## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 April 2023 Period start date To 31 March 2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Zambian Rural Partnerships**
## **Charity registration number: 1172949**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The prevention or relief of poverty in**
**Zambia by providing: grants, loans,**
**items and services to individuals in**
**need.**|
|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|**ZaRP CIO provided advice and guidance**
**to the groups of volunteers who are**
**partnering groups of poor farmers in**
**Zambia. These farmers received**
**interest free loans funded by and**
**directly monitored by the UK partners**
**for the purpose increasing income for**
**poor people.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|**During the period 2023-2024 Zambian**
**Rural Partnerships continued to monitor**
**the efforts of and advise the UK**
**partners encouraging and making loans**
**to partners in Zambia.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**ZaRP received income from monthly**
**payments from the current and former**
**trustees. At the end of the year it had a**
**positive bank balance and no current or**
**future liabilities.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**ZaRP’s reserves will be a reflection of**
**its operating costs and financial**
**commitments.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**0**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**ZaRP has no operating costs or**
**financial commitments and therefore**
**does not hold formal reserves.**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Template Constitution**|
|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|**The Trustees are elected by the**
**Trustees**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Zambian Rural Partnerships|
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|Other name the charity uses|ZaRP|
|Registered charity number|1172949|
|Charity’s principal address|19 Layton Lane
Shaftesbury
Dorset
SP7 8EY|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Nicholas John
Gregory|Chairman|||
||Robert Nicholas
Kendall-Carpenter|Treasurer|||
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## – 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 There have been no funds held as custodian trustees on held in this capacity behalf of others.
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
There are no exemptions from disclosure.
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Robert Nicholas Kendall-Carpenter||
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Treasurer||
||20 January 2025||
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## **Zambian Rural Partnerships CIO**
## **Statement of Financial Activities For Year Ended 31 March 2024**
|**Incoming Resources**
Donations
**Total Incoming Resources**
**Resources Expended**
Publicity
Loans
Stationery
Internet Charges
MonitoringExpenses
IT
**Total Resources Expended**
**Net Movement in Funds**
**Fund Balance**
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||**Incoming Resources**|||||||||||||
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|||Donations||1||720||4238||900||1050||
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||**Total Incoming Resources**|||||720||4238||900||1050||
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||**Total Resources Expended**|||||||||||43||
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||**Net Movement in Funds**|||||720||4238||900||1007||
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||**Fund Balance**|||||16349||15629||11391||10491||
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**Notes**
|**1. Donations**||
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|**2023/4 **||
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|Nick Gregory
|£180|
|Nick Kendall-Carpenter|£180|
|Dee Lyons
|£180|
|BarneyTallack
|£180|
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## **Zambian Rural Partnerships CIO Balance Sheet As at 31 March 2024**
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|**Balance Sheet**||||||||||||||
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|**Current Assets**||||||||||||||
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||Bank Balance||||16349||15629||11391||10491||9484|
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|**Total Assets**|||||16349||15629||11391||10491||9484|
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|**Total Assets Less Current**
**Liabilities**|||||16349||15629||11391||10491||9484|
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|**Funds**||||||||||||||
|**General Fund**|||||16349||15629||11391||10491||9484|
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|**Total Funds**|||||16349||15629||11391||10491||9484|
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