
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 02 2022 **To** 31 01 2023 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** Association of Old Mahindians in the UK 

**Other names charity is known by** AOMUK **Registered charity number (if any)** 1166951 **Charity's principal address** 9, Firethorn Close Fleet, Hampshire **Postcode** GU52 7TY 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Mr Chandra Mendis||From 28.02.2021|Member of AOMUK|
||Mr Lalie Abayasiriwardhana||From 28.02.2021|Member of AOMUK|
||Mr Deepal Pitigala|President|From 28.02.2021|Member of AOMUK|
||Mr Don Withaanachi||From 20.03.2022|Member of AOMUK|
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

**TAR** 

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**Type of adviser Name Address** 

## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Type of governing document 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

> [Constitution ] 

How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

> [Charitable Incorporated Organisation ] 

Trustee selection methods 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by)[Elected by the members at the AGM ] 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** 

The object of the AOMUK is to advance the education of the pupils at Mahinda College, Galle, Sri Lanka in such ways as the trustees think fit, in particular, by awarding scholarships and/or providing computer, sports or laboratory equipment to the school. 

**TAR** 

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**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** The AOMUK has collected funds through fund raising and used those **this section the statutory** funds wisely for the benefit of the students of Mahinda College, Galle, Sri **declaration that trustees have** Lanka. **had regard to the guidance** I confirm the trustees have had regard to the Charity Commission's **issued by the Charity** guidance on public benefit. **Commission on public benefit)** 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

All the committee members and the Trustees are volunteers. They are either old students of Mahinda college or well-wishers. They have voluntarily contributed time for fund raising efforts and selection of projects for Mahinda College. Grant making policy include: 

1. Communications with the Principal and staff of Mahinda College to identify the requirements: 

   - a. Student sponsorships 

   - b. Improvement to educational facilities. 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

2. AOMUK committee asses each of the requirements on the following basis: 

   - a. Ensure it is in line with the governing principles and charity commissions guidance 

   - b. Sponsorships 

      - i. Mean testing to ensure the student eligibility for scholarships 

      - ii. Cost and Affordability 

      - iii. Duration 

   - c. Educational Projects 

      - i. Project description and the benefits it will bring to enhance the education of the students 

      - ii. Project timeline 

      - iii. Sustainability iv. Cost and affordability 

3. Approve the project by majority decision of the committee, 

**TAR** 

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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

Provided the following for the benefit of the Students at Mahinda College, Galle, Sri Lanka. 

1. Monetary support for disadvantaged students. 

Due to the poor economic standard these students have insufficient support from their families to fulfil their needs required to gain education comfortably. The monetary support from the AOMUK enables them to buy textbooks for their studies or for transport to attend classes. AOMUK supported 12 students in the year. 

2. Upgrade to the school library IT system for the benefit of the students. 

   - AOMUK donated 5 computers and a printer to the school library of the Mahinda College. 

**TAR** 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

## **Brief statement of the** 

**charity’s policy on reserves** 

The AOMUK maintains some fixed deposits accounts at Hatton National Bank (HNB) Sri Lanka with relatively higher interest, which is used in turn for the benefit of the students. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

The principal sources of funds are: 

1. The annual dinner dance – not held this year. 

2. Participation of cricket tournament, through which AOMUK earns a share of the profit 

3. Donations 

4. Small evening gala 

The expenditure on fund raising events is for organising the event and the AOMUK has made a profit from each event. 

Other major expenditure is for the projects for the benefit of the students of Mahinda College in Sri Lanka, which is the objective of AOMUK 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Prof Jagath Mawella **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee (Ex officio) **Date** 14 May 2023 

**TAR** 

March **2012** 

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||**Charity Name**<br>**Association of Old Mahindians in the UK**|**Charity Name**<br>**Association of Old Mahindians in the UK**|**Charity Name**<br>**Association of Old Mahindians in the UK**|**Charity Name**<br>**Association of Old Mahindians in the UK**|**Charity Name**<br>**Association of Old Mahindians in the UK**|**No (if any)**<br>**1166951**|**No (if any)**<br>**1166951**|**No (if any)**<br>**1166951**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date<br>01/02/2022||**To**||Period end date<br>31/01/2023|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**760**<br>**1,582**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**224**<br>**183**<br>**170**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**2,919**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**2,919**<br>**448**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**150**<br>**-**<br>**4,061**<br>**75**<br>**307**<br>**-**<br> **5,041**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br> **-**<br>**5,041**<br>**-                  2,122**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,435**<br>**-**<br>**1,435**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**1,435**<br>**-                  1,435**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**760**<br>**1,582**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**224**<br>**183**<br>**170**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**2,919**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|AGM donations|**760**||||||||**-**|
|Donations|**1,582**||||||||**1,380**|
|Gift aid claim|**-**||||||||**1,767**|
|Mahinda Nite|**-**||||||||**-**|
|FOC|**-**||||||||**550**|
|Social|**224**||||||||**312**|
|Interest from Savings|**183**||||||||**201**|
|Membership|**170**||||||||**150**|
|Miscellaneous|**-**||||||||**40**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**2,919**||||||||**4,401**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**4,401**|
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|AGM & Meetings|**448**||||||||**-**|
|Donations|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Mahinda Nite|**-**||||||||**-**|
|FOC|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Social|**150**||||||||**138**|
|Website|**-**||||||||**-**|
|Projects/Student Sponsorships|**4,061**||||||||**1,462**|
|Miscellaneous|**75**||||||||**8**|
|Loss - Exchange rate|**307**||||||||**48**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**5,041**||||||||**1,656**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**1,656**|
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||**-                  2,122**||**-                  1,435**||**-**||**-                  3,557**||**2,745**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**17,786**||**3,658**||**-**||**21,444**||**23,604**|
||**15,663**||**2,224**||**-**||**17,887**||**26,349**|



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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**<br>Barclays current account<br>Cash<br>HNB (Sri Lanka) Current a/c<br>HNB (Sri Lanka) Savings a/c<br>Creditors/Debtors<br>High Interest Savings (HNB, Sri Lanka)<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**14,617**<br>**-**<br>**0**<br>**-**<br>**997**<br>**49**<br>**2,224**<br>**15,663**<br>**2,224**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Prof. Jagath Mawella|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
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