Report on the Friends of Potter’s Village Charitable Incorporated Organisation (FoPV)
Financial Year July 2023 – June 2024
The Friends of Potter’s Village is a funding organisation based in the UK, which provides financial support for Potters’ Village Ministry, a Christian project operating under the auspices of the Anglican Diocese of Muhabura in Kisoro, Southwest Uganda, with a Ugandan board managing the project on the ground.
Potter’s Village Ministry was set up to provide a Crisis Centre to receive and nurture abandoned or orphaned babies. Over half the babies return to their extended family, with others being fostered or adopted. A few, often 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 the year January 2023-24 they admitted 18 babies to the Crisis Centre. 29 children were resettled to extended family or fostering. They currently have 48 children on community support, and 13 children resident in the Crisis Centre. The children on community support also attend the Centre monthly, to have their weight and general progress assessed and to pick up on any problems. Their social worker also does regular home visits to check on those who find it difficult to attend. The number of children on community support has been reduced, to help with the staff workload and financial commitments.
The Paediatric Medical Centre at Potters Village provides the only neonatal special care unit in the district of Kisoro. It also offers inpatient and outpatient facilities for all children in the district, up to the age of 12. Three Ugandan Clinical Officers oversee the medical care provided. The obstetric services previously provided on site are coming to an end later this year. 859 children have received care as an in-patient and 3838 as an out-patient this year.
A community nutrition program, supporting mothers to keep their child well-nourished on return home, continues to be very successful. The immunisation program remains a vital part of keeping children well and has a high attendance each week. Around 10 mothers who require depot injections to keep mental health problems in check are supported in the community.
The Rehabilitation Unit set up in 2019 to provide a basic level of therapy for disabled children and their families, is growing in popularity. It is staffed by two nurse therapists who have received special training, and a trained physiotherapist joined in February 2024.
A new outpatient clinic for HIV positive patients commenced in May 2019. This is funded by the government and enables the appointment of an HIV counsellor provided by Potter’s village. The Ugandan board are currently seeking to appoint this person.
A generous fund raiser in the UK has committed to providing funds to enable 10 nurses to have additional training to diploma level, over the next 5 years. 2 nurses have commenced this program.
The Friends of Potter’s Village are running an appeal for a new vehicle for the project, which will cost about £ 30,000 . The vehicle gets very hard wear, transporting staff, children and their relatives, and supplies for the project. It is crucial to the running of Potter’s Village and needs to be roadworthy, hence the relatively high cost, but it should last a good long time.
We had a successful Celebration Day held at All Saint’s Church in Marple, in Autumn 23. We used this to keep our supporters abreast of several new developments. We are planning another, to be held in All saints’ Church, Wokingham, next October.
We also had a very successful Trustees’ visit in January 2024. We were able to visit the project and were very heartened to see how well it was running. Relations with the local state hospital are good, and patients are transferred between the hospital and Potter’s Village regularly. The Crisis Centre continues to flourish.
At the end of the previous financial year, we reported a shortfall of Income over Expenditure and knew we had to take steps to rectify this. This year we are able to report an excess of just over £30,000. We achieved this in 3 ways
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Appealing for more regular donors
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Being honest about the situation which prompted people to give generously
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Working with Potter’s Village Ministry to cut down their costs and ensure money is used more efficiently.
The breakdown of total Income and Expenditure for the year is shown below. Included in that is an Income of £29448 in funds restricted for the Medical Centre and an expenditure of £28551 on Medical Centre costs.
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Income 2023 - 2024
Regular donors (45%) Individual donations
9% (20%)
1% Church/group dona- Gift Aid (12%)
13% tions (13%)
45%
13% Fundraising (9%) Other/ Non PV (1%)
20%
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Expenditure 2023 - 2024
4%
Project Costs (73%)
Non PV sent to Kisoro
2% (1%)
20% Medical centre costs
(20%)
1%
Fundraiser salary,
73%
pension, tax (4%)
UK costs (2%)
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| Friends of Poter's Village Trust | |||||||
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| Receipts and Payments Accounts | |||||||
| Charity Number 1173948 | |||||||
| Year ended 30th June 2024 | |||||||
| Notes | Unrestricted F | uRestricted Funds | Total funds | 2022/23 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | ||||
| A1 Receipts | |||||||
| General donatons | 64,088 | 64,088 | 55,670 | ||||
| Child Sponsorship | 43,554 | 43,554 | 27,873 | ||||
| Restricted donatons | 28,913 | 28,913 | 29,299 | ||||
| Fund raising - sales etc | 0 | 0 | 3,617 | ||||
| Interest received | 2,905 | 2,905 | 1,462 | ||||
| Gif Aid tax recovered | 18,617 | 1,273 | 19,891 | 11,824 | |||
| Receipts on behalf of third partes | 464 | 464 | 684 | ||||
| Transfer from Poters Village Trust | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 129,164 | 30,651 | 159,815 | 130,429 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, etc | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total receipts | 129,164 | 30,651 | 159,815 | 130,429 | |||
| A3 Payments | |||||||
| PVM Capital costs | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PVM Running costs | 86,718 | 22,296 | 109,014 | 140,132 | |||
| Medical Equipment and repairs | 2,219 | 2,219 | 13,921 | ||||
| Fund raising costs | 4,878 | 4,878 | 5,575 | ||||
| Charity running costs | 4,514 | 4,514 | 3,137 | ||||
| Legal expenses | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Payments from receipts on behalf of third partes | 1,797 | 1,797 | 4,705 | ||||
| Sub total | 96,111 | 26,312 | 122,422 | 167,471 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc | |||||||
| Total payments | 96,111 | 26,312 | 122,422 | 167,471 | |||
| Net receipts/(payments) | 33,054 | 4,339 | 37,393 | -37,042 | |||
| A5 Transfer between funds | 0 | ||||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 41,349 | 54,302 | 95,651 | 132,693 | |||
| Cash funds this year end | 74,403 | 58,641 | 133,044 | 95,651 | |||
| Secton B Statement of assets and liabilites at end of the year | |||||||
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total funds | |||||
| £ | £ | £ | |||||
| CAFBank current | 18,137 | 58,641 | 76,778 | ||||
| COIF Account | 59,379 | 0 | 59,379 | ||||
| Assets | 77,516 | 58,641 | 136,157 | ||||
| Liabilites | |||||||
| less held for PVM | -3,113 | -3,113 | |||||
| Net assets | 74,403 | 58,641 | 133,044 |
| Friends of Poter's Village Trust | |||||||
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| Receipts and Payments Accounts | |||||||
| Charity Number 1173948 | |||||||
| Year ended 30th June 2024 | |||||||
| Notes | Unrestricted F | uRestricted Funds | Total funds | 2022/23 | |||
| £ | £ | £ | £ | ||||
| A1 Receipts | |||||||
| General donatons | 64,088 | 64,088 | 55,670 | ||||
| Child Sponsorship | 43,554 | 43,554 | 27,873 | ||||
| Restricted donatons | 28,913 | 28,913 | 29,299 | ||||
| Fund raising - sales etc | 0 | 0 | 3,617 | ||||
| Interest received | 2,905 | 2,905 | 1,462 | ||||
| Gif Aid tax recovered | 18,617 | 1,273 | 19,891 | 11,824 | |||
| Receipts on behalf of third partes | 464 | 464 | 684 | ||||
| Transfer from Poters Village Trust | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Other | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 129,164 | 30,651 | 159,815 | 130,429 | ||||
| A2 Asset and investment sales, etc | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total receipts | 129,164 | 30,651 | 159,815 | 130,429 | |||
| A3 Payments | |||||||
| PVM Capital costs | 0 | 0 | |||||
| PVM Running costs | 86,718 | 22,296 | 109,014 | 140,132 | |||
| Medical Equipment and repairs | 2,219 | 2,219 | 13,921 | ||||
| Fund raising costs | 4,878 | 4,878 | 5,575 | ||||
| Charity running costs | 4,514 | 4,514 | 3,137 | ||||
| Legal expenses | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Payments from receipts on behalf of third partes | 1,797 | 1,797 | 4,705 | ||||
| Sub total | 96,111 | 26,312 | 122,422 | 167,471 | |||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, etc | |||||||
| Total payments | 96,111 | 26,312 | 122,422 | 167,471 | |||
| Net receipts/(payments) | 33,054 | 4,339 | 37,393 | -37,042 | |||
| A5 Transfer between funds | 0 | ||||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 41,349 | 54,302 | 95,651 | 132,693 | |||
| Cash funds this year end | 74,403 | 58,641 | 133,044 | 95,651 | |||
| Secton B Statement of assets and liabilites at end of the year | |||||||
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total funds | |||||
| £ | £ | £ | |||||
| CAFBank current | 18,137 | 58,641 | 76,778 | ||||
| COIF Account | 59,379 | 0 | 59,379 | ||||
| Assets | 77,516 | 58,641 | 136,157 | ||||
| Liabilites | |||||||
| less held for PVM | -3,113 | -3,113 | |||||
| Net assets | 74,403 | 58,641 | 133,044 |
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