Uzima In Our Hands Registered Charity Number 1153181 Trustees’ Annual Report For the period 1.1.2024 to 31.12.2024 Photo – Staff at Uzima including the new Project manager Emmy ## Uzima In Our Hands **Structure, Governance and Management** The Charity Uzima In Our Hands (“the Charity”) was constituted as a trust by a trust deed made on 1 st August 2013. The Charity’s primary aim is to provide funding to support very vulnerable children in rural Western Kenya often by granting scholarships for education or training. New Trustees are appointed by the existing Trustees. All Trustees give of their time freely and no Trustee remuneration was paid during the year. During this financial year the Trustees were: - Joy Mowle (Chair) - Louise Collins (Treasurer) - Vivienne Collins (Secretary). A new trustee joined us in April 2024, Jeanette Ralph, and in December Louise Collins left as trustee after serving faithfully for 6 years. There were 10 trustee’s meetings in 2024 - January, March x 2, April, May, June, August x 2, October and November. **Recruitment and Training** : Any Trustee can suggest a new Trustee to current Trustees. If agreement is reached, the potential Trustee is informally interviewed by one of the Trustees; if further consensus is reached, the person is then invited to a Trustees meeting where an informed discussion and exchange of views takes place between all parties. At a separate meeting (possibly on the same day if appropriate), a decision is reached whether to invite the person to join the Trust. By this stage it is normally apparent whether the person is / is not suitable and would accept the role of Trustee if offered. If the person has accepted the role, they are then formally invited to a Special Meeting of Trustees which would immediately precede the next Trustees meeting at which they would be formally welcomed to the Charity, and the statutory record of Trustees would be amended accordingly. Prior to appointment, Trustees are sent full details of the Trust and Charity Commission guidance on Trustees’ roles and responsibilities. **Policies** The following policies are available to guide the Trustees and volunteers while working for the Charity. • Anti-bribery and corruption • Conflict of interest • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy • Financial Policy, including Reserve and Expense Policy • Privacy and Data protection • Roles and Responsibilities • Code of Conduct for Trustees • Safeguarding policy (including Social Media Policy) **Objectives and Activities:** The purposes of the Charity as set out in its governing document: 1. The relief of sickness and preservation of health and well-being. 2. The advancement of education. 3. The relief of financial hardship. In 2024 the Charity achieved its purposes for the public benefit through regular grants to Rise to Shine Education Foundation (RTSEF) a Kenyan NGO that agreed to support the children that had previously attended Uzima Children Orphan Centre by giving them scholarships to attend local Government Primary schools. From June 2024 we parted ways with RTSEF and took back control of the Primary and Secondary Project in Nanderema while RTSEF supported all the Secondary school pupils in Elgeyo Marakwet many miles away. We sent grants to the new manager Emmy Ronoh (known to us from the Five Talents project) who created a new CBO (Community Based Organisation) with a team of board members and was then able to open a Business Bank Account in Kenya. As always help and support are offered to children irrespective of tribe or religious affiliation and their support is purely based on need. All children are carefully assessed before being awarded a scholarship and then are enabled to attend school by being given all the necessary equipment and uniform required. Children in Kenya are sent home if they go to school without the correct uniform or the required stationery and school bag. A group of children with special needs are still supported, some into school and some with a home-based care program where school just wouldn’t work. We moved to supporting mainly Primary School pupils in 2024, but a good number of local Secondary pupils are in the program too. The second group will be supported to the end of their school career, but we decided not to take any new ones on. The numbers of children in total added up to around 130 at the end of 2024. Adult Literacy classes were also started and well attended for those in Savings Groups. When running a small business everyone needs some basic Literacy and Numeracy skills, and many of the older generation, especially women, cannot read and write. They have attended with great enthusiasm, not having had the chance to learn at school. The numbers have built up over 2024 and we have felt that this is a great way to help the community to get on their feet financially and ultimately support their own families. **Visits to the Project** Joy, the Chair of Trustees, or another Trustee, visits Kenya every year, if possible, sometimes with a small group of supporters. In this way the communication and the understanding of the issues 'on the ground' are regularly improved and strengthened. Joy visited with her sister Sue and another supporter in February 2024 for a little over 2 weeks. Sue concentrated on the three home-based children with special needs and supplied valuable equipment, suggestions and support to the social worker who works with them. Joy concentrated on all the rest giving out clothing donated from local Isle of Wight schools to the children on the project. **Five Talents Savings Group Programme** - 2024 Activity It was a strong year for the Savings Group project. We are pleased to report that at the end of 2024 we successfully wound up our Five Talents Program with 22 active savings groups and a total of 612 members throughout them. In the 3 years of the Project many groups have been supported in starting and working correctly under the guidance of Freida the Trainer. An assessment of their longevity will be carried out in December 2025 to see how many groups last on their own with the test of time. Louise Collins, the trustee who set up the whole Five Talents Project saw the successful end of our involvement in the project and finished as a trustee in December. Previously Jeanette had been learning all she had to do since April to be the new treasurer +++! Photo – Joy visiting a business set up as a result the Five Talents Project **----- Start of picture text -----**
Uzima in Our Hands 1153181
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/01/2024 31/12/2024
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A1 Receipts
Donations 22,845 - - 22,845 22,997
Fund raising 1,613 - - 1,613 425
GiftAid 3,183 - - 3,183 2,509
Bank interest 461 - - 461 504
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Total receipts 28,102 - - 28,102 26,436
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Grants to Uzima Orphan and Day Care
Centre 38,050 - - 38,050 35,263
Five Talents Programme 8,000 - - 8,000 13,205
Travel costs 2,160 - - 2,160 -
Salary reimbursement 3,855 - - 3,855 -
Bank charges - - - - 211
Admin cost - - - - 471
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Sub total [ 52,065 ] - - 52,065 49,150
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Total payments 52,065 - - 52,065 49,150
Net of receipts/(payments) - 23,964 - - - 23,964 - 22,714
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 37,413 - - 37,413 60,127
Cash funds this year end 13,449 - - 13,449 37,413
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27.10.2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 22/10/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Uzima In Our Hands On accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 Charity no lif any) 1153181 Set out on pages Form CC16a for 2024 accounts I report to the trustees on my examinalion of Ihe accounts of the above charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 3111212024. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparalion of the accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of Ihe Charities Act 2011 ('the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confimi that no malerial matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examinalion which gives me ause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act.. or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records-, or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements Con￿rning the fO￿n and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter onsidered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounls lo be reached. Signed: Date: 24110125 Name: Karen Cattermole Relevant professional qualificationls) or body lif any): NIA Address: 6 Maida Vale Road Shanklin Isle ofwight P037 7DB IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material mallers of concern (see CC32. Independenl examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. NIA IER Oct 2018