## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] January 2024 To 31[st] December 2024** ## **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.
**Continued support for one of our**
**supported charities as they work**
**through their first year of having their**
**own board. As well as financial aid, we**
**have again 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|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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
Trust’s 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 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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**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 2024 financial year has provided similar challenges to last year and we continue to focus on providing full support for our supported charities. We have however benefitted from slightly higher interest rates this year which has increased our reserve fund slightly. We have assessed our reserves and deem them to be sufficient despite the rising cost of living in Uganda. Looking ahead to 2025, we are planning on using a consultant in the UK who has first hand experience of the supported charities in Uganda, to raise awareness and carry out specific fund raising.** ## **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** 12/12/2025 **Charity Name No (if any) LIFTUK 1147360 Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Jan-24 31-Dec-24 **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**84,591**
**96,219**
**330**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**181,140**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**181,140**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**84,591**
**96,219**
**330**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**181,140**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**181,140**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Allocated Funds - Regular Donations|**84,591**||||**97,303**| |Allocated Funds - Single Donations|**96,219**||||**104,289**| |Interest|**330**||||**233**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |~~_AR)_~~|**181,140**||||**201,825**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**
||||**-**| |~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**|||||| ||**181,140**|**-**|**-**|**181,140**|**201,825**| **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** ~~_**Sub total**_~~ _**Total receipts**_ **A3 Payments** |Hands for Hope - School fees|**181,156**||||**-**||**181,156**||**213,156**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Hands for Hope - Building Grant|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Hands for Hope - Purchases|**1,377**||**-**||**-**||**1,377**||**564**| |Refunds|**331**||**-**||**-**||**331**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Consultancy Fees|**6,500**||**-**||**-**||**6,500**||**13,000**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**189,364**||**-**||**-**||**189,364**||**- 226,720**| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**189,364**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|



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**-**
**-**
**-**
**189,364**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 226,720**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Total payments_**|**189,364**||**-**|||**-**||**189,364**||**- 226,720**|| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 8,225**||**-**|||**-**||**- 8,225**||**- 24,895**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|~~**145,724**~~||~~**-**~~||~~**-**~~|||~~**145,724**~~||~~**170,619**~~|| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**137,499**||**-**|||**-**||**137,499**||**145,724**|| ## **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
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**116,953**
**1,306**
**19,240**
**137,499**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||**116,953**||**-**| ||**1,306**|**-**|**-**| ||**19,240**|**-**|**-**| ||**137,499**|**-**|**-**| ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|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 |**Details**
Signature|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Richard Woolley|**When due**
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approval| ||Richard Woolley|12/12/2025| |||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Iiidepeiident Examiner'5 Report Report to the tru5te88 LI￿ UK On arxounts for the year anded 31 Oecember 2024 Charity no (If any 1147360 Sot out on pag IrcmLiinb¢l 10 InnJu(lfr Ihe page numMr$ ol addiiion815heelsl I report to the trustees on my examlnatlon of the accounts of the above charity (Yhe Trusfl for the year ended 3111212024. Re8pon8lbllltles and ba818 of rnport As the charrty's tru$te8s, you are responslble for th8 preparatlon of the accounts in accordance wlth the requirements of the Charfties Act 2011 he Act.). I report In respect of my examlnation of the TrusV8 accounts carried out under sedon 145 of the 2011 Act and In carrying out my axamlnatlon, I have followed all the applicable Dlrection8 glven by the Charfty Commi88ion under sectlon 145(5)(b) of the ACL Indopendent I have completed my 8xamination. I confirm that no materlal matters hava •xamlnor'8 8tstoment come to my att8ntlon in connection wlth the examination whlch giv88 me cause to believe that in, any materfal respect: the accounting records V￿re not kept in accordance wY(h sectlon 130 ofthe Charitles Act. or the accounts did not a¢¢ord wlth the aCC￿ntIng rncords. or the accounts dld not comply with the appltcable requlrements concerning the fomi and content of accounts set out In the Ch8rltle8 (Accounts and Reports) Regulatlons 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts gfve a 'true and falf vlew which Is not a matter considered as part of an independent examlnatlon. I have no concems and have come across no other matter8 In connectlon wlth the examination to which attention should be drawn In thls report in order to enable a proper underslandlng ofthe accounts to be reached. Slgnod: N•m•: &UJ+fO [0 ' Relevant professlonal quallficatlon(8) or body (If any): Addrem: IER 0rt2018 Section B Disclosure Onty complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32. Independent examination of tharty accowjts: directions and guidan* for examiners). Glve here brfef detslls of any Items that the examinerwlshes to dl8close. IER Oct 2018 Signed By ## Richard Michael Andrew Woolley Date Signed 2026-02-03 14:04:57 Email richardwoolley@liftuk.org Printed Name Richard Michael Andrew Woolley IP Address 93.114.62.12 Browser User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/144.0.0.0 Name of signatory Richard Woolley