## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] June 2023 to 31[st] May 2024** **Charity name: The Father’s Children Ministries (TFCM)** **Charity registration number: 1184344** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The prevention and relief of poverty in**
**Uganda by providing or assisting in the**
**education, training, health care and**
**shelter to support disadvantaged famil-**
**ies and individuals.**| |Summary of the main activit-
ies in relation to those pur-
poses for the public benefit,
in particular, the activities,
projects or services identi-
fied in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Schooling for children by finding spon-**
**sors. Supporting relevant building work/**
**projects. Supporting guardians and vul-**
**nerable senior community members.**
**Vocational training for young unem-**
**ployed adults. Food distribution to vul-**
**nerable individuals and families.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity Com-
mission on public benefit|Para 1.18|**TFCM can confirm that our trustees**
**have had regard to the guidance issued**
**by the Charity Commission on public**
**benefit. TFCM benefits school age chil-**
**dren, guardians in need of practical**
**support and training, elderly members**
**of the community either living alone or**
**caring for grandchildren who have no**
**means of income. Also we provide for**
**young unemployed adults needing train-**
**ing in vocational skills.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by 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 be-
neficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During the year under review the char-**
**ity’s main achievements were:**
**We have been able to continue support-**
**ing the small increase in teachers salar-**
**ies to ensure the children have the best**
**educational provision.**
**One off donations during the year has**
**supplemented our usual income. To en-**
**able us to provide the following:**
**A new printer and stationary for the**
**school.**
**21 new mattresses for the children’s**
**house.**
**We have also funded an improvement in**
**the boys compound and accommoda-**
**tion by replacing the windows to protect**
**the children from mosquitos.**
**We have also increased the height of the**
**security wall, protecting the safety of**
**the children in our care.**
**In light of new operating guidelines in**
**Kalagi we funded the installation of a**
**new CCTV network at The Fathers Chil-**
**dren School.**
**In July 2023, we helped financially sup-**
**port The Fathers Children School sports**
**day. This is a large community event**
**and enables feeding for extended famil-**
**ies and guardians.**
**In January we were awarded a grant**
**from The Souter Trust to purchase 5**
**new computers to allow the school to**
**expand their computer studies.**| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against obPara 1.41 jectives set Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set ||Investment performance
against objectives
Para 1.41
Other| |---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s fin-
ancial position at the end of
the period|Para 1.21|**TFCM has again had a stable regular in-**
**come in this reporting year. Compared**
**to the previous reporting year, our fin-**
**ancial position remains relatively un-**
**changed. This is thanks to the contin-**
**ued support of both our new and exist-**
**ing UK sponsors and local churches.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We have been able to maintain monies**
**equivalent to approximately 3 months of**
**operational cost required in Uganda.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Six thousand pounds**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**TFCM does not have any funds materi-**
**ally in deficit.**| |Explanation of any uncer-
tainties about the charity
continuing as a going con-
cern|Para 1.23|**Economic uncertainty as a result of the**
**general cost of living crisis has given us**
**additional challenges, but thanks to our**
**sponsors support, we have been able to**
**navigate through this, ensuring the chil-**
**dren, their teachers and any extended**
**families we support have been suppor-**
**ted well by TFCM.**| ## **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|**Funds are received primarily from spon-**
**sorships from our “Befriend a Granny”**
**and “Child sponsorship” schemes. Oth-**
**er general donations come from regular**
**givers and local churches that support**
**the charity.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and ob-
jectives including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Trust Deed.**| |How is the charity consti-
tuted?
(e.g unincorporated associ-
ation, CIO)|Para 1.25|**TFCM is a charitable trust.**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any con-
stitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Additional trustees may be invited to the**
**charity if additional expertise/experience**
**is required and this would be achieved**
**by passing a resolution at a trustee spe-**
**cial meeting.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures ad-
opted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the char-
ity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any re-
lated parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Father’s Children Ministries| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|TFCM| |Registered charity number|11843344| ||Charity’s principal address
2 Lodge Court, South Street, Castle Cary, Somerset. BA7
7ES| |---|---| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trust-**
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20|Leanne Adams||||| ||Matt Adams||||| ||Polly Axford-
Checkley||||| ||Sarah Mechen||||| ||Brian Stokes||||| ||Sadie Dyer||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets TFCM does not hold any funds or assets on behalf of othheld in this capacity ers. Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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 N/A Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** N/A ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** **Full details of TFCM and our objectives, activities and achievements can be found on our website www.aiduganda.org** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Brian Alexander John Sadie Dyer Stokes **Position (eg Sec-** Chair Trustee **retary, Chair, etc) Date** 28.11.2024 ## **Declarations** ||The Fathers Children Ministries|The Fathers Children Ministries|The Fathers Children Ministries|The Fathers Children Ministries|The Fathers Children Ministries|1184344|1184344||CC16a| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||Receipts andpayments accounts||||||||| ||For the period from||June 2023||To|May 2024|||| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |Section A Receipts and payments|||||||||| ||Unrestricted
funds||Restricted funds||Endowment
funds||Total funds||Last year| ||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £||to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts|||||||||| |Child sponsorship|- 0||19,525||-||19,525||23,056| |Befriend a Granny|- 0||2,208||-||2,208||1,895| |Other Sponsorship|- 0||2,305||-||2,305||3,787| |General|5,056||-||-||5,056||5,683| |One off|5,879||-||-||5,879||2,096| |Appeal|- 0||-||-||-||4,299| ||||-||-||-||-| ||||||-||-||-| |Sub total(Gross income for AR)|10,935||24,038||-||34,973||40,816| ||||||||||| |A2 Asset and investment sales, (see
table).|||||||||| ||- 0||- 0||- 0||-||| ||- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0| |Sub total|
- 0||- 0||- 0||-||- 0| ||||||||||| |Total receipts|
10,935||24,038||- 0||34,973||40,816| ||||||||||| |A3 Payments|||||||||| |Child Sponsorship|
- 0||19,236||-||19,236||20,545| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 23/10/2024 1 |Befriend a Granny|
- 0||1,604||-||1,604||2,209| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |1Appeal|
- 0||1,323||-||1,323||7,127| |Other Sponsorship|
- 0||1,812||-||1,812||3,785| |General and one off|
7,086||-||-||7,086||5,298| |CurrencyCharge|221||-||-||221||340| |Bank MonthlyPayment|
135||-||-||135||134| |Deposit Charge|- 0||-||-||-||2| ||- 0||-||-||-||-| |Sub total|
7,442||23,975||-||31,417||39,440| ||||||||||| |A4 Asset and investment purchases,
(see table)|||||||||| ||- 0||- 0||- 0||-||| ||- 0||- 0||- 0||-||| |Sub total|
-0||-0||-0||-||- 0| ||||||||||| |Totalpayments|
7,442||23,975||- 0||31,417||39,440| ||||||||||| |Net of receipts/(payments)|
3,493||63||-||3,556||1,376| |A5 Transfers between funds|- 0||-||-||-||-| |A6 Cash funds lastyear end|1,777||755||-||2,532||1,156| |Cash funds thisyear end|
5,270||818||-||6,088||2,532| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period|||||||||| |Categories|Details||||Unrestricted
funds||Restricted funds||Endowment
funds| ||||||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £| |B1 Cash funds|Total cash funds||||5,270||818||-| ||||||-||-||-| ||||||-||-||-| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 23/10/2024 2 ||Total cash funds||5,270||818||-| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|OK|||OK||OK| ||||Unrestricted
funds||Restricted funds||Endowment
funds| ||Details||to nearest £||to nearest £||to nearest £| |B2 Other monetary assets|||-||-||-| ||||-||-||-| ||||-||-||-| ||||-||-||-| ||||-||-||-| ||||-||-||-| ||||||||| ||Details||Fund to which asset
belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)| |B3 Investment assets|||||-||-| ||||||-||-| ||||||-||-| ||||||-||-| ||||||-||-| ||||||||| ||Details||Fund to which asset
belongs||Cost (optional)||Current value
(optional)| |B4 Assets retained for the charity’s
own use

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relates||Amount due
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of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||_Sadie Dyer_||||Sadie Dyer||||28.11.24| ||Sarah Mechen||||Sarah Mechen||||28.11.24| CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 23/10/2024 4 CMARllY (OMMISSION Independent Examiner's Report on the Accounts Section A Independent Examifier's Report Repoil to Ihe Irusleesltnembeis 01 TKO rf.+h￿ c&, (61r 14 15(no5 On a((ounls loi Ihe ye31 endod Iivmtmbprln￿1￿jdtI￿Pll9r n.￿￿5 ￿1 d1dilla￿l s￿01*1 Sel out on pages Respeilive responsibiliiies ol iiuslees and examinei Basis of independenl examinei's Statement kept by Ihe chaiily a ¢ofnpaiison ol the h((ounis picsenled wilh Ihoso iccoids Independent examinei's 51a¢emenl Iii ionne(IIDn iviih my emaminalion. no méiiei h35 iome lo tTry allen1ionltrth￿ha￿ iequiiemenls- lo prepoie ai(ounts whi(h ac(oid wilh Ihe ac(ounling ie(ords and iomply 12110 whi(h, In my opinion. allenlion should be diawn oidei 10 eTrable a piopei uDdefslandinq ol the è(coun15 10 be iea(hed Pleose delele Ihe words Ihe bro£kels Il Ihey do nol appl Signèd Dale lo as- Natne Aor Add5es5 1 3 Ck&rtlLJo?¢45 ffj,J o sl Gfin kJo5t s￿35 K£F4 19 IER March 1012 Section O DIKlosuwe Maiih 2012