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Give A Child A Hope

UK Registered Charity 1153184

Annual Report and Accounts

1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022

Contents
Page
1. The charity and its trustees 2
2. Establishment of charity and appointment of trustees 2
3. The objectives and activities of the charity 3
4. The public beneft of the charity’s activities 3
5. The charity’s activities and achievements in 2020-2021 4
6. Financial review and accounts 2020-21 7
7. Independent examiners report 11
8. Declaration
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Trustees Annual Report and Accounts for 2020-21

This is the report of the trustees of ‘Give A Child A Hope’ (UK registered charity 1153184) for the period 1[st] April 2021 to 31[st] March 2022 as required by the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the relevant Charities SORP.

1. The charity and its trustees

1.1 The charity

Charity name: Give A Child A Hope Registered charity number: 1153184 Principal office address:St John’s Church Office, Bolling Road, Ilkley West Yorkshire. LS29 8PN

1.2 The Trustees

The people elected as trustees for the year were:

Trustee name Office/Role (if any) Deborah Walker Chairman Martin Smith Operations Manager Mary Booluck Sharon Crosby Hannah Osieku Rev Peter Willox Dr Sheila Lewis Prof Marion Hetherington Matthew Nice

The plan to establish a more sustainable way of working by setting up a series of task groups with specific roles and responsibilities is developing well, but more help is needed.

Kate Brown is still the self-employed administrator for the charity.

Several volunteers are also fulfilling valuable roles. Julia Jordan is our bookkeeper and Frank Milward has agreed to be our independent reviewer for our accounts.

2. Establishment of charity and appointment of trustees

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The charity is a charitable trust which was established and is governed by a trust deed dated 12 February 2013. The trust deed was drawn up using the model trust deed issued by the Charity Commission.

2.2 Appointment of trustees

Trustees are selected based on their possession of skills and experience that are relevant to the work and effective administration of the charity. Under clause 9 of the trust deed trustees are appointed for an initial 3-year term by a resolution of the trustees passed by a vote in accordance with clause 15 of the trust deed.

3. The objects and activities of the charity

The charity works in partnership with the directors of the Revival Centre in Matugga, Uganda to support the work of the centre and a group of around 150 disadvantaged children who attend the centre.

The two primary objects of the charity as stated in the trust deed are:

4. The public benefit of the charity’s activities

The trustees confirm that they have taken full account of the public benefit guidance issued by the Charity Commission.

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5. The charity’s achievements in 2021-22

The last year has been another challenging one for GACAH as the Covid pandemic has continued in both the UK and Uganda and the restrictions have meant another year of restricted fund raising. It has also meant that Bishop Ivan was also unable to visit the UK again although regular contact has been maintained by email, WhatsApp video calls and text messages. However, we have been encouraged by our loyal supporters and the amazing kindness and generosity they have shown throughout 2021 to 2022 and the help they have provided in the trials the charity has faced.

At the beginning of the financial year, the charity put out a bed appeal in March 2021 as due to the Coronavirus pandemic the Ugandan Government required that day pupils at the Revival Centre Schools in Matugga became boarders. Our remarkable supporters donated over £6000 which meant that we have been able to replace all of the very old, no longer fit for purpose, wooden beds as well as many of the broken metal beds with new replacement ones.

In June one of our trustees, Marion Hetherington in conjunction with Leeds University, hosted an online Conference looking at Eating Behaviour and Nutritional Research. The afternoon focused on research in partnership with colleagues in sub-Saharan Africa, showcasing collaborations investigating energy regulation, mealtime

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interactions, improving nutrition status of children and measuring eating behaviour. This event raised over £400.

By the end of June 2021 Uganda was experiencing a third wave of the Coronavirus. So, the country went into another national lockdown as Covid 19 cases continued to rise rapidly. Schools, universities, churches, and businesses closed, and people had to stay at home. Consequently, the Revival Centre temporarily closed its doors until further notice. The children and young people safely returned to their homes and those without homes again became members of Bishop Ivan’s and Madam Allen’s household.

The Trustees from GACAH were in regular contact with Ivan and Allen. Sadly, lacking a National Health Service such as ours, the pressure on health provision was immense; oxygen supplies were very limited and so was access to vaccines. All medical care must be paid for and is therefore beyond the reach of most people in Uganda. Similarly, access to healthy food became difficult as food prices increased rapidly. Despite the lockdown, and with generous help from our supporters, GACAH was able to send funds to purchase all the PPE required to meet Covid guidelines ready for the return of school, and buy food, pay teacher’s salaries and pupils were able to sit their key stage exams. Two beneficiaries from the scholarship programme graduated from university this year, James in Medicine and Rebecca in Law, and two other champions, Denis and Fisal, were thrilled to start their chosen University courses in Biomedical and Chemical Engineering. Ivan and Allen were able to receive both doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

Ironically, of all the many difficult challenges Revival has encountered this last year, the most worrying for the school’s future was not Covid related but was a bid by a local developer to buy the title of the land upon which the Clinic and Primary School stood. The landowner approached Ivan and Allen to let them know about the bid and to give them a chance to make an offer for the land title instead. Suddenly everything that the Revival Centre had achieved was at risk. The trustees agreed that we must help Ivan and Allen purchase the land title and secure the future of the school. Adapting GACAH fund-raising events to meet Covid restrictions has not been easy, and this, coupled with people’s own uncertainty about the future has put donations at risk. We were very aware that our supporters had already been so generous in helping the Revival Centre meet the challenges posed by the Coronavirus pandemic. However, the trustees were blown away by the incredible generosity and heart of our supporters, who helped to raise the full £35k needed to secure the purchase of the land title for the Clinic and the Primary School. Of the £35k, £31,783 was raised and a promise was received from CMS Ireland to gift the balance of £3,217 once the title deeds are registered. Two trustees loaned this amount to the charity post year-end to enable the purchase to be completed and will be repaid on receipt of the gift from CMS. Should this not happen, there is no liability to repay these loans. In July we received further good news from Madam Allen that despite all the challenges of this last academic year the key stage exam results for Ugandan schools were just beginning to be reported and the Primary 7 and Senior 4 class results at the Revival Schools are the best that they have ever been. Pupils in the Primary 7 class achieved either first or super second grades in their Primary Leaving Exam (PLE) and no pupils in the Senior 4 class failed their Uganda Certificate of Education (UGE). They achieved 9 first grades, 23 super second grades, 25 third grades and 36 fourth grades, making all these pupils eligible to join the A Level class in the new academic year.

The President of Uganda made an address to the nation on the 22nd of September sharing the plans for how the country will emerge from its third lock-down. The main

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focus is the continuing rollout of vaccines and Bishop Ivan reported that vaccinations were continuing to take place in Uganda to 18-year-olds and over.

Universities reopened in November but many of them were beginning registration and fee collection in October. However, schools had to remain closed until the vaccination programme had progressed further forward, and it was anticipated that schools would not open until January 2022, which in the end was when schools started to reopen. The President also announced that churches could open but with a limit of 200 people attending at any one time, with social distancing and face masks plus strict adherence to SOPs (standard operating procedures) at all times (hand sanitising etc). Revival church started to meet regularly again, and church members were donating materials to make bricks for the walls of the church. Former champions were involved in the brick production, Joel was leading the project to make bricks and pavers and Fisal and Denis (our budding engineers!) were working with Joel in production. They worked together to build the lower base of the new church building. The roof will be a further stage in time – hopefully later in 2022.

The government decreed that until schools reopened, online learning must be developed in order to keep the children’s education going. Particularly as key stage exams were still taking place in March 2022. For this to happen both the teachers and children needed to be supplied with smart phones (NB. phones not laptops due to network availability). However, this requirement was eventually dropped by the government when they discovered that it was not viable given that no state funding was made available to support this initiative.

The government also required all schools to go through a re-registration process prior to re-opening as many schools are now falling below acceptable standards and are closing. Ivan and Allen reported that they were making good progress with this and started initially with the process of successfully re-registering the Secondary School. They then progressed to successfully re-registering the Primary School.

Just before Christmas a container was delivered to Revival which was full of school textbooks donated by Ben Rhydding Primary School and Ilkley Grammar School, along with donated medical textbooks for medical students, plus a hand sewing machine donated from the estate of a supporter who was part of the Garforth patchwork quilt group. The textbooks will be a great resource, and the sewing machine will be a great help with mask manufacturing and tailoring classes.

In December Uganda was still emerging from its latest lock-down, but thankfully the Covid infection rate was lower. While the schools had been closed, and with no access to online learning, the Revival School teachers living in Matugga handed out worksheets to parents to help the students maintain some learning at home. This has been very encouraging to both the children and staff in these difficult times.

Bishop Ivan writes: “We hear of the new virus (Omicron variant), yet the government here Is working hard to open schools by 10th January, God willing. We are now looking at renovations especially painting the primary section.” Bishop Ivan, Madam Allen and the team were busy making all the necessary preparations for the Primary and Secondary School children to return after Christmas. Also, just as in the UK, Uganda has been receiving heavier than normal rainfall and this has caused some flooding on the site which has resulted in some repair work being undertaken. In the new year we were so pleased to hear that schools in Uganda were finally reopening after such a prolonged period of lockdown. Ivan, Allen and the Revival staff started welcoming back students on the 10th of January and although the return of children was slow, as of 26th January 2022 150 Primary School and 200 Secondary School pupils had returned. Many of the children’s family circumstances have changed drastically throughout the pandemic and some children sadly will now be lost

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to school. Many schools in Uganda closed due to the loss of teachers and pupils and the rising costs of running a school. Whilst the Revival Schools certainly have many hurdles to face, they have a loyal staff team and many potential pupils in the community. The challenge in the year ahead will be balancing meeting some of these needs with Revival’s and GACAH’s reduced income.

In light of the need for Covid Safe preparations, the charity put out an appeal in January and we received £750 towards helping The Revival Centre with the costs of preparation and measures, including special cleaning, the provision of hand sanitiser and in particular compulsory mask wearing for all staff and students. The hope is eventually that Revival will be able to manufacture their own masks (in tailoring classes).

As Universities again also reopen, the 2021 FE Scholarship has been awarded by Ivan and Allen and the recipient is starting his chosen course. Joshua Kwagala, who has been a Champion since 2016, will study for a BSc in Bio Processing Engineering (a 4- year course) at Makerere University.

Denis and Fisal (the 2020 Scholarship recipients), along with Ketra (2018 recipient) and Agnes (2019 recipient) have also now returned to their studies.

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6. Financial review and accounts 2021-22

6.1 Financial review

The charity started the year with a balance of £10,570 in its account at HSBC, a balance of £1,779 in the CAF account and £9 petty cash. During the year it raised £113,286 and made payments of £104,062 leaving a closing balance on 31 March 2021 of £21,582 as per the accounts.

In 2021-22 the charity did not own any physical assets or employ any staff and did not have any large capital sums to invest to generate income, so its finances are relatively straightforward.

As total income is less than £250,000 per year the charity is allowed to maintain ‘receipts and payments’ accounts as presented below.

6.2 The Accounts

Below we present our ‘receipts and payments’ account for the period 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.

The receipts account shows the monthly income from donations and fundraising events.

Projects sponsored by specific donations have been shown as restricted funds. Specific donations were also received towards the cost of further education of five students therefore the funding and payments for them has also been treated as a restricted fund.

The charity is working with our partners at the Revival Centre to further establish a system of regular feedback, with receipts where possible - including photographic evidence - of purchases made and projects undertaken and completed utilising funds supplied by GACAH.

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Charity name Charity name Charity name Charity name Charity name Charity no. CC16a
Give a Child a Hope 1153184
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period from Period start date To Period end
date
1 April 2021 31 March 2022
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
Funds		 Restricted Funds Last Year
Land Scholarship Bed
Fund Fund Fund
A1 Receipts
£ £ £ £ £ £
Donations April 21 4078 10000 655 2755 17488 5405
Donations May 21 2521 3000 2075 2370 9966 7539
Donations J une 21 6485 750 1256 0 8491 6947
Donations J uly 21 4390 1263 540 0 6193 3964
Donations Aug 21 7651 8907 1386 0 17945 11669
Donations Sept 21 6515 4880 540 1015 12950 4629
Donations Oct 21 3040 125 640 0 3805 6577
Donations Nov 21 5899 2858 1003 0 9760 12238
Donations Dec 21 6790 0 640 0 7430 6632
Donations J an 22 4476 0 540 0 5016 7526
Donations Feb 22 6241 0 978 0 7219 8914
Donations Mar 22 5836 0 1190 0 7026 11868
Sub total (Net Income) 63921 31783 11443 6140 113286 93907
A2 assets and investment sales, 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total Receipts 63921 31783 11443 6140 113286 93907
A3 Payments
Payments April 21 6052 10000 0 1300 17352 2949
Payments May 21 4901 0 0 0 4901 3120
Payments J une 21 3333 0 0 0 3333 13273
Payments J uly 21 4592 0 0 0 4592 5500
Payments Aug 21 8203 17130 205 0 25538 6339
Payments Sept 21 7345 0 0 0 7345 5159
Payments Oct 21 5086 0 1700 0 6786 4251
Payments Nov 21 5164 0 0 0 5164 8718
Payments Dec 21 5801 0 0 0 5801 6724
Payments J an 22 5549 0 3000 0 8549 10257
Payments Feb 22 5479 0 1815 0 7294 8728
Payments March 22 7406 0 0 0 7406 14172
Sub total 68911 27130 6720 1300 104062 89191
A4 Asset and investment purchases 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total Payments 68911 27130
6720
1300		 104062 89191
Net of Receipts/(Payments) -4990 4653 4723 4840 9224 4716
A5 Transfers between funds 0 0 0 0 0 0
A6 Cash funds last year end 5602 0 6756 0 12358 7642
Cash funds this year end 611 4653
11479
4839		 21582 12358

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Charity name Charity name Charity name Charity name Charity name Char
ity
no.		 CC1
6a
Give a Child a Hope 1153
184
Receipts and
payments accounts
For the
period
from		 Period start
date		 To Perio
d end
date
01-Apr-21 31-
Mar-
22
Section B Statement of assets and
liabilities at the end of the period
Unresri
cted
Funds		 Restricted Funds
Projec
ts
 Fundi
ng		 Far
m
Specif
cally		 Stude
nts		 Proj
ect
Funde
d		 Furth
er
Educ
ation
B1 Cash funds £ £
£
£
Cash at bank and in
hand		 611 4653 114
79		 48
39
B2 Other monetary
assets		 0 0
0
0
B3 Investment
assets		 0 0
0
0
B4
Investmen
ts retained
for the
charity's own
use		 0 0
0
0
B5 Liabilities 0 0
0
0

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Notes to the Accounts for the year ended 31st March 2022

Note 1 Unrestricted funds represents donations and subscriptions received into the general fund from which financial support is given to the Revival Centre in Matugga, Uganda. The general fund makes a monthly gift by bank transfer to the Revival Centre in Matugga, Uganda. This funding is primarily for the financial support of the Champions' programme and for other disadvantaged students at the school as a contribution towards the cost of their accommodation, food and education. Restricted funds currently include further education for a small number of students whose sponsors continue to support their education beyond school age, the bed appeal and the land fund (see Note 3).

Note 2 A private donation was made by 4 supporters in 2019 for £8,250 to RC so that a deposit could be put down on the land for the church. Although the land for the church is not a GACAH project, it saves RC £200/month on properties occupied by staff on the land. There is no liability to repay but GACAH refunds the supporters as funds allow. To date £2,800 of the loan has been repaid including £1,400 in 2021/22 (2021/20: Nil).

Note 3 Private donations of £31,783k were made by a number of supporters during the year to purchase the title of the land on which the Primary School, formerly leasehold, is located. The remaining funding required to complete the purchase of £3,217 has been promised by CMS Ireland once the title deeds have been registered. In the meantime, this amount was loaned to the charity post year-end by two supporters. There is no liability to repay the loans, should the grant from CMS not materialise.

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Note Total donations of £113,794 include the 2022
4 following gifts
£
PT Champion gift 51,824
Unrestricted donations - 12,098
CAF/Virgin/Other
Bed appeal (restricted) 6,139
Scholarship fund gifts (restricted) 11,442
Land fund Income (restricted) 31,783
Total 113,286
Note (a) Analysis of payments made from the Unrestricted fund
5 (General fund)
2022
£
Transfers for Champions 56,501
Programme
Personal gifts and salary 7,085
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Administrator 3,658
Financial charges - 268
transfer fees Independent examiner's report on the
Sub-total accounts 67,512
(b) Special projects
2022
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
£
Report to the Land fund paymentsCharity Name 28,530
Scholarship trustees/ Give A Child A Hope 6,720
fund members of
Bed appeal 1,300
Sub-total 31 [st] March 2022 Charity 1153184 36,550
On accounts for
no (if
the yeTotal r ended 104,062
any)
payments
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Set out on pages Pages 1-11

Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. responsibilities of The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year trustees and under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an examiner independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

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~~Signature:~~

Name: Francis Milward

Address: 2 Manor Rise, Ilkley LS29 8QL

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose

8. Declaration

This report and accounts were approved by the trustees on ….………………

Signed on behalf of the trustees by

Date …..…………………………