## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From** Period start date **T** Period end date Day Month Year **o** Day Month Year 01 04 2020 31 03 2021
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
CHILDRENS' SPECIAL NEEDS FOUNDATION SIERRA LEONE
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 117741
**Charity's principal address** 175 Springbank Rd
Hither Green
London
**Postcode SE13 6ST**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name Office (if any)**
- 1 Agnes Macarthy
CEO
**Name of person (or body) Dates acted if not for entitled to appoint trustee whole year (if any)**
- 2 Nigel Drew Treasurer
- 3 Esther Gooden
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- 5
- 6
- 7
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12
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- 17
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**trustees)**||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **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
- (eg. trust, association, company)
By appointment Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
None
- ●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**
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|**Summary of the objects**
**of the charity set out in**
**its governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for**
**the public beneft 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 beneft)**|The object of the CIO is for the public beneft, by the relief and
assistance
of young people with special education needs and disabilities in
Freetown
Sierra Leone by the building and managing of a specialist day
and
boarding school for girls and boys with disabilities. The school
will be free
to pupils from Sierra Leone.|
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||The Charity has established an ofce in Freetown Sierra Leone
and
registered with the local authorities. Pupils with communication
difculties have been registered with the charity. The Charity has
been
actively seeking contacts with the parents and the wider
community to
encourage a better understanding of disability.
The trustees have in planning their activities for the year
reviewed the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public beneft at
their
trustee meetings|
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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None
- You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- ●policy on grantmaking;
- ●policy programme related investment;
- ●contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
During the past year because of COVID it has been very difficult to operate. The office has been open for some of the year to provide support to parents and children. There has been no opportunity to fund raise since such activities for fundraising in the UK were severely restricted.
## **Section E Financial review**
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No reserves are held.
## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
No funds were obtained from fund raising initiatives and You **may choose** to include crowdfunding additional information, donations The only funds were from gift aid. 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)** N.Drew **Full name(s)** Nigel Drew
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date** 10/11/2021
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