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2024-08-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date Day 1 Month 9 Year 2023 Day 31 Month 8 Year 2024 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Bambisanani Partnership CIO Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1163461 Charity's principal address C/O BWCAT Bradford Road Ilkley Postcode LS29 6AE

Registered charity number (if any) 1163461

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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9		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
year		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Darren Beardsley Chair Appointed Chair 23 May
2023
Founding Trustee:
Appointed Nov 2015		 Board of Trustees
Margaret Hattersley Vice Chair Appointed 23 May 2023
*Trustee previously
Appointed 1 Nov 2021		 Board of Trustees
Richard Giles Treasurer Appointed 28 Feb 2023 Board of Trustees
David Geldart CEO (pro bono)
Previously Chair
andCEO		 New arrangement
agreed 23 May 2023
Founding Trustee:
Appointed Nov 2015		 Board of Trustees
Barbara Pounder Founding Trustee:
Appointed Nov 2015		 Board of Trustees
Andrew Lockwood Resigned 17 September
2024		 Board of Trustees
Brogan O’Connor Appointed 10 Nov 2020 Board of Trustees
David Thorpe Treasurer Resigned 28 Feb 2023 Board of Trustees

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Names
Type of		 Name Name Name Dates acted if not for whole year
and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
adviser
Name
Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution adopted 08/09/2015

How the charity is constituted

CIO

Trustees are appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at Trustee selection methods a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

parties;

Section C Objectives and activities

  1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS AT MNYAKANYA HIGH SCHOOL AND OTHER SCHOOLS / INSTITUTES OF EDUCATION IN THE NKANDLA REGION OF KWAZULU NATAL AND AT ST MARY'S MENSTON SCHOOL AND OTHER SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES WITHIN WEST YORKSHIRE, BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES AND FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOLS.

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

  1. THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE NKANDLA REGION OF KWAZULU NATAL BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR PLAYING SPORT.

  2. TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH SPORTING ACTIVITIES, SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPACITIES AND SO THAT THEY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

In planning our activities for the year, we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustees’ meetings. The focus of our activities in our eighteenth year was to continue to strengthen the links with educational establishments and other agencies in both countries. The planning of student volunteer visits to South Africa has been a priority. Three visits to South Africa took place during the year from three different institutions: St. Mary’s School, Menston; The University of Leeds and Newcastle College. One visit to Leeds by teachers and students from Mnyakanya School in South Africa also took place during the year. In collaboration with Rotary Clubs in the UK and South Africa work has continued to develop ICT provision at Mnyakanya High School. Preparatory work has continued with Mnyakanya School and South African partners to develop a Sports Pitch for the school and wider community. Work has continued to embed and deliver the ‘Cycling to Success’ programme with KZN Cycling. A formal partnership is in place with KZN Cycling, currently in the second year of Summary of the main a three year agreement. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to The Bambisanani Athletics Challenge involving primary schools in South Africa and these objects (include within Leeds has developed from a successful pilot programme to become an annual event this section the statutory involving even more schools from both countries. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance Extensive time has been invested over the last year developing existing partnerships and issued by the Charity developing new ones with a view to future collaborations, including with the KZN Commission on public Department of Sport and Recreation, KZN Department of Higher Education, KZN Cycling, benefit) South African High Commission, British Council, Global School Alliance and the Sport at the Service of Humanity Foundation. A close working relationship has been developed with fellow Yorkshire sports-related charity, The Jordan Sinnott Foundation. The charity has worked closely with Mnyakanya High School to establish bursaries for particularly deserving students to attend university Literacy initiative introduced by 8-year-old volunteer supporting World Book Day and the KZN Dept of Education Literacy Priority Initiative Water Tanks were provided at Thembinfundo School as an emergency sanitation measure A variety of successful fundraising activities have taken place throughout the year

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Grant making : The Bambisanani Partnership is essentially not a grant making charity but where financial support is given, we always seek to obtain an element of funding from South African sources as well as our own. This is an important principal for our charity and ultimately seeks to build capacity and empower the communities that we work with in South Africa. By not funding any project 100% continues to ‘lever’ additional funding for the community led projects that we are engaged with. In every sense we believe that this brings considerable added value to our work.

You may choose to include Volunteers: The Bambisanani Partnership has no employees and as such continues to further statements, where be run entirely by volunteers. During the past year more than 50 volunteers in both relevant, about: countries have contributed in various ways to the ongoing running of the charity and the  policy on grant making; provision of our programmes and activities. Many of these volunteers are serving  policy programme related teachers or lecturers who have skilfully included, and in many cases embedded, the work of the Bambisanani Partnership within their educational establishments. investment;

Section D Achievements and performance

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main
achievements of the charity
during the year		 The following are some of this year’s achievements:

This year saw a record 10.623 young people from both countries involved
in Bambisanani Programmes and Projects

30 young people from three institutions in the UK together with 8 members of
staff volunteered in South Africa for a period of more than 3 months in total. This
involved 33 different schools of which 10 were new to the programme

Since the Bambisanani Partnership began a total of 27,122 young people have
been involved in its various projects and programmes. Significantly this now
includes students from primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and
universities. Over the past three years the number of educational establishments
involved in our work has increased from 17 to 53

In collaboration with Mnyakanya School and Rotary Clubs in South Africa and
the UK, Computer Applications Technology (CAT) provision at Mnyakanya
School has been dramatically improved with the school achieving specialised
CAT status via assessment by the KZN Department of Education

Mnyakanya School achieved its best ever examination results and recorded a
significant increase in student enrolment citing the Bambisanani Partnership as
an important factor in that success with particular reference to the ICT Suite and
Water Installation Project provided by the charity

The_Cycling to Success_programme in partnership with KZN Cycling continues
to thrive and this year saw us teach 5,604 young people from some of South
Africa’s most rural, remote and deprived areas how to ride and maintain bikes.

The_Bambisanani International Athletics Challenge_expanded to include 15
schools from South Africa and the UK involving 335 students. Since this
programme began 1,207 primary school children from both countries have
participated in the initiative

19 Bambisanani Awards presented to three South African schools recognising
and rewarding achievement of students

In partnership with the Jordan Sinnott Foundation annual awards have been
presented in South Africa encouraging sport and sports leadership in young
people

The visit of 3 South African teachers and 2 students to Leeds was a significant
achievement and will hopefully lead to more regular visits from South Africa

Two students from Mnyakanya School have been awarded Bambisanani
Partnership bursaries as a contribution towards their university fees. Both
students are studying to become teachers at the University of South Africa. One
student qualified this year

A Literacy initiative by our youngest volunteer (8 years of age) brought 1091
reading books to two rural primary schools and an orphanage to enable them to
participate in World Book Day

Clean water was brought to Thembinfundo Primary School with the provision of
2 Water Tanks

A collaboration with the_MyWalk_charity in South Africa we provided 716 pairs of
school shoes for primary school children without shoes

Several national and international articles have been published highlighting the
impact of the charity

The Bambisanani Partnership was invited to be represented at the South African
30 years of Democracy Thanksgiving Service at Westminster Abbey

Newcastle College was named as an Association of Colleges Beacon Finalist for
the British Council Award for Excellence in International Work (Results

Section D Achievements and performance announced in March 2025)  The Bambisanani Partnership was named as Physical Education Sport charity of the Year for the second year running

Section E Financial review

We aim to ensure reserves are maintained at least at £10,000. At the end Brief statement of the of the financial year we hold cash at bank of £55,056. The Trustees have charity’s policy on reserves allocated the following funds for investment, subject to the projects being viable: - Cycling project £10,000 - Football pitch development £35,000 Details of any funds materially Not applicable in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)

Our main source of funding has been donations and fundraising You may choose to include additional information, where The majority of income is applied to the objectives of the charity and we relevant about: keep all other costs to a minimum. This is achieved by the dedicated  the charity’s principal trustees that volunteer their time to ensure the success of the charity. sources of funds (including any fundraising); The charity has no guarantees and no debt outstanding at the year end.  how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;  investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Future plans –

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

ed on behalf of the charity’s trustees ed on behalf of the charity’s trustees ed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Darren Beardsley
Position (eg Secretary, Chair,
etc)
Chair
Date 7thJanuary 2025
Chair
7thJanuary 2025
7thJanuary 2025