## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 1 March 2023 Period start date to 29 February 2024 Period end date**
## **Charity name: ANNIE WALSH MEMORIAL SCHOOL (AWMS) OLD GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION (UK BRANCH)**
## **Charity registration number: 1165222**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education of pupils**
**attending the Annie Walsh Memorial**
**School, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West**
**Africa in such ways as the Trustees may**
**determine from time to time.**|
|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|**In planning our activities for the year,**
**the Charity Commission’s guidance on**
**public benefit were considered and**
**taken into consideration.**
**Our fundraising activities for this period**
**were as follows:**
**1. Thanksgiving Service – March**
**2023**
**2. Annie-Grams social event - June**
**2023**
**3. Africana Night event – November**
**2023**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees are aware of guidance in**
**respect of public benefit**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment
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|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The Charity is managed by alumni who**
**are volunteers. We are grateful for the**
**many hours they put into managing the**
**Association’s affairs. They also pay**
**annual subscriptions and give**
**donations from time to time.**|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|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|**Alumni who are volunteers try their very**
**best to raise funds to continue to**
**support the school and pupils in**
**Freetown.**
**Since the lifting of the Covid**
**restrictions, the association has**
**organised a number of face-to-face**
**fundraising events which have been**
**successful.**
**At all these events, we have appealed to**
**individuals and our supporters to**
**sponsor these under privilege girls at**
**our alma mater.**
**Trustees continue to explore other ways**
**of raising funds to carry out our aims**
**and objectives as set out in our**
**governing instrument, such as**
**sponsored walks participated by**
**members etc.**
**1. Our yearly scholarship awards**
**have benefitted about 50**
**disadvantaged pupils from all**
**backgrounds at the school each**
**year.**
**2. Our association has continued to**
**support some of the building**
**/development projects going on**
**in the school.**
**3. Ongoing refurbishment of the**
**school’s chapel, washrooms and**
**toilets at the school was**
**undertaken to enable the girls to**
**receive their education in a clean**
**and safe environment.**
**4. The association has sponsored**
**teacher development**
**programmes to enhance their ICT**
**capabilities as well professional**
**development programme.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**As per report from Independent**
**Accountant**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**As above**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**As above**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**As above**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**As above**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**As above**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|**Refer to report from Independent**
**Accountant**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**None**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Reserve policy to cover scholarship**
**awards**|
|Other||**None**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution & Bye-Laws**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Association**|
|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|**Trustees are appointed every two years**
**at the Annual General meeting held in**
**February. (Next AGM February 2025)**|
**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|**During their induction, Trustees are**
**encouraged to study the Byelaws, which**
**is the governing document of the**
**association. Safeguarding, health &**
**safety courses are undertaken.**|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|ANNIE WALSH MEMORIAL ACHOOL (AWMS) OLD GIRLS’
ASSOCIATION (UK BRANCH)|
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|Other name the charity uses|AWOGA UK|
|Registered charity number|1165222|
|Charity’s principal address|1 MILLERS TERRACE
SHRUBBERY ROAD
GRAVESEND
KENT DA12 1JW|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||Claudia Bultman|Chair|||
||Rosemond Amado-
Taylor|Secretary|||
||Dannette Davies|Treasurer|||
||Nadia Palmer|Vice Chair|||
||Gertrude Morgan|Social Secretary|||
||Lorraine Davies|Asst Treasurer|||
||Emilda Thompson|Asst Social
Secretary|||
||Julie Awoonor-
Gordon|Trustee|||
||Olga Buck|Trustee|||
||Mel Sawyer|Trustee|||
||Dennishia Showers|Trustee|||
||Edith Wilson|Asst. Secretary|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **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)**|
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|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **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**|||
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||CLAUDIA BULTMAN||
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CHAIR||
||19/12/2024||
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**The Annie Walsh Memorial School Old Girls Association (UK Branch) Registered Charity number 1165222**
**ACCOUNTS AND TRUSTEES REPORT FOR THE PERIOD FROM 1st MARCH 2023 TO 29th FEBRUARY 2024**
AWOGA Accounts for the period from 1st March 2023 to 29th February2024
|Charity Name|The Annie Walsh Memorial School Old Girls Association|
|---|---|
|Working Name|AWOGA|
|Charity Number|1165222|
|Bank|Nat West Bank, 504 Brixton Road, London, SW9 8EW|
|Independent Accountant|Crest Accounting Ltd, 49 Verdayne Avenue, Shirley, Croydon, Surrey. CR0 8TW|
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
## **For the period from 1st March 2023 to 29th February 2024**
|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**TOTAL**|**TOTAL**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Funds**|**Funds**|**FUNDS**|**FUNDS**|
|||**Period Ended**|**Period Ended**|**Period Ended**|**Period Ended**|
|||**29 February 2024**|**29 February 2024**|**29 February 2024**|**28 February 2023**|
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Incoming Resources**|**(Note 3)**|||||
|Voluntary Income||32,219|16,412|48,631|37,101|
|Gift Aid||||0|0|
|Interest||538||538|28|
|**Total incoming resources**||**32,757**|**16,412**|**49,169**|**37,129**|
|**Costs of Providing Charitable**|**(Note 4)**|||||
|**Activities**||||||
|Cost of providingCharitable||||||
|Activites||33,616|8,425|42,041|21,772|
|Charitable Activites||11,389||11,389|7,644|
|Independent review||350||350|350|
|**Total Resources expended**||**45,355**|**8,425**|**53,780**|**29,766**|
|**Net movement in funds**||**(12,598)**|**7,987**|**(4,611)**|**7,363**|
|**Reconciliation of funds**||||||
|Total Funds brought forward||68,115|6,659|74,774|67,411|
|**Total Funds carried forward**||55,517|14,646|70,163|**74,774**|
## **AWOGA**
|||**AWOGA**|**AWOGA**|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**Balance Sheet as at 29th Fenruary 2024**||
|||**29 February 2024**|**28 February 2023**|
|||£|£|
|**Fixed Assets**||500|0|
|**Current Assets**||||
|Prepaid||8,680|1,089|
|Cash at bank and in hand||61,333|74,035|
|Accrued Income|||0|
|**Total Current assets**||**70,513**|**75,124**|
|Creditors falling due within one year|(Note 5)|||
|Accrued Costs||(350)|(350)|
|**Net Assets**||**70,163**|**74,774**|
|**Funds of the Charity**||||
|Unrestricted Funds||55,517|68,115|
|Restricted Funds||14,646|6,659|
|**Total Funds**||**70,163**|**74,774**|
Approved: Position: Date:
**AWOGA Notes to the Accounts**
## **Note 1: Accounting Policies**
The principal accounting policies are summarised below. The accounting policies have been applied consistently throughout the period.
## Basis of Accounting
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
*the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) issued on 16 July 2014.
*and with the Charities Act 2011.
## Fund Accounting
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity. Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor.
## Incoming resources
All incoming resources are recognised once the charity has entitlement to the resources, it is certain that the resources will be received and the monetary value of incoming resources can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Grants and donations are included in the SoFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources and incoming resources from tax reclaims are included at the same time as the gift to which they relate. Investment income is included when receivable.
## Resources expended
Expenditure is recognised on an accrual basis as a liability is incurred.
Costs of generating funds are those costs incurred in attracting voluntary income.
Charitable expenditure comprises those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its members. It includes both costs that can be allocated directly to such activities and those costs of an indirect nature to support them. Governance costs include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity and include independent examination fees and costs linked to the strategic management of the charity.
All costs are allocated between the expenditure categories of the SoFA on a basis designed to reflect the use of the resource. Costs relating to a particular activity are directly allocated.
## **Fixed assets**
|**Fixed assets**||
|---|---|
||Computer|
||Equipment|
||**£**|
|Cost||
|At 1 March 2023|358|
|additions|1,000|
|**At 28 Feb 2023**|**1,358**|
|Depreciation||
|At 1 March 2023|358|
|2023|500|
|**At 28 Feb 2024**|**858**|
|Net Book Value||
|At 1 March 2023|**0**|
|**At 28 Feb 2024**|**500**|
## **Note 2: Trustees Remuneration**
No remuneration was paid to the trustees in the 12 month period ended 29th February 2024
## **Note 3: Analysis of incoming resources**
|**Note 3: Analysis of incoming resources**||
|---|---|
||**Total Funds**|
||**12 month period to**|
||**29th February 2024**|
||**£**|
|_Voluntary income:_||
|Unrestricted donations|32,219|
|Restricted donations|16,412|
|Gift Aid|0|
|_Investment income:_||
|Bank Interest|538|
|**Total**|**49,169**|
||**12 month period to**|
||**29th February 2024**|
||**£**|
|**Note 4: Analysis of costs of providing**||
|**charitable activities**||
|General Admin|3,180|
|Website|610|
|Insurance/Legal|139|
|Cost of Fundraising|38,112|
|**Total**|**42,041**|
|**Note 5 : analysis of Creditors**||
|Accruals: Independent Review|**350**|
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Annie Walsh Memorial School Old Girls Association (UK Branch) AWOGA|Annie Walsh Memorial School Old Girls Association (UK Branch) AWOGA|Annie Walsh Memorial School Old Girls Association (UK Branch) AWOGA|
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||29 February 2024|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1165222|
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**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:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- • to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
**Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** 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.
**Independent** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention **examiner's statement** which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
- have not been met; or
1. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Signed: Date:** 23/12/2024 **Name:** Patricia Jane Ward **Relevant professional** FCMA, CGMA, MiP **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 49 Verdayne Avenue, Shirley, Croydon, Surrey CR0 8TW
1
**IER**
**March 2012**
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
2
**IER**
**March 2012**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
3
**IER**
**March 2012**