## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] June 2024 to 31[st] May 2025** **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.**| ## **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.**
**We have been able to continue support-**
**ing our Grannies and guardians, many**
**of whom look after the children attend-**
**ing the school.**
**One off donations during the year has**
**supplemented our usual income. To en-**
**able us to provide the following:**
**During the year, we funded significant**
**improvements to the boys**’**compound**
**and accommodation. This included up-**
**grading the security wall surrounding**
**the compound and installing barbed**
**wire along the top to enhance safety. We**
**also provided electrical infrastructure**
**for the boys**’**house, as well as solar in-**
**stallations. These improvements were**
**made to better protect and support the**
**wellbeing of the children in our care.**
**In November 2024, we provided financial**
**support for the school**’**s graduation cel-**
**ebrations. This is an important com-**
**munity event, enabling the provision of**
**meals for extended families and guardi-**
**ans who attend.**
**Throughout the financial year, we also**
**assisted with medical expenses for indi-**
**viduals who required support for health-**
**related needs.**| |---|---|---| ## **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|**Ten 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**
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**(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** 13.01.2026 ## **Declarations** ||**The Fathers Children Ministries**|**The Fathers Children Ministries**|**The Fathers Children Ministries**|**The Fathers Children Ministries**|**The Fathers Children Ministries**|**1184344**|**1184344**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||June 2024||**To**||May 2025|| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|| ||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||| |Child sponsorship|- 0||17,928||**-**||**17,928**|| |Befriend a Granny|- 0||2,083||**-**||**2,083**|| |Other Sponsorship|- 0||1,615||**-**||**1,615**|| |General|5,550||**-**||**-**||**5,550**|| |One off|3,331||**-**||**-**||**3,331**|| |Appeal + wedding gift|703||**-**||**-**||**703**|| ||- 0||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||- 0||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**9,584**||**21,626**||**-**||**31,210**|| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|| |**_Sub total _**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|| |||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**9,584**||**21,626**||**- 0**||**31,210**|| |||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||| |Child Sponsorship|
- 0||21,299||**-**||**21,299**|| |Befriend a Granny|
- 0||1,845||**-**||**1,845**|| |Appeal|
- 0||-||**-**||**-**|| |Other Sponsorship|
- 0||1,331||**-**||**1,331**|| |General and one off|
2,259||**-**||**-**||**2,259**|| |CurrencyCharge|204||**-**||**-**||**204**|| |Bank MonthlyPayment|
120||**-**||**-**||**120**|| |Deposit Charge|- 0||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||- 0||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|
**2,583**||**24,475**||**-**||**27,058**|| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|
**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**|| |||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**2,583**||**24,475**||**- 0**||**27,058**|| |||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**7,001**||**-**
**2,849**||**-**||**4,152**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**
**2,100**||**2,100**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**5,270**||**818**||**-**||**6,088**|| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**10,171**||**69**||**-**||**10,240**|| |||||||||| |||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**|| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B1 Cash funds**|||||**12,271**||**-**
**2,031**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 25/01/2026 1 ||||||**-**||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**12,271**||**-**
**2,031**|| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||Agreement Error|||| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**|| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| ||||||**-**||**-**|| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| |||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||| ||_Sadie Dyer_||||Sadie Dyer|||| ||**Sarah Mechen**||||Sarah Mechen|||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 25/01/2026 2 ## **CC16a** **Last year to the nearest £** 19525 2208 2305 5056 5879 **34,973 - 0 - 0 34,973** 19,236 1,604 1,323 1,812 7,086 221 135 **31,417 - 0 31,417 3,556 - 2,532 6,088 Endowment funds to nearest £ - -** CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 25/01/2026 3 **-** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)** Date of approval 13.01.2026 13.01.2026 CCXX R4 accounts (SS) 25/01/2026 4