Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 09 2020 31 08 2021
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Nakuru Children’s Project
Other names charity is known by N/A Registered charity number (if any) 1145739
Charity's principal address 36 Wellington Walk Henleaze Bristol Postcode BS10 5ET
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Dates acted if not Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) for whole year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Rebecca Siddall 2 Zoe Kelland 3 Annemarieke Blankestein 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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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| Financial | Percy Kelland | 36 Wellington Walk, Henleaze, Bristol BS10 5ET |
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
Trust deed.
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Trust.
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by existing trustees. Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
To prevent and relieve poverty and destitution for children and young adults and their families in Kenya as the trustees shall determine.
Summary of the objects of the To advance, promote and assist in the provision of education of people charity set out in its under the age of 25 years in Kenya. governing document
The protection and promotion of good health of children and young people under the age of 25 in Kenya by the particular but not exclusively by the provision of medical services.
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We continued to support 368 families through the coronavirus pandemic through provision of emergency food and hygiene supplies — working in partnership with local authorities in Nakuru, and community organisation Matonyok Integrated Programme. When schools re-opened in January 2021, we re-launched our free school meals programme at Nyathuna Primary School, equipping our cooks with specialist clothing and temperature guns, and installing a hand-washing station for pupils, to meet local regulations to protect against coronavirus. This programme provided approximately 17,850 hot lunches to 170 vulnerable children between 1 January - 31 August 2021. Summary of the main In addition, we launched a new programme to provide nutritional daily activities undertaken for the porridge to 56 children at Muriundu Nursery School and Special Needs public benefit in relation to Unit, improving wellbeing, attendance and motivation. these objects (include within this section the statutory Meanwhile, we were incredibly proud to see all of our sponsored students declaration that trustees have return to secondary school in this period — an achievement that was not had regard to the guidance guaranteed given the high drop-out rates caused by the long school issued by the Charity closures during the pandemic. During this period, 12 students completed Commission on public their KCSE exams and graduated, and we supported 20 new students to benefit) join secondary education. Finally, we continued the process to develop our plot of land in Bahati, Nakuru County, working through the necessary stages of official paperwork when the local land offices re-opened to secure our title deed and officially register our plans to develop the land into a community hub, providing free school meals and other support to children in the surrounding area. By 2025, we hope to be providing 3,000 free school meals a week from our community kitchen, growing our own produce to sustain it. Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
This year was defined by our response to and recovery from the Summary of the main coronavirus pandemic — with our team continuing to step up and provide achievements of the charity life-changing support for families so severely impacted by the lockdowns during the year and school closures necessarily imposed across Kenya throughout 202021. We are incredibly proud to have supported children and young people through this unprecedented, tough time. Whilst schools remained closed, we continued to distribute emergency food and hygiene supplies to 368 families. In total, by the end of 2020 we had provided the equivalent of 112,601 meals, 2,108 bars of soap, 1,740 sanitary pads and 634 masks. This included providing a special package just before Christmas, with ingredients allowing families to celebrate the festive season by cooking traditional foods like chapati. We also continued to pay the wages of our three cooks to ensure the school closures did not impact their ability to support their families. Schools reopened for all students in Kenya in January 2021, and we found a significant increase in children in financial difficulties — struggling even to get one nutritious meal each day — due to the pandemic. In this context, we were relieved to be able to restart our free school meals programme, and launch our porridge programme, providing a total of 226 children with 17,850 meals and 5,880 cups of porridge. These children are all from very vulnerable, low-income families, including children with special needs at Muriundu Primary School. This food boosts their health, school attendance, and academic performance, motivating them to continue building towards their dreams. “Attendance has improved since the kids are sure of getting porridge. They love to learn how to cook and serve others” — Florence Karani, teacher at Muriundu Primary School. Meanwhile, we were incredibly proud to see all of our sponsored students return to secondary school in this period — an achievement that was not guaranteed given the high drop-out rates caused by the long school closures during the pandemic. During this period, our Class of 2020 finally completed their KCSE exams and graduated, and we supported 20 new students to join secondary education. This brings the total number of students we’ve supported up to 164. We were also delighted to hear news from one of our graduates — Mawut — who finished secondary school with us in 2016. As a refugee from South Sudan, it had been incredibly difficult for Mawut to progress to university, despite graduating in the top 3% of all students in Kenya, but in December 2020 he was offered a scholarship to the University of Saskatchewan in Canada! We are so incredibly proud and grateful to his sponsors, without whom he could not have accessed this opportunity. Finally, we continued the process to develop our plot of land in Bahati, Nakuru County, working through the necessary stages of official paperwork when the local land offices re-opened to secure our title deed and officially register our plans to develop the land into a community hub, providing free school meals and other support to children in the surrounding area. By 2025, we hope to be providing 3,000 free school meals a week from our community kitchen, growing our own produce to sustain it.
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Section E Financial review
We reviewed our financial reserves policy in September 2020 and Brief statement of the increased our reserves slightly to £32,000 in line with increased costs charity’s policy on reserves across our programmes. This is designed to cover nine months’ of our free school meals programme at our partner schools, the wages of our social worker for four months, and the immediate cash flow needs of our sponsorship programme. Our reserves policy aims to safeguard the interests of our beneficiaries by minimising the risks associated with any unplanned reduction in income, or closure. This policy will be reviewed on an annual basis in line with our financial year.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
N/A.
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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) Full name(s) Zoe Kelland
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Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc) Date 25 June 2022
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