## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From O1-01-2025 Period start date To 31-12-2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Dry River Children** ## **Charity registration number: 1172858** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||**SORP reference**|| |---|---|---| |**Summary of the purposes**
**of the charity as set out in**
**its governing document**|**Para 1.17**|**The purpose of the charity is to support**
**the needs of children who are**
**disadvantaged by hardship, poverty or**
**lack of access to essential services. Our**
**focus is in the Samburu area of northern**
**Kenya**| |**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**|**-Gofund birthday event at Cedars Hotel**
**Barnstaple**
**-Sales of Kenyan jewelry etc at Winkleigh**
**Summer Fair**
**-Sales at Belstone Car Boot Sale**
**-Sales at Moretonhampstead Fete**
**-Sales Chagford Music Day**
**-Kenyan food day Winkleigh Village Hall**
**-Coffee morning Fingle Bridge Inn**
**-Sales Winkleigh Xmas Fair**
**-Sales Torrington Xmas Market**
**-Sales at Xmas music Cedars Hotel**
**Barnstaple**
**Cash donations**| |**Statement confirming**
**whether the trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit**|**Para 1.18**|**The trustees are aware of the**
**requirements set out in the Charity**
**Commission’s Guidance. Due**
**consideration of these requirements have**
**been considered in all decisions taken by**
**the charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:** **SORP reference No applicable Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Not applicable Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment** |||| |---|---|---| |**Contribution made by**
**volunteers**|**Para 1.38**|**Our Volunteers have given the charity**
**much needed support to host charity**
**events.**| |**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**|**-Donations of toys and childrens clothes**
**collected in the UK and distributed to the**
**children in Mama Wachira’s Children’s**
**Home. Food was also provided for all of**
**the children**
**-A tiled dining room floor was installed at**
**the home, replacing the existing rough**
**dirt one.**
**Snacks and fruit distributed at Ntilal**
**School.**
**-A toilet block and children’s playground**
**was built at the school**
**-School desks were provided.**
**Provision of the above mentioned**
**facilities has made a vast improvement to**
**the lives of thw children we support.**| |**Additional information (optional)**
**You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:**||| |**Achievements against**
**objectives set**|**Para 1.41**|**Our original objectives were to identify**
**children in communities that would**
**benefit from our support. The charity are**
**of the view that our initial objectives have**
**been met and that we have established a**
**platform for future endeavours.**| |**Performance of**
**fundraising activities**
**against objectives set**|**Para 1.41**|**Our key fundraising activities have been**
**labour intensive. They have however**
**raised sufficient funds to meet our basic**
**objectives.**| |**Investment performance**
**against objectives**|**Para 1.41**|**Not applicable**| |**Other**||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |**Review of the charity’s**
**financial position at the**
**end of the period**|**Para 1.21**|**We have retained a positive financial**
**position at the end of the period**| |**Statement explaining the**
**policy for holding reserves**
**stating why they are held**|**Para 1.22**|**We hope to maintain a positive balance.**| |**Amount of reserves held**|**Para 1.22**|**At the end of the period the charity**
**showed a positive balance of £889.**| |**Reasons for holding zero**
**reserves**|**Para 1.22**|**Not applicable**| |**Details of fund materially**
**in deficit**|**Para 1.24**|**Not applicable**| |**Explanation of any**
**uncertainties about the**
**charity continuing as a**
**going concern**|**Para 1.23**|**Not applicable**| |**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**|**Principle sources of funds include**
**charity sales, raffles, bingo, food events**
**and coffee mornings, plus donations.**| |**Investment policy and**
**objectives including any**
**social investment policy**
**adopted**|**Para 1.46**|**Not applicable**| |**A description of the**
**principal risks facing the**
**charity**|**Para 1.46**|**Not applicable**| |**Other**||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |**Description of charity’s**
**trusts:**||**Not applicable**| |---|---|---| |**Type of governing**
**document**
**(trust deed, royal charter)**|**Para 1.25**|**Trust deed**| |**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. election to post or**
**name of any person or**
**body entitled to appoint**
**one or more trustees**|**Para 1.25**|**Trustees are appointed by the board of**
**trustees**| **Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Not applicable Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity organisation comprises a board of five trustees. The charity’s organisational structure Para 1.51 and any wider network with which the charity works Not applicable Relationship with any Para 1.51 related parties Other** ## **Reference and Administrative details** |**Charity name**|**Dry River Children**| |---|---| |**Other name the charity**
**uses**|| |**Registered charity number**|**1172858**| |**Charity’s principal address**|**Trelanvean**
**Chagford**
**Newton Abbot**
**Devon**
**TQ13 8DQ**| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |**1**
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**20**|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Anthony Edward**
**Baird**|**Chair Trustee**|**01-11-25**|| ||**Marther Jully**
**Njeri Baird**|**Trustee**|**01-11-25**|| ||**Victoria Mutheu**
**Muli**|**Trustee**|**24-11-25**|| ||**Jane Hihu**|**Trustee**|**24-11-25**|| ||**April Rose**
**Garriock**|**Trustee**|**25-01-26**|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **– 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 Not applicable held in this capacity** **Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects** **Details of arrangements for 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** **Not applicable** ## **Other optional information** ## **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) Anthony Edward Baird** **Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 22/08/26** |**Dry River Children**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Descripton Inputs**|**Date**|**Donatons **|**Sales etc**|**Descripton Outputs**|**Date**| |Gofund donatons|06/15/2025|850.00|||| |||||Vee's account Kenya|06/23/2025| |||||Medicine andgoat|06/23/2025| |||||groceries|06/24/2025| |||||jewelry and bags Kariakor
&postage|06/30/2025| |Cash donatons|06/15/2025|370.00||Gofund deducton|07/05/2025| |||||Gazebo & sandbags|07/09/2025| |||||Goods for Winkleigh Fair
& CharityDinner|07/14/2025| |||||CharityT Shirts|07/17/2025| |||||Samosas|07/17/2025| |||||Food tongs & funnel|07/17/2025| |||||Tomatopuree|07/18/2025| |Cash donatons Winkleigh
Fair|07/19/2025|39.00|||| |Sales Winkleigh Fair|07/19/2025||363.50||| |Salespost Winkleigh Fair|07/20/2025||70.00||| |||||Kenyan artefacts(Suzy)|07/27/2025| |||||Moretonhampstead Fete
stall fee|07/31/2025| |springbangles(Tracey)|08/02/2025||20.00||| |Sales Cedars family fun
day|08/02/2025||130.00||| |||||Domain name fee|08/05/2025| |Belstone car boot sale|08/09/2025||120.00|plot fee|08/05/2025| |||||Kenyan artefacts,jewelry
etc|08/10/2025| |||||Zetle card reader|08/13/2025| |Moretonhampstead Fete|08/17/2025||32.00||| |||||fete fee|08/17/2025| |||||Samosa trays|08/23/2025| |||||tables|08/27/2025| |Chagford Music Day|08/30/2025||150.00||| |Belstone car boot sale|09/06/2025||150.00||| |Ken's birthday party|09/13/2025||55.00||| ||09/16/2025|||smal barbecue & fre
starter|09/16/2025| |Karen'spartysales|09/27/2025||210.00||| |Summer'spartysales|10/05/2025||75.00||| ||||||| |||||drinks for kenyan meal|10/06/2025| |Karen's party card reader
sales|10/08/2025||40.00||| |||||Vegetables & fruit for
Kenyan meal|10/08/2025| |||||vegetables Kenyan meal|10/08/2025| |||||meat kenyan meal|10/10/2025| |||||riceghee etc Kenyan meal|10/10/2025| |||||charcoal Kenyan meal|10/10/2025| |||||four milk ice cream
Kenyan meal|10/10/2025| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||broad beans greens
Kenyan meal|10/10/2025| |||||Vegetables|10/10/2025| |Sales food and goods
Kenyan meal cash|10/11/2025||1300.00||| |Sales card Kenyan meal
card|10/11/2025||235.00|Reimburse Vee -food
purchases|10/11/2025| |||||reimburse Vee -food
purchasesgoods bought|10/11/2025| |Liz booze &groceries|10/12/2025||20.00||| |sale of surplus booze
Winkleigh Village Hall|10/14/2025||113.00||| |||||disposable cups|10/21/2025| |||||four bakingsoda etc.|10/23/2025| |Kenyan tea/cofee
morningcash|10/25/2025||207.00||| |Kenyan tea/cofee
morningcard|10/25/2025||190.00||| |April & Loupurchases|11/05/2025||40.00||| |||||Hall hire Kenyan food day|11/06/2025| |7 Stars donatons box|11/15/2025||30.00||| |Aprilgirafe carving|11/22/2025||5.00||| |||||Website host fee|| |Winkleigh Christmas Fair &
Cedars Christmas market
cash|
05/06/2025
& 06/12/25||336.50||| |||||Shipping donatons to
Kenya|12/12/2025| |||||footballs &pumps|12/16/2025| |||||insurance|12/18/2025| |Torrington market|19 &
20/12/25||148.00|Oscar for web design|12/22/2025| |Fingle Bridge Inn collecton|12/22/2025||11.59||| |||||Xmas Food for Mama
Wachira's home|12/26/2025| |Cedars christmas music
collecton|12/26/2025||58.00||| |Rob 's donaton|12/29/2025|20.00|||| |Roger & Sue|01/06/2026|10.00|||| ||||||| |||1289.00|4109.59||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Expenses**|**Charity**
**Spend**|**Bank**|**Balance**|**Notes**| |||||| ||1000.00|||Sent to Kenya for use
duringonsite visits| ||40.00|||| ||219.00|||| |350.00||||| |40.40||||| |57.98||||| |151.79||||| |33.00||||| |120.00||||| |15.00||||| |3.58||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |50.00||||| |10.00||||| |||||| |||||| |46.86||||| |5.00||||| |470.00||||| |17.88||||| |||||| |10.00||||| |23.97||||| |99.96||||| |||||| |||||102 cash & 48 card| |||||| |16.00||||| |||||| |||||£12 from photographer &
£10 from April| |||||Photoggrapher owes?| |270.46||||Bookers| |||||| |90.00||||Scots Farm Shop Trago
Mills| |14.52||||Lidl| |375.00||||Gratons| |51.65||||Sri Sari Store| |13.96||||Asda| |25.95||||Asda| |---|---|---|---|---| |17.80||||Sainsburys| |14.51||||Wyborns Farm Shop| |||||| |103.00||||| |80.00||||| |||||| |||||| |11.94||||| |5.30||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |110.00||||| |||||| |||||| |147.00||||| |||||| |361,50||||| |39.00||||| |59.91||||| |210.00||||| |||||| ||89.00|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |3161.42|1348.00||889.17|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||||||