Using skills & knowledge to challenge poverty.
ALLIANCE for INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ANNUAL REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS
The Tmstees present their annual report on Alliance for Inlernalional Developmenl {A-flD) logelher
with Ihe financial statement of A-flD funds Io apply Ihem for Ihe purpose of overseas developmenl
projects in Sierra Leone for Ihe year ending 28 February 2020.
PLIRPC)SF AlD IMPACT
A-flD was set up in March 2015 by a group of concemed individuals from poor Wesl African countries who
wanted lo help poor people use skills and knowledge to challenge p)vety. Their experience growing up in poor
communilies convinced them Ihat when peoples, capabilities are strengthened, they could be significantly
improve their livelihoods and move out of poverty.
Our vision is that-.
Everyonegels the opportunity to develop their skills.
Everyoneuses the knowledge they have to challenge poverty.
Everyone receives the financial support theyneed to start income generating activitses.
Everyone has aCsS to factual infomiation.
Every child under 5 years old receives good healthy nutsknon.
Everyone has actsss to qualily educats'on.
We work lo influence national povety eradication policy and to improve training to stakeholders in both
established and unorthodox settings. We aim to make meaningful impact - our goal is that sufficient progress
will have been made by 2035 such that povety level in Sierra Leone is below lo.. We will have reached this
goal when we can see that majority of people in rural areas are able to engage in income generating activities
and have the basic skills to engage wilh political. social and economic actors to improve their lives. We have a
detailed roadmap (see our website.. afidsl.org) that sets out how we plan loa¢h our goal, and tha indicators
we monitor to tell us whelher we are making progress.
We have made less progress Ihan planned in recent years due to the too much bureaucracy, COVID.
government policies which adversely affected our Micr¢xredit program in rural areas, hitting our operations
financially and rent seeking by govemment institutions and the attitude of beneficiaries, which has impeded
our ability to influence poliw.
We launched a ten-year Education for Social Transfomiation (E4ST) program on 01 August 2019. The
objective to support 50 students from Junior Secondary School thru university, providing leaming aid, private
tuition. coaching and mentoring so as to enable them to acquire quality educalion for better community and
national development.
While some of our recommendatsons, such as improvements in Iraining and outreach do not require
additional resources, we recognise Ihatsome changes do require additional siaffing or olher resources. Al a
time when our budget is already stretched and the impact of COVID-19 on fundraising, Ihe competition for
resources is a significant threat to the success of our programmes. Key to our work for the next fwe years is
the scaling up of our Small Enterprise Finance Programme. which is assessing the impact of access lo
finance in reducing poverty in in rural and urban areas and progressagainsl our overall goal. From the
outcome of this, we will sel new tsrget forour work for the next five years
VALU&S .4DID 'NA YS OF wfJRKirJr
Our values are equally importanl in reviewing our progress and
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We listen to the voices OT Iradilional leaders, beneficiarles and Iheir families.
We support professionals working in Ihe education, financial and heallh seclors, ralher than criliclse them;
and
We foster a culture of learning by doing. We collaborate with community professionals and other local
charities, and we do engage directly with Ihe public. We will be gathering delailod feedback from our
stakeholders through Ihe forthcoming perception survey.
We employ staff with the necessary knowledge, experience and skills to be able to represent the charity at Ihe
highest levels. We pay staff salaries al the level they would receive if Ihey were undertaking a similar role In
the private sector or the government. Actual cost on salaries are disclosed in our finanaal slatement.
We fund our work with income from donors and grants.
Our main costs are staff salaries, with minor expenditure on officecosls and costs for raising funds.
The founders wanted to ensure the charity could operate ind9pendenlly without the need for constant
fundraising, so we intend to create an endowment fund in 2025. which will be invested to generate income.
This removes the need for reserves as the charity will manage ils operations within ils income.
The trustees acknowledge that Ihere is a nsk that investments lose value. Investment managers would be
appointed to act within a sustainable policy that diversifies investments and aims to achieve a total return from
capital growth and Income that exceeds the rate of CPI inflation by at least 3 per cent.
When the trustees consider that the goals have been achieved, the charity's assets will be distributed to other
chanlies wilh similar purposes.
Trustees meet four times a year and hold an all4ay annual awayday with staff. They review all charity policies
ona rollingihree-yearcycle and request an annual report from the ChiefExeculiveon howpolicies are adhered
to within the tharity's values and risk inclinalions.
We aim lo apply the Charity Governance Code and have an agreed action plan, available on request, along
with details of our Iruslees and how they are appointed. and our staff team.
Yeer Ending 28 February 2020
**Charity Name Alliance for International Development**
**No (if any) A-fID CC16a**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
|**For the period**
**from**|01/03/2020
Period start date|**To**|28/02/2021
Period end date|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|
Donations|**117,000**||**-**||**-**||**117,000**||**28,703**|
|FundraisingEvents|**60,500**||**-**||**-**||**60,500**||**9,568**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**177,500**||**-**||**-**||**177,500**||**38,271**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**38,271**|
|||||||||||
|
ConsultancyFee|**20,000**||**-**||**-**||**20,000**||**5,741**|
|Cost of Fundraising|**13,500**||**-**||**-**||**13,500**||**2,870**|
|Salaries|**31,200**||**-**||**-**||**31,200**||**22,962**|
|Marketing|**7,900**||**-**||**-**||**7,900**|||
|Stationary|**3,200**||**-**||**-**||**3,200**||**-**|
|Printing, Postage, and compter supplies,
Internet, Telephony|**5,000**||**-**||**-**||**5,000**||**6,676**|
|Project Implemenation|**80,900**||**-**||**-**||**80,900**||**-**|
|Office Space Rental Cost|**8,000**||**-**||**-**||**8,000**||**-**|
|Office RunningCost|**7,155**||**-**||**-**||**7,155**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**176,855**||**-**||**-**||**176,855**||**38,249**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|**Furniture**|**2,500**|||||||||
|Vehicle|**10,650**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**13,150**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**38,249**|
|||||||||||
||**- 12,505**||||||||**22**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**- 12,505**||||||||**22**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
Cash on hand
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Unrestricted funds**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,300**
**-**
**-**
**8,300**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Unrestricted funds**|**8,300**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**8,300**|16/02/2022
**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
Bank Loan
**Details**
**Details**
Computers
Furniture
Vehicle
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**15,000**
Unrestricted
**17,000**
Unrestricted
**9,600**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unristricted
**20,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
FodayKamara|OK|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**300**|
||||**1,500**|
||||**3,400**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**01 April 2022**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of approval|
|||FodayKamara|31/01/2021|
|||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
16/02/2022
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**|
|---|---|
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Alliance for International Development (A-fID)
28 February 2021
**Charity no**
**(if any)**
1161111
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended**28 / 02 / 2021**.|
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Date:** 31 January 2021 **Signed: Name:** Michael Decker **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 13 Bathurst Street Freetown Sierra Leone
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