## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 01 2023 **To** 31 12 2023 ## Section A Reference and administration details ## **Charity name** Tusome Africa **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1176901 **Charity's principal address** Harrogate Business Centre, Hook stone Avenue Harrogate **Postcode HG2 8ER** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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8|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Bea Simpson|Chairperson||| ||Patrick Paul Timmis|ActingTreasurer||| ||Agnes Nakirya|Co - founder||| ||Stephen John Cutts|Trustee||| ||Christopher John Thompson|Trustee||| ||Barbra Achiro|Trustee||| ||MaceyTan|Trustee||| ||Ros Hancell|Trustee||| ## **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)** **TAR** October **2023** 1 **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Oraganisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Recruited by other trustees. - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - 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 object of Tusome Africa is to enable children to access quality educational opportunities which enhance their learning and enable them to flourish in their diversity and abilities. We have three strategic objectives: - Increased access to quality foundational learning. - Engage communities to participate in the educational activities and learning of their children. - Increased use of data on learning outcomes for decision making in education. **TAR** October **2023** 2 At Tusome Africa, our mission is to build a strong educational foundation for pre-primary children while developing a district-level scoreboard to assess student progress and teaching quality. Our work encompasses the following initiatives: 1. **School-Based Early Childhood Education:** We focus on delivering accessible, high-quality early childhood education (ECE). This includes refurbishing three ECE learning centers, equipping children with the fundamental skills essential for their academic journey. **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)** 2. **Community-Based Early Childhood Education:** We extend our commitment to early learning by reaching underserved communities, offering free, quality learning opportunities for children who face financial challenges accessing private ECE facilities. 3. **Data-Driven Learning Assessment:** Through systematic, curriculum-based assessments, we closely monitor students' progress each term. Our data-centric approach provides insights into learning trends, guiding targeted resource allocation and fostering evidence-based decisions at both the school and district levels. 4. **Developing Foundational Skills for Lifelong Learning:** To build essential skills, we create spaces for children to engage in debate and literacy clubs. This effort includes renovating school libraries, providing access to books, board games, and other resources that support a variety of interactive learning experiences. Together, these efforts lay a strong foundation for children's success and allow us to support effective educational strategies across the district. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. **TAR** October **2023** 3 ## Section D Achievements and performance |**Summary**
**of the main**
**achieveme**
**nts of the**
**charity**
**during the**
**year**||**Programme**
**Area**|**2023 Goals**|**Key Achievements in 2023**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Assessment**
**for Learning**|Launch Learning
Assessment Programme
in Iganga District, Eastern
Uganda|•
Assessed 1,043 Primary 6 students in
Mathematics and English across 12 schools
in Iganga, providing valuable data for
shaping educational strategies.|| |||**Early**
**Childhood**
**Education**
**(ECE)**|Expand Community ECE
Centers in Iganga District|•
Recruited 6 new paraeducators, expanding
the team to 10 and strengthening centers in
Bupaala, Bulumwaki, and opening a new
center in Bukwaya.
•
Held 3 in-house training sessions, achieving
100% paraeducator retention and
establishing a SACCO savings scheme.
•
Supported over 300 children, with 101
transitioning to primary school (48 from
Bupaala, 41 from Bulumwaki, 12 from
Bukwaya).|| ||||Monitoring School Early
Childhood Education
(ECE) Centers in Iganga
District.|•
Conducted 2 of 3 planned CMC meetings
and facilitated paraeducator and parent
meetings to enhance community
collaboration in ECE centers.|| |||**Foundation**
**skills for**
**learning.**
(Literacy and
Numeracy
Development)|
Establish libraries in the
refurbished ECE Centers|•
Expanded the program into Wakiso District,
signing an MoU and identifying three
villages (Bukasa, Bukasa Bukulu, and
Buloba) for a library project benefiting over
1,800 primary school children.
•
Increased access to books for teachers and
students as part of ongoing literacy and
numeracyimprovement efforts.|| ||||||| **TAR** ~~October~~ ~~**2023**~~ ~~4~~ ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Our finance policy requires that a reserve amount equivalent to six months operations or an equivalent of the maximum liabilities of the organisation at any particular point in time is held in the bank. **Details of any funds materially** The organisation does not have any funds in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - 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)**
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
**Date**||_Patrick Timmis_| |---|---|---| ||Bea Simpson|Patrick Timmis| ||

Chair|Treasurer| ||31st/10/2024|| ||31st/10/2024|| **TAR** October **2023** 5 ## **TUSOME AFRICA UK ACCOUNTS 2023** |**TUSOME AFRICA**
**UK ACCOUNTS 2023**||| |---|---|---| |Notes
Fixed Assets 1
Cash at bank 2
Cash at hand
Total Assets
Payables
Founders Contribution
Accumulated funds
Total Liabilities
Total Equity
B: Summary P&L
Bal clf
Income 3
Total funds Available 4
Less Operating Expenses 5
Fund balance 6|Tusome Africa
(Uganda entity)
(Uganda
entity)
Tusome Africa
(UK entity)
_Amount (UGX)_
_Amount (GBP)_
_Amount (GBP)_
2,748,800
£
603
£
-
19,560,770
£
4,293
£ 17,106
222,200
£
49
£
-|(UK
consolidated)
_Amount (GBP)_
£ £603
£
21,399
£
49| ||19,782,970
£ 4,342
£ 17,106
22,531,770
£
4946
£ 17,106
2,000,000
£
439
£ -
515,474
£
113
£
-
20,016,296
£
4,393
£ 17,106|£
21,448
£
22,052
£
439
£
113
£
21,500| ||22,531,770
£
4,946
£ 17,106
22,531,770
£
4,946
£ 17,106
£
-
-
8,235,995
13,500,500
21,736,495
£ 1,808
£
2,963
£ 4,771
£ 17,106
£ 14,649
£ 31,755
100,837,603
£
22,133
£ 4,313|£
22,052
£
22,052
-
£ 18,914
£
17,612
£ 36,526
£ 26,446| |||£ 10,080| _Foreign exchange rate_ _4556_ _Reference_ Notes, A) Fixed Assets: Note 1 - Plant, Property & Equipments Notes, B) Current Assets: Note 2 - Cash & Bank Balances + Bank Balance UK CAf Bank Statement Notes, B) Current Assets: Note 2 - Cash & Bank Balances Funds & Liabilities: - Payables Funds & Liabilities: - Accumulated Funds as at 01/01/2023 & balances for the year Equity accounting method Income: Note 3 - Grants & Donations + donations to cover Tusome UK ## expenses Notes Funds Available Note4- Bal clf + Income generated in the year2023 – Notes, Expenditure: Note 5 UG Expenses + Tusome UK 2023 expenses Notes Fund balance Note 6 – Funds Available – Total Expenses CHARITY COMMISSION Independent 8xamln•rfs report on tho accounts S•ctlon A Inde￿n￿OnI Examln•fs R•port R•port to th• trwl•••l m•mb•rn of 31112r2orJ 1178901 111 any) R••p(mlblllllM Tru•t••s,Exwnln•r• •nd b•sl* ot f•P¢rt #l•r 8•d#)n 145 01th• 2011 Act aTrl nry •x*ninalTh. I xlw •OdK￿ 145(5Xbl oltho of the Ch•rAM ACL. or T*nth lo •I￿￿j be dravm in reF*JI in /z 31/10r2￿24 NIKHIL R•l•v•nt w01•*￿*)N Iw•lIfi&￿I￿{1? or body {Kry): CFA 10 Maknw W*. Gcrfls O*. EN7 6SR. UK Section B Oisclosur• Only con"",,: GhT• h•r• brf•f d•t*M* ol any It•m• th•t lh• •xwnln•rT*l•hM Io dl•cloM.