## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1/04/2022 Period start date To Period end date**
## **31\03/2023**
## **Charity name:The Kora Trust**
## **Charity registration number:** 1181515
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The relief of poverty and advancement
of education of people living in
Kafountine and the surrounding areas
in the Casamance, Senegal through
support and funding for projects|
|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|Providing funding to organisations running
projects that meet the Charity’s criteria.
Occasional help in kind (eg tools,
equipment)|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|This is incorporated in the Charity’s
Constitution. All Trustees have signed a
document confirming that they understand
the requirements|
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SORP reference||
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|The Chair of the Trust lives part of the year
in Kafountine and the other Trustees are
regular visitors. The Trust is therefore well
integrated with the community in
Kafountine and aware of its needs and
aspirations. Trustees will consider support
for any project that (a) supports and is
consistent with the aims of the Trust and
(b) originates from and/or has significant
support within the local community. They
will also have regard to whether a project
has the potential to become self-supporting
and/or whether supporting it can unlock
other funding sources (e.g. other charities),
so as to maximise the effectiveness and|
|||sustainability of the help given. However
we recognise that the lack of resources
within Kafountine means that this cannot
always be guaranteed and will not be a
condition of funding. In practice the Trust
will have limited funds available to it and a
more complex and detailed application and
decision-making process is not considered
appropriate or proportionate at this time|
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|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|n/a|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The Charity has no paid staff. Most donor
activity is financial help, although
occasional donations in kind, or hands-on
help with a project also take place.|
|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|Since it was established in 2019 the Charity
has supported four projects.
**The Youssouph Kalagan Diatta Pre-**
**School**
With help from The Kora Trust, the school
has built up from just a handful of children
in 2010 to over 120 today. Resources are
scarce and one of the ways in which guests
of the Kora Workshop and supporters of
the Trust have been able to support the
school has been by donating simple
appropriate equipment and learning
resources.
The community-run pre-school prepares
children for entry into the local primary
school. Most children only speak a local
language at home and are taught first steps
in French, personal hygiene and social
skills. This enables them to focus
their energies more effectively on learning
when they enter primary school.
The Trust supports the salaries of two
teachers and helps build and maintain the
facilities at the school, including help to|
build a new classroom as well as accommodation for the teachers. **The Souda Coly Pottery** Souada Coly is a potter who sustains traditional pottery skills, a trade, unusually, led by women and who also provides a very necessary product. This oncethriving pottery needed investment to maintain its viability. The Trust is helping to build a new kiln for Souda, and a simple undercover showroom where Souada can display her work and run workshops. With the above improvements, Souada has been able to increase her output and regularly supply her functional earthenware pots to local markets, as well as create new work, which can sell to passing visitors. She was one of the last in a line of potters and her skills were in danger of being lost. Her daughters couldn’t see a future in the declining business but now with a revamped set up, two of her daughters have decided to learn the traditional skills that have sustained their family for many years. **Kalilu** Kalilu is a women’s cooperative, using a plaiting technique to recycle cuttings from local tailors to make a strong and colourful fabric which can thern be used to make bags, clothes, etc. The Trust financed the purchase of a heavy duty sewing machine, necessary to work with the thick material. **Nature Vert** This is a project, developed and managed by local woodworkers to guarantee supply of wood for future generations. They have joined forces with a local farmer to pilot a tree-planting project. They aim to persuade the Marie (the local Council) to allocate land to this project but need to demonstrate its viability for this to happen. At present the pilot is being run on a beautifully tended market garden, growing a wide variety of fruit and vegetables, just outside Kafountine.
The trees are _Acacia mangium_ , Australian black wattle, a non-native but naturalised species not considered invasive. They are unusually fast growing for a hardwood, growing to a usable size in five years. They also have the huge advantage of being termite resistant. Our funding initially was to buy 700 reusable sachets in which seeds (which are collected from around existing trees) were planted. In addition, through the work of one supporter in particular the Trust has supplied woodwork and shoemaking tools to local tradespeople With the help of residents in his home village of Bamford in Derbyshire, Philip Taylor collected together around 25kg of woodwork and shoemaking tools which have now been distributed around Kafountine. These tools are helping families to become more self sufficient and increase productivity and prosperity.
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|We essentially respond to local needs as
our limited resources allow. We do not
believe that a target-driven performance
culture is appropriate for this organisation|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|On 31/3/22 the charity’s bank balance
stood at £2250.01. Income during the year
was £2754 and expenditure £4027.
Expenditure exceeded income largely
because an accumulated balance and the
promise of a large donation enabled us to
fund significant building works in the pre-
school. Our income from Standing Orders
was £1075, which represents a stable base
for our expenditure. Our one ongoing
commitment is to the salaries at the pre-
school, which amounted to £2979. Our
balance would cover 9 months salaries,
without any income, plus, in accordance
with Senegalese requirements, we have
lodged a sum equivalent to three months’
salaries in an account linked to the school.
We therefore view the charity’s financial
position as stable, with additional projects
dependent on future income. Such
projects, of course also offer opportunities
for additional fund raising.|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We do not hold separate reserves.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|The financial size of the Charity and the
fact that it has no fixed costs (buildings
employees etc) does not warrant holding
reserves, over and above a prudent
positive bank balance.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|None with current levels of support and
expenditure|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Donations, primarily from people who have
visited Kafountine, through standing orders.
Occasional one-off fund-rasising events|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|n/a|
|A description of the principal|Para 1.46|Low risk of disruption caused by political
upheaval in Senegal. Low because (a)
historical stability of Senegal (b) Kafountine|
|risks facing the charity||is in a quiet rural area.|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Trust Deed**|
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO whose only voting members are its**
**Trustees**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|(a) Every charity trustee must be a
natural person.
(b) No individual may be appointed as
a charity trustee of the CIO:
•if he or
sheisundertheageof16years;or
•if he or she would automatically
cease to hold ofce under the
provisions of clause [12(1)(e)]. Of
thde Constitution
(c) No one is entitled to act as a
charity trustee whether on
appointment or on any re-
appointment until he or she has
expressly acknowledged, in whatever
way the charity trustees decide, his or
her acceptance of the ofce of charity
trustee.
(d) Apart from the frst charity
trustees, every trustee must be
appointed [for a term of [three]
years] by a resolution passed at a
properly convened meeting of the
charity trustees.
(e) In selecting individuals for
appointment as charity trustees, the
charity trustees must have regard to
the skills, knowledge and experience
needed for the efective
administration of the 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|Trustees able to appoint further Trustees|
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We regard it as essential that any Trustee
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|should have visited and be familiar with the
community of Kafountine|
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|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||
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## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|The Kora Trust|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1181515|
|Charity’s principal address|12 Grosvenor Road, London, N10 2DS, UK|
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||Katherine Pickering|Chair|||
||Nigel Hamilton|Treasurer|||
||Jack Hamilton||||
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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 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
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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)** Nigel Hamilton
**Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)**
**Date**
23/6/24
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