## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date
**From 1 April 2024 To 31 March 2025**
Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Destiny Children
**Other names charity is known by**
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**any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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|1 Alan Slater|Chair|||
|2 Colin Cliff|Treasurer|||
|3 Judith A F Roper|Secretary|||
|4 Patrick Roper||1stApril to 25 October 2024||
|5 KathyJames||||
|6 Debi Weir||Joined 16thJuly2024||
|7 Hannah Weir||Joined 20thAugust 2024||
|8 Stephanie Donaldson||Joined 22ndOctober 2024||
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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)** N/A
## **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 and 17[th] June 2022. 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 business 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 paying the staff, the provision of educational facilities & materials **document** and the provision of grants."
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The main aim of the Destiny Children Charity (DCC) is to support Destiny Garden School (DGS), a primary school in one of the poorest areas of Mombasa, Kenya. DGS expanded from 160 pupils in 6 rented classrooms in 2009 to a purpose built school with 12 classrooms, a kitchen, dining shelter, library and staff room all on its own land, educating children aged 3 to 14.
Following the restructure of the Kenyan education system, DGS currently educates 420 children aged 3 to 11. It employs 10 teachers and 10 support staff: 3 Management, 2 cooks, 1 librarian, 1 cleaner, and 3 security guards.
Spare classrooms now accommodate a Junior Secondary School which is run separately from the DGS Primary School. It does however offer some free places to high-performing DGS pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The school depends almost entirely on the Destiny Children Charity for funding. The charity covers the school’s main running costs, paying the salaries of the teachers and support staff, supplying basic educational materials, and providing the DGS children with a nutritious school lunch and safe drinking water. It achieves this by:
**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)**
- Operating a sponsorship scheme allowing supporters to sponsor a child (£15/month), a class (£45/month), or contribute to the school monthly at no set amount.
- Organising fundraising activities and promoting supporters fundraising efforts to meet DGS’s running costs, supply additional educational materials, and assist in the school’s development.
- Using other initiatives such as ‘Gifts That Make A Difference’ and ‘easyfundraising’ to raise further funds.
- Appling for grants from charitable trusts, and funding from organisations and individuals, for ongoing needs and agreed projects.
Funds are transferred to DGS monthly, with expenditure reports provided by the school. 100% of all sponsors’ and donors’ payments, together with all Gift Aid, are sent to DGS. The Charity’s Trustees cover all the administrative costs and expenses incurred.
The charity provides regular updates to sponsors and supporters on the school’s progress, and feedback is given to donors on how their funds were allocated.
Trustees of the charity visit Destiny Garden School, at their own expense, to assess and monitor the performance of the school. Although travel was limited due to the pandemic, illness and floods in Mombasa, quarterly Zoom meetings were held with the DGS and DCC management teams, and two Trustees visited DGS in May and June 2025.
The Trustees of Destiny Children Charity confirm that they have complied with their duty under **section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011** to have due regard to the guidance published by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
In monitoring the charity’s aims and planning its activities, the Trustees have carefully considered how these will contribute to the charity’s purposes and provide public benefit. The Trustees are satisfied that all activities undertaken during the reporting year further the charity’s objectives and benefit the public by supporting the education, welfare, and development of disadvantaged children at Destiny Garden School in Mombasa, Kenya..
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## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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 Charity’s Achievements of the main** During the reporting year, Destiny Children Charity (DCC) maintained strong financial support **achievem** for Destiny Garden School (DGS) while expanding its team and improving efficiency. The **ents of** charity and its supporter’s main achievements and performance are summarised here. **the charity** Maintained a steady income which totalled £114,543 during the reporting year. **during the year** Transferred £106,206 to DGS and provided £933 of equipment to cover `o` Staff salaries
- Educational materials
- Improvements and repairs to the school’s facilities
- Secured a grant of £10,800 to provide daily school lunches for all pupils
- Obtained additional donations to: `o` Provide breakfast for the younger children `o` Improve facilities at the school `o` Reduce the ratio of students sharing a text book `o` Purchase educational and sporting items `o` Provide playground equipment `o` Renovate the communal playing field after flooding `o` Provide many other much needed items
- Ensured 100% of supporters’ donations and Gift Aid were sent to DGS, with Trustees covering the running costs of the charity.
- Maintained a financial reserve to cover potential staff redundancies; this is held in a Building Society for security.
- Made efforts to reduce its administrative workload and help DGS become more selfsufficient by:
- Delegating some of the sponsorship work, bookkeeping and secretarial work to DGS staff in Mombasa
- Moving the accounts to a cloud based accounting system
- Strengthened its team by recruiting 4 new Trustees:
- 1) Responsible for marketing, the website and social media 2) The UK representative visiting DGS
- 3) Younger Trustee (aged 18) for youth engagement 4) Nairobi based for in-country support
- Provided DGS staff with a small pay rise in 2024, the first increase since 2018 although a staff bonus of 5% was given in 2023. One of the Charity’s aims now is to recruit more sponsors to give another pay increase in 2026.
- Supported 12 students in the DGS Junior Secondary School, 31 former DGS pupils through High School, and 3 through university.
All this has been achieved through sponsors and supporters continuing support during the year, and the Gift Aid from their donations.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
## **Destiny Garden School’s Achievements**
- Destiny Garden School took on board Kenya’s new educational framework and curriculum and provides an excellent education for 400 disadvantaged children. The school enhanced student development through extracurricular activities, and continued to provide nutritional and welfare support to all pupils. Its main achievements and performance are summarised here. Adjusted to Kenya’s new educational structure introduced in 2023 which is similar to the UK’s whereby primary school children leave at age 11. Grade 6 leavers now join a Junior Secondary School (JSS).
- Formed a JSS which is run and funded separately from the DGS Primary School and offers some free places to high performing but financially needy DGS pupils.
- Maintained extracurricular activities including ~~`o`~~ games, debating, cooking, public speaking, guidance and counselling ~~`o`~~ Scouts, Girl Guide, Wildlife, Agriculture, Debating and Journalism Clubs ~~`o`~~ Class outings to broaden the children’s outlook.
- Promoted Physical Education for fitness and social development which includes athletics and ball games.
- Introduced new playground equipment from sponsor’s funding to develop pupils’ social skills, emotional wellbeing, giving them a break from the classroom and have some fun.
- Held ongoing assessments to monitor pupils’ progress and identify areas that need improvement. Facilitated exams - DGS are qualified to hold the class 6 and 8 National exams, and they do all they can to make the exams as stress free as possible.
- Provided support for all through: `o` Staff meetings and training to help build a strong team `o` Parent Teachers Association (PTA) meetings and general parent’s meetings to discuss issues and make improvements
- `o` School assemblies providing the opportunity for the students to get together `o` One to one meetings with the parent/guardian, teacher and pupil offering individual help and guidance
- Continued to provide daily nutritious lunches for all its pupils throughout the year, with weekly Friday special meals and fruit on some days. In addition the pre-primary school children continued to receive morning porridge and a snack.
- Supported vulnerable pupils with pastoral and basic health care when possible
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The Charity’s reserves policy was reviewed during the year; it continues to maintain a small reserve designed to ensure the charity always retains sufficient cash to cover (in the worst case) DGS liabilities in the event that the school had to close. The charity has no financial liability of its own as all the costs of running the charity are covered by committee donations **.**
**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, a class or the school as a whole. During this reporting period these funds were supplemented by donations and a grant.
- 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**
**Signature(s)** _Original signed, held in file Original signed, held in file_ **Full name(s)** Dr. Alan Peter Slater Mrs Judith Anne Frances Roper **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc)** Date 16.06.2025
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**Charity Name No (if any) Destiny Children 1137680 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To** ~~——————~~ **from** 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 ~~an~~ **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** Sponsor income 48,597 **48,597 41,609** Donations - general 926 12,002 **12,928 28,644** Administration cost covered by donations 450 **450 186** Fundraising events 7,261 3,708 **10,969 12,031** Gift aid 15,447 **15,447 13,899** Grants - 10,800 **10,800 10,000** Bank Interest **181 181 139** Further Education **15,171 15,171 16,178** _**Sub total** (Gross income for AR)_ **[ 72,231 ] 42,312 - 114,543 122,688** ~~===~~ **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see** ~~===~~ **table). - - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **[ - ] - - - -** ~~a~~ _**Total receipts**_ **72,231 42,312 - 114,543** ~~—~~ **122,688 A3 Payments** Destiny Gardens School Mombasa **74,248 30,475 104,723 123,354** Administration costs met by donations **550 550 335** Equipment bought for DGS Mombasa **933 933 -** ~~—_~~ _**Sub total**_ **74,248** ~~=Z22~~ **31,958 - 106,206 123,689 A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **- -** _**Total payments**_ **74,248 31,958 - 106,206 123,689** ~~SS SSSS—2~~ _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **- 2,017 10,354 - 8,337 - 1,001 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 3,439 16,385 19,824 20,825** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **1,422 26,739 - 28,161 19,824** ~~=== ===~~
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**|**end of the period**||
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**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Nat West current account
Leek United Building Society Account
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees**|**Report to the trustees**|**Report to the trustees**|**Report to the trustees**|
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Charity Name Destiny Children
|**On accounts for the year**|31 March 2025|**Charity no (if**|1197680|
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 03 / 2025**
**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 examiner's statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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:** 19 June 2025
**Signed: Name:** David Ward
**Relevant professional** Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales **qualification(s) or body**
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**Address:** 2 Ingleton Close, 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** .
Not applicable
**Oct 2018**
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