2021-12-31-accounts

TALITA KUM SCHOOL FUND Every Child Matters

Trustee Annual Report January 1st 2021 - December 31st 2021

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. By 2020 progress had been made with the database and local fundraising. There was hope that the school might be able to use the premises of the secondary school as a new school had been built. Unfortunately an access road to the school is still awaited. COVID-19 had a detrimental effect on the ability of the school to collect fees from parents and they relied again on support from us and from charities in Italy.

2021 was a lean year for TKSF as we received no further grants and relied on our generous sponsors to keep the school running. We sent £10,000 to the school and £2655 was paid for our programme to help the school become independent.

We have a balance of over £8956 on deposit at the end of 2021.

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

Alberto Cherubini was reappointed Trustee 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

The school was opened again to the children in February 2021. Time and funds had to be diverted to deliver a new regime of testing, masks and disinfecting surfaces.to ensure cases of COVID were prevented. Incredibly, they reported no cases at all.

Being back together was a positive move: Sonia, the head, wrote in her May 2021 report to us:

“ Seeing their teachers and classmates and being back in the school building has motivated them much more. We notice that they have taken more responsibility for their learning and valued their lessons as something important in their lives.”

The school recruited a music teacher and the musical instruments they had bought with help from donations from Italy were put to good use and Sonia sent us a video of the children playing at the graduation ceremony in November.

The future

We are conscious that the school’s progress towards independence is slow. Roberto Martignago, our contact and support on the ground in Colombia, tells us this is how it is in Colombia and any small steps should be appreciated.

Talita Kum School Fund 38 Acton Lane London W4 5ED

Charity Commission reg. no. 1172220

www.talitakumschool.org

Charity Name No (if any) TALITA KUM SCHOOL FUND 1172220

Receipts and payments accounts

1/1/2021 12/31/2021 To

For the period from

Section A Receipts and payments

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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
DONATIONS AND SPONSORSHIP 6,389 - - 6,389
GIFTAID 1,509 - - 1,509
MONEY IN BANK - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
7,898 - - 7,898
Sub total (Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - -
Total receipts 7,898 - - 7,898
A3 Payments
TALITA KUM SCHOOL 12,488 - - 12,488
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ 12,488 ] - - 12,488
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - -
Total payments 12,488 - - 12,488
Net of receipts/(payments) - 4,590 - - - 4,590
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 13,546 - - 13,546
Cash funds this year end 8,956 - - 8,956
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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Categories	Details		funds		funds
B1 Cash funds		Total cash funds	to nearest £ - - - 4,514		to nearest £ - - - -
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			Unrestricted		Restricted
			funds		funds
B2 Other monetary assets	Details		to nearest £ - - - - - -		to nearest £ - - - - - -
B3 Investment assets	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) - - - - -
B4 Assets retained for the	Details		Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional) -
charity’s own use					- - - - - - - -
			Fund to which		Amount due
B5 Liabilities	Details		liability relates		- - - - - (optional)
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees		Signature	Print	Name

CC16a Last year to the nearest £

Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -

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Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - -

Current value (optional)

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