## **Charity Registration Number 1180130** ## **ACTS OF HOPE** **ANNUAL REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS** **FOR THE PERIOD ENDING 5TH APRIL 2025** ## **Acts of Hope CIO Annual Report of the Trustees for the year ending 5th April 2025** The Trustees of the Acts of Hope Charity present their annual report for the period from 6 th April 2024 to 5th April 2025, which has been prepared in accordance with the accounting and reporting statements of recommended practice issued by the Charity Commission. Acts of Hope is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation [CIO] under Charity no. 1180130. Trustees During the period the following individuals have served as Trustees: Rob Hayter - Treasurer Sonya Timms - Chair of Trustees ## **Public Benefit** The Trustees confirm that the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit has been considered in relation to the objectives of the Charity. The report below sets out those objectives and describes how they have been met in the period covered by this report. ## **CIO Objects** The charitable objectives, as set out in the CIO's Constitution, are: 1. For the public benefit, the advancement of education and the relief of poverty in such parts of the world as the trustees shall from time to time determine. 2. And in particular but not exclusively by providing grants of financial assistance and operational support to support the charitable work of the Acts of Hope School in Kasavanahalli, Bangalore, India. ## **Aims** In order to achieve these objectives the Trustees agreed the following aims during the period under review - To continue to provide financial support to Acts of Hope School - To maintain and steward monthly donors for the Charity Activities during the period of this report Due to the lack of employed staff there has been no active fundraising in the UK during the year although some funds continue to be received through long-standing monthly donation arrangements with existing donors. Acts of Hope School in Kasavanahalli continues to perrform well. In response to requests from the School for support, the UK Charity transferred funding of £25,000 during the year to cover the purchase of a new school bus. Organisational Structure The Trustees acting as the Board meet regularly and are responsible for: - Ensuring compliance with the charity's Constitution and the law - Developing and agreeing strategy - Setting and overseeing policies - Maintaining fiscal oversight Investment of funds - Fundraising - Ensuring openness and accountability - Diversity The charity had no employed staff during the period under review; however, one of the Trustees acted as Treasurer on a voluntary basis. ## **Financial Review** Acts of Hope receives income and support from the following sources; private individuals and churches. During the period under review, no fundraising activities were carried out in the UK. The charity received donations totalling £4,153 comprised of existing standing orders and direct debits from donors, plus a small number of single donations, and bank interest. Expenses were kept at a minimum, resulting in payments of £271 relating to insurance, international transfer fees and bank charges. Trustees were pleased to send funds totalling £25,000 to the Acts of Hope school in Kasavanahalli to help purchase books and uniforms; a new school bus; and to support secondary and tertiary education. The performance of the Charity was adequate to enable the Charity to meet its aims and objectives to provide financial assistance and operational support to support the charitable work of the Acts of Hope School in Kasavanahalli, Bangalore, India. **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** **CC16a** **For the period** 4/6/2024 4/5/2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**3,975**
Investments
**178**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,153**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 4,153**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**3,975**
**178**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,153**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,153**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**4,641**| |||||**556**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**5,197**| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**4,153**|**5,197**| |**A3 Payments**
Raisingfunds
**271**
Donation to India Schoolproject
**-**
**-**
**-**|**A3 Payments**
Raisingfunds
**271**
Donation to India Schoolproject
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**25,000**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**271**
**25,000**
**-**
**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Raisingfunds|**271**|**-**|**-**|**271**|**274**| |Donation to India Schoolproject|**-**|**25,000**|**-**|**25,000**|**7,556**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| 02/02/2026 1 ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**271**||**25,000**||**-**||**25,271**||**7,830**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**271**||||**25,000**|||||**-**||||**25,271**||||**7,830**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**3,882**||||**- 25,000**||||**-**|||||**- 21,118**||||**- 2,633**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**5,597**||||**27,960**||||**-**|||||**33,557**||||**33,557**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**9,479**||||**2,960**||||**-**|||||**12,439**||||**30,924**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**unds**|**Details**
Cash at bank
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**9,479**
**-**
**-**
**9,479**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**2,960**
**-**
**-**
**2,960**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**| **B1 Cash funds** 02/02/2026 2 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**Details**
**Details**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| 02/02/2026 3 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |**Details**
Signature|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||Date of
approval| |||| |||| 02/02/2026 4