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← Aid For Himalayan Education

2023-12-31-accounts

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1[st] January 2023 Period start date To 31[st] December 2023 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 2023 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.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

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 889 young students receiving their
education under its care. Aid for Himalayan
Education (AfHE) in 2023 contributed to their
educational programme as follows:
Students’s Educational Expenses: AfHE
continued to make 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. This regular long-
term support of the Rinchen Zangpo Society’s
educational programme has lent stability to their
efforts and enabled outstanding success in
delivering their goals.
In the short term these children can, despite low
family incomes, thereby realize their educational
potential to a much 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.
Spiti faces the familiar challenges associated
with global warming and changing weather
patterns: increasingly heavy rain in the summer
damaging roads and historic mud buildings and a
lack of snow in the winter needed to build up the
glaciers that provide the essential meltwater for
irrigation throughout the summer. In such
uncertain times the education of the next
generation is paramount.
More than any other schools in Spiti, the Rinchen
Zangpo Society schools make a special provision
for learning about and for the enjoyment the
valley’s minority culture. The secular side of it is

expressed in songs and traditional dances which the children become familiar with in school, for instance. Aid for Himlayan Education is therefore pleased to be partnered with an educational society that gives students confidence and a grounding in their own minority culture as well as one that strives for academic excellence. There were other general donations from our charity directed towards improving educational infrastructure in Spiti. In particular a provision for four digital classrooms in Munsel-ling School. Aid for Himlayan Education has raised this money almost exclusively in the UK and delivered it to Spiti. Communications: Aid for Himalayan Education continues to maintain the Rinchen Zangpo Society for Spiti Development’s website and to compose and edit its newsletter [English language.] Further financial assistance went once again to the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India, an institute where Tibetans in exile, Indians, mostly from the Himalayan regions, and other nationalities can study Buddhist philosophy in the Indo-Tibetan tradition in an especially conducive environment—for instance the students are mostly ordained, though lay students are admitted.

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

against objectives Other

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period		 Para 1.21 No matters of concern. No debts,
obligations, overheads or loans. Income has
remained in the normal, average range
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 The charity has no overheads. Money is
raised for specific programmes and projects
as required and used accordingly. No
necessity seen for raising money for a
general fund that is kept in reserve on top of
that.
Details of fund materially in
deficit		 Para 1.24 None
Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern		 Para 1.23 None
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, 1st Dec 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
Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements		 Additional information (optional)
You may choose to include further statements		 where relevant about:
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

Reference and Administrative details

Charityname 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

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Graham Woodhouse,
Mr		 Chairperson
Patrick Woodhouse, Mr
Patrick Sutherland,
Professor Emeritus
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 Trustee Chair, etc) Date 01 July 2024

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Aid for Himalayan Education 1170636
Receipts andpayments accounts CC16a
01-Jan-23
For the period
from		 To 01-Dec-23

Section A Receipts and payments

Unrestricted
funds		 Restricted
funds		 Endowment
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 - - - - -
Children’s Sponsorships - 13,107 - 13,107 13,386
Building - 8,365 - 8,365 -
Other - 1,613 - 1,613 3,186
Gift Aid - 2,374 - 2,374 2,329
Bank Interest - 48 - 48 9
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 - 25,507 - 25,507 18,910
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
**Total receipts ** - 25,507 - 25,507 18,910
A3 Payments
Rinchen Zangpo Societyfor Spiti Development 22,200 - 22,200 16,800
Bank Charges 95 - 95 70
Institute of Buddhist Dialectics 500 - 500 1,000
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- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
**Sub total ** - 22,795 - 22,795 17,870
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
**Sub total ** - - - - -
**Total payments ** - 22,795 - 22,795 17,870
Net of receipts/(payments) - 2,712 - 2,712 1,040
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end - 4,193 - 4,193 3,153
Cash funds this year end - 6,905 - 6,905 4,193

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B1 Cash funds
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)		 Details
Business Instant A/c
Community Directplus A/c
1		 Unrestricted
funds
to nearest £
-		 Restricted
funds
to nearest £
2,885
4,020		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
Business Instant A/c 2,885 -
Community Directplus A/c
1		 - 4,020 -
- - -
Total cash funds - 6,905 -
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK OK OK
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
funds funds funds
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
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B4 Assets retained for the - -
charity’s own use - -
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- -
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Fund to which Amount due When due
Details liability relates (optional) (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 Charles Woodhouse 01-Jul-24
Patrick Macaulay Sutherland 01-Jul-24

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Aid for Himalayan Education members of

On accounts for the year 31st December 2023 Charity no 1170636 ended (if any) Set out on pages 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 12 /2023 .

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

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Date: 19th May 2024
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Name: Mr Paul George Seagrave

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October 2018

IER

Relevant professional N/A. Since September 2023, Business Development Manager at ISPE qualification(s) or body (if Solutions / Swiftool Precision Engineering, UK any):

Address: 64, James Street, Leabrooks, Alfreton, DE55 1LW

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

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October 2018

IER

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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October 2018

IER