Bringing Schools
Together
www.twins.org.uk
REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE PERIOD
I JANUARY TO 31 DECEMBER 21)23

TWINS
CONTENTS
Page
Charity Infonnatson
Charity Overview
Report of the Trustees
Statement of ReSpon￿bI1ftieS

TWINS
CHARITY INFORMATION
Trustees
Imlliam Oswakl
ASh￿Y Gray
Bryony Croft
Managing Trustee
William Oswakj
Registered Office
Newstead House
Bitteswell
Llrtterworth
Lei￿SterShire
LE17 4SG
Bankers
National Westrninster Bank plc
15 Bull Ring
Ludlow
Shropshire
SY8 1AG
Accountants
AshM0￿ & Company
Manchester House
Grosvenor Hill
Cardigan
&443 1HY
UK Registered Charity Numlxr
1160469
Further Inforniation

TWINS
CFiARITY OVERVIEW
Introduction
Twins links schools betr￿n the UK and areas of natural disasterlgeneral need for practical
support, educational interaction and cullural understanding_ It was inltially estsblished in reactton
to the effects of the Asian tsunami on schools in Southem Sri Lanka and about 200 schools were
twinned. MO￿ re￿nt￿, pilot projects have b￿n established in Pakistan. s￿alIa, Somaliland and
Yemen.
Activities
The fundamental aim ofTviins is to establish muiual understsnding and friendship between children
of different cultures and re1￿lonS, through educational and social interaction. This is achieved
Ihrough various c£bllaboratNe programmes, some of whith are compatible with indusion in UK
national curTicula, in recognrtion of how lithe spare b.me sd)ools have available. Details of the
programmes are provided to schools through an online sthcKJls reSoUr￿S area on the charity's
website. There is also a fijndraising and expenditure element, but much effort is made to avoid
dependency and co-depeThlency mindsets through ovedy focusing on this element.
An undedying principle of the Twins fundraising model is that every penny raised by a UK sthool is
spent direcAly on its ovm 'twn' school. Nothing is taken by Twins for administration and funds are
not spread between schools. This means that everytt)ing raised by UK school communities is spent
on those with whom they are building dired relationships overseas. The purchase of ilems such
as IT and sports equipment, generators and water-coolers, even classroom construction, is carried
out by project management according to strict controls (Twins never gwes cash to schools).
A coinudental result of Twins. MO￿ recent activities is Ihal il has become a conduit for friendship
and understanding between children of Christian aTKI Muslim cmltures. While the fostering of
interculiurallFaith relationships was always an ain of Twins. tt was perhaps a less urgent mission in
relation to TW￿$. operdtions in primarity Buddhist and Hindu Sri Lanka. The more re￿nt projects
in Pakistsn, Somalia, Somaliland and Yemen come at a particulady imwrtant time for
understanding and cooperation be￿￿n moderate map)rities. Posttive interaction betsY*n children
at such a formative age can be invaluable.
Twins also contributes to effortsto ensurethat girls have ac(£ss to education and thatthe education
re￿iVed by boys is balan(xl and progressive. Twns. local partner for Pakistan, DIL Trust UK has
established 120 scfKsols there, educating thousands of boys and gids who might otherwise re￿1ve
only narrow religious educations or LE denEd education completely. Education is key to building
happy. prosperous and pea(￿fijI cornmunities. with posits.ve global reSats'onships and citizens who
are less likely to take terribk risks to ty to start lives in other (x)untties.
Governance & Management
Twins has three trustees: ASh￿Y Gray. Brycffty Croft and Wlliam Oswald, the last ofwhom manages
the charity on a daily basis. Twins has four patrons,. Field Marshal Lord Guthrie, Edward Gould,
Ra9eh Omaar and Shehan Ratnava￿. Twins has a Constitution drawn up by Wlliam Oswald and
legal advisors Sheaman & Sterting. Twns wa5 founded in 2005 as a community project and
registered as a charlty in 2015.
Twins wot1(s wrth local partners wi each ¢)vet5eas county, using a comprehensive set of Standard
Operating Procedures. These EOPS. detail all of the Pro￿sseS involved, along with providing
templates to be used and other relevant information. notes and references. They have been
designed to be sufficiently genenc, such that they could be us8J in teLgtion to any overseas counlry
for which a partner is available. The SOPS and other related tiems are posted in an online
management reSoUr￿S area. ac￿Ssible through the Twins websrte.

TWINS
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES
The Ttustees pre*nt their ReF()rt togelher wth the Financial Statements for the period 1" January
2023 to 31" December 2023.
Activities
The Charity continued to link schools betW￿n the UK and areas of natural disasterlgeneral need
for prartical support, educational interaction and culiural understanding. During the period, the
Charity continued to operate the four pilot propcts (Twins Pakistan. Twins Somalia, Twins
Somaliland and Twins Yen￿n}. enabling the schools Con￿rned to ￿ntinue tsoth with fundraising
activities and wrth educational and social interaction. The Charity retsined its account with charity
donations website 'JustGiving'
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The Charity also helped to facilitate the Jenny Walton maste￿ Women s Health Education Project
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Twins, role in this included
identifying the operating partner. liaising with it over the creation of the projecl and acting as a
conduit for the donated funds involved. Though differing from the Charity's mainstream activrties
relating to sthools, this actmty was consistent with two of the Charlty's five Objects stated in its
Constitution", -PrEvent￿n and alley￿110￿ of p0￿rtY caused by pwr educat￿n81 opportunrty. by
pmviding equipment and educational faolities ￿e￿ssary for imprt)ving SO￿81 condit￿ns, and
'Relief of suffeiing as a ￿sUIt of f￿anCIal ha￿ShIp. thrt){￿h the pn)vision of educational
opportunities and facilit￿s.
Furthermore. although the recipients of the education involved in the
project tend to be adults, the project's ￿nefIciatieS include (their) thildren.
School Donations and funding of administrative costs
The core focus of TVI￿n$ is educational and soaal interactbon between the thildren involved.
However, Ihere is also the facilty for UK children to raise funds to help improve the lives of the
children at the schools with which they are tsvinnwj. Twins rnaintains a policy of ring-fencing funds
received f￿M each UK sthwl's donations for expenditure on the specffic overseas school with
which that UK school is fv*nned. There is no 'pooling' be￿een schools and Twins does not use
any such fvnds for tts own administrative ￿SIs. All furHds received by Twins from UK sthools.
donations are remrtted to the relevant country pmject partners for expendrture on items to benefit
the appropriate overseas sth0o￿.
Accordingly, fijnds received by Twins from UK scPK)ols (or from non-schoDI donors. but designated
for specific overseas schools) are held and account&J for separately, in a similar mannei to that of
a 'clienl account, At the tEginning of the period. the Charrty was holding £173.64 in schools.
donations, pending rern[ttan￿ to the relevant county project partners. During the period, the
Charity received an additional £21.467 71. This included £4.667.71 in sthools, dOnat￿InS, being
£4,708.95 in schools. donations, less £41.24 deducted in f&s and disbursements by JustGiving
before fvnds were remitted to the Charity. It also included £16,800.00, with no dedU￿￿}n5, donated
for the Jenny Watton maste￿ Women's Health Education Pmiect ('JWM IM4EP'). The Charity
therefore had a total of £21.641.35 in donations for schools and JWM WHEP. to remit to country
project partners. £20,822.99 of this was remitted dunng the persod (including all funds for JVVM
EP}, with the remaining £818.36 carried over into the next Ftriod. (As bank intemational transfer
fees tend to be smilar. regardless of the sizes of amounts being transferred. ￿ndS for remittance
are sometimes retained until remittan￿ amounts are sufficient to justify relat￿ transfer fees).
The Charity started the period wtih administrative fvnds (from general donations in earfier pEriods)
of £1204.56 and re￿iVed a further £2.(N)9.18 in general donations to the Chattty. During the
perii)d, the Charity spent £236.00 in subscriptions {£216 JustGiving and £20 British Yemeni
Society). All other administrative costs were direct￿ covered private￿ by the Managing Trustee.
The Chanty ended the penod wrth administrab.ve funds of £2.977.74

Review of the Charity
The Chanty will remain open to r￿1VIrO general funding. If any such funding is sufficientw large
and ongoing, the Charity may use it to increase administrative reSoU￿s, in order to expand
0￿rationS within ¢wrrent c￿untry projects and to extend operations to new country projects.
Othetwise, the Charity ￿111 not subject it*ff to any substantial ongoing expenditure commitments
and will limit one-off exFendrture rf£ems to tho* that afforded wtlh existing funds. Through
this policy and wrth most administrative costs o)vered dire&ty pnvately by the Managing Trustee,
the Charity will remain sustainable and finanC￿llY secure.
By Order of the Board of Trustees
Iliam Oswakl
Trustee
17.01.24

TWINS
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
GENERAL AccouKf (S* notes on previous page)
2023
2022
Income
General Donations
£2.009.18
£40.26
Expenditure
JustGiving card processir*J & transaction fees
(Amounts taken at Sour￿ by JustGiwng)
£00.77
Subscriptions
£236.00
£236.00
£236.00
£236.77
Funds remaining at period end
£2,977.74
£1.204.56
SCHOOL (AND OTHER PROJECT) tK)NATIONS (SÈe notes on preV￿uS pagel
Income
Donations, Grants & Gift related to spe(?fic $ch￿lS/proJel￿s £21,508.95 £14,271.14
Expenditure
JustGiving card processing & transaclion fee5
(Amounts tsken at Sour￿ by Just Giving)
£41.24
£139.49
Net t)onations Re¢elved
£21,467.71 £14,131.65
Funds Disbursed Through Local Partner5
Twins Pakistan Proje
Twin> Somalia Projed
Twins Somaliland Projed
Twns Yemen Project
Jenny Walton Masters Women's Health Education Projed
£436.34
£4.022.99 £13,765.92
£16,800.00
£20.822.99
£14,202.26
Funds remaining held for schools at period end
£818.36
£173.64

TWINS
BALANCE SHEET
Flxed Assets
2023
2022
Tangible assets
Current Assets
Debtors
Cash al bank and in hand
Cash held for schools
Accounts re￿1vable for schools
£2.977_74
£818.36
£1,204.56
£173.64
£3.796.10
£1,378.20
Creditors.. due within one year
Cash (Jue lor sthools
Accounts Payablo
£818.36
£173.64
£818.36
£173.64
Net current assets
£2.977.74
£1.204.56
Total assets less current Ik?bilities
£2.977 74
£1,204.56
Crèditors.. due after onè year
£2.977.74
£1.204.56
In approving these Accounts as Trustee5 of the (thanty we hereby confirm..
that, due lo the amounts Con￿rned. there was no requirement for erther an independent
examination or an audit to be Conducted in relation to the Charity's accounts during the
period,. and
b. that we acknowledge our responsibilities to comply wth the requirements of the Charities
Act 2011 with regard to the keeping Df accounting records, lo the preparation and scNtiny
ol staternents of account, and to the preparation of annual reports and relums. The
statement5 of aC￿￿nt, reports and retums will be sent to the Charty Commission
(regardless of the ncome of the Charty) no L4ter than ten months from the financial year
end.
Approved by the Board of Trustees on 17" January 2024.
William Oswak
) Trustees
Bryony Crofi