**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] September 2019 to 31[st] August 2020** ## **Charity name: NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY FUND (NERF)** ## **Charity registration number: 1162850** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Objects:
The relief of financial need and suffering among
victims of natural or other kinds of disaster
including but not limited to the earthquake of
25 April 2015 in the Federal Democratic
Republic of Nepal and its after effects, in the
form of money (or other means deemed
suitable) for persons, communities, and/or
organisations affected.| |Summary of the main activities
in relation to those purposes
for the public benefit, in
particular,
the
activities,
projects or services identified
in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|NERF has raised funding through efforts focused
in the United Kingdom for the purpose of
making grants to registered non-governmental
organisations in Nepal in line with its Objects
stated above and in accordance with its Grant
Making Policy.| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard to
the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees understand and have had regard
to the Charity Commission’s guidance on Public
Benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|NERF has a Grant Making Policy which
requires adherence to certain principles
and for the Trustees to be in unanimous
agreement before funds can be released.
There is no fixed limit to grants but Trustees
seek to ensure that there is sufficient
funding remaining for other projects and to
ensure that the reserves remain intact.| |||Trustees pay particular attention to the
following:
a) the amount of unrestricted funding
available or restricted funding which
may suit the project run by the
recipient;
b) whether the potential recipient
already receives a considerable
amount
of
large-scale
public
support;
c) whether the objects of the
potential recipients fit within
the particular areas of interest
of NERF;
d) whether the size of grant which
NERF can make available is such as to
make a significant difference to the
recipient; and
e) whether a Trustee has
direct knowledge of the work
of the recipient.
Thematically NERF’s grant-making has now
successfully moved towards three areas of
focus:
1.
Health which currently includes the
Psycho-Social Support Programme,
(PSSP) and the Menstrual Health
Programme, (MHP);
2.
Volunteer Trek Projects where
volunteers raise monies though
sponsorship to fund the projects
that they help with whilst trekking
in Nepal (VTP); and
3.
The Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR),
providing
landslide
and
flood
protection.| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including
program
related
investment|Para 1.38|NERF has continued to provide and oversee
grants made to Nepali organisations that
support disadvantaged and marginalised
groups and communities.
Other activities include the expansion of
the Menstrual Health Programme, (MHP),
continued support for a school with shoes
for students,Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR)| |||and providing extra income for traditional
artisans badly affected by the
earthquakes.| |---|---|---| |Contribution
made
by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers have been essential in continuing
NERF
programmes
and
through
our
sponsored programmes, they have raised the
majority of NERF’s income.
All volunteers are
provided with the
‘Volunteer Code of Conduct’ and required to
read and sign a copy when in-country. NERF
also provides an information pack for
reference, including the constitution.| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary
of
the
main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances
of
its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|The
charity’s
operations
were
severely affected by the Covid-19
pandemic which restricted the
ability to monitor and evaluate
projects.
In
addition,
local
volunteers
were
not
able
to
continue working on our existing
projects and fundraising has been a
challenge as trekking activities in
Nepal and the United Kingdom were
completely curtailed.
Consequently in 2019 – 2020 NERF
did not achieve its projections or
goals.
NERF
did
achieve
the
following in accordance with its
overall goals:
**1. Online Store Sales (£219):**
Our online store which supports a number of
earthquake affected artisans and artists has
begun to show sales and required re-stocking
with art, copper and brass jewellery items.
The promising start is an effort to both
fundraise and provide access to external
markets for communities whose reliance on
tourism has been blighted by slow or absent
reconstruction post-earthquake. We also
made sales of Nepali art in venues around
London, taking 50% of revenue for the
charity and returning 50% back to the artists.
**2. Volunteer Trek Project - £4,220.**| Funding was raised by volunteers who trekked with NERF in Nepal in November 2019 within the Annapurna region. This, our fourth water source project was a great success and has had far-reaching impacts for the beneficiaries allowing agriculture to thrive and WASH standards to improve significantly in Lekhani village. Further detailed information can be found at www.nerfinternational.org. ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the
period|Para 1.21|NERF finished the year with a more than 50%
decrease in revenue due to the inability to
fundraise through trekking activities.
Spending was also reduced significantly die to
the Covid-19 pandemic, down 60% from the
previous year.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating
why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity has maintained its policy of a
minimum cash reserve of
£2,000.
This is a comfortable margin as the entire
running costs of NERF in the year 2018 - 2019
(including the cost of running events not
borne by the trustees) was only £449.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|NERF’s reserves at the end of the year was
£27,285 with £40 restricted leaving reserves of
£27,245.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal sources
of
funds
(including
any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity received most of its funds from
fundraising events and from online donations
during the financial period.
All grants were made in line with NERF’s core
objectives and have been spent in Nepal in
line with the Grant Making Policy.
Trustees have sought to keep running
costs to a minimum through pro bono
contributions
from
volunteers
and| |---|---|---| |||attaining best value for expenditure in all
situations.
NERF is not seeking to make any
investments. However, where NERF has
been required to purchase materials for
example to use for fundraising events it
has always sought to obtain these from
ethical sources.| |---|---|---| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Risks**
The spread of Covid-19 is NERF’s most palpable
risk and the charity will not return to operate in
Nepal until the WHO and individual country
restrictions deem it safe to do so. It is
imperative that there is no increased risk to the
communities served by NERF as a consequence
of NERF’s staff or volunteers operating in the
region.
The Trustees are continuing to take advice on
the risks involved while working in rural,
remote, deprived and vulnerable communities.
This includes risks relevant to personal injury,
programme integrity and the well-being of
beneficiaries. This advice is sourced from
industry professionals, peer educators and
experienced organisations.
NERF
funded
programmes
which
are
implemented by NERF’s partners do involve
students of varying ages. Consequently,
safeguarding has been discussed extensively
among the Board and Trustees ensure that all
partner charities operating in Nepal have
effective
safeguarding
measures
before
projects are funded.
Our field trustee, David Morrall, who has the
majority of face-to-face contact with NERF’s
partner organisations has completed an up-to-
date enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS)
check and continues to develop his training
through
courses
offered
by
different
professional, academic and charitable sector
bodies. In addition, David also works with two
other UK based charity organisations and
adheres to their training and safeguarding
policies.| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity constituted?|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee
selection
methods
including
details
of
any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by consensus of the Trustees| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies
and
procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|New and existing trustees are required to
familiarise themselves with ‘The Essential
Trustee’ booklet published by the Charity
Commission. In addition trustees review,
recommended and share other relevant
guidance published by the Charity Commission
and other appropriate bodies, for example the
Department for International Development
(“DFID”) “Disaster Ready”.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure
and
any
wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|NERF is dependent on its partner organisation in
Nepal.
NERF is also a member of BRANNGO:
http://www.branngo.org.uk/.
Apart from these relationships NERF is
completely independent.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Nepal Earthquake RecoveryFund| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|NERF| |Registered charitynumber|1162850| |Charity’s principal address|56 Bernard Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL3 5QN| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Geraint John-Skinner|Chair of Trustees|Whole Year|N/A| ||Amanda Weisbaum|Trustee|Whole Year|N/A| ||David Morrall|Trustee|Whole Year|N/A| ||James Tennet|Trustee|Whole Year|N/A| ||Jacob Strange|Trustee|From 11thAugust 2020|N/A| ## **There are no other Trustees.** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**|
Geraint John-Skinner
David Morrall

Chair of Trustees
28.06.2021
Trustee| |---|---| **NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY FUND** **1162850** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** |**For the period**
**from**|01/09/2019
Period start date|**To**|31/08/2020
Period end date| |---|---|---|---| ## **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 £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |
BACS Donations|**920**||**-**||**-**||**920**||**2,085**| |Amazon donation|**14**||||||**14**||**18**| |Paypal GivingDonation|**1,783**||||||**1,783**||**1,876**| |EasyFundraising|**94**||**-**||**-**||**94**||**62**| |Facebook fundraising|||**2,663**||**-**||**2,663**||**6,266**| |Online GivingFoundation|||**1,557**||||**1,557**||| |Just Giving|**-**||||**-**||**-**||**4,090**| |Paypal donations|**1,150**||**-**||**-**||**1,150**||**2,214**| |Shopsales|**219**||**-**||**-**||**219**||**820**| |Gift Aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,756**| |Event fundraising|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**423**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**4,180**||**4,220**||**-**||**8,400**||**19,610**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**19,610**| ||||||||||| |
Admin|**434**||**-**||**-**||**434**||**621**| |Fundraisingadmin|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**398**| |Psycho-social supportprogramme|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**614**| |Water tankproject(Lekhani)|**4,192**||**-**||**-**||**4,192**||**6,097**| |Menstrual healthprogramme|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**779**| |Purchases ofproducts for charityshop|**15**||**-**||**-**||**15**||**721**| |DRRproject|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**4,641**||**-**||**-**||**4,641**||**9,230**| ||||||||||| |**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_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**9,230**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||**10,380**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||||**10,380**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
**Details**
Primary bank account balance|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**27,285**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**40**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Primary bank account balance|**27,285**|**40**|**-**| |||**-**||**-**| ||1|**-**|**-**|28/06/2021
**-**| |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**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
-
**Details**
Signature|**27,285**| |---|---|---| |||Geraint John-Skinner| |||DavidMorrall| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 28/06/2021 2