## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023**
## **Charity name: Project WHY UK**
## **Charity registration number: 1184910**
## **Annual Update**
After the disruptions of the global pandemic and the subsequent drive for Project WHY India to return to what they have been successfully providing for over 20 years - education, welfare and training to the underprivileged of New Delhi; the trustees were keen to support Project WHY India in this endeavour. The trustees set up regular meetings with Project WHY India to discuss their needs and grant requests and so that the trustees could have updates as to ongoing projects. This allowed the trustees to keep up to date with projects and developments at Project WHY India. The trustees could hear directly what was needed by Project WHY India, what were their plans and hopes, how our funding had been spent and the differences this had made to the students and the running of the school centres.
The trustees have also focused on how they can work together with Project WHY India to make funding requests and providing grants (if successful) more streamlined, opportune and appropriate for both of our charities going forward and this has been successfully achieved. It has been very useful for both the trustees and Project WHY India to have these regular online meetings and it has been helpful in developing the trustees’ understanding of how Project WHY UK can support Project WHY India into the future.
## **Grants made to Project WHY India**
Project WHY UK made a total of £13,468 in grants to Project WHY India during the financial year, in accordance with its grant-making policy. This policy details, in particular, the process
by which grants can be applied for and the decision process followed by the trustees in respect of any such application.
Project WHY UK made slightly more transfers of funds to Project WHY India than the previous year. This is due to the needs of Project WHY India during this period and grant requests being successful.
A total of £1,962 was granted to Project WHY India under the “sponsor a teacher” campaign.
A total of £11,506 was granted to Project WHY India in general grants. This was for repairs and maintenance to several school centres, after floods caused damage and lack of use in the pandemic; for computers for teachers to aid in teaching, the provision of CCTV for security purposes, the salaries of teachers and school centre administrators, who just like the teachers also hail from deprived areas; and the provision of transport for conveying the students to the school centres, which allows for a wider catchment area to be accommodated.
The trustees have received feedback from Project WHY India as to all grant funds.
In discussions with Project WHY India, the trustees established that Project WHY India have difficulty in funding some of the more “unfashionable” expenses - such as the salaries of the centre managers. In light of this, the trustees were keen to fund those expenses which Project WHY India was otherwise struggling to meet (provided they agreed to the grant request and any grant was in pursuit of the charity’s objects).
During the regular calls, Project WHY India expressed their desire to restart their crèche facility at the GovindPuri school centre. This had been well established before the pandemic, very successful and provided early learning for the young children, giving them a head start when they started state schools and hopefully attending the school centres as students. The crèche was a delight to go see and experience, the highlight of the day for many volunteers and visitors, being both a place of so much noisy fun and of beautiful quietness when the children had their afternoon nap. More importantly the crèche provided a safe space for the children to spend their day, allowing their parents to attend work knowing their young children were not at risk of harm in the deprived areas they live.
The trustees were happy to hear of this initiative to restart the crèche and a grant request was received and funded in the 23/24 financial year and details will follow in next year’s report.
## **Project WHY UK Funding Initiatives and Support**
## Teachers’ Salaries
Through its successful ‘sponsor a teacher’ campaign, Project WHY UK continued to receive recurring donations, which were specifically ring fenced for contributions to the salaries of
particular teachers. These teachers are from underprivileged backgrounds and still live in deprived areas.
Donations under this scheme totalled £2,616.
A total of £1,962 was granted under the “sponsor a teacher” campaign.
The difference between the two figures is accounted for by some donations still being held by the charity at year end and then granted in the 23/24 year.
## Royalties from book sales
One of Project WHY UK’s supporters published a book in the 22/23 financial year and very kindly donated a portion of their royalties to Project WHY UK.
## Ongoing Donations
Project WHY UK benefits from a number of regular donations and the trustees would like to thank everyone who donated over the 22/23 financial year for their ongoing support.
## **Summary of Accounts**
Donations received totalled £7,534 during the financial year 2022 to 2023. Of which:
General donations were £3,042.
Charitable activities were £1,876.
Donations ring fenced for the “Sponsor a Teacher” scheme were £2,616.
Funds provided to Project WHY India totalled £13,468 during the financial year 2022 to 2023.
Of which:
As per funding requests by PW India £11,506.
“Sponsor a Teacher” scheme £1,962.
Project WHY UK cash assets were £32,067 at the start of the 22/23 financial year and were £26,103 at the end of the 22/23 financial year.
## **Further information required by the UK charity statement of recommended practice**
## **(SORP)**
Charitable purposes and constitution (SORP 1.17 and 1.25 _)_
Project WHY UK is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) governed by a foundation constitution. Its charitable purposes are:
_“To further such charitable purposes (charitable under English Law) as the trustees see fit from time to time in particular, but not limited to, the advancement of education for the public benefit and the relief of poverty in India, through the provision of grants to charities and organisations furthering such purposes. To the extent that the Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust (Registered Charity Number S32978, India, its field based programme being known as Project WHY India), makes_
_recommendations to the trustees to further these objects, the trustees may promote these objects through the provision of funds to the Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust.”_
## Public benefit (SORP 1.18)
In the course of their duties, the trustees of Project WHY UK confirm they have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## Trusteeship and organisational structure (SORP 1.25 and 1.51)
In accordance with Project WHY UK’s constitution, trustees are appointed by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the current charity trustees, having regard to any potential candidate’s skills, knowledge and relevant experience.
The charity was incorporated as a CIO on 15 August 2019. Its founding trustees remained in place as at the end of the financial year ending 31 March 2023 and there were no new trustee appointments during the financial year. All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.
The trustees regularly communicate electronically and hold meetings to discuss both fundraising initiatives and to review their trustee duties and discuss any grant requests from Project WHY India. During the financial year, all trustee meetings were held electronically in order to allow the trustees to meet regularly given they are located in various locations across the UK.
## Banking and property
Project WHY UK’s bank account is held in the organisation’s name, as a CIO, at Lloyds Bank. As such, none of the trustees hold title to any property belonging to the charity, nor are any funds held as a custodian trustee on behalf of others.
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**|||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**||**Last year**
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|Donations|**-**
**3,042-**||**-**
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**5,658-**||**-**
**9,927-**|
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|**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**11,536-**|||**-**|**1,962-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**13,498-**|||**-**|**11,707-**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**6,618-**|||**-**|**654-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,964-**|||**-**|**12,848-**||
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|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**31,553-**|||**-**|**514-**|||**-**|**--**|||**- **|**32,067-**|||**-**|**19,219-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**24,935-**|||**-**|**1,168-**|||**-**|**--**|||**- **|**26,103-**|||**-**|**32,067-**||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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**11,536-**
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**6,618-**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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**31,553-**
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**24,935-**||**-**
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**B3 Investment assets**|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
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**24,935-**||**-**
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