## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From March 2022 Period start date To April 2022 Period end date March 2023** ## **Charity name: Government Secondary Technical School Ex-Pupils Association UK** ## **Charity registration number: 1172600** ## **Objectives and Activities** SORP reference Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 of the charity as set out in To its governing document advance the education of boys and girls at Governmen t Secondary Technical School in Freetown in Sierra Leone, by providing equality of opportunity , with mutual respect and positive encourage ment to develop their potential, contribute to their upbringing and help to mould their lives. To advance the education of boys and girls at Governmen t Secondary Technical School in Freetown in Sierra Leone, by providing equality of opportunity , with mutual respect and positive encourage ment to develop their potential, contribute to their upbringing and help to mould their |||lives.
To advance the education of boys and girls
at Government Secondary Technical in
Freetown, Sierra Leone by providing equality
of opportunities with mutual respect and
positive encouragement to develop their
potential, contribute to their upbringing and
help to mould their lives.| |---|---|---| |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|To relief the poverty and financial hardship of
boys and girls at Government Secondary
Technical School, Freetown by providing
financial support in the form of scholarship to
children in need at the school.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Luncheon sale, Thanksgiving Service and
Social Evening.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference N/A Para 1.38 Policy on grant making N/A Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment N/A Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers N/A 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|Physics laboratory repair_s at_GSTS in
Sierra Leone.
Delivery and shipment of furniture (chairs,
tables) to GSTS in Sierra Leone.
Delivery and shipment of IT equipment
( Laptops and batteries) to GSTS in Sierra
Leone|| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A| |Other||N/A| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the period we made**
**£10,571.11**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**£10,571.11**
**This amount was held because of the**
**first luncheon sale held in June 2022**
**and first social evening on November**
**2022 following the Covid pandemic.**| |||| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£10,571.11**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **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|
**Undertaking various activities such as**
**Luncheon Sale and Social Evening**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**The electing of trustees is done through**
**voting.**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trustees are incorporated as a body in**
**the Association (they are members of**
**the Association)**| |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|**It is done through voting by members**
**present at the meeting.**| ## **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|
**N/A**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Government Secondary Technical School EX-Pupils
Association UK| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|G.S.T.S| |Registered charity number|1172600| |Charity’s principal address|11 Redwing Path
Thamesmead West
London
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Ibrahim Conteh|Chair|11 April 2016|| ||Rev Lucreshia
Leigh|Trustee|11 April 2016|| ||Gbassay Hawa
Turay|Trustee|11 April 2016|| ||Justus Fortune|Trustee|11 April 2016|| ||Princess Lillian
Hanciles|Trustee/ Chair|11 April 2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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 **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **N/A** ## **Declarations** **The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s Trustees** **Signature(s)** P Hanciles **Full name(s)** Princess Lilian Hanciles **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair/President **Chair, etc)** **Date** 05 April 2024