The Olive Harvest Trust
Statement of Accounts and Report 1[st] January 2024 to 31[st] December 2024
All amounts are in £
| Opening balance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| CAF Bank | 12940 | ||
| Cash (£, ILS) | 113 | ||
| Total opening assets | 13053 | ||
| Income | Expenditure | ||
| Total donations (1) + GiftAid and intrest |
22980 | Burin Village Council, devices for online learning |
3500 |
| British Palestine Friendship and Twinning Network. Subs. |
35 | ||
| Al Sawwiya Sec. Sch. Emergency staircase when IDF/settlers harass students |
3483 | ||
| Madama Schools, devices for online learning |
4061 | ||
| Urif Boys’ Schooldevices for online learning |
4088 | ||
| Revolut fee for mistaken use of image |
79 | ||
| Tel Girls School devices for online learning |
1262 | ||
| Burin Schools,devices for online learning |
1659 | ||
| Burin Agriculture College laying hens and feed |
1330 | ||
| Burin Agriculture College repair of polytunnel |
1000 | ||
| Burin Agricultural College, Dutch buckets for growing vegetables |
1850 | ||
| CAF monthly a/c fees | 60 | ||
| Total expenditure | 22407 | ||
| Surplus/deficitfor the year |
507 | ||
| CAF Bank closing | 13560 | ||
| Cash in hand | 113 | ||
| Total assets | 13673 |
Notes below
Notes
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Some of the donation figures are the net amount after Stripe (our payment company) has taken their fee: 1.4% +0.20p.
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The accounts were approved by the Olive Harvest Trust Trustees by email on 23[rd] September 2025.
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Prepared by OHT Treasurer, Stuart Sweeney, September 2025
Charitable objects of The Olive Harvest Trust 2024
ADVANCING EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT FOR SCHOOLS, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR PUPILS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE IN THE RURAL AREAS OF SOUTH NABLUS IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY:
1 PROVIDING EQUIPMENT FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM WHERE GOVERNMENT RESOURCES ARE INADEQUATE. THESE MAY INCLUDE COMPUTERS AND RELATED ITEMS, SCIENCE EQUIPMENT CLASSROOM FURNITURE AND BOOKS.
2 PROVIDING EQUIPMENT FOR SPORTS AND PHYSICAL TRAINING.
- 3 PROVIDING ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SPECIALIST OR SUPPORT TEACHERS.
4 PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS TO ENABLE THEM TO STUDY OUTSIDE OF PALESTINE.
Trustees
Andrew Eastaugh, Chair
Mary Saunders
Melanie Coyne
Stuart Sweeney
Fiona Dunlop
Jennifer Kelly
Peter Liddell
Margaret Foyer
Report
In 2024, The Olive Harvest Trust has continued its work in education in South Nablus in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in a variety of forms. Financial details are given in the accounts above.
The latter stages of 2023 saw an increase in the restrictive measures implemented by the Israeli occupation, which continued through 2024. Due to the proliferation of checkpoints and army and settler attacks in the rural areas of the OPT, students and staff could not get to schools, and parents were often afraid of letting their children go to school. On many days schools remain closed. Thus, online learning became vital for maintaining school tuition – always an important part of life in the West Bank. In the final quarter of 2023, we began raising a special fund to provide tablets, mobile phones and other requirements for online learning and this continued in 2024. As you can see from the account details above, we assisted schools with online learning devices in Burin, Madama, Urif and Tel.
We also continued our support for the successful Burin Agricultural College with: the repair of a large polytunnel, the purchase of Dutch buckets for growing vegetables and the purchase of laying hens and feed.
Al Sawwiya Secondary School faced the growing problem of harassment of the pupils by the IDF on their way to and from school. We supported the School by helping to finance a rear stairway out of the school, so that pupils could avoid the IDF.
The Trustees met on several occasions, with Zoom meetings predominating and proving successful. At these meetings we were sometimes joined by some of our school partners in the West Bank to update us about the situation. Funding for schools by the Palestinian Authority becomes more problematic, due to the failure by the Israeli government to hand over the tax payments due to the PA. Thus, the work of the Olive Harvest Trust becomes an even more important, if small, lifeline for the successful continuation of school education in the south Nablus region of the West Bank.