## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: 1[st] October 2022 To: 30[th] September 2023**
**Charity name: Room To Learn**
**Charity registration number: 1165428**
## **Company number: N/A**
## **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 education and relieve poverty
amongst children aged 3-15 for public
benefit, primarily but not exclusively in India,
by the provision of school buildings,
teachers, equipment, and transport to meet
their educational needs.|
|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|The focus of our activities is using pre-
existing educational facilities for below
poverty line children in Kalimpong, West
Bengal, India.
In planning our activities Trustees have kept
in mind the Charity Commission guidance on
public benefit.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Yes|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference
N/a
Policy on grant making Para 1.38 N/a Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment All trustees give their time on a voluntary basis and receive no net remuneration or other benefits. Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers N/a Other **Achievements and performance** Room To Learn works with a number of existing schools in Kalimpong to provide education. Summary of the main Para 1.20 The charity has successfully continued to achievements of the charity, generate funds during the last 12 months.
identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to Room to Learn’s website was developed in the circumstances of its prior years to enable online gifting, which beneficiaries and any wider has made donating funds more accessible, benefits to society as a and this is a growing source of our income – whole. at least in terms of people choosing to donate via it. In an earlier year a small school bus was bought with the funds from a very generous supporter and continues to bring our children to school from further afield, and is particularly valuable in the rainy season.
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
Achieved – the charity supported
educational services for another year. The
charity remains stable and able to continue
due to the reserves held.|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Achieved. However we wish to expand
fundraising in future years and this will be a
major focus point.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Achieved – the charity still holds an
appropriate and sustainable level of
reserves.|
|Other||N/a|
## **Financial review**
|**Financial review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At 30thSeptember 2023 we held funds of
£55,462.61, all of which is unrestricted
funds.
These funds are held in order to meet
planned expenditure for the expansion of the
Kalimpong schools and nearby areas in
coming years.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We aim to hold at least 3 years planned
expenditure in reserve|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£55,462.61|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/a|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/a|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|N/a|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
Our main source of fund raising has been
individual donations.
Covid-19 restrictions were lifted during the
year and as a result the charity held its
annual garden party which was successful.
The effects on income are likely to have
been impacted by the cost of living issues
faced in the UK.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and|Para 1.46|N/a|
objectives including any social investment policy adopted N/a Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity N/a Other
## **Structure, governance and management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|Constitution (adopted 03/02/16)|
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25|CIO (charitable incorporated organisation)|
|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 appointed by CEO once ratified by
the Board of Trustees|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: N/a
Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees N/a Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works N/a Para 1.51 Relationship with any related parties N/a Other
## **Reference and administrative details**
|Charity name|Room To Learn|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses|RTL / RTL UK|
|Registered charity number|1165428|
|Charity’s principal address|Manor Lodge
Old Minster Lovell|
Minster Lovell OX29 0RN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**|
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||Ann Mills|Founder|||
||Des Mills|CEO|||
||John Fleming|Chair|||
||Jacques Honore|Secretary|||
||Stephen Bradshaw||||
||Tom Instone|Treasurer|until 28/3/23||
||Jennifer Maxwell||||
||Brian Mills|Founder|||
||Corrina Whitfield||||
||Frances Mills|Treasurer|||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
N/a
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|
|N/a||
|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**|
|---|---|
|Description of the assets|N/a|
|held in this capacity||
|Name and objects of the|N/a|
|charity on whose behalf the||
|assets are held and how this||
|falls within the custodian||
|charity’s objects||
|Details of arrangements for|N/a|
|safe custody and||
|segregation of such assets||
|from the charity’s own assets||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**
||**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**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
N/a
## **Other optional information**
N/a
## **Declarations**
**The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
**Signature(s)** Desmond Mills **Full name(s)** Desmond Mills
**Position (for example** CEO **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 160424
||**Room To Learn UK**
**Charity Name**|**Room To Learn UK**
**Charity Name**|**Room To Learn UK**
**Charity Name**|**Room To Learn UK**
**Charity Name**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|01/10/2022|**To**|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**22,897**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,897**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,897**
**16,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,134**
**6,763**
**-**
**48,699**
**55,463**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
||**22,897**||**-**|**22,897**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,897**|**18,118**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**22,897**||||**18,118**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
||**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**|**22,897**|**18,118**|
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||**16,134**||**-**|**16,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,134**|**14,780**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**-**||**-**
**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**16,134**||||**14,780**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||
||**-**||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**||
||**-**||**-**
**-**|||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**16,134**||
||||**-**||**14,780**|
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||**6,763**||
**-**|**6,763**|**3,338**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**
**48,699**|**-**|
||**48,699**||**-**||**-**|
||**55,463**||
**-**|**55,463**|**3,338**|
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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**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
D B L Mills
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**55,463**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Print Name
D B L Mills|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||D B L Mills|D B L Mills|08/04/2024|
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