## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
Charity number 1159781
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 December 2025
## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 5|
|Examiner's report|6|
|Receipts and payments account|7|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|8|
|Notes to the accounts|9 to 12|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Dates**
Nick Tischler Stood down from 17 February 2025 to 16 February 2026 Lynn Norbury Resigned 10 December 2024 Catherine Putz Stood down 1 January 2025 and will return to the board on in September 2026 Fred Ashmore Ian Tod Resigned 10 December 2024 Helen Horton Dennis Tracey Julie Yates Patricia Skeet Sandra Dutson Appointed 17 February 2025 Andrew Carmichael **Charity number** 1159781 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address Bankers** Friends Meeting House Co-operative Bank 6 Mount Street 70/72 Cross Street Manchester Manchester M2 5NS M2 4JG
## **Independent examiner**
Simon Bostrom FCIE **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity is governed by a Trust Deed dated 31 December 2014 as amended on 19 September 2022.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The charity’s Trust Deed provides that there must be not less than 6 nor more than 14 Trustees. Manchester & Warrington and Area Quaker Meeting and Cambridgeshire Area Quaker Meetings have the right to appoint trustees. New Trustees can be appointed by the existing trustees at a formal meeting. A trustee can be reappointed twice.
We continue to feel concern about the future of our trustees body, wishing to find more diverse and younger trustees who share our Quaker ethos.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The objects of the charity are:
To improve the physical and mental health and education and relieve the poverty of people of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and in particular those in the area of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Such other purposes as are exclusively charitable in accordance with the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine.
Trustees have developed this broad objective to more specific work as follows.
To promote the furtherance of peace, equality and human rights in that area.
To raise funds and provide grants, mentoring and general assistance to hospitals, schools, formal and informal groups and individuals in order to further such objects, in particular supporting community projects run by the Communauté des Eglises Evangéliques des Amis au Congo (CEEACO).
## **The charity's main activities**
Quaker Congo Partnership UK (QCP) is a registered Quaker charity which works in partnership with CEEACO, Communauté des Eglises Evangeliques des Amis au Congo (the Community of Evangelical Friends’ Churches in Congo).
The very difficult conditions of life and work in South Kivu are well publicised. This is a potentially flourishing and wealthy area where progress has lagged due to a combination of past war, recent armed conflict, the presence of conflict minerals and the historic weakness of government structures. Many Quakers feel led to support the work of QCP.
We currently support projects in the South Kivu province round the town of Uvira and in Abeka 50km to the south.
The projects under this partnership are in four areas:-
CHA - Hospital and health supporting the Centre Hospitalier Abeka
CEPAP - Centre for, Peace, Education and Psychological Support
AWID - Action for Women’s Integral Development
## **Achievements and performance**
The year 2025 began with military conflict and seizure of large areas of North Kivu. The project manager of CEPAP sent us these words:- “The blood of the innocents flows on a healthy soil. The displaced are under trees, in school spaces, in churches. Abandoning all their property, seeking the shelter of peace, and dressed in emotional vulnerability, followed by despair. Many are dead and wounded. The sounds of weapons sting hard at the ear and give a message of instability and violence.” We began an emergency appeal to UK Quakers and asked our partners to organise distribution of raised funds.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Achievements and performance continued**
In the same month that fighting in North Kivu drew the world’s attention, we saw the progress to completion of our Mukwezi water pipeline project. The generosity of support for this project has continued after its completion so that we end the year in a relatively healthy financial position.
Our CEPAP group have worked on supporting the displaced and on maintaining youth committees and strengthening their capacity to resolve the conflicts and division that have arisen from the fighting across the province, massive population movements and the widespread availability of weapons. CEPAP were able to run formal training from Turning the Tide to strengthen their skills and improve peacebuilding capabilities. They continue to nurture the clubs for young women and to eliminate attacks on women deemed to be witches.
The Hospital has maintained its medical services to a large population and to displaced people through the year, despite the dangers to its staff. A new Trustee helped us review the status and potential for the CHA, considering its relationships to other hospitals in the area. The needs for improvements in facilities and equipment and strengthening human resources for the hospital continue to be acute.
AWID activities have continued as far as possible despite the disruption and dangers to which its members have been exposed. AWID project main areas of work continue to be tailoring, agriculture, soap making for sale.
Towards the end of 2025 AWID members brought forward a proposal to acquire an owned property where their varied work can be done more safely. We are working with our partners to make this a reality even though conflict in the current year has led to serious disruption to commercial activity.
We made a decision that neither we nor our partners have the capacity to act as conduits for funding to organisations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo other than our established partners. We have offered guidance to others on how to arrange for orderly transfers to their partners.
We began work to renew our 3-year agreement with CEEACO, seeking to simplify it and focus on testable commitments. We won a major grant from the Southall Trust that included funds for a coach / manager whose role would be to support CEEACO management in planning and executing projects and in learning how to raise funds directly from donors. We have supported CEEACO during the current year in the processes of publicising the opportunity and recruiting the coach manager.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £31,949, including net receipts of £24,373 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £7,576 on restricted funds after transfers.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Reserves policy**
Trustees have agreed that there are three principal purposes of our reserves.
To allow us to respond to emergencies in the unsettled and deprived area where our work is carried out in partnership with CEEACO.
To retain £15,000 of the free reserves to cover six months of routine funding, in case of a shortfall in donations to Quaker Congo Partnership in any year. Our partnership agreement with CEEACO amounts to about £30,000 a year to cover some basic operational costs of the peace, hospital and women’s projects.
To respond to specific requests for the year ahead from the teams in CEEACO. In recent years this has included the Mukwezi water project. The focus for 2026 is to enable the purchase of a piece of land and a building for the women’s integrated development project. We intend to fund this from a mixture of specific fundraising activities and a contribution from free reserves.
The charity's free reserves at the year end were £49,820.
This is an increase from the previous year due to the charity receiving an unrestricted legacy donation of £20,000. The trustees are currently looking at how best to utilise that additional funding.
Approved by the board of trustees on 9/6/2026
Patricia Skeet (Trustee)
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Quaker Congo
## Partnership UK
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 7 to 12.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
23/7/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Receipts and payments account
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
34,039
Legacies
20,000
Gift aid
12,755
Fundraising
81
Commissioned training
-
Bank interest
544
**Total receipts**
67,419
**Payments**
Grant payments to CEEACO
43,525
Printing, postage, advertising, travel exps
1,112
Bank charges
322
Independent examination
504
Meeting costs, rooms, catering
-
**Total payments**
45,463
**Net receipts / (payments)**
21,956
**Transfers between funds**
(3)
2,417
**Net movement in funds**
24,373
**Fund balances brought forward**
25,447
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
49,820|2025
Restricted
funds
£
58,555
-
10,219
-
-
-
68,774
58,781
-
-
-
-
58,781
9,993
(2,417)
7,576
7,554
15,130|2025
Total
funds
£
92,594
20,000
22,974
81
-
544
136,193
102,306
1,112
322
504
-
104,244
31,949
-
31,949
33,001
64,950|2024
Total
funds
£
78,852
-
7,051
-
4,500
9
90,412
96,979
35
307
504
40
97,865
(7,453)
-
(7,453)
40,454
33,001|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 December 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
49,820
Cash in hand
-
**Total cash funds**
49,820
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
Restricted
£
15,130
-
15,130|2025
Total
£
64,950
-
64,950
2025
£
504
504|2024
Total
£
33,001
-
33,001|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 9/6/2026
Patricia Skeet (Trustee)
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Education Services 2010
Just Trust
Manchester & Warrington Quaker Meeting
Manchester & Warrington Quaker Work Fund
Network for Social Change Charitable Trust
QPSW yearly meeting
Southall Trust
Kingston Friends Trust
Donations - standing orders
Donations - local meetings
Donations - website
Other donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Water fund
4,882
QPSW Britain yearly meeting
72
Anaesthetics training
-
Dispelling rumours
138
Women's Income generation
205
Goma appeal
123
International conciliation group
43
Ambulance 22
1,841
Abeka Women's Agriculture
-
Southall Trust 2025
-
CEPAP restricted fund
-
NSCCT
-
Teacher training
-
Education Services
-
Just Trust
-
Radley Trust
250
7,554|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,425
5,108
7,146
17,360
34,039
Incoming
£
16,040
4,000
50
22
10,642
14,759
-
450
2,000
5,000
35
8,058
2,000
4,918
800
-
68,774|2025
Restricted
funds
£
4,918
1,600
1,000
1,500
8,058
4,000
5,000
-
30
1,849
10,364
20,236
58,555
Outgoing
£
20,796
3,948
-
-
6,427
14,269
-
-
1,943
1,814
-
6,784
2,000
-
800
-
58,781|2025
Total
funds
£
4,918
1,600
1,000
1,500
8,058
4,000
5,000
-
4,455
6,957
17,510
37,596
92,594
Transfers
£
(126)
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,291)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,417)|2024
Total
funds
£
-
800
-
-
-
4,000
-
23,000
8,607
4,136
4,797
33,512
78,852
Balance c/f
£
-
124
50
160
4,420
613
43
-
57
3,186
35
1,274
-
4,918
-
250
15,130|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Purpose of restriction**
## **Fund name**
Following a QCP / CEEACO project 8 years ago to bring clean water to the village of Abeka, QCP has raised funds for a $90,000 project to extend a clean water supply pipeline to the neighbouring village of Mkwezi. The work was completed early in 2025 and the small balance transferred to unrestricted funds.
Water fund
QPSW Britain yearly meeting
QPSW Britain yearly meeting Training for members of youth peace groups with a focus on peacebuilding, leadership and governance through the Turning the Tide workshops. Anaesthetics training For the training of a nurse anaesthetist. Grant from the CB & HH Taylor 1984 Trust
Funds for a campaign and work aimed to prevent mob violence directed at those thought to be witches in eastern part of DRC. Initially a day of training and awareness raising.
Dispelling rumours
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **3 Restricted funds continued**
**Fund name Purpose of restriction** Women's Income generation This fund has provided small grants to CEEACO to fund the purchase of sewing machines, equipment for soap making, seeds, tools and irrigation for women's agriculture projects and women's literacy and numeracy training. The focus at the end of 2025 and in 2026 is to provide funds for a secure piece of land and a building for the women to create workshops for these activities. Goma appeal Conflict in the area of Goma and more widely in South Kivu, directly affecting the areas of CEEACO's work has continued during 2025. Funds have been sent to CEEACO to support their humanitarian assistance work for displaced people and others facing hardship due to the conflict. International conciliation group Training for members of youth peace groups with a focus on peacebuilding, leadership and governance through the Turning the Tide workshops. Ambulance 22 To pay for major repairs to the hospital's 4 wheel drive vehicle. The balance of £2.291 was transferred to unrestricted funds with the approval of the original donor. Abeka Women's Agriculture Training for women involved in the agriculture project in numeracy and literacy skills. Southall Trust 2025 Contributions to the AWID agriculture project, improved pay for the CEPAP team leader and the employment of a temporary coach/manager for a 9- month period. CEPAP restricted fund Mostly small donations to be used for peace related work. NSCCT Training in peacebuilding techniques using Turning the Tide methodology. Teacher training To support the initial training of young women trainee teachers who are underrepresented in schools. Education Services Towards midwifery training. Just Trust To provide funds for tree planting as part of the CEPAP young people's environmental project and associated peace work. Radley Trust For the training of youth peace committees.
|**4 Designated funds**
Water fund
**Fund name**
Water fund|Balance b/f
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
Balance c/f
£
£
£
£
£
18,919
-
10,948
(7,971)
-
18,919
-
10,948
(7,971)
-
**Reason for designation**
Unrestricted funds designated towards the project to bring clean water to the
village of Abeka. Following completion of that work, remaining funds were
transferred back to general unrestricted funds.|
|---|---|
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **5 Related party transactions**
## **Donations from trustees and related parties**
The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £15,900.
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
|**Funds held as agent**
NE Thames Quaker Trust|Balance b/f
£
104
104|Incoming
£
-
-|Outgoing
£
-
-|Balance c/f
£
104
104|
|---|---|---|---|---|
At the year end the charity held £104 on behalf of the North East Thames Quaker Trust. This sum has been excluded from the charity's accounts.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
Charity number 1159781
Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 December 2025
## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 5|
|Examiner's report|6|
|Receipts and payments account|7|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|8|
|Notes to the accounts|9 to 12|
**Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
1
## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Dates**
Nick Tischler Stood down from 17 February 2025 to 16 February 2026 Lynn Norbury Resigned 10 December 2024 Catherine Putz Stood down 1 January 2025 and will return to the board on in September 2026 Fred Ashmore Ian Tod Resigned 10 December 2024 Helen Horton Dennis Tracey Julie Yates Patricia Skeet Sandra Dutson Appointed 17 February 2025 Andrew Carmichael **Charity number** 1159781 Registered in England and Wales **Registered and principal address Bankers** Friends Meeting House Co-operative Bank 6 Mount Street 70/72 Cross Street Manchester Manchester M2 5NS M2 4JG
## **Independent examiner**
Simon Bostrom FCIE **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO** Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity is governed by a Trust Deed dated 31 December 2014 as amended on 19 September 2022.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The charity’s Trust Deed provides that there must be not less than 6 nor more than 14 Trustees. Manchester & Warrington and Area Quaker Meeting and Cambridgeshire Area Quaker Meetings have the right to appoint trustees. New Trustees can be appointed by the existing trustees at a formal meeting. A trustee can be reappointed twice.
We continue to feel concern about the future of our trustees body, wishing to find more diverse and younger trustees who share our Quaker ethos.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
The objects of the charity are:
To improve the physical and mental health and education and relieve the poverty of people of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and in particular those in the area of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Such other purposes as are exclusively charitable in accordance with the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees may from time to time determine.
Trustees have developed this broad objective to more specific work as follows.
To promote the furtherance of peace, equality and human rights in that area.
To raise funds and provide grants, mentoring and general assistance to hospitals, schools, formal and informal groups and individuals in order to further such objects, in particular supporting community projects run by the Communauté des Eglises Evangéliques des Amis au Congo (CEEACO).
## **The charity's main activities**
Quaker Congo Partnership UK (QCP) is a registered Quaker charity which works in partnership with CEEACO, Communauté des Eglises Evangeliques des Amis au Congo (the Community of Evangelical Friends’ Churches in Congo).
The very difficult conditions of life and work in South Kivu are well publicised. This is a potentially flourishing and wealthy area where progress has lagged due to a combination of past war, recent armed conflict, the presence of conflict minerals and the historic weakness of government structures. Many Quakers feel led to support the work of QCP.
We currently support projects in the South Kivu province round the town of Uvira and in Abeka 50km to the south.
The projects under this partnership are in four areas:-
CHA - Hospital and health supporting the Centre Hospitalier Abeka
CEPAP - Centre for, Peace, Education and Psychological Support
AWID - Action for Women’s Integral Development
## **Achievements and performance**
The year 2025 began with military conflict and seizure of large areas of North Kivu. The project manager of CEPAP sent us these words:- “The blood of the innocents flows on a healthy soil. The displaced are under trees, in school spaces, in churches. Abandoning all their property, seeking the shelter of peace, and dressed in emotional vulnerability, followed by despair. Many are dead and wounded. The sounds of weapons sting hard at the ear and give a message of instability and violence.” We began an emergency appeal to UK Quakers and asked our partners to organise distribution of raised funds.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Achievements and performance continued**
In the same month that fighting in North Kivu drew the world’s attention, we saw the progress to completion of our Mukwezi water pipeline project. The generosity of support for this project has continued after its completion so that we end the year in a relatively healthy financial position.
Our CEPAP group have worked on supporting the displaced and on maintaining youth committees and strengthening their capacity to resolve the conflicts and division that have arisen from the fighting across the province, massive population movements and the widespread availability of weapons. CEPAP were able to run formal training from Turning the Tide to strengthen their skills and improve peacebuilding capabilities. They continue to nurture the clubs for young women and to eliminate attacks on women deemed to be witches.
The Hospital has maintained its medical services to a large population and to displaced people through the year, despite the dangers to its staff. A new Trustee helped us review the status and potential for the CHA, considering its relationships to other hospitals in the area. The needs for improvements in facilities and equipment and strengthening human resources for the hospital continue to be acute.
AWID activities have continued as far as possible despite the disruption and dangers to which its members have been exposed. AWID project main areas of work continue to be tailoring, agriculture, soap making for sale.
Towards the end of 2025 AWID members brought forward a proposal to acquire an owned property where their varied work can be done more safely. We are working with our partners to make this a reality even though conflict in the current year has led to serious disruption to commercial activity.
We made a decision that neither we nor our partners have the capacity to act as conduits for funding to organisations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo other than our established partners. We have offered guidance to others on how to arrange for orderly transfers to their partners.
We began work to renew our 3-year agreement with CEEACO, seeking to simplify it and focus on testable commitments. We won a major grant from the Southall Trust that included funds for a coach / manager whose role would be to support CEEACO management in planning and executing projects and in learning how to raise funds directly from donors. We have supported CEEACO during the current year in the processes of publicising the opportunity and recruiting the coach manager.
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £31,949, including net receipts of £24,373 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £7,576 on restricted funds after transfers.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **Reserves policy**
Trustees have agreed that there are three principal purposes of our reserves.
To allow us to respond to emergencies in the unsettled and deprived area where our work is carried out in partnership with CEEACO.
To retain £15,000 of the free reserves to cover six months of routine funding, in case of a shortfall in donations to Quaker Congo Partnership in any year. Our partnership agreement with CEEACO amounts to about £30,000 a year to cover some basic operational costs of the peace, hospital and women’s projects.
To respond to specific requests for the year ahead from the teams in CEEACO. In recent years this has included the Mukwezi water project. The focus for 2026 is to enable the purchase of a piece of land and a building for the women’s integrated development project. We intend to fund this from a mixture of specific fundraising activities and a contribution from free reserves.
The charity's free reserves at the year end were £49,820.
This is an increase from the previous year due to the charity receiving an unrestricted legacy donation of £20,000. The trustees are currently looking at how best to utilise that additional funding.
Approved by the board of trustees on 9/6/2026
Patricia Skeet (Trustee)
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Quaker Congo
## Partnership UK
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 7 to 12.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Simon Bostrom FCIE
23/7/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Receipts and payments account
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|Notes
2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
34,039
Legacies
20,000
Gift aid
12,755
Fundraising
81
Commissioned training
-
Bank interest
544
**Total receipts**
67,419
**Payments**
Grant payments to CEEACO
43,525
Printing, postage, advertising, travel exps
1,112
Bank charges
322
Independent examination
504
Meeting costs, rooms, catering
-
**Total payments**
45,463
**Net receipts / (payments)**
21,956
**Transfers between funds**
(3)
2,417
**Net movement in funds**
24,373
**Fund balances brought forward**
25,447
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
49,820|2025
Restricted
funds
£
58,555
-
10,219
-
-
-
68,774
58,781
-
-
-
-
58,781
9,993
(2,417)
7,576
7,554
15,130|2025
Total
funds
£
92,594
20,000
22,974
81
-
544
136,193
102,306
1,112
322
504
-
104,244
31,949
-
31,949
33,001
64,950|2024
Total
funds
£
78,852
-
7,051
-
4,500
9
90,412
96,979
35
307
504
40
97,865
(7,453)
-
(7,453)
40,454
33,001|
|---|---|---|---|
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 December 2025
2025
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
49,820
Cash in hand
-
**Total cash funds**
49,820
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2025
Restricted
£
15,130
-
15,130|2025
Total
£
64,950
-
64,950
2025
£
504
504|2024
Total
£
33,001
-
33,001|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 9/6/2026
Patricia Skeet (Trustee)
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the trustees for particular purposes.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
|**2 Grants and donations**
Education Services 2010
Just Trust
Manchester & Warrington Quaker Meeting
Manchester & Warrington Quaker Work Fund
Network for Social Change Charitable Trust
QPSW yearly meeting
Southall Trust
Kingston Friends Trust
Donations - standing orders
Donations - local meetings
Donations - website
Other donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Water fund
4,882
QPSW Britain yearly meeting
72
Anaesthetics training
-
Dispelling rumours
138
Women's Income generation
205
Goma appeal
123
International conciliation group
43
Ambulance 22
1,841
Abeka Women's Agriculture
-
Southall Trust 2025
-
CEPAP restricted fund
-
NSCCT
-
Teacher training
-
Education Services
-
Just Trust
-
Radley Trust
250
7,554|2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
4,425
5,108
7,146
17,360
34,039
Incoming
£
16,040
4,000
50
22
10,642
14,759
-
450
2,000
5,000
35
8,058
2,000
4,918
800
-
68,774|2025
Restricted
funds
£
4,918
1,600
1,000
1,500
8,058
4,000
5,000
-
30
1,849
10,364
20,236
58,555
Outgoing
£
20,796
3,948
-
-
6,427
14,269
-
-
1,943
1,814
-
6,784
2,000
-
800
-
58,781|2025
Total
funds
£
4,918
1,600
1,000
1,500
8,058
4,000
5,000
-
4,455
6,957
17,510
37,596
92,594
Transfers
£
(126)
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,291)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(2,417)|2024
Total
funds
£
-
800
-
-
-
4,000
-
23,000
8,607
4,136
4,797
33,512
78,852
Balance c/f
£
-
124
50
160
4,420
613
43
-
57
3,186
35
1,274
-
4,918
-
250
15,130|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Purpose of restriction**
## **Fund name**
Following a QCP / CEEACO project 8 years ago to bring clean water to the village of Abeka, QCP has raised funds for a $90,000 project to extend a clean water supply pipeline to the neighbouring village of Mkwezi. The work was completed early in 2025 and the small balance transferred to unrestricted funds.
Water fund
QPSW Britain yearly meeting
QPSW Britain yearly meeting Training for members of youth peace groups with a focus on peacebuilding, leadership and governance through the Turning the Tide workshops. Anaesthetics training For the training of a nurse anaesthetist. Grant from the CB & HH Taylor 1984 Trust
Funds for a campaign and work aimed to prevent mob violence directed at those thought to be witches in eastern part of DRC. Initially a day of training and awareness raising.
Dispelling rumours
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **3 Restricted funds continued**
**Fund name Purpose of restriction** Women's Income generation This fund has provided small grants to CEEACO to fund the purchase of sewing machines, equipment for soap making, seeds, tools and irrigation for women's agriculture projects and women's literacy and numeracy training. The focus at the end of 2025 and in 2026 is to provide funds for a secure piece of land and a building for the women to create workshops for these activities. Goma appeal Conflict in the area of Goma and more widely in South Kivu, directly affecting the areas of CEEACO's work has continued during 2025. Funds have been sent to CEEACO to support their humanitarian assistance work for displaced people and others facing hardship due to the conflict. International conciliation group Training for members of youth peace groups with a focus on peacebuilding, leadership and governance through the Turning the Tide workshops. Ambulance 22 To pay for major repairs to the hospital's 4 wheel drive vehicle. The balance of £2.291 was transferred to unrestricted funds with the approval of the original donor. Abeka Women's Agriculture Training for women involved in the agriculture project in numeracy and literacy skills. Southall Trust 2025 Contributions to the AWID agriculture project, improved pay for the CEPAP team leader and the employment of a temporary coach/manager for a 9- month period. CEPAP restricted fund Mostly small donations to be used for peace related work. NSCCT Training in peacebuilding techniques using Turning the Tide methodology. Teacher training To support the initial training of young women trainee teachers who are underrepresented in schools. Education Services Towards midwifery training. Just Trust To provide funds for tree planting as part of the CEPAP young people's environmental project and associated peace work. Radley Trust For the training of youth peace committees.
|**4 Designated funds**
Water fund
**Fund name**
Water fund|Balance b/f
Incoming
Outgoing
Transfers
Balance c/f
£
£
£
£
£
18,919
-
10,948
(7,971)
-
18,919
-
10,948
(7,971)
-
**Reason for designation**
Unrestricted funds designated towards the project to bring clean water to the
village of Abeka. Following completion of that work, remaining funds were
transferred back to general unrestricted funds.|
|---|---|
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 December 2025
## **5 Related party transactions**
## **Donations from trustees and related parties**
The total aggregate value of unconditional donations to the charity from the trustees or related parties was £15,900.
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
|**Funds held as agent**
NE Thames Quaker Trust|Balance b/f
£
104
104|Incoming
£
-
-|Outgoing
£
-
-|Balance c/f
£
104
104|
|---|---|---|---|---|
At the year end the charity held £104 on behalf of the North East Thames Quaker Trust. This sum has been excluded from the charity's accounts.
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## Quaker Congo Partnership UK
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Quaker Congo
## Partnership UK
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 December 2025, which are set out on pages 7 to 12.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 2 the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed: …………………………………… Name: Simon Bostrom FCIE
23/7/2026
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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