2024-12-31-accounts

Zimbabwe Victims’ Support Fund and its Purposes

During 2024 the ZVSF Trustees in the UK, working with our partners and colleagues in Zimbabwe, have continued to supply food aid to the people of Matabeleland. Indeed, thanks to our supporters in the UK, over the last three quarters of the year, we were able to double the amount of mealie meal supplied in comparison with 2023. This dramatic expansion was necessitated by the failure of the 2024 harvest (due to El Nino) and the policies of the current government.

Pastor Bheki Siziba and the Zimbabwean Administrator, Phanuel Moyo, have been responsible for the distribution of food to the really needy people in Gwanda, Plumtree South, Beit Bridge, Masvingo, Mazwi, Killarney, Spring Farm and Heaney Junction – all these communities are in regions of acute deprivation and food shortage. We also supplied primary schools in Lupane with mealie meal and soya chunks during term times, thereby relieving the school children of hunger. ZVSF has also continued to support the Intuthuko (meaning progress through training and development) Garden Project at Esigodini. We have agreed to pay for the installation of a dedicated bore hole and the consequent relocation of the pump and solar panels. This will help secure sufficient water for the drip feeding of vegetable plants. The activities on the garden are managed by a hard-working committee elected from the ‘gardeners’ who are aided by Xolani Ndlovu (a pastor at the Presbyterian Church) and ZDDT (Zimbabwe Democracy Development Trust).

In the UK, the Trustees are indebted to Caroline Hastie-Smith who has taken on the demanding role of Treasurer of ZVSF, being responsible not only for maintaining our financial records but also for communicating on financial matters with our partners in Zimbabwe.

Research and Consultation

The Trustees remain in close contact with the partners and colleagues in Bulawayo so that they are aware of local developments. They also monitor Zimbabwean on-line publications and take into account such research as is published by FEWS Net (Famine Early Warning Systems Network – funded by US Aid – recently re-established by the US Government) – which substantiate the reports from our colleagues. Chris Sworn, one of our trustees, spent some time with the team during a visit to Zimbabwe in August 2024 when he was deeply impressed by the gratitude of recipients of ZVSF’s food aid programme. Graham Shaw, during his visit to Bulawayo in May 2025, also joined the local team in their relief work and in discussing their future programme.

Advocacy and Information

The Trustees have continued to post relevant information on the ZVSF website in order to communicate with those British people interested in and concerned about the plight of Zimbabweans. They have also opened a Facebook page which focuses on the work of ZVSF in Zimbabwe. They distribute to past and present donors bi-annual reports on the activities of ZVSF, and they promote the work of the Charity whenever and wherever possible by presentations, conversations and digital communications.

24 November 2025

Zimbabwe Victims' Support Fund

RECEIPTS & PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

for the year ended 31 December 2024

	2023	RECEIPTS	2024
	72,072	Donations	118,945
	11,539	Gift Aid Receipt	8,187
	297	Interest	745
	83,908		127,877
		PAYMENTS
	95,865	Remittances to Zimbabwe	122,874
	468	Bank Charges	491
	289	Printing Costs	200
	96,622		123,565
-	12,715 -	Surplus/(Deficit) for year	4,312
	53,443	Funds brought forward	40,728
	40,728	Funds carried forward	45,040

The funds carried forward at 31 December 2024 ( and 31st December 2023) are represented by cash at bank

Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:

Chair Date: 24/11/2025

Trustee Date: 24/11/2025

ZIMBABWE VICTIM’S SUPPORT FUND

Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Zimbabwe Victim’s Support Fund

I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] Dec 2024 which are set out on page 1.

Responsibilities and Basis of Report

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the Charity Commission’s Accounting and Reporting Regulations.

I have carried out an independent examination of these accounts in accordance with:

• Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011

• The Charity Commission’s Directions and Guidance for Independent Examiners (CC32)

• Applicable regulations

Basis of independent examiner’s statement

My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner’s statement

In connection with my examination, no matters have come to my attention:

1. Which give me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:

2. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act 2011; and

3. to prepare accounts which accord with those records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act

have not been met; or

1. To which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Name: James M P Broadway

Relevant Professional qualification/professional body: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; ACMA CGMA

Address: 34 Queen Victoria Road, Bristol, BS6 7PE

Date: 22/11/2025