
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

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|**From**|1st|MAY|2019|**To**|30<br>APRIL|2020|



## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1178320 Charity's principal address** 62 Seymour Court Road 

GLOBAL VILLAGE ACTION 

N/A 

MARLOW 

> **Postcode SL7 3BE** 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not**<br>**for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||CYRIL PITCHER|CHAIRMAN|||
||JOHN OKONKWO|Overseas Liaison|||
||ALEX AMOYAW|Operations Liaison|1/5/2020||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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||CYRIL PITCHER||
||DAVID LEE||
||JOHN OKONKWO||
||ALEX AMOYAW||
||DOUG WILLIAMS||
||STEVE ARMAH||



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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
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|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|||
|**NONE**|||
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|NONE|||



## **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 (CIO) Charitable Incorporated Organisation (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods Voluntary foundation 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; 

Global Village Action is a small charity which is run by voluntary trustees domiciled in London and the surrounding suburbs. There were limited activities in the current year due to disruptions created by the SARS COVID-19 pandemic. Several trustees were preoccupied with personal challenges and some elderly trustees were shielding from the onst of COVID-19. This served to reduce the capacity of trustees to meet core objectives and fundraising targets. 

- 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**<br>**charity set out in its**<br>**governing document**<br>**Summary of the main**<br>**activities undertaken for the**<br>**public benefit in relation to**<br>**these objects (include within**<br>**this section the statutory**<br>**declaration that trustees have**<br>**had regard to the guidance**<br>**issued by the Charity**<br>**Commission on public**<br>**benefit)**|Prevention and relief of poverty and the advancement of Christian<br>evangelical religion  by providing access to food, clothing, shelter, skills<br>training, pastoral counselling, internships, exchange programmes, and<br>evangelical outreach.|
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||National lockdowns and other mitigation steps to control the SARS<br>COVID-19 pandemic were negatively impactful on activities in the current<br>year. GVA’s limited activities were focused on maintaining the charity’s<br>operations backbone and potential partnerships.<br>1. Evangelical outreach programmes;<br>2. Feeding programme;<br>3. Selecting a pioneer star trainee<br>4. Finalise design concepts, drawings and models for a future live-in<br>facility for indigent persons.<br>The charity trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the<br>Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance<br>published by the Charity Commission.|



## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

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There were no grants, investments, or structured contributions made by volunteers. 

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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## Section D                      Achievements and erformance p 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

1. Evangelical outreach programmes; 2. Feeding programme; 3. Selecting a pioneer star trainee 4. Finalise design concepts, drawings and models for a future live-in facility for indigent persons. The charity trustees have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the** 

**Brief statement of the** As a small charity with no employees, limited funds, negligible **charity’s policy on reserves** overheads, and flexible programmes, GVA aims to keep less than 5% of raised funds in reserve to meet its public interest programmes and for emergencies. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

None 

## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include GVA received limited cash donations in the amount of £1301.82 from a additional information, where handful of private sources in the financial year. Donations were applied to relevant about: support the backbone activities outlined above. Trustees continue to work • the charity’s principal to raise meaningful funds with which to accelerate the intervention sources of funds (including programmes outlined above. 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** 

None 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** JOHN OKONKWO **Full name(s)** CYRIL PITCHER **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** CHAIRMAN TRUSTEE **etc) Date** 27/01/2022 

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Sheet1 

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||GLOBAL VILLAGE ACTION||||||1178320||||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**||
||**For theperiod**||||||||||
||**FROM**||May2018||**TO**||April 2021||||
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||Unrestricted||Restricted||Endowment||Total||Last||
||funds||funds||funds||funds||year||
||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|**2018-19**Donation 1.|10000||||||||||
|Donation 2.|250||||||||||
|Donation 3|100||||||||||
|Other donations|81.71||||||||||
|Bank interest|33.25||||||10464.96||||
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|**2019-20**Donation 1.|750||||||||||
|Donation 2.|200||||||||||
|Donation 3.|250||||||||||
|Other donations|106.76||||||||||
|Bank interest|1.06||||||1301.82||||
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|**2020-21**Donation 1.|300||||||||||
|Other donations|44.99||||||||||
|Bank interest|0.11||||||345.1||||
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|**_Sub total (Gross income for AR)_**|12111.88||||||**12111.88**||||
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|**_Sub total_**|None||||||**None**||||
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Sheet1 

|**A3 Loans**|||||||||||
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|1.   20thDecember 2018|1000||||||1000||||
|2.   11thFebruary2019|500||||||500||||
|3.   19thJune 2019|500||||||500||||
|4.   30thMarch 2020|500||||||500||||
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|**_Sub total_**|2500||||||**2500**||||
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|**_Sub total_**|None||||||**None**||||
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|**_Total receipts_**|14611.88||||||**14611.88**||||
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|**A5 Payments**|||||||||||
|**2018-19**Payment 1|1500||||||||||
|Generalpayment 2|9320||||||||||
|Generalpayment 3|475||||||||||
|Bank charges|59.04||||||11354.04||||
|**2019-20**|||||||||||
|Payment 1|1000||||||||||
|Payment 2|500||||||||||
|Generalpayments 3|900||||||||||
|Generalpayments 4|417.84||||||||||
|Bank charges|69.79||||||2887.63||||
|**2020-21**|||||||||||
|Generalpayments 1|205.48||||||||||
|Bank charges|61.05||||||266.53||||



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|**_Sub total_**|14508.2||||||**14508.2**||||
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|**_Sub total_**|||||||**None**||||
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|**_Sub total_**|||||||**None**||||
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|**_Totalpayments_**|||||||**14508.2**||||
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|**_Net of receipts /payments_**|||||||**103.68**||||
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|**_A9 Transfers between funds_**|||||||Nil||||
|**_A10 Cash funds lastyear end_**|||||||25.11||||
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|**Cash funds thisyear end**|103.68||||||**103.68**||||
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