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THE ACTS OF KINDNESS COLLECTIVE Charity number: 1164796

Trustees' Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Period to 1/1/2021 to 31/12/21

October 2021

Reference & Administration Details

Charity name: Acts of Kindness Collective

Other names charity is known AOKC by: Charity number: 1164796 Charity's operating address: 3 Golden Cross Mews, London, W11 1DZ, United Kingdom

Names of the Charity Trustees who Manage the Charity

Trustee Name Office Appointed Retired
1 Justin Cava-Jones N/A 10/12/2015 Ongoing
:
2 Mans Gardfeldt Chairman & Secretary 21/05/2017 Ongoing
:
3 Gavin Cunningham N/A 10/12/2015 Ongoing
:

Names & Addresses of Advisors

Independent examiner: Niels Christoffersson of 52 Golborne Rd, W10 5PR, London, UK.

Structure, Governance & Management

Description of the Charity's Trusts

Type of Governing Document: Constitution How the Charity is Charitable Incorporated Organisation Constituted:

Trustee Selection Methods: Experience in Field, Access to Capital, Requisite Skills.

Objectives & Activities

Summary of the Objects of the Charity as set out in its Governing Document

For such general charitable purposes for the public benefit as are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales in particular but not exclusively in Nepal by the provision of grants.

Summary of the Main Activities Undertaken for the Public Benefit in Relation to the Charity's Objects

The Charity has been focusing on core areas of Disaster Relief, Education, and Health.

Hunger relief - Guatemala

Covid was especially tough for Guatemala as most businesses closed and communities were decimated which saw many young people dying and countless more were hungry.

Together with our local NGO partner, AMOR Guatemala, we managed to feed 50 families and 190 children who were suffering from acute malnutrition.

Food parcels were sent to an area called Tierra Colorado, where there is a mine where migrant children, women and the elderly are forced to work beneath the hot sun all day long, seven days a week, to scrape out a living. These children are malnourished at the best of times, but during the pandemic things were much much worse for them.

SDN 4 Sigar Penjalin Block School - Indonesia

In partnership with Block-Solutions and Classroom of Hope, we built 1 Block School consisting of 3 classrooms in Lombok which serves 276 children.

During July and August of 2018, the northern regions of the island of Lombok, were struck by several major earthquakes, which caused hundreds of deaths and massive damage to houses and public infrastructure, including more than 700 school buildings. In the months that followed, the government, various NGOs, and private stakeholders began to rebuild and renovate some schools, but years later there are still many school trying to function without adequate spaces or facilities.

Sigar Penjalin Primary School is one such school. The school is located in the village of Sira, in Tanjung Region, North Lombok and has a population of around 3,000, whose main income is hospitality or coconut farming. The school had eight of its eleven classrooms rebuilt or repaired, but was left three classrooms short, meaning its 276 students lacked sufficient learning facilities.

Construction using recycled plastic blocks

The school was constructed in a total of 28 days by a local construction team. As the classrooms were built on the same site as the pre-existing classrooms, the remaining foundations were left in place and extended by about 20m2, and a layer of concrete added on top of the old floor to ensure the surface was level and smooth. A step was also incorporated along the front side of the foundation. Preparing the foundation took seven days to complete.

The recycled plastic blocks from Block Solutions, a Finland-based company, who has developed environmentally friendly "block modules". Block modules are used for building sustainable and safe buildings that are affordable, durable, sustainable, easy to build, and can be dismantled and rebuilt. The blocks are comprised of various forms of recycled plastic, such as PET plastic bottles, PP, and PE plastic, which are washed and broken down into granules and then mixed with wood fibres before being processed into an injection moulding machine to create the blocks. The new Block School at SDN 4 Sigar Penjalin is the second-ever school built using Block Solutions technology.

Education & housing program - Nepal

In partnership with The Nepal Initiative and The Lighthouse Foundation, we provided funding for the housing and education of a group of 35 underprivileged and vulnerable children from some of the remotest areas of Nepal. The children all come from villages with limited access to schooling, food and sanitary living conditions, and where there is a high risk of trafficking.

The children are cared for by the Lighthouse Foundation, which was established in 2009 as non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organization seeking to ensure the minimum standard of living for Nepalese children who are destitute, socially excluded, vulnerable and whose existence has been jeopardized by sexual abuse, violence, trafficking and conflict. LHFN currently operates 2 hostels in Kathmandu with 150 children. It provides a safe and nurturing environment for the children to heal, learn and grow.

Gulmeshwori Basic School (GBS) - Nepal

Located at Mandandewpur Municipality Kavrepalanchok, GBS was struggling to provide quality education to their students with their existing infrastructure.

AOKC, in partnership with Kids of Kathmandu started the construction of a new building in 2020 utilising rammed earth technology which will consist of 3 classrooms, a library, a computer lab, and a green roof.

The many advantages of building with rammed earth include strength and durability, superior thermal mass, temperature and noise control, low maintenance, fire proofing, as well as its beauty and the pleasure of building with a natural and environmentally sound material.

GBS was inaugurated in October 2021 and now provides education to 125 students.

Construction of a Birthing Centre - Nepal

In partnership with The Oda Foundation, we provided funding for the construction of a birthing clinic to increase access to a safe birthing environment for Kalikot’s more geographically isolated communities.

The Oda Foundation conducted a district wide survey of more than 700 women with at least one child under the age of 5. Through this survey, it was discovered that roughly 50% of women were still giving birth at home. Of those who gave birth at home, 8% did so with an untrained local midwife, 37% with the assistance of a family member, and 6% entirely alone. Furthermore, only 5% of women who gave birth at home responded that they did so out of choice. The most common reasons for home delivery were not wanting to walk at night and the nearest health facility being too far away (an average distance of 53 minutes by foot).

Using rammed earth technology the birthing centre was constructed on the Oda Foundation campus in Mahawai rural municipality and provides an excellent natural temperature grading system. The density of the walls has the ability to store heat energy, slowly releasing it as the day gets colder. During the warm seasons, the same ability keeps the interior cool as the day gets dotter. The material is fire-proof, pest-proof and can withstand earthquakes.

Khum Koh Chivaing Primary School - Cambodia

Located in Anlong Ta Ou Village in Battambang Province, Cambodia, Khum Koh Chivaing Primary School was desperately in need of a new school building. Khum Koh Chivaing Primary School was built in 1964 and consisted of two floating wooden buildings, a larger one with four classrooms and a smaller one with three classrooms. The smaller building was still in good condition, but the other building was on the verge of collapse and beyond repair. This old wooden building posed a danger to the children and therefore urgently needed to be replaced.

To address this pressing situation, together with our partners Child's Dream and Classroom of Hope, we supported Anlong Ta Ou Village with the construction of one new concrete school building including a total of six fully-furnished classrooms and eight new toilets. The new school building replaces the larger dilapidated building, while the smaller building has been donated to another school. Construction of Khum Koh Chivaing Primary School was fully completed on 23 June 2021.

The School serves 402 students (220 girls and 182 boys), ranging in age from six to 12 years old, and employs ten teachers (7 females and 3 males).

Kanseng Primary School - Cambodia

Kanseng Primary School, located in Kanseng Village of Cambodia, consisted of four school buildings. One of the buildings was in reasonable condition while the other three buildings were not. Of the buildings in poor condition, one was structurally unsafe and the others were unsuitable environments for students and teachers. The three buildings were in dire need of removal out of safety concerns.

Together with our partners Child's Dream and Classroom of Hope, we provided a solution to this critical problem by constructing one fully- furnished school building with five classrooms and six new toilets. Construction of Kanseng Primary School began in the beginning of October 2021 and was fully completed 9th December 2021.

The construction of the new school building encourages the students to fully participate in their schooling and will emphasise the importance of education to the whole community. Replacing the

unsafe buildings with a new building creates a positive, safe and encouraging space to learn, grow and develop for both students and teachers. We also built six new toilets to proactively accommodate a growing student population ensuring that hygiene related illnesses are minimalized.

The school serves 476 students (247 boys and 229 girls) ranging in age from six to twelve years old with 16 employed teachers (6 males and 10 females).

Achievements & Performance

Statutory Declaration

The trustees declare that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit published by the commission in exercising their powers or duties.

Summary of the Main Achievements of the Charity for the Period:

Financial Review

Overview

During the period, the Charity received £204,091 in total donations and income from fundraising activities.

The Charity had Marketing costs of £1,015 in Costs of generating voluntary receipts , mainly from transfer, donation platform and bank fees. The charity had no governance costs, and paid no salaries.

The Charity made multiple grants, amounting to £185,900, as set out in more detail in the Charity accounts.

The balance of the charity’s available cash on the 31/12/2021 was £48,605. The charity has no other assets.

Brief Statement of the Charity's Policy on Reserves

The Trustees aim to maintain free reserves in unrestricted funds at a level which equates to the Charity’s commitments for the next six months .

Details of Any Funds Materially in Deficit

None.

Further Financial Review Details

None.

Statutory Notes to the Accounts

Particulars of Any Outstanding Guarantee Given by the CIO

None.

Particulars of Any Outstanding Debt

None.

Other Optional Information

None.

Declaration

The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees' Report above. Signed on behalf of the Charity's Trustees

Signature(s):

Full Name(s): Mans Gardfeldt Position(s): Chairman and Secretary

Date: 31 October 2022

Charity Name

Acts of Kindness Collective
Charity Name

Acts of Kindness Collective
Charity Name

Acts of Kindness Collective
Charity Name

Acts of Kindness Collective
Charity Name

Acts of Kindness Collective
CC16a
For the period
from
Period start date
1/1/2021
To
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
Total funds
to the nearest £
Last year
to the nearest £
Voluntary Receipts -
35,769-
-
168,322-
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
204,091-
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Activities for generating funds (trading) -
--
-
--
-
--
Charitable activities -
--
-
--
-
--
Other receipts -
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)
-
35,769-
-
168,322-
-
--
-
204,091-
-
--
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Sub total
Total receipts
A3 Payments
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
35,769-
-
168,322-
-
--
-
204,091-
-
--
Costs of generating voluntary receipts -
1,015-
-
--
-
--
-
176,521-
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
1,015-
-
--
-
185,900-
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Fundraising costs (trading activities) -
--
-
--
-
--
Costs of charitable activities -
9,379-
-
--
-
--
Governance costs -
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
**Sub total ** -
10,393-
-
176,521-
-
--
-
186,915-
-
--
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Sub total -
--
Total payments -
10,393-
Net of receipts/(payments) -
25,376-
A5 Transfers between funds
-
5,550-
A6 Cash funds last year end
-
24,108-
Cash funds this year end -
43,933-
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
10,393-
-
176,521-
-
--
-
186,915-
-
--
-
25,376-
-
8,199-
-
--
-
17,176-
-
--
-
5,550-
-
5,550-
-
7,321-
-
4,672-
-
--
-
--
-
31,429-
-
48,605-
-
--
-
24,108-
-
--
-
--
-
43,933-
-
--
-
--
**Sub total ** - 10,393- - 176,521- - -- - 186,915- - --
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- -- - -- - -- - --
- -- - -- - -- - --
**Sub total ** - -- - -- - -- - --
**Total payments ** - 10,393- - 176,521- - -- - 186,915- - --
**Net of receipts/(payments) ** - 25,376- - 8,199- - -- - 17,176- - --
A5 Transfers between funds - 5,550- - 5,550- - -- - -- - --
A6 Cash funds last year end - 24,108- - 7,321- - -- - 31,429- - --
**Cash funds this year end ** - 43,933- - 4,672- - -- - 48,605- - --

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds

Categories Details

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

31/10/2022

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B1 Cash funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
HSBC -
28,213-
-
4,672-
-
--
Paypal GBP -
6,055-
-
--
-
--
Paypal USD & HSBC USD accounts -
9,666-
-
--
-
--
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B5 Liabilities
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Details
N/A
Details
N/A
Details
N/A
Details
N/A
Signature
-
43,933-
-
4,672-
-
--
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
Mans Gardfeldt
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Current value
(optional)
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
Current value
(optional)
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
-
--
When due
(optional)
Date of
approval
Mans Gardfeldt 31 Oct 2022

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

31/10/2022

2

Reporting start date
Reporting end date
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
1/1/2021
Notes to annual accounts
31/12/2021
TOTALS CHIVAING BOTF Kanseng EDUFUND LIGHTHOUSE ALIBALI GARDF GBS
Voluntary Receipts Receipts Restricted
Unrestricted
£168,322.12
£35,768.88
Restricted
Unrestricted
£125,000.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£0.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£25,000.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£0.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£0.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£18,322.12
Restricted
Unrestricted
£0.00
Restricted
Unrestricted
£0.00
Donations from individual
Donations from individual
Donations from corporate
Grants from non-profits
Gift Aid
s
s to a P2P appeal
s
£133,760.16
£12,603.14
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£22,815.72
£0.00
£0.00
£34,561.96
£350.02
Activities for generating funds (trading) £0.00
£0.00
£0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00
Income from fundraising
Income from merchendis
events
e sales
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Charitable activities
Other receipts
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Total receipts £168,322.12
£35,768.88
£125,000.00 £0.00 £25,000.00 £0.00 £0.00 £18,322.12 £0.00 £0.00
Costs of generating vol Payments
untary receipts
£0.00
£1,014.57
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Marketing
Advertising
Bank, payments and tran
sfer fees £0.00
£328.48
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£686.09
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Fundraising costs (tradi ng activities) £0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Costs from fundraising ev
Costs from merchendise
ents
sales
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Costs of charitable acti vities £176,521.24
£9,378.76
£125,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£25,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,125.00
£21,114.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,407.24
£0.00
Grants given
Grant transaction costs
AOKC team on-the groun
d costs £176,521.24
£9,378.76
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£125,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£25,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,125.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£21,114.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,407.24
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Governance costs £0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
Total payments £176,521.24
£10,393.33
£125,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£25,000.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,125.00
£21,114.00
£0.00
£0.00
£0.00
£5,407.24
£0.00
Incoming balance from
Total balance this perio
Project specific balance
Project balance before f
Fund transfers
Balance after fund trans
previous period
d
s this period: income less expediture
und transfer
fers at end of year
£7,321
£24,108
-£8,199
£25,376
£5,550
-£5,550
£4,672
£43,933
£0
£0
£0
£0
£0
£2,104
£0
£2,104
£0
£2,104
£0
£0
£0
£0
£0
£483
£0
£483
£0
£483
0
£0
£0
£0
£0
2649
-£2,792
-£143
£143
£0
2085
£0
£2,085
£0
£2,085
0
-£5,407
-£5,407
£5,407
£0

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

31/10/2022

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name Acts of Kindness Collective members of On accounts for the year 31/12/2021 Charity no 1164796 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1-2 of CC16a and a 1-page appendix with notes to the accounts relating to Restricted funds (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. responsibilities of The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year trustees and examiner under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Charities Act”) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

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Independent In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my examiner's statement attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed:

Date: 31 October 2022

Name: Niels Christoffersson

Relevant professional MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance at London School of Economics qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: 52 Golborne Road, W10 5PR, London, UK

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of N/A any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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Title AOKC Independent Examiners report for year ended 31 Dec 2021 File Name Independent_Exami...rt_2021_Niels.pdf Document ID 57258feea4e95b439c9b91503fa559f793f24c01 Audit Trail Date Format MM / DD / YYYY Status Signed

10 / 31 / 2022 Sent for signature to Niels Christoffersson 16:05:54 UTC (niels.christoffersson@gmail.com) from mans@theaokc.org IP: 31.208.59.232 10 / 31 / 2022 Viewed by Niels Christoffersson 16:06:08 UTC (niels.christoffersson@gmail.com) IP: 80.87.27.34 10 / 31 / 2022 Signed by Niels Christoffersson 16:06:35 UTC (niels.christoffersson@gmail.com) IP: 80.87.27.34 10 / 31 / 2022 The document has been completed. 16:06:35 UTC