## Trustees’ Annual Report for the Period
> From: 01 March 2023
> To: 29 February 2024
> Charity Name: Alliance for International Development (A-fID)
> Charity Registration Number: 1161111
## Objectives and Activities
Summary of Purposes
The Alliance for International Development (A-fID) is dedicated to fostering sustainable development through education, agriculture, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) initiatives, as well as youth-focused awareness programs. Our goal is to empower communities with the resources, knowledge, and opportunities necessary for long-term growth and resilience.
## Main Activities
In 2023, our focus was on three key programs:
1. Education
- Provided private tutoring for 50 pupils, ensuring academic support over 12 months.
- Distributed conditional cash transfers to mothers, with stipulations that their children maintain 100% attendance at tutoring sessions, avoid street trading, and complete at least eight hours of home study weekly.
2. WASH Program
- Supplied water to two underserved communities, benefiting approximately 1,000 residents.
3. Youth Abusive Substance Awareness Program Pilot
- Conducted 25 visits across four provinces (North, North-West, South, and Eastern) to carry out perception surveys for our rural farmers' market access initiative.
## Statement on Public Benefit
The trustees confirm compliance with the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit in all activities.
## Achievements and Performance
Key Achievements
- Enabled 50 children to access consistent private tutoring, positively impacting their academic performance and household stability.
- Improved health and quality of life for 1,000 community members through enhanced water access.
- Collected vital data through surveys, providing insights into market access challenges for rural farmers.
Trustees’ Annual Report
Charity number: 1161111
## Challenges
2023 presented significant logistical challenges due to the election year, affecting program implementation timelines and increasing operational complexity.
## Logistical Challenges
A-fID continues to face significant logistical challenges in transferring funds to Sierra Leone due to the predominantly cash-driven nature of Sierra Leone’s economy. This has particularly affected the transfer of funds raised during charitable events in the UK. To manage these challenges, we have relied on friends, supporters, and trusted cash carriers to facilitate remittances and sometimes use the simplest and most reliable means for remittances. Also, remittance firms with better exchange rates like MoneyGram do not accept money transfers from business or charity accounts, leading charity to use personal accounts for transfers to Sierra Leone. For larger initiatives, such as the water well projects under our WASH program, the Founder and CEO personally oversees the delivery and disbursement of funds to ensure transparency and safety.
Recognising the need for greater efficiency and compliance, we are currently overhauling our cash handling and financial control systems. This effort is aimed at improving transparency, ensuring adherence to financial best practices, and strengthening trust with stakeholders and donors.
## Personal and Organisational Challenges
In 2023, one of our trustees experienced a profound personal loss, losing both parents to cancer. This deeply impacted their ability to fully engage with the charity’s activities, and we continue to offer our support during this period of mourning.
## Political and Operational Challenges
The 2023 election year in Sierra Leone posed additional hurdles for our operations. Engaging with community stakeholders became increasingly challenging, as gatherings and initiatives were often politicised. This environment made it difficult to implement systemic projects effectively, leading to delays and requiring additional resources to maintain focus on our objectives.
Despite these challenges, A-fID remains committed to delivering impactful programs and has taken proactive steps to mitigate these obstacles for future projects.
## Financial Review
## Financial Position
The charity faced increased operational and overhead costs in 2023 due to expanded projects. As a result, no reserves were set aside for 2024. While this decision ensures the sustainability of ongoing projects, it underscores the need for improved financial planning to mitigate future risks.
## Principal Sources of Funds
Funds were predominantly raised locally through successful community-driven fundraising events in Sierra Leone.
## Reserves Policy
A-fID did not reserve any funds for 2024, as all resources were directed towards sustaining the charity's core activities and addressing the elevated costs of 2023.
Trustees’ Annual Report
Charity number: 1161111
## Structure, Governance, and Management
Governing Document
A-fID operates under a constitution, registered in England and Wales and regulated by the Charity Commission of England and Wales.
Constitution
The charity is structured as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).
Trustee Selection
Trustees are appointed based on their expertise and most importantly their commitment to advancing A-fID’s mission.
## Reference and Administrative Details
Principal Address**: 276 Missenden, Inville Road, London – SE17 2HY
Trustees:
1. Foday Kamara
2. Joyce Freeman
3. Fatoumata Keita
## Declarations
The trustees declare that they have approved this report.
Signed
Full Name: Foday Kamara Position: Secretary Date: 27 12 2024
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Charity number: 1161111
**Allince for International Development**
## **A-fID**
## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts**
**Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** 1/3/23 29/2/24 **To from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**193,000**||**-**||**-**||**193,000**||**40,030**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**193,000**||**-**||**-**||**193,000**||**40,030**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**||||||||||
||**193,000**||||||||**40,030**|
## **A3 Payments**
|Water Well Construction|**18,600**||**-**||**-**||**18,600**||**6,895**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Youth Drugs Awaremess Program|**16,200**||**-**||**-**||**16,200**||**8,760**|
|Grants for Medical Support|**10,500**||**-**||**-**||**10,500**||**9,370**|
|Conditional Cash Tranfers(Pupils' Parents)|**12,800**||**-**||**-**||**12,800**||**1,250**|
|Back to School Support(50 Pupils)|**15,000**||**-**||**-**||**15,000**||**4,800**|
|Private Lessons, Education support grants
for 50 pupils|**27,500**||**-**||**-**||**27,500**||**7,800**|
|Overheads (Office, Utilities, travel including
purchase of vehicle)|**64,000**||**-**||**-**||**64,000**||**600**|
|Well Maintanance|**3,700**||**-**||**-**||**3,700**||**-**|
|Salaries, Expenses and Professional fees-
Staff & Vulunteers|**23,870**||**-**||**-**||**23,870**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**192,170**||**-**||**-**||**192,170**||**39,475**|
|||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**39,475**|
|||||||||||
||**830**||||||||**555**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**830**||||||||**555**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|~~1~~
**Details**
Cash at hand|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**950**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash at hand|**950**|**-**|**-**|
||~~1~~|**-**|**-**|~~1/1/25~~
**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**_Total cash funds_**|||**950**||||**-**||**-**|
||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||Agreement Error||||OK|||OK|
||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted funds**|||**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|||||||**funds**|
||**Details**||**to nearest**|**£**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**belongs**|**asset**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**belongs**|**asset**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|Vehicle||UNRESTRICTED|||||**-**||**-**|
|**charity’s own use**||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||**-**||**-**|
||||**Fund to which**||||**Amount due**|||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**|
|**B5 Liabilities**||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|||||||||**-**|||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|||Print||Name||||Date of approval|
|||||Foday||Kamara||||27-Dec-24|
||||||||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
1/1/25
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(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
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Ind•ptndant Èxaminer's R¢poit:.
Report to th• tru8teesl
memberg of
Alliance for 1nlerftal1 Developmenl (A-flD)
On account8 for th• year
ended
29 February 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1161111
S¢t out on pag6S
I report to Ihe Irus(ees on my examinalion of Ihe accounls of the above
charity (Ihe Tnjst") for the year ended
Responsibllities and As the charily Irustees of the Trust. you ar6 responsibl8 for the preparalK)n
basls of report of Iha accounts in accordance with lh8 requirements of the Charities Act
2011 ("the Act.),
I reporl In respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried oul
under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and In carrying out my examinalion, I
have followed Ihe applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under Section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have tA)mpleled my examination. I confirm Ihat no malerlal matter5 have
come to my altention (other than that disclosed below ') In conneclK)n wilh
the examinatson which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respecl:
accounting records were nol k8Pt in accordance with SeCtn 130 of
Ihe Act or
the accJ)unls do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examinerfs statement
I have no concerns and have cA)me across no olher m8tlers in connectK>n
with Ihe examinabon to which altenlion should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts lo be reached,
Please delete the words in the brackets if Éhey do not apply-
Slgned:
Date:
20 Dec. 2024
Name:
Mr Idrissa Koroma
Relevant professional
quallficatlon(s) or body
(if any):
Address:
37 Regent Road
Lumley
Freelown - Sierra Leone.
IER
OCtor 2018
Section B
Disclosure .
Only complete rf tl* examiner needs to higNight matters ol concem (s8e CC32:
IrKleperMJent examinalK)n of charity acc(xJnts difectscxts aTrJ guxjance fof
examiners).
Glve here brfef detalls of
any Items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
NIA
IER
October 2018