## **Report on the Friends of Potter’s Village Charitable Incorporated Organisation (FoPV)**
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Financial Year July 2020 –
June 2021
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The Friends of Potter’s Village is a funding organisation based in the UK, which provides financial support for the Potters’ Village Ministry, a Christian project operating under the auspices of the Anglican Diocese of Muhabura in Kisoro, South West Uganda, with a Ugandan board managing the project on the ground. It was set up to provide a Crisis Centre to receive and nurture abandoned or orphaned babies. Over half the babies will return to their extended family, with others being fostered or adopted. A few, usually with special needs, are eventually resettled in other residential facilities. elsewhere in Uganda. A social worker is employed to oversee all this, check on children up to the age of 5 after their return home and ensure compliance with Ugandan law and requirements.
In 2012 a Paediatric Medical Centre was added, with a special unit for care of sick neonates. This has flourished and is the only Special Care Unit in the district. There is an outpatient clinic daily for sick children up to the age of 12 and an inpatient ward. The Centre also offers ante natal and post-natal care and occasional deliveries, supervised by our midwife, and immunization clinics. There is a specialist unit for the treatment of malnutrition, with its own specialist nurse, who follows up children in the community once they have returned home. The Medical centre is supported by a Church Mission Society doctor from the UK, Dr Nicci Maxwell, assisted by two local clinical officers and other nursing, lab, and non-clinical staff. During the year January 2021- January 2222, 830 children were admitted and a further 3284 seen as outpatients. The community nutrition program has continued and is shown to be very effective- it prevents children from slipping back into malnutrition
when discharge. Finally, we also provide community support and monthly injections for around 10 mothers in the community with mental health problems.
C _hecking for malnutrition_
A new development in 2019 was a Rehabilitation Unit which provides a basic level of therapy care for disabled children and their families. This includes a parent training program and establishing of parent support groups, clinics and disability awareness raising activities in the
community, and home visits. These are run by therapy assistants supervised by a physiotherapist, a volunteer from the UK, Janie Robson.
The Medical centre aims to be self-funding, although it continues to receive sponsorship from donors in the UK, through FoPV and we receive generous help from a UK based charity, ‘ Health Tree Uganda’ , which specialises in providing funding for medical equipment
The project has been affected by the Covid crisis, like everywhere else. There was a difficult period when Uganda was put in lockdown, and staff had to be furloughed or stay on site . Travel has remained difficult, but most of our staff are now vaccinated and we are grateful that there has been no serious illness or death among any of our staff. The children have not been seriously affected by Covid and no deaths have been attributed to it. The wider economy of the region, though, has been severely affected. Many have lost their jobs, and as a result are unable to afford the small fees that Potter’s charges. Numbers attending the Medical Centre have dropped, with a resulting drop in revenue. We have been able to use the proceeds of our appeal in April 2020 to support the Medical Centre and keep job losses to a minimum.
The Crisis Centre has continued to welcome and nurture babies who have lost their mothers in childbirth or been abandoned. During the year 32 new babies were admitted and 24 were placed back with their families or with foster parents. At any time there will be around 15 – 20 babies resident at Potter’s Village and a further 70 who have returned to their extended families will still be receiving support from donors in the UK.
The breakdown of Income and Expenditure for the year is shown below.
## **Income 20 - 21**
Regular donors 39% Fundraising 6.5% Trusts and grants Individual donations 2.5% 17.5% Church/group GAD 12% donations 18.5% HMRC refund 4%
## **Expenditure 20 - 21**
Project costs 79.5% Med centre costs and equipment 14% Fundraiser salary and pension 4.5% UK costs 2%
During the year we received generous donations to fund the building of a nurses’ changing room, the purchase of a CPAP machine for the Special Care Baby Unit and to allow for the expansion of the work of the Disability Rehabilitation Unit. Despite this, we identified a drop in the level of giving to support the day to day running of Potter’s Village Ministries, together with a rise in costs. We therefore put in place plans to launch an appeal in September 2021 to raise more funds to cover these costs.
During the year we also updated our website, updated our safeguarding policy and produced a Trustee induction guide.
The UK trustees have been unable to visit Uganda for two years now. We are hoping to be able to visit next year- 2023. We feel cautiously optimistic that the project will survive the onslaught of Covid, but there is still a level of uncertainty about the situation in Uganda..
Friends of Potter's Village CIO Charity Number 1173948 A1 Receipts General donations Child Sponsorship Restricted donations Fund raising - sales etc Interest received Gift Aid tax recovered Receipts on behalf of third parties Transfer from Potters Village Trust Other A2 Asset and investment sales, etc Total receipts A3 Payments PVM Capital costs PVM Running costs Medical Equipment and repairs Fund raising costs Charity running costs Legal expenses Payments from receipts on behalf of third parties Sub total A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc Total payments Net receipts/(payments) A5 Transfer between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at end of the year
PVM Funds held by FoPV Funds held for PVM 30/6/20 Exchange rate Funds held for PVM
Notes
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Receipts and Payments Accounts
Year ended 30th June 2021
Notes UnrestricteRestricted Total funds 2019/20
£ £ £ £
62,931 62,931 60,493
24,260 24,260 23,873
13,213 13,213 50,378
2,503 2,503 3,020
16 16 184
14,434 0 14,434 13,972
5,677 5,677 1,832
0 0
0 0
104,144 18,890 123,034 153,751
0 0 0 0
104,144 18,890 123,034 153,751
0 13,131
101,908 8,726 110,634 77,176
5,804 5,804 1,814
2,864 2,864 11,821
1,967 1,967 2,959
308 308 0
5,095 5,095 2,097
107,046 19,625 126,671 108,998
107,046 19,625 126,671 108,998
-2,902 -735 -3,637 44,753
0
67,198 37,550 104,748 59,995
64,296 36,816 101,111 104,748
Unrestrict Restricted Total
ed Funds Funds funds
£ £ £
CAFBank current 14,009 36,816 50,824
COIF Account 54,911 54,911
Assets 68,920 36,816 105,735
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Liabilities
less held for PVM -4,624 -4,624 06/20
Change
Net assets 64,296 36,816 101,111
### ugx
4,584 ugx to £1
4,624
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Crisis Centre Running Costs and Medical Centre Salaries (incl PAYE and Pension) and expenses Myersons Legal costs
-5541
917
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