## **Trustees’ Annual Report for Butale Project, for the year ended 30 November 2024**
_Registered charity number: 1145614_
_Charity’s principal address: 14 Back Road, Calne, Wiltshire, SN11 0BA_
_Trustees (all served throughout the year, unless otherwise stated): Miriam Sawyer David Sawyer Louise James Nikki Dargan Julie Pointer Darren O’Connor Lucy Sawyer Shelley Pritchard (Appointed 14th March 2024)_
_Type of governing document: Trust Deed How the charity is constituted: Trust Trustee selection method: Appointed by existing trustees_
## **Summary of the objects of the charity**
The main objects of the charity are to advance education and educational facilities in Butale, Uganda, and also to relieve poverty, sickness, and financial hardship by the provision of funds, goods or services. The charity also seeks to advance the Christian faith in accordance with the statement of beliefs in such ways in Butale, Uganda, as the trustees from time to time may think fit.
## **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these**
## **objects**
Our activities continued focusing on supporting the families of all the children attending the school, as well as the teachers. During the 12 month period, the charity continued to fund the feeding programme at the school. Every child receiving 2 meals a day.
In acting as trustees of Butale Project and planning the activities for the year, we have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit. All children of primary education age in Butale, Uganda, and the surrounding area, are equally entitled to benefit from the work undertaken in Butale School.
## **Team Visit**
We had a team visit in February 2024. There were 6 adults on the team. As usual, we visited the families of sponsored children. In addition we:
- completed a range of practical tasks at the school including setting up the school shop, redeveloping the library and store room, and painting some of the school buildings.
- took all the children on school trips - the older children to Kampala zoo, and the younger children on a ferry trip to an island.
- had a special community day for the men of the villages.
- took the teachers for an evening out.
- established a connection with the Wellspring medical centre to enable our pupils to get better medical support.
## **Sponsorship Scheme**
All sponsored children were given a home or school visit and given a gift from their sponsor/charity. We met other children/families that were requesting sponsorship. A small number of children were taken on to the sponsorship scheme during the trip or shortly after returning.
## **General**
In addition to the tasks undertaken on the team visit, general maintenance was carried out on the school site throughout the year.
We continue to grow maize and beans to provide food for the school at the lwanda site. The Eucalyptus project at Lwanda is doing well and continues to produce 3 harvests a year. This provides the school with an additional income.
## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
- We funded the school feeding programme.
- We sponsored approx. 95 students in primary, secondary and vocational studies.
- We support teachers/staff in further studies.
- We continued to distributed clothing and materials from the container that arrived Dec 2022.
- We sent a team of 6 adults for 2 weeks in Feb 2024.
## **Trustee changes**
Shelley Pritchard was voted on to the board of Trustees with specific responsibility for primary school sponsorship programme.
## **Financial Review**
The charity does not have a formal policy on reserves. The charity held reserves of £14,824 as at the year end (2023: £20,063).
## **Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
_Signature_
## _Full name Miriam Sawyer_
_Position Chairperson_
_Date 28/08/25_
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Butale Project
Butale Accounts for year ending 30th November 2024
Income and expenditure account for year ending 30th November 2024
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2024 2023
£ £
INCOME
Sponsors 24,360.00 21,439.00
Donations and fundraising 2,741.63 13,490.63
Uganda trip donations 5,400.00 10,600.00
Gift Aid 9,149.72 9,639.22
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TOTAL INCOME 41,651.35 55,168.85
EXPENDITURE
Uganda expenses 45,220.00 39,500.00
Accounts examination 85 85
Miscellaneous expenses 1333.73 3,980.47
Bank charges 251.8 285
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TOTAL EXPENDITURE 46,890.53 43,850.47
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(DEFICIT)/SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR -5,239.18 11,318.38
BALANCE SHEET as at 30 November
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2024 2023
£ £ £ £
General Revenue Fund b/f 20,063.31 8,744.93
(Deficit)/Surplus for the year -5,239.18 11,318.38
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General Revenue Fund at the end of the year 14,824.13 20,063.31
Miscellaneous creditors 0 0
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TOTAL LIABILITIES 14,824.13 20,063.31
REPRESENTED BY
Cash in bank held at -
HSBC bank a/c 14,824.13 20,063.31
Cash in hand, to pay in 0 0
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TOTAL ASSETS 14,824.13 20,063.31
check 0 0
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Independenl eximlntr's report to the ¢ru8ttti of But*le ProJe¢t
I report on the accounts of Butale Proje¢t ('the ¢harity') fw the year ended 30 Novemb¢r 21f24, which
are sd out on pag¢ l.
Re*pe¢¢lve Mponslbllldu of truiteu Ind ¢x4th¢r
The charity's trustees are r¢skYfyn5ible for the prqyargtion of the ac¢omts. The Charity's trustK8
nsider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 ('the
Act.) and that an llldet eXaMin10n is ne¢d¢d.
It is my reswisibility to:
examine th¢ accounts under section 145 of the Act.
• to follow the proceduTes laid down in the general Directions 8ivrn by the
Commission (under tiOn 145(5Xb) of the Act}. and
• to state wheth¢r particiilar matters have come to my gtteDtion.
of Independent ex•mlner's reixbrt
My examination was carried out in accordance the general Direthi0Tr8 given by the
Charity Commi&8ion. An examination includes a wiew of the a¢¢ounting records kept by the ¢baTity
and a comparison of the a¢Unts presented with those records. li also irKIth consideratirn of ony
UDual items or disclosures in the accounts. atMI seeking explat)ations frotn you as tntee5
concerning any swh matters. The procedur¢s undertak¢n do noi pmvide all the evidence that would
be required in an audit and CODsequently no opinion is given as to wlther the w)unts eSent a'tru¢
JDd fair, vi¢w and th¢ repLYt is limited to thox m8tiers set in the statement ixlow.
IAdep¢ndent examiDer'8 statement
In c(KTrDecti(m with my Cxamsnation, no motter has to my attenti(fti:
(l) which give5 me reasonabl¢ cause to believe thaL in 8Dy material resF*cL the re4wiments:
to keep accounting records in &crdanCe with section 130 of the A¢G'
to prepue accounts which accord with the acco1}Dg rec4)rds and c4)mpty with the
accOting requirements of the Act
h8ve not been met. or
(2) to which. in my opinion, attenti sbouid k drawn iti order to enable a w)FtrmyJer*thg of
the accounts to be reached.
Charlotte Campixll ACA
27th September 2025
Strom4 DunDet
Thurso
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