Uganda Lodge Community Projects Trustee Report April 2023 to April 2024
Ruhanga Development School which is fully supported by the UK Charity Uganda Lodge Community Projects continued to flourish during 2023 and opened again February 2024 with nearly 500 children attending, 200 of whom are boarding. The boarders are mostly in Primary 6 & 7 classes or they live a good distance from the school. The cost to the school for a day student is equivalent of £10/month and the cost of a boarder is £20/month. That equates to the cost of running the school of approx. £7,000/month or £84,000 pa.
We try to collect about 50% of this amount from the families in school fees. However, due to the fact that the school is located in an impoverished rural location, many of the families struggle to pay this. So the charity is always looking for new revenue streams to support the regular, ongoing expenses to keep the school and medical centre open.
The medical centre continues to provide free medical care for all our students, and low-cost care to the local villagers who otherwise may not have access to medical support. With some one-off funding we were able to provide additional screening (diabetes, HIV, blood pressure etc) at several outreach clinics during the year as well as the regular monthly baby clinics.
Various maintenance repairs to the gravity-fed fresh water system took place throughout the year, alongside upgrades to the school buildings.
In July we had a 2[nd] visit from a group of 25 explorer Scouts from Scotland, who again raised many donations towards our building projects & they camped with our own school Scouts
The NGO Director out there was able to take all of P7 children on an overnight educational school trip shortly before their school leaving exams. They visited a tea factory, a fishing village, an irrigation scheme, salt gardens and a hydro-electric production facility and slept in a national park. Many of our school children belong to the scout troop at the school and as they came second in the District Camp two patrols were able to attend the National Camp just outside Kampala, thanks to funding from some volunteers.
Almost a third of our charity’s annual income came in the form of donations towards the new build of our vocational training centre with dormitories for vocation students and continuing with building the training kitchen/restaurant.
In September we were also chosen as the Charity of the Year by our local BNI branch and this has provided us with some much needed promotion and additional income.
We have two new trustees last year and are putting together a larger team of volunteers to help us explore new avenues of fundraising and use social media more efficiently to promote our charity and find volunteers and donors.
As our trustees are located throughout the UK, our committee meetings have been held via Zoom on a regular basis to discuss finances, planning and the way forward.
| ULCP Charity Commission Final Accounts April 6th 2023 to April 5th 2024 INCOMES |
ULCP Charity Commission Final Accounts April 6th 2023 to April 5th 2024 INCOMES |
ULCP Charity Commission Final Accounts April 6th 2023 to April 5th 2024 INCOMES |
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| Opening Bank Accounts | £386.48 | ||
| Sponsorship Gift-Aided £11,462.00 Sponsorship (Non-GiftAided) £4,560.29 Other Donations (Gift-Aided) £29,035.00 Other Donations (Non-Gift-Aided) £35,884.38 Accommodation & Safaris (Lodge) £0.00 Gift Aid from HMRC £10,359.12 Refunds £0.00 |
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| TOTAL INCOMES | £91,300.79 | £91,687.27 | |
| EXPENSES Transferred to Uganda (For NGO) £88,884.06 Justgiving charges £0.00 Bank Charges £0.00 Transferred to Ruhanga Resource Account(Lodge) £0.00 |
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| TOTAL EXPENSES | £88,884.06 | ||
| Closing Bank Balances | £2,803.21 |
| Uganda Lodge Accounts | |
|---|---|
| April 2023 to March 2024 | |
| INCOMES | |
| UGL Safaris/Accom | |
| Opening Bank Accounts | 0.00 |
| Sponsorship Gif-Aided | |
| Sponsorship (Non-GifAided) | |
| Other Donatons(Gif-Aided) | |
| Other Donatons(Non-Gif-Aided) | |
| Donatons for Clinic(McNeil) | |
| Donatons for training restaurant(Bolton Halwa Centre) | |
| Donatons from LTHT | |
| Gif Aid from HMRC | |
| Gif Aid for LTHT | |
| Transfer from Lodge Account | |
| Safaris & Accommodaton for Ruhanga Resource Centre | |
| Refund from Bank | |
| TOTAL INCOMES | 0.00 |
| EXPENSES | |
| Tfr to Ruhanga Resource Centre account(Safari & Accommoda | ton) |
| Transferred to Uganda(For NGO) | |
| Justgiving charges | |
| Bank Charges | |
| TOTAL EXPENSES | 0.00 |
| Closing Bank Balance | 0.00 |
| ULCP | TOTALS | Adjustments | Adjustments | ||
| (For Lodge Income) | (For Interco Trfs) | ||||
| 386.48 | 386.48 | ||||
| 11,462.00 | 11,462.00 | ||||
| 4,560.29 | 4,560.29 | ||||
| 29,035.00 | 29,035.00 | ||||
| 33,134.38 | 33,134.38 | ||||
| 2,500.00 | 2,500.00 | ||||
| 250.00 | 250.00 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 10,359.12 | 10,359.12 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 91,300.79 | 91,300.79 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| 88,884.06 | 88,884.06 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||
| 88,884.06 | 88,884.06 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| 2,803.21 | 2,803.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
Total NGO Income
386.48 11,462.00 4,560.29 29,035.00 33,134.38 2,500.00 250.00 0.00 10,359.12 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 91,300.79 0.00 0.00 88,884.06 0.00 0.00
88,884.06 2,803.21
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