2022-03-31-accounts

	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date			To	Period end date
		1	04	2021		31	3	2022

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name African Village Support

Other names charity is known by AVS

Registered charity number (if any) 1164318

Charity's principal address AVS c/o Curzon Green Solicitors 114-116 Oxford Road High Wycombe Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Postcode HP11 2DN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Marie Cates
	Stephen Cates
	David Cates
	Naomi Lumutenga
	Patricia Lewis
	Robert Green
	Suzannah Fullagar
	Alex Steele
	Amina West
	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
	Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Financial	Jean Carless	As before.
Financial	Simon Carless	As before.

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

(e.g. trust deed, constitution)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted

(e.g. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods

Recommended and elected by the Trustees.

(e.g. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

AVS is overseen by a voluntary Board of Trustees, experienced people You may choose to include with a wide range of skills and backgrounds who agree its strategy and additional information, where provide technical advice wherever possible within their own skill sets. One relevant, about: of the Trustees was born in Uganda and the others have travelled, some • policies and procedures of them several times, to Eastern Uganda to work directly with and get to adopted for the induction and know the villagers and to see, at first hand, the impact of the Charity's use training of trustees; of the funds they have raised in the UK.

• the charity’s organisational The AVS Uganda Executive Board undertake the local management of

• structure and any wider AVS projects by the villagers’ own representatives. AVS Uganda is

• network with which the charity registered in Uganda as a Community Based Organisation (CBO).

• works; Their remit is to:

• relationship with any related parties;

• manage and monitor the on-going effectiveness of established projects; and

• trustees’ consideration of • make recommendations for the development of new projects.

• major risks and the system and procedures to manage The Executive Board of AVS Uganda work, as with the UK Board of them. Trustees is voluntary.

Section C Objectives and activities

AVS fundraising objective for the UK is to raise £30,000 for the year. The AVS mission shall be achieved through the following objectives:

• To alleviate poverty among vulnerable families and communities through capacity building, entrepreneurship, and livelihood projects.

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

• To promote safe motherhood and good health among the vulnerable communities

• To provide educational support to orphans and vulnerable children

• To establish a functional community centre to facilitate community interventions for development.

• To nurture and promote talent among youths through vocational and training courses.

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Activities undertaken for the benefit of the villagers we support in relation to our objectives include;

• Education sponsorships for 15 students at both secondary and tertiary levels;

• Provision of a library for students to complete homework, research and general studying towards their education;

• Provision and operation of a hostel for up to 40 girls;

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

• Supporting up to 10 women's groups (over 200 members) financially and through training, developing livelihood projects, supporting agricultural and animal rearing projects, offering emotional support and early childhood and parenting development;

• The provision and operation of a Community Centre, available for use by the local people, local organisations and the place where many of our programmes can be delivered.

• Health related projects, improving living conditions, responding to health issues and enabling medical treatment of the most vulnerable people;

• Distribution of 50+ Mama Bags to pregnant mothers to be. The purpose of distributing mama bags is to encourage pregnant mothers to attend antenatal services regularly (at least 4 times during their pregnancy), deliver babies from healthy facilities in the hands of professional midwives and take children for routine immunization.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

• 90% of funds generated are through UK fund raising activities which are led by the UK Trustees. Activities include;

• Donations

• o Grants from charitable trusts (which were down considerably from previous years)

• o Fundraising events

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grant making;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

• 10% of funds are generated from revenue from Ugandan projects including;

• Uptake of additional places at the hostel by fee paying girls

• Hiring out of the community centre facilities including hall hire, catering facilities and use of office facilities such as internet usage, photocopying, typing etc.

• 95% of our fund raising goes back into the charity and is split as follows;

• Education = 40%

• Women’s livelihood = 10%

• o Vulnerable support = 15% o Community centre & conference facilities = 15% o Local staff hire and governance = 20%

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The villagers we support in Uganda are, for the most part, subsistence farmers living in very poor conditions without running water or electricity and reliant for their survival on their harvest. Their needs are wide and varied but they are clear that their quality of life can be enriched by projects which empower them to achieve personal and economic independence through their:

• acquiring education and skills;

• improving health and wellbeing;

• supporting the neediest in their communities.

Achievements during this period were difficult to record due to the post pandemic of COVID-19.

Overall we were able to:

• Maintain staff numbers at a reduced cost;

• Keep the community centre when permitted by government regulations;

• Support the most vulnerable with food supplies;

• Continue our mama-bag program for the majority of the year;

• Keep *student sponsors informed and encouraged to continue the education program.

• Were able to run one fund raising opportunity.

• Because of the pandemic, some students have not returned to full time education and their sponsors have been informed. Families needed their children home to help them bring in harvests and generally help in the home environment. Some girls have become pregnant and so are not allowed to return to school due to the strict regulations set by the schools attended.

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Section E Financial review

The charity maintains a general reserve based on the generated cash Brief statement of the surplus to meet any fluctuations in fund raising or commitments. There charity’s policy on reserves are no restrictions on the reserves. Details of any funds materially There are no funds in deficit. in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)

There are a number of individual donors supporting the educational You may choose to include funding of sponsored students. Fund-raising events are organised, and additional information, where the charity is registered with several online donor portals. The principle relevant about: funding is received from Charitable Trusts which support the smaller • the charity’s principal registered charities. These funds are always used for the specific sources of funds (including objectives for which they are requested. any fundraising);

• 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

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Trish Lewis Full name(s) Amina West Position (e.g. Secretary, Trustee Trustee Chair, etc) Date

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African Village Support		1164318
Receipts and payments accounts				CC16a
Period start date For the period from 01/04/2021	To	Period end date 31/03/2022

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 23,168 - - - - - - - 23,168 - - - 23,168 22,700 674 - - - - - - - 23,374 - - - 23,374 - 206 - 30,723 30,517	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 23,168 - - - - - - - 23,168 - - - 23,168 22,700 674 - - - - - - - 23,374 - - - 23,374 - 206		Last year to the nearest £
Donations/grants	23,168					19,365
Income tax -gift aid	-					6,627
Fund-raisingevents	-					-
Sundryreceipts	-					-
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Sub total(Gross income for AR)	23,168					25,992
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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Sub total	-					-
Total receipts A3 Payments
						25,992
Direct support forprojects in Uganda	22,700					12,100
Indirect support costs	674					421
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**Sub total **	23,374					12,521
A4 Asset and investment purchases (see table)
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**Sub total **	-					-
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
						12,521
	- 206	-	-	- 206		13,471
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	30,723	-	-	17,252		17,252
	30,517	-	-	Cross Add Error		30,723

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	the end of the period
Categories 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 B1 Cash funds	Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 30,517 - - - - - 30,517 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name A West	Endowment funds to nearest £
			-
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			-
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			OK
			Endowment funds to nearest £
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			-
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			Current value (optional)
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			Current value (optional)
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			When due (optional)
			Date of approval
		A West	17/01/2023

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

30/01/2023

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