||**AMOR**|**AMOR**|**AMOR**|**1149487**|**1149487**|**1149487**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
04/03/2022|**To**||Period end date
03/03/2023|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**13,877**
**8,052**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,929**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,929**
**5,810**
**10,890**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,569**
**21,269**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,269**
**660**
**-**
**18,447**
**19,107**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,935**
**46,890**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,825**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,825**
**25,771**
**13,119**
**-**
**-**
**7,935**
**8,000**
**54,825**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,825**
**-**
**-**
**11,859**
**11,859**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,812**
**54,942**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**76,754**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**76,754**
**31,581**
**24,009**
**-**
**-**
**7,935**
**12,569**
**-**
**76,094**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**76,094**
**660**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations(individual)|**13,877**||||||**-**|
|Donations(foundations)|**8,052**||||||**-**|
|Donations(corporate)|**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**21,929**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**
||||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|Food securityand climate resilience|**5,810**||||||**-**|
|Human Rights|**10,890**||||||**-**|
|Staff remuneration|**-**||||||**-**|
|Education|**-**||||||**-**|
|Child Sponsorship|**-**||||||**-**|
|Health|**4,569**||||||**-**|
|Administration|||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**21,269**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**660**|**-**|**-**||**660**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**18,447**|**11,859**|**-**||**30,306**||**-**|
||**19,107**|**11,859**|**-**||**30,966**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
03/01/2024
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,107**
**11,859**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
M Criado|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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approval|
|||M Criado|23/12/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
03/01/2024
2
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
## **Charity name** AMOR
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1149487
**Charity's principal address** 20 Battlebridge Court
Wharfdale Road London **Postcode** N1 9UA
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
March **2023**
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution adopted 4[th] March 2012
(eg. trust deed, constitution) Association consisting of 10 members How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the AGM held in March Trustee selection methods
(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**
The prevention or relief of extreme poverty in the Mayan communities of Guatemala devastated by genocide, through the provision of education, training, housing, rights and healthcare projects designed to enable individuals, families and communities to be self-sufficient, protect their lands and lives, and contribute their gifts to the world.
**TAR**
March **2023**
2
Support for maternal/child health Empowerment/human rights programmes for women, girls and youth Access to justice activities including campaigns for post-genocide reparation and support for human rights defenders at risk. Protection and promotion of Mayan culture and traditional knowledge. Educational support for Mayan girls Small-scale school and home construction projects Community organising Child sponsorship
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
**TAR**
March **2023**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
This year has been another extremely challenging one for AMOR due to the cost-of-living crisis and its effects. Not only was the fundraising landscape altered dramatically, with funds that support overseas projects diminishing and disappearing, but costs also rose significantly just as the need for our services increased exponentially as Mayan communities were plunged into ever deeper poverty. At the same time, Guatemala’s dramatic democratic backslide is making it a far more complicated and even dangerous place to work.
Your support has helped transform the lives of over 35,000 people. Together with our trust partners, you have helped us raise almost £77,000. This enabled us to commit around that same amount to projects to help provide health, food security, human rights and emergency nutritional support as well as revive traditional knowledge in Mayan communities throughout Guatemala.
Child sponsorship continues to touch the lives of over 200 members of our international family who support almost 270 children, helping them thrive where they might otherwise struggle to eat or attend school. Sponsorship represents around one-third of our funding from private donations. AMOR is committed to accompanying these people in their moment of greatest need, and we are grateful for those who have faithfully given to help alleviate those suffering most in these perpetual crises year after year to make this possible. Despite the immense challenges of the current economic situation, which has led to a sharp drop in individual giving, and the need to adapt and innovate in the face of great uncertainty, AMOR continued to have an impact far above its size and maintain its funding levels thanks to the efforts of the teams of Mayan and international volunteers who work tirelessly to restore lives and hope for Guatemala. The situation for the Mayan people is more difficult than ever: the costof-living emergency has worsened the humanitarian crisis in indigenous communities, resulting in extreme poverty and forced migration, as well as increased land expropriation and threats to human rights defenders, creating a climate of fear. However, in the resilience and unity of the Mayan people there are reasons for hope. Backed by our foundational partners and supporter family, AMOR was able to have a transformational impact on the lives of over 36,000 Mayan children and their families. We continue to experience steady growth in our Health and Food Security projects, as projects have expanded through AMOR’s private and trust donations. Our Human Rights programme, tackling the growing problem of human rights defender attacks and impediments to access to genocide justice, has also developed, particularly through promoting security initiatives. I will leave our Annual Report to tell more about the life-changing difference that you have been a part of, and to say thanks once again for trusting AMOR with your generous donations.
**TAR**
March **2023**
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Health, Food Security and Indigenous Climate Resistance** Our programmes work to ensure that the basic needs of Mayan communities are met with dignity using traditional Mayan health and agricultural knowledge. Having food security and access to adequate health services are fundamental human rights. However, many are deprived of these basic rights. In the past year, almost 10,000 people benefited from AMOR’s work in the area of traditional health. AMOR worked to improve the health of mothers and their children. Indigenous midwives were trained and support to equip pregnant women and mothers of infants with knowledge that helps them enjoy healthier pregnancies and breastfeeding. More than 1,500 women and their families have benefitted in this way. AMOR helped build the capacity of 90 indigenous Community Health Volunteers (ICHVS) in Guatemala to inform, protect and serve their communities, to act as peacemakers, and help build a healthy Guatemala that is prepared and resilient in the face of disaster, disease and food insecurity. Our SANA Guatemala programme helped young Mayan women from communities across Guatemala participate as traditional health builders of their community. Moreover, they held regular clinics in their communities, educating them regarding prevention of common diseases affecting indigenous communities. Finally, they trained others in these same skills, helping restore threatened traditional knowledge and creating a strong base of indigenous women’s health leadership in Guatemala, and impacting 9,200 people. Our Food for Life programme delivered emergency plant-based food parcels to 400 chronically malnourished children and women. HEAL Guatemala helped provide awareness of the benefits of a vegan diet to 45 young people and their communities. Moreover, community gardens created using traditional sustainable methods helped 9,200 people attain improved food security and mitigate the threats of climate change. **Human Rights and Empowerment** AMOR believes that one of the best ways to bring about positive, profound and permanent change in indigenous communities is to support the human rights education of young people and women. Our efforts also focus on supporting Mayan human rights defenders and their vital work, and campaigning for justice alongside those communities that continue to be devastated by the effects of genocide. In the past year, 110 indigenous young people’s knowledge of human rights increased, and their leadership skills improved These young people, in turn, disseminated this knowledge to their communities, impacting 7,050 people. Moreover, 210 indigenous women domestic violence survivors attended workshops that helped strengthen their skills as Community Advocates equipped to work for justice and help end gender-based violence in their communities, with a potential reach of 6,200 people. As part of our justice campaign, awareness of the campaign expanded.
**TAR**
March **2023**
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## Section D Achievements and erformance p
Additionally, 45 indigenous women human rights defenders received vital security training, knowledge that they transmitted to their organisations and communities, impacting 4,200 people.
**TAR**
March **2023**
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## **Section E Financial review**
Our current policy as a small charity is to hold on average five months’ **Brief statement of the** operating costs or one-fifth of our annual income in reserve. We predict **charity’s policy on reserves** that this will change as we continue to grow.
**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
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**
## **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)** Mrs. Micaela Criado
**TAR**
March **2023**
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**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 20th December 2023
**TAR**
March **2023**
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name AMOR **members of**
**On accounts for the year ended**
3[rd] March 2023 **Charity** 1149487 **no (if any)**
**Set out on pages**
1-2
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
**Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
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 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
- **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions **examiner’s statement** given 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. It 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 ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
- In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention 1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
- have not been met; or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 28[th] December **Signed:** 2023 **Name:** Sonia Whitehouse
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
1
**IER**
**March 2023**
**Address:** 41 Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EH
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**IER**
**March 2023**