**From** **To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 09 2024 31 08 2025 ## 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**
**adviser**
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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. ||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.| |---|---| |**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects**|Our main activities taken in 2024-2025 were as follows:
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**Free school meals**: we provided 210 children with hot lunches at
Nyathuna Primary School and 60 children with nutritious porridge
at Muriundu Primary School on a daily basis — supporting health,
attendance, social wellbeing and academic results.
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**Secondary sponsorship**: we supported 62 students in
secondary education, paying school fees, buying uniforms, books,
boarding items and school meals, and providing psychological
support through our social worker.
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**Future scale:**we continued to plan for the launch of a community
kitchen to expand free school meals provision to a greater
number of children.
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 We are proud to have continued our free school meals programme at **Summary of the main** Nyathuna Comprehensive School — providing a hot lunch to 210 children **achievements of the charity** every school day. **during the year** As of August 2025, we have provided an estimated 500,000+ free school meals to children in need. Meals are based on a traditional Kenyan diet, and include beans, lentils, rice, vegetables, meat stew, ugali, chapati and fruit, many of these being items that children would otherwise eat only on special occasions. The free school meals support nutrition and good health, academic attendance and performance, and overall social wellbeing. _“The feeding programme has received scared children, abused children, abandoned/neglected kids, orphans as well as child labourers. All these have been absorbed into the feeding programme feeling lost, rejected and disadvantaged. After a while, the children have improved immensely especially in terms of social interaction and emotional wellbeing.” – Ruth Wairimu, Free School Meals Project Manager, Nakuru Children’s Project._ Children are identified by teachers and the local community as those from vulnerable backgrounds who would otherwise go without food. _“The feeding programme has provided a home away from home for very many children.”_ In addition, we have continued to provide daily porridge to 60 pupils at Muriundu Primary School, with this provision focused on children with special educational needs, and children from vulnerable homes. Our sponsorship programme supported 62 students through secondary education, covering the costs of school fees, books, transport, uniform, hygiene items, and other essentials — in addition to emotional support from our social worker, and partipation to our life skills programmes. In December 2024, 21 students graduated from secondary education with their Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education following four years’ of support from Nakuru Children’s Project. Since our sponsorship programme began in 2011, we have helped 152 young people to achieve this qualification or a vocational equivalent. Our top performing student, Agnes, was offered a place at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) to study Finance and Banking. Our social worker helped Agnes secure a student loan to cover the majority of the fees, and Nakuru Children’s Project covered the remaining balance, plus accommodation costs. Agnes reported for her first day at university on 1 September 2025! _“I am forever grateful for your kind and willing heart. Through you, I’ve learnt that one can spare a portion of what one has and help someone out there. Forever this will be my motto.” — Agnes, KCSE Graduate 2024._ We continued to plan for the launch of a community kitchen from our own plot of land, including: • Fitting shelving units in the kitchen and office; • Hiring a caretaker to live on-site and oversee ground maintenance and security; March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance - Undertaking visits to seven primary schools in the local area, meeting with school leadership to identify levels of need amongst the school population, and assess potential partnership on free school meal provision. In addition, we have continued to farm 1.5 acres of land, growing 3,241kg of maize since 2020 — supplying our free school meals programme at Nyathuna Primary School, and saving funds that would previously have been spent on purchasing maize. ## **Section E Financial review** We reviewed our financial reserves policy in September 2024 and **Brief statement of the** maintained our reserve levels at £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** N/A. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** N/A. You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - 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** 16 June 2026 March **2012** **TAR** 6 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a 5tsrtda Tts 24 31.Auy. 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