## **Accomplish Children’s Trust CIO**
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021**
## **Legal and Administrative Details**
Accomplish Children’s Trust (ACT) CIO was incorporated on 21 March 2019. This charity took over the work and net assets of Accomplish Children’s Trust which was originally established in 2008, charity registration number 1127235. This is the second accounting period for the charity since incorporation on the 21 March 2019 and covers the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
The first accounting period was from the date of incorporation to 30 June 2020. Thereafter the accounting period is 12 months to 30 June each year. In the initial accounting period the first transaction in ACT CIO was the transfer of balances on 30 June 2019 from the former ACT charity.
**Principal Office :** 2 Byron Court, Balderton, Newark, NG24 3PY
## **Registered Charity number :** 1182573
## **Trustees**
Dr Thomas Oliver Jackson Chair Rebecca Mary Cornish Dr Christopher Michael Harris Christopher John Acton Susan Elaine Baldock Jessica Frances Ella Acton Elizabeth Bulkeley Aimee Tokunbo Plumptre – started 17.4.21 Phoebe Beatrice Cooke – started 17.4.21
## **Governing Document**
The governing document is in the form of a constitution which sets out objects, what the charity can do, how it can spend its money, requirements of the trustees, how meetings must be managed, and other similar governance issues which are required of all charities. A copy of the full document is available on the Charity Commission web site or by contacting any of the trustees.
## **Charitable objects**
Accomplish Children’s Trust CIO is a UK based fund-raising body whose aim is to meet the needs of children and families suffering with disability in disadvantaged parts of Africa. It continues the work
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of the registered charity, Accomplish Children’s Trust which was established in 2008. It seeks to achieve this by following three objectives:
1) The advancement of education for children with disabilities and their families.
2) To enable medical relief and treatment for disabilities of all types affecting children and young people.
3) A Christian response and social outreach to children & young people with disabilities & their families in any part of Africa.
The modus operandi for Accomplish to fulfil these objectives is to partner with African organisations already working in the area of children’s disability and to provide funding grants to these bodies to support and extend their work.
## **Explanation of the work of the charity**
ACT supports projects for children with disabilities in regions of rural Africa, that promote the following:
- Education
- Medical needs
- Income generation
- Community outreach
This is done in several ways:
- UK-based fundraising
- Awarding grants
- Strategic collaborations and
- long-term African partnerships
Total income for the financial period has been £84,840. Grants totalling £84,514 have been distributed across a number of projects as detailed below.
- RAPCD (www.rapcd.org/) primary and secondary school, Uganda - £44,694
- This money has been used to employ nine primary school teachers, eight secondary school teachers (including one for Braille and one for computer studies), an office worker, and support for school meals. Some £6,500 was given for building a basic 3 classroom block for the primary school and £1,500 for flood relief. Some support was also given for emergency food aid for families of disabled students who were unable to attend school due to the local lockdowns.
- RSNF (www.facebook.com/rwenzorispecialneedsfoundation.org/) skills training and income generation, Uganda - £13,947. Some support was also given for emergency
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food aid for families of disabled students who were unable to attend school due to the local lockdowns.
This money has been used to run a vocational training centre and pays for two tutors, two social workers, the project manager and a security guard/gardener. Rent has also been paid for the building in which the centre is located. Additionally outreach work is funded as is start up funding pig and garden income generating projects, along with some help towards electricity, water and internet costs.
- KCDC (www.kcdc.org), physiotherapy, epilepsy clinics and other community outreach, Uganda - £13,778. Some support was also given for emergency food aid for families of disabled children who were unable to attend clinics due to the local lockdowns. This money is also used to pay for the medical staff who work for this project, personal protective equipment and epilepsy clinic travel expenses. Staff include two physiotherapists, a medical officer, an outreach worker, an occupational therapist and a driver for taking staff to epilepsy clinics.
- Friends of Kagando Hospital (https://friendsofkagando.co.uk/), Epilepsy medication, Uganda - £5,280. This budget has nearly doubled from the previous year due to increased medication costs and increasing numbers of children receiving treatment.
- Proreso School, Food support, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - £810 for food support and sponsorship for school fees.
- Heart of Mercy, Community outreach and training, Malawi - £6,004. This money is used for funding the salaries of two outreach workers and for monthly meetings of the parents of those looking after children with disabilities. It also supports two project support workers and miscellaneous items such as mobile phone costs and PPE items to protect parents and staff against Covid, along with soap and sundry items such as matresses. Rotary York Ainsty (York) generously gave a grant of £1,000 towards this work.
COVID restrictions resulted in many being out of work and food insecurity in families became normal. In one of the regions we work UNICEF recorded the rate of malnutrition in children was 80%. Children who are malnourished not only suffer health problems and untimely death, but have difficulty in concentrating at school or being able to carry out their rehabilitation. There has been no government support during this difficult time and we have therefore worked with our Ugandan partners during both lockdowns to provide emergency food aid.
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Further details about the work of all these projects is given in our twice yearly newsletter and regular prayer letters.
It is very difficult for us to give accurate figures of the number of children attending school, receiving therapy, or epilepsy treatment this year. Due to COVID schools were shut for significant portions of the year. This has also meant the 27 vocational students have had to take 2 years to complete their 1-year course and will receive their vocational tools next year instead. Travel was restricted, so patients were unable to attend their rehabilitation sessions for periods of the year, and community rehabilitation and epilepsy clinics were also stopped for significant periods. Staff from the epilepsy clinics gave children extra supplies of medication and left others at local health centres when clinics were unable to run due to lockdowns. Families were provided with emergency food supplies and educational material to encourage families to continue with rehabilitation during these periods.
Full details about the work of the charity can be found at www.accomplishtrust.org.uk/
## **Organisation and sources of support**
The charity is led and managed by nine trustees who meet at least four times annually to approve grants, set policy, and to administer governance. All administration has been carried out by the trustees including making funding applications, liaising with projects in Africa, and fundraising.
ACT has continued to provide grants to grass roots organisations in Africa that improve the lives of children with disabilities. The projects supported by ACT provide medical care and social empowerment to these children by educating both them and their communities.
ACT recognises the need for full accountability for all grants sent to our partner organisations and this is fully supported by those in receipt of these grants. We maintain strong working relationships with all our partners through regular email, Zoom calls and written communications.
We have a volunteer network which is led by Susan Baldock (Trustee). We have received great help from Dr Clare Steele-King with linking with schools who support our fundraising work, Nigel Pells who does our gift aid claims, Stephanie Cole who helps with our accounts, Angela Dorey who coordinates the thank you letters we send to donors in the UK, and Helen Dobson who is the Independent Examiner of our accounts. Volunteer Emma Wallis has also done a great deal of work for Accomplish with the website, Facebook and newsletter. There are also many others who donate and raise funds including several churches including St Olave’s, St Edward’s and Heworth Christ Church in York. Our volunteers remain a key part of our organisation and we thank them for their continued support.
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## **Policies**
The trustees have considered the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit and confirm that all activities of the charity comply with this guidance.
The reserves policy is to hold adequate funds in a savings account that can be used in a situation where the charity is unable to raise adequate funding to committed projects and so it becomes necessary to inform them that funding will stop. The reserves can then be used to help the project reduce it’s reliance on ACT, or close services, in a managed way, over a period of at least 6 months. The savings account currently holds £25,605.
No other assets are held for other charities.
We use the following criteria for making grants:
- Grants will be awarded to African based charities or organisations
- Grants will be awarded to charities that share the objectives of Accomplish in addressing well-being, social, medical and educational needs of children with disability
- Grants will be awarded to charities or organisations that can demonstrate good governance and financial accountability
- Grants will be awarded within the constraints of the Accomplish fund availability
- Grants will be awarded to charities or organisations that can demonstrate appropriate child protection practices
- Grants may be awarded for capital expenditure, but in such cases demonstration of longer term sustainability of these awards will be requested
- Grants will not be awarded to organisations that are opposed to the Christian ethos of the Accomplish charity
- Grants will not be awarded to organisations which themselves mainly distribute grants to other organisations.
- Accomplish will recognise that the term ‘child’ in Africa can refer to anybody up the age of 25
## **Trustees approval and signature**
This report has been approved by the trustees at their meeting on 6 December 2021.
**Tom Jackson Christopher Acton Chair Treasurer**
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**1182573**
**Accomplish Children's Trust CIO**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**For the period** 1/07/2020 **To** 30/06/2021 **from**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**2021**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**2020**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Accomplish Children's Trust||||**-**|39,708|
|Donations|76,195|7,449||**83,644**|82,671|
|Donations for child sponsorship||||**-**|462|
|Refund of event fees|1,080|||**1,080**|-|
|Refund of bank charges|66|||**66**|-|
|||||**-**|-|
|||||**-**|-|
|||||**-**|-|
|Sale of crafts||||**-**|62|
|Interest|50|||**50**|203|
|**_Sub total_**|77,391|7,449||**84,840**|**123,106**|
|**Asset and investment sales, etc.**
**_Total receipts_**
**Payments**||||||
||**-**|**-**||**-**||
||**77,391**|||||
|||**7,449**||**84,840**|**123,106**|
|||||||
|Grants to RAPCD|35,929|8,765||**44,694**|33,297|
||-|-||**-**|-|
|Grant to RSNF|12,802|1,146||**13,947**|19,606|
|Grant to KCDC|13,778|-||**13,778**|11,979|
|Grant to DRC Nyankunde|399|411||**810**|2,680|
|FOK (epilepsy medication)|2,866|2,414||**5,280**|2,860|
|Heart of Mercy|4,379|1,625||**6,004**|4,022|
|||||**-**|-|
|Bank charges (UK)|-|-||**-**|220|
|Bank charges (Uganda)|54|-||**54**|95|
|Fundraising events|668|-||**668**|1,305|
|Charitable costs||||**-**|65|
|||||**-**|-|
|||||**-**|-|
|||||**-**|-|
|Other||||**-**|525|
|**_Sub total_**|**70,875**|**14,361**||**85,236**|76,654|
|**Asset and investment**
**purchases, etc.**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**Transfers between funds**
**Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**-**|**-**|
||**70,875**|**14,361**||**85,236**|**76,654**|
|||||||
||**6,516**|**(6,912)**||**(396)**|**46,452**|
||**-**
**37,878**|||**-**
**46,452**|**-**
**-**|
||**44,394**|**1,662**||**46,056**|**46,452**|
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Unrestricted Restricted Total funds
funds funds
30/6/21 30/6/21 30/6/21
to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £
Cash funds Business account 10,390 - 10,390
Community account 8,399 1,662 10,061
Virginmoney savings account 25,605 - 25,605
Total cash funds 44,394 1,662 46,056
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s)) OK OK OK
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name app Date of roval
Thomas Jackson
Chris Acton
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## **Independent examiner’s report to the Trustees of Accomplish Children’s Trust CIO**
I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of Accomplish Children’s Trust CIO (the Trust) for the period 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity Trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Signed:
Name: Helen M Dobson ACA
Address: 129a The Mount York YO24 1DU
Date: 13 December 2021