2021-04-30-accounts - Nuha Foundation

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date From 01 05 2020 To 30 04 2021

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name NUHA Foundation Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1160523 Charity's principal address 5 Lyttleton Court Welsh Street Chepstow Postcode NP16 5LN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Hafez Virjee Chair and
1
Treasurer
Ambroise Secretary-General
2
Desplechin
3 Raya Tueny
4
5
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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)

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Type of adviser Name Address
Bank HSBC 165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2DY
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Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Natalie Limbasan (Community Development Director)

Henry Pannell (Financial Director)

Hamza Virjee (Operations Manager and Managing Editor)

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution (adopted 17 February 2015) Type of governing document

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)

Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be Trustee selection methods appointed for a three-year term by a resolution passed by a 75% (eg. appointed by, elected by) majority at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.

In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

All trustees and team members give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.

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

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The objects of the NUHA Foundation are the advancement of education for the public benefit in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including but without limitation by designing and running annual competitions such as annual writing competitions open to all anywhere in the world which will:

promote original and critical thinking on and interaction around questions of education; and
promote the self-confidence of non-native speakers of the language of the competition to write in that language as a means of developing their ability to participate in a global knowledge society.

March 2012

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The main activity undertaken by the NUHA Foundation was to run the Blogging Prizes, namely an annual writing competition designed in accordance with the objects of the charity, as set out above. The Blogging Prizes were held annually from 2011 to 2019, and interrupted these past two years due to the pandemic. We hope to resume them again in the next financial/reporting year (2022-2023).

We confirm the trustees had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.

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)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

The NUHA Foundation is entirely run by volunteers, without whom we could not function. Their valuable contribution of time, expertise and energy has allowed us to carry out our activities for the public benefit.

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 achievements of the charity during the year

NUHA Foundation’s volunteer team was adversely affected by the pandemic, but the hope is to resume its activities in the next financial/reporting year (2022-2023).

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Section E Financial review

We hold around £2,000 in a savings account, which earns Brief statement of the interest. These funds are held in order to meet future charity’s policy on expenditures in relation to the development and expansion of reserves the charity and to also meet any unforeseen expenditure that may occur.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

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) Hafez Virjee Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 27 February 2022

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NUHA Foundation 1160523

Receipts and payments accounts For the period 1-May-20 To from

1-May-20 30-Apr-21 To

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations received 118 - - 118
Other income 1 - - 1
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
119 - - 119
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 119 - - 119
A3 Payments
Funds spent on charitable activities 118 - - 118
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 118 ] - - 118
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 118 - - 118
Net of receipts/(payments) 1 - - 1
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 3,232 - - 3,232
Cash funds this year end 3,233 - - 3,233
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

			Unrestricted		Restricted
Categories	Details		funds		funds
B1 Cash funds	Savings Account Community Account *Total cash funds*		to nearest £ 1,921 1,312 - 3,233		to nearest £ - - - -
	(agree balances	with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK
			Unrestricted		Restricted
			funds		funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details		to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -
B4 Assets retained for the	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -
charity’s own use					- - - - - - - -
			Fund to which		Amount due
B5 Liabilities	Details		liability relates		- - - - - (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature		Print	Name

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Hafez Virjee

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CC16a
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Last year

to the nearest £

2,010 4 - - - - - - 2,014

2,014

1,783 - - - - - - - - 1,783

1,783 231 - 3,001 3,232

Endowment funds

to nearest £

Endowment funds

to nearest £

Current value (optional)

When due (optional)

Date of approval

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27-Feb-22
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