## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/10/2024 Period start date To 30/09/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Village Ventures Africa** ## **Charity registration number: 1154438** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To assist in poverty alleviation**
**programme via means of self help**
**projects in Mali and Mauritania to**
**continue encouraging self development.**| |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|**Projects to develop basic skills (life**
**skills), health and education, including**
**donations of old laptops, bicycles,**
**sewing machines all of which are**
**donated free of charge to projects in**
**africa.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **Non-profit making - all support from any volunteer is unpaid, we encourage volunteers from all walks of life to come** Para 1.38x **and share their skills.** Policy on grant making |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**No investment policies are recognised by**
**the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Non-profit making - all support from any**
**volunteer is unpaid, we encourage**
**volunteers from all walks of life to come**
**and share their skills.**| |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|**Our present programme is Cataract**
**surgery ..But due to issues within Mali at**
**the moment our focus in Mauritania.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We continue to fund raise as normal via**
**Market and car boot sales as well as**
**receiving the nominal donations.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charities financial position remained**
**relatively the same only having a cash**
**flow of around 10000,**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**na**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**na**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**We raise funds via means of car boots,**
**jumble sales, concerts, donations**
**and we also have a small amount**
**donated from various charities.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No investment policies are recognised by**
**the charity.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Village Ventures Africa| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1154438| |Charity’s principal address|3 The Hollow
Bamford
Derbyshire
S33 0DU| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Nam**
**e of**
**pers**
**on**
**(or**
**body**
**)**
**entitl**
**ed to**
**appo**
**int**
**trust**
**ee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Pamela K Young|Chair||| ||AnthonyCedric Hill|Treasurer||| ||AnthonyCedric Hill|Trustee||| ||Vivien Fardon|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 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 adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||**Accounts**|Marc Young|Flat 5, 92 Burnbridge Rd,
Chesterfield, S41 9LS| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional**
**information)**||| ||||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Anthony Hill
Signature(s) PK YOUNG
Anthony Cedric Hill
Full name(s) Pamela Katherine
Young
Position (eg Chair
Secretary, Chair,
etc)
Date
23/03/2022
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Village Ventures Africa accounts for the fin |Income|Income|Income|Income| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Date|Detail||Bank| ||||| ||inititial bank||£10,473.81| |7/18/24|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| |09/10/2014|Supported Giving||£67.76| |10/10/2024|Donation||£100.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |28/10/2024|bank||£600.00| ||||| ||||| |06/11/2024|TonyHall||£50.00| |11/11/2024|Booth SA||£100.00| |11/11/2024|Supported Giving||£47.96| |11/11/2024|Booth SA||£100.00| |18/11/2024|CAF||£10.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| |06/12/2024|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| |10/12/2024|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| |06/01/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |09/01/2025|Supported Giving||£47.93| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |04/01/2025|Donation||£598.00| |04/01/2025|Donation||£200.00| ||||| |06/02/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |10/02/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| |18/02/2025|CAF||£10.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |05/03/2025|DM Walters||£200.00| |06/03/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| |10/03/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| ||||| ||||| |07/04/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |08/04/2025|Donation||£50.00| |09/04/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| |25/04/2025|rose hill||£28,548.06| ||||| |06/05/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| |09/05/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| |16/05/2025|CAF||£10.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |04/06/2025|Donation||£100.00| |06/06/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |09/06/2025|DM Walters||£200.00| ||||| |09/06/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| ||||| |02/07/2025|Donation||£49.71| |07/07/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |09/07/2025|Supported Giving||£47.91| |16/07/2025|Booth SA||£100.00| ||||| |21/07/2025|Donation||£50.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |06/08/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |---|---|---|---| |18/08/2025|CAF||£10.00| |20/08/2025|Donation||£525.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |26/08/2025|hotel||£96.91| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |08/09/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| |08/09/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| |25/09/2025|Donation||£600.00| |29/09/2025|give asyou live||£25.00| |02/10/2025|Donation||£500.00| ||||| |06/10/2025|TonyHall||£50.00| ||||| |10/10/2025|Supported Giving||£47.96| ||||| Total Income £44,501.73 nancial period ending 30 Sep 2025 |Expenditure|Expenditure|Expenditure|Expenditure| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Date|Expenditure Detail||Bank| ||||| ||||| ||||| |10/9/2024|Flight||85.65| ||||| ||||| |10/11/2024|Bamako Flood Victims||250| |10/14/2024|Bamako Flood Victims||2000| |10/28/2024|Matalan||12.99| |10/28/2024|Matalan||12.99| ||||| |10/29/2024|Bamako Flood Victims||2600| |11/1/2024|Exchange||103.61| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |11/20/2024|Repair||£80.00| |11/21/2024|Repair||£100.00| |11/29/2024|Tyre||£25.00| ||||| |12/10/2024|Cash||£50.00| ||||| |12/27/2024|Cash||£50.00| ||||| ||||| |1/10/2025|Ebay||£39.48| |1/16/2025|Viajes`||£12.30| |1/16/2025|Fee||£0.33| |1/16/2025|Fee||£1.50| |1/29/2025|insurance||£250.00| ||||| ||||| |2/4/2025|Ukraine||£800.00| ||||| ||||| |2/17/2025|Mali Projects||£800.00| ||||| |2/20/2025|Mali Projects||£400.00| |2/20/2025|Mali Projects||£300.00| |2/27/2025|insurance||£55.43| |---|---|---|---| |2/27/2025|Cash||£70.00| ||||| ||||| |3/10/2025|Cash||£400.00| ||||| |3/13/2025|Mali Projects||£12.38| |3/20/2025|Mali Projects||£9.23| |01/04/2025|Ukraine||£900.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |4/28/2025|cash||£200.00| ||||| |5/9/2025|Mali Projects||£850.00| ||||| |5/15/2025|prints||£6.00| ||||| |5/21/2025|Mali Projects||£8,000.00| |5/27/2025|Flight||£41.49| |5/28/2025|ferry||£459.00| |6/2/2025|tyres||£35.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| |6/9/2025|cash||£60.00| ||||| |6/13/2025|Repair||£127.72| |6/17/2025|prints||£5.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |7/21/2025|tingle ashmore||£600.00| ||||| |7/25/2025|national service||£90.00| |8/4/2025|Barlow||£2.00| |8/4/2025|Barlow||£6.00| |8/4/2025|hotel||£45.27| |8/4/2025|transfer fee||£1.24| |8/4/2025|cash||£20.00| ||||| |8/8/2025|Mali Projects||£9,000.00| |8/8/2025|Mali Projects||£5,000.00| |8/8/2025|charge||£15.00| |8/11/2025|home bargains||£2.90| |8/18/2025|cash||| |8/18/2025|Flight||£40.00| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| |8/20/2025|Ukraine||£525.00| |20/08/2025|hotel||£12.06| |8/20/2025|transfer fee||£0.33| |8/20/2025|home bargains||£20.84| |8/21/2025|train||£10.99| |8/26/2025|car||£7.00| |8/26/2025|petrol||£64.00| |8/26/2025|Ebay||£364.00| ||||| |8/26/2025|train||£25.99| |8/26/2025|hotel||£96.91| |8/26/2025|bai sntona||£4.91| |8/26/2025|petrol||£13.06| |8/26/2025|food||£14.47| |8/26/2025|food||£21.27| |8/26/2025|Mali Projects||£100.00| |8/27/2025|bai sntona||£2.27| |8/27/2025|Exchange||£7.81| |8/27/2025|transfer fee||£0.21| |8/27/2025|bai sntona||£14.68| |9/1/2025|petrol||£25.28| |9/1/2025|Mali Projects||£500.00| |9/2/2025|hotel||£10.99| |9/2/2025|transfer fee||£0.30| |9/2/2025|hotel||£74.55| |9/2/2025|transfer fee||£2.05| |9/2/2025|hotel||£100.19| |9/2/2025|transfer fee||£2.75| |9/2/2025|food||£17.07| |9/2/2025|transfer fee||£0.46| |9/2/2025|hotel||£34.55| |9/2/2025|transfer fee||£0.94| |9/8/2025|drs flights||£2,400.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| |9/11/2025|drs hotel||£230.00| ||||| ||||| ||||| |10/2/2025|cataractproj||£500.00| ||||| |10/7/2025|Flight||£79.29| ||||| ||||| Total Expenditure £39,311.73 Credit bought forward 5190 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/10/2024 Period start date To 30/09/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Village Ventures Africa** ## **Charity registration number: 1154438** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To assist in poverty alleviation**
**programme via means of self help**
**projects in Mali and Mauritania to**
**continue encouraging self development.**| |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|**Projects to develop basic skills (life**
**skills), health and education, including**
**donations of old laptops, bicycles,**
**sewing machines all of which are**
**donated free of charge to projects in**
**africa.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **Non-profit making - all support from any volunteer is unpaid, we encourage volunteers from all walks of life to come** Para 1.38x **and share their skills.** Policy on grant making |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**No investment policies are recognised by**
**the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Non-profit making - all support from any**
**volunteer is unpaid, we encourage**
**volunteers from all walks of life to come**
**and share their skills.**| |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|**Our present programme is Cataract**
**surgery ..But due to issues within Mali at**
**the moment our focus in Mauritania.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We continue to fund raise as normal via**
**Market and car boot sales as well as**
**receiving the nominal donations.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charities financial position remained**
**relatively the same only having a cash**
**flow of around 10000,**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**na**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**na**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**We raise funds via means of car boots,**
**jumble sales, concerts, donations**
**and we also have a small amount**
**donated from various charities.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**No investment policies are recognised by**
**the charity.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Village Ventures Africa| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1154438| |Charity’s principal address|3 The Hollow
Bamford
Derbyshire
S33 0DU| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Nam**
**e of**
**pers**
**on**
**(or**
**body**
**)**
**entitl**
**ed to**
**appo**
**int**
**trust**
**ee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Pamela K Young|Chair||| ||AnthonyCedric Hill|Treasurer||| ||AnthonyCedric Hill|Trustee||| ||Vivien Fardon|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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 N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects 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 adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---|---| ||**Accounts**|Marc Young|Flat 5, 92 Burnbridge Rd,
Chesterfield, S41 9LS| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional**
**information)**||| ||||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Anthony Hill
Signature(s) PK YOUNG
Anthony Cedric Hill
Full name(s) Pamela Katherine
Young
Position (eg Chair
Secretary, Chair,
etc)
Date
23/03/2022
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