2023-03-30-accounts - Communities For Development

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 April 2022 31 March 2023

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Section A Reference and administration details

COMMUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT

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

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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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
Social Infrastructure 4. Skills Training 5. Providing Technical Expertise

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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.

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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) A new volunteer went to Uganda between April and September and reengaged with the saving groups after the COVID stop

2) Income Generations Activities:

Ongoing activities have been carried out to maintain the existing IGAs.

The focus of the volunteer during her placement was to reengage and recover the existing IGAs, however no new IGAs were created.

3) Social Infrastructure

During this year the drama group went back to performing to sensitise the community in relation to saving groups, hygiene and sanitation

4) Skills Training

Significant amount of skills training was required this year to recover the saving groups and IGA after the long COVID stop and the absence of international volunteers

5) Providing Technical Expertise

Technical expertise courses were provided to the IGAs group to assess how the better improve their business and recover after the COVID stop

6) International Volunteers

A new international volunteer was in Uganda between April and September 2022. Her main focus was to assess the status of the Saving Groups and IGAs after the COVID stop and to help them to recover from that.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

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

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.
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 10/1/24

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Communities for Development 1160557 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 4/1/2021 3/31/2022 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total funds	Last year
	to the nearest	£	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Voluntaryreceipts	£38		-	-	38	2,419
Activities forgeneratingfunds(trading)	£0		-	-	-	-
Investment dividends/interest	£0		-	-	-	-
Charitable activities	£0		-	-	-	-
Other receipts	£0		-	-	-	-
		-	-	-	-	-
		-	-	-	-	-
		-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	38		-	-	38	2,419

A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
		-	-	-	-
		-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*		-	-	-	-	-

**Total receipts **	38		-	-	38	2,419
A3 Payments
Fundraising costs (trading activities)	£0		-	-	-	371
Costs of charitable activities	£4,116		-	-	4,116	3,959
Governance costs	£130		-	-	130	110
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**Sub total **	4,246		-	-	4,246	4,440

A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
		-	-	-	-
		-	-	-	-
**Sub total **		-	-	-	-	-

**Total payments **	4,246		-	-	4,246	4,440

**Net of receipts/(payments) **	- 4,208		-	-	- 4,208	- 2,021
A5 Transfers between funds		-	-	-	-	-
A6 Cash funds last year end	16,135		-	-	16,135	18,156
**Cash funds this year end **	11,927		-	-	11,927	16,135

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

Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details Details Details Details Details Signature *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - 11,927 - OK OK to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Inigo Ruiz-Apilanez Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional)	to nearest £ Endowment funds
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			Date of approval
		Inigo Ruiz-Apilanez	1/10/2024



		A1 RECE
	DATE	CATEGORY

		Voluntaryreceipts
		Activities forgeneratingfunds(trading)
		Investment dividends/interest
		Charitable activities
		Other receipts





		A2 PAYM
	DATE	CATEGORY

		Fundraisingcosts(tradingactivities)
		Costs of charitable activities
		Governance costs




EIPTS
	DESCRIPTION	CREDIT

	Sub Total	£38
	Sub Total	£0
	Sub Total	£0
	Sub Total	£0
	Sub Total	£0


	Total	£38


MENTS
	DESCRIPTION	DEBIT

	Sub Total	£0
	Sub Total	-£4,116
	Sub Total	-£130



	Total	-£4,246

	Balance at 31/03/22	£16,135
	Balance at 01/04/21	£11,927

Voluntary receipts Activities for generating funds (trading) Investment dividends/interest Charitable activities Other receipts

DATE CATEGORY

1-Aug Voluntary receipts 4-Apr Voluntary receipts

DESCRIPTION	CREDIT
Fundrising Campaign	£16.39
Fundrising Campaign	£21.21
Sub Total	£38
Total	£38
Balance at 31/03/22	£11,926
Balance at 01/04/21	£16,135

Costs of generating voluntary receipts Fundraising costs (trading activities) Investment management costs Costs of charitable activities Governance costs

	0
	371
	110
	3959
DESCRIPTION	DEBIT
Bank Fees	-£20.44
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£380.00
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£380.00
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£950.28
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£1,365.00
Bank Fees	-£69.00
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£600.00
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£340.02
Bank Fees	-£1.17
Web Page Annual Fee	-£39.23
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)	-£101.00

DESCRIPTION		CREDIT	DEBIT	BALANCE
Bank Fees			-£20.44	£11,926.28
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£380.00	£11,946.72
Fundrising Campaign		£16.39		£12,326.72
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£380.00	£12,310.33
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£950.28	£12,690.33
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£1,365.00	£13,640.61
Bank Fees			-£69.00	£15,005.61
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£600.00	£15,074.61
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£340.02	£15,674.61
Bank Fees			-£1.17	£16,014.63
Web Page Annual Fee			-£39.23	£16,015.80
Fundrising Campaign		£21.21		£16,055.03
Projects in Uganda (Field Volunteers)			-£101.00	£16,033.82
		£37.60	-£4,246.14	£16,134.82
	Subtotal	£37.60	£0.00
	Subtotal	£0.00	£0.00
	Subtotal	£0.00	-£129.84
	Subtotal	£0.00	-£4,116.30