## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] January 2021 To 31[st] December 2021** ## **Charity name: LIFT UK** ## **Charity registration number: 1147360** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objectives of LIFT are as follows:
1. To advance the education and training
of vulnerable children, young people and
adults living in urban settlements or rural
poverty, by such means which the
Trustees may from time to time determine.
2. To relieve poverty, sickness and preserve
and protect the good health of vulnerable
children, young people and adults living in
urban settlements or rural poverty by the
provision of health care and nutrition.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|LIFT UK fundraises and accepts donations
in order to provide monies via a grant
application to selected overseas projects.
The overseas projects report regularly to
LIFT in order to ensure correct usage of
funds.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
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
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|Steady fundraising has allowed us to provide
funds for expansion of a school for the
project that we support in Uganda and allow
them to expand their program for intake of
new students.
As part of the grants we have provided, the
money has been used to help relieve poverty in
the Namawongu area of Kampala, Uganda by
providing child and adult education and
resources necessary to feed and clothe people.
**During the pandemic, Uganda kept**
**schools closed for an extended period.**
**The trustees authorised grants to provide**
**food and medical support to the families**
**of children enrolled in the school, the**
**staff and their families and local support**
**in the Namawongu area.**| **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
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Sufficient funds are to be held on account in
order to service an ongoing grant system to
provide education and nursery places to
children in Uganda under the Hands for
Hope, Uganda project and the Ray of Hope
project. By the end of the financial period we
have maintained the reserve funds as above
and diverted school fees to assist with the
local effects of the Coronavirus pandemic.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The principal sources of funding are from
monthly donations with larger sums coming
from fund raising for specific projects.
In this financial year, funds have been provided
to service the ongoing grant system with Hands
for Hope and Ray of Hope. Both projects are in
line with the Trust objectives.
**Funds were also re-allocated this year as**
**stated above.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||We employ several overseas administrators
and managers to ensure the Trusts money is
being allocated properly. As part of our
Trustees meetings a representative of the
projects we are supporting joins us via video
call so that we can receive up to date
reporting on how the grants are being used
to make sure they are being used as
intended.| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Declaration of Trust**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trustee Constitution**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and Para 1.51
training of trustees
The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider Para 1.51
network with which the
charity works
Relationship with any related Para 1.51
parties
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mr Robert Carter|Chair/ A&B
Diocese/
schools liaison||| ||Mr Richard
Woolley|UK Finance &
Legal & donor
liaison||| ||Mr Joseph
Cummiskey|Overseas
Liaison/ finance||| ||Mr Stephen
Cummiskey|Marketing/
publicity:||| ||Miss Tamryn
Alexandra
Stowell|||| ||Mr Peter
Woodman|||| ||Ms Susan Barty|||| ||Yik Tuan Lee|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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** **The 2021 financial year has presented many challenges as a result of the global Coronavirus pandemic. Local and country wide restrictions, rapidly increasing food and supply costs and large levels of uncertainty have been managed to achieve the Charities goals. Specific help was given to the grant charities to provide in country support. No structural changes were required to achieve our aim.** ## **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 Dec 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-Jan-21 31-Dec-21 |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**93,796**
**68,147**
**6**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,949**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,949**
**111,156**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**93,796**
**68,147**
**6**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,949**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**161,949**
**111,156**
**-**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Allocated Funds - Regular Donations|**93,796**||||**61,248**| |Allocated Funds - Single Donations|**68,147**||||**39,023**| |Interest|**6**||||**70**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**161,949**||||**100,341**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||||**100,341**| ||||||| |Hands for Hope - School fees|**111,156**||**-**|**111,156**|**- 72,118**| |Hands for Hope - Building Grant|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Hands for Hope - Purchases|**528**||**-**||**-**||**528**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Refunds|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Consultancy Fees|**13,700**||**-**||**-**||**13,700**||**- 14,693**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**125,384**||**-**||**-**||**125,384**||**- 86,812**| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Total payments_**|**125,384**||**-**|||**-**||**125,384**||**- 86,812**|| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**36,565**||**-**|||**-**||**36,565**||**13,529**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**162,734**||**-**||**-**|||**162,734**||**149,205**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**199,299**||**-**|||**-**||**199,299**||**162,734**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories** **B1 Cash funds** |**Details**
LIFT Account
Building Fund
LIFT 100 Club|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**179,341**
**1,269**
**18,688**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| |LIFT Account|**179,341**||**-**| |Building Fund|**1,269**|**-**|**-**| |LIFT 100 Club|**18,688**|**-**|**-**| ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**_Total cash funds_**||**199,299**||||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |(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**
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
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**(optional)**| |---|---|---| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ## **Details** |**-**||**-**| |---|---|---| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| ## **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 21 March 2023 Independent examiner's report on the accounts CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of LIFT UK On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 Charity no lif any) 1147360 Set out on pages Respectlve responsibilities of trustee5 and examiner The charity's Irustees are responsible for the preparalion of the accounts. The charity's truslees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 {"Ihe Charities Act'l and that an independént examination is needed. IThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to undertake the examination by being qualified member of Inamed bodyll. Delete I l if not 8pplicabl8. 11 is my responsibility to.. examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, lo follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission {under section 145151{bl of the Charities Act, and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention Basis of independent My examinalion was carried out in accordance with general Directions given examlner's statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the a¢¢ounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. 11 also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'lrue and fair, view and the report is limited lo those matters sel out in the statement below. IER December 2017 Independent In connectlon wlth my examlnation, no matsrial rnatter5 have come to my examinerfs ststement attention (other than that disclosed below ) whith gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect". the accounting records were not kept In accordance with secilon 130 of the Charities Act,. or the accounts dld not accord with the a¢¢ounting records,. or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conc8ming th8 forn and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'tnte and fairf view which ts not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have come across no other matters In connectlon wlth the examinatlon to whlch attentlon should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding ofthe accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgned: Date: Name". /*7 Relevant profeulonal quallflcatlon(s) or body (If any): Address: kpMFok£l ASEE L4 If F Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directlons and guidance for examiners}. IER December 2017 GIV8 here brlef dotalls of any items that the examlnèr wlshes to disclose. IER December 2017