Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date T From 01 01 2020 o 31 12 2020
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name The Kite Tales Foundation Other names charity is known by N/A Registered charity number (if any) 1174176
Charity's principal address 22 Great James Street London Postcode WC1N 3ES
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) whole year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 Ingeborg Moa President 2 Sandar Hla Treasurer 3 Tara Dermott Secretary Outreach 4[Aela Streiff] (relationships) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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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
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Co-founders/directors: Thin Lei Win and Kelly Macnamara
Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document Constitution
(eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed by trustees
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
The board of Kite Tales underwent a change during 2020, when treasurer Thiri Thant Mon stepped down. Sandar Hla has taken this responsibility and we plan to bring in a new board member when the health crisis relaxes.
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
The advancement of education for the public benefit by establishing and maintaining a bi-lingual website and digital archive of the social history and cultural heritage of Myanmar/Burma and promoting its content through outreach activities including translations into ethnic minority languages, exhibitions and partnerships with education providers in Myanmar and internationally.
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The Kite Tales Foundation, like many other organisations, had to navigate a very difficult year in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The co-founders had to suspend a number of planned trips and activities due to multiple lockdowns and travel bans, which affected and restricted their ability to create more content for the bi-lingual website (www.kite-tales.org). Despite this, the co-founders of the Kite Tales continued to promote the website and create some new content, to further our goal of advancing education for the public benefit with this digital archive of the social history and cultural heritage of Myanmar/Burma. Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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The website continues to grow through the work of co-founders Kelly Macnamara and Thin Lei Win, whose work on the project is on a voluntary basis.
You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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• contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main We continued to grow our social media presence, raising awareness of achievements of the charity the website and sharing ideas and stories on several platforms, both in during the year English and Myanmar language.
Section E Financial review Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit
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Further financial review details (Optional information)
You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section F Other optional information
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Sandar Hla Aela M. Streiff Position (eg Secretary, Treasurer Outreach Chair, etc) Date 29/10/21
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