## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025** ## **Charity name: Rural Schools Water Project** ## **Charity registration number: 1170858** ## **Objectives and Activities** The purposes of Rural Schools Water Project as set out in its governing document are: “ _For the public benefit, to relieve poverty and suffering in any part of the world through:_ _1. Ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, in particular, but not exclusively, in rural schools and surrounding communities;_ _2. Promoting healthy lives and raising awareness and understanding of physical and mental health wellbeing for all at all ages;_ _3. Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all;_ _4. Achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture, and;_ 5. _Promoting the reduction and elimination of inequality, and in particular gender inequality affecting women and girls living in poverty._ ” The charity’s main activities in relation to those purposes were: - We continued development of our R Shiny rainwater system modelling application, releasing version 1 in February 2025. Development of version 2 commenced shortly thereafter, with the aim of delivering a more intuitive, map-based interface for retrieving rainfall data from any location globally, powered by Google Earth Engine. The trustees have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|RSWP issues small grants to local actors in
Uganda to enable their participation in
evaluation and community engagement
activities on topics of water, sanitation and
hygiene. All grants issued in 2025 were paid
after evidence of need was received, and
only up to levels that were budgeted and
agreed in advance of the activities taking
place.| |||| |---|---|---| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|RSWP does not make social or
program-related investments| ## **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|We continued development of our R Shiny
rainwater system modelling application,
releasing version 1 in February 2025.
Development of version 2 commenced shortly
thereafter, with the aim of delivering a more
intuitive, map-based interface for retrieving
rainfall data from any location globally, powered
by Google Earth Engine.| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|RSWP ended the year with cash of £816
(2024: £749). Trustee expenses of £156
(2024: £0) were paid to support programme
research, monitoring and evaluation
activities in Tororo District, Uganda. The
principal source of income was public
donations of £245 (2024: £15).
During the year an error in restricted fund
accounting was corrected in the accounts.
£500 of unrestricted funds were misclassified
as restricted funds. A transfer of £500 from
restricted to unrestricted funds has been
made to correct this prospectively in the
24/25 accounts.
The funds were carried as restricted funds
since receipt in 2018. On review of the
documentation issued with the donation, the
trustees determined that no conditions on
RSWP’s use of the donation in fact existed.
This was corroborated by the conduct of the
original donor organisation, who during
multiple contacts made no queries as to
RSWP’s use of the funds, nor any attempts
torecoverthe originaldonationamount.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|RSWP aims to hold reserves sufficient to
continue operations for 12 months. At
present the cost of operations is low enough
that available cash is more than sufficient.| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|There are no uncertainties over the charity’s
going concern status because the cost of its
operations is negligible.| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |---|---|---| |
How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.|Para 1.25|Election to post by existing board of trustees.| election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees ## **Reference and Administrative details** Charity name Rural Schools Water Project Other name the charity uses RSWP Registered charity number 1170858 Charity’s principal address Cedar House, St. Francis Close, Butingford SG9 9SH ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |Will Knapman|Chair||Board| |Matt Coote|||Board| |Isobel Stewart|||Board| |Anabella Spanos|||Board| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details None. ## **Other optional information** None. ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** William Knapman Matt Coote **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc)**[Chair ] **Date** 24/06/2026 24/06/2026 ||||**Charity Name**|||||||||||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**Rural Schools Water**|||**Project**||||||||||**1170858**||||||||||||||||| ||||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||||||||||||||||||**CC16a**|||||| ||||**For the period**
**from**|||||01 September 2024|||||**To**|||||31|August 2025|||||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**Unrestricted**||||**Restricted funds**||||||**Endowment**|||||**Total funds**|||||||||**Last year**|||||| ||||**to the nearest**|**£**||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||||||||**to the nearest**|**£**||||| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Donations|||**-**|**245**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**|**245**||||**-**|||**-**||**15**|||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**
_(Gross income for AR)_|||**-**|**245**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**|**245**|||**-**||||**-**||**15**||**-**||| |**A2 Asset and investment**|**sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**||**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**||**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|||**-**|**245**
**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**||**-**
**-**||||**-**|**245**|||**-**||||**-**|**15**||**-**|||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Grants paid|||**-**|**156**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**|**156**||||**-**|||**-**||**73**|||**-**|| |Administrative costs|||**-**|**20**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**||**20**|||**-**|||**-**|**-**||||**-**|| |Platform fees|||**-**|**2**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**||**2**|||**-**|||**-**||**0**|||**-**|| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**178**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**||**-**|||**-**|**178**|||**-**||||**-**||**74**||**-**||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**||**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**||||**-**|||||||||| ||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**-**
**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**||**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|||**-**||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|||**-**|**178**
**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**||**-**
**-**||||**-**|**178**|||**-**||||**-**|**74**||**-**|||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||**-**|**67**
**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||||**-**|**67**||**-**|||||**-**|**59**||**-**|||| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**|**500**
**-**|||**-**|**500**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**|**-**||||**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**-**|**249**
**-**|||**-**|**500**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**|**749**
**-**|||||||**-**|**808**
**-**|||||| |**_Cash funds this_**|**_year end_**||**-**|**816**
**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||**-**|**816**||**-**|||||**-**|**749**||**-**|||| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**|||||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||| |**B1 Cash funds**|Unrestricted funds|||**-**|**816**||**-**|||||||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| ||Sage grant for reading materials|||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| |||||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| ||**_Total cash funds_**|||**-**|**816**|**-**|||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||||||||||||||| ||account(s))|||OK|||||||OK|||||OK|||| ||||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Restricted funds**||||||**Endowment**||| ||||||**funds**||||||||||||**funds**||| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|||||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|None held|||**-**|**-**||**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset**||||||||**Cost (optional)**|||||**Current value**||| |**B3 Investment assets**|None held||||||||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset**||||||||**Cost (optional)**|||||**Current value**||| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|None held||||||||||**-**|**-**
**-**||||**-**|**-**
**-**||| |**charity’s own use**|||||||||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**|||||||**Amount due**|||||**When due**||| |**B5 Liabilities**|None held||||||||||**-**|**-**
**-**|||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf|Signature||||Print||||Name|||||||Date of approval|||| |of all the trustees|||||Matt|||||Coote|||||||24/06/2026||| ||||||||||||||||||||| CCXX R accounts (SS)