## **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. **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |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** |1
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**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 |**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**|| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|||**-**| |**_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**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**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**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| |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) 2 ## **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** . - **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of **basis of report** the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). 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: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records 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. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **----- Start of picture text -----**
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