2022-12-31-accounts

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From: 01 Jan 2022 Period start date To: 31 Dec 2022 Period end date

Charity name: Aid for Himalayan Education

Charity registration number: 1170636

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To advance the education of the young people from the Himalayan regions of India, in particular young people from Spiti, by providing or assisting in the provision of educational facilities and equipment with the object of improving their condition of life.
Summary of the main activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	Para 1.17 and 1.19	The Aid for Himalayan Education organisation in 2022 has mainly, through co- operation with our partner organization in Spiti, the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development, assisted in the provision of educational opportunities for the children of Spiti with financial help for children’s educational expenses, infrastructure, and practical help with communications in English.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	The trustees of Aid for Himalayan Education have had due regard for the Charity Commmission’s requirements on public benefit in performance of their duties.

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SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers

Other

Achievements and Performance

	SORP reference
Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.	Para 1.20	The Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development is an Indian registered charity that has more than 910 young students receiving their education under its care. Aid for Himalayan Education (AfHE) in 2022 contributed to their educational programme as follows: Children’s Educational Expenses: AfHE made contributions towards the educational expenses of more than thirty children and young people belonging to financially disadvantaged families from Spiti or neighbouring areas receiving their education in Spiti or elsewhere under the care of the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development. In the short term these children can thereby realize their educational potential much to a greater extent than would be possible by other means in Spiti Valley. When adult they, or some of them, can contribute to the welfare of their society in significant ways. For instance, before the Rinchen Zangpo Society began its educational programme, no child educated in Spiti had ever become a doctor and such government posts in Spiti remained vacant for lack of anyone willing from outside or qualified from within Spiti to fill them. Now there are four doctors occupying government posts in Spiti who were all educated at Rinchen Zangpo Society schools. They were in the front line in successfully combatting the spread of Covid-19 in Spiti during the pandemic. There were other general donations from our charity directed towards improving educational provision in Spiti. Aid for Himlayan Education raised this money almost exclusively in the UK and delivered it to Spiti. The 1stMickle Trafford Rainbows a UK junior girls activity group shared gifts and a video with their counterparts at Munsel-ling, a Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development school in Spiti, on the theme of Caring about Accessible Education. Aid for Himalayan Education facilitated this cross-cultural exchange. Communications: Aid for Himalayan Education maintained the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development’s website and composed and

edited its newsletter. One trustee visited this year and his report has enabled us to evaluate the future of our partnership with the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development. This marked thirty years of Aid for Himalayan Education’s involvement in work in Spiti Further financial assistance went to the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India

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Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41
Other

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Stable. No outstanding overheads debts, loans, obligations.
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	None
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	At present Aid for Himalayan Education has no reserves policy and no need to maintain a specific level of reserves. Money is raised for specific programmes and projects as required and used accordingly.
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements	Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements	where relevant about:
The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)	Para 1.47
Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted	Para 1.46
A description of the principal risks facing the charity	Para 1.46
Other

Structure, Governance and Management

Description of charity’s trusts:
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Constitution, 1stDec 2016
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	Charitable incorporated organization
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g. election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees	Para 1.25	Appointed by existing trustees

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51
Other		Trustees authorized to communicate with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs: Patrick Woodhouse and Geoff Nichols.

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Aid for Himalayan Education
Other name the charity uses	AfHE
Registered charity number	1170636
Charity’s principal address	36 South Street, Chester, CH3 5DR

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Graham Woodhouse, Mr	Chairperson
	Patrick Woodhouse, Mr
	Patrick Sutherland, Professor
	Geoff Nichols, Mr

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of	Name	Address
adviser

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

Exemptions from disclosure

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details

Other optional information

Declarations

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

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Graham Charles Woodhouse Patrick Macaulay Sutherland Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chairperson Chair, etc) Date 18th May 2023

	Aid for Himalayan Education	Aid for Himalayan Education	Aid for Himalayan Education	Aid for Himalayan Education	Aid for Himalayan Education	No: 1170636	No: 1170636		CC16a
	Receipts and payments accounts
	For the period from		1st Jan 2022		To		31st Dec 2022
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
Grants and Donations	- 0		-		-		-		-
Children’s Sponsorships	- 0		13,386		-		13,386		11,278
Building	- 0		-		-		-		-
Other	- 0		3,186		-		3,186		869
Gift Aid	- 0		2,329		-		2,329		4,504
Bank Interest	- 0		9		-		9		1
	- 0		-		-		-		-
	- 0		-		-		-		-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	- 0		18,910		-		18,910		16,652
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	- 0		- 0		- 0		-
	- 0		- 0		- 0		-		- 0
Sub total	- 0		- 0		- 0		-		- 0
**Total receipts **	- 0		18,910		- 0		18,910		16,652
A3 Payments
Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Develop’t			16,800		-		16,800		17,500
Bank Charges			70		-		70		45
Geshe Nyima Dhamdul	- 0		-		-		-		150
Rokpa KTM	- 0		-		-		-		150
Institute of Buddhist Dialectics	- 0		1,000		-		1,000		-
	- 0		-		-		-		-
	- 0		-		-		-		-
	- 0		-		-		-		-
**Sub total **	- 0		17,870		-		17,870		17,845
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	- 0		- 0		- 0		-
	- 0		- 0		- 0		-
**Sub total **	- 0		- 0		- 0		-		- 0
**Total payments **	- 0		17,870		- 0		17,870		17,845
**Net of receipts/(payments) **	- 0		1,040		-		1,040		- 1,193
A5 Transfers between funds	- 0		-		-		-		-
A6 Cash funds last year end	- 0		3,153		-		3,153		4,347
**Cash funds this year end **	- 0		4,193		-		4,193		3,154

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

04/03/2021

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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	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	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	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	Business Instant A/c				-		2,881		-
	Community Directplus A/c				-		1,312		-
					-		-		-
	Total cash funds				-		4,193		-
	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))				OK				OK
					Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds
	Details				to nearest £		to nearest £		to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets					-		-		-
					-		-		-
					-		-		-
					-		-		-
	Details				Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets							-		-
							-		-
							-		-
							-		-
							-		-
	Details				Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)		Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use							-		-
							-		-
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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
					Graham CharlesWoodhouse				18 May 2023
					Patrick Macaulay Sutherland				18 May 2023

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

04/03/2021

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