2023-12-31-accounts

Creating opportunities together through learning

Annual Report 2023

Trustees and Constitution :

• Chairman Melanie Horn

• Treasurer Gary Bircher

• Trustee Committee: Jacob Horn, Ellie Freer

• Representative in Uganda Makaka Vestar

• Trustees are recruited through personal recommendation and subsequent agreement by the existing trustees

• The Charity is governed via a Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its charity trustees

Registered Address:

• 46 Barkers Mead, Yate, Bristol. South Gloucestershire. BS37 7LF

Charity aims:

• To advance the education of adults and children in Uganda by providing financial support to establish and run a school or schools and to enable adults and children to access education and training.

• The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship in Uganda by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training programmes, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.

• The provision of educational materials for schools and other organisations in the UK, relating to life in Uganda and our activities to reduce hardship.

• Carry out fundraising events in the UK to support activities to raise the standard of living in Uganda.

Fundraising:

• The charity received a donation from Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church for Bibles and Sunday School books to be given out at its trainings in Uganda.

• Donations were received via its website and Facebook profile.

• A generous donation was received from a donor to boost the trainings in the summer and towards the safe boat travel.

Registered charity number: 1176871

1

Creating opportunities together through learning

Raising Awareness

• The charity has continued to maintain a website and social media pages to inform investors and promote awareness, including photos and dialogue from people within the village communities.

• Members of the congregation of Chipping Sodbury Baptist Church express an interest in the community trainings in Uganda and supports the charity’s fundraising events and knits baby blankets and garments for Melanie Horn to take to the communities when she visits .

• Melanie Horn posted on the South Gloucestershire Council Staff noticeboard about her visit to Uganda (with permission from the council) and staff also donated knitted blankets for her visit.

What has happened this year:

• The charity continued with the mobile schooling project (Inspire) that is aimed to teach kitchen planting and farming to support the villages and suburbs struggling with famine as many people flock back to the villages from Kampala.

• The charity has begun using the research materials to write training sessions about the keeping of livestock in Uganda to support farmers under the heading Ignite Project .

• Makaka Vestar met with Luyima Ponsiano to support the recruiting of another volunteer, Magwali James, a previous delegate at the first training.

• Melanie Horn visited Uganda in July-August 2023 and supported the delivery of training to communities in Kitanda and Kitungwa in Gombe, Kanjuki in Luwero and Nsazi Island Lake Victoria.

• Promise reviewed the community in Kitungwa that had begun teaching others on a piece of land loaned to them by a delegate for a year. Many positive testimonies were gathered about the impact of the training and income sustainability from them and other previous delegates.

• The Inspire Project was delivered to representatives from 200 families/farmers, each programme ending with a celebration and testimonies about what they had achieved. Some of these testimonies were recorded and uploaded to the website with permission from the student. They were given seeds to begin planting.

• Melanie Horn and Vestar Makaka met with Tim Sebati of Spirit FM Uganda to discuss the idea of creating a programme for outreach to a wider audience. Mr Sebati welcomed the idea and invited the team to meet with his programme team to discuss further details.

Public Benefit

• The charity has engaged with many people about the Inspire Project and the need for education about planting, composting and irrigation in Uganda and has delivered a

Registered charity number: 1176871

1

Creating opportunities together through learning

programme of nine sessions to needy families in the community who are then encouraged to go on and share their knowledge and experience with their neighbours.

• Children in the UK are developing a global awareness about life in Uganda and how they can make an impact now and in the future by being directly involved with the charity.

• Children in the UK are learning about different techniques for art, music and cooking.

• The charity has linked churches to hold meetings together, share resources and provided Bibles and other books for their Sunday School children and teachers to aid the delivery of children’s ministry.

Finances:

• Funds have been used to purchase printing of teaching documents, tools, overalls, seeds, associated travel expenses and refreshments for volunteers to be used by team delivering the sessions about planting to the community.

• An annual fee for the website domain has been paid for this year.

• The charity has no debt financing.

Message from the Trustees:

We would like to thank you all for caring about the future of these disadvantaged children and their families in Uganda by supporting online fundraising events, making individual donations and helping to raise an awareness of the charity.

Signed on Behalf of the Trustees

Melanie Horn (Chair)

Gary Bircher (Treasurer)

Date 21.09.24

Registered charity number: 1176871

1

	Promise of Education - Uganda	Promise of Education - Uganda	Promise of Education - Uganda	No (if any)	CC16a
	Receipts andpayments accounts
	For the period from	1-Jan-23	To	31-Dec-24
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £	to the nearest £ Restricted funds	to the nearest £ Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £	Last year to the nearest £
	2,967	-	-	2,967	6,786
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
Sub total(Gross income for AR)	2,967	-	-	2,967	6,786
A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
Sub total	-	-	-	-	-
Total receipts A3 Payments
	2,967.00	-	-	2,967	6,786
	2,678	-	-	2,678	9,805
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
Sub tota	l 2,678	-	-	2,678	9,805
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
	450	-	-	450	360
	-	-	-	-
Sub tota	l 450	-	-	450	360
Total payments Net of receipts/(payments A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Cash funds this year end
	3,128	-	-	3,128	10,165
	) - 161	-	-	- 161	- 3,379
	-	-	-	-	-
	2,647	-	-	2,647	6,026
	2,486	-	-	2,486	2,647

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at	the end of the period	the end of the period
Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Details	to nearest £ Unrestricted funds	to nearest £ Restricted funds	to nearest £ Endowment funds
	Lloyds Bank Account, Paypal, and cash in ~~Uganda~~	2,486	-	-
			-	-
		-	-	-
	Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))	2,486	-	-
		OK	OK	OK
		to nearest £ Unrestricted funds	to nearest £ Restricted funds	to nearest £ Endowment funds
		-	-	-
		-	-	-
		-	-	-
		-	-	-
		-	-	-
		-	-	-
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
	Details	Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
	Computer and peripherals		450	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
			-	-
	Details	Fund to which ~~liability relates~~	Amount due ~~(optional)~~	When due ~~(optional)~~
			-
			-
			-
			-
			-
	Signature	Print	Name
				Date of approval
		Melani	e Horn	21-Sep-24
		Gary	Bircher	21-Sep-24