## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] July 2021 Period start date To 30th June 2022 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Pebbles - Uganda**
## **Charity registration number:1179611**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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SORP reference
Summary of the purposes Para 1.17 For the public benefit in Uganda.
of the charity as set out The advancement of education.
in its governing The promotion of good health and
document relief of poverty among young
adults.
Summary of the main Para 1.17 and We provide grants for school fees,
1.19
activities in relation to supplying food for a feeding
those purposes for the programme located in the
public benefit, in Wabigalo slum of Kampala,
particular, the activities, maintenance and upgrading of
projects or services water purifying system in the
identified in the school. Providing grants for a back
accounts. to work scheme during the
pandemic
Statement confirming Para 1.18 The trustees have reviewed the
whether the trustees guidance.
have had regard to the
guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on
public benefit
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SORP reference
Families of children who we have
Para 1.38 agreed to sponsor, apply for a
Policy on grant making grant to cover school fees, exam
registration and in some cases
scholastic materials.
Choice Baptist Nursery and
Primary School apply for monthly
grants to cover the cost of buying
food and running a kitchen.
During the pandemic, Choice
Baptist Church applied for a micro
finance grant to help families start
and maintain small businesses
which continued into this financial
year.
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None
Para 1.38
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
Providing donations.
Para 1.38
Contribution made by
volunteers
Other
Achievements and Performance
SORP reference
During the year the charity has
continued to provide financial
support for the feeding
Summary of the main programme of Choice Baptist
Para 1.20
achievements of the Nursery and Primary school which
charity, identifying the has fed 100 children each day they
difference the charity’s attend school. This has improved
work has made to the their overall health and
circumstances of its performance in school and
beneficiaries and any relieved financial pressures on
wider benefits to society families.
as a whole. It has also provided finance for
maintaining the kitchen and
payment to staff for running the
programme.
The church also applied for a grant
to help families start small
businesses after the pandemic.
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The provision of grants enabled 40
families to continue to develop
Achievements against Para 1.41 small businesses.
objectives set
No additional fundraising activities
were undertaken.
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
None
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Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review**
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Review of the charity’s Para 1.21 At the end of this financial year
financial position at the the amount we had in reserve was
end of the period far less than the previous year.
Statement explaining the Para 1.22 We have always tried to hold three
policy for holding months in reserve, but this year it
reserves stating why they has not been possible.
are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 At the end of this financial year we
had a balance of £262.
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 For the four quarters of this year
reserves expenditure has exceeded income.
Details of fund materially Para 1.24
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23 During the pandemic, a significant
uncertainties about the contribution to our income ceased
charity continuing as a and has never been replaced. We
going concern have been fortunate to rely on the
surplus from the previous year to
maintain our commitment.
The situation for the coming year
is challenging. Unless we can
increase our income, the school
will have to curtail it’s activities or
find ways to make the feeding
programme more sustainable.
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Donations for school fees are
provided by individual sponsors.
The charity’s principal Funds supporting the feeding
sources of funds Para 1.47 programme come from regular
(including any donations by individuals and a
fundraising) significant monthly sum from
Dorchester Baptist church.
In addition, we receive occasional
donations.
Donations for the Back to Work
Scheme came from one particular
individual.
None
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
There are 3 main risks:
Inflation in Uganda which was
A description of the Para 1.46 running at 30% and severely
principal risks facing the affected the buying power of
charity monies sent;
The success of the programme
which increased the demand for
school places and thus mouths to
be fed;
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**The effects of the recession in the UK which impacts the amount our donors are able to give.** Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
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Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 CIO foundation registered 20 [th]
document August 2018
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 A charitable organisation whose
constituted? only voting members are it’s
(e.g unincorporated charity trustees.
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25 Trustees with appropriate
methods including details experience are appointed by
of any constitutional existing trustees.
provisions e.g. election to
post or name of any
person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees
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Day to day decisions are delegated
to the chairman and reviewed at
Policies and procedures quarterly meetings. Major
adopted for the induction Para 1.51 decisions are subject to the will of
and training of trustees the trustees.
N/A
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
None
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
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Charity name Pebbles -Uganda
Other name the charity
uses
Registered charity 1179611
number
Charity’s principal 11 Victor Jackson Avenue
address DORCHESTER
Dorset
DT1 3GY
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
Christopher Chairperson and 2018 - present day
1
Leach Trustee
Alison Chorley Trustee 2018 – September
2
2022
Stuart Chorley Trustee 2018 – September
3
2022
Caroline Trustee September 2022 -
4
Couzens present day
Martin Trustee September 2022 –
5
Lunnemann present day
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements N/A for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Christopher Charles Leach **Position (eg** Chairman **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 20[th] April 2023
**Charity Name No (if any) Pebbles - Uganda** _**1179611**_ **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a**
**Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from 7/1/2021** 6/30/2022
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Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
July 2021- September 2021 1,359 - - 1,359 -
Ocotber 2021 - December 2021 1,554 - - 1,554 -
January 2022 - March 2022 1,349 - - 1,349 -
April 2022 - June 2022 1,400 - - 1,400 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) 5,662 - - 5,662 3,231
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total receipts 5,662 - - 5,662 3,231
A3 Payments
July 2021 - September 2021 2,278 - - 2,278 -
October 2021 - December 2021 2,190 - - 2,190 -
January 2022 - March 2022 2,145 - - 2,145 -
April 2022 - June 2022 2,018 - - 2,018 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total 8,631 - - 8,631 6,755
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total payments 8,631 - - 8,631 6,755
Net of receipts/(payments) - 2,969 - - - 2,969 - 3,524
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 3,231 - - 3,231 -
Cash funds this year end 262 - - 262 - 3,524
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|**B1**|**Cash funds**|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**262**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK|
||||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Endowment**|
||||**funds**|**funds**|**funds**|
|||**Details**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|
**Details**
|**B2 Other monetary assets**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**B3 Investment assets**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4 Assets retained for the**|**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**|**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**charity’s own use**|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**|**When due**|
|**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**|**liability relates**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**(optional)**|**(optional)**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name
Christopher Leach||20th April 2023
Date of
approval|