## **Trustees’ Annual Report** |**Trustees’ Annual Report**|| |---|---| |**Section**|**Comment**| |Charity Name|Better Community Association West Africa| |Other names by which the charity is known|BCAWA| |Registered charity number|1169646| |Principal address|private| |Charity Trustees|J. Buchanan, C. Riley, P. Weeden, S. Bittaye| |Former charity trustees|M. Browne: 13/10/16 – 3/5/17
J. Higgs: 13/10/16 – 23/5/17| |Governing document|Constitution, Foundation model| |How the charity is constituted|CIO, passive NFE| |Charity trustee selection methods|Appointed by existing trustees| |Charity Objects|The CIO is established to further the following
purposes in West Africa for the public benefit:-
1) To relieve poverty;
2) To relieve sickness and to promote and protect good
health;
3) To advance education;
4) To promote West Africanculture both ancient and
modern; and
5) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the
interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure
time occupation of individuals who have need of such
facilities by reason of their youth, age infirmity or
disability, financial hardship or social circumstances
with the object of improving their conditions of life.| |Summary of main activities undertaken for
the public benefit in relation to these objects.|Promotion of good health by provision of
food. Advance education by provision of
school fees and upgrading school facilities
and donation of teaching aids, furniture, and
building toilet blocks. Assistance towards
social welfare and recreation. Medical care.| |Additional matters on activities|BCAWA has enter into agreements with
justgiving, smile amazon, and paypal to
obtain funding and has received tiny amounts.| |Summary of the main achievements|Our activities have been restricted since our
sponsor halved and then stopped our funding.
We have continued to assist with medical
care, school fees, and food during the covid
crisis. We continue to appeal in general and to| ||UK Aid in particular to consider charities that
have projects to do and operate at grassroots
level. The situation in Gambia is dire and a
change of approach would be the only
solution in the long-term.
We have assessed three potential projects (2
nursery schools, one vocational school for
girls) and entered into negotiations with an
organization that trains builders and builds in
the developing world.
It would be positive if we could respond to
BFA as we are the captains of the Books for
Africa project to The Gambia, but this
depends on the success of our applications for
funding. Fundraising efforts have largely
failed so far.| |---|---| |Policy on reserves|Money is left in the account as prudent
policy. Our funding has been stopped so
residue in the account is all we have left.| |Details of funds in deficit|N/A| |Further financial review details|BCAWA had one sponsor. The Trustees have
a decade of experience in The Gambia. We
know what to do and how to do it. We help at
the grassroots level and concern ourselves
with the impoverished people of The Gambia.
We are the Container Captains for BFA in
The Gambia and would like to respond to
BFAs request to work with us as their
recipient charity as in the past. We would like
to improve more nursery schools and supply
furniture and teaching and learning materials.
There is one health centre that is not fitted out
and would benefit from assistance.
Our only constraint is funding.| ||| **BCAWA** _Better Community Association West Africa, reg. no. 1169646_ Barclays Bank Plc[Acc][. ][73681173] Joy S. Buchanan 4 Cubbin Crescent Tel. +44 (0)7925 938 237 SC 204545 Trustee Liverpool L5 7TU Email joybu46@gmail.com bcawa2016@gmail.com ## **Out oin s g g** ## **. Oct 2019 - 17. Oct 2020** |**Date**|**Invoiced by**|**Amount £**|**Bank**
**Cash**
**Cred.C.**|**Medical care**|**Transport,**
**car**|**Library project**|**BCA &**
**committee**|**School**
**fees&rice**
**emergencies**|**Office, postage,**
**stationery, shirts**|**Telephone, Fax,**
**Internet**|**Literature,**
**training,**
**advertising**|**General admin,**
**fundraising,**
**expenses, travel**|**Acquisitions**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |7.11.19|BCA sypport|**143.90**|WU||||**143.90**||||||| |7.11.19|school fees|**65.00**|WU|||||**65.00**|||||| |7.11.19|transfer fees|**8.90**|WU|||||||||**8.90**|| |3.1.20|Medical fees|**150.00**|WU|**150.00**|||||||||| |13.1.20|Medical fees|**150.00**|BK|**150.00**|||||||||| |21.1.20|Medical fees|**400.00**|BK|**400.00**|||||||||| |21.1.20|transfer fees|**15.00**|BK|||||||||**15.00**|| |26.2.20|blood transfusions|**110.00**|WU|**110.00**|||||||||| |16.3.20|survival/Covid|**200.00**|WU|||||**200.00**|||||| |4.5.20|Covid-19 crisis|**150.00**|BK|||||**150.00**|||||| |4.5.20|transfer fees|**15.00**|BK|||||||||**15.00**|| |21.7.20|Covid-19 crisis|**200.00**|WU|||||**200.00**|||||| |26.8.20|Covid-19 crisis|**120.00**|WU|||||**150.00**|||||| |15.10.20|med and school fees|**150.00**|WU|||||**150.00**|||||| ||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| |**Total**
**Cumulative year**||**1,877.80**||**810.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**143.90**|**915.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**38.90**|**0.00**| |||||**Month's Total**|||||||||**1,907.80**| |||**1,877.80**||**810.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**143.90**|**915.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**0.00**|**38.90**|**0.00**| ||||||||||||||**1,907.80**| Ausgaben (Vorlage).xls/15.12.2006/OKL 1