## **Trustees Annual Report 2024 for Hours of Human Happiness (3H)** ## **Charity Registration No 1179986** ## **Objectives and Activities** The objects of the Hours of Human Happiness (3H) are the prevention or relief of poverty in Eastern Uganda by providing grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty. To achieve these aims the charity works within the Charity Commissions guidance on public benefit and its own Grant Making Policy and Procedure following an annual Action Plan which sets the priorities for that year. Our priorities for 2024 were: 1. To maintain and increase the number of sponsors supporting children at Bunyanga Bright School in Namayili and Jackie School in Kyemula 2. To maintain and increase the number of sponsors supporting scholarship students at Livingstone International University, Mbale, 3. To trial and develop provision of a health clinic including basic health and hygiene education in Kyemula – this would incorporate the existing provision of menstrual cups and sexual health education. 4. To start a Holiday Lunch Club at Jackie School in every school holiday to support the most vulnerable children 5. To respond to expressed needs from the community – this year we were asked to help start a beekeeping business in the community and to provide new blankets for the children in Kyemula. **The Year in Brief –** More details of the projects and work done are available on our website: htps://www.3huganda.org/news |**The Year in Brief –**More details of the projects and work done are available on our website:
htps://www.3huganda.org/news|**The Year in Brief –**More details of the projects and work done are available on our website:
htps://www.3huganda.org/news| |---|---| ||| |January|The sad death of a former Jackie school pupil initated the setng up of a holiday
lunch club to ensure that vulnerablepupils had more support duringthe holidays.| |February|50 new pupils registered at Jackie School in Kyemula but the school roll dropped
further at Bunyanga Bright Primary in Namayili. Food and learning materials were
delivered to both schools funded by3H| |March|Bunyanga Bright Primary discontnued P5 class as numbers were so low.
Pilot Health Clinic held in Kyemula – the prescribing nurse was overwhelmed by
numbers,seeing250people in one day.| |April|There are 27 children in P7 at Jackie School, the biggest cohort yet to take Primary
Leaving Exams. The frst Holiday Lunch Club was very successful providing food, the
opportunitytoplayand for older children to volunteer in the community.| |May|Sadly, the Fall Army Worm returned consuming newly planted beans and maize,
prompt community acton to purchase and spray with pestcide – using the spray
pumps previously provided by 3H - enabled replantng. Maize was growing well by the
end of the month.| |June|The Health Clinic treated numerous cases of ringworm, scabies and intestnal worms
as well as some children afected by the natonal epidemic of ‘red-eye’
(conjunctvits). Soap, moisturising creams and soap powder to wash school uniforms
were distributed to allpupils at Jackie School.| |July|Local subsistence farmers were able to sell 1,500kg of excess maize to Jackie School,
putng£750 cash into the largelycashless economy. Ourprevious inpout into the| ||farming project has enabled this ‘virtuous circle’| |---|---| |August|Trustees Chris Bird and Terri Jones joined local trustee Diana Muturi on a monitoring
visit to inspect and evaluate all 3Hprojects.| |September|The Board received feedback from the monitoring visit made the difcult decision to
cease support to Bunyanga Bright Primary at the end of the year because of falling
roll and lack of community engagement – teachers and sponsors informed.
Grant received from Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club towards major expense of buying
blankets for our Christmas Appeal.| |October|Agreement to formalise arrangements for termly Health Clinic to include full record
keeping, monitoring the children’s development and ofering lectures for parents on
aspects of health and hygiene. Prescribing nurse impressed by reducton of skin
problems aferprevious clinic.| |November|
The Christmas Appeal was very successful with enough donatons from our supportve
sponsors and donors to buy 525 blankets and fund a special community meal in
Kyemula.| |December|The lunch club will support the most vulnerable children untl school begins again in
February.| ## **Achievements** 1. We have increased our sponsors from 88 to 97 during the year despite having to share the news that we would cease our work in Namayili – good communication ensured sponsors fully understood the rationale. 2. We have maintained the number of student sponsors and obtained 3 further free tuition-only sponsorships from Livingstone International University. We currently have 5 sponsored students. 3. The format of the health clinic and the support available to the community has been refined and developed. We are now committed to this on a continuing basis. 4. The tri-weekly lunch club in school holidays has been successful – and the format also hit a nerve with our donors – we have received generous donations from a variety of people and small organisations to cover the costs. 5. Our policy has always been to listen and respond to the community – we have been pleased to help initiate a bee-keeping programme. People in Kyemula mostly do not have beds or mattresses, sleeping on the ground wrapped in a blanket so we were happy to replace the ones we bought 3 years ago. Queuing to see the prescribing nurse Working together to spray the maize **Finances** The charity is funded entirely by donations. As well as the regular monthly or annual sponsorship payments we also receive additional, generous donations as a result of issues raised via the newsletter and on the 3H Facebook page. Two of our donors with links to the Rotary Foundation have been able to provide grants from both Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club and Henllys Rotary Club. Some donations are direct via bank transfer to our bank account and others via a ‘Give As You Live’ account – where possible Giftaid is claimed. The income received is forwarded to the beneficiaries who are required to acknowledge that it has been received, then provide receipts and photographs to demonstrate that it was spent as agreed. As a grant-making trust 3H has minimal running expenses, such as there are funded by the trustees: no reserves are held and the income is spent entirely for the benefit of the beneficiaries. ## **Governance** We were pleased to have Prtetiksha Davies join the Board in October and look forward to benefiting from her fundraising and marketing skills. We have continued to hold Board Meetings via video-call – the only practical option with trustees based in England, Scotland, Wales and Uganda. In addition, we communicate frequently via email, WhatsApp and phone. No new policies were approved this year – the annual review of existing policies took place in Spring 2024. The trustees declare they have approved this report at the AGM on 1.2.25 Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees ## Karen Whitaker Chair of Trustees Beehives being delivered Playing at the holiday lunch club Distributing 525 blankets at Jackie School ||halifax|starling|| |---|---|---|---| |Income|||| |sponsors|2852|10256|13108| |students||5576|5576| |gif aid||3898.26|3898.26| |Blanket Appeal|150|3594|3744| |Holiday Club||980|980| |General||10797.72|10797.72| |interest|9.14||9.14| |income|3011.14|35101.98|38113.12| |expenditure|||| |Kyemula School||12298.53|| |Students||9596.52|| |Blankets||3622.28|| |Holiday Club||958.22|| |kyemula farming||1036.33|| |Christmas||805.35|| |Kyemula Health||2017.1|| |Namahili School||3545.01|| |Regifed Expenses||4116.81|| |Misc||829.35|| |expenditure||38825.5|38825.5| |net|3011.14|-3723.52|-712.38| |opening balance|993.03|6183.54|| |year movement|3011.14|-3723.52|| |transfer between accounts|-2950|2950|| |Closing Balance|1054.17|5410.02|| 8kOZ I ¥31 d!48Jopeoi y.pny IEWalUI U! uoiirJw.ienD joy.pny ieujaiui paw.yaa sJo¥.pny IBWeWI P owyFuI pajayeug aLll Jo jaqwe￿ peJeye4? 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