## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period** September 2024 ## **Charity name: Room To Learn** ## **Charity registration number: 1165428** ## **Company number: N/A** ## **Objectives and activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/a| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All trustees give their time on a voluntary
basis and receive no net remuneration or
other benefits.| |Other||N/a| ## **Achievements and performance** ||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,|Para 1.20|Room To Learn works with a number of
existing schools in Kalimpong to provide
education.
The charity has successfully continued to
generate funds during the last 12 months.| |---|---|---|---| ||identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.||Room to Learn’s website was developed in
prior years to enable online gifting, which
has made donating funds more accessible,
and this is a growing source of our income.
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: |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|We continue to operate within our fundraising
abilities. During the year we were notified
that two of our supporters have written Room
To Learn into their wills.| |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 2024 we held funds of
£50,661, 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|£50,661| |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: Our main source of fund raising has been Individual donations Para 1.47 The charity’s principal sources of funds (including The charity held its annual garden party which was again successful. any fundraising) The effects on income is likely to be impacted by the cost of living issues faced in the UK, which has recently become worse. N/a Para 1.46 Investment policy and **----- Start of picture text -----**
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
N/a
Para 1.46
A description of the principal
risks facing the charity
N/a
Other
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## **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: **----- Start of picture text -----**
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
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## **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
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**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
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**appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Des Mills|CEO||| ||John Fleming|Chair||| ||Jacques Honore|Secretary||| ||Stephen Bradshaw|||| ||Tom Gardner|Treasurer||| ||Jennifer Maxwell|||| ||Brian Mills|Founder||| ||Corinna Whitfield|||| ||Frances Mills|Treasurer||| ||Chris Hall||09/04/24
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Sarah Hall||09/04/24|| ||Elliot May||09/04/24|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## 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** 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**|| |---|---|---|---|---| ||
N/a|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members**
**(optional information)**|||| ## **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) DBLM Full name(s)** Desmond Mills **Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc) CEO Date** 01/03/25 |**Section A Receipts and**
**A1 Receipts**|**Charity Name**
**Room To Learn UK**|**Charity Name**
**Room To Learn UK**|**Charity Name**
**Room To Learn UK**|**No (if any)**
**1165428**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Receipts andpayments accounts|||| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/10/2023|**To**|Period end date
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**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**13181**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**13181**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
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**13181**
**17982**
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**17982**
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**17982**
**(4801)**
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**55462**
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_AR)_||||| ||**13181**|||| |||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||| ||**17982**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| ||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_**|**17982**|||| |||||| |**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**
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
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|**Categories**|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|||||| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**50,661**|**-**|**-**| |||**_Total cash funds_**|||| |||(agree balances with receipts and|OK|OK|OK| |||payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**| ||||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**| ||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Details**||
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
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**-**| |**the charity’s own use**|||||| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| |||||**-**|**-**| ||||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|**When due**| |**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**||**liability relates**|**(optional)**
**-**|**(optional)**| |||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| |||||**-**|| |Signed by one or two trustees|||||| |on behalf of all the trustees|||||Date of| |||Signature|Print Name||approval| ||D B L Mills||D B L Mills||01/03/25| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 17/04/2024