## **Legs4Africa** 12.03.2020 - 31.03.21 ## **Trustees’ Annual Report** Registered Charity Number 1158697 ## **Reference and administrative details of the charity:** Name: Legs4africa Registration number: 1158697 Address: Backfields House, Upper York Street, Bristol, United Kingdom, BS2 8QJ Website: www.legs4africa.org Social Media: _@legs4africa_ Email: hello@legs4africa.org Phone: +44 (0) 117 325 8114 Note on dates: This reporting period is over 1 year due to aligning to normal financial year for future April 1st - March 31st. ## **Trustee Board** Richard Hibbert (Chair) Sam Gibson Bex Yearworth Alexander Emenike Reena Agarwal ## **Structure, governance and management** Particulars of governing document: Trust Deed dated 12 March 2014. Methods adopted for the recruitment and appointment of new trustees: No trustees have left or been appointed during this period ## **Financial Review** |**In and Out (£)**|**March 2020 - 2021**| |---|---| |**Total Income**|**459,815**| |**Total Expenditure**|**361,415**| **Reserves Policy -** Hold £50,000 in reserves, in a separate bank account ## **There are no funds in deficit** ## _**Paid employees include:**_ Phil Tunstall - Development Director Tom Williams - Founding Director Evie Dickinson - Fundraising Manager Christopher Ingram - Project Manager Bethany Elgood - Project Manager Stefanie Hadley - Delivery Coordinator ## **Public benefit statement** The Trustees hereby declare and affirm that they have complied with their duty to have regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the Charity Commission in exercising their powers and/or duties. ## **Objectives and activities of Legs4Africa** Legs4Africa is a charitable organization in the UK focused on empowering amputees in developing African countries. Legs4Africa’s vision is to see amputees across Africa live independently. Legs4Africa’s mission is to provide amputees with assistive technologies, and emotional and physical rehabilitation. Our approach is to build a network of partnering mobility centre’s in Africa, who are assisted by receiving new and used prosthetic leg components which are used by trained staff to build prosthetic legs for the local amputee population, and aid them with physiotherapy and physical rehabilitation. To aid with the emotional rehabilitation Legs4Africa set up support groups local to the mobility centres, that are run by amputees, for amputees, creating a network of support that aids to empower amputees, and helping them find work, training and social connections. Legs4Africa work from Bristol, they collect prosthetic legs from hospitals and individual donors from across the UK. They partner with local Men’s Shed organisations that dismantle the legs into their individual components, which are then sorted for sending to Africa. They also utilise the use of volunteers to carry equipment with them on holidays or business trips, if they are heading near a partnering centre then they are encouraged to take a box of leg components with them. Initiatives like this means Legs4Africa achieves a lot with a small budget. Legs4Africa is composed of volunteers and professionals who are working diligently to refine the model even further to ensure that the charity can provide even more prosthetics, to even more amputees, in the most efficient and cost effective way. ## **Vision** Affordable rehabilitation for amputees across Africa ## **Mission** To help amputees live independently, by providing prosthetic legs, along with physical and emotional rehabilitation ## **Values** We believe that all amputees should have access to a prosthetic leg We believe independence is achieved through community, education and opportunity We look for local solutions first We believe in collaborating with other organisations We are inclusive of people that are under-represented We communicate with transparency We present every person with dignity, agency and humanity through our media We will have a positive impact on the planet for generations to come We listen, adapt and say thank you ## **Current Situation** We currently collect 2000 legs a year in the UK, which we think is almost the limit. We dismantle the legs into useful components, which we refurbish, clean and ship to 10 mobility centres in 7 Sub-saharan African countries. We are currently close to meeting the demand for parts in these centres, however we know of at least 60 centres that require a solution for low-cost prosthetic components, and we cannot meet that demand. There is a huge need for emotional support alongside physical rehabilitation. We have set up community groups in Gambia, helping with counselling and referrals to local services. Our head office in Bristol employs 6 full time staff, 2 part time staff, and 3 regular volunteers. We employee 7 staff in The Gambia (3 in the mobility centre, 3 in community support and 1 data collector) There is a lack of prosthetists and technicians in Africa, especially female ones. We have 7 women, including 5 amputees in training to become prosthetic technicians. Along with 1 male in training to become a prosthetist. ## **Objectives and Priorities This Year** Expanding our prosthetic leg recycling programme in Europe, Canada, USA and Australia. Expand our emotional support group programme in Ghana, Gambia and Uganda, through providing peer support and increasing the organisational capacity of amputee led groups. Increase the number of amputees accessing, and quality of our mobility centre partners services Explore technologies for delivering online training, and for manufacturing leg components locally ## **Reporting** We regularly update our website and social media with reports, blog posts and demonstrations of impact. We report with gratitude to our funders directly, including UK Aid, regular public donations, family trusts and grants, corporate partners and public fundraisers. ||**Legs4Africa**|**Legs4Africa**|**Legs4Africa**|**Legs4Africa**|**Legs4Africa**|**1158697**|**1158697**|**1158697**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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