SUPPORTING UGANDAN EDUCATION ## TRUSTEE'S ANNUAL REPORT 01/01/2021 – 31/12/2021 The year began with more classes returning to school and the food situation better. We asked Fr. Charles and Fr. Denis whether it would be possible to do the project requested last year, solar lighting for St. Thomas Aquinas secondary school, Akanyo. They thought it could go ahead, so we asked how they think our resources should be divided between school fees, humanitarian aid and the solar project. For the April term, we sent school fees for 70 students and £1000 of aid. In May, we paused the humanitarian aid appeal and embarked on fundraising for the solar project by an appeal at St. Gregory's parish, Cheltenham, an appeal to our regular standing order donors and an appeal to friends and family through our personal Facebook accounts. To accept donations we set up a campaign on Virgin Money Giving using our account. The appeal had raised over £3500 of a target of £5000, when schools were closed again in June due to covid 19. Food shortages arose again and we suspended the solar appeal and renewed the appeal for humanitarian aid donations. We sent a tranche of aid in August, but there continued to be shortages. Home working for students began in September with materials provided by the schools for a fee. We used our school fee donations to help those who could not afford the fee. Donations continued to come in for aid and we sent another grant with the school fees in September. In November, we also appealed again to the charity Farmers Overseas Action Group, which operates in Uganda and had some unrestricted funds, who gave us £500. In December, we sent school fees in anticipation of schools re-opening in January and another grant of aid. In total, we granted aid of £8928 up to Christmas, helping over 350 people, including about 150 children, mainly with food and some clothing and kitchen wares. The total for school fees was £10098.50. In November, Virgin Money Giving closed and we registered the charity with Paypal Giving Fund to continue to collect donatons online. We go into 2022 expecting the need for humanitarian aid to continue and hoping the schools stay open and the solar project is completed. So there will be a continuing need for school fee grants and appeals for aid or for capital works for schools. Regular standing order donations held up with some stopping and some increasing and we continue to use these, along with the Gift Aid, for school fees for secondary students. ## **Supporting Ugandan Education – 2021** ## **Accounts** **Period 01/01/2021** ## **To 31/12/2021** **Income Expenditure** Fee Sponsorship £8,695.00 School Fees £10,098.50 Humanitarian Aid - VMG £260.00 Humanitarian Aid £8,928.00 Humanitarian Aid – StG £70.00 Bank Charges £90.00 Humanitarian Aid – FPI £4,810.00 Expenses £0.00 Humanitarian Aid – FOAG £500.00 Humanitarian Aid – CAF £1,115.00 Akanyo Solar – VMG £1,190.00 Akanyo Solar – STG £2,315.26 Akanyo Solar – FPI £150.00 Gift Aid Payment – VMG HA £52.50 Gift Aid Payment – VMG AK £5.00 Gift Aid Payment – HA £1,257.60 Gift Aid Payment – Fees £1,280.04 Other Donations Total Income £21,700.40 Total Expenditure £19,116.50 Brought forward from 2020 £3,860.81 Subtotal £25,561.21 **Balance = £6,444.71** VMG: Virgin Money Giving StG: St. Gregory the Great Parish Project Cheltenham FPI: Online transfer direct to the charity bank account by regular donors FOAG: Farmers Oveseas Action Group. Charity 1164747 CAF: Donation via Charities Aid Foundation HA: Humanitarian Aid AK: Akanyo Solar Power Project Some school fee donations were used for humanitarian aid, with donors permission, when schools were closed. Not all 2021 gift aid has been claimed yet.