## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date **From 1 April 2020 To 31 March 2021**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Destiny Children
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1137680
**Charity's principal address** 1 Manor Crescent
Macclesfield Cheshire **Postcode SK10 2EN**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **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)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution - adopted on 23rd November 2009 and revised at a Special (eg. trust deed, constitution) General Meeting on 10th August 2010 Charitable Association How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
The charity elects Trustees, i.e. both the Officers and the other Trustees, Trustee selection methods in general meetings. (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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the** "The advancement of education of children in Kenya, in particular but not **objects of the charity** exclusively pupils of Destiny Garden School, Mombasa, by providing and **set out in its governing** assisting in the provision of educational facilities and materials and the provision **document** of grants."
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Destiny Children’s main aim is to support Destiny Garden School, which is located in one of the poorest suburbs of Mombasa. The school was founded in 2009 with 160 children, 6 teachers and 3 support staff, using 6 rented classrooms. It has been growing steadily since then and has now built 11 classrooms on its own land, and employs 11 teachers and 7 support staff, providing a good education for 330 children aged between 3 and 15.
The school currently relies almost totally on Destiny Children for funding. The charity covers the school’s basic running costs, paying the salaries of the teachers and support staff and providing the children with a nutritious school lunch and safe drinking water. Destiny Children achieves this by:
- managing a sponsorship programme whereby sponsors choose to pay £15 per month to help educate a child, or to sponsor the school as a whole.
**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)**
- organising fundraising events to help cover any shortfall in the running costs of the school, to provide lunches, educational materials, and to help with the development of the school.
- encouraging the charity’s supporters to raise funds for Destiny Garden School.
- using other initiatives such as ‘Gifts That Make A Difference‘, ‘easyfundraising’ and collection boxes to raise further funds.
- applying for funding from charitable trusts and other organisations or individuals to support the on-going development of the school, or for special projects agreed by Destiny Garden School and the charity.
Funds are sent to Destiny Garden School, Mombasa, at the end of each month and a breakdown of monies received and how it is spent is provided by the school. 100% of sponsors’ and donors’ payments, together with the Gift Aid, are sent to Destiny Garden School. The committee members cover all the administrative costs and expenses incurred by the charity.
The charity provides regular feedback on the school’s progress to those who sponsor the school or a child and to those who make donations.
Members of the committee regularly liaise with the founder of Destiny Garden School and the School Manager to monitor how the charity’s donations are spent. From time to time, members or representatives of the charity visit Destiny Garden School, at their own expense, to assess and monitor the performance of the school.
All the Trustees of Destiny Children abide by the UK Charity Commission’s guidelines and have completed their statutory declaration to this effect.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
- **Summary** Destiny Children’s achievements during the reporting period April 2020 to March 2021 were, of
- **of the** course, dominated by the global pandemic. This caused the charity to temporarily switch from
- **main** supporting education in Kenya to providing emergency food parcels to the most vulnerable
- **achievem** among Destiny Garden School pupils and their families during the 9 months when all schools
- **ents of** were closed, and to then support DGS in making the school Covid-safe for the children’s return
- **the** in January 2021.
- **charity during** Achievements are summarised below.
- **the year Financial** Maintained a steady income which totalled £104,766 during the reporting year. Thanks to sponsors continuing support during the pandemic, transferred sufficient monthly funds to DGS to cover all the staff salaries.
- Raised funds to provide 8 separate emergency food parcel distributions during the period all schools were closed in Kenya – from April 2020 to December 2020. This was thanks to generous donations from supporters.
- Raised enough funds for DGS to make the school Covid secure for the children’s return in January 2021. This was thanks to two grants and further generous donations from supporters.
- Although the charity’s financial liability under the Sponsorship Protocol is minimal, it continued to maintain a reserve target to cover staff redundancies in the unlikely event the school or charity closes or, more likely, to cover unexpected events such as adverse exchange rate fluctuations. These reserves are held in a Building Society Account to minimise risk.
- Covered all costs, returning annual accounts that demonstrate this is a well-run charity.
- **Destiny Children Charity** Reviewed the charity’s long-term plans and put in place a transition plan to help Destiny Garden School become more self-sufficient, and reduce the charity’s administrative workload.
- Supported the running of the ‘child’ sponsorship work which is now undertaken by one of the DGS Directors in Mombasa. This activity was limited due to the pandemic.
- Continued to run at zero costs, with all administrative costs and expenses being borne by committee members.
- Due to the pandemic the charity was unable to hold any fundraising events.
- Sent regular reports to all sponsors to update them on the situation.
- **Destiny Garden School** Provided distance learning during the 9 months the school was closed due to the pandemic. This was achieved via WhatsApp as families in this area do not have home computers; those with mobile phones shared the lessons with those families with no modern technology at all.
- Distributed 8 rounds of emergency food parcels from April 2020 onwards. These distributions provided 275 disadvantaged families with enough basic foodstuffs to enable them to survive for a month at a time. The cost of each parcel averaged £14 and included rice, oil, maize flour, peas and soap. The school’s staff worked hard to purchase, make up and distribute the food parcels.
- Purchased and organised items needed to make the school Covid-safe for the children’s return. These included individual desks, extra textbooks, sanitiser units, masks, better water supplies, hand basins and soap.
- Reopened the school in November 2020 in line with Kenyan government regulations, to allow the two year groups who were due to take external examinations to return to school on a phased basis (about 80 pupils).
- Reopened the school fully in January 2021 to the remaining 270 pupils who were able to return to a safe environment.
- Supported vulnerable pupils with pastoral and health care when possible
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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## **Section E Financial review**
## **Brief statement of the**
## **charity’s policy on reserves**
The charity has maintained a small reserve and its reserves policy is designed to ensure that the charity always retains sufficient cash to cover (in the worst case) DGS liabilities in the event that the school had to close, or (more likely) unexpected events such as adverse exchange rate fluctuations.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **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;
Sponsorship is the charity’s principal regular source of income, with sponsors choosing to sponsor a child or the school as a whole. During this reporting period these funds were supplemented by donations and grants.
- Since the charity first started it has been able to send 100% of sponsors’ and donors’ funds, together with the Gift Aid, to Destiny Garden School. The committee members have met all the expenses and administrative costs involved in running the charity.
- 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**
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**Signature(s)** _Original form held and signed via Original form held and signed via email ivo COVID-19 email ivo COVID-19_ **Full name(s)** Dr. Alan Peter Slater Mrs Judith Anne Frances Roper **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 17.05.2021
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|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**|||
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|**Destiny Children**||**1137680**|||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/04/2020|**To**
Period end date
31/03/2021|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
48,081
444
17,143
18||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
30,864
215
8,000||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**48,081**
**31,309**
**215**
**-**
**17,143**
**8,000**
**18**
**-**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Sponsor income|48,081||||||**48,081**||**51,594**|
|Donations -general|444||30,864||||**31,309**||**14,941**|
|Administration cost covered bydonations|||215||||**215**||**1,325**|
|Fundraisingevents|||||||**-**||**4,000**|
|Gift aid|17,143||||||**17,143**||**13,068**|
|Grants|||8,000||||**8,000**||**-**|
|Bank Interest|18||||||**18**||**-**|
|Bank Refund|||||||**-**||**284**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**65,686**||**39,080**||**-**||**104,766**||**85,212**|
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**65,686**
**107,212**
**107,212**
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**-**
**-**
**107,212**
**- 41,526**
**-**
**6,641**
**5,933**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**39,080**
**207**
**207**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**207**
**38,873**
**-**
**7,095**
**5,150**||**-**
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**104,766**
**107,212**
**207**
**107,419**
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**107,419**
**- 2,653**|||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total _**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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|DestinyGardens School Mombasa|**107,212**||||||||**83,267**|
|Administration costs met bydonations|||||||||**1,396**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**107,212**||||||||**84,663**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**- 41,526**||**38,873**||**-**||**- 2,653**||**549**|
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||**6,641**||**7,095**||||**13,736**||**13,187**|
||**5,933**||**5,150**||**-**||**11,083**|||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
28/06/2021
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Nat West current account
Leek United Building Society Account
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
_original form held and signed via email ivo_
_Covid-19_
_original form held and signed via email ivo_
_Covid-19_|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**30**
**5,150**
**5,903**
**-**
**-**
**5,933**
**5,150**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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_Covid-19_|Judith Roper|17-May-21|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31/03/2021.
**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 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 16/05/2021
**Signed: Name:** David Ward **Relevant professional** Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (No. **qualification(s) or body** 7494816) **(if any): Address:** 2 Ingleton Close
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
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Holmes Chapel
Cheshire CW4 7LF
## **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** .
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
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