SUPPORTING UGANDAN EDUCATION 

## TRUSTEE'S ANNUAL REPORT 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022 

The year began with schools normal and the food situation still poor. We had sent £2000 aid with the January school fees grant in December 2021, so that the aid would arrive before Christmas. We did that this year with the school fees in April and August and also separately in January. We paid fees for about 70 students. 

The solar power project for St. Thomas Aquinas secondary school, Akanyo, could not be done in 2021 because of lockdowns and school closures. The fundraising had been successful, so in March, we offered to send the grant for the solar power project.  It was a year since the quote was given, so we asked if it would be enough. The new quote was higher, but we had enough and sent it. Transport and supply chain challenges delayed implementation of the works and caused a small shortfall in our grant. We sent a top up with the April school fees. Work did not start until September and finished in October. The total grant that we sent was £8400. 

Having received the funds for the Solar energy project, our trustees in Uganda told us that the next project would be school desks for St. Joseph the Worker school, Panyango. They obtained a quote for 150 single person desks at about £60 each. The school already had some funds, so the request was for about £8000. It is government regulation that exams be taken in single person desks, for obvious reasons. When a school does not have these, it has to pay for the candidates to travel to a another school to do the national examinations. So the desks will provide a better work environment in the classroom and save the school significant costs. We did not start an appeal for this in 2022. 

We go into 2023 expecting the need for humanitarian aid to continue. There were two successive crop failures, the first due to lack of rain and the second due to floods. Food was scarce and prices rose locally and because of the international issues affecting trade. People were again having to survive on one inadequate meal per day. There will be a continuing need for school fee grants, humanitarian aid and grants for capital works projects for schools for the long term benefit of the local youth and their families. 

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 – 2022** 

## **Accounts** 

**Period 01/01/2022 To 31/12/2022 Income Expenditure** Fee Sponsorship £9,085.00 School Fees £7,545.00 Humanitarian Aid £6,000.00 Akanyo – Solar £8,400.00 Humanitarian Aid – FPI £5,600.00 Bank Charges £60.00 Expenses £0.00 Humanitarian Aid – CAF £2,000.00 Paypal donations £425.01 Akanyo Solar – FPI £1,800.00 Gift Aid Payment –  AK £200.00 Gift Aid Payment –  HA £1,607.50 Gift Aid Payment –  Fees £2,178.75 Gift Aid Interest £0.23 Other Donations £130.00 **Total Income £23,026.49 Total Expenditure £22,005.00** Brought forward from 2020 £6,444.71 Subtotal £29,471.20 **Balance = £7,466.20** 

## **Notes** 

The January school fees were sent during last financial year. FPI: Online transfer direct to the charity bank account by regular donors 

CAF: Donation via Charities Aid Foundation HA: Humanitarian Aid AK:  Akanyo Solar Power Project 

Not all 2022 gift aid has been claimed yet.