## **Georgia’s Children of the World** ## **Trustees Annual Report 1[st] April 2020 to 31[st] March 2021** Georgia’s children of the World continue to pursue our policy of helping Children in extreme need and poverty both at home and across the world focussing mainly on: ## **W** ater **H** ealthcare **E** ducation and **N** utrition **… W.H.E.N? … NOW!!!** As well as running our own projects and fund raising events in the UK , we work very closely with our partners overseas and in the UK who have like-minded policies, and who like ourselves are mainly volunteer lead, running on little or no overheads. Our Current partners are: CHOICE CAMBODIA, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia … ## **GEORGIA’S HOUSE 1 & CAROLE’S CLASSROOM** BUILD YOUR FUTURE TODAY (BFT) in Siem Reap, Cambodia … ## **GEORGIA’S HOUSES 2, 3, 6 & 8** MR ROSS’s SCHOOL in Siem, Reap Cambodia … ## **GEORGIA’S SCHOOL OF ROCK & GEORGIA’S HOUSE 7, 9 & 10** LOVE LIGHT ROMANIA in Transylvania, Romania … ## **GEORGIA’S HOUSE 4** THE LIFECENTRE in Salford, England… ## **GEORGIA’S HOUSE 5** The year ending March 2021 has been a very difficult one for Georgia’s Children of the World , this year we didn’t only lose our main fund raising event, G-Festival , we also lost all our other normal fundraising events due to the Covid 19 Pandemic. We did however manage to pull off a couple of alternative fund raisers to maintain as much of our work as possible, details of which appear later in this report. Most our projects thankfully still received funding , although often much reduced, from Georgia’s Children donations for feeding programs, teachers’ salaries, school supplies, medical supplies and general running costs. Emergency support for extremely poor families in rural Cambodia, with basic food, clothing and medicines, including support with Covid PPE was also maintained, as well as University Education for two gifted youngsters who come from severely underprivileged backgrounds. We were not in a position to build any further Educational buildings, but instead decided to use some of the funds we had available to complete Georgia’s Houses 9 & 10 . These houses are typical Cambodia homes built in a rural community and the start of a ‘Homestay’ Project where together with our local partner we intend to rent these properties out to tourists, once it is safe to do so again. All funds raised from the rentals will go to support the local community , with education and basic food supplies , once tourism resumes properly we intend to build further homes to extend what we hope to become a sustainable business for the local community The Free School Uniform project with Salford City Council continued but surprisingly on a smaller scale to due school closures and council office closures during lockdowns. We also continued to support our partners the Lifecentre in Salford (the home of Georgia’s House 5) with the breakfast club when open and food parcels to families instead during lockdown. We continued working very closely with family of local girl Heidi- Lou, providing this 8 year old Cerebral Palsy sufferer with increased physiotherapy sessions following a serious operation for a double hip replacement. ## **Fundraising** At the beginning of lockdown it March 2020 , it became very clear if Georgia’s Children was to survive the pandemic we would need some alternative fundraising to our usual public events. So in April 2020 we embarked on our ‘Donowt Donate’ campaign encouraging people to post videos on Social Media of them doing nothing! … normally in a comical manner to encourage family and friends to donate to support children in desperate need. This proved to be quite successful and gave a platform for us to promote ‘G-Festival Hits the Streets’ on the late Bank Holiday in May 2020. We thought if people can’t come to G- Festival , then we would take it to them ! … Fully social distanced of course !! So with an army of volunteers, many in fancy dress, we hit the streets! … taking a mobile sound system on a purpose built trike on a ten mile route through our local area, with thousands of people cheering us on from their doorstops , donating on line and in buckets on the end of 2m meter poles . The event was a huge success raising around £15k to make sure we could continue to support the projects we had already started. The event also inspired a close friend of Georgia’s Children, Matt Maxwell, to undertake his own personal challenge, which was to run 10k everyday for 100 days starting August right through to December. We named the event 10k 4 10k , with a target of raising £10,000 … after a gruelling 3 month’s running and a massive social media campaign. Matt completed his one hundred runs , followed immediately by a full Marathon on December 5[th] , his monumental effort raised a further £12,000.00 . So despite all the problems of the pandemic and cancellation of ALL our normal fundraising events, together with a few smaller fundraiser activities we managed to raise around £30k to maintain the projects we run in my daughter’s name … We would like to thank our community and donors for the generous support of Georgia’s Legacy… Georgia’s Children of the World It is our aim to offer support to children around the world irrelevant of race, religion or politics as we strive to be … ## **“DRIVEN BY LOVE … GUIDED BY ANGELS!”** |DATE|DETAILS|OUT|IN||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |01-Apr-20|Charity Account 41634918 Opening Balance as @ 01/04/20||20,614.50||| |31-Mar-21|Fundraising for the period 01/04/20 - 31/03/21||44,058.17||| |31-Mar-21|Charity Account 41634918 Closing Balance as @ 31/03/21|27,391.54|||| |31-Mar-21|UK Projects for the period 01/04/20 - 31/03/21|11,976.31|||| |31-Mar-21|Expenses for the period 01/04/20 - 31/03/21|1,010.18|||| |31-Mar-21|School Uniforms (UK) for the period 01/04/20 - 31/03/21|530.70|||| |31-Mar-21|Overseas Projects for the period 01/04/20 - 31/03/21|23,763.94|||| |||64,672.67|64,672.67||| ||||||| |||**Difference**|||| |||**0.00**|||| ||||||| ||£37,281.13|Overall Spend|||| ||57.65%|Overall spend show n as a %||of revenue|| ||56.08%|Charitable support show n as a % of revenue|||| ||1.56%|Expenses show n as a % of revenue|||| ||42.35%|Closing balance show n as a % of revenue|||| ||||||| ## **GEORGIA’S CHILDREN OF THE WORLD** Hi Steve I formally confirm that I have reviewed the accounts and that I am happy that they are a true and accurate record of the charities financial position for the year to 31 March 2021. R. Alldred Accountant