**From** **To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 09 2022 31 08 2023 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Nakuru Children’s Project |**Other names charity is known by**
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**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rebecca Siddall|||| ||Zoe Kelland|||| ||Annemarieke Blankestein|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
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**Address**||| |**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) Trustee selection methods Appointed by existing trustees. - (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 objects of the charity set out in its governing document** To prevent and relieve poverty and destitution for children and young adults and their families in Kenya as the trustees shall determine. To advance, promote and assist in the provision of education of people under the age of 25 years in Kenya. March **2012** **TAR** 2 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. In the context of a rising cost-of-living crisis, we were proud to continue and expand our programmes — our main activities being as such: - **Free school meals** : every school day, we provided a hot lunch to 200 pupils at Nyathuna Primary School, and a nutritious cup of porridge to 58 pupils at Muriundu Primary School. These programmes support children from low-income, special needs, and other vulnerable backgrounds, increasing school attendance, improve health and driving improved academic performance. - **Secondary student sponsorship** : we helped 62 students to - **Summary of the main** attend and excel in secondary education, by paying school fees, **activities undertaken for the** purchasing uniform, books, and other essentials, and providing **public benefit in relation to** guidance and emotional support through our social worker and **these objects** holiday programme. As of August 2023, we had supported a total of 194 students to attend secondary education. - **Future scale** : we continued to invest time and funding into our plans for a community kitchen, with the goal of providing 3,000 meals every week by 2025. This includes working with local and national authorities to secure the right permissions to proceed with our plans, and laying groundwork for construction to begin in August 2023. - Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** N/A. 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 March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance This year, our free school meals programme at Nyathuna Primary School **Summary of the main** grew to provide hot lunch to 200 pupils every school day: a rise in **achievements of the charity** demand driven by high inflation on food prices across the country. **during the year** _“Before they started having meals at school, a good number of these pupils used to miss school frequently as a result of hunger and poverty in their homes. This can be attested by the way their condition looks when resuming school after long vacations…most of them suffer a lot during such time and their health looks deteriorated by the time they come back.” — Mr Maina, teacher at Nyathuna Primary School._ We are proud to have expanded the programme in the light of an increasingly difficult context for Kenyan families: by November 2022, food inflation stood at 15% _—_ a huge uptick in the cost of living that placed unimaginable pressure on parents who were already struggling in the aftermath of the pandemic. _“Many kids are solely dependent on the feeding programme providing a meal that is heavy enough to last to the next day, since some miss out totally or get very little at home in the evening.” — Ruth Wairimu, teacher and programme manager._ This year also marked an important milestone: the pupils who were first supported by free school meals at Nyathuna — being in Class 1 when the programme launched in 2015 — reached their final year of primary education and were set to complete their KCPE exams at the end of 2023. For many pupils in this cohort, this means they have never known a school day hungry: their attendance, health, and academic results boosted by a nutritious hot lunch waiting for them at our kitchen. _“On academic matters, pupils who are beneficiaries of the programme have been improving. It is very encouraging to see a big number of our pupils working hard and achieving above average scores.” — Mr Maina, teacher at Nyathuna Primary School._ In addition, the dining hall constructed at the school continues to deliver benefits: enabling our 200 pupils to eat lunch without risk of rain, dust or other poor weather, and allowing the school to facilitate large meetings with teachers and parents without displacing pupils from classrooms, disrupting learning. Overall, Nyathuna Primary School achieved an average score of 261/500 in KCPE 2022, an increase from 256 in 2021 and supported by Nakuru Children’s Project programmes. In addition, we also provided a cup of nutritious porridge to 58 pupils at Muriundu Primary School every day. Supporting nursery and special needs children, this food helps motivate the children to attend school, gives them the energy for work and play, and supports their healthy development. 2022 marked the final year of the condensed academic calendars, introduced to enable students to catch-up on the curriculum following the COVID-19 pandemic. We supported 9 students to complete their Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), with their final exams in late 2022. Our top performer was Joseph with an A-, scoring an offer to study a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Egerton University! During this financial year we helped a total of 62 young people to attend and excel through secondary education, paying school fees, buying equipment and other essentials, and providing guidance and emotional March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance support through our social worker and holiday programme. Since 2011, Nakuru Children’s Project has now supported 120 students to complete their KCSE. Finally, we have continued groundwork to construct a community kitchen on our own plot of land, and to grow our own crops to supply free school meals for local schools. In February 2023 we secured approval from the relevant local and national authorities to go ahead with our plans, and in August 2023 the first stones arrived on the project site to begin construction! In addition, we planted a new crop of maize in early 2023, to be harvested later in the year. ## **Section E Financial review** We reviewed our financial reserves policy in September 2022 and **Brief statement of the** adjusted our reserve levels to £31,000. This is designed to cover nine **charity’s policy on reserves** 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)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: N/A. - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** N/A March **2012** **TAR** 5 **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 **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 13 May 2023 March **2012** **TAR** 6 Receipts and payments accounts C¢16a T• tsl-w Section A Receipts and payments hjnds T¢tsl fu￿15 y• Al R4rq*ts untary dOn4t*yIS Grf( aid re￿81￿ R) IIJ)ZT Food rarnffl chi￿ Sp)nWF*iP- secondwv edycabtsn 27JSt costs LaDd deve *741 Other charli￿￿ costs lees k¥ebsrte costs wchws. tabl&l 16.612 49 49.690 5T.33t 41.710 Section B Statement ol assets and liabilities at the end ot the period Unfe5tTicted e5mctod o¥m 85 LhiblMII 06 Independent examlnerfs rewtto the trust￿ rf N4kury Thlklren5 PrnJert r￿rt on thèaccounts ofthe for the year erthd 31 AwJSt 2Q23. arE 54*oiit akne. aL*lit ts nrt rtouired lorthis VEar 5e(tilln 144[2) r*the tharth5 *A2011 2011 thatan my WEs￿￿1￿V to.. examine the at(Durts undersethon 145 of the 1011 Aa its Idlow the the general the￿It¥ utthrsettion L45(5)tbl ofthe 2011 kt tts stste whether ￿rticu￿r matrer5 have c(Kne ro rn¥ attenb Ba•1• of Independent éxamin*s report exatninaiion Include5 a rev*w dthe acc0th7￿￿ Tecotts kert rry thetharty ofthe xc¢wJnts rrfe5enrert wlth th(Lse retyts. 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