## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 31/10/2019 **Period start date To** 31/12/2020 **Period end date**
**Charity name:** YAKUM
**Charity registration number:** 1186064
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the CIO are:
a) to
promote
for
the
benefit
of
indigenous
communities
the
conservation,
protection
and
improvement of the physical and
ecological environment, including but
not limited to restoring vulnerable and
important
ecosystems
using
regenerative agroforestry, to provide
economic and nutritional alternatives
to deforestation.
b) To advance the education of the
public in the restoration, conservation,
protection and improvement of the
physical and natural environment by
provision of educationalvideos and
workshops on climate science,
deforestation,
agroforestry
for
communities and for social media
and documenting information on
Amazon useful plants and their
medicinal/nutritional properties to
share amongst rainforest people.|
|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|1.
Reforestation of indigenous territories
with important trees producing key medicines,
foods, and materials, which benefit the
community
directly
through
ecosystem
services, improved access to food, improve
nutrition
and
health,
reinforce
cultural
knowledge
and
identity,
and
provide
livelihood.
2.
Mapping territories improves forest
management and provides communities with
insight into economic, educational and
cultural opportunities which contribute to
conservation.|
|||3.
Workshops
based
around
soil
improvement, to improve food production and
sequesters carbon.
4.
Workshops
and
follow-up
on
processing
food
provides
a
way
for
Amazonians to conserve their foods out of
their short fruit seasons (Amazonian climate
makes food rot incredibly fast and outside of
fruit season there is little access to important
vitamins), and alternative livelihoods.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have read and discussed all Charity
Commission guidance on being a Trustee of
a charity.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|We do not give grants.|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We do not make investments, although we
consider our field work to be investments in
forest conservation,|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Volunteers in Ecuador attending work “minga”
days to help bagging up saplings and planting
trees in Napo province. Volunteers in
indigenous communities helping to carry out
and monitor reforestation in their territory,
support from them to accommodate our staff
during
visits.
Volunteer
support
in
communications and artwork from UK and
Spanish friends. Some in-person medium-
term volunteers have participated in diverse
activities.|
|Other||N/A|
## **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|- Planted thousands of trees of cultural
importance, some critically endangered trees.
- Begun to create promising youth groups
interested and active in conservation and
monitoring
of
forests,
reforestation
and
collection of seeds.
- Created a network of foreign, local and
indigenous people in Ecuador interested in
collaborating on reforestation.
- Made 28 maps representing threats to, and
opportunities in, 24,000 hectares of primary
Siekopai forest.
- Trained 11 Siekopai in use of GPS units and
6 in use of satellite monitoring software to
make maps and detect reforestation.
- Carried out our first complete reforestation
project over 1.7 hectares with 97% survival
over its first 4 months.
- Generated goodwill, trust and mutual respect
in four indigenous nations as a base to do
impactful work with them in 2021.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|YAKUM set out to plant 8,000 trees in 2019-
2020. Our monitoring and evaluation shows
that we exceeded this target and planted out
almost 10,000 trees.|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Our fundraising targets were fallen well short
of, due to unpredicted COVID-19 economic
shutdown and funders closing their doors for
most of 2020. In August 2021 we have only
just reached stability of where we expected to
be in summer 2020.|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|Between UK and Ecuador YAKUM NGOs, we
had £23,388 income in 2019 and £23,128 in
2020. In terms of in-community field work we
planted
10,000
trees
over
this
time,
calculating at some £5.27 per tree planted
(this includes in-country salaries for team).|
We also carried out a project to map out forest resources and areas of importance in Siekopai forests covering 24,000 hectares. We consider this achievement tree-wise as somewhat low as our field accessibility in 2020 due to COVID was limited for 8months. In 2021 we aim to plant 30,000 trees and for this to calculate at £2-3 per tree based on our 2021 total budget.
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The charity holds £1,271 as donations
received to be paid out next year.|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We do not have a reserves policy as last year
we scraped by and have never really been in
a position to be able to have a reserve. In our
first operating year, the COVID-19 pandemic
caused great difficulty for YAKUM.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1,271|
|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|We had some concern about this in 2020
when the funding environment was incredibly
complex. Now in 2021 we are comfortable
and are about to reach our fundraising goals
for 2021 (and have more or less secured
2022).|
## **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|1.
Grant-giving organisations (approx.
80%)
2.
Private companies (10%)
3.
Individuals (10%)|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|We do not invest money so have no policy.|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The nature of our work is risky in that nature
can cause setbacks in the field work.
Nurseries full of plants can be lost to leafcutter
ants, rivers burst banks and cover planted
areas in silt.
YAKUM is not resilient to financial disaster
either; during COVID-19 we suffered loss of|
|partially negotiated funds. Funders we were|
|---|
|building relationships with became unable to|
|offer funds. Due to this we have been unable|
|to build a strong reserves and strategy.|
|Indigenous communities can be risky to work|
|with due to tenuous land ownership rights and|
|a culture which does not agree with medium-|
|term plans nor contracts, and Spanish (the|
|language we work in) being their second|
|language.|
|Ecuador´s
government
can
undermine|
|conservation, finances many destructive|
|projects which cause damage to ecosystems|
|and cultures.|
|COVID-19 makes it complex for us to mobilise|
|at times and there is risk of transport closures,|
|contagion
and
unpredictable
economic|
|situations in 2021.|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||Foundation CIO|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing
document|Para 1.25|Constitution for Foundation CIO|
|How is the charity
constituted?|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|(1) Apart from the first Charity Trustees, every
Trustee must be appointed by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting of the
Charity Trustees.
(2) 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
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|We do not have any as such but would follow
Charity Commission suggestions for this
procedure as all Trustees have been on the
board from the beginning. From Constitution:
The Charity Trustees will make available to
each new Charity Trustee, on or before his
or her first appointment:
(a) A copy of the current version of this
constitution and|
|---|---|---|---|
|||(b) A copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’
Annual
Report
and
Statement
of
Accounts.|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|The Charity has four Trustees located in the
UK and its Director is field-based in Ecuador.
The Director reports quarterly to the Trustees
on field activities.|
|Name of person (or body)
entitled to appoint trustee (if
any)||(1) Apart from the first Charity Trustees, every
Trustee must be appointed by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting of the
Charity Trustees.|
|Corporate trustees –
Director name||Nicholas Charles George Ovenden|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|YAKUM|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1186064|
|Charity’s principal address|2 BARKER CLOSE
RICHMOND
TW9 4ET|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4|**Trustee name**|**Office**
**(if any)**|**Dates acted if not**
**for whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Alexander McFarlane-Watts||||
||Georgina White||||
||Hamza Aynashe||||
||Zygmunt de Goris Jedrzejowski||Appointed
16/09/2021||
Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name** Nicholas Charles George Ovenden
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
|N/A|||
||||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Trustees do not hold assets, YAKUM does not hold assets
in the UK. We receive funds in the UK which are transferred
to Ecuador for field work to be carried out by a partner NGO
in Ecuador.|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|No assets held.We do not hold any funds on
custodianship, but donated money does not fall within the
custodianship rules and the money instantly becomes the
property of the charity rather than the doners fund.|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|No assets are held in the UK.|
## **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**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|Accountants|Best4business Accountants &
Co. Ltd.|44-45 Beaufort Court, Admirals
Way, London E14 9XL|
## **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**
## **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)** Alexander McFarlane-Watts **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 28.10.2021
**Charity Name No (if any) YAKUM 1186064 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 31/10/2019 31/12/2020
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**26,705**
**34**
**450**
**242**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**1,271**
**-**
**-**
**1,271**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**26,705**
**34**
**450**
**242**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**1,271**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,702**
**26,705**
**34**
**450**
**242**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,431**
**1,271**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations|**28,702**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**28,702**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
|Donations out|**26,705**|||||**-**|
|Service fees|**34**|||||**-**|
|Legal fees|**450**|||||**-**|
|Insurance|**242**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**27,431**|||||**-**|
||||||||
|**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_**|||||||
|||||||**-**|
||||||||
||**1,271**|**-**|**-**|**1,271**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**1,271**|**-**|**-**|**1,271**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/10/2021
1
## **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**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
Debtors
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,238**
**-**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,238**
**-**
**-**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,238**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**1,238**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**1,238**||**-**|
|||Alex McFarlane-Watts|||
||||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/10/2021
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** YAKUM **members of On accounts for the year** 31 DECEMBER 2020 **Charity no** 1186064 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 of CC16a
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2020.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**
||`28/10/2021`|
|---|---|---|
||||
||JOHN ATTHEY||
||||
||ACA||
||||
||44-45 BEAUFORT COURT||
||ADMIRALS WAY||
||LONDON E14 9XL||
1
**October 2021**
**IER**
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2021**
**IER**