Kawangware Humanitarian Education School
Charity number 1184654
Trustees Annual Report & Accounts Year Ended 31[st] July 2025
| TRUSTEES | Mrs Dawn Harris (Chair) |
|---|---|
| Mr Martn Harris | |
| Mr Joseph Harris | |
| PRINCIPAL ADDRESS | 35 Woodland Park |
| Paignton | |
| TQ3 2ST | |
| REGISTERRED CHARITY NUMBER | 1184654 |
| INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS | Mrs Rachel Martn BSc (Hons) BFP FCA |
| 296 Teignmouth Road | |
| Torquay | |
| TQ1 4RW | |
| BANKERS | Barclays Bank UK Plc |
| 6/8 Palace Avenue | |
| Paignton | |
| TQ3 3ET |
TRUSTEES REPORT
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
RATIONALE:
To provide resources, funding for teachers, food and building costs to Kawangware Humanitarian Education school, Kawangware Slum, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa.
HISTORY
This charity was set up in August 2019 to support this particular school, when the Trustees visited it on two occasions and formed a connection with the school, the Head and the teachers there. The school was set up by a teacher and built by her on a piece of waste land next to a church. The school has been established now for 12 years, providing education for children with learning and/or physical disabilities and orphan children/one parent family children from extreme poverty who cannot afford to go to school.
The school is not supported by the government and is run entirely voluntarily.
Before receiving charitable status, we as trustees were able to provide, through fundraising, the following:
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A water tank and guttering around the school
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Tables and chairs for each of the classrooms
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A secure door, redecoration and electricity to one room to be used for storage and an office
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Major building work to repair the structure of one side of the school and make it safe and secure, as it was in grave danger of collapse
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Tile flooring to each classroom instead of dirt floors.
The charity has several donors who give a monthly contribution in order to pay a nominal wage to 6 teachers who otherwise work voluntarily at the school. This amounts to around £500 per calendar month. There has been an annual donation total of £6,000. In addition to this, the trustees started a Befriending Scheme on their return in February 2025. This means a one-to-one support of individual children, allowing them to receive a birthday celebration and vital items such as shoes and equipment for school at Christmas time. Befrienders will pay £5 each month which is kept specifically for a named child and £20 is sent for the child’s birthday. Befrienders write to the chid though the trustees and send a photo on the child’s birthday. This started in April 2025 and we hope to see it grow as a scheme.
In addition to the above, our fundraising evenings, such as Kenyan evenings, quiz nights, music concerts and barn dances have raised money for:
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Provision of food for the school, where the children get their only meal of the day
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Funds towards the long-term project of building a new school.
THE LAST YEAR (August 2024 – July 2025)
In February 2025, two trustees flew to Kenya to meet the landowner and solicitors, with the beneficiaries Roseanne and David Ncebere. Legal documents were signed and a codicil added to ensure the future of the school and safeguarding against any future attempt to sell the land and school. Funds were transferred and the school was purchased under the names of the beneficiaries, Roseanne and David Ncebere. This was a really significant moment for the Charity. The donation of funds to enable this purchase is the reason the account show an in-year deficit.
Although Trustees visited the current school again, to check in with teachers and children, time on this visit was mainly spent with solicitors and sorting the purchase. They were able to celebrate as the deeds changed hands and the years of fundraising for the school had come to fruition with the final documents being obtained, enabling the school to be bought outright.
Significantly, the landowner had allowed for Roseanne to move 2 classes to the new school by way of ensuring that no one else could illegally inhabit the land before our Charity had all the funds. This had safeguarded the purchase for us all and was seen as a really kind gesture of goodwill and trust in our Trustees to raise all the funds.
The school continues to grow as the reputation increases. Once again, trustees witnessed the teachers working hard to get children to a good standard of learning and it was evident that there has been an improvement in the results they are achieving.
Food continues to be extremely expensive, the cost increasing daily, and this is the primary area of concern for the children each day. We have continued to be able to send, through a consistent generous donor, £120 each month specifically for food. The impact of this is significant for the children.
We have continued to hold charity fund raising events including piano and drum concerts from local children. This has widened the number of people involved with the charity and therefore continued to increase fund-raising opportunities. We have also continued to apply to larger charities for funding.
LONG-TERM VISION
Our long-term vision is that all the children from the original site in Kawangware will be able to now transfer to the new school. This has some challenges for some of the younger children because it is 4km on dangerous roads. We hope, long-term to supply transport and see that the school will grow as children in the new area become aware of it.
We want to embed the new Befriending Scheme for people her to be able to support an individual child and to have a meaningful connection which will in turn spread the work to reach more need and to involve more people. We hope over the next year that this will be something that grows and develops.
To date we have raised approx. £100,000 for this cause with approx. £92,000 being raised since we were established as a charity. This is in addition to the provision of monthly salaries, and Covid crisis donations.
Approved by the board of trustees 28 May 2024 and signed on its behalf by:
Mrs D Harris – Trustee
KAWANGWARE HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION SCHOOL
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2025
| GENERAL FUND | GENERAL FUND | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | |
| RECEIPTS | ||
| Donatons & Gif Aid | 35,020 | 20,387 |
| Fundraising Actvites | 7,167 | 5,062 |
| Total Receipts | 42,187 | 25,449 |
| PAYMENTS | ||
| Teacher/child support | 7,320 | 6,000 |
| Costs to support fundraising | 90 | 547 |
| Donaton for purchase of School | 91,427 | - |
| Legal fees re school purchase | 3,584 | - |
| Donaton for equipment | 518 | - |
| Bank charges | 85 | - |
| Total Payments | 103,024 | 6,547 |
| Net Surplus/Defcit for the year | (60,837) | 18,902 |
| Opening Bank Balance | 66,106 | 47,204 |
| Bank Balance at 31 July 2025 | 5,269 | 66,106 |
STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES AS AT 31 JULY 2025
| GENERAL FUND | GENERAL FUND | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| Cash at Bank | 5,269 | 66,106 |
| 5,269 | 66,106 | |
| Debtors | ||
| Gif Aid | - | - |
NOTE
The trustees confirm, in accordance with the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012, that at the year-end, the CIO did not have any outstanding guarantees to third parties nor any debts secured on the assets of the CIO.
Approved by the trustees on 28 May 2026
Signed by Mrs Dawn Harris
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF KAWANGWARE HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION SCHOOL CHARITY NO. 1184654
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Kawangware Humanitarian Education School (“the CIO”) for the year ended 31 July 2025.
Responsibilities & Basis of the Report
As the Charity Trustees 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 CIO’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:
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Accounting records were not kept in respect of the CIO as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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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.
Mrs Rachel Martin BSc (Hons) BFP FCA 296 Teignmouth Road Torquay TQ1 4RW
28 May 2026