Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From: 1[st] April 2024 To: 31[st] March 2025
Hope in Burundi
Charity registration number: 1151062
Objectives and Activities
| Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities | Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities | Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities |
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| SORP reference |
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| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document Para 1.17 The relief and assistance of people in Africa, primarily Burundi, and in particular children and young people who are the victims of poverty or natural disaster, trouble or catastrophe. In particular, but not exclusively through the work of Restoration of Hope in meeting financial need and the provision of financial help for education and vocational training. |
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| 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 Grant making to Restoration of Hope for education and related costs of children and young people, including everyday living costs. Grant making to Restoration of Hope for building projects and particular situations of trouble or catastrophe that arise. |
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| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | The trustees are aware of the guidance on Public Benefit and have taken it into account when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
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| SORP reference |
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| Policy on grant making Para 1.38 The trustees have a policy on grant making. People should make an application to the trustees and they will consider at a trustees meeting or over email whether to grant the application or not. |
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| Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 |
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| Contribution made by volunteers Para 1.38 Hope in Burundi is a very small charity with six trustees who give their time voluntarily. |
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| 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 | From April 2024 - March 2025, Restoration of Hope was able to support 139 children and young people with their education in the Summer term from Apr to Sept and then the Autumn and Spring terms of the new academic year from Sept to March. In summer 2024 Restoration of Hope provided uniforms, shoes, sports kits, exercise books, text books, school bags and stationery to all 139 students. These students are in either primary or secondary schooling. Another 100 students from desperately poor families were helped with one-off gifts of textbooks and exercise books, without which they would have been unable to return for the new academic year. Restoration of Hope also covers the costs for ten students to go to university. During this period of time two young men graduated from university and received their bachelor’s degrees. 65 children/young people live in homes that Restoration of Hope run or support, and children in these homes get three meals a day and all living expenses covered (food, medicines, clothes, transport, etc). They also provide funding to feed the 139 students that they support which enables them to be able to continue with their education – hungry children are unable to concentrate on studies. During this period, Restoration of Hope continued to run a Women’s Sewing Centre for vulnerable women, single mums, impoverished widows, etc. In this time period, ten women were trained as tailors – being taught to read and write, use a sewing machine, make patterns, deal with clients and the basics of running a small company. In March 2025 the women graduated, and each one was given a sewing machine, charcoal iron and the materials needed to set up their own business. Restoration of Hope also helps vulnerable members of society, paying the rent, food and medical fees for 17 people who are either elderly, widows, living with AIDS or have mental handicaps, preventing them having to survive by begging on the streets. Restoration of Hope continues to help a small pre- school, which cares for 70 children aged 3-5 years, in an area on the outskirts of the capital city Bujumbura. Finance is provided to cover the salary of the teacher, her medical bills, etc. and purchase school materials for all the students. In December 2024 RoH purchased new tables and chairs for the preschool and at Christmas all students received a goody bag of treats. On Christmas Eve, Restoration of Hope gave treat bags to over 1000 children in a desperately poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. |
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Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Achievements against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | We have given grants regularly throughout the year to pay for education, equipment, uniforms and everyday living costs. |
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We have also passed on monies that were given for
specific projects including a Women’s Sewing Project
where they are trained in dressmaking, tailoring, etc
and then once completing the course are set up with
what they need to run their own small business.
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Without the financial support given by Hope in Burundi,
through Restoration of Hope, over 139 children and
Investment performance Para 1.41 young people would not be able to access education. The
against objectives fact that they are in the classroom, learning and having
success, is enabling them to make progress towards
graduation, after which we trust they will go on to
become employed citizens who will be agents of change
in Burundi. The success of this investment can be seen in
the lives of previous recipients of help, who are now in
fulltime employment.
Recipients of funding have gone on to get jobs without
going to university - the investment made by HiB through
Restoration of Hope, is transforming individual lives
which in turn helps to transform the nation.
We have continued to receive money from Stewardship
Other to pass onto Restoration of Hope. All monies received
via Stewardship go to Restoration of Hope for general
living costs for the children and young people that they
support in Burundi.
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Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
|---|---|---|
| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | Our financial position is stable. |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | As a charity we have no ongoing or long-term liabilities. We do not currently have any reserves or have a policy. If we do not raise the funds, we are not able to send moneyto Burundi. |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £0 |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | Our charity runs solely on grant making and we have no overheads apart from £5/month for our bank account. We are not responsible for the running of Restoration of Hope and it is understood that we aim to raise the moneyto helpbut it is notguaranteed. |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | N/A |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | No concerns |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Donations given either by standing order or one-off gifts by individuals, companies and churches, charities.
| The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) |
Para 1.47 | Gift Aid reclaims |
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| Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted |
Para 1.46 | We do not have any investments |
| A description of the principal risks facing the charity |
Para 1.46 | We do not see any principal risks facing the charity at this time. We are in a stable position being supported by lots of individuals financially. |
| Other | We have continued to receive money from Stewardship to pass onto Restoration of Hope. All monies received via Stewardship go to Restoration of Hope for general living costs for the children and young people that they support in Burundi. We started to receive income from Stewardshipin December 2020. |
Structure, Governance and Management
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing document Para 1.25 Trust Deed
How is the charity Para 1.25 Charitable Trust
constituted?
Trustee selection methods Para 1.25 The trustees appoint further trustees.
including details of any
constitutional provisions eg.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures Potential trustees are asked to sit in meetings for both
adopted for the induction and parties to assess if they are suitable for the position.
training of trustees
New trustees are given CC3a document from Charity
Para 1.51
Commission.
We encourage all trustees to go on appropriate and
relevant training where possible.
The charity’s organisational The charity is run solely by the Trustees and does not
structure and any wider work with any wider network.
network with which the charity
works Para 1.51
Relationship with any No relationships with related parties.
related parties
Para 1.51
Other
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Reference and Administrative details
Charity name Hope in Burundi Other name the charity uses HiB
Registered charity number 1151062 Charity’s principal address 9 Church Street Newhall Swadlincote DE11 0HY
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Name of person (or
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) body) entitled to
whole year
appoint trustee (if any)
1 Victor Ford Trustees
2 Philip Pusey Trustees
3 Sarah Ballard Trustees
4 Andrew Crockford Trustees
5 Timothy Rockley Trustees
6 Elizabeth Butler Trustees
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8
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– 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 |
N/A |
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| Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects |
N/A |
Details of arrangements for N/A 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 ~~a~~ Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) ~~OO~~
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ~~BC~~ Other optional information ~~CS~~
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) Sarah Ballard ~~ee~~ Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) ~~es~~[Trustee ] Date 13th January 2026 ~~po~~
Hope in Burundi 1151062 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01.04.2024 31.03.2025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts General Donations 11,087 - - 11,087 8,871 Education Donations 21,158 - 21,158 16,700 Stewardship 35,295 - - 35,295 39,950 Sewing Project 2,500 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total (Gross income for AR) [ 46,382 ] 21,158 - 67,540 68,021 ====== A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - - Sub total - Total receipts 46,382 21,158 - 67,540 68,021 = —— ~~——~~ A3 Payments Education 14,342 21,158 - 35,500 21,250 Bank Fees 25 Restoration of Hope 32,100 - - 32,100 53,500 Sewing/Farming Projects and Cancer Care 3,908 - 3,908 1,865 Individual Support 680 - 680 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sub total [ 47,122 ] 25,066 - 72,188 76,640 =—===== A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) - - - - - - - - Sub total [ - ] - - - - =— ~~——~~ Total payments 47,122 25,066 - 72,188 76,640 Net of receipts/(payments) - 740 - 3,908 - - 4,648 - 8,619 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 3,990 9,481 - 13,471 13,471 Cash funds this year end === 3,250 5,573 - 8,823 ~~==~~ 4,852
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/01/2026
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|Categories|Details|funds|funds|funds|
|to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £|
|B1 Cash funds|Bank Account|3,250|5,573|-|
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|Total cash funds|3,250|5,573|-|
|SFE|
|(agree balances with receipts and payments|
|account(s))|OK|OK|OK|
|Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|
|funds|funds|funds|
|Details|to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £|
|B2 Other monetary assets|Gift Aid|550|-|-|
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|Fund to which|Current value|
|Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)|
|B3 Investment assets|Nil|-|-|
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|Fund to which|Current value|
|Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)|
|B4 Assets retained for the|Nil|-|-|
|charity’s own use|-|-|
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|Fund to which|Amount due|When due|
|Details|liability relates|(optional)|(optional)|
|B5 Liabilities|-|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on|Date of|
|Signature|Print Name|
|behalf of all the trustees|approval|
|Phil Pusey|15/09/2025|
|Sarah Ballard|15/09/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/01/2026
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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period
From: 1[st] April 2024 To: 31[st] March 2025
Hope in Burundi
Charity registration number: 1151062
Objectives and Activities
| Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities | Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities | Objectives and Activitiesjectives and Activitiesectives and Activities |
|---|---|---|
| SORP reference |
||
| Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document Para 1.17 The relief and assistance of people in Africa, primarily Burundi, and in particular children and young people who are the victims of poverty or natural disaster, trouble or catastrophe. In particular, but not exclusively through the work of Restoration of Hope in meeting financial need and the provision of financial help for education and vocational training. |
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| 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 Grant making to Restoration of Hope for education and related costs of children and young people, including everyday living costs. Grant making to Restoration of Hope for building projects and particular situations of trouble or catastrophe that arise. |
||
| Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit |
Para 1.18 | The trustees are aware of the guidance on Public Benefit and have taken it into account when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant. |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
|---|---|---|
| SORP reference |
||
| Policy on grant making Para 1.38 The trustees have a policy on grant making. People should make an application to the trustees and they will consider at a trustees meeting or over email whether to grant the application or not. |
||
| Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 |
||
| Contribution made by volunteers Para 1.38 Hope in Burundi is a very small charity with six trustees who give their time voluntarily. |
||
| 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 | From April 2024 - March 2025, Restoration of Hope was able to support 139 children and young people with their education in the Summer term from Apr to Sept and then the Autumn and Spring terms of the new academic year from Sept to March. In summer 2024 Restoration of Hope provided uniforms, shoes, sports kits, exercise books, text books, school bags and stationery to all 139 students. These students are in either primary or secondary schooling. Another 100 students from desperately poor families were helped with one-off gifts of textbooks and exercise books, without which they would have been unable to return for the new academic year. Restoration of Hope also covers the costs for ten students to go to university. During this period of time two young men graduated from university and received their bachelor’s degrees. 65 children/young people live in homes that Restoration of Hope run or support, and children in these homes get three meals a day and all living expenses covered (food, medicines, clothes, transport, etc). They also provide funding to feed the 139 students that they support which enables them to be able to continue with their education – hungry children are unable to concentrate on studies. During this period, Restoration of Hope continued to run a Women’s Sewing Centre for vulnerable women, single mums, impoverished widows, etc. In this time period, ten women were trained as tailors – being taught to read and write, use a sewing machine, make patterns, deal with clients and the basics of running a small company. In March 2025 the women graduated, and each one was given a sewing machine, charcoal iron and the materials needed to set up their own business. Restoration of Hope also helps vulnerable members of society, paying the rent, food and medical fees for 17 people who are either elderly, widows, living with AIDS or have mental handicaps, preventing them having to survive by begging on the streets. Restoration of Hope continues to help a small pre- school, which cares for 70 children aged 3-5 years, in an area on the outskirts of the capital city Bujumbura. Finance is provided to cover the salary of the teacher, her medical bills, etc. and purchase school materials for all the students. In December 2024 RoH purchased new tables and chairs for the preschool and at Christmas all students received a goody bag of treats. On Christmas Eve, Restoration of Hope gave treat bags to over 1000 children in a desperately poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city. |
|---|---|---|
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
| Achievements against objectives set |
Para 1.41 | We have given grants regularly throughout the year to pay for education, equipment, uniforms and everyday living costs. |
|---|---|---|
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We have also passed on monies that were given for
specific projects including a Women’s Sewing Project
where they are trained in dressmaking, tailoring, etc
and then once completing the course are set up with
what they need to run their own small business.
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Without the financial support given by Hope in Burundi,
through Restoration of Hope, over 139 children and
Investment performance Para 1.41 young people would not be able to access education. The
against objectives fact that they are in the classroom, learning and having
success, is enabling them to make progress towards
graduation, after which we trust they will go on to
become employed citizens who will be agents of change
in Burundi. The success of this investment can be seen in
the lives of previous recipients of help, who are now in
fulltime employment.
Recipients of funding have gone on to get jobs without
going to university - the investment made by HiB through
Restoration of Hope, is transforming individual lives
which in turn helps to transform the nation.
We have continued to receive money from Stewardship
Other to pass onto Restoration of Hope. All monies received
via Stewardship go to Restoration of Hope for general
living costs for the children and young people that they
support in Burundi.
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Financial Review
| Financial Review | ||
|---|---|---|
| Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period |
Para 1.21 | Our financial position is stable. |
| Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held |
Para 1.22 | As a charity we have no ongoing or long-term liabilities. We do not currently have any reserves or have a policy. If we do not raise the funds, we are not able to send moneyto Burundi. |
| Amount of reserves held | Para 1.22 | £0 |
| Reasons for holding zero reserves |
Para 1.22 | Our charity runs solely on grant making and we have no overheads apart from £5/month for our bank account. We are not responsible for the running of Restoration of Hope and it is understood that we aim to raise the moneyto helpbut it is notguaranteed. |
| Details of fund materially in deficit |
Para 1.24 | N/A |
| Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern |
Para 1.23 | No concerns |
Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Donations given either by standing order or one-off gifts by individuals, companies and churches, charities.
| The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) |
Para 1.47 | Gift Aid reclaims |
|---|---|---|
| Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted |
Para 1.46 | We do not have any investments |
| A description of the principal risks facing the charity |
Para 1.46 | We do not see any principal risks facing the charity at this time. We are in a stable position being supported by lots of individuals financially. |
| Other | We have continued to receive money from Stewardship to pass onto Restoration of Hope. All monies received via Stewardship go to Restoration of Hope for general living costs for the children and young people that they support in Burundi. We started to receive income from Stewardshipin December 2020. |
Structure, Governance and Management
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing document Para 1.25 Trust Deed
How is the charity Para 1.25 Charitable Trust
constituted?
Trustee selection methods Para 1.25 The trustees appoint further trustees.
including details of any
constitutional provisions eg.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to appoint
one or more trustees
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures Potential trustees are asked to sit in meetings for both
adopted for the induction and parties to assess if they are suitable for the position.
training of trustees
New trustees are given CC3a document from Charity
Para 1.51
Commission.
We encourage all trustees to go on appropriate and
relevant training where possible.
The charity’s organisational The charity is run solely by the Trustees and does not
structure and any wider work with any wider network.
network with which the charity
works Para 1.51
Relationship with any No relationships with related parties.
related parties
Para 1.51
Other
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Reference and Administrative details
Charity name Hope in Burundi Other name the charity uses HiB
Registered charity number 1151062 Charity’s principal address 9 Church Street Newhall Swadlincote DE11 0HY
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Name of person (or
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) body) entitled to
whole year
appoint trustee (if any)
1 Victor Ford Trustees
2 Philip Pusey Trustees
3 Sarah Ballard Trustees
4 Andrew Crockford Trustees
5 Timothy Rockley Trustees
6 Elizabeth Butler Trustees
7
8
9
10
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– 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 |
N/A |
|---|---|
| Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects |
N/A |
Details of arrangements for N/A 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 ~~a~~ Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information) ~~OO~~
Exemptions from disclosure
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ~~BC~~ Other optional information ~~CS~~
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) Sarah Ballard ~~ee~~ Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) ~~es~~[Trustee ] Date 13th January 2026 ~~po~~