## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025** ## **Charity name: NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY FUND (NERF)** ## **Charity registration number: 1162850** ## **Objectives and Activities** |**Objectives and Activities**||| |---|---|---| |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: ||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 operates in three areas:
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. Although we have had no use for volunteers this
financial year.
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** |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|In 2024 – 2025 NERF made one grant to Blind Youth
Association Nepal in the amount of £2,667 to fund a
psychosocial support programme for blind and partially sighted
children as well as others with disabilities.| |---|---|---| |**Financial Review**||| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the
end of the period|Para
1.21|NERF finished the year with revenue of £824 and expenditure
of £3,251.| |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 2024 – 2025 (including the cost of running| |||the charity’s website) was £584.| |---|---|---| |Amount of reserves
held|Para
1.22|NERF’s reserves at the end of the year was £25,852 leaving
reserves of £23,852.| ## **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 online donations
and individual donors during the last period.
One grant was made during the period in the amount of £2,667
as noted above.
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 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|Para|CIO| |constituted?|1.25|| |---|---|---| |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,
recommend and share other relevant guidance published by
the Charity Commission and other appropriate bodies.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s
organisational structure
and any wider network
with which the charity
works|Para
1.51|NERF works closely with its partner organisation in Nepal, the
Blind Youth Association Nepal, which implements our grant-
funded programs.
NERF is also a member of BRANNGO:
http://www.branngo.org.uk/
.
Apart from these relationships NERF is completely
independent.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Nepal Earthquake Recovery Fund| |---|---| |Other name the charity
uses|NERF| |Registered charity
number|1162850| |Charity’s principal
address|56 Bernard Street
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL3 5QN| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |1|Geraint John-Skinner|Chair of Trustees|Whole Year|N/A| |2|Amanda Weisbaum|Trustee|Whole Year|N/A| |3|David Morrall|Trustee|Whole Year|N/A| |---|---|---|---|---| |4|Jacob Strange|Trustee|Whole Year|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)|Geraint John-Skinner|David Morrall| |Position (eg Secretary,
Chair, etc)|Chair of Trustees|| |||| |Date|25.06.2026|| **NEPAL EARTHQUAKE RECOVERY FUND** **1162850 CC16a** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1 September 2024 31 August 2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
BACS Donations
**650**
Amazon donation
**-**
Paypal GivingDonation
**-**
EasyFundraising
**51**
Facebook fundraising
-
Paypal donations
**-**
Payroll Giving
70
Gift Aid
**-**
Refund
**-**
Interest
**53**
**824**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 824**
**A3 Payments**
Admin
**584**
Fundraisingadmin
**-**
Psycho-social supportprogramme
**2,667**
Water tankproject(Lekhani)
**-**
Menstrual healthprogramme
**-**
Purchases ofproducts for charityshop
**-**
DRRproject
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 3,251**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 3,251**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 2,427**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**28,278**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 25,851**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
~~**_Sub total(Gross income for_**~~
**_AR)_**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**650**
**-**
**-**
**51**
**-**
**-**
**70**
**-**
**-**
**53**
**824**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**824**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||||**1,550**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**31**| ||||||**18**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**110**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**16**| ||||||**61**| ||||||**1,786**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||**1,786**| ||||||| ||||**584**||**249**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**2,667**||**3,443**| ||||**-**||**2,628**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**| ||||**3,251**||**6,320**| ||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,251**
**-**
**28,278**
**25,851**||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||**6,320**| ||||||| ||**-**|**-**|||**- 4,534**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**28,278**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**25,851**||**- 4,534**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**| |||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Primary bank account balance||**25,852**||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**||||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**25,852**||**-**||**-**|| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||| ||account(s))|||||||| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| ||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**|| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|-||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||**-**||**-**|| |**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|| ||||Geraint John-Skinner||||25.06.2026|| ||||David Morrall||||25.06.2026||