**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 09 2023 31 08 2024 **From To** Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust **Other names charity is known by** Bridges to Prosperity **Registered charity number (if any)** 1160342 ~~|~~ **Charity's principal address** Bridges to Prosperity c/o Jon Dale Bridges to Prosperity c/o Jon Dale 17 Five Mile Drive **Postcode:** OX2 8HT Oxford ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to appoint**
**trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---| |1 Ian Firth|||| |2 Jon Dale|Chair||| |3 Nick Francis|||| |4 Radana Crhova|||| |5 Jane Kelly|||| |6 Ed Wilkinson|||| |7|||| |8|||| |9|||| |10|||| |11|||| |12|||| |13|||| |14|||| |15|||| |16|||| |17|||| |18|||| |19|||| |20|||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name**
**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name**
**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name**
**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---|---| |||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|| |||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| ||||| ||||| ||||| **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Trust deed Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by current trustees Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The Chair of the Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust holds a voting You **may choose** to include seat on the board of directors of Bridges to Prosperity, Inc., the United additional information, where States-based charity that carries out operational activities on behalf of the relevant, about: Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust. - 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** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its governing**
**document**
**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)**|The charity’s objectives are the prevention or relief of poverty in rural
communities anywhere in the world by raising funds and making grants
or providing other financial support to promote infrastructure and
transportation projects including but not limited to making donations to
support the charitable activities of Bridges to Prosperity, Inc.| |---|---| ||The Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust creates access to critical
services and opportunities for isolated communities throughout the world
by raising awareness and resources for Bridges to Prosperity. Bridges to
Prosperity works with isolated communities to create access to essential
healthcare, education, and economic opportunities by building
footbridges over impassable rivers. Trustees advance the mission of
Bridges to Prosperity by providing critical support to the organization’s
governance, bridge-building programmes, and technical initiatives, and
by connecting donors and volunteers to the organization.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** In 2024, the Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust was instrumental in developing financial capacity, technical resources, and a highly skilled volunteer basis to support; · Rwanda full-scale randomized controlled trial; · The first completed Bridges of trail Ethiopia and the technical assistance and advocacy tools that will grow from that program; and · Continued exploratory programs throughout East and Central Africa. Additionally, Bridges to Prosperity worked with government partners in Rwanda and Uganda to build a record-breaking 42 new trail bridges that created new safe access for 182,000 people. March **2012** **TAR** 5 - **Brief statement of the charity's policy on reserves** **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **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. ## | ~~Ee~~ **Section F** SED SS **Other optional information** aa iene ## ~~■~~ **Section G** ## **Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees** **Signature(s) I Full name(s)** Jon Dale WilUAmTovatHad Dane **I 1 Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** **TAR** March **2012** 6 BRIDGES TO PROSPERrrY CHARrrABLE TRusr Charity No 1160342 Statement of Financial Activities As of 31st Au8USt 2024 2024 2023 CURRENT ASSETS Cash at bank and in hand 55.275 65,424 CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year NEf CURRENT ASSETS 55,275 65,424 TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 55.275 65,424 INCOME FUNDS Unrestrlcted funds 55.275 65,424 ACCUMULATED FUNDS 55,275 65,424 Jon Dale Trustee Sign ure Date ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01/09/2023 **Period start date To** 31/08/2024 **Period end date** **Charity name: Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1160342** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The charity’s objectives are the prevention or
relief of poverty in rural communities
anywhere in the world by raising funds and
making grants or providing other financial
support to promote infrastructure and
transportation projects including but not
limited to making donations to support the
charitable activities of Bridges to Prosperity,
Inc.| |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|The Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable Trust
creates access to critical services and
opportunities for isolated communities
throughout the world by raising awareness and
resources for Bridges to Prosperity. Bridges to
Prosperity works with isolated communities to
create access to essential healthcare,
education, and economic opportunities by
building footbridges over impassable rivers.
Trustees advance the mission of Bridges to
Prosperity by providing critical support to the
organization’s governance, bridge-building
programmes, and technical initiatives, and by
connecting donors and volunteers to the
organization.| |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| |---|---| ||Para 1.38| |Policy on grant making|| Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|In 2024, the Bridges to Prosperity UK Charitable
Trust was instrumental in developing financial
capacity, technical resources, and a highly skilled
volunteer basis to support;
•
Rwanda full-scale randomized controlled
trial;
•
The first completed Bridges of trail Ethiopia
and the technical assistance and advocacy
tools that will grow from that program;
and
•
Continued exploratory programs
throughout East and Central Africa.
Additionally, Bridges to Prosperity worked with
government partners in Rwanda and Uganda to
build a record-breaking 42 new trail bridges that
created new safe access for 182,000 people.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |||| Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 financial position at the end of the period Statement explaining the Para 1.22 policy for holding reserves stating why they are held Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 reserves Details of fund materially in Para 1.24 deficit Explanation of any Para 1.23 uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust Deed| |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 Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Ian Firth|||| ||Jon Dale|Chair||| ||Nick Francis|||| ||Radana Crhova|||| ||Jane Kelly|||| ||Ed Wilkinson|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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 al)ove. Signed on behalf of the charty's trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Jon Dale Chair Date ILloL120