4RAFIV Marafiki Trust Annual Report and Financial Statements for year ended 31 Dec 2022 Registered Charity Number 1187949 PIC•CQLLAGE
MarafikiTrust ATrnu31 Rert 2022 MARAFIKI TRUST Charity Infomiation Trustees Nicola Guise BS¢.BEng Elizabeth (Liz) Tumbull LLB Rebecca Smith (from January 2023) Regist•red charlty number 1187949 Reglstered offlce Inanda Church Street Wadenhoe PE8 5ST Independent •xamlner Judie Woods FCA DChA BFP 90 South Road Oundle Peterborough PE8 4BP ICAEW member Bankers Barclays Leicester LE87 2BB
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MaraflkfjTn*Ann401 Rert 2022 The Trustees present their Annual rekK)rt and a¢¢Jnts of the Marafiki Trust for the year ended 31 December 2022. Structure ov rn nce and mana structure Marafiki Tmst. also known as MT (the Charity) is registered with the Charity Commission with charity number 1187949. The Charity was originally fom)ed in December 2019 and became a registered charity 13 Febnjary 2020. Governance and Management The Trustees manage the affairs of the Charity. The trustees who held officE during the year are listed on page 2. The Charity's conslitution requires a minimum of trustees. The Tnjstees confiryn that they have mplIed with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidan on public benefit. 'Charities and Public Benefif. The Charity does not have any employees. The Trustees cary OLrt all day to day management of the Charity. ObJects The prevention and relief of poverty in Kenya or the UK by providing grants, items and seNices to individuals in need andlor charities and other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty andlor provide educational opportunities. Our Vlslon A world where all chIldn have the 0pFX1UnIfy to access a formal education no matter their age, sex, religion. background or abilty- Activlties, achlevements and perfomiance Marafiki Trust was tM)m out of a desire on the part of its founding Trustees (Nicola and Liz) to support projects in Kenya to provide education and facilities for disadvantaged groups of children living in poverty in the slum areas of Nairobi. On a trip through Africa in 2016, the founding Trustees met the founder5 of the Real Hope Community Youth Organisation I'RHYCO,) and subsequent visits cemented a deep friendship beeen the Trustees and the founders of RHYCO, which is currently the main beneficiary of funding from the Charity. In addition, the Trustees help to fund a small project- Joyful Hearts Centre I'JHC'I established to support a small group of children with cerebral palsy. The Trustee5 desire a 'hands on. approach to their support and giving to RHYCO and JHC and want to ensure that their donations are maximised without overheads in the UK. The Trustees ensure that all donations and grants are used for the charitable purposes they are
Marafikn Tru5tAnnual RerKrt 2022 intended for. The Trustees cover all administration expenses in the UK e.g. the website hosling fee and the Trustees personally cover all expenses (including accommodation and food) lating to any trips they make to Kenya. The Covid pandemic having prevented visits to the projects beeen February 2020- December 2021, the Trustees were delighted to resume regular visits and to start a volunteer programme for sponsors and supp)rters of all ages. Sponsorship Of the 109 children in the RHYCO programme at the end of the year, 58 children had UK sponsors through the Charity. The remaining children arg sponsored through International Needs UK, Intemational Needs Canada and through RHYCO direct. During 2022. RHYCO sponsorship in the UK was £20 per month (with Gift Aid where approprialel and JHC full sponsorship was £40 per month. Of the 12 children registered at JHC, 1 child has a full £40 monthly sponsorship. and 3 thildren have part sponsors at £20 per month. The Trustees continue to seek sponsors for the JHC children and continue to look for more sponsors for new RHYCO children needing to join the programme as well as focussing on dual sponsorship for those children at the top end of Primary School heading to High School (in the old educational system). The RHYCO children have written to their sponsors twice this year and sponsors are kept regularly up to date with photos of their sponsored Children. The Trustees facilitate a letter exchange programme and deliver gifts when they visit. With the help of sponsors, the Charity funds monthly joint birthday parties for all the Ghildren having a birthday in the given month. BELLA CIAO {meanlng 'beautifvl welcome.): In December 2020, the RHYCO team tk up a 2-year tenancy of new premises ('Bella Ciao'l in Kawangware. Moving from shared facilities at Kabiro Communty Centre, the team renovated and refurbished sparious exclusive-use premises in a more desirable location in Kawangware, which now enables provision for more children to access the year-long programme at the drop4n centre prior to formal education. as well as continuing with after- school provision and holiday provision for the children who are registered at the ntr8. The two year lease contsined provision for RHYCO to purchase the premises by the end of October 2022. The agreement gave RHYCO first right of fUSal at a fixed price of 30,000,000 KSH (approximately £2(KJ,000). As a 'Community Based Organisalion,, RHYCO was not legally entitied to acquire and own property so during 2022, the organisation engaged the sery1S of lawyers through a child-focussed legal group {'Legal Sisterf) to firstly register the organisation as a 'company limit by guarantee. {foedY registered as Real Hope Community Foundation (RHCFI but still known as RHYCO). Upon successful completion the process began to purchase the premises which was completed on 19 October 2022. Funds were provided by Intemational Needs Canada and the Charity jointly. INCA had a single donor ftjnd their half share. The Charity was able to raise over half of their share of the purchase costs (which in addition to the purchase price included legal fees, registration costs and stamp duty totalling £117,601.83). The remainder of the funds for the Charity's share of the purchase costs was loaned to the Charity by a donor who wrshes to
ran&J TrustAnnual Repjrt 2022 protect their identity and is to be repaid (interest free) as soon as ry)ssibl8. when ftjnds are avallable. Bella Ciao continues to offer respite residential care in the fomi of a safe house for those children for whom home lrfe becomes unaPbIY difficult. The safe house can accommodats up to 25 children who are cared for by a resident housemother and social worker. In addition to the safe house, the premises indudes accommodation for 2 resident staff and 2 security guards, a dininglm&eting hall. a library and dassrooms, wash facilsties and toilets, kitchen and laundry facilities and a¢xommodation for volunteers, which it is hoped will continue to generate income as well as providing an immersive experience for volunteers. JHC continues to operate independently wthin separate accommodation in the Bella Ciao ¢ompoLsnd with both groups benefiting hugely from the interaction belrnn the children and economies of scale and staff overlap. Fundraislng In 2021, the Trustees set up an ongoing JustGiving c2mpaign page - Buying Bricks for Bella Ciao (www. justgiving.comlcampaignibuyingbellaciao) to raise funds for the purchase of Bella Ciao. A number of fundraising initiatives throughout the year contributed towards the ongoing running costs as well as the purchase price and the Trustees are grateful to all those who have and continue to assist bmth this. During the purchase prosS, links belween RHYCO and the ovmers of the Organic Farmers Market in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya grew and evolved such that primary school fees are being met as well as a weekly Gontribulion towards fruit and vegetables. This has been an immense help in enabling the Charity to focus on raising fijnds for the purthase of Bella Ciao. In Dernber 2020, the Sullivan family kindly committed lo finan the provision of cnunselling services through the Charity for the RHYCO project for 2 years to commence in March 2021. A counselling room was set up and the professional semces of a trained counsellor are available 3 days per week. The Trustees are delighted to be able to support this important and essential service and hugely grateful to the Sullivan family who have continued to support it. At the start of the year, folkjpunk band Ferocitws Dog held a nCert in their hometown of Warsop delighting fans and raising over £6000 towards the purchase of Bella Ciao. Lead singer, Kenny Bonsall gave an emotional speech about his visit to Kawangware. Huge gralitude to his wfe Karen who did so much behind the scenes to organise the event. band members and support acts, Luke Wheatley (lighting and sound) and to Bob Cheatham (a child sponsor) who through VicsGigs facilitated advertising, ticket sales and a video shown on the night. Thank you to newly appointed Trntee, Becky Smtth for her Tansor Snowdrop event in February 2022 and as always to Margaret Hunter who continues to support the Charity through sales of her fairies and other sewing items.
IAarafiki TnJstAnnual Rewrt 2022 Vince Hayward has made regular additional donations and now funds the Charity's share of monthly birthday parties. An Educational Empowerment JustGMng campaign succeeded in funding secondary school fees for the first of the MarafikF sponsored children to graduate to High School in January. The Kajatswa Foundation generously donated £20,(KIO towards the purchase of the Bella Ciao premises and the Charity also re[Ved donations from the Hudson Trust and Foester Foundation during the year. Farah Sharp and Caroline McEvoy entertained a delighted audience at Oundle's Stahl Theatre during their .60 MINUTES to SELF DESTRucf comedy night raising funds for the purchase of Bella Ciao. Rob White completed a cyde ride from Crays PoThJ to Lands End raising funds for the Charity. Child sponsor, Jane Booth held a hula hoop fundraising challenge and inspired the children at Bella Ciao to do the same in September. (knr £3CKIO was raised in these combined initiatives. Welland School of Ballet donated a significant amount of ball8t clothes facilitated by Laura Hector, a former student. Helen and lain Russell held a fabulous tennis tournament furKJraiser in September. The Trustees spoke at the Oundle Rotary Club AGM. after whith a £100 donation was made to the Charity. Links between Uffington Primary School and Bella Ciao grew with ZlM)m chats and ndraisers as well as pen pal letter exchanges. Oundle Primary &hool had a fundraising day, triathlon event and children have also been writing to children at Bella Ciao. Oundle School held a Christmas concert with proceeds from ticket sales and donations on the door being generously donated to the Charity. Sue Wood donated the proceeds of weekly yoga classes in Wadenhoe, and a Wadenhoe resident received donations for plants that were offered outside his home. Tom Jelpke's 'Christmas lurkey trov in Nottingham pised funds at the end of the year. Throughout the year. funds have been reiVed through 'Amazon Smile. and 'Give as You Live, customers nominating the Charity. Disapp)intingly Amazon Smile have recently stopped this service. The Trustees would like to express our huge appreeiation to all our supporters, child sponsors and donors without whom this valuable work woukl not have been px)ssible.
Marafiki TAnnUal Rep2022 Volunteers Our volunteer programrrE got off to a great stsrt with 18 year old school leaver Oscar Hughes's planned 4 week visit in January being extended to 4 months because he was enjoying his expertence so much! He was joined by Olliy Barron and Ruth Warwick at Easter and the three of them (by wrtue of a fundraiser organised by Ruth) took a large group of children from RHYCO and JHC to the giraffe ntre in Nairobi. Camille Kynoch and family also visited over Easter arKI provided yoga equipffEnt and 'Young Yogis, training during a number of sessions at Bella Ciao. Oliver Cunirffe and Evie Phillips Msited in JU and tk a group of children on scout camp. other visitors, in addition to the Ttee$ induded Amanda Lovett, Nick Tumbull, Amelie Holtby and Tom Denny. 'My experience of volunteering was one of the most inspiring things I've done. Within the first few hours of an7ving and meeting the kids, I was already looking to extend my stay.1 I've been following the work the Marafiki Tnjst are doing fora few years now. but I wasnt aware of the full impact that the Charity has had unhl I went out to see it first hand. Everyone was so wolcoming and l instantly UndetOOd why the Trustees refer to th8 staff as their Kenyan family,. I was only there for 3 weeks but in that time it felt like a s&cond home and I will be back., Olliy Barron Financlal Review Total income received during the period was £ 131670. Total expenditure during the period was £151872. induding grants of £145433 to RHYCO and £1696 to JHC. totalling £147,129. As a result the Charity has generated a net deficit of £20202. A major part of the expenditure in the later part of this financial year were grants to fund the purchase of the property that the projects were leasing. to give secured premises for the fvture. As a registered charity Marafiki Trust is exempt from corpcration tax and income tsx on the charitable aGtivities. Reserves Policy The Trustees, policy is to aim to maintsin a Suffic level of general reserves to enable the Charity to continue to support at least three months running costs in the general RHYCO and JHC Funds. In addition, the Charity hold monies allocated for unrestricted Marafiki Trust use. The estimated free reserves required, on a prudent basis. is £5,000. As at 31 Dernber 2022, the Chaiity held £2,308 of unrestricted reserves and £1,586, in the RHYCO and JHC general funds. This is lower than Mleal but funding was very tight to support the purchase of the premises and addttional efforts to raise funds will be made in 2023.
Marafiki TtAnnUal RekW)rt 2022 As anticipated. donors in Canada (through Intemational Needs Canada) are supporting the full running costs of JHC beyond the monthly sponsorship money pledged by Marafiki donors. Rlsk Assessment The Trustees regularly monitor risks at each meeting. The cost of living in Kenya has remained high Sin the Covid pandemic. The Future The hope for Ihe future is to acquire ftjnding to pay off the purchase loan for the Bella Ciao premises in Kawangware as soon as possible whilst continuing to meet the ever increasing running costs of the centre. A (xp has been put on new children joining the centre until sponsors are secured for all existing children. Due to cost of living issues in the UK a few sponsors have had to suspend their contributions during 2022. Costs of secondary school education are significantly higher than primary and are not covered by the gonerous OFM donations so dual sponsorship or asking sponsors to increase their donations is the only way to meet Ihese costs and make support sustainable in the long term. "To make a drffernnce in someone s lrfe, you dony have to be bnlliant. rich, beautrful or perfect. You just have to Ca.- MANDY HALE This port was approved by the Trustees on 13 September 2023 and signed by Nicola Guise Elizabeth Tumbull Trustee Trustee
Marafikl TnAfftUaI Rewrt 2022 Inde ndent Examlnerfs Re ort to the Trustees I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Marafiki Trust {the "Chariv) for the period ending 31 December 2022. Respert5ve responsibillties of trustees and examlner As the Charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charttie5 Act 20111the Act). I report in respett of my examination of the ChariWs accounts carried out under sertion 145 of the Act and in carrying out my Èxamination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515){bl of the Act. Independent examlnerfs statement I have completed my examination. I can conflrm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wlth the examlnation giving me cause to belleve that In any material respect: accountin8 records are not kept In respert of the Charity as required by section 130 ofthe Art, or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records I have no concerns and have come acr055 no other matters in connection wlth the examination to whlch attention should be drawn In order to enable a proper understandln8 of the accounts to be reached. Judie Woods FCA DChA BFP 13 September 2023 io
MarafikiTrwt Annual Rewrt2022 Receipts and Payments Account For year ending December 2022 Charity Number 1187949 Yearendknl 311121202Z Unrestrkte R•strttsd Totalfvnds Yearendkni 3111212021 In[rfron. DrtionS Fundraisir 8.no 82,792 40,168 91502 40,168 17525 17510 Totsl knm 122.960 13L670 35.oa6 ExpendIr# on: Ralstn8 Funds tharitable actNttiÈs 175 14,716 175 136921 151.697 37571 Total eJwdltur• 14,951 136.921 15L8n 37.S71 Net irthnellexpend*ture 162411 1139611 1202021 125361 Bakn£È brou8ht foThrdr. 17. 791 Balantè carrled Thrd 3.746 li
Maraffiw TrustADDual Report 2022 Balance Sheet For year ending 31 December 2022 Charity Number 1187949 Balance Sheet 3V121202Z 3111212021 Current assets Cash In bank ènd In hand 6.054 26,256 Credltors: amounts falllnl due within one year Nei current assets 6P54 26256 Total •ssets Funds Unrestricted income lund Restrkted income lund 2308 3.746 4.092 21164 Total funds 6,054 26,256 12
Marnfiki TrustAnni&)l Repjrt 2022 Notes to the Accounts for the ear to 31 December 2022 l. Accounting policies The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. Charlty Informatlon The financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis and are presented in sterling which is the functional currency of the Charity. Funds Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity and which have not been designated for other purposes. Designated funds comprise unrestricted fundsthat have been set aside by the Trustees for particular purposes. The aim and use of each designated fund is set out in the notes to the financial statements. Restricted funds are funds which are to be used in accordance with the specific restrictions imposed by donors or which have been raised by the Charity for particular purposes. The cost of raising and administering such funds are charged against the specrfic fund. The aim and use of each restricted fund is Set out in the notes to the financial statements. Income recognition All incoming resources are included in the Receipts and Payments Account when the Charity receives the cash or monie5 directly into its account. Donated professional services are recognised in income at their fair value i.e. The amount the Charity would be willing to pay in the open market for such facilities and services. A corresponding amount is recognised in expenditure. No amount is included in the financial statements for volunteer time. Expenditure recognition All expendrture is accounted for on a cash basis and has been classified under headings that aggregate all costs related to the category. Support Costs Support costs are those that assist the work of the Charity but do not directly represent charitable artivtties and include administrative costs. They are incurred directly in support of expenditure on the objects of the Charity. allocated to expenditure on charitable activities. 13
Marafik6TrwtAnnual Re)rt 2022 2. Control The Charity decisions are made by the Trustees as a body which is detailed on page 2 of this report. No one trustee or group of trustees has dominant control. 3. Analysls of Inc(yne 12 monthsto Dec 2022 Total funds 12 months to Dec 2021 Total funds Income from: Donations Child Sponsorship Events Raffles Grants receievd 76.859 14.643 14,668 17,525 12.286 79 1,745 3,400 25.5(K) Total Income 131.670 35.036 4. Payments to Trustees The Trustees cover trip costs and any other administrative expenses like website charges, printin& postage etG themselves. 14
Maraffiki TnJ5tAnnl Rer)rt 2022 5. Analysls of funds UN¢siiitttd Marafiki tr&tEd RMYro 4.IP)2 4.158 &S34 176 &7W IW 113461 IJm51 L746 562 16 RKICO Childsr•wsllp AHYCO¥tntral 924 1758 ILini {ts21 fL375} PEP 1176 {1.350J 826 359 97 IL2 Grfts 8113 tiaowrlk75e L312 10.ts7 102.461 17.Th IIUSI Il3251 IiU5991 iO.U81 I960 roTA FiifiDS 4054 Notes on funds Unrestricted Marafiki= Funds with no restriction than for our charity. l.e., could be used for a project other than RHYCO orJHC {Joyful Hearts Centre}. We aim to keep a minimum of £500 in this fund for unforeseen issueslprojects. Unrestricted RHYCO JHC: Funds that can be used for any aspect of RHYCO or JHC RHYCO child sponsorship: Funds donated specifically for RHYCO children sponsored by individuals1£20/month per child). Most donors give monthly though some donate annually so there is money carried forward each month. RHYCO general: Funds raised for any aspect of RHYCO but not JHC or other projects. JHC child sponsorship= Funds donated specifically for JHC children sponsored by individuals1£40/month per child divided between two sponsors) JHC general: Funds raised for any aspect of JHC but not RHYCO or other projects. Parental Empowerment project {PEP)." Funds raised by a grant to cover a year of support in the programme to enable families (usually Mumsl to set up in small businesses allowing them to start providing for themselves. 15
Mafafiki TntstAnnu41 Rep 2022 Counselling: Funds donated speclfically to provide counselling in the new centre, particularly for children who have undergone significant trauma and abuse through the recent period when the centre had to be closed because of the pandemic. Children gifts: Funds donated for specific chlldren orfor birthday parties or Christmas gifts. Bella Ciao Purchase: Funds donated speclallyto support the purchase of the new premises. Some of these funds were donated specifically after the purchase to help pay off the loan. 16