## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] July 2024 Period start date To 30[th] June 2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: PEBBLES - UGANDA**
## **Charity registration number: 1179611**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**For the public benefit in Uganda. The**
**advancement of education, the promotion**
**of good health and relief of poverty**
**among young adults.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**We provide grants for the following:**
**small number for school fees; supplying**
**food for a feeding programme located in**
**the Wabigalo slum of Kampala;**
**maintenance and upgrading of water**
**purifying system in the school; upgrade**
**of kitchen; back to work scheme.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have reviewed the guidance**|
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**A small number of families of children**
**whom we have agreed to sponsor apply**
**for a grant to cover school fees, exam**
**registration and in some cases scholastic**
**materials.**
**Choice Baptist Nursery and Primary**
**school apply for grants to cover the cost**
**of buying food and running a kitchen.**
**Upgrading the kitchen and repairing the**
**roof.**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Choice Baptist Church applied for a**
**micro finance grant to help families start**
**and maintain small businesses.**
**Up to date 40 families have been helped.**|
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Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers **None** Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**We continued to support one family with**
**a contribution to school fees.**
**We continued to supply finance for**
**purchase of food for a Feeding**
**Programme which provides school meals**
**for around 260 children who live in the**
**slum.**
**We have helped at least 40 families start**
**up small businesses to help become**
**more self-sustainable.**
**We made a contribution to rebuilding the**
**church and school when storms**
**damaged the roof.**|
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**School children in the slum receive basic**
**food which enables them to concentrate**
**in their lessons.**
**Some families of children have started**
**businesses.**
**Families now understand the need for**
**clean water.**|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Monies raised go to meet the objectives**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**Not applicable**|
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## **Financial Review**
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Cash funds at the end of the year are**
**lower than at the start.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We have always tried to keep three**
**months funds in hand but due to lower**
**income and increased costs this has not**
**been possible.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**855**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The number of children attending school**
**and thus receiving food has increased to**
**260, while our donor base has shrunk**|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Regular individual donations.**
**Occasional donations.**
**Regular but diminishing support from**
**Dorchester Baptist Church.**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risk has been from a**
**reduction in support from Dorchester**
**Baptist Church and from many of our**
**supporters who have less money to**
**donate.**|
|Other||**N/A**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO foundation registered 20th August**
**2018**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**A charitable organisation whose only**
**voting members are it’s charity trustees.**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees with appropriate experience**
**appointed by invitation of the existing**
**trustees.**|
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**The day-to-day decisions are delegated**
**to the Chairman. Major decisions are**
**subject to the will of the trustees.**|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Pebbles-Uganda|
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|Other name the charity uses|Pebbles|
|Registered charity number|1179611|
|Charity’s principal address|11 Victor Jackson Avenue
Poundbury
DORCHESTER
Dorset
DT1 3GY|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Christopher Leach|Chairman|2018 topresent day||
||Caroline Couzens|Trustee (Gift-aid
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||Martin Lunnemann|Trustee|August 2022 to present
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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 held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Christopher Charles Leach||
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Chairman||
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**PEBBLES UGANDA**
**CC16a**
**No (if any)**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1st July 2024 30th June 2025
## **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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July- Sept 24|**2,390**||**-**||**-**||**2,390**||**3,198**|
|Oct - Dec 24|**1,626**||**-**||**-**||**1,626**||**3,154**|
|Jan - Mar 25|**3,836**||**-**||**-**||**3,836**||**3,019**|
|Apr- June 25|**1,576**||**-**||**-**||**1,576**||**2,486**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**9,428**||**-**||**-**||**9,428**||**11,857**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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July-Sept 24|**2,222**||**-**||**-**||**2,222**||**3,002**|
|Oct-Dec 24|**3,450**||**-**||**-**||**3,450**||**2,280**|
|Jan-Mar25|**1,902**||**-**||**-**||**1,902**||**3,185**|
|Apr-Jun 25|**2,709**||**-**||**-**||**2,709**||**2,450**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**10,283**||**-**||**-**||**10,283**||**10,917**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_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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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|1
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**855**
**-**
**-**
**855**
Agreement Error|15/04/2026
**Restricted funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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OK|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
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