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2023-03-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 04 2022 To 31 03 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name UK LANGA TOWNSHIP PRE-SCHOOL TRUST Other names charity is known by LTPT Registered charity number (if any) 1172638 Charity's principal address 91 Highfield Lane

Hemel Hempstead Herts. Postcode HP2 5JE

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 J G GADDES Chairman Whole Year LTPT Board
2 JG KEELING Treasurer Whole Year LTPT Board
3 Rosina L Gaddes Whole Year LTPT Board
4 Aimee Luther Whole Year LTPT Board
5 Geoff Smith Third Signatory Whole Year LTPT Board
Rev. Dr Adam Whole Year LTPT Board
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address
Design & Publicity Jeff Wallis 138 Crawley Drive, Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6BX
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Gordon Gaddes the Chairman effectively is the Chief Executive and Executive

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

TRUST DEED

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) As a TRUST registered with The Charity Commission How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Decision by Board on basis of recommendation by Chairman or a Board Trustee selection methods member – aim to have a balanced Board in age, gender and experience (eg. appointed by, elected by) and each nominee chosen on basis of personality and known experience.

(eg. trust, association, company)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include Induction of trustees involves reference to Charity Commission papers additional information, where and the LTPT Trust Deed, discussion with Chairman, then relevant, about: recommendation to Board, and favourable Board decision on appointment  policies and procedures followed by continual briefing. adopted for the induction and training of trustees; The Board is responsible for governance. The Chairman is the Executive; on Finance he works with the Treasurer; on Design and Publicity he works  the charity’s organisational with Jeff Wallis; on overview and liaison in Cape Town he works with the structure and any wider LTPT Representative in Cape Town, Nadia Petersen network with which the charity works;

Section C Objectives and activities

To advance education for the benefit of the public of the Township of Langa, Cape Town, South Africa by supporting the Nomonde Educare Summary of the objects of the project based at Nomonde Pre-School, and any other pre-school charity set out in its initiatives in the Township through assistance such as materials, governing document equipment and furnishings and direct financial assistance, the provision of professional advice and such assistance as is deemed necessary.

Main activities

  1. Fund raising to support programme for the benefit of pre-school children in Langa Township and the empowerment of women there, with a view to promoting both knowledge, health and sustainability.

  2. Provision of food and clothing to Nomonde Pre-School, and food to other pre-schools, ‘ you can’t teach a hungry child’!

  3. Financial and managerial control.

  4. Promoting awareness in the UK of the issues of poverty, and the of the potential for solutions and progress, to those with whom we Summary of the main have contact in the UK. activities undertaken for the 5. To represent as a demonstration project what is achievable by a public benefit in relation to small, voluntary, charitable body. these objects (include within this section the statutory Statutory Declaration declaration that trustees have The Board of Trustees is fully aware of its obligations and is assiduous in had regard to the guidance its attention to the requirements of the Charity Commission. issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Policy on Grantmaking

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

In preparation of the annual budget, decisions are made concerning what shall be spent in and for Langa Township in the coming financial year. Also, within the operating year, a grant may be needed to be provide for an emergency, two recent examples being COVID, and a ravaging fire. Additionally, there have been several projects with time frames longer than one year, the current one being the SHOP Project (Succour-Hope – Optimism–Progress Project) – a new building for the Langa Early Child development Forum, target completion date Spring/ Summer 2025.

Policy Programme related to investment

There is no investment in the UK based operation all facilities and utilities being provided by volunteers at their own expense.

Contribution by Volunteers

Until the end of this financial year the LTPT’s UK Operation has been run wholly by the Chairman, supported significantly on the Financial/treasury side and the publicity and design side as featured in Section B, under the governance of, and with the advice of, the Board of Trustees.

Section D Achievements and performance

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main To have launched successfully the three - year SHOP initiative, thereby achievements of the charity aiming to give significant support for the future development of the during the year mission of the Langa early Child development Forum, and its 39 preschools covering 3000 children. To have continued to support financially and managerially the work of the Nomonde Educare and its office, and to give major support to the Nomonde Pre-School, and to give food support for 5 other pre-schools in Langa’s Ward 52, and to have provided two grants to the Langa Early Child Development Forum. To have continued to extend our list of helpful contacts in Cape Town. To have established constructive links with the Clueit Foundation, registered in California with its base in the Isle of Man. To have visited Cape Town for the 10[th] time in 13 years to assess need, to establish ways to help and to promote co-operation and good will. To have remained solvent, and to have established a separate infrastructure fund to support investment in favour of pre-schooling in Langa Township. To have continued to re-establish an event programme following the two year COVID hiatus.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charlty's policy on reserves 1. To hold in current account sufficient to cover the cost of three months of operation of the Nomonde Eduoxre initiative. 2. To buikj up in the deposit account a separate infrastnjcture fund currerrtly to support the SHOP project. Detsils ol any funds materially in deficit NIL Further financial review details (Optional infonnation) You may choose to include additional infomiation, where relevant about- the charity's prin￿paI souros of funds (including any fundraising)- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; investment policy and objactives including any elhioal investment policy adopted. Section F Other o tional information Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustee5' report above. Slgned on behalf of the charity's trustee Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Otc} John Gordon Gaddes Chair Date IS

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/
members of
On accounts for the year
ended
Set out on pages		 Charity Name
UK Langa Township Pre-School Trust		 Charity Name
UK Langa Township Pre-School Trust		 Charity Name
UK Langa Township Pre-School Trust
31stMarch 2023 Charity no
(if any)		 1172638
1-2
(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 31/03/2023 .

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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Signed:
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address:

 Date:
15/01/2024
Linda Dunford
FCCA CTA
4 Marigold Drive
Bisley, Surrey
GU24 9SF

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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Charity Name No (if any)
UK Langa Township Pre-School Trust 1172638
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/04/2022 31/03/2023
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Regular donations 9,603 - - 9,603 7,346
Special donations 6,968 5,000 - 11,968 12,508
Events 11,395 - - 11,395 10,526
Gift aid 3,654 - - 3,654 2,435
Other 228 - - 228 2,511
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- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for
31,848 5,000 - 36,848 35,326
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 31,848 5,000 - 36,848 35,326
A3 Payments
Events 7,800 - - 7,800 7,076
Buildings 5,532 - - 5,532 12,253
Office project including vegetables, and
staff 10,396 - - 10,396 9,422
Miscellaneous 1,389 - - 1,389 1,674
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Sub total [ 25,117 ] - - 25,117 30,425
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 25,117 - - 25,117 30,425
Net of receipts/(payments) 6,731 5,000 - 11,731 4,901
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 3,054 5,000 - 8,054 3,153
Cash funds this year end 9,785 10,000 - 19,785 8,054
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The split of brought forward reserves has been adjusted by £5000 to reflect restricted income allocated to unrestricted in the prior year.

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted funds RestrictÈd funds Endowment funds to noar4st£ atsgones Details 81 Cash funds 7.307 10.1)00 Total cash funds 9,785 10.ODts x4•1) Unr¢strICt￿ R••trlct•d funds fund$ Endov•m•nt funds to nur•¥t£ Oetalls DetaSls FuThJto¥ihkh CUrThniV￿u• B3 Inv•8trnonl ass•ts Details urrnttt￿Iu• 84 Assets r•talned for the charws own use D8ts11• Fundtothkh When B5 Llablllt1•5 Sloned by one ¢x M) tJu¥t8es on beham of dl the truslèÈs SwJ￿Ure Print Name Date of roval