**TALITA KUM SCHOOL FUND Every Child Matters**
## **Trustee Annual Report January 1st 2020 - December 31st 2020**
## **Charitable Incorporated Organisation from 23rd March 2017**
## **Charity Commission No. 1172220**
## **Trustees**
Sally Cherubini – Chair Alberto Cherubini Katie Couchman Sarah Aitken
## **Bank**
Metro Bank 1, Southampton Row London WC1B 5HA
Talita Kum School Fund raises funds and supports the school of that name in Chachagüí, Colombia, for disadvantaged and disabled children who are offered a caring education in small groups which they would have difficulty finding in state schools. Our charity’s aim is to help the school establish itself sufficiently to be able to make itself independent of our financial help and to this end in 2019 we embarked on a funded programme which had a promising start with responsibility for administrative systems, including accounts and health and safety policy being transferred to the school. Progress was made with the database and local fundraising. This continued into the beginning of 2020.
In 2020, as with elsewhere in the world, Colombia had to deal with COVID-19. The school premises closed, and teaching was done remotely. Many of the children’s’ parents lost work due to the pandemic and many had no internet connection or technology for receiving lessons. The small fees paid by the parents dried up and left a deficit in the budget.
TKSF recruited more sponsors and their donations contributed £5500 to the running of the school this year. £5000 was contributed by Education and General Charitable Trust. Our accounts for the year show £11572 was sent to the school and for funding the project. We have a balance of over £13,547 on deposit at the end of 2020.
Our charity’s costs remain negligible; We have no offices, paid staff or equipment and this year’s small charges are again for foreign currency transactions.
## **Trustees**
Katie Couchman was reappointed at the March AGM.
Talita Kum School Fund 38 Acton Lane London W4 5ED
Charity Commission reg. no. 1172220
www.talitakumschool.org
**TALITA KUM SCHOOL FUND Every Child Matters**
## **News from Colombia**
When the school had to close during the lockdown and teaching was done remotely, the director of the School, Sonia Diaz, organised smartphones and tablets for the children who had none and lessons were done via WhatsApp. There was considerable inventiveness by the teachers to communicate with the children and they worked long hours to encourage the children in difficult circumstances.
The possibility of raising funds in Colombia diminished as the pandemic took hold. Roberto Martignago, funded to help transfer the responsibility of fund-raising from TKSF to Colombia, did manage to secure funding of 2500 euros from an Italian charity. They have committed to further funding next year (2021).
## **The future**
COVID has caused much uncertainty this year and poorer countries such as Colombia have been affected badly. Our optimism of last year is tempered by caution this year. We may need to accept that the route to independence for Talita Kum School is a little slower than we had predicted and hoped for.
Talita Kum School Fund 38 Acton Lane London W4 5ED
Charity Commission reg. no. 1172220
www.talitakumschool.org
**TALITA KUM SCHOOL FUND 1172220 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 01/01/2020 31/12/2020 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,252**
**269**
**13,597**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,118**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,118**
**11,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,572**
**13,546**
**-**
**-**
**13,546**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,252**
**269**
**13,597**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,118**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,118**
**11,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,572**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,572**
**13,546**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|DONATIONS & SPONSORSHIP|**11,252**|||||**-**|
|GIFTAID|**269**|||||**-**|
|MONEY IN BANK|**13,597**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**25,118**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
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|
TALITA KUM SCHOOL|**11,572**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**11,572**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**13,546**|**-**|**-**|
**13,546**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**13,546**|**-**|**-**|**13,546**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
15/09/2021
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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**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**13,546**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,546**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**-**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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