## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||05|April|2023||05|April|2024| |**From**||||**To**|||| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ARBITRATION FUND FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS **Other names charity is known by** AFAS **Registered charity number (if any)** 1185823 **Charity's principal address** FLAT 403, MARBLE ARCH APARTMENTS 11 HARROWBY STREET LONDON **Postcode W1H 5PR** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Nneka Emilia
Onyema|Founder||Board of Trustees| ||Chrispas Nyombi|Chairman||Board of Trustees| ||Eunice Shang-
Simpson|Secretary|Until 30 September 2024|Board of Trustees| ||Tabitha JoyRaore|Member|-|Board of Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| ||Nneka Emilia Onyema|||| **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 1 Chrispas Nyombi Eunice Shang-Simpson Tabitha Joy Raore ## **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**||| |Accountants|Barnett Young &
Partners|15 The Broadway, Woodford Green, 1G8 0HL| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the Board of Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) (eg. trust, association, company) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. Every Trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the Board of Trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment, the Charity Trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the charity. All three of our trustees over the reporting period are British nationals from an academic/ legal practice background with a longstanding record of service. According to our Constitution, no individual can be appointed as a Trustee if they are under the age of 16 years and no one is entitled to act as a charity trustee whether on appointment or on any re-appointment until he or she has expressly acknowledged his or her acceptance of the office of Charity Trustee. The Charity’s activities are organised and run by the Board of Trustees. It is the main management and decision-making body of the organisation. It consists of: Founder: Professor Nneka Emilia Onyema (SOAS University of London) Chairman: Dr Chrispas Nyombi (University of Derby) Secretary: Eunice-Shang Simpson (Canterbury ChristChurch University) Member: Ms Tabitha Joy Raore The Charity holds Trustees’ meetings every first Saturday of the month. There must be at least two Charity trustees present to have a quorum. The Charity undertakes its activities with the support of the Trustees. This has enabled the Charity to expand its activities, as detailed under Section **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 2 D. The Charity also seeks to develop partnerships with organisations from the UK and around the world that share our common belief in equality, diversity and developing capacity in Arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution in Africa. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The object of AFAS as set out in the Constitution is: To advance education in the knowledge, skills, techniques, use and methods of arbitration by the provision of: **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** (a) funding for students in Africa to attend arbitration related conferences, **governing document** workshops and moots. (b) a website that will enable information relating to arbitration to be made available and accessible to the general public. **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 3 The Charity documents and its current and future events are on the AFAS website [https://afas-global.org/]. Over the course of this financial year, the Charity applied for and was awarded the sum of Euro 20,000 by Arbitral Women [https://www.arbitralwomen.org/] to enable us to deliver our AFAS ADR Student Connect Network Project in four African countries (Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda). This was our primary project delivered over the reporting year. Our ADR Connect project is designed to introduce arbitration and alternative dispute resolution processes to finalist students at one secondary school and to undergraduate students at one university in each of the target countries, over a three-day period in-country. The funds we received from Arbitral Women contributed to the cost of flights, accommodation for our team, and lunch for the students. We delivered the project in Ghana (11-14 April 2024); Uganda (18-20 April 2024); Tanzania (14-16 November 2024) and Rwanda (20-22 November 2024). We sent a report and receipts for costs to Arbitral Women at the end of each project. Over the summer of 2024, AFAS delivered its first virtual summer school over six Saturdays (6 July to 10 August 2024) to the student members of **Summary of the main** its ADR Connect clubs. This attracted a total of 150 students from GIMPA **activities undertaken for the** University (Ghana), Makerere University (Uganda), Young Arbiters club **public benefit in relation to** University of Nairobi (Kenya), Our Lady of Good Counsel Gayaza **these objects (include within** (Uganda), Legacy Girls College (Ghana). **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** The Charity continues to generate its income from contributions by some **had regard to the guidance** of its trustees. It expects to receive a surplus from the savings its trustees **issued by the Charity** will make from co-sponsoring the ADR Connect project through eg **Commission on public** paying for their hotel accommodations. **benefit)** The Charity from 2024 committed to support students to attend the moots through Africa in the Moot annually with the sum of Euro1,500 and to discontinue individual funding of students or groups to moots and conferences. The Charity gave a three-year commitment to support Africa in the Moot in this sum. To further enhance the reach of our activities and to leverage on additional support, the Board of Trustees agreed at its Board meeting on [29 June 2024] to set up an Advisory Board which will provide additional guidance and accountability to the trustees and support the delivery of their projects. The Advisory Board is composed of the following 12 members (11 lawyers and 2 non-lawyers): Ms Esine Okudzeto (chair), Dr Nuhu Yidana, Dr Amel Maklouf, Mr Jeffry Kaddu, Mr Likanda Kalaluka SC, Mr Alpay Beler, Ms Kate Emuchay, Mr Isaiah Bozimo SAN, Dr Sylvie Bebohi, Dr Abayomi Okubote, Ms Alexandra, Ms Rose Rameau, Mr Thierry Ngoga. The Advisory Board will be inaugurated in January 2025. All our Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 4 During this financial year, the Charity has largely depended on the goodwill of our Trustees and the support of the international arbitration community to carry out its core activities as exemplified by the summer school taught by the following colleagues: Prof Chrispas Nyombi, Mr Jeffrey Kaddu, Mrs Sola Adegbonmire, Mr Jonathan Ripley-Evans, Ms Fiorella Noriega del Valle, Dr Nagla Nasser, Ms Tabitha Raore, and Prof Emilia Onyema. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main** The Charity has committed and successfully discharged a number of **achievements of the charity** projects/activities over the course of this financial year. **during the year** 1. AFAS ADR Connect project financially supported by Arbitral Women as set out above. 2. AFAS virtual Summer School delivered over the summer (6 July10 August 2024) through our Zoom platform to 150 students from Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. 3. Composition of our Advisory Board as set out above. **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** The Charity’s finances are administered by the Founder and Chair, with oversight from the Board of Trustees. During this financial year, the charity received a Euro 20,0000 donation from Arbitral Women to deliver our ADR Connect Project. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** The Charity does not currently have a financial deficit. ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: N/A - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** None. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** Nneka Emilia Onyema **Full name(s)** Chrispas Nyombi **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Founder **etc) Date** 20 December 2024 **TAR** Sensitivity: Internal March **2012** 6 **Charity Name No (if any) ARBITRATION FUND FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 4/6/2023 4/5/2024 ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **Total funds Last year** |**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**|**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**|**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**5,825**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,825**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 5,825**
**A3 Payments**
Sponsorship
**1,322**
Management ConsultancyFees
**3,303**
IT Expenses
**156**
Design Fee
**1,366**
Bank charges
**77**
Other expenses
**497**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 6,721**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 6,721**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 896**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ - 896**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**
**5,825**
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**5,825**
**1,322**
**3,303**
**156**
**1,366**
**77**
**497**
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**6,721**
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**6,721**
**- 896**
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**- 896**|**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
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**-**|**1,322**|**-**| ||||**3,303**|**-**| ||||**156**|**-**| ||||**1,366**|**-**| ||||**77**|**-**| ||||**497**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**6,721**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
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**-**|**- 896**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**- 896**|**-**| ## **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**|**Details**
Bank balance as at 05/04/2024
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**1,597**
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**-**
**1,597**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Date of Print Name approval