity no 1137190 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ltthe TrusV} for the year ended 3111212021 Responsibilitigs and basi8 of report As Ihe charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the acGounts in accordance ywth the requirements ofthe Charrties Act 2011 I'the Act.). I report in Spect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applieable Diwtions given by the Charity Commission under $e¢tion 145{5)(bl of the Act. Independent examiner's statement I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (atk& di6G$o") which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance wth 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 nceming the form and content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue 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 nneCtIon wtth the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please delete tha words in Ihe br8ck8ls rfthey do not 8ppIy. Signed: Date: 25.4.2022 Name: D M Polowtec-ooi Relevant professional qualifi¢ation(s) or body

(rf any)- Address: 6 Holyaoke Ct Lond SE16 5HJ Section 8 Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examination of tharity accounts.. direth.ons arvj guidance for examin8rs). Glv• h•r• brhl d•talls of any items that th• •xamlner wlshes to dlsclose. IER Oct 2018