Trustees Annual report 2020
Charity name: Friends of the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Registered charity number: 1139834
Address: 82, Lindon Drive, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 0LN
Trustees:
| Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for whole year |
|---|---|---|
| John Ralph Edwards | Resigned 08-01-2020 | |
| Darrell Dale Hannah | Joint Chair until 22-07-2020 | |
| Christina Dorothy Foyle Bailey | ||
| William Poole | Treasurer | |
| Sally Margaret Lynch | Minutes | |
| Christopher John Haywood | Chair | Joint Chair until 22-07-2020 |
Structure and management:
The charity is constituted as a trust with a trust deed of 15[th] December 2010 as the governing document.
Trustees meet approximately quarterly to agree broad strategy, review finances and reserves policies, and decide on any grants to be made. Additional meetings were held in 2020 to review communications with the overseas partners.
All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.
Trustees are appointed for a five year term of office by resolution of the existing trustees. New trustees are sourced through the personal networks of the trustees and patrons; they then meet one of the existing trustees to assess suitability and appropriate checks are carried out, after which they attend a board meeting at which they are appointed, if all trustees and the candidates agree this is appropriate.
Activities and Objectives:
Our key objectives are:
To advance the Christian religion in the Anglican Episcopal Area of the Horn of Africa (the “Area”), by providing support to the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa,
In partnership with the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa to relieve poverty, suffering and financial hardship, distress and ill health amongst people living in the Area, including refugees and displaced people.
A number of activities are conducted to achieve these objectives:
Grant applications are assessed in context with the above objectives and approved when it is considered that a significant proportion of the request is in line with one or more of the objectives.
Regular communication is made in order to understand situations, needs and processes with reviews, as required, of factors that influence grant requests.
Appropriate assessment is made of financial factors, such as exchange rates and potential partnerships with other similar charities that support activities in the region.
Achievements and Performance:
Grant Requests:
During 2020 grant requests were received from St. Matthew’s church in Addis Ababa and from the Anglican Church in the Gambella region of Ethiopia as follows:
Grants totalling £16,000 to St. Matthew’s have been used for the general running of the church and supporting the Breakfast Club and Community Library. This support has been important during the pandemic lockdown period since income was reduced whilst the church was closed. It also allowed the Breakfast Club to be sustained with appropriate social distancing throughout the lockdown. An element of these grants was used for Community Library staff salaries enabling the Library to be reopened once lockdown was eased.
A contributing grant to aid the easing of the effects of poverty in the Gambella region was made to the church’s Samaritans Fund (£3,200) and later in the year another grant of £3,800 to alleviate the impact of severe flooding.
The church in the area brings the Christian faith to many people and to ensure that this continued throughout the year 3 grants of £6,000 each were issued to support over 25 clergy and support staff salaries. One social aspect of the work of the church in the area is to reduce ethnic tensions.
Towards the end of 2020 discussions were in progress with the Mothers Union to explore financial support of their Literacy and Eagle projects. These are both based on bible teaching but also enable local people to improve their situation by improved communication (Literacy project) and utilisation of local assets (Eagle project). Again these projects bring together ethnic groups.
Other activities during the year included the following:
Our governance and grant making protocols were reviewed and brought up to date following the Charity Commission’s latest guidance.
As a result of the impact of the pandemic, the trustees worked hard as a team to maintain the activities by using email and on-line video meetings. The support and encouragement of our patron, Bishop Andrew Proud during this transition has been much appreciated. In a normal year the Board of Trustees would aim to meet on 3 to 4 occasions but in 2020 met on 9 occasions. The extra meetings helped to manage the changes in trustees since the start of the year, maintain good contact with St. Matthew’s Parochial Church Council during their interregnum and keep up to date with the changes to the Diocese of Egypt and the Horn of Africa. Bishop Mouneer was congratulated on his appointment as Archbishop of the new Province of Alexandria and his support is much appreciated.
We have worked with the Partnership Office in Cairo, who oversees the church in Ethiopia, to improve our communications with them and the church in Ethiopia. We have also improved our communication with Friends of the Anglican Province of Alexandria (FAPA) and the Jerusalem and Middle East Church Association (JMECA) that helps each charity to coordinate their work efficiently whilst maintaining their specific identity.
An essential element of the activities of the Friends of the Anglican Church in Ethiopia is prayer support for the church in the country and this has been enhanced by periodic reports from the church in Gambella including, for example, photographs of food distribution after the flooding and specific prayer requests. Information received is shared with our donors both on the web site and through newsletters.
Financial Review:
At 31[st] December 2020 we held cash at the bank of £88,644 (£101,211 in 2019). Within this figure is an amount of £36,830 which is separately restricted to support the work of St Matthew’s Church in Addis Ababa. The trustees have adopted a policy to retain all funds for this purpose in reserves unless grant requests, within the charitable objectives of FACE, are made by St Matthew’s which the trustees consider it appropriate to agree to fund.
Apart from the above, our policy on reserves is to hold at least £10,000 of unrestricted funds at any time to enable the Charity to respond to emergency requests for grants to the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, eg: food emergencies.
In normal times, an upper limit on unrestricted reserves has been set at £20,000 at the end of any financial year. Apart from funds held for St Matthew’s Church, we have not deemed it prudent to make grants until we can be certain that they are applied as required by our statement on public benefit, at the end of 2020, we retained £43,241 (£58,458 in 2019) in unrestricted funds. We are ready therefore to continue to apply these funds as and when the needs of the people in the area are truly identified.
Our main sources of income are both restricted and unrestricted donations from individuals, churches and other charitable trusts including in response to specific appeals. We have to date received no funds from central or local government in the UK or any other country.
Expenditure in furtherance of our objectives has been in the form of grants made to the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa or specific Anglican churches within that area, e.g. St Matthew’s Church in Addis Ababa.
As a very small charity we do not have many written policies, but financial matters are reviewed and management accounts produced at every trustees meeting, and we annually review our financial controls against the checklist provided by the Charity Commission. We have also adopted an ethical fundraising policy to guide our fundraising activity.
Custodian Trustee Funds:
Not applicable.
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): | William Poole |
| Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc): | Treasurer |
| Date of Approval: | 16-06-2021 |
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
| Friends oftheAnglicanChurch in Ethiopia and theHornof Africa | Friends oftheAnglicanChurch in Ethiopia and theHornof Africa | Friends oftheAnglicanChurch in Ethiopia and theHornof Africa | Friends oftheAnglicanChurch in Ethiopia and theHornof Africa | 1139834 | CC16a |
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| Receipts and payments accounts | |||||
| Forthe periodfrom | 1st January2020 | To | 31stDecember 2020 | ||
| Section A Receipts and payments | |||||
| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Last funds funds funds funds year |
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| VoluntaryReceipts | 10300 | 18033 | 28333 | 38979 | |
| Interestincome | 62 | 62 | 95 | ||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 10362 | 18033 | 0 | 28396 | 39074 |
| A2 Asset and investment sales | |||||
| SeeTable | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| Sub total Total receipts A3 Payments |
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| 10362 | 18033 | 0 | 28396 | 39074 | |
| CharitableActivities Costs (giving) | 25100 | 16118 | 41218 | 12143 | |
| Governance Costs | 0 | ||||
| AdministrationCosts | 479 | 254 | 733 | 1643 | |
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| Sub total | 25579 | 16372 | 0 | 41951 | 13786 |
| A2 Asset and investment purchases (see table) |
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| 0 | |||||
| 0 | |||||
| Sub total | 0 | ||||
| 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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| 25579 | 16372 | 0 | 41951 | 13786 | |
| -15217 | 1662 | 0 | -13555 | 25288 | |
| 0 58458 42754 101212 75925 |
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| 43241 | 44416 | 0 | 87657 | 101212 |
| Section B Statement of Assets and Liabilities | Section B Statement of Assets and Liabilities | |||
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| Details B1 Cash Funds Cash funds Total cash funds Details B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets Details B4 Assets retained for the Details charities own use B5 Liabilities Details |
Details | Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds 43,241 44,416 43241 44416 0 Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Fund to w hich Cost Current value asset belongs (optional) (optional) Fund to w hich Cost Current value asset belongs (optional) (optional) Fund to w hich Amount due Whendue liabilityrelates (optional) (optional) |
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| Cash funds | 43,241 | 44,416 | ||
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
Signature
Print name Reverend Christopher John Haywood (Chair of the Board of Trustees) Date of approval 26/09/2021
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Ind•p•ndent Examingr's Report Report to the trustoesl members of Friends of the Anglican Church in Ethiopia and the Hom of Africa On accounts for th¢ year ended 31 December 2020 Charity no {if any) 1139834 Set out on pages 1and2 l report lo the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I"Ihe Trust") lor Ihe year ended 31 December 2020. As the charity's Iruslees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirerTienls ol the Charities Act 2011 I"Ihe Act"). Rosponsibilities and basis of report I report in respect 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 applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515Xbl of the Acl. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in ¢onnection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any malerial respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance wlh 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 conlenl of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports} Regulations 2008 other than any requirement Ihal the accounts give a 'lrue 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 lo which allenlion should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached. Signed: Date: 18 October 2021 Name.. Craig Bond Relavant professional qualifi¢ation{sl or body {if any): ICAEW Address- 6 Nottingham Rd, Long Ealon. NG10 1HP 11ER Oct 2018
Section B Di5¢1osurg Only complete It the examiner needs io nighlight mater5al maiters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity ac¢ounls'. directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brlef details of any items that the examiner wishes to discloso. 21ER Oct 2018