## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 January 2025 To 31 December 2025**
## **Charity name: Kokrobite Chiltern Centre**
## **Charity registration number: 1185282**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|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
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|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**
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|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 2025:**
•
**Provided grants totalling £11,500**
**(2024: £15,200) 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 £3,041 (2024: £5,239) 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 £3,041**
**(2024: £5,239).**|
|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**
|
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||EmilyThomson|Chair and Secretary|||
||Jane Zohoungbogbo|Trustee|||
||Martial Zohoungbogbo|Trustee|||
||PhilipLiverpool|Trustee|||
||Sarah Harding|Treasurer|||
||Donald Hudson|Trustee|||
||Stella Kalamaj|Trustee|||
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## **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|
||11 May 2026||
||11 May 2026||
||**Kokrobite Chiltern Centre**
**Charity Name**|**Kokrobite Chiltern Centre**
**Charity Name**|**Kokrobite Chiltern Centre**
**Charity Name**|**1185282**
**No (if any)**|**1185282**
**No (if any)**|**1185282**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|01-Jan-25
Period start date|**To**||31-Dec-25
Period end date|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**1,447**
**202**
**1,649**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,649**
**1,458**
**2,065**
**216**
**108**
**-**
**-**
**3,847**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,847**
**- 2,198**
**-**
**5,239**
**3,041**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,195**
**-**
**4,293**
**554**
**-**
**10,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,042**
**10,042**
**-**
**-**
**10,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**10,042**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,195**
**1,447**
**4,293**
**756**
**-**
**11,691**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,691**
**11,500**
**2,065**
**216**
**108**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,889**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**13,889**
**- 2,198**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations to sponsor the education and
associated costs of (named) children in
Ghana|**-**||||||**5,453**|
|General donations|**1,447**||||||**9,227**|
|Donations for children's Christmas
activities|||||||**4,179**|
|Gift Aid on donations|**202**||||||**1,037**|
|Other income|||||||**177**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**1,649**||||||**20,073**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**20,073**|
|||||||||
|Fund transfers to KCC Ghana|**1,458**||||||**15,200**|
|Cost of shipping donated books, clothes
and other items to Ghana|**2,065**||||||**2,485**|
|Fundraisingcosts|**216**||||||**1,096**|
|Bank charges|**108**||||||**81**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**3,847**||||||**18,862**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**18,862**|
|||||||||
||**- 2,198**|**-**|**-**||**- 2,198**||**1,211**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**5,239**|**-**|**-**||**5,239**||**4,028**|
||**3,041**|**-**|**-**||**3,041**||**5,239**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Sarah Harding
Signature
EmilyThomson
**Details**
Barclays Bank account
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,041**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,041**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
EmilyThomson
Sarah Harding|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||EmilyThomson|EmilyThomson|11-May-26|
||Sarah Harding|Sarah Harding|11-May-26|
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