## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] January 2022 To 31[st] December 2022** ## **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.
**This year we have provided support for**
**one of our supported charities to form**
**it’s own board. As well as financial aid,**
**we have provided administrative**
**support.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |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 cost of living
rises.| |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|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit
Para 1.24
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern
Para 1.23|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.
**Further specific fundraising and**
**donations have been raised to support**
**extra building and expansion projects.**| |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. This year we have been involved with supporting the formation of a charity board in Uganda. Video conferencing has been used to share information and ideas. ## **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: |||| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **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
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**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||| ||Ms Susan
Barty|||| ||Miss Tamryn
Alexandra
Stowell|||| ||Mr Peter Woodman|||| ||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)** |**Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Additional information (optional)**
**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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 2022 financial year has provided challenges related to recovery from the pandemic. Along with interesting fluctuations in currency exchanges, we have realised a rise in costs for the charity that we support in Uganda. The cost of living issues in the UK are mirrored in Uganda where our main charity is based. We have been able to manage the rising costs and maintain our required support level.** ## **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** 08 March 2023 **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-22 31-Dec-22 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**92,648**
**72,594**
**26**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**92,648**
**72,594**
**26**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**92,648**
**72,594**
**26**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**92,648**
**72,594**
**26**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**165,268**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Allocated Funds - Regular Donations|**92,648**||||||||**93,796**| |Allocated Funds - Single Donations|**72,594**||||||||**68,147**| |Interest|**26**||||||||**6**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |~~_AR)_~~|**165,268**||||||||**161,949**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**
||||||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**161,949**| ||||||||||| |Hands for Hope - School fees|**- 180,208**||||**-**||**- 180,208**||**111,156**| |Hands for Hope - Building Grant|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Hands for Hope - Purchases|**- 540**||**-**||**-**||**- 540**||**528**| |Hands for Hope - School fees|**- 180,208**||||**-**||**- 180,208**||**111,156**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Hands for Hope - Building Grant|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Hands for Hope - Purchases|**- 540**||**-**||**-**||**- 540**||**528**| |Refunds|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Consultancy Fees|**- 13,200**||**-**||**-**||**- 13,200**||**13,700**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**- 193,948**||**-**||**-**||**- 193,948**||**- 125,384**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**- 125,384**| ||||||||||| ||**- 28,680**||||||||**36,565**| ||||||||||**-**| ||~~**199,299**~~||||||||~~**149,205**~~| ||**170,619**||||||||**185,770**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Categories** **B1 Cash funds** |LIFT Account
Building Fund
LIFT 100 Club
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**150,635**
**1,271**
**18,713**
**170,619**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||**150,635**||**-**| ||**1,271**|**-**|**-**| ||**18,713**|**-**|**-**| ||**170,619**|**-**|**-**| ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|OK| |---|---|---|---| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**-**||**-**| |---|---|---| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature
**Details**|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Richard Woolley|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||Date of
approval| ||Richard Woolley|05/02/2022| |||| 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 De￿rnber 2021 Charity no {if any) 1147360 Set out on pages Respective responsibilities of trustees and examlner The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 20111'the Charities Act"} and that an independent examination is needed. tThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of Inamed bodyll Delete I l if not applicable. It is my responsibility to.. @xamine 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{b} of the Charities Act, and lo state whether particular matters have come to my attention Bagls of Independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given examlner's statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting 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 Iruslees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the èvidence that would be required in an audit. and consequently no opinion is given as lo whether the accounts present a 'true and fair, view and the report is limited to those matters sel out in the statement below. IER December 2017 Independent In conne(#ion with my exaninatlon, no material matters have come to my examlnef8 statement attenlion (other than that disclosed below J whlch gives me Cause to believe that in, any material respect the accounting records not kept in accordance with sec*ion 130 of the Charities Act,. or the a￿)Unts did not accord wtth the a￿￿untIng records,. or the ac￿Unts did not compty wTrth the applicable requirements conceming the fom and content of a¢counts set out In the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requlrement that the accounts give a 'true and fairf View whlch is not a matter cons[der￿A as part of an independent examination. I have come across no other matters in cOnr￿li0n wrth thè examinalon to which attention should be dra¥w in this report In order to enable a proper understandlng of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete Ihe In the brackets rfthoy ￿ not apply. 819n￿". 2è2* Nam•: R•l•v•nt prof••sl¢)nal qualm¢•￿0n(l> or body (If any): Addro8•: 11 SÈction B Disclosure on￿ complete If the examlner needs to highlight materlal matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examinatlon of charity accounts.. dlrectlons and 8uldance for examiners). IER December 2017