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2023-04-05-accounts

ANNUAL REPORT AND STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5[th ] APRIL 2023

Charity Number 1152631 (England and Wales) Charity Number SC052271 (Scotland)

Contents
Page 1 Charity Information
Pages 2-6 Trustees Report
Page 7 Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees
Page 8 Statement of Financial Activities
Page 9 Balance Sheet
Pages 10-15 Notes to the Financial Statements

Amplifying Voices (UK)

LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Charity Number 1152631 (England and Wales) SC052271 (Scotland) Start of Financial Year 6[th ] April 2022 End of Financial Year 5[th ] April 2023

Trustees Mr Terry Edmondson (Chair) Mrs Gail Lawther Mrs Tusa Clark (appointed 14/03/23) Mr C Dunn-Coleman (Resigned 20/06/23) Dr W.R Ferguson (Resigned 07/07/22) Mrs J. Thompson (Resigned 23/07/22)

Registered Office Pilgrim House 51-63 St Dunstans Road Worthing West Sussex BN13 1AA Primary Bankers CAF Bank Ltd 25 Kings Hill Avenue Kings Hill West Malling Kent ME19 4JQ

Independent Examiner Mr P Coram 30 Welland Road Worthing West Sussex BN13 3NP

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Amplifying Voices Trustees Report to financial year-end 5[th] April 2023

The Trustees of Amplifying Voices are pleased to present their annual report and independently examined accounts for the year ended 5th April, 2023 and confirm they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, the CIO’s constitution and the Charities SORP (FRS 102).

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Governing Document

Amplifying Voices UK is Charitable Incorporated Organisation, governed by a constitution. It was registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales in on 27[th] June, 2013 and in Scotland as a Cross-Border charity with the Scottish Charity Regulator on 24[th] January, 2023.

Trustees and organisational structure

The trustees of Amplifying Voices are appointed in accordance with its constitution and volunteer for a term of three years. They may serve a maximum of 3 consecutive terms. As custodians of the vision, mission and values of the charity, they are responsible for its good governance and the maintenance of its charitable objects. The current trustees bring a wide range of experience from the creative, education, development, business and charity sectors. With three trustees having finished their terms of service, the board continues to actively seek new members.

The day-to-day running of the charity is handled by an ‘operations team’ of salaried and volunteer personnel, who manage the organisation's projects around the world and who meet with the trustees four times a year.

Expenditure

A large part of our charitable spending is on capital costs for projects in Africa and Asia, followed by facilitation, training and supporting the costs of our project partners. In some situations we assist our partners with their operational costs, but in all cases strive to work closely with our partners to help them become locally sustainable.

Public benefit

The Trustees have considered the guidelines issued by the Charity Commission regarding public benefit and how the charity complies with these requirements. They are confident that they have complied with their duty in section 17(5) of the Charities Act 2011 with regard to public benefit.

The trustees regularly review the organisation's exposure to financial risks, governance and management risks, operational risks and safeguarding as appropriate to its activities.

Serious Incident Reporting

In accordance with the Charity Commission’s serious incident reporting requirements (resulting in a significant loss of funds, or of significant risk to the charity’s property, beneficiaries or reputation), the trustees are pleased to confirm that no incidents fall into this category.

OPERATIONAL REVIEW

With the lifting of global travel restrictions following the pandemic, the operational team focussed efforts on face-to-face meetings with local partners in Africa and Asia, supporting them to develop their community-centred media projects, including training, project design, monitoring and evaluation.

Community-centred media is Amplifying Voices’ primary method for equipping communities with media tools to get people talking, listening, and taking action to improve health, well-being, and resilience. Through active engagement with the community, community-centred media is a powerful tool for positive social change. It builds on the community’s strengths and listens to their needs, concerns, and aspirations,

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involving them in creating content. It helps people who often feel marginalised to discover their voices.

Through active engagement with service providers a community-centred media approach integrates onair and off-air activities. Media content ( on-air activities) inspires, reinforces, and reflects on activities by local service providers. Activities by local service providers ( offair activities) will inspire, reinforce, and respond to the media content. When media and service providers collaborate in their activities, it unlocks the potential for impact in both the on-air and off-air activities.

South Asia

As life in India began to normalise following the pandemic, the Amplifying Voices team worked closely with teams in Maharashtra to expand the ‘Adivasi Voices Project’ and reach new villages. During the year, forty-two indigenous communities were regularly receiving and participating in creating media content, which promoted their health and well-being, delivered on ‘speakerboxes’. The project also attracted the involvement of a range of service providers, increasing the interchange of ‘on-air’ and ‘off-air’ activities, thus dramatically increasing the impact of the project. Through regular engagement with all the communities and monitoring of changes by the local team, many dramatic stories are being recorded every day, such as the establishment of self-help savings groups; families setting up kitchen gardens to grow vegetables to improve their nutrition; better hygiene and sanitation resulting in improved health; improved access to water and more children going to school, especially girls. In almost all villages however one of the key challenges remains the lack of access to clean water and this year the team worked hard to bring water to a number of villages.

Local team interviews labourer, Maharashtra

During the year, Amplifying Voices assisted in the evaluation of a beta version of the “Adivasincha Awaaz” mobile ‘phone app which was launched in 2021 to provide bonded-labourers working on farms with critical information for their health and well-being and promotion of their rights. The app was shown to have been greatly appreciated by labourers, especially for the health information and as a result of engagement with programmes and follow-up, a number of labourers were able to escape the indignity of this modern form of slavery to do other work. We are now working with the local team and software developers to launch a new version of the app, to make it widely available to more communities and in other languages.

In neighbouring Pakistan , Amplifying Voices UK continued to provide mentoring and financial support to its sister organisation, Amplifying Voices Pakistan. Community activities follow a lifecycle pattern of Exploring, Implementing or Sustaining. On reviewing recent projects, we have seen that media work that includes women is difficult to sustain locally due to cultural constraints. Amplifying Voices Pakistan developed a new programmatic approach to address this, called Bright Home (Roshan Ghar in Urdu or Rokhan-e-Kore in Pashtu).

Bright Home activities are being implemented in Sargodha, Punjab Province, and Nowshera, KPK. By the end of the financial year, one other community in Punjab, and another in KPK were exploring whether Bright Home

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could work for them. Meanwhile, Amplifying Voices continues a lower level of support to the Charsadda project (Naway Saher) which is in a sustaining phase as it becomes more independent of external support.

Bright Home projects start with activities that are culturally acceptable ways to address socio-economic restrictions faced by women. Off-air activities such as health camps and vocational training events are helpful for building trust in the early stages of relationship with a community. Off-air activities can also bring women together in culturally acceptable spaces and create opportunities to introduce community-centred media content over time.

Bright Home Activities include:

Sub-Saharan Africa

In eastern Kenya's Tana River County , Amplifying Voices worked with local and international partners to relocate Amani FM (now known as Vox Radio) from Garsen to the strategically important town of Minjilla. This new initiative, involves the development of a community-based ICT (information communication and technology) centre, with the radio station at its heart. The project is designed to reduce poverty and promote peace, by improving access to information, education, health-access and creating new sources of income and employment through its digital resources centre. The ICT hub will also bridge the digital divide that has for years left the marginalised communities in Tana River and especially women and girls excluded from present-day opportunities.

Amplifying Voices visit to Vox FM, Kenya, Feb 2023

In the light of the recognised impact of the Vox Radio project to promoting peace and development in the region, the national broadcasting regulator granted Vox Radio a regional licence to extend the radio signal across the county. To that end, Amplifying Voices, in partnership with FEBC Australia is working on plans to develop a relay station 90km to the north in the town of Hola, in order to increase the broadcast reach to Galole district of Tana River, which has a population of 181,000.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo , Amplifying Voices provided funding to upgrade the solar power facility on which the station functions. With the relative return to stability in the district of Watalinga Amplifying Voices continued support for its partner ESADER to strengthen the technical reliability of the station as well as the capability of the team in its vision of promoting peace and development among the communities that have been highly traumatised by the violence. Plans are being made to extend the broadcast signal of the station to serve outlying areas which have no radio coverage at all and which have been greatly affected by the ongoing conflict. This region is under the constant threat of attack and have little or no access to reliable information and the radio station there is vital. We aim to achieve this by

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upgrading the existing station and by also putting in a solar powered relay station.

In Northern Uganda , our South Sudanese partner, Community Development Centre (CDC), continued to produce and distribute ‘Soot Semee’ (or ‘Voice of Compassion’), community-centred media podcasts bringing together content created by community members in Omugo zone of Rhino Camp. An Amplifying Voices associate visited the Omugo zone in Uganda in Feb 2023. The Soot Semee Council of Reference (CoR), and one of the listener groups met with Amplifying Voices to provide feedback about the project.

We learned that the Council of Reference has become an important body representing ordinary community

Amplifying Voices visit to Omugo 4 village, Uganda, Feb 2023

members in various development initiatives in Omugo 4 village, including promoting child protection and advocating for better education services. One of their main goals for Soot Semee is to see the community equipped for returning to South Sudan with new skills and shared commitments to peaceful coexistence that will help rebuild the country after conflict.

We learned that the Council of Reference is made up of people who themselves have been affected by the Soot Semee programmes, including this lady.

“There are women who come and are without their husbands and Soot Semee has really helped them to know how they can take of care of their children which have been left with them. But also they feel that they have people when they listen to the radio. For me this is something that is personal, when I came here, I was just as I am, I don’t have anyone, I didn’t know people, and I would have no opportunity for standing before people like this. But now under the council of reference I have people, I can meet, and can stand before people and do a lot of things.”

We also heard listener group members share how Soot Semee had helped them to reconnect with people after the trauma of conflict, violence and displacement.

“Before Soot Semee, I was one person who could just be sitting on my veranda and I could just be crying. But now, I started listening to Soot Semee, and I heard messages that were able to help my heart. And I could now be joined by other people.”

A refresher workshop in Arua brought together lead volunteers from the Soot Semee project and CDC staff working on new projects in Yei, South Sudan.

Since last year, CDC have secured direct funding to implement community-centred media projects in various border locations (Voices A to Z) and in Yei County in South Sudan (Studio Salaam). CDC developed these projects using training materials and methods learned during previous Amplifying Voices visits, combined with their own learning and experience from other peacebuilding projects. It is a great encouragement to see this ripple effect happening.

Following political instability that led to the arrest of two CDC staff, Amplifying Voices cancelled plans to visit a new project in Lainya county, South Sudan. CDC had responded to an invitation from community stakeholders in Lainya to provide training and distribute speakerboxes. However, the head of local government became suspicious that the project could undermine his interests. The CDC staff members were released after intervention from the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and UNOCHA, but it was deemed unsafe to continue the project in Lainya at this time. CDC moved their exploration to Morobo, who had also requested a community-centred media project. Amplifying Voices plans to visit Morobo later in 2023 if the security situation allows.

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This year saw us form a new partnership with Chibozu Community Trust , a Zambian organisation, to support a community applying for a license to set up a community radio station in Simooya , a rural area in Pemba District, Southern Zambia. Chibozu Community Trust and local community members have worked together for several years to develop a rural health clinic and school, with recent supporting developments such as latrines for the school and a maternity wing for the clinic. The people living in Simooya and the surrounding area are mostly subsistence farmers. Community members consulted told us that a local radio station could mean that the benefits brought by these other developments could reach more people and create new opportunities for education and collaboration among local farmers.

Community members share their hopes for the new station, Simooya, Zambia, 2023

We facilitated a webinar with local stakeholders, including officials from the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) to outline the community-centre media approach for local radio. We also received funding to support the station startup, including funding for community engagement activities to ensure many local voices are being listened to by project volunteers and leaders. This created a lot of momentum and expectation around the project, however changes in the IBA led to a cancellation of the license application process and we currently await the process reopening later in 2023.

The Year Ahead

Amplifying Voices is committed to accompanying its existing partners with the tools and resources to strengthen their capacity and maximise their impact while assisting them in their journey to becoming fully locally sustainable. Alongside this our team will continue to support local partners to ensure that monitoring, evaluation and learning is taking place.

In this respect we have identified four priorities:

In addition to existing projects, Amplifying Voices is exploring other potential projects in Africa and Asia and has been asked to help develop a peace-building community-centred media project in one particular conflictaffected region. Our team remains open to exploring other opportunities.

Terry Edmondson Chair of Trustees

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Independent Examiner's Report on the Accounts

Report to the trustees and members of Amplifying Voices (UK), Charity numbers 1152631 and SC052271) on the accounts for the year ended 5th April 2023.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under Section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act), and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to

Basis of independent examiner's statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions 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 I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.

Independent examiner's statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention

P Coram 30 BN13 3NP

17th August 2023

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Amplifying Voices (UK)

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th April 2023

Notes
Income from:
Donations and Legacies
2
Investments (Bank Interest)
Total
Expenditure on:
Raising Funds
Charitable Activities
3,4
Other
5
Total
Net Income/(Expenditure)
Transfers Between Funds
9b
Reconciliation of funds:
Total Funds Brought Forward
Total Funds Carried Forward		 Unrestricted
Restricted
2023
Funds
Funds
Total
£
£
£
79,330
121,951
201,281
464
-
464
79,794
121,951
201,745
4,585
-
4,585
65,409
108,909
174,318
748
-
748
70,742
108,909
179,651
9,051
13,042
22,094
0
0
0
78,293
17,245
95,538
87,344
30,287
117,631		 Unrestricted
Restricted
2022
Funds
Funds
Total
£
£
£
115,024
35,006
150,030
14
-
14
115,038
35,006
150,044
9,533
-
9,533
79,003
31,614
110,617
488
-
488
89,024
31,614
120,638
26,013
3,393
29,406
0
0
0
52,280
13,852
66,132
78,293
17,245
95,538

Movement on all reserves and recognised gains/losses where appropriate are shown above All of the operations are classed as on-going

The notes on pages 7 to 12 form part of these accounts

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Amplifying Voices (UK)

Charity Numbers 1152631 and SC052271

BALANCE SHEET

Notes
Fixed Assets
Tangible Assets
5
(Net of Depreciation)
Current Assets
Prepaid expenses
6
Cash at Bank
Total Current Assets
Creditors: Falling due within
6
one year
Net Current Assets
Funds of the Charity
General Reserve
General Funds
Restricted Funds
Total Funds		 Unrestricted Restricted
2023
Funds
Funds
Total
£
£
£
1,271
-
1,271
-
-
-
86,072
30,287
116,359
86,072
30,287
116,359
-
-
-
87,343
30,287
117,630
10,000
-
10,000
77,344
-
77,344
-
30,287
30,287
87,344
30,287
117,631		 Unrestricted Restricted
2022
Funds
Funds
Total
£
£
£
978
-
978
-
-
-
77,316
17,244
94,560
77,316
17,244
94,560
-
-
-
77,316
17,244
95,538
10,000
-
10,000
68,294
-
68,294
-
17,244
17,244
78,294
17,244
95,538

Approved by the Trustees on 17th August 2023

Signed on their behalf ……………………………………………………………………………………… T. Edmondson, Chair of Trustees

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Amplifying Voices (UK) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th April 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

Income

Income is recognised in the SORP

From donations (net of bank/credit card charges) and grants when:

> Incoming Resources with related expenditure

Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resource and related expenditure are reported gross in the SOFA

> Grants and Donations

Grants and Donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources

> Tax Reclaims on Donations and Gifts

Incoming resources from gift aid tax reclaims are included in the SOFA in the period in which they are received

> Donated Services and Facilities

These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonably quantifiable, measurable and material. The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received

> Investment Income

This is included in the accounts when received.

Basis Of Preparation

The financial statements have been prepared on the historical cost basis in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 and in accordance with applicable accounting standards. In preparing the financial statements the charity follows best practice as laid down in the Statement of Recommended Practice 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' FRS 102 SORP 2015.

Expenditure and Liabilities > Liability Recognition

Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources

> Governance Costs

Whilst no longer required to be shown separately they will (when charged) include costs of preparation and examination of statutory accounts, the costs of trustee meetings and the cost of any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters

> Grants With Performance Conditions

Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payment being a specific level of service or output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SOFA once the recipient of the grant has provided the specified service or output

> Grants Payable Without Performance Conditions

These are only recognised in the accounts when a commitment has been made and there is no conditions to be met relating to that grant

2. Assets

They are valued at cost. If gifted, at the value to the charity upon receipt

The Trustees have decided to depreciate all assets on a 4 year straight line method

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Amplifying Voices (UK) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th APRIL 2023

Income Unrestricted Restricted 2023
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
2a Donations, Grants and Legacies
General 79,292 - 79,292
Support - 8,101 8,101
Projects 37 113,850 113,887
Legacies - - -
Gifts in kind - - -
0 Other donations and gifts - - -
Total 79,329 121,951 201,280
Summary of Donations, Grants and Legacies
General Fund 79,292 - 79,292
Associates inc Kenya Administration - 8,101 8,101
Project - Adivasi, India 37 18,742 18,780
Project - Tana River, Kenya - 80,064 80,064
Project - Sierra Leone - - -
Project - Zambia 14,947 14,947
Project - Pakistan - 97 97
Project - Malawi - -
Project - Kinshasa DRC - - -
Project - Uganda - - -
Project - Covid - -
79,329 121,951 201,280
2b Unrestricted Restricted 2022
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
Donations and Trusts
General 77,595 - 77,595
Support - 6,611 6,611
Projects 37,429 28,395 65,824
Legacies - - -
Gifts in kind - - -
Other donations and gifts - - -
115,024 35,006 150,030
Summary of Donations and Legacies
General Fund 77,595 - 77,595
Associates inc Kenya Administration - 6,611 6,611
Project - Adivasi, India 33,430 13,914 47,344
Project - Tana River, Kenya 2,499 2,981 5,480
Project - Sierra Leone 1,500 10,500 12,000
Project - First Response Radio - - -
Project - Pakistan - - -
Project - Umoja, DRC - - -
Project - Malawi - 1,000 1,000
Project - Uganda - - -
- - -
115,024 35,006 150,030

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Amplifying Voices (UK) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th APRIL 2023

3a Expenditure on Charitable Activities Expenditure on Charitable Activities Unrestricted Restricted 2023
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
Operations 7 18,664 - 18,664
Travel 1,977 - 1,977
Hospitality 77 - 77
Premises Costs 2,868 - 2,868
Gifts and Gift Aid passed On - 5,231 5,231
Projects 41,823 103,678 145,501
65,409 108,909 174,318
Summary of Expenditure on Charitable Activities
General Fund 23,586 - 23,586
Associates inc Kenyan Administration - 5,231 5,231
Project - Adivasi, India 573 20,492 21,065
Project - Tana River, Kenya 366 80,089 80,455
Project - Zambia 2,960 - 2,960
Project - Sierra Leone 517 3,000 3,517
Project - Malawi 1,110 - 1,110
Project - Pakistan 16,779 97 16,876
Project - Umoja, DRC 3,783 - 3,783
Project - South Sudan 4,863 - 4,863
Project - Uganda 10,872 - 10,872
65,409 108,909 174,317
3b Expenditure on Charitable Activities Unrestricted Restricted 2022
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
Operations 15,364 - 15,364
Travel 148 - 148
Gifts and Gift Aid passed On - 7,441 7,441
Hospitality - - -
Premises Costs 2,868 - 2,868
Equipment (not capitalised) - - -
Projects 60,623 24,173 84,796
79,003 31,614 110,617

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Amplifying Voices (UK)

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th APRIL 2023

Notes Unrestricted Restricted 2022
Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
3b ctd Summary of Expenditure on Charitable Activities
General Fund 18,379 - 18,379
Associates inc Kenya Administration - 7,441 7,441
Project - Adivasi - India 18,256 12,064 30,320
Project - Tana River, Kenya - 3,609 3,609
Project - Mtaani FM - Kenya - - -
Project - Sierra Leone 1,500 7,500 9,000
Project - First Response Radio - - -
Project - Pakistan 13,643 - 13,643
Project - Umoja, DRC 885 - 885
Project - Malawi 10,547 1,000 11,547
Project - Uganda 15,792 - 15,792
Project - Covid -
79,003 31,614 110,617
4a Other Expenditure Unrestricted Restricted 2023
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
Depreciation 748 - 748
Total 748 - 748
4b Other Expenditure Unrestricted Restricted 2022
Notes Funds Funds Total
£ £ £
Depreciation 488 - 488
Total 488 - 488
5 Tangible fixed assets Unrestricted Unrestricted
2023 2022
Equipment
Cost
At 6th April 2022 5,175 5,175
Additions 1,041 -
At 5th April 2023 6,216 5,175
Depreciation
At 6th April 2022 4,197 3,709
Charge for year 748 488
At 5th April 2023 4,945 4,197
Net Book Value
At 5th April 2023 1,271 978
At 6th April 2022 978 1,466

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Amplifying Voices (UK) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th APRIL 2023

6 Debtors, Prepayments and Creditors, Accruals and Deferred Income

There were no Debtors, Prepayments and Creditors, Accruals and Deferred Income at the end of this or the previous financial year.

7 Staff Costs, Numbers and Key Personnel Management

Total employment costs (including basic pay, NI and employer pension contributions amounted to £37,000 (2022: £35,139).

Freelancers are paid via invoices submitted based on projects undertaken and hours worked. Our Associates are responsible for raising their own support with Stewardship being their preferred channel. They are eligible to reclaim their expenses and related costs for the work they do on behalf of the charity.

Nothing has been paid to Key Personnel (which comprises Associates and Trustees) in the year. (2022: Nil)

The trustees consider it clearer to record the amount relating to donated services in this note. The estimated figure for the current year is £77,500 and for 2022 £75,000.

8 Trustees and Other Related Parties

No payments were made to trustees or any persons connected with them during this financial year. No material transaction took place between the charity and a trustee or any person connected to them. (2022: Nil)

The aggregate total of donations made by trustees in the year amounted to £3,250 (2022: £6,140)

9a Analysis of Restricted Reserves - 2023
Project Opening Balance Income Expenditure Closing Balance
Associates 1,122 5,281 5,231 1,172
Pakistan - 97 97 -
Kenya 1,372 80,064 80,089 1,347
Kenya Admin - 2,820 - 2,820
India/Adivasi 11,750 18,742 20,492 10,000
Zambia - 14,947 - 14,947
Sierra Leone 3,000 - 3,000 -
Totals 17,244 121,951 108,909 30,287
9b Analysis of Restricted Reserves - 2022
Project Opening Balance Income Expenditure Closing Balance
Associates 1,952 6,611 7,441 1,122
Pakistan - - - -
Kenya 2,000 2,981 3,609 1,372
Kenya Admin - - - -
India/Adivasi 9,900 13,914 12,064 11,750
Zambia - - - -
Malawi - 1,000 1,000 -
Sierra Leone - 10,500 7,500 3,000
Totals 13,852 35,006 31,614 17,244

The 2022 Restricted Reserve data has been restated throughout these accounts, effectively reallocating the transfer between funds

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Amplifying Voices (UK) NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (continued) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5th APRIL 2023

10 Risk Assessment

The trustees actively review major risks which the charity faces on a regular basis and particularly those of a Safeguarding nature. They seek to maintain adequate free reserves, and combine that review with an annual review of the controls of key financial systems. This provides a high degree of confidence in our resources and systems.

For the most part of the year under review overseas travel has not been possible. So project contact has been limited to internet links. Towards year end overseas travel has become possible. Trustees will resume their examination of our operational and business risks especially in countries which have to deal with internal wars and major health challenges, and mitigate significant risks wherever possible.

11 Reserves

The trustees have reviewed their reserves in the light of the Charity's size and financial commitments. They aim to ensure that the charity will be able to continue to fulfil its charitable objectives whatever the level of income or in the face of unexpected expenditure. Nominally the trustees have decided to maintain a level of reserves unchanged from last year but at the same time are mindful of the extra responsibilities of employing staff.

12 Public Benefit

The charity acknowledges its requirement to demonstrate clearly that it must have charitable purposes or 'aims' that are for the public benefit. Details of how the charity has achieved this in some of the most volatile parts of the world are provided in the trustees report. The trustees confirm that they have paid due regard to the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit before deciding upon which activities to undertake.

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