Registered Charity Number: 1178341
## **Revive Congo CIO**
**Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31[st ] March 2022**
## **1. Aims and objectives**
Charitable purposes:
- The advancement of educational and vocational services for young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in the United Kingdom between the ages of 8-21.
- To promote culture and heritage of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the United Kingdom via advocacy.
- The advancement of citizenship or community development.
## **2. Governance and structure**
Revive Congo is a UK registered charity in England and Wales, and was registered as a CIO foundation in 2018 (charity no.1178341). The organisation is governed by its constitution.
Revive Congo is currently volunteer-led, with thirteen volunteers and a board of four trustees. The Board of Trustees is responsible for the strategic direction and governance of the charity. Trustees report on the progress, risks & mitigations monthly, and maintain regular communications via email and WhatsApp with two annual executive board meetings to review the strategic direction of Revive Congo. Revive Congo also shares quarterly updates with the general public through e-newsletters, as well as ad-hoc updates through the charity's website.
The board has actively reviewed governance policies, to ensure volunteers display good conduct. The board will continue to assess policies and financial management.
**Trustees:** Guellord Kany, Norris Gwama, Pamela Abiola and Lakeisha Kayoka
## **3. Summary of main activities**
Revive Congo ensures the advancement of education for young people in the UK through delivering an annual summer programme to provide informal education on the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In addition to this, our summer youth programme provides an opportunity for young people to develop their project management skills, communication skills and financial management, as well as receive advice on careers, volunteering, academic opportunities and mental health. This programme has contributed to developing the skills and capabilities of young people to independently participate in society in the longer term.
Revive Congo ensures the advancement of citizenship or community development through supporting and encouraging young people in the UK to engage in social action within their community, by organising and delivering community projects, through delivering our summer programme.
## **4. Achievements and Performance**
In this financial year Revive Congo has continued to carry out charitable objectives through the following activities:
We have continued partnership with an orphanage, Mission Marie Jane, to deliver the below:
**Primary education** : Supporting young pupils in Congo with primary education within Kinshasa through providing annual scholarships. We currently cover school fees, and indirect costs including exam fees, school uniform, stationery and books.
- **Educational learning:** We believe that learning continues beyond the four walls of a classroom and through working with our partner, we intend to create an educational environment within the orphanage. Despite low levels of education within the country, we are keen to cultivate an educational environment for young people to improve learning capabilities in addition to formal education. We continue to promote international campaigns including World book day and Children mental health week. During the reporting year we facilitated interactive learning sessions within the orphanage for over 50 orphans.
Our beneficiaries range from the age of 3 - 18, with a focus on both male and female. We place an emphasis on promoting education for females, contrary to cultural practises through promoting the importance of educating girls, ensuring this is reflected through the selection of pupils which is managed by the orphanage.
We are currently supporting the schooling of four children from Mission Marie Mere Jane, between the ages of 6-9. All pupils attend Marie Jane Wilson Primary School, local to the orphanage. We have covered the annual cost of their school fees, exam fees, uniform, stationery and books. This year we have sought to deliver extra-curricular activities quarterly. This has involved a games day and planning for motivational sessions for successful orphans to share their story.
## **Revive Congo Summer Youth Programme**
In August 2021, we delivered our annual summer youth programme in person follow our first virtual programme last year. This Youth programme aims to raise the aspirations of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in the UK. This programme consisted of various workshops and professional speakers with a focus on capacity building, work experience, entrepreneurship and volunteering opportunities in their local communities. In addition to this, we covered mental health in order to raise awareness and provide our attendees with the necessary tools and resources should they need to access it. We found that introducing our mental health workshop allowed us to unpack and discuss the stigmas attached to those who suffer with this issue in the Congolese community.
The programme was delivered to approximately 15 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and supported young people to develop their skills and capability, including
skills such as presentation skills, project management, public speaking and financial management, as well as their employability prospects.
To promote ongoing leadership development, we have launched an alumni programme for participants to receive on-going career advice, access to Revive Congo’s Network. Alumni will also be provided with volunteer opportunities to facilitate future youth programmes.
## **Supporting Mission Marie Jane Orphanage**
Since the Coronavirus breakout, we have been in very close communication with the orphanage in order to find out how the pandemic has impacted them. Last year the orphanage faced financial challenges. As the owner of the orphanage struggled to generate income from agriculture work due to travel restrictions, which supports the welfare of the orphans. This year we have continued to support the orphanage that has over 50 children by covering the cost of food, water, charcoal to cook and medicine.
## **Tournament**
In October, we held a football tournament engaging over 50 players from different backgrounds, including ethnic minorities in order to engage in sport and also integrate together thus promoting social inclusion.
## **Online Campaigns**
Over the past year we have used social media and our website, to promote Congolese culture and heritage through sharing facts and information about the DRC, also focusing on providing key figures about the situation children face in the DRC and statistics showing the number of children who are not in education. During this period, we have reached over 40,000 members of the public. More recently we have used our platform to raise awareness on mental health, given the indirect impact of the global pandemic.
## **5. Financial position**
The charity’s gross income on general funds for the year was £8,348 The main source of income were from donations (monthly, and one-off) Expenses totalled £7,028
Reserves brought forward at the start of the year were £2,686, leaving a balance carried forward at 31 March of £4,005
## **6. Future plans**
Following activities delivered in the financial year of 21/22, the key objectives in 22/23 are:
- To run this year’s summer youth programme for 30 young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in order to prioritise the health and safety of attendees, volunteers and speakers. Scaling this programme to include Alumni involvement.
- Launch a one year campaign to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, while continuing to share charity objectives.
- To work with our partner Mission Marie Jane orphanage in order to enrol the children we are supporting into the next academic year and deliver extra-curricular learning activities.
- To create an educational environment at Mission Marie Jane orphanage as detailed in our achievements and performance section.
- To reach over 60,000 members of the public via our social media handles, website and online campaigns in order to raise awareness and promote the culture and heritage of the DRC
- To visit Kinshasa, Congo in order to monitor and evaluate the progress of our work at our partnership Mission Marie Orphanage and also evaluate the school performance of the children we are sponsoring; Continue to implement stakeholder engagement, and scoping of local areas for child/educational facilities; we also wish to research whether we can use the orphanage as a location to host extracurricular activities for children who reside in close proximity to the orphanage
- To receive charitable status in the DRC
- To increase total supporter donations by 30%
## **Covid 19**
The impact of Covid 19 all around the world has meant that the charity continues to maintain an agile approach in delivering strategy and goals in order to manage risk. In particular:
- We have held hybrid board meetings.
- The team has not been able to travel to Kinshasa since 2019 to oversee beneficiaries, monitor & evaluate our project in person. Revive Congo intends to visit Congo in the next FY.
|**REVIVE CONGO**|||**No: 1178341**|||
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|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01/06/2021|**To**|31/05/2022|||
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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Donations|**8,348**||**-**||**-**||**8,348**||**3,665**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**8,348**||**-**||**-**||**8,348**||**3,665**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||**-**
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|**_Total receipts_**|**8,348**||**-**||**-**||**8,348**|||
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|**_Total receipts_**|**8,348**||**-**||**-**||**8,348**||**3,665**|
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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Cost of GeneratingFunds|**7,028**||**-**||**-**||**7,028**||**3,854**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**7,028**||**-**||**-**||**7,028**||**3,854**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Trade Debtor Write-off|||||||||**1,409**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**1,409**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
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||**2,686**||||||||**4,284**|
||**4,005**||||||||**2,686**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**Categories B1 Cash funds**
**Details** Cash Funds held in Bank
_**Total cash funds**_
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**4,005**
**-**
**-**
**4,005**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|
|**4,005**|**-**||
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**4,005**|**-**|**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/07/2022
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behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
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**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
**Details**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
_L.Kayoka_
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OK
**Unrestricted**
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LakeishaKayoka|OK|
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||_L.Kayoka_|LakeishaKayoka|10/07/2022|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/07/2022
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