## **TRUSTEES ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** Fiscal Year Ending 5[th] April, 2022 ## **Contents** 1.Legal and Administrative Information........Page 2 2. Operations Report…..............................…. Page 3 3. Financial Report….................................……Page 5 4. Overseas Financial Control.........................Page 6 **The Community Development Network is a Working Title of the Aid for Trade Foundation** (Approved by the Charity Commission February 8th 2019) ## **THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NETWORK** UK Charity No.1153418 Reg.office:14,St.Raphael Road, Worthing BN11 5HL Contact: office@communitydevelopment.net Tel: (0)1903 242499 www.communitydevelopment.net and www.aidfortrade.info __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **1** of **6** ## **1.Legal and Administrative Information** Charity Number: No 1153418 Registration: Registered as CI0 (Charitable lncorporated Organization) On 15th August, 2013 Start of Financial Year: 6th April 2021 End of Financial Year: 5th April 2022 Trustees at 6th April 2019: M.C.Tyler (Network Facilitator)) Ben Vannes (Chair of Trustees) Milden Choongo (The Chibozu Community Trust) Ibrahim Sesay Registered Office: 14,St.Raphael Road, Worthlng West Sussex BN11 5HL Banker: National Westminster (South Street Worthing) Sort Code 6A-24--32 Account No. xxxx8183 Accountants J.Caladine Chartered Accountants Chantry House 22.Upperton Road Eastbourne, East Sussex. BN21 18 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **2** of **6** ## **2. Operations Report** ## **Overview** The World Bank report that _**'The COVID-19 pandemic has raised global income inequality, both within and between countries, setting back progress by a decade or more. Vulnerable groups, including low-income people, youth, women, and low-skilled and informal workers, have faced particularly severe job and income losses. Without a forceful policy response, there is a risk that higher inequality will become entrenched**_ **'.** ## **Network Membership** Network Membership has increased to 1,670+ Member organisations in 42 countries. The global pandemic has emphasised the value of digital resources which can reach and help leaders anywhere, without the need to travel which is both environmentally friendly as there is no need to travel so is highly cost effective. ## **Website Improvement** A major project in the year was a restructuring of the website to make it more user friendly and to give easier addition of new resources www.communitydevelopment.net New resources have been researched and added to the Network website, to maintain as comprehensive a resource as possible for Members use. While being Christian led the Network resources are maintained as secular content to ensure safe use in sensitive areas and to help people of any faith or none Discussion continued with Members and Trustees on the potential adoption of these digital resources by governments in developing countries to help accelerate the global goals for 2030 __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **3** of **6** ## **Members Newsletters** Quarterly newsletters have been sent to all Network members with positive feedback ## **Youth Empowerment** With the help of a multinational team of young people, the Youth Empowerment resource was completed as a series of 24 YouTube Playlists, and has been added to the website. Additional topics have been identified for research and addition to this resource ## **Community Transformation** A young Malawi woman graduate (Thokozire Mtonga) was recruited to lead this project development in a severely disadvantaged community of Kawale in the Chitipa district of Northern Malawi, in collaboration with a local Church leader A community survey identified their ten priorities which may well be the priorities of many other disadvantaged communities which if addressed effectively could bring about sustainable transformation in the quality of life ||**Results of survey of 120 Kawale Residents**|Priority| |---|---|---| |1|Incomegeneration|**1**| |2|Activities foryoung people(Sports/clubs/training/work)|**2**| |3|Local Radio|**3**| |4|Tree Planting|**4**| |5|Water supplydomestic and irrigation|**5**| |6|CommunityCentre(Information/café/training/administration)|**6**| |7|Waste collection/recycling|**7**| |8|Shopfor equipment rental and agrigoods*|**8**| |9|Social services(For elderlyand disabled)|**9**| |10|CommunityPrimarySchool Development|**10**| Development progressed with a focus on income generation and helping young people with training and some financial help for 12 young people to start their own income generation plus the establishment of a Farmers Association Youth STEPS Training Successful Participants Kawale Farmers Association __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **4** of **6** A small financial incentive of £50 was provided for new ten start ups after training in both Mzuzu and Kawale communities ## **Climate Resilience** Limited research attempted to identify how impoverished communities to build their resilience against the problems linked to climate change ## **Facebook** The global Community Development Network Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/network.for.community.development has now been restaged and improved to encourage new members and share developments, as reported in the four Members Newsletters Resources published during the year ## **4. Staffing** We have appreciated the help and advice of our Trustees, but have so far, been unable to recruit more volunteers in the UK to provide an appropriate infrastructure. However a decision was taken to fund a full time Development Assistant (Thokozire Mtonga) in Malawi and a part time a student Linda Malecaj, at Istanbul University) to assist Youth resource and facebook development We have received many encouraging messages from overseas Network Members indicating the potential for further development and growth of the Network. ## **6. Financial Report** (Note: No formal inspection or audit of accounts was necessary in this fiscal year) ## **Financial Summary** Due to the time needed to prepare grant applications only a few applications to carefully selected donor agencies have been made We are therefore very grateful to the Souter Trust and the Tory Foundation and personal donors for their contributions most of which have been allocated to the Kawaale Community development project It is hoped that progess made with our website resources and increasing development of Youth Empowerment and Climate Resilience Resources will increase the interest of donors to support this pioneering digital charity __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **5** of **6** ## **Financial Accounts** |**Opening balance 5th April 2021**|**Opening balance 5th April 2021**|£639.00| |---|---|---| |Income|Souter Trust|£5,000| ||P.Cole|£500| ||ToryFoundation|£520| |Total Income||**£6,659**| |||| |Expense|Web Design Support|£1,212.00| ||Overheads|£65.00| ||Hope for relief Malawi|£365.00| ||Linda|£568.79| ||Thoko salary (Malawi)|£2,500.55| |Total Expense||**£4,711.34**| |**Balance Carried Forward 6th April 2022**||**£1,947.66**| ## **Financial History** |**2020/21**|**2021/22**| |---|---| |£237|£639| |**£8,349**|**£6,659**| |£7,947|£4,711| |£639|£1,947| ## **Overseas Transfer Control** It is important that any monies transferred abroad are used effectively in the furtherance of our aims. Control is based on an established ‘partner’ relationship, an agreed project plan and a signed filed Funding Agreement, which includes obligations for reports and feedback Conventional bank transfers and Moneygram have been used for money transfers ____________________ Signed: M.C.Tyler Date: July 18th 2022 M.C.Tyler Trustee Trustee/Network Facilitator __________________________________________________________________________________________ Page **6** of **6** |||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Annual Accounts April 5th 2021 to April 6th 2022**|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Opening balance 5th April 2021**||||£639.00|||||||||| ||Income||Souter Trust||£5,000|||||||||| ||||P.Cole||£500|||||||||| ||||ToryFoundation||£520|||||||||| ||Total Income||||**£6,659**|||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||Expense||Web Design Support||£1,212.00|||||||||| ||||Overheads||£65.00|||||||||| ||||Hope for relief Malawi||£365.00|||||||||| ||||Linda||£568.79|||||||||| ||||Thoko salary (Malawi)||£2,500.55|||||||||| ||Total Expense||||**£4,711.34**|||||||||| ||**Balance Carried Forward 6th April 2022**||||**£1,947.66**|||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Fin**|~~**il i**~~||||||||||||| |||~~**nca Hstory**~~||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~**2020/2**~~||~~**2021/22**~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£237~~||~~£639~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~**£8,349**~~||~~**£6,659**~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£7,947~~||~~£4,711~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£639~~||~~£1,947~~|| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||Signed||||July18th 2022|||||||||| ||Facilitator/Trustee|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||The CommunityDevelopment Foundation|||||||||||||| ||UK charity1153418 RegAugust 13th 2013|||||||||||||| ||RegOffice 14,St.Raphael Road,WorthingBN11 5HL|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Annual Accounts April 5th 2021 to April 6th 2022**|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Opening balance 5th April 2021**||||£639.00|||||||||| ||Income||Souter Trust||£5,000|||||||||| ||||P.Cole||£500|||||||||| ||||ToryFoundation||£520|||||||||| ||Total Income||||**£6,659**|||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||Expense||Web Design Support||£1,212.00|||||||||| ||||Overheads||£65.00|||||||||| ||||Hope for relief Malawi||£365.00|||||||||| ||||Linda||£568.79|||||||||| ||||Thoko salary (Malawi)||£2,500.55|||||||||| ||Total Expense||||**£4,711.34**|||||||||| ||**Balance Carried Forward 6th April 2022**||||**£1,947.66**|||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||**Fin**|~~**il i**~~||||||||||||| |||~~**nca Hstory**~~||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~**2020/2**~~||~~**2021/22**~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£237~~||~~£639~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~**£8,349**~~||~~**£6,659**~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£7,947~~||~~£4,711~~|| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||~~£639~~||~~£1,947~~|| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||Signed||||July18th 2022|||||||||| ||Facilitator/Trustee|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||The CommunityDevelopment Foundation|||||||||||||| ||UK charity1153418 RegAugust 13th 2013|||||||||||||| ||RegOffice 14,St.Raphael Road,WorthingBN11 5HL|||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||