**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] July 2022 To 30[th] June 2023** **Charity name: Friends of Think About Them** **Charity registration number: 1168956** ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** Friends of Think About Them (FOTAT) aims to support the charitable work of Think About Them (TAT), a Kenyan Community Based Organisation (CBO) working in Nakuru, Kenya in such ways as shall be thought fit, by the provision of grants and raising awareness of the work of the organisation. TAT is a community-based organization (CBO) working towards improving the status of children in Nakuru, Kenya with special emphasis on the welfare of children living on the street. Activities are carried out through - education / training - the advancement of health or saving of lives - the prevention or relief of poverty - economic / community development / employment - human rights / religious or racial harmony / equality or diversity Best Interest of the Child has been a leading factor towards every input in place to attain the objectives. A lot of people have greatly contributed both in kind and cash. Since August 2016 to date, there has been a great progress in TAT as a program through its activities. So many people have come on board to assist achieving the dream. It has been a network of encouragement and teamwork. ## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE** The core activity for Think About Them this year has been the weekly meetings with those children and youths who are homeless. The sessions have taken place every week apart from a few occasions. ## **OUTREACH PROGRAMME** The weekly sessions held by TAT pre-pandemic were a crucial part of the project when TAT workers could contact the children and provide the essential support in terms of education, food, and a sense of wellbeing. ## **1. Weekly sessions** The weekly sessions are being held regularly and are well attended with an average of 20 children/young people per week. ## **2. Youth Empowerment** Think About Them encourages the boys to be part of the agents of change for other children who are homeless. The TAT workers and counsellors disseminate the information to the boys at the group who are then encouraged to pass on this information to their peers. Education around sexual health and breaking down the myths about HIV/Aids is so important to give these children a chance. The open discussions based around fact and not fiction helps the boys to pass on accurate information and encourage others to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases. ## **NETWORKING** TAT continues trying to work with other stakeholders in the sector of child protection, government included. They recognize that TAT can only play a limited part of the change now. TAT has tried bringing the children’s department closer to their work through the district children’s office (DCO) and office of social welfare department of the local government. ## **FUTURE PLANS** ## **1. Weekly Sessions** TAT will continue to hold the weekly sessions and try and support as many children as possible to return to their homes or to relatives in their community. For TAT to make a proper use of the funds available, TAT re-evaluated their activities thus putting more emphasis on the weekly sessions by readjusting our activities, and proposed the following. (a) Accommodate more children to the sessions as opposed to limiting them to the previous number of participants and ideally have two sessions per week not one. (b). increase attention to girls who are homeless thus have another female facilitator to help in the process. (c). reach out to those boys and girls that find it far to reach the sessions site by facilitating their transport. ## **2. Networking** TAT will continue to network with local authorities and other charities working with the homeless in Nakuru. ## **FRIENDS OF THINK ABOUT THEM PLANS** FOTAT will continue to support TAT with their weekly sessions and continue to liaise about plans to reopen the transition centre at some time in the future. Funding for this part of the TAT project is through monthly giving. ## **Financial Review** Total receipts for the year are £878. These are the recorded accounts for Friends of Think About Them from July 2022 to June 2023. **Friends of Think About Them 1168956** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **Period Period end Start Date To date 01/07/2022 30/06/2023** **For the period from** **Start Date** **CC16** **a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Restrict ed funds** ## **Unrestric ted funds** **Endowm Total Last year ent funds funds** **to the to the nearest nearest £ £** **to the to the to the nearest £ nearest £ nearest £ - 878 901 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 878 901** ## **A1 Receipts** Donations **878 - - -** Fund Raising **-** _**Sub total** (Gross income for AR)_ **878 -** **A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).** **-** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total receipts**_ **878 -** **878 901** ## **A3 Payments** ||**2,698**||**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**2,698**||**3,216**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|||||||||| ||**2,698**||**-**||**-**||**2,698**||**3,216**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**|**2,698**||**-**||**-**||**2,698**||**3,216**| |**_Net of_**|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |**_receipts/(payments)_**|**1,820**||**-**||**-**||**1,820**||**2,315**| |**A5 Transfers between**|||||||||| |**funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year**|||||||||| |**end**|**9,335**||**-**||**-**||**9,335**||**11,650**| |**_Cash funds this year_**|||||||||| |**_end_**|**7,515**||**-**||**-**||**7,515**||**9,335**| **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Unrestric Restrict Endowm ted funds ed ent funds funds to nearest £ to to nearest nearest £ £ 7,515 - - - - - - - - 7,515 - -** OK OK OK **Unrestric Restrict Endowm ted funds ed ent funds funds to nearest £ to to nearest nearest £ £ - - - - - - - - - - - -** **Categories** **Details** cash in bank **B1 Cash funds** ## _**Total cash funds**_ (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) ## **Details** **B2 Other monetary assets** |**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**-**||**-**||**-**| ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees ## **Details** ## **Details** ## **Details** ## Signature |**Fund to**
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**(optional)**| |---|---|---| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**| **Fund to Current Cost which asset value (optional) belongs (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to Amount When due which due (optional) liability (optional) relates - - - - -** Date of Print Name approval J M Cassidy 28-Apr-24 ## **Reserves** At present the charity holds £1,000 in it’s reserves in order to cover any situations which may arise. ## **Contributions made by volunteers** Friends of Think About Them are very grateful to the volunteers in Nakuru, Kenya who give up their time to support the children who are homeless, and also volunteers in the UK who support the project financially, and with projects to raise funds. We particularly thank everyone who volunteered their time and resources to fundraising for this project. ## **Structure, Governance and Management** The trustees for Friends of Think About Them are appointed in accordance with the constitution for the charity registered with the Charities Commission in August 2016. The trustees are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the charity including deciding on how the funds of the charity are to be spent. Relationship with Think About Them in Kenya remains very positive with regular communication about activities and financial expenditure. ## **Trustees of Friends of Think About Them** Mrs Janet Cassidy Mr Martin Cassidy Mr Martin Day Mrs Jill Day Mrs Marion Bathurst Mrs Julia Sears **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Janet Mary Cassidy **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 30 April 2024 ||**Friends of Think About Them**|**Friends of Think About Them**|**Friends of Think About Them**|**1168956**|**1168956**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
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