## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Strengthening Communities Period start date 01/04/2023 To Period end date 31/03/204** ## **Charity name: Strengthening Communities** ## **Charity registration number: 1181410** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The purpose of the charity is to reduce**
**childhood poverty in education for girls.**
**The**
**other purpose is to provide clean water**
**supply.**| |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|**The activities of the charity are n three**
**folds.**
**One is to support the girl child in**
**education.**
**The second is to provide clean water**
**through solar powered borehole and the**
**last**
**activity is to provide health promotion in**
**way**
**of health talks around infection control**
**or**
**basic life support in communities.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees understand that the**
**activities**
**the charity is performing is for the**
**benefit of**
**the public.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **YES** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **Yes** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **Supporting families and communities in Lagos in Nigeria** Contribution made by Para 1.38 volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**The charity has collaborated with Reach**
**out for charity foundation and Street**
**kids Africa to share Back to School**
**resources.**
**Some of the resources has been to**
**school bags, books, a computer to a**
**school and some books to create a**
**Library.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**School resources**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**none**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**none**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Nothing to review as an account that**
**was**
**opened was later closed by the Bank.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No reserves**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**none**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No funds raised from the public. All**
**activities**
**done have been done from the trustee’s**
**personal funds.**| |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 major concerns is the ability to**
**raise funds for charitable endeavours.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Personal funds from the Trustees has**
**been**
**the only sources of funds for the**
**charity.**| |---|---|---| |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|**None to note**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**No new election was done**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Strengthening Communities| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Reach out for Charity Foundation Nigeria| |Registered charity number|1181410| |Charity’s principal address|15 Avoncroft Road Bromsgrove B60 4NG| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Nwajiuba Ekeoma|15 Avoncroft Road
B60 4NG|All year round|Nwajiuba Ekeoma| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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)** Nwajiuba E. **Full name(s)** Nwajiuba Ekeoma **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)** **Date** 2025-02-12 **Your annual return for 01/04/2022 - 31/03/2023** |Period
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annual
report|Accounts| |---|---|---| ||None to
present|None to
present| |||| The charity account was closed due to inactivity. The charity does not have an account it is operating with. All activities that are being done, are done from personal; funds of the Trustees. There has not been any income to report on by the trustees.