Arukah Network, CIO number: 1162564
Registered address: Arukah Network, 169a Pinner Road, Harrow, HA1 4EX, UK
In 2019-20, the CIO is managed by the following part-time team:
- Miss Elizabeth Wainwright – Network Curator / Coach
- Miss Rivka Shaw – Network Coordinator
- Dr Ted Lankester – Network Adviser & Ambassador
- Mr Jake Lloyd -- Communications Coordinator
- Ms Teresa Echevarria – Finance Administrator
- Mr Robins Odiro – Cluster Development
Trustees:
The charity trustees are as follows, and are appointed for the following terms –
- Mrs Kerryann Cope (Chair) for four years
- Dr Nick Henwood for three years
- Prof Andrew Tomkins for three years
- Mrs Margaret Bee for two years
- Mrs Jane Hellings, for three years
- Mr Dan Ronoh, for three years
Appointment of trustees
1) Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.
2) 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.
Information for new charity trustees
1) The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment:
a) A copy of the current version of our constitution; and
b) A copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts.
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The objects of Arukah Network, as stated in our governing document, are:
“The relief of sickness and the preservation and promotion of physical and mental health among vulnerable communities in low and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and South America.”
From our website www.arukahnetwork.org :
_“Uniting us is a belief that every community is full of strengths and potential - uniquely equipped to meet the challenges it faces and to pursue a sustainable future for all its members._
_Through our network and its 'Clusters' of local people, we help to bring about change in our communities._
_We do this by connecting people, by building relationships and trust, by celebrating and sharing our skills, by identifying barriers to health and wellbeing, and together creating solutions to overcome them.”_
“ _Arukah Network’s approach is in line with my own aspiration – as a platform to share ideas, knowledge and skills as well as finances to help stimulate community involvement for lasting development_ .” – Nasilele, Monze Cluster, Zambia
Our purpose:
Arukah Network mobilises and invests in localised collaborative networks, in order to enable community-led access to health, wellbeing and happiness. We do this by supporting communities to:
- 1) Connect with each other, and with other experts and mentors,
- 2) Access good information, knowledge and training
- 3) Increase their impact and influence.
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- Some recent Cluster successes have included:
- Rapid Cluster responses to the Covid19 pandemic, helped by donations from Arukah supporters – e.g. food distribution to vulnerable families; awareness-raising and education; distribution of hygiene packs.
- Improved relationships and community conversations
- New Cluster launches in Rwanda and Zambia, catalysed by existing Clusters
- Bihar led a survey of migrant workers, to understand their unique needs during the pandemic, and create an appropriate response. Read more here: https://www.arukahnetwork.org/post/010720
- Cluster initiatives (e.g. road-building in Zambia to improve access to healthcare and market) that have been initiated and implemented through nurturing from inside our network, rather than imposed from ‘HQ’.
Activities in 2019-20 that helped us carry out our purpose:
- We launched a Covid19 community support fund, soon after the pandemic tool hold in 2020. https://www.arukahnetwork.org/covidfund -- this supported Clusters with small funds to facilitate e.g. awareness campaigns, and distribution of soap, masks, and food.
- We supported and promoted Cluster-led initiatives, e.g. Bihar Cluster’s survey. We will be able to share more in next year’s annual report as the crisis is an unfolding one.
- We continued to develop our ‘How to Build Community’ podcast -- -
- https://soundcloud.com/user 471889218 this has had listeners in over 50 countries. As well as online, our podcast is aired on various community radio shows in the UK and Africa.
- We nurtured new Clusters in Rwanda and Zambia. The official ‘launch’ of the Rwanda Cluster took place in January 2020, and was facilitated by team member Robins Odiyo who travelled there from Kenya.
- We planned an international gathering for September 2020.
- We developed a relationship with the Welcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health (WCCEH) at Exeter University. This resulted in a small amount of funding to help us to explore and develop our impact assessment work, and we held a workshop with them in September 2019. Robins from Kenya came to the UK to be part of this.
- We nurtured relationships with trusts, including the Vitol Foundation who awarded us a grant to be split over two years, to support our impact assessment work, and the development of Clusters.
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- Ted Lankester and Nathan Grills promoted the latest edition of their book, setting up Community Health Programmes (Oxford University Press). This was made available to all Cluster members via online PDFs, or hard copy where available.
“ _I was attracted to the Cluster idea because I am very much interested in using the little knowledge I have to help other people_ .” – Eukeria, Monze Cluster, Zambia
Our blogs go deeper into stories and testimonies of how our approach is supporting individuals and communities -- https://www.arukahnetwork.org/blog
## Our approach and expenditure:
We work with our Clusters to identify and amplify good local initiatives, and fill any gaps that might exist through connections, facilitating, training, and coaching. We work with Clusters to bring about sustainable community-led health and wellbeing, and we work alongside them to discover rather than deliver. If Arukah Network ceased existing, we hope and expect that Clusters would carry on working together.
Our way of working does not reflect traditional approaches in international development, where often, the bulk of charitable income is spent directly on implementing and leading projects of a defined duration.
Our approach means that we do not ‘intervene’ or ‘implement’ projects ourselves, and so our ‘project’ costs are relatively low. The bulk of our expenditure is therefore on travel, facilitation and training costs, and occasionally small seedfunds for Cluster work, which reflects our approach of accompaniment, supporting community leaders, training, and encouraging self-sufficient Cluster work.
Clusters are achieving good things through collaboration and shared learning and partnerships, and for relatively little or no cost. Local or in-kind initiatives that have come about as a result of our approach do not appear in our accounts, for example, the many hours of support from pro bono teams; or local in-country businesses or individuals that directly sponsor Cluster initiatives; or funding that a Cluster and its organizations apply for directly as a result of being in a Cluster. We are keen to find a way to better document this support, to include in future annual reports.
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You can read more about our approach here: https://www.arukahnetwork.org/manifesto
We are especially grateful for financial support from the Golden Stable Charitable Trust, the Ogle Trust, the Vitol Foundation, and from individuals who give us great encouragement in our work.
## Reserves:
Arukah Network aims to maintain minimum of three months and no more than six months running costs in reserve. As a young, small charity, the trustees are aware we are still working towards our minimum reserve goal. This is gradually improving each year.
## - The year ahead (2020 21):
- We will monitor the Covid19 pandemic as it unfolds, and work out how Arukah Network is best placed to respond, and to share learning.
- We will deepen and roll out our impact assessment work, which includes surveys and Cluster self-assessment. Our funding from Vitol will help us to do this. We have had to postpone travel because of the Covid19 pandemic – this is vital for this work to move forward, so we will need to postpone plans and be agile with our approach.
- We will pursue an emerging partnership with Tearfund, namely, to form a link between our ‘How to Build Community Podcast’, and their ‘Footsteps’ magazine.
- We will review our training offerings, and prioritise work according to capacity and potential income.
- We will roll out the latest version of our Cluster Handbook, which acts as a companion for communities that want to initiate sustainable, self-led change.
- We will support Clusters to use a ‘Cluster Directory’, to facilitate connection and peer mentoring.
- We are due to host an international gathering, but will need to review this in light of the Covid19 pandemic.
- We are developing a ‘member’s area’ of our website, to launch in 2021. This is in response to requests for greater inter-Cluster connection and support.
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## Appendix:
Dr Ted Lankester’s review of the year (published online in December 2020, so some of these activities will fall into the 2020-21 financial year).
At the end of a year like no other, Arukah adviser and ambassador TED LANKESTER reflects on what's taken place in our network during 2020.
I’m writing this in the week that the first person in the western world received the Covid19 vaccine. Her name, now known to many, is Margaret Keenan, a 90 year old grandmother.
And I am also reading these verses from the Old Testament: “My soul was downcast within me. But this I call to mind and have hope. Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed; his compassions never fail." (Lamentations 3: 2022)
I hope many of us will soon have something in common with Margaret - a vaccine flowing in our veins. And I expect that most of us will also identify with the writer of these verses. During this year, we will have grieved and lamented, often with sadness, occasionally with anger and frequently with anxiety. But we may also have had days of hope: seeing how good can come out of trouble, hope from despair.
In Arukah, there have been countless stories of compassion from our Clusters. Food shared with neighbours. Kindness shown to these who have been stigmatised. Support given to schoolchildren as they coped with isolation from friends. And sharing information about the dangers of teenage pregnancy.
But above all, we've seen people from all backgrounds work collectively to ease the agonies of those in poverty, starvation and mental anguish. It’s a story of how together, as a network of compassionate people, we can and have responded to the needs of the times, whether expected or unexpected. Kindness, creative thinking and receiving the Grace of God have been authentic marks of who we are and what we stand for in this era of Covid19. And I am thankful both to God and for all those in our Clusters who have put the priorities of other people beyond their own, who have loved their neighbours as themselves.
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Here are three of our highlights of the year:
## 1. Our Covid19 Response
Of course, Covid-19 has dominated the efforts of all Clusters this year. As many countries went into lockdown, one of the biggest challenges faced in the communities that Clusters serve was hunger and a lack of basic supplies. Across our network, Clusters began to source and distribute food and other materials to families who were struggling.
To support these efforts, Arukah launched a Covid19 Support Fund. Many of our wonderful supporters donated generously to this, and Clusters applied to the fund for sums of money to help further work they had already begun.
India’s Bihar Cluster conducted a huge survey in the State in order to understand an enormous migrant crisis as a result of the pandemic. They used the findings to direct their own relief efforts, but also to inform the media and to lobby the government for targeted support.
India's Uttarakhand Cluster co-ordinated the relief efforts of its 50 member organisations, with many being recognised by the government as 'Corona Warriors' in the process. And Clusters in Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia worked in their regions to share food and supplies, to fight fake news and to spread good practice.
## 2. Two New Clusters
Before Covid19 we welcomed our new Rwanda Cluster - a diverse collection of people and organisations whose work supports teenage mothers, orphans, agriculture, homeless children, and the environment. And shortly after our Forum we welcomed our newest, and ninth Cluster, Monze in Zambia - a Cluster which is already running numerous initiatives from road-building to provision of sewing machines and training for young people. I'm looking forward to sharing more from them in the New Year.
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## 3. Our Online Forum
Every two years we aim to host an international forum, in which a couple of members of each Cluster meet for a few days somewhere in the world. We share stories, ideas, training and plans. Of course, this didn’t happen in 2020. But what did happen was the coming together on Zoom for our first ever Online Forum! We had 8 sessions over 4 days, all on themes suggested by our members. We connected, learned, and developed relationships and friendships, probably more than ever before. You can read a short report about the forum here.
Overall, I believe the impact of Covid19 has amplified the value of our network. It has demonstrated how in times of acute or ongoing need the network has proved its relevance and value. It has demonstrated one valuable way of how God brings hope and new life out of grief and confusion.
We are now on the cusp of a New Year and hopefully of a new era. The roll out of the vaccine will gradually help us to again enjoy more of our favourite things in life, such as hugging our friends and families.
But the direct and indirect effects of Covid19 will last a long time and the value and the challenge for Arukah will be greater than ever. We must continually re-engage and receive support from God and each other even if we feel physically and emotionally tired from what we have been through.
The second part of the verse quoted above continues: “His compassions never fail: they are new every morning”. If you are a person who prays, then let’s make this our prayer for each other, for those we care for, and for our network during this coming year.
Ted Lankester(Co-Leader) Elizabeth Wainwright(Co-Leader) Kerryann Cope (Chair of Trustees) February 2021.
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Arukah Network Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 July 2020
|Unrestricted Funds
Restricted
Endowment
Funds
Funds
General
Designated
Funds
Funds
INCOMING RESOURCES
Total Voluntary Income
20,481
150
Grants
63,045
0
Other Incomes
330
2,785
Total Incoming resources
**83,856**
**0**
**2,935**
**0**
RESOURCES EXPENDED
Costs of generating funds
5,683
0
Charitable activities
52,377
2,785
Finance and Administration
5,112
Total Resources expended
63,172
0
2,785
0
Net Income(Expenditure) for the
20,684
150
year and net movement in funds
Fund Balance brought forward
at 31 July 2019
Fund balances carried forward at
31 July 2020
20,684
0
150
FUNDS
General Fund
Restricted funds
Assets
Total funds
Cash held at CAF Bank as at 31 July 2019
Less/Cash held in Post-box Account
Cash held in PayPal account
Other Debtors
Payment due to HMRC and Nest for July 2020
Other Creditors
Reconciled cash in hand|Unrestricted Funds
Restricted
Endowment
Funds
Funds
General
Designated
Funds
Funds
20,481
150
63,045
0
330
2,785|2020
2019
Total
Total
Funds
Funds
20,631
16,933
63,045
54,169
3,115
506|
|---|---|---|
||**83,856**
**0**
**2,935**
**0**|**86,791**
**71,608**|
||5,683
0
52,377
2,785
5,112|5,683
6,201
55,162
56,438
5,112
3,852|
||63,172
0
2,785
0|65,957
66,491|
||20,684
150|20,834
5,117
9,668
4,551|
||20,684
0
150|30,502
9,668|
|||22,178
1,494
8,324
8,174|
|||30,502
9,668|
|||28,042
8,352
3,745
1,354|
|||31,787
9,706
0
0
-1,285
-38|
|||30,502
9,668|
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|1 Voluntary Income
1.1. Gift-Aided Donation
1.2 Tax Recovered
1.3 Other
1.4 Events/Training
1.5 Income from Investments
Total Voluntary Income
2 Other incoming resources
2.1 Grants
Total Incoming resources
RESOURCES EXPENDED
3 Costs of generating funds
3.1 Fundraising
Total Resources expended
4 Charitable activities
4.1 Cluster costs
4.2 International Forums
4.3 Networking
4.4 Management and strategy
4.5 Other expenses
5 Finance and Administration
5.1 Insurance
5.2 Administration
**Total resources expended**
Notes|2020
2019
Unrestricted Funds
Total
Total
Restricted
Endowment
Funds
Funds
Funds
Funds
General
Designated
Funds
Funds
9,444
120
9,564
5,415
2,361
30
2,391
1,334
8,676
2,785
11,461
9,379
330
330
1,310
0
0
1|
|---|---|
||20,811
0
2,935
0
23,746
17,439
63,045
63,045
54,169|
||**83,856**
**0**
**2,935**
**0**
**86,791**
**71,608**|
||5,683
5,683
4,668
0|
||5,683
0
0
0
5,683
4,668|
||43,447
43,447
46,557
50
50
1,100
3,366
3,366
4,251
5,514
5,514
8,081
0
2,785
2,785
361|
||52,377
0
2,785
0
55,162
60,350|
||312
312
312
4,800
4,800
1,315|
||5,112
0
0
0
5,112
1,627|
|||
||**63,172**
**0**
**2,785**
**0**
**65,957**
**66,645**|
|||
**1.1. Donations given as one-off or by regular payment 1.2 Tax reclaimed up to 31 July 2020**
**2.1 Grant were received from Golden Stable, Alexis Trust, Ogle Charitable, Vitol Foundation**
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