ADP African Development Project
Trustee’s Annual Report 01/04/2022 – 30/04/2023
Responding to the challenge of Sexual Health, HIV and Social Exclusions.
“Know Your Status”
ADP African Development Project Trustees Annual Report for the Year 01/04/2022 To
30/04/2023 separately with the Financial Statement of the Charity
Charity information
Reference and Administration Details:
Charity Name: ADP African Development Project
Charity number: 1188460
Organisation Type: Charitable incorporated Organisation Main Office: B-Box Business
3, Oswin Road, Leicester
LE3 1HR
Banker: HSBC – UK
11 Hinckley Road, Leicester
LE3 OLG
The Mains Funders For The Year 2022 - 2023
ADP African Development Project
Aims and Objectives
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To raise awareness on HIV Prevention and Sexual Health in general.
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To provide Education and Awareness on Positive Sexual Health.
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Outreach to the African Community in Leicester and Leicestershire, African businesses like Bar restaurants and Barber shops with support of Sexual Health materials campaign to break the stigma on HIV and other Sexual Infections.
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To stand against Stigma and Discrimination in that area.
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To expand the Community Testing Capacity in Leicester and Leicestershire.
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To promote the use of Material Protective like PrEP and Condoms .
ADP African Development Project (ADP) is a voluntary organisation which was established since 20[th] March 2020.
We exist to keep raising awareness on HIV, promoting a Positive Sexual Health, Teaching young people how to protect themselves to avoid infections and early pregnancy. To give most of the tools while they are growing up and to challenge social exclusions.
Area of work included:
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Advice and Support
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Community Development
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Promoting Sexual Events
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Social Commitment
Telephone: 07538182874
www.ADPLeicesterservices.co.uk
email: ADPAfricanDevelopmentProject@gmail.com
Facebook: Facebook/ADPAfrican Development Project
Address: B-Business Box
03, Oswin Road, Leicester
LE3 1HR
Afliated Organisation & Partners
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Leicester Sexual Health (LSH)
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Trade Sexual Health
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Afro Innovation
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TREC
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B-Inspired Organisation
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Reaching People
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VAL Voluntary action in Leicester
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TERRANCE HIGGINS Trust
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EACS European Aids Clinical Society
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PrEPster, Africa Advocacy
Future development
Focus on PrEP Revolution.
To describe the use of Truvada as prevention for exposure to HIV (PrEP ) Infections in the United Kingdom. The use of PrEP and the challenges of Implementation are very instructive as other countries adopt this intervention and it becomes a fundamental part of Worldwide effort for HIV prevention, and much can be learned now as NHS adopted.
The Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV is the use of drugs, typically antiretrovirals, by uninfected individuals to prevent them from acquiring HIV infection.
We need to look around the African Community in Leicester and UK in particularly. If people have knowledge of PrEP and how many people are using it. What the LEVEL of Stigma.
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Focus on Crossing Border
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Every year during the summertime, a lot of Africans try to go back home for the holidays where there is not enough provision of HIV prevention materials, therefore there is a risk of acquiring HIV for those are very active in the African Land. In 2022, we served around 1700 condoms to the Citizens of United-Kingdom living in Leicester City and Travelling to the Africa land both Male and Female.
Trustees Annual Report
As Lockdown restrictions ease, the charity commissions brought some changes following the UK government running costs and demand to rise. With the Inflation rising in 2022-2023, the increase in Living Costs is likely to lead to lower-income households to struggle financially. As a result, the demand for the charity services increase and our sector get more challenges. The outlook for funding remains uncertain. As the society goes forward, the charity commission decided to go digital, to create an Online Service but there’s still a concern about how many volunteers would have a lack of Digital Skills in our organisation.
It took us time to register for Charity Commission Online Services and to fully understand how the service was going to work which held us back a little bit in our plan.
The Charity Commission was launched on 31/07/2023 and each charity need to have set up their own Charity Commission Account, using a personal email address and password to access the service on behalf of a charity.
Our services became accessible to Charity Commission Account Log In only in November 2023.
This new system is easy to access the services and help with the environment.
Big thanks to the Charity Commission Teams for this Digital Innovation where from one account we can access everything.
IN 2023, it was the year of Government Financial difficulty with high inflation. More donations were going for the foods, Energy price, etc… This Sexual Health factor has suffered for fundings, and ADP African Development Project was the case.
Big Thanks to the “ The Henry Smith Charity ” for supporting our cause. This grant of £10,000 really helped us to cover our activities in the year 2022 to 2023. Also, big thanks to the Leicester Community Foundation for your support of £2,500 to carry on supporting our Digital program in giving more information to the Leicester and Leicestershire African Community through our website. We know that to drive everyone digitally is not easy where old generation of African people in Leicester are still behind on computing skills. This is going to be also one of our targets for the year to come to help people about how to find Sexual Health information and how to apply for the Black Condoms online to be delivered at the address or collected from our office. Our collaboration with different organisations in the field like TRADE (LGBT Organisation) and Leicester Sexual Health (LSH) are very successful.
We joined together with TRADE in 2023 to do all major activities like testing week at Alino Bar/Restaurant, World AID Day at Leicester Museum and art gallery, football event at Highfields Rangers Fc. We stick together to do more events to raise awareness on HIV Prevention , Black condoms, and PrEP.
Unfortunately, last year 2023, two of our Key Trustee Members left the organisation for a full pay job.
We managed to recruit a new Trustee in the name of Dr Junior Kasongo. Very good in Digital world. Dr Junior Kasongo is a new Trustee in the committee Director Board of ADP African Development Project.
Achievement & Performance
Very happy to see how our website performed in 2023. See the Performance Diagram from our Domain Provider Fats Hosts.
We have started from nothing to achieve 2697 viewers in July 2023 to drop to 1658 viewers in August 2023 then the number of visitors decreased again by 1820 in September 2023 compared to last month. We decreased again in number of visitors to out website to 1508 viewers in October 2023, then picked it up again in November 2023 to 1904 viewers, then finishing the year of 2023 with fewer 1512 viewers. That from our website www.ADPLeicesterServices.co.uk.
But we also got performance from door-to-door to the African Business-like Hair Cuts shop, African Bar/Restaurants, door to our office. We had 844 people visiting our office during the year to request “ ORA Quick HIV Test ”. It is a saliva test to cut down on blood test contamination. We have people requesting for black condoms also; An American condoms style. A lot of them are those who are travelling to Africa for holiday.
The challenges are also there because not much awareness or protective materials are available. We are still giving them knowledge about the risks they may face and their vulnerability to adverse consequences of unprotected sexual activity.
Challenges
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The Early Pregnancy in Leicester are becoming very challenging among the Young African generation. We need to put more work around it.
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The funding is getting hard in the Sexual Health Sectors.
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A stock for our new testing kits ORAQUICK . NO need for needles, no blood taken just a swab sample.
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We encourage people to have their own test kit to test at home at anytime they feel at risk.
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Luck of big stock of condoms for travellers. We want to make sure that there is an increase of contraceptive uptake among the Black Africans.
Future Development
Our organization growth (see Diagram from FastHosts) push us also to concentrate on the diversity among Black African Community in Leicester and Leicestershire.
Each African Community in Leicester has his own culture which sometimes are hard to break the Stigma, to talk about the subject openly.
This future development will include:
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Working with young people
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Participating in similar organisation event
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Networking with others
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Increasing our Awareness on social media.
| Financial Activities Year 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 | Financial Activities Year 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 | Financial Activities Year 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 | Financial Activities Year 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 |
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| ADP Financial Report01 April to 31 March 2023 | |||
| Expenditure | PROJECT PROJECTION COST Year 2022-2023 |
Project Cost 2022-2023 |
Funded Project For |
| Hire of Ofce | £800/Year | £547,20 | Hiring an ofce at B- BusinessBox Leicester |
| Outreach to The African Business and Community in Leicester City |
£6000/Year | £4800 | Weekly Transport to all Volunteer for outreach to the African business and Community to raise Awareness on Sexual Health. |
| STAFFS and Volunteers’ Snacks |
£2000/Year | £2080 | Weekly SNACKs for All Volunteers and TRUSTEE |
| Operational Costs |
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| Domain Renewal Cost with Fast Hosts Company |
£50/Year | £50 | A yearly expense to renew our Domain |
| Performance Costs with FastHosts Company |
£150/Year | £144 | A monthly Performance Evaluation for ADP website |
| Momentum Web Hosting with Fast Hosts Limited |
£156/Year | £158.4 | Ofering a statistic of our website. www.adpleicesterservices.c o.uk |
| Extended Supporton PHP |
£0 | £0 | Our PHP hosting was no long compatible |
| Website Commissioning, Maintenance and Training with E-Solution US Company |
£1000 | £880 | Twice a year we do ofer to our stafs IT training and Maintenace to our website |
| ADP Jumpers Printing |
£1000 | £780 | Printing an ADP jumper with message “Ask me for C-Card” to raise awareness onc-card |
| Printing ADP Material |
£300 | £300 | Printing Posters, leafet and T-shirt for ADPcampaign |
| Testing Equipment |
£500 | £383.80 | Purchasing a HIV advanced home self testing ORAQUICK with INVITECH.COMPANY. It is an oral test to avoid Blood contamination |
| Condoms | £0 | £0 | Provided by LSH (Leicester Sexual HealthClinic) |
| following our contract to them. |
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| Business card for ADP |
£200 | £200 | Producing ADP African Development project business card. |
| Events | £2000 | £1000 | Football tournament community building through sport, health awareness and music to promote Sexual Health Prevention. National Testing week and International World AIDS Day |
| Capital Costs | |||
| Microsoft MSPO Software+ 365+ McAFEE |
£500 | £264.99 | Software for all ADP laptops |
| Software Installation “know how” |
£80 | £80 | Software installation for repair |
| Printers, INK and IT equipment |
£500 | £329.98 | Purchasing Epson E-Tank Printer for ADP work and Ink |
| Training on HIV evolution and condomuse |
£400 | £150 | Training diferent community to understand how HIV works |
| Accounting | £500 | £300 | |
| Donations | £360 | £360 | Monthly Donation from TRUSTEES at 10/Month |
| TOTAL Project Projection Cost |
£15.896 | ||
| TOTAL CHARITY Funded from 01 April 2022 to 31 March 2023 |
£12900 | Funded by: THE HENRY SMITH CHARITY AND LEICESTER AND RUTLAND Community Foundations. |
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| TOTAL CHAIRTY Expenditure |
£12.448 |