## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 Sep 2020 31 Aug 2021
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Zenith Education **Other names charity is known by** n/a **Registered charity number (if any)** 1157788 **Charity's principal address** 9 March Square Chichester West Sussex **Postcode** PO19 5AN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Articles of Association
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by the trustees Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
For the public benefit to advance the education (including social and physical training) of children in the developing world, in particular but not exclusively, in India, in such ways as the charity trustees think fit. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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## Aims & Purpose:
After being established initially to support just one school, Zenith Education now supports fourteen schools. This significantly improves the lives and education of the socio-economically impoverished children across four slum areas in the northern part of Mumbai.
Achievements:
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
Children in Malwani, one of the largest slums in Asia, are trapped in the well documented ‘Poverty Cycle’. It is nearly impossible for families to escape this cycle without outside intervention.
Zenith Education continues to work through its expanding group of schools to provide children with an education. Education is recognised as one of the most important factors in allowing individuals to escape poverty. Zenith is also very proud to provide at least one working toilet in every school and has been involved with funding construction of toilets, in schools where none was available. Open-air defecation continues to be a huge challenge in India and all Zenith Group children have access to a toilet and clean water during the school day.
Public Benefit:
The Trustees, when making decisions, have had due regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising any powers or duties to which the guidance is relevant.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** During this reporting period, Zenith Education has continued to be **achievements of the charity** severely impacted by the Covid pandemic. As has been widely reported **during the year** in the media, India and in particular, its major metropolitan areas, has been severely affected.
As a result of the continually evolving landscape and context, Zenith has responded appropriately. The schools have been closed (under government instruction) since early 2020. However, coaching classes have been permitted and so where possible, and where resources have allowed, some Zenith schools have offered these classes on a limited and safe basis. Zenith believes that whilst remote learning is necessary and pragmatic during this period, it is not optimal and cannot replace face-to-face learning.
Each school has continued to provide teaching and learning remotely where possible, but the range and impact of this has been limited by access to technology within each school’s cohort. Access to phones, laptops, pads and internet access is very limited within the slum communities and so education for Zenith’s children has been impacted.
The division of the Zenith Group into two clusters of schools continues to prove very successful. The clusters have been able to cooperate and support each other during the pandemic. Once the pandemic is over, the aim is still to develop and grow Cluster 2, and then repeat this process during the next few years, with an ambition to take the methodology national.
Zenith has taken the first steps in supporting the mothers of children from its schools, via a local initiative. Many children have been kept away from school by families who require them to work or perform home duties. Zenith recognises that providing income for families, frees the children to attend school. Zenith is therefore supporting a project, helping mothers to make and sell paper crafts. This has already provided measurable success for the families and children.
Fundraising remains a challenge, as always, for the charity. As with all charities, the pandemic has affected Donor motivation. Travel restrictions also continue to impact Zenith’s work. Trustees remain unable to visit the projects and continue to rely on remote communications. This has been successful, but again, is not optimal.
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## **Section E Financial review**
Wherever possible, funds are allocated to a specific cost or project; if no **Brief statement of the** such project is pending, funds are retained by the charity for future use **charity’s policy on reserves** by the schools.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
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## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Benedict Charles Marsh **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** 25/5/22
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|**Zenith Education**|||**1157788**||
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|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01-Sep-20|**To**|31-Aug-21||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,199**
**401**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,600**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,600**
**-**
**69**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69**
**2,531**
**-**
**70,919**
**73,450**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,315**
**6,315**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,199**
**401**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,600**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,600**
**69**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**69**
**2,531**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**2,199**|||||**21,563**|
|Gift Aid|**401**|||||**375**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**2,600**|||||**21,938**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**21,938**|
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Donationspaid|**-**|||||**450**|
|Cost of charitable activities(incl travel)|**69**|||||**2,724**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**69**|||||**3,174**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**3,174**|
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||**2,531**|**-**|**-**|
**2,531**||**18,764**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**70,919**|**6,315**|**-**|**77,234**||**58,470**|
||**73,450**|**6,315**|**-**|
**79,765**||**77,234**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
15/03/2022
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
From last year
Balance this year
Balance this year
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**70,919**
**6,315**
**2,531**
**-**
**6,315**
**73,450**
**6,315**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Benedict Charles Marsh|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||OK|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|||Benedict Charles Marsh|25/03/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
15/03/2022
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