Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/01/2023 Period start date To 31/12/2023 Period end date** **Charity name: The Appian Way Charitable Foundation Charity registration number: 1184992** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The Foundation is seeking to contribute**
**to the health and equal education of the**
**children and local residents in the**
**communities and principal regions**
**Appian invests into with the aim of**
**unlocking the wider benefits and with**
**contributing to lifting people out of**
**poverty, improving long-term**
**environmental stability and health and**
**empowering women and girls.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The Foundation assists Appian’s**
**portfolio companies in allocating capital**
**into the most impactful social and**
**environmental programmes, e.g.:**
**• Sponsoring Professional Courses for**
**teachers and local workforce to improve**
**their skills**
**• Build and maintain educational**
**infrastructure**
**• Provide children with courses in**
**music, sport and school work to**
**address social vulnerabilities**
**• Arrange workshops in communities to**
**enable influencing the local public**
**policies**
**• Training to farming families to improve**
**their cocoa and chocolate production as**
**well as guidance in poultry farming**
**• Improving environmental sustainability**
**of Appian’s portfolio companies**
**• Revegetation programs**
**• GCM community grants program**
**• Partnership with Educando, Senai,**
**SESI and RICCON in Brazil**
**• Local women entrepreneurship**
**programs**
**• Funding a healthcare centre renovation**
**for a local community**
**• Computer science introduction course**
**for local community**| Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC **• Environmental education programs to help raise environmental awareness and action at local communities.** |Statement confirming|Para 1.18|**The AWCF is aware of the guidance by**| |---|---|---| |whether the trustees have||**the Charity Commission and takes it**| |had regard to the guidance||**into account in decision making.**| |issued by the Charity||| |Commission on public||| |benefit||| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment Para 1.38 including program related investment Contribution made by Para 1.38 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
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**• Schemes such a poultry farming and**
**women entrepreneurs – where local**
**women transform old fabric such as**
**women’s bags, toiletry and eco bags for**
**sale - generate income in the area.**
**•Healthcare renovation centre near**
**Graphcoa, in Minas Gerais, which will**
**help improve capacity and scale for care**
**in the region**
**• Educational partnerships have**
**provided training to teachers first time**
**since leaving university**
**first time – helping improve teaching**
**quality in STEM disciplines for 5**
**elementary schools in the area around**
**Atlantic Nickel**
**• Governance programmes empower**
**people to contribute to the local**
**governance and administration.**
**• Offer soccer training for students in**
**the communities around Atlantic Nickel,**
**helping boost civil society organizations**
**that develop community development**
**projects.**
**• Supporting Coca Project at Atlantic**
**Nickel, helping local farmers achieve**
**income creation via sustainable farming**
**practices**| Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC **• Actively assessing local development needs for education and income generation in Rosh Pinah and surrounding areas.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**• Each project has its own budget which**
**is tracked on quarterly basis**
**• Key Performance Indicators are**
**assigned to the programme participants**
**which is tracked**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**No change since last reporting period**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal Para 1.47 sources of funds (including any fundraising) Investment policy and Para 1.46 objectives including any social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Apart from the first charity trustees,**
**every trustee must be appointed by a**
**resolution passed at a properly**
**convened meeting of the charity**
**trustees.**
**In selecting individuals for appointment**
**as charity trustees, the charity trustees**
**must have regard to the skills,**
**knowledge and experience needed for**
**the effective administration of the CIO.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational Para 1.51 structure and any wider network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The Appian Way Charitable Foundation| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|N/A| |Registered charity number|1184992| |Charity’s principal address|5thFloor
45 Pall Mall
London
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Michael Scherb|||| ||Silvio Tiago De
Lima||Appointed 10 November
2023|| ||Nelson Luiz Costs
Silva|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity 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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
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**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** Docusign Envelope ID: A3BF4659-3B9C-4315-867B-1A2AF5E5E1FC ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)**[Silvio Tiago de Lima] **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** October 30th, 2024