2021-03-31-accounts - Giraffe Children’s Library

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	From	Period start date					T o	Period end date
		Day 01	Month April			Year 2020		Day 31	Month March		Year 2021

Section A		Reference and administration details

	Charity name			Giraffe Mobile Education Project (until May 2020 - now known as ‘Giraffe Children’s Library’)

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any)				1170053

Charity's principal address					27 Nazareth Gardens, London


					Postcode					SE15 2AB

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

	Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year
1 2 3 4	Jessica Louise Cliff
	Laura Adams
	Sampson Obese Osafo
	Emma Lidbury
	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)

Type of adviser Name Address

1 March 2012

TAR

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 ‘Foundation’ model constitution

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods Appointed

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

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 advancement of education of children living in the Akropong Akuapem Township in Ghana by providing regular access to books and other educational resources through the operation of a mobile library travelling between several primary schools in the area.

2 March 2012

TAR

As stated in its constitution, Giraffe Children’s Library aims to bring educational advancement and resources to children living in Akropong Akuapem township in Ghana, through the delivery of a mobile library. Throughout all the charity’s activities the trustees have had regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

3 March 2012

TAR

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Giraffe Children’s Library 1 April 2020 - 31 March 2021

Highlights & Achievements

Giraffe has received hundreds of book donations from individuals and schools this year, so the team has been busy book-sorting, preparing to ship these to Ghana. Bookmarks were designed to be used both in the UK as promotional material at events and in Ghana as part of the mobile library’s resources.

Giraffe has continued to work on social media campaigns to engage our supporters and extend our reach. The team attended a workshop led by a volunteer who helps with the website and social media, and developed a fresh pool of ideas for content, as well as some of the team being trained to edit parts of the website themselves. Our founder, Winnie, also recorded a powerful video message as part of Black History Month and Dyslexia Awareness Week, which was well received.

A ‘Write Up’ story writing activity was promoted through our social media with the aim of parents in the UK completing this with their primary-aged children who have been at home due to the Covid lockdown and school closures. This was a success, with several stories being shared, and there is a hope that eventually these stories can be used to design and develop our own Giraffe book.

To celebrate World Book Day in March 2021, Giraffe pledged to purchase a bundle of copies of some of our favourite children’s books and ship them to Ghana as part of our initial pilot of the library in Akropong.

Name Change

Giraffe Children’s Library officially changed its name with the Charity Commission in June 2020 from its former name, Giraffe Mobile Education Project, due to the trustees becoming aware of a UK charity working in Kenya with a similar name.

Income

Giraffe has built income this year through regular monthly donations, oneoff donations and ongoing grant support from All Saints Church. However, other fundraising opportunities such as events have not been possible to arrange during this period, due to the Covid pandemic. The ‘Elephant’ campaign, launched in January 2020 to build our individual giving income, was slowed due to the challenging circumstances of the Covid pandemic and an awareness that this was a difficult time for many people. All of this has meant that our income has grown slower than anticipated.

The Impact of the Covid Pandemic

The Covid pandemic caused most schools in Akropong to shut from Spring 2020 until January 2021. The country was ‘locked down’ in other ways for much of this period too, making it difficult to make plans for shipping equipment to Ghana or for the team to visit Ghana. In November 2020 an email update was sent to supporters in light of the impact of Covid on our plans to launch the library in Ghana.

Due to the above, the year was very much a period of planning and preparation for: - Sourcing a vehicle and shipping resources to Ghana - Future Ghana trips

Fundraising and events as we start to roll out the project in Ghana, once Covid restrictions ease.

4 March 2012

TAR

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the The CIO started with zero reserves, but aimed to build up full reserves in charity’s policy on reserves its first 2 years. (Reserve total is based on wind down costs of 3 months’ salary for members of staff who will have a 3-month notice period.)

The CIO does not yet employ any members of staff, but has now built enough funds to hold sufficient reserves should staff be employed in the future.

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;
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) Jessica Cliff (electronically)

Full name(s) Jessica Louise Cliff

5 March 2012

TAR

Chair of Trustees

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)

Date 26/01/2022

6 March 2012

TAR

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	Receipts andpayments accounts
	For the period from	1-Apr-20	To	31-Mar-21


Section A Receipts and payments
	Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	Endowment funds	Total funds	Last year
	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £	to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations	1,364	-	-	1,364	1,235
Events	- 0	-	-	-	3,116
Grants	1,500	-	-	1,500	1,500
PettyCash reimbursement	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)		-	-		£ 5,851.00

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	- 0	- 0	- 0	-
	- 0	- 0	- 0	-	- 0
*Sub total*	- 0	- 0	- 0	-	- 0

**Total receipts **	2,864	- 0	- 0	2,864	5,851

A3 Payments
Petty Cash	- 0	-	-	-	-
Website costs	342	-	-	342	195

CCXX R accounts (SS)1

17/01/2022

Event costs	- 0	-	-	-	1,554
Other	249	-	-	249	51
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
	- 0	-	-	-	-
**Sub total **	591	-	-	591	1,800

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	- 0	- 0	- 0	-
	- 0	- 0	- 0	-
**Sub total **	- 0	- 0	- 0	-	- 0

**Totalpayments **	591	- 0	- 0	591	1,800

**Net of receipts/(payments) **	2,273	-	-	2,273	4,051
A5 Transfers between funds	- 0	-	-	-	-
A6 Cash funds last year end	20,880	-	-	20,880	-
**Cash funds thisyear end **	23,153	-	-	23,153


Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories	Details		Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	Endowment funds
			to nearest £	to nearest £	to nearest £
B1 Cash funds	Cash at Bank		23,153	-	-
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	*Total cash funds*		23,153	-	-

CCXX R accounts (SS)2

17/01/2022

	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	OK	OK	OK
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	Details	to nearest £	to nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets		-	-	-
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	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets			-	-
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	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use			-	-
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CCXX R accounts (SS)3

17/01/2022

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	Details	Fund to which liability relates	Amount due (optional)	When due (optional)
B5 Liabilities			-
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print Name		Date of approval
	J.Cliff(electronically)	Jessica Cliff		21.01.2022

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