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2025-01-31-accounts

Annual Report and Financial Statement

Year ended: 31[st] January 2025

Registered Charity no 1174960

Reference and administration information

Trustees

Sally Willson (Chairman) Bob Pritchard Joanne Pearse Lynn Osbourne Mike Willson

Patron

Major General Tim Cross (retired) MSC CBE

Founder

Sharon Blyth B.E.M Founder Administrator William Blyth Administrator

Charity number 1174960

National Location of principle office

7 Ferry Close Chichester PO19 8GJ

Bankers

Lloyds Bank plc Uttoxeter (309890) Branch, PO box 1000, BX1 1LT

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Report of the Trustees for year ending January 2024

The trustees set out their annual report for January 2024. The trustees have adopted the provisions of the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005.

Structure, Governance and Management

Governing Document

The charity is controlled by its governing document. “The constitution of The Love Moldova Foundation. A Charitable Incorporated Organisation”

Risk management

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error. Appointed safeguarding officer, Sally Willson

Statement of Trustees and Responsibilities

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Report of the Trustees and the financial statements, in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Vision

The Love Moldova Foundation is seeking to eradicate poverty and relieve suffering of those most vulnerable in Moldova: the lost, the least and the broken.

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Mission

Through i mproving life experiences through loving support, education and practical help and bringing hope to the hopeless through the “Good News” of Jesus

Values

Love and Hope Integrity Compassion Leadership

Objectives

To advance the Christian Faith for the benefit of the public in Moldova in accordance with our statement of beliefs set out in Annex 1 of our constitution.

The prevention or relief of poverty in Moldova by providing grants, items and services to individuals, charities or other organisations working to relieve poverty.

The protection of vulnerable people in Moldova by providing grants, items and services to charities or other organisations working to prevent abuse and trafficking.

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How will our aims be fulfilled? -

We are determined and passionate to work with partners in Moldova who are known to us and have credible reputations. Our founder who lived and worked along- side such partners for many years has been able to determine the core needs in certain communities and therefore our support has been focused and specific in key areas.

Our partners and their key areas of focus, fall within the objects of The Love Moldova Foundation which keeps us, the Trustees very much in line with our objects.

Our specific targeted areas are-

Activities

The Love Moldova foundation launched officially in May 2018. Since launch The Love Moldova Foundation has developed in its mission to eradicate poverty for the most vulnerable.

This report covers our activities for the last 12 months from January 2024 to January 2025. The Love Moldova Foundation is focussed and specific to the above areas of need.

2024-2025 was a year of maintaining the current work. Raising awareness through conferences both in UK and Moldova. Aiming to broaden our supporter base and reach many more vulnerable girls and ladies through the Gospel pf Jesus Christ.

We continued to support those who were fleeing the conflict in the Ukraine supplying fuel to the most vulnerable in the northern villages.

Casa Helen : a home for abandoned and vulnerable elderly females.

This home was the vision of our founder who lived and worked in Moldova from 2007.

It became clear that many of the elderly population where in desperate need of love and care, companionship and warmth as they lived in isolation and poverty without any family members to assist them. We currently provide a home for 17 ladies.

Provision

We continue to enable the full running of our home for grannies. We are running at capacity with 17 residents at the moment.

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We have purchased fuel for the winter, paid for the painting of the house internally. We provide half of the annual budget for Casa Helen the remainder is from the pensions which are volunteered by the residents.

Outcome

A beautiful space and lovely environment for the ladies to enjoy as they live out the last years of their lives.

Girl’s Residential Business Academy

The Love Moldova Foundation is passionate about this facility from the start and have been able to contribute massively for some of the needs that presented.

The academy will provide further education for girls as they grow into young women, equipping them with business skills and helping them to establish small businesses in the community which will provide them with hope and a future. The girls are vulnerable to traffickers because of their social circumstances, and some have already been rescued from prostitution.

Following the successful business school which attracted 25 students both girls and boys. We are pleased to announce that we have been able to help 5 separate projects to become established in Riscani and the surrounding area.

Provision

We have provided bursaries for 5 students to enable them to establish a business in their own community.

Cornesti Pastor

We provide a small salary for a lady who visits the old ladies in Casa Helen, twice a month. She prays with them and gives lots of encouragement. This very much improves their morale and brings them joy.

A young single mum, Ana with two young boys

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Provision

Ana lives with her two sons in the village of Cornesti. She has a small bungalow but didn’t have a toilet, bathroom or any doors for any of the rooms inside.

We were able to provide the finances and the labour which resulted in ana having a fully functional bathroom and toilet with a wall mounted boiler. We also provided funding for running water to be piped to her home and fitted three new doors so that the bedrooms are now closed off from the living space.

Outcome

Ana and her boys are delighted, their whole world has been changed with running hot water and a bath and toilet. They are so grateful also that they have bedroom doors and a private space that was impossible before.

This has been life changing for the family.

Regular Food Packages

We provided food packages for those most vulnerable.

Outcome

Those families that were without income could have food over the months that were most severe. Providing staple supplies of pasta, oil, floor, jam, sugar, margarine and rice.

Our partners in Ungheni

We continue to support the work of this family who are living and working with the poor; the lost and the broken. They represent the heart of the Love Moldova foundation taking care of single mums, widows and the poorest of families with food parcels and lots of TLC.

Provision

We provide fuel/travel costs which enable them to connect with the neediest in the remote villages of Moldova and also to establish relationships with key influencers in the city for example, the British Ambassador and Miah Sandu the current president.

We also provided a head gasket for their vehicle

Outcomes

Much of the outreach work to the poorest communities has been enabled through supporting the very practical needs of this family who have put down roots in Moldova and dedicated their future to seeing transformation and hope abound.

The poorest people have been fed and cared for and have received much loving care as a result.

Lives have been influenced and impacted and leadership qualities developed across many groups.

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Post office workers

Provision

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we were able to supply every postal worker in Ungheni with a bicycle. The “posties” were having to walk up to 13 kilometres a day, none had any form of transport. We provided 18 fully refurbished bicycles.

Outcome

This has enabled the work of the post office workers saving much time and also many sore feet. The Post Office is thrilled with the increased efficiency which we have enabled.

Provision of a home for young couple

A young pastor and his wife from Buzdoghani, who have a little girl were struggling to find a home due to lack of funds. They are a couple who work tirelessly for the church and have an enormous heart for the community. Our partners who live close by in Ungheni asked if we could help to fund or part fund a project to build them a home.

A team of teenagers from the UK supervised by Amor Europe who specialise in building prefabricated bungalows were willing to head up this project which took two weeks and a team of 30 young people to complete.

Outcome

A beautiful little bungalow for life, the interior is being completed by the young pastor himself but the structure and rendering of the shell is now complete and has been life changing for this couple.

Annual Garden Party

We held an extremely successful garden party hosted by our Patron, Major Gen, Tim Cross. It’s the highlight of the year for some of our supporters and regularly benefits us with over £1,000 raised each year.

Our donors were thrilled with the opportunity to meet one of our partners, Pastor Leo Sandu who we arranged to fly in from Moldova to give a personal update of the work and to thank the donors for their continued support.

Partners/donors

The Love Moldova Foundation is endeavouring to grow a loyal donor base on which we rely totally for our funding. We are extremely grateful to all who contribute.

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One of our aims is to raise awareness of the needs in this small country of Moldova by speaking to churches, local Rotary Groups and others involved in the Not-for-Profit arena.

The Trustees are committed to sending bi-annual reports/ newsletters to all of our donors and also to holding an annual event which brings partners/donors and friends together to receive a personal update from the Trustees and our Patron.

This is the formal Annual report of Trustees which will be submitted to the Charities Commission with a full overview of our annual financial accounts in full agreement with the Statement of Recommended Practice (SORP) 'Accounting and Reporting by Charities' issued in March 2005.

Signed by Chairman of Trustees

Dated 11/11/2025

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Receipts & Payments Statement

Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
Prior Year
Receipts
Donations & Legacies
Donations
13,384
13,051
26,435
36,125
Gift Aid
1,777
225
2,002
748
Grants
0
11,635
11,635
0
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~~a~~
~~SC~~
Charitable Activities
Event Income
0
0
0
0
Investments
Bank Interest
0
0
0
0
Trading Activities
~~SS~~
~~ESCC~~
Sales
290
0
290
0
~~SC~~
Other
Loans Received
0
0
0
0
Other Income
266
0
266
0
Sale of Fixed Assets
0
0
0
0
Sale of Investments
0
0
0
0
Total receipts
15,717
24,911
40,628
36,873
~~SS~~
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~SC CS~~
~~SS~~
Payments
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Charitable Activities
Activities
16,513
28,476
44,989
51,202
Admin
202
0
202
107
Advertising
0
0
0
276
Bank Charges
85
9
93
8
Event Costs
688
0
688
10,876
Gifts Given
1,989
0
1,989
0
Other Expenditure
1,087
0
1,087
0
Premises
0
0
0
0
Staff Costs
0
750
750
0
Governance Costs
Governance Costs
0
0
0
0
Other
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~~CC~~
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~CC~~
~~eS a~~
~~ESSS~~
Fixed Asset Purchases
0
0
0
0
Loans Repaid
0
0
0
0
Money Invested
0
0
0
0
~~a~~
~~a~~
~~SS~~
Total payments
20,564
29,234
49,799
62,469
Net Receipts / Payments (before
transfers)
-4,847
-4,324
-9,170
-25,596
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Fund Transfers In
0
0
0
0
Fund Transfers Out
0
0
0
0
~~a~~
~~SSCS~~
Net Movement of Cash Funds
-4,847
-4,324
-9,170
-25,596
Total Cash Funds Brought
Forward
7,379
6,751
14,130
39,725
Total Cash Funds Carried
Forward
2,532
2,427
4,959
14,129

Represented By

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General (Unrestricted)
Casa Helen (Restricted)		 2,532
0		 0
0		 2,532
0		 7,379
0
Cornesti Pastor (Restricted) 0 0 0 872
Riscani Girl's Refuge
(Restricted)		 0 180 180 170
Ungheni Mission (Restricted) 0 0 0 0
Ungheni Missionaries
(Restricted)		 0 0 0 -75
Ukrainian Refugees (Restricted) 0 2,224 2,224 5,783
House Building Grant 0 23 23 0
(Restricted)

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Asset & Liability Statement

Cash Assets

Unrestricted Restricted
General (Unrestricted)
2,532
0
2,532
7,379
Casa Helen (Restricted)
0
0
0
0
Cornesti Pastor (Restricted)
0
0
0
872
Riscani Girl's Refuge
(Restricted)
0
180
180
170
Ungheni Mission
(Restricted)
0
0
0
0
Ungheni Missionaries
(Restricted)
0
0
0
-75
Ukrainian Refugees
(Restricted)
0
2,224
2,224
5,783
House Building Grant
(Restricted)
0
23
23
0

Other Monetary Assets

Notes Unrestricted Restricted Total Prior Year
Gift Aid 0 0 0 0
Stock 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0
Investment Assets
Notes Unrestricted Restricted Total Prior Year
Property 0 0 0 0
Investment
Accounts		 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0
Fixed Assets
Notes Unrestricted Restricted Total Prior Year
Land &
Buildings
Music & PA
Equipment		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0		 0
0
Computers &
IT		 0 0 0 0
Furniture 0 0 0 0
Motor
Vehicles		 0 0 0 0

Liabilities

Notes Unrestricted Restricted Total
Prior Year		 Total
Prior Year
Loans
Outstanding
0
0
0
0
Pension
Payment
Owed		 0 0 0 0

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HMRC
Payments
Owed		 0 0 0 0
Independent
Examination
Fee Due		 0 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0 0

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl mern￿rs of The Love Moldova Foundation On accounts lor the year ended 31 January 2025 Charity no (if any) 1174960 Set out on pages report lo the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chaflty ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110112025. Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {"the Act"). I report in ￿spect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my exarnination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any matenal respect. accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the w0￿S in the b￿CketS if they do not apply. Date.. 24 October 2025 Independent examiner's statement Name: Chukwuma Anyaoha Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Accountant Address: 16 Cambedey Towers, 40 Upper Gordon road Camberley, Surrey. GU152HP IER October 2018

Section B Disclosu Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters ot concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018