Report of the Trustees and Unaudited Financial Statements For the year ended 31[st] December 2021 Street Children Relief Centre Registered Charity Number: 1178674 ## **Report of the Trustees of the Street Children Relief Centre For the Year ended 31[st] December 2021** ## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS** Registered Charity Number: 1178674 Address: 6 Tudor Close Stevenage SG1 4DB TRUSTEES Ms Thiti Kasenda Ms Anekombe Osakanu Ms Olga Osakanu (Secretary) Mr Claude Muya (Acting Chair) ## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT** The charity is controlled by its governing document, the Constitution dated July 2017. ## _**Trustees**_ Current trustees have been drawn from GBS Ministries and all serve in a voluntary capacity. ## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES** ## _**Objectives and aims**_ The primary object of the charity is “The relief of street children and young people in poor countries and the UK, who are in need and socially or economic disadvantaged, including but not limited to homelessness, lack of education, ill-health, starvation, child abuse and poor parenting.” ## _**Significant activities**_ We have not been able to carry out activities fully both in the UK and abroad. In the UK our Charity shop has been the only activity we have had running. Activities in the DR Congo have been halted due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and the lack of resources. ## Charity Shop Our Charity Shop in Stevenage was hit hard by COVID-19 as it was closed most of the time. We occasionally opened the shop when lockdown restrictions were relaxed by the UK government. Grants from the local authority allowed us to pay the rent; utility bills were covered by the GBS Ministries church. We sadly closed down our charity shop in December 2021 further to the decision taken by the landlord to double the rent. Acting in the best interests of the charity, the board of trustees judged that keeping the shop was not sustainable while paying the new rent. Until then, the charity shop continued playing its social role within the Stevenage community; it has been a lifeline to many people who cannot afford expensive goods. People from the community have carried on responding well by bringing donations to the shop and by helping as volunteers. ## **Activities in DR Congo** All activities in DR Congo were suspended and all scheduled travel was cancelled due to COVID-19. ## **FINANCIAL REVIEW** The accounts are presented within this report; they have not been audited. Much of the income has been generated by grants received from the local authority, from shop income and donations from church members. Given the lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there is limited expenditure in the current year and the accounts have not been audited. On behalf of the Trustees Claude Muya Acting Chair of Trustees October 2022 **Income** Year 2021 in £ Grant 18,207.00 Donations 1,998.00 Shop income 763.35 Gross Income **20,968.35 Less Expenses 11,430.47** Rent 11,221.97 Services 208.50 Funds carried forward **£9,537.88**