2021-03-30-accounts - Communities For Development

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 April 2020 31 March 2021

From

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1160557

COMMUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT

CFD

Charity's principal address 25 Marsh Court

East Street London Postcode SE17 2FT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
	Pilar Tejon	Lawyer
	Sandra Diaz	Engineer
	Inigo Ruiz-Apilanez	Engineer

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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March 2012

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address	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

Constitution

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed by existing Charity Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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

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

At the moment, our main areas of work are:

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

Saving Groups 2. Income Generations Activities 3. Social Infrastructure 4. Skills Training 5. Providing Technical Expertise

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March 2012

1) Saving Groups:
a) Training and set up of new saving groups which can operate under supervision.
b) Provide refreshment training and conflict resolution training to existing Saving Groups so they can operate independently
2) Income Generations Activities:

Communities for Development support income-generating activities of selected members of the community who have been saving for at least two years in one of the formed saving groups. Income Generating Activities (IGAs) consist of small businesses managed by a group of people to increase their household income through livelihood diversification.

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)

3) Social Infrastructure

a) Drama Group: We have actively support and encourage a local drama group that presented their new drama about the importance of boiling and handling milking of cows as well as good customer service and pricing when it comes to having a business.

4) Skills Training

a) Saving Groups
- i) 3-day refreshment savings training ii) 5-day new group formation training iii) 1-day conflict resolution training
b) IGAs
- i) 5-day Basic Business Training
- ii) 2-day course on accountancy and book records iii) 2-day training on cow caring iv) 1-day training on selling milk
5) Providing Technical Expertise
a) Several site visits by the donors
b) Technical expertise from locals including coaching in effective IGA creation and sustainable business.

TAR

March 2012

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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

1) Saving Groups:

a) Ongoing supervision and problem solving has been carried out by the local team mostly remotely.
b) Due to COVID19 restriction it was not possible to create new saving groups

2) Income Generations Activities:

Ongoing activities have been carried out to maintain the existing IGAs. No new IGAs were created due to COVID19 restrictions to meet and send a new volunteer to create them

3) Social Infrastructure

During this year the drama group could not perform due to COVID19 restrictions

4) Skills Training

No skills training could be carried out this year due to COVID19 restrictions

5) Providing Technical Expertise

Technical expertise was not provided in person due to COVID19 retrictions.

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March 2012

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

At this stage Communities for Development does not have a reserves policy.

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;
During this year the unique source of funds has been fundraising via donations.
Expenditure has been totally focused on the achievement of the key objectives of the charity. This year expenditure was limited due to COVID19 restrictions
At this stage CfD does not have any investments or investment policy.
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) Inigo Ruiz-Apilanez Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Trustee etc)

Date 21/1/21

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March 2012

Communities for Development 1160557 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 01/04/2020 31/03/2021 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Voluntary receipts £19,895 - - 19,895 9,812
Other receipts - - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
19,895 - - 19,895 9,812
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 19,895 - - 19,895 9,812
A3 Payments
Fundraising costs (trading activities) £198 - - 198 216
Costs of charitable activities £3,219 - - 3,219 7,879
Governance costs £101 - - 101 81
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ 3,518 ] - - 3,518 8,176
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 3,518 - - 3,518 8,176
Net of receipts/(payments) 16,378 - - 16,378 1,636
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 1,778 - - 1,778 142
Cash funds this year end 18,156 - - 18,156 1,778
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

18/12/2021

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 18,156 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Inigo Ruiz-Apilanez	Endowment funds to nearest £ - - -
			-
			OK
			Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional) Date of approval 18/12/2021

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

18/12/2021