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FAMINTERNATIONAL

(A Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Year ending 5[th] April 2023

Charity Number: 1176909

FAMINTERNATIONAL

INDEX

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

Reference and Administrative details

Charity number: 1176909

Registered office: 4 Livingstone Road, Christchurch BH23 1HL Bankers: Lloyds Bank,

Independent Examiner of Accounts: Sue Wintle FMAAT 27 Bascott Road Bournemouth BH11 8RJ

Directors and Trustees

The trustees and officers serving during the year and since the year end were as follows:-

The Board of Trustees Trinity Park Catherine Butlin John Butlin

Key management personnel

Mr John Butlin and Catherine Butlin

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

The trustees are pleased to present their report and the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 5[TH] April 2023

The financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011 and Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities.

Structure, Governance and Management

Governing Document

Faminternational is a charitable incorporated organisation registered on 30 January 2018 and is a charity registered with the Charity Commission.

Appointment of Trustees

Trustees can be appointed at any time during the year. New Trustees would be appointed if it was felt by the existing Board that the new appointee would add value to strategic thinking and leadership. It would not normally be expected to appoint more than two new trustees at any one time because of induction and training.

Trustee Induction and Training

The induction process for a new Trustee is as follows. A Trustee will meet with the new Trustee to explain all aspects of the Charity and to provide all relevant information regarding it. The Trustees will write to the new Trustee with a copy of the Memorandum of Association governing the Charity and a copy of the last set of accounts and Annual Review. The Trustees will also provide all assistance and information necessary for the new Trustee to become familiar with the activities of the Charity.

Organisation

The board of Trustees, which can have up to 8 members, administers the charity. The board formally meets once per year. To facilitate effective operations, the key manager meets with Individual Trustees regularly throughout the year (usually monthly) and has delegated authority, within terms of delegation approved by the Trustees for operational matters .

The Charity will work with other related parties and co-operate with other organisations where and when it is deemed to be of mutual benefit and in developing and supporting the various projects.

None of our Trustees receive remuneration or other benefit from their work with the charity.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

The charity has established links with FAMadagascar, a charity based in Madagascar working closely with them to achieve their aims.

Risk Management

The trustees have a risk management strategy which comprises: -

All potential risks being categorised against high, medium or low potential levels of impact with appropriate steps to mitigate the risks being discussed and recorded.

Before any volunteers are taken abroad a thorough risk assessment is conducted including areas of activity, travelling, medical facilities, food and accommodation.

Volunteer Services

The charity relies on voluntary help and during the year the charity benefited from 40 hours of services provided by volunteers and 2000 hours of Trustee time, most of this provided by John and Cath Butlin, who voluntarily manage and work for the charity in a full-time capacity. The Trustees thank all volunteers for the contribution to the charity’s activities.

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RESERVES POLICY

The trustees aim to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level sufficient to cover operating costs for at least 3 months. Unrestricted reserves as of 5[th] April 2023 amounted to around 6 months operating costs.

Our purposes and activities

FAMinternational’ s purposes are: -

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

2) The advancement of education of children and adults in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including by awarding sponsorship, maintenance allowances or grants to enable them to access education and by the provision of educational materials and resources.

3) The relief of sickness and the preservation of health by providing or assisting in the provision of equipment, facilities, services and access to medical treatment.

4) The relief and care of children and young people without families and those whose families are unable to properly care for them by promoting the provision of high quality foster care for such children and by supporting foster carers themselves by way of training, support and practical advice in matters relating to the care and upbringing of children and young people. This purpose to be furthered in cooperation and partnership with the relevant local and national authorities in the country where working.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACTIVITIES IN THE YEAR

Activities which achieved purpose 1) The prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare projects and all the necessary support designed to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.

Another 35 women and their accompanying children, referred by partners and deemed at risk of family separation due to poverty, were assisted on our Women’s Economic Empowerment Program. This involved an intensive business training course, basic living allowance and intensive individualised economic coaching alongside a small business start-up. Women were provided with a small business start-up, tailored to their choice of business, from chicken, duck, pig farming to small scale retail such as selling second hand clothes, shoes and vegetables. Some women chose to start sewing and hair dressing businesses. A new project manager was recruited to ensure the smooth running of this project according to a predicted time frame. This project proved a highly successful and sustainable family strengthening project, ensuring that children could remain with birth family. Our social work team also continued to support families we have assisted in previous years – but only in terms of occasional social work and follow up as they are mostly live successful and independent lives with their children as a result of our intervention.

The Golan village Project

Faminternational passed on donations which pay for the salaries of two primary school teachers at the small school next to the rubbish dump in Golan village. Our team was able to help the school become established as a community ran school with a committee including teachers, parents and local governing bodies. The school is now registered with the government and offers education to 94 children. We continue to provide a smooth-running partnership with the local church who provide spiritual support for the children and their families living at the rubbish dump.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

Activities Which Achieved Purpose 2

Education Sponsorship

A staggering 1 in 4 Malagasy still cannot read or write and 66% of children never finish primary school, the massive dropout rate for secondary school is because education is only free for primary pupils, young adults are much more useful helping out on the family farms and rice fields than using up scarce financial supplies for an education. Between April 2021 and April 2022 FAMinternational provided the finance to sponsor 30 vulnerable children through school as well as paying for school fees, this includes paying for school uniform and equipment.

In terms of adult training, 35 women received small business training as well as specialised training in sewing, hair dressing, urban farming and retail.

Activities Which Achieved Purpose 3

Despite Madagascar being one of the poorest countries in the world (96% living in abject poverty off less than $3/ day) there is no free health care, as a consequence; individuals cannot afford to visit hospitals and there is a high mortality rate both in childbirth and from fairly simple curable ailments, such as poorly attended wounds.

The families on our strengthening programs continue to receive excellent health care at the local maternity clinic, run by the German charity "Mobile Half Madagaskar.”

The children in the families we support continue to grow and thrive and are happy in their placements in community.

We were able to partner with a British medical company to receive a donation of the latest surgical shunt for a baby with hydrocephalus who was referred to us. The surgery was a success. This baby had been abandoned and was being cared for at a local orphanage, Akany Avoko. We funded all medical bills and milk. Unfortunately the baby died 6 months later due to further medical complications. We received a large donation of paediatric medical equipment from Southampton Children’s Hospital that we were able to take to Madagascar and donate to Mobile Hilfe Madagaskar.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

Activities which achieved purpose 4

National Governmental Support, Localised Development and International networking. Building on our previous years’ work of assisting and advocating for national childcare reform, our team was able to achieve the following breakthroughs:

  1. Further discussion with the Ministry of Justice with the aim of providing a gatekeeping service at court level, as well as foster care provision in the form of legally acceptable “trusted families”. An effective “green light” for our project proposal given by our main partner, the Martin James Foundation, as well as in country concept support from UNICEF.

  2. Increasing in-country partnerships in particular with Akany Avoko centre and an adoption centre, as well as the Embassy of Monaco.

  3. Increasing visibility in country. Our National Director was asked to take part in a special news report covering the work of GTSM the national syndicate of social workers.

  4. Becoming part of wider global networks working towards deinstitutionalisation including Transform Alliance Africa.

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

Future Vision

Community Resources, Family Preservation, Empowerment, Livelihoods, Foster Care

Faminternational through its partner, Famadagascar, will be taking more referrals of families who have already suffered separation from their children due to a number of reasons, including poverty. Our specialised social workers will do community visits and make detailed reports for the judges to enable them to make informed decisions in the best interests of the children. We plan to provide family strengthening and economic empowerment services for the families who need it. Children will be able to stay with our approved and trained foster carers whilst thorough assessment and family intervention is provided by our team. Depending on the cases, and always in the best interests of the children involved, children may be reunited with birth family, remain in foster care for short or long term, or be adopted.

We will recruit, train and approve a cohort of community-based foster carers to work alongside our court based gate-keeping service. We plan to start with 10 foster carers.

We will strengthen the local arm of the previously appointed Child Protection Network. We will train them in their role and empower them to be the eyes and ears for the children in their local community, drawing on their community based knowledge to help with the recruitment of foster carers.

We will recruit new staff. Qualified social workers as well as a Monitoring Evaluation and Learning office who will research and report on our projects for the benefit of wider advocacy both national and international.

We will also be providing a gatekeeping service for three centres to assist them in creating life care plans for the children living with them with the aim of reunifying children with birth family where safe to do so.

National Governmental Support and Localised Development, Training, awareness raising, policy and good practice.

Madagascar’s childcare system is in desperate need of reform, to bring it more in line with the UN Guidelines on Alternative Care, which Madagascar signed and agreed to in 2019. We aim to continue to support all national efforts to establish these guidelines in Madagascar’s policies and practices. We also aim to strengthen international networks, particularly within Africa to assist joint learning and advocacy.

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF FAMINTERNATIONAL For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

I report on the accounts of the company for the year ended 5[TH] April 2023 which are set out on pages 10 to 18.

Responsibilities and Basis of Report

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent Examiner’s Statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect: -

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed SueW

Sue Wintle FMAAT ACIE 27 Bascott Road Bournemouth Dorset BH11 8RJ

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (including income and expenditure account) For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

Notes
Unrestricted
Funds
£
Restricted
Funds
£
2023
Total
£
INCOME
Donations and legacies
2
20,110
34,149
54,259

Income from charitable activities
2

_
________
________
TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES
20,110
34,149
54,259

_
_
__
EXPENDITURE
Expenditure on Charitable
activities :-
Charitable Activities
3
25,997
27,717
53,714
_
_
__

TOTAL EXPENDITURE
25,997
27,717
53,714
_
_
_
NET INCOME / (EXPENDITURE)
(5,887)
6,432
545
AND NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
FOR THE YEAR
Transfer
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward
21,443
57 21,500

_
_
_
Total funds carried forward
6
15,556
6,489
22,045
_
_
_		 2022
Total
£
29,332
21,317
_
50,599
_
55,399
__
55,399
_
(5,399)
26,899
_
21,500
_____

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year All income and expenditure derives from continuing activities.

FAMINTERNATIONAL Page 11 BALANCE SHEET For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

April 2023 April 2022
Notes £ £
CURRENT ASSETS
- -
Debtors 5
Cash at Bank 22,045 21,500
__ _
Total current assets 22,045 21,500
CREDITORS:
Amounts falling due within one year - -
__ _
NET ASSETS 22,045 21,500
__ _
THE FUNDS OF THE CHARITY:
Unrestricted funds 6 15,556 21,443
Restricted funds 7 6,489 57
__ _
Total charity funds 22,045 21,500
__ _

Accounts Approved by the Trustees on 25/09/2024

Signed on behalf of the Trustees

Mrs Trinity Park (Treasurer)

FAMINTERNATIONAL Page 12 ACCOUNTING POLICIES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

a Basis of Preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities published on 16/7/14, the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (effective January 2015).Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

b Income recognition policies

Items of income are recognised and included in the accounts when all of the following Criteria are met: -

c

Donated services and facilities

Donated services and facilities are recognised in income when the charity has control over the item, any conditions associated with the donated item have been met, the receipt of economic benefit from the use by the charity of the item is probable and that economic benefit can be measured reliably. On receipt, donated services and facilities are recognised on the basis of the value of the gift to the charity which is the amount the charity would have been willing to pay to obtain services or facilities of equivalent economic benefit on the open market, a corresponding amount is then recognised in expenditure in the period of receipt.

d

Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds which are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of the charity.

Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the charity for particular purposes. The cost of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specific fund.

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Accounting Policies For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

e Expenditure

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:-

f Allocation of support costs

Support costs are those functions that assist the work of the charity but do not directly undertake charitable activities. Support costs include back office costs, finance, payroll and governance costs which support the charity’s programmes of activities. These costs have been divided between the costs of raising funds and expenditure on charitable activities.

g

Debtors

Debtors are recognised at their settlement amount due. Prepayments are valued at the amount prepaid.

h Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and in hand includes cash and short term investments with a maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account.

i. LEGAL STATUS

The charity is a charitable incorporated organisation.

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NOTES TO THE FINANANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

2.
VOLUNTARY INCOME
Donations and gifts – General Income
Donations and gifts – Restricted Income
Income from Charitable activities
3.
ANALYSIS OF EXPENDITURE ON CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Direct costs of projects7/ 7.1

Support costs -3.1
 2023
£
20,110
34,149
_
54,259

_
2023
£
52,826
888

_
53,714
_		 2022
£
16,252
34,347
_
50,599
_
2022
£
52,281
3,717
_
53,494
_
_
_
3.1 ANALYSIS OF GOVERNANCE AND SUPPORT COSTS
Bank Charges
570
Admin,Postage,Sundries 141
Memberships,speakingengagements 77
Vehicle Costs 100
Total Support Costs 888

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NOTES TO THE FINANANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

4. TRUSTEE REMUNERATION

The trustees did not receive any emoluments or reimbursed expenses during the year.

5. DEBTORS

2023
£
Prepaid Expenses
0
__
0

__		 2022
£
0
_
0
_

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NOTES TO THE FINANANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

6. MOVEMENTS ON FUNDS

(a)
Unrestricted funds:
General reserve
(b)
Restricted funds:
Martin James Foundation
 Balance
06.04.2022
£
21,443
_
21,443
_
57
_
57
_		 Income
Expenditure
20,110
25,997
_
_
20,110
25.997
_
_
34,149
27,717
___
_
34,149
27,717
_
_____		 Transfers
-
_
-
_
 Balance
05.04.2023
£
15,556
_
15,556
_
6,489
_
6,489
_

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REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

7. Martin James Foundation: A fund for initiating foster care and Ensuring Children Stay in Families (Gate keeping) (£27,717)

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NOTES TO THE FINANANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended 5[th] April 2023

8. ANALYSIS OF NET ASSETS BETWEEN FUNDS

Cash at Bank
Debtors		 Restricted
Funds
£
Unrestricted
Funds
£
6,489
10,956
-
-
_
_
6,489
10,956
_
_		 Total
£
17,445
-
_
17,445
_