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Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 01 July 2020 To 30 June 2021
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name RAISING FOUNDATIONS
Registered charity number (if any) 1165818
Charity's principal address
51 Bushey Way
Beckenham Kent Postcode BR3 6TH
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
| Trustee name | Office | |
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| 1 | Martin Jansen Van Vuuren | Trustee(Chair) |
| 2 | David Peter Dell | Trustee |
| 3 | Olusegun Olatokunbo Olusanya | Trustee |
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members
The charity is administrated by the Trustees and has no paid staff members
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
Foundation Model Constitution
How the charity is constituted
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
Trustee selection methods[Trustees are appointed by resolution passed at a meeting of the charity trustees, ] having regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.
Additional governance issues
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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Raising Foundations is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered on 1 March 2016 with the Charity Commission and recognised by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for the purposes of gift aid and tax relief. The charity is governed by its Trustees. The charity trustees manage the affairs of the CIO and for that purpose exercise all the powers of the CIO. The charity trustees do not receive remuneration for their services. There has been no changes to trustees responsible for the management of the charity during this financial period. The charity continues to partner with Life Nations, in a ministry run by evangelist Antonio Gonzales based in Dallas Texas, to see their vision to reach 2.2 million souls for Jesus in 10 years fulfilled. We have also partnered with Hope Church in the UK who have provided access to their building and technical support to help support our international evangelistic campaigns. We are extremely grateful for their support. During the period we collaborated with Christian churches and evangelistic or missionary organisations in the UK, Uganda, India, Pakistan and US to deliver our charitable objectives.
Section C Objectives and activities
The objects of the Charity are set out in its constitution as follows:
- To promote sustainable development in the UK and overseas for the benefit of the public by: (a) the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; and
(b) the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration.
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
Sustainable development means “development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 2. To advance the Christian Faith through outreach and establishing and supporting churches to demonstrate the good news (gospel) of Jesus Christ in the UK and overseas. The Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance comprises 4 principal divisions: Trust for: the relief of poverty the advancement of education the advancement of religion other purposes beneficial to the community, not falling under any of the Summary of the main preceding heads. activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to In setting objectives and planning activities for the charity, the trustees have these objects (include within given consideration to this guidance and, in particular, the specific guidance on charities for the advancement of religion and relief of poverty. This is evident in this section the statutory our Vision, Mission and Strategy. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance OUR VISION issued by the Charity Why we are doing this Commission on public benefit) To catalyse a Generation of Faith - a Revival Generation. Empowering Christians to spread the Gospel. OUR MISSION What we do Train, Support and Equipping people for the Work of Ministry
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- We facilitate, mobilise & enable Christians to: Fulfil the Great Commission
Support missions, revival and evangelism outreach Help establish and support churches Relieve poverty through sustainable projects
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Develop technology tools and Christian online resources
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Network Christian communities and promote Christian awareness
Our Strategy
How we operate
We operate within a network of churches, ministries and organisations demonstrating the Kingdom of God. Together we fulfil the Great Commission, making disciples of all nations, baptising and teaching them.
We show the love of Jesus by bringing finance, expertise, technology, equipment & supplies, manpower and prayer support to meet the needs of people and communities. Pooling of resources allows greater economies of scale.
Main activities undertaken for the public benefit
We achieved our objective for the public benefit by undertaking the following main activities in this period. These activities are detailed in Section D of this report:
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Held 5 Evangelistic Revival Campaigns in India and Pakistan where over 21,000 people to hear the gospel, 11,200 decisions for Jesus were recorded, 220 bibles distributed and food provided for over 1800 people.
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First Television broadcast - India campaign broadcasted on a local Christian TV with an average viewing of 200,000 people.
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Held 2 Pastors Conference (87 pastors in 2 States in India) & 1 Online Prayer & Ministry event via zoom (International)
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Planting our first Raising Foundations Church in India. Drilling a borewell to provide over 2600 families with fresh water in India. Provided financial assistance to help train and support 5 Missionaries, Evangelist or Evangelistic ministries in the US, Wales, England and Peru.
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Helped to feed families who live in poverty (food packages) Provided Technical assistance for the UK Arise conference in Wales. Promoting Christian awareness and training through Website blogging, releasing videos and content on social media and preaching in churches to help educate, disciple and train Christians
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Piloting a Chicken Farm in Uganda - Sustainable projects
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
The Trustees would like to thank our volunteers and missionaries who made significant contributions to the success of the charity objectives this year.
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policy on grantmaking;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Some of the key contributions include:
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Mission, evangelists, prayer and outreach teams serving in the UK, Pakistan, India and US to bring the gospel and love of Jesus in a practical manner
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Our technical team assisting website, video and other technology capabilities
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Filming, editing and creating online content to release new videos Operations and administration assistance
We would also like to thank all who have partnered with us in prayer, intercession, encouragement and financial contributions towards Raising Foundations’ objectives. This is greatly appreciated!
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
During the financial period 1 Jul 2020 to 30 June 2021, the charity raised charitable donations of £13,427. Donations were raised to support our charitable objectives. The charity conducted 5 Evangelistic Revival Campaigns in India and Pakistan during this period, where over 21,000 people heard the gospel and 11,200 decisions were recorded for people wanting to follow Jesus. We held 2 Pastor conferences in India attended by 87 pastors and technically assited 1 conference in Wales, UK.
We planted our First Raising Foundations Church in India following the number of people responding to the Gospel in an area where no local churches are located. Consequently, we’re providing a pastor for 3 years to establish the church and with the help of our partners, secured and renovating a building and drilled a borewell for fresh water for the new believers to meet at this location. Over 2600 families now receive fresh water from this site.
All our campaigns are broadcasted and can be viewed on our social media (Facebook & Youtube). The India campaign was also broadcasted locally on their Christian TV with an average viewing of 200,000 people.
- 1) Prayer and Intercession groups (International)
We launched the following prayer and intercession groups during this period to help support ministry activities. The participants are based in the UK and abroad:
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RF Frontline – The Shield : Regular prayer group with ministry partners and intercessors
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RF Shield & Buckler : prayer team to provide prayer and intercession for us and our ministry partners campaigns & activities.
2) Evangelistic Revival Campaigns (India & Pakistan)
Our campaigns are conducted by preparing large meeting grounds with the help of our international partners, where we use technology to livestream our UK and States based evangelists to preach the gospel of Jesus. All the computer and technical support for the campaigns are provided by our teams in the UK, where software is used to boost and monitor internet and mobile signals to ensure a consistent, uninterrupted live broadcast across 3 continents.
As we are reaching poorer and more remote communities, we provide and fund transportation over the 2 days for people to be able to reach the meeting grounds from the surrounding area, for people to be able to come and hear the Gospel of Jesus. We also provide food for the crowds at the smaller venues. Our campaigns are held in partnership with local churches, who are responsible for recording the details of people responding to the Gospel at the event, and for the follow-up to ensure new believers are being integrated into local churches and are being discipled after the campaigns.
Our funding is used to secure local sites and to hire and set up all the necessary lighting, stage, screens, sound, videography and power generating equipment at the locations. We also fund food, bibles, transportation, security and other logistical expenses for the event, in addition to costs to advertise and promote the events. Posters and banners are put up and flyers handed out in the surrounding towns and villages to make people aware of the Evangelistic meetings. People also received personal invitations from churches partnering in these events.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p We conducted the following 5 Evangelistic Revival Campaigns in India and Pakistan: India Evangelism Campaign - 261 Decisions for Jesus and over 2,400 hear the gospel o We collaborated with Hope India, a ministry based in Andhra Pradesh who were the campaign directors for an American Evangelist Caleb Wampler. Caleb was Daniel Kolenda’s (CFAN) assistant for 3.5 years. Our due diligence included a call with Caleb’s team for positive refences and feedback on their partnership with Hope India during their 2019 India evangelism campaign attended by over 70,000 people. o We conducted a technology pilot - Our First India Livestream, preaching remotely to one of Hope India’s churches in Andhra Pradesh (Sept 2020). Our Volunteer Paul Aron Thomas piloted use of software, linking mobile and internet data to boost signals, paving the way for us to launch larger evangelistic campaigns using this technology. o We held our First India Evangelistic Campaign, preaching the gospel over 2 days to meeting grounds prepared in India. (2-3 Dec 2020). This campaign saw 2400 people hear the gospel, 425 physically attend, 300 fed, 220 bibles distributed and 211 people making decisions to follow Jesus. We and our ministry partner Life Nations preached remotely via livestream to a venue facilitated locally for us by Hope India. o Our First Television broadcast: In Dec 2020 our India Evangelistic campaign was broadcast on Vimochannel, a local TV network in India with an average viewing of 200,000 people. Pakistan Revival Evangelistic Campaign - 10,937 Decisions for Jesus & over 18,600 hear the gospel o We held our first Evangelistic Revival Campaign in Pakistan on 18 Dec, broadcasting live to our campaign grounds facilitated locally by a pastor. Over 500 people heard the gospel where we provided food for the attendees and 142 decisions were recorded for Jesus. o We conducted a further 3 Evangelism campaigns using technology as we livestreamed with support from our partners - Hope Church (UK) at their St Luke's building, Life Nations (USA) and local pastors on the ground in Pakistan. The campaigns were as follows: i. 2[nd] Revival Campaign (14 & 15 Jan 2021): Over 1,000 heard the gospel and were fed at the location and 379 people made decisions for Jesus. ii. 3[rd] Revival Campaign (12 & 13 Mar 2021): Over 5,000 attended to hear the gospel and 3,390 decisions were recorded. iii. 4[th] Revival Campaign (10 & 11 June 2021): Over 12,200 attended to hear the gospel and 7,026 decisions were recorded. 3) New Raising Foundations Church Plant & Borewell (India) - Over 2 600 families now receive fresh water Following the success of the India Evangelism campaign, about 90 new believers started meeting in a tent in Jan 2021. We began looking for a suitable site to provide a building for our new Raising Foundations Church, as no other churches were available in this location. A miraculous healing at the December event led to a local businessman offering us land with a building at half the purchase value. With the support of our donors,
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Section D Achievements and erformance p funding was raised to purchase this site through our local partners, commence renovating the building and to support a pastor for 3 years to help establish this church. Christians are persecuted in parts of India and new believers are sometimes denied access to local water supply. Consequently, funding was raised to drill a borewell at the church site to supply fresh water for this community. This provides a natural means of Christian outreach, as the borewell provides water not only for our church, but is open to the public. The water well provides the means for this church to bless and outreach into their surrounding community. As a result, 2600 families now receive fresh water from this well, and the well has been named “Oasis”, after the church that helped fund this community project.
4) India Pastors Conference - 87 pastors in 2 states
We held 2 pastors conferences during this period to encourage, train and minister to pastors in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The conference is held similarly to our evangelism campaigns, by preparing a local venue and livestreaming speakers with the support from our UK technology teams.
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12 pastors attended in Odisha, India (Nov 2020). Some of these men and woman travelled over 100km, partly on foot and trucks from remote areas to attend a 4 hour training session. The purpose is to release these pastors to prepare their people for the work of ministry in more remote regions of Odisha.
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75 pastors from churches in Andhra Pradesh, India (2 Dec 2020). Many of these pastors were the local churches involved in our evangelistic campaign.
5) Online Prayer & Ministry event (Zoom)
Following one of the international evangelism events, we hosted an online zoom call with breakout rooms where people could dial in and receive prayer, intercession and prophecy from our Ministry teams based in London, Wales, Manchester & the States (10 & 11 June 2021).
6) Technical Assistance - UK Arise Conference (Cardiff, Wales) Supported a team of 4 volunteer to provide ministry and technology services (lights, sounds, videography, livestream etc) for the UK Arise Conference in Wales (9-15 Aug 2020). 7) Missionaries, Evangelist and ministry training & support We financially contributed to the following, to train missionaries, evangelists and to help support other Christian ministries and charitable organisation objectives. To ensure more robust financial controls, where possible, funding for training or missionary support is paid directly to 3[rd] parties training providers and suppliers.
Evangelist (USA) - $250 towards 2nd year training at Bethel School of Ministries . We met this evangelist at CFAN School of Evangelism and ministered alongside them during our 2019 mission in Peru.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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Evangelist (Wales) - $1000 towards training at CFAN Evangelism Bootcamp . 3 month extensive training covering all aspects of running evangelistic campaigns with the opportunity to preach the gospel in Tanzania, Africa. We met this Evangelist through our work at UK Arise in Wales.
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Missionary (USA) - $150 Financial support through Equipnet.org towards missionary activities. We met this missionary during our Mission in Peru.
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Christ for All Nations (CFAN), Florida, US - £140 financial contribution towards C FAN evangelistic and ministry activities.
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Freedom International, (UK) - £50 towards equipment required to launch their School of Prophecy .
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Food packages – During the Covid crisis we provided £116 towards food packages for people experiencing financial difficulties. This was partly in partnership with Hope Church (Orpington).
8) Uganda Chicken Farm (Sustainable projects pilot)
We launched a Chicken Farm pilot in Uganda to test viability and scalability levels for a sustainable project. We are working in collaboration with a local church, GO to THEM Ministries in Fortportal, Uganda, to build local relations and provide accountability and oversight.
During this pilot, we’re assessing difficulty of raising a specific breed of chicken for meat in this area, purchasing 100-200 chicks less than 1 month old, rearing to maturity and selling locally for consumption. Rearing young chicks requires a high level of care to ensure proper nutrition, monitoring health and maintaining temperatures with charcoal lamps to keep chicks warm in a sheltered environment. Work has begun to construct this environment.
We initially considered goats but due to high initial cost, large grazing areas required and more significant risk of loss through theft and disease, we discounted this option in favour of chickens, where our local helper already has experience with rearing egg laying breeds.
This project is a pilot and is not being run for profit as economies of scale cannot be reached at these low levels due to high cost of sourcing and transporting chicks, food and medicines. We also intent to gift half the chickens to those running or assisting the project.
9) Christian Resources and Awareness
We released the following videos during this period on our Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3cvWiI5.
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The Wake Up call: This video was also released as a devotional for Hope Church and used as a backdrop for their prayer week.
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How to pray for healing (Miracles, Signs and Wonders): video released to celebrate 1 year since our Peru mission where we saw 21 decisions for Jesus with 1Nation1Day and ministering at Iglesia Camino church, Lima.
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Partner Intro: Life for the Nations (Antonio Gonzales): In this video we're introducing one of our ministry partners.
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Hour of Power/ CLC TV Global: In this video we join as guests on City Life Church in Portsmouth for their Hour of Power in Aug 2020.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
We also preached a number of sermons and online devotionals in the UK through the Hope Church West Wickham and Orpington congregations. More information on our projects is available on our website www.raisingfoundations.org
Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
The charity did not have any restricted funds or designated reserves for planned activities. Surplus funds were retained in its reserve bank account.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
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Further financial review details (Optional information)
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The Charities showed net income resources for the financial period ending 30 June 2020 as follows:
| Description | Amount (£) |
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| Donations & Interest received | 13,426 |
| Cost ofcharitable activities | (14,220) |
| Net Receipts | (793) |
The principal source of income is donations. Accounts are prepared on a receipts and expenditure basis. The Charities had surplus cash of £13,913 in its bank accounts, compared to £14,706 in the prior period.
The cost of charitable activities during the period are as follows:
Payments - Costs of charitable activities
| Bank charges | 78 |
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| Website,hostingand software | 702 |
| Missionarysupport & training | 1,285 |
| Mission & Evangelistic campaigns | 12,156 |
| Sub total | 14,220 |
The charity operated in the following countries with costs geographically incurred as follows:
| United Kingdom | 945 |
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| Pakistan | 5,295 |
| India | 6,745 |
| United States | 1,235 |
| Sub total | 14,220 |
There charity has creditors of £707 relating to outstanding liabilities for website hosting, Wales conference support & the Uganda Chicken farm which were paid in the subsequent period.
Section F Other optional information
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Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
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| Martin Jansen van Vuuren | David Dell |
Olusegun Olusanya | |
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Trustee | Trustee | |
| 3/23/2022 | 3/25/2022 | 3/23/2022 |
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| Raising Foundations | Raising Foundations | 1165818 | ||
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| Receipts andpayments accounts | CC16a | |||
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Period start date 1-Jul-20 |
To | Period end date 30-Jun-21 |
| Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | Section A Receipts and payments | |||||||
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| A1 Receipts | Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 13,426 - 1 - - 13,427 - - - 13,427 |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - |
Total funds to the nearest £ 13,426 - 1 - - 13,427 - - - 13,427 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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| Donations | 13,426 | 6,463 | |||||||
| Gift Aid Reclaim | - | 1,409 | |||||||
| Interest on deposit account | 1 | 18 | |||||||
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 13,427 | 7,889 | |||||||
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| Costs of charitable activities | 14,220 | - | - | 14,220 | 4,961 | ||||
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| **Sub total ** | 14,220 | - | - | 14,220 | 4,961 | ||||
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| Total payments Net of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end |
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| 14,706 | 11,777 | ||||||||
| 13,913 | 14,706 |
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B2 Other monetary assets B1 Cash funds |
Details Details (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Total cash funds CAF Cash Account CAF Saving Account TransferWise Account USD Paypal Account TransferWise Account GBP TransferWise Account AUD Details |
Details Details (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Total cash funds CAF Cash Account CAF Saving Account TransferWise Account USD Paypal Account TransferWise Account GBP TransferWise Account AUD Details |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 274 7,210 1,342 - 44 5,042 13,913 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 274 7,210 1,342 - 44 5,042 13,913 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - Cost (optional) - - - Cost (optional) - - - Amount due (optional) |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - Cost (optional) - - - Cost (optional) - - - Amount due (optional) |
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| Expenses to be reimbursed | 707 | ||||||
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| Signature | Olusegun Olusanya David Dell Print Name Martin Jansen Van Vuuren |
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| Martin Jansen Van Vuuren | 3/23/2022 | ||||||
| David Dell | 3/25/2022 | ||||||
| Olusegun Olusanya | 3/23/2022 |
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