
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 1[st] April 2020   To 31[st] December 2020** 

## **Charity name: LIFT UK** 

## **Charity registration number: 1147360** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|The objectives of LIFT are as follows:<br>1. To advance the education and training<br>of vulnerable children, young people and<br>adults living in urban settlements or rural<br>poverty, by such means which the<br>Trustees may from time to time determine.<br>2. To relieve poverty, sickness and preserve<br>and protect the good health of vulnerable<br>children, young people and adults living in<br>urban settlements or rural poverty by the<br>provision of health care and nutrition.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|LIFT UK fundraises and accepts donations<br>in order to provide monies via a grant<br>application to selected overseas projects.<br>The overseas projects report regularly to<br>LIFT in order to ensure correct usage of<br>funds.|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18||



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment 



Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 

## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|Steady fundraising has allowed us to provide<br>funds for expansion of a school for the<br>project that we support in Uganda and allow<br>them to expand their program for intake of<br>new students.<br>As part of the grants we have provided, the<br>money has been used to help relieve poverty in<br>the Namawongu area of Kampala, Uganda by<br>providing child and adult education and<br>resources necessary to feed and clothe people.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|Achievements against|Para 1.41|
|---|---|
|objectives set||
|Performance of fundraising||
|activities against objectives|Para 1.41|
|set||
|Investment performance|Para 1.41|
|against objectives||
|Other||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|Sufficient funds are to be held on account in<br>order to service an ongoing grant system to<br>provide education and nursery places to<br>children in Uganda under the Hands for<br>Hope, Uganda project and the Ray of Hope<br>project.|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22||
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23||



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The principal sources of funding are from<br>monthly donations with larger sums coming<br>from fund raising for specific projects.<br>In this financial year, funds have been provided<br>to service the ongoing grant system with Hands<br>for Hope and Ray of Hope. Both projects are in<br>line with the Trust objectives.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other||We employ several overseas administrators<br>and managers to ensure the Trusts money is<br>being allocated properly. As part of our<br>Trustees meetings a representative of the<br>projects we are supporting joins us via<br>Skype so that we can receive up to date<br>reporting on how the grants are being used<br>to make sure they are being used as<br>intended.|





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Declaration of Trust**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trustee Constitution**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25||



**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 


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Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction and  Para 1.51<br>training of trustees<br>The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider  Para 1.51<br>network with which the<br>charity works<br>Relationship with any related  Para 1.51<br>parties<br>Other<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


## **Reference and Administrative details** 

Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address 



## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Mr Robert Carter|Chair/ A&B<br>Diocese/<br>schools liaison|||
||Mr Richard<br>Woolley|UK Finance &<br>Legal & donor<br>liaison|||
||Mr Joseph<br>Cummiskey|Overseas<br>Liaison/ finance|||
||Mr Stephen<br>Cummiskey|Marketing/<br>publicity:|||
||Miss Tamryn<br>Alexandra<br>Stowell||||
||Mr Peter<br>Woodman||||
||Ms Susan Barty||||
||Yik Tuan Lee||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

**Director name** 

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** 



## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

Description of the assets held in this capacity 

Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 

Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**Type of Name Address adviser** 

**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Richard Woolley **Position (eg Secretary,** UK Finance **Chair, etc) Date** 31 Oct 2021 




**Charity Name No (if any) LIFTUK 1147360 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Apr-20 31-Dec-20 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**61,248**<br>**39,023**<br>**70**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**61,248**<br>**39,023**<br>**70**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**61,248**<br>**39,023**<br>**70**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**100,341**<br>**-                   72,118**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
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|Allocated Funds - Regular Donations|**61,248**|||||||**87,347**|
|Allocated Funds - Single Donations|**39,023**|||||||**86,691**|
|Interest|**70**|||||||**6**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**100,341**|||||||**174,044**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|||||||||**174,044**|
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|Hands for Hope - School fees|**-                   72,118**||||**-**||**-                   72,118**|**79,302**|





|Hands for Hope - Building Grant|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**118,427**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Hands for Hope - Purchases|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**597**|
|Refunds|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**20**|
|Consultancy Fees|**-                   14,693**||**-**||**-**||**-                   14,693**||**775**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-                   86,812**||**-**||**-**||**-                   86,812**||**199,121**|



|**_Sub total_ **|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-                   86,812**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|<br> <br> <br> <br>||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-                   86,812**||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**199,121**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Total payments_**|**-                86,812**||**-**|||**-**||**-                86,812**||**199,121**||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**13,529**||**-**|||**-**||**13,529**||**-               25,077**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**149,205**||**-**||**-**|||**149,205**||**53,522**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**162,734**||**-**|||**-**||**162,734**||**28,445**||



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**unds**|**Details**<br>LIFT Account<br>Building Fund<br>LIFT 100 Club|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**142,783**<br>**1,269**<br>**18,683**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||LIFT Account|**142,783**||**-**|
||Building Fund|**1,269**|**-**|**-**|
||LIFT 100 Club|**18,683**|**-**|**-**|



**B1 Cash funds** 



## **B2 Other monetary assets** 

## **B3 Investment assets** 

**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 

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|**_Total cash funds_**||**162,734**|||**-**||**-**||
|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||||
|account(s))||OK||OK|||OK||
|||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**|||**Endowment**||
|||**funds**||**funds**|||**funds**||
|**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**|||**-**||**-**||



|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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## **Details** 

|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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## **Details** 



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## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

## **Details** 

**Fund to which Amount due When due liability relates (optional) (optional) - - - - -** Date of Signature Print Name approval Richard Woolley 5 Feb 2022 



CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examlnerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
R8port to the trustsesl
membors of
LIFT UK
On accounts forthe
p¢rlod ended
31 December 2020
Charlty no
(If any)
1147360
Sot out on pages
Iretna41ber io iiidiide Ihepa9e numbers oladdilK)nal sheels}
I report to the trustees on my examinatK)n ofthe ac￿Unts ofthe above
tharity l.the Trusf) for the period ended 31112￿020.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees ofthe Trust you are re8ponsible for the preparatK)n
basis of report of the accounts In accordance with the requirements ot the Charitte8
2011 llhe Acr).
I report in respeci of my examination of Ihe Trusts accounts carded out
under sedion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I
have followed the applirAble DirectTons gwen by the Charlty Commission
under section 145{5)(b) of the kL
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disdosed below") in ¢onnection with
the examination whid) gives me cause to belleve that in, any matsrkgl
respect..
accounting records were not kept In accordanc8 Wtth section 130 of
tho Acl or
the accounts do not wrf(h the accounllng re￿rdS
Independent
examinerfs statement
I have no concerns and have come across no other malter8 in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enab￿ a
proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached.
' Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not 8ppIy.
Signod:
Date:
Lr
2oLI
Namo:
Klm Swain
Relovant professional
qualllkatlon(s) or body
(If any):
FCA
Address:
Radford & Sergeant
Building 3. Watthmoor Park. Camberiey. Surrey. GU15 3YL
IER
Octobèr 2018

Section 8
Disclosure
Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of con￿rn (see CC32.
Independent examination of ¢harlty accounts.. dlreclions and guidan￿ for
examiners).
Give horo brief details of
any Item8 that the
0xamin•r wishes to
di8c108e.
IER
October 2018