## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 January 2024 To 31 December 2024** ## **Charity name: Kokrobite Chiltern Centre** ## **Charity registration number: 1185282** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The advancement of education and**
**relief of poverty for the public benefit by**
**providing free education, providing**
**training and the development of**
**teachers and support for disadvantaged**
**children and young people in Ghana to**
**enable them to achieve their full**
**potential and have greater access to**
**positive choices and opportunities.**| |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|**Raise funds to support the activities of**
**sister charity (KCC Ghana). Provide**
**guidance to KCC Ghana in the execution**
**of its activities.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**In executing our activities for the year,**
**the trustees adhered to the Charity**
**Commission’s guidance 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|**Grants are made to sister charity (KCC**
**Ghana) to support operating cashflow,**
**fund scholarships for individual**
**students and to fund approved projects.**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**The UK charity is run by volunteer**
**trustees with no paid employees.**| ## **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|**Key achievements in 2024:**

**Provided grants totalling £15,200**
**(2023: £15,750) to KCC Ghana**
**(sister charity)**

**Funded the shipping of donated**
**books, educational materials and**
**sports kit to Ghana**

**Supported the executive team of**
**KCC Ghana in making**
**operational and financial**
**decisions, related to their**
**activities supporting 150 school**
**children**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity ended the financial year with**
**total assets of £5,239 (2023: £4,028) in**
**cash with no debt. These cash levels are**
**appropriate for KCC to remain**
**financially viable.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**KCC has no formal policy on holding**
**cash reserves. Due to the low levels of**
**recurring expenditure, zero debt and the**
**discretionary nature of the main activity**
**(providing grants), liquidity is**
**maintained by restricting grants to**
**available cash at any point in time.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**Cash reserves at year end were £5,239**
**(2023: £4,028).**| |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|**There are no concerns about the charity**
**continuing as a going concern.**| |**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|**Donations from individuals and**
**organisations, with reliance on a core**
**group of dedicated long-term donors. A**
**limited number of fundraising**
**campaigns are carried out through**
**social media**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**The principal risk facing the charity is**
**lack of financial continuity, due to**
**donors discontinuing their funding**
**activities. If this were to occur, the level**
**of grants the charity provides would**
**need to be scaled back. The main**
**mitigation is to broaden the range of**
**donors.**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Kokrobite Chiltern Centre Constitution,**
**dated 26 August 2019**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(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|**Future trustees are invited to become a**
**trustee by one of the existing trustees**
**and/or by the individual volunteering to**
**become a trustee, following which they**
**are interviewed and confirmed if**
**acceptable.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**On joining, all trustees are provided with**
**a copy of the Constitution and a copy of**
**the latest Annual Report and Accounts.**
**Access is provided to the shared drive**
**with previous minutes of meeting and**
**the action log with pending issues.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The charity has a board of trustees with**
**an appointed chairperson. In addition to**
**overseeing the activities of the charity,**
**the trustees provide guidance to KCC**
**Ghana (sister charity).**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**KCC Ghana is a sister charity that**
**receives the bulk of donations from the**
**charity. 2 trustees of the charity are**
**executive members of KCC Ghana.**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Kokrobite Chiltern Centre| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|KCC| |Registered charity number|1185282| |Charity’s principal address|27 Garners Road
Chalfont St Peter
Bucks SL9 0HA| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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10|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||EmilyThomson|Chair and Secretary||| ||Jane Zohoungbogbo|Trustee||| ||Martial Zohoungbogbo|Trustee||| ||Mark Williams|Trustee|Resigned 13/12/24|| ||PhilipLiverpool|Trustee||| ||Sarah Harding|Treasurer||| ||Donald Hudson|Trustee||| ||Stella Kalamaj|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| ## **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)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Emily Thomson|Sarah Harding| |---|---|---| |||| ||Emily Thomson|Sarah Harding| |||| ||Chair|Treasurer| ||14 July 2025|| ||14 July 2025|| **Charity Name Kokrobite Chiltern Centre** **No (if any) 1185282** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Jan-24 31-Dec-24 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **Total funds Last year** |||**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**||||||||||||| |Donations to sponsor the education and
associated costs of (named) children in||**-**||**5,453**||**-**|||**5,453**||**7,353**|| |Ghana||||||||||||| |General donations||**9,227**||||**-**|||**9,227**||**2,818**|| |Donations for children's Christmas activities||**-**||**4,179**||**-**|||**4,179**||**3,361**|| |Gift Aid on donations||**587**||**450**||**-**|||**1,037**|||| |Other income||**177**||**-**||**-**|||**177**|||| |Donations from volunteers to cover their||||||||||||| |living expenses while volunteering at KCC||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**1,700**|| |Ghana||||||||||||| |Donations to cover shipping costs UK to
Ghana||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**1,400**|| |Donations to buy white goods for new
learningcentre in Ghana||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**600**|| |Donations towards running costs of girls'
football team in Ghana||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**3,650**|| |Donations to buybooks||**-**||||**-**|||**-**||**485**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**9,991**||**10,082**||**-**|||**20,073**||**21,367**|| |||||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||| |**(see table).**||||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **||**9,991**||**10,082**||**-**||**20,073**||**21,367**|| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||| |Fund transfers to KCC Ghana||**3,719**||**11,481**||**-**||**15,200**||**15,750**|| |Cost of shipping donated books, clothes|||||||||||| |and other items to Ghana||**2,485**||||**-**||**2,485**||**2,640**|| |Fundraisingcosts||**1,096**||||**-**||**1,096**||**216**|| |Administration expenses||**-**||||**-**||**-**||**138**|| |Bank charges||**81**||||**-**||**81**||**108**|| |||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||||||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **||**7,381**||**11,481**||**-**||**18,862**||**18,852**|| ||||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||| |**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**7,381**||**11,481**||**-**||**18,862**||**18,852**|| ||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**2,610**||**- 1,399**||**-**||**1,211**||**2,515**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**2,629**||**1,399**||**-**||**4,028**||**1,513**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**5,239**||**-**||**-**||**5,239**||**4,028**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
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approval| ||EmilyThomson|EmilyThomson|14-Jul-25| ||Sarah Harding|Sarah Harding|14-Jul-25|