## **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.|||
|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~~
**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|-|
|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|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|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|-|-|-|
|===|
|Fund to which|Current value|
|Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)|
|B3 Investment assets|Nil|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|== ===|
|Fund to which|Current value|
|Details|asset belongs|Cost (optional)|(optional)|
|B4 Assets retained for the|Nil|-|-|
|charity’s own use|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|-|-|
|====|
|Fund to which|Amount due|When due|
|Details|liability relates|(optional)|(optional)|
|B5 Liabilities|-|
|-|
|-|
|-|
|-|
|——=|===|
|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.|||
|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.|
|---|---|---|
||||
**----- Start of picture text -----**
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.
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **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**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
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
**----- End of picture text -----**
## **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**
**----- Start of picture text -----**
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
**----- End of picture text -----**
– 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~~