ADP African Development Project
Annual Return for the Financial Year 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025
Responding to the challenge of Sexual Health, HIV and Social Exclusion
“Know your status”
ADP African Development Project
Annual Return for the Year 01/04/2024 – 31/03/2025
Project name : Responding to the challenge of Sexual Health and Social Exclusion
Charity registration number: 1188460
Ref: AR24-CIO-REM-10c
Trustees Names: George Willy N’kashama
Junior Kasongo Mukile
John Makende Nshombo
www.adpleicesterservices.co.uk
E-mail: adpafricandevelopmentproject@gmail.com
Funding collected: None.
People who managed the ADP African Development project in 01/04/2024 to 31/03/2025 are all part of a voluntary board of directors.
| directors. | |||
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| Trustee Name | Ofice | Date acted | Name of the person entitled to appoint Trustee |
| George N’kashama |
Chair | From 01/04 | George N’kashama |
| Junior Kasongo Mukile |
Secretary | From 01/04 | |
| John Malende Nshombo |
Treasurer | From 01/04 |
Structure, governance and management
Type of governing document: Constitution adopted on 20/07/2020
Type of charity: Charitable incorporated organisation C.I.O
CHAIR OF THE BOARD REPORT
Introduction
I am delighted to introduce to you ADP African Development project Annual report 2024-2025. The year 01 April to year 31 March 2025 has been hard for us to fulfil our objectives.
The funding has
become more harder with full of criteria making it hard for small charities in Leicester City to access the fund. This failing to get funding through the year brings barriers for us to expand our work from two years ago.
We have managed to span a broad range of activities, and which one we could financially cover with our contribution to support our campaign for HIV Prevention, STI Prevention and Early Pregnancy Prevention for young people and it’s consequences.
We have financed some small project ourself from Trustees monthly contribution to campaign for PrEP, HIV Testing and STI Testing (Sexually Transmitted Infections) like Syphilis, Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia. These STI’s can have a profound impact on people’s health if left untreated. They can lead to a serious consequences including infertility, catching HOV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). This year, we partnership with different organisations in the field like TRADE Sexual Health, LEICESTER Sexual Health Clinic (LSH) and Royal Hospital to jointly undertake action on prevention with the Self Testing Kits to reach more
undiagnosed people in Leicester to LGBTQ. This year, we mostly covered the African Community in this diversity of culture and religion. We also covered the business like African bars, clubs and barbershops in Leicester City with success.
All our Trustees give their time to volunteer and received no remuneration or other benefits but managed to donate £50/month to the charity as a voluntary contribution to keep the charity running. The upraising of the social media has increased the number of dating sites globally which is making it easy for people to meet and have sex afterwards. The touristic places are becoming more attractive for sex but there are less campaigns for sexual health. People travelling to the poor country where sexual health campaigns are nearly inexistant are more at risk for virus and bring it back in the country.
Following this, our target for 2024-2025 was changed to be also focused on our African fellows travelling abroad to give us a call to collect C-card (C-card is a NHS Scheme in Leicester City run by LSH, allowing people to collect free condoms from Pharmacy or superstores like ASDA, Tesco’s, etc..) when they need it. We recorded 236 calls in Leicester City for collection before the trip. We are going to carry in this project in the next year calendar also to allow us to fight back against the global toll of STI’s and build a culture where people can have sex safely.
The Sexual Transmitted Infection (STIS’s) has a profound impact on people’s health if left untreated.
They can lead to the serious consequences including infertility, ectopic pregnancy, still birth and increase the risk of catching HIV.
To fight this, we will need to increase the community testing capacity by recruiting more volunteers to be able to reach undiagnosed people and help them to know their status.
Just remember that our young people sexual health knowledge is coming from the services we are because of the culture barrier.
Last year, we have seen a growth on people visiting our website www.adpleicesterservices.co.uk. We now have a collaboration with the Royal Infirmary Hospital on STI’s testing kits. They will be providing the kits for free to be able to test people and send the sample to the laboratory. This collection ensures that our programs and services are tailored to meet the need of our clients, explore the system gaps and advocate for safe and equitable access to sexual health.
We are pleased to highlight our commitment to enhance sexual health education, give more information and services to the community.
The African community in Leicester is really behind with the sexual prevention information. Only 20% knows about PrEP or consequences if STI’s because of the high stigma in the community. Big barrier between parent and kids; different views. I’d also like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank all volunteers and trustees at ADP African Development Project for their effort without enough funding but hope for others.
We have had another challenging year which you demonstrated resilience and commitment to our mission and our clients.
ADP OVERVIEW Activities
ADP African Development Project is a charity based in Leicester City since 2020 with goals to respond to the challenge of sexual health and social exclusion. With focus on African community in Leicester City and Leicestershire.
Objective
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To raise awareness on HIV and STI’s (Sexual transmitted infections) prevention, sexual health (family planning) and social exclusion among the large African community in Leicester and Leicestershire to help raise the collective consciousness.
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Outreach to the African business and African community with health material supported by:
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Educating, understanding and giving more information to the African people to break the stigma link to the culture.
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Encourage people to come forward to the HIV and STI’s test.
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Demonstrated the positive fact of using a condom or PrEP as a contraceptive.
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Increase our testing capacity to be able to reach more undiagnosed people.
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To reduce the number of global tolls of STI’s in Leicester City and Leicestershire.
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To talk about family planning to avoid the unnecessary early pregnancy to the young ladies which could stop them to access high education and brining poverty to the society.
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To stop the stigma and discrimination.
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Teach the power of the red ribbon.
Networking with other organisations in the field like TRADE Sexual Health, Leicester Sexual Health clinic (LSH) and AFRO-INNOVATION.
Financial Review by Trustee; John Nshombo Malende
Total income:
Total expenditure:
Fundraising: No fund was raised except the trustees voluntary contribution.
Trading: Our charity do not have any kind of trade in place.
Trustee payments: No trustees received any kind remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
FINANCIAL YEAR 01 APRIL 2024 TO 31 MARCH 2025
| Expenditure | Project projection cost year 2024-2025 |
Project cost 2024-2025 |
Funded project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hire of ofice at business box |
£650/year | £648 | Voluntary donation |
| Outreach to the African business and community |
£6000/year | £1200 | Voluntary contribution from trustees |
| Stafs and volunteer snacks |
£2000/year | £0 | None |
| Operational costs | |||
| Domain renewal with E-solution |
£180/year | £180 | Voluntary contribution from Chair |
| Capital costs | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 | £150/year | £101,88 | Voluntary contribution from chairperson |
| Printing ink and IT staf |
£500/year | £200 | Trustee contributions |
| Training for condom use learningHIV |
£400 | £0 | Trustee contributions |
| Donations | £2500 | £1800 | Monthly donations from trustees at £50/month |
| Funding | £20,000 | £0 | None |
| Total project projection cost |
£32,380 | ||
| Total charity funded from 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025 |
£4,129,88 | ||
| Total charity expenditure |
£4,129,88 |
Events Testing week at De Montfort University GIVE HIV THE FINGER oTrAET 3NE . ITHE Fll,V•ER f T •'J
- Community group meeting
We hold a meeting with different groups from different backgrounds and culture about STIGMA and PrEP.
Cameroon community, Ivory-Coast community, Soudanese group, Congolese community, Ghanaian community and the Nigerian community.
- Word Aids Day celebration
Every year we do celebrate world Aids day to remember those who passed away because of the Aids.
We are still not have a global response. This time we celebrated at the Arts and Gallery Museum.
Achievements
As an achievement in the year 01 April 2024 to 31 March 2025, we managed to carry on our activity without any outside funding but only contribution from our trustee board and volunteer.
The number of the volunteers has been expanded to 14 volunteers a month to help us to increase our capacity testing to reach more undiagnosed people.
Our collaboration with the Leicestershire Sexual Health Clinic (LSH) has been successful. We achieved 86 C-cards under NHS C-card scheme for condom collections.
We started with the new community session where we talk about the benefits of PrEP contraception.
PrEP has a new hope for reducing the number of HIV positive in the UK. We still need the awareness to keep being raised to protect people are going with a casual partner.
We had about 5 advices session a month.
We reach 240 people from different African community in Leicester in the year.
We had a condom use training three times and 2 STI’s training in collaboration with TRADE Sexual Health organisation.
We received 236 calls for condom packs for those who are going abroad.
Today Development
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We will continue to expand our testing capacity with our selftesting kits.
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We will continue to stand against STIGMA and Discrimination.
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We will continue to campaign with alongside others Sexual Health organisation and clinics to get more people on PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis).
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More training on how to use condoms effectively and lube to the young people.
Impact
Our work has a big impact along the community, clinicians and sexual health organisation in Leicester city following difficulty for the hospital or clinicians to access information ir campaign alongside the African community.
We have played a mid domain to reduce the gap as part of the African community in Leicester ourself.
We have different partners now involved in the program:
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Leicester Sexual Health (LSH)
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TRADE Sexual Health
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TREC (The Race and Equality Centre)
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AFRO-INNOVATION looking after the asylum-seekers and refugees
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Barbershops (Hair saloon)
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B-Inspired
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VAT (Voluntary Action in Leicester)
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EACS (Europeans Aids Clinical Society)
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African bars and
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restaurants
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E-Solutions
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8% advice
session in month
60% outreach to the
community and
business achieved
3% on volunteer
STI’s kits training
5% achieved for
condoms used
30% call for
training
condoms pack Funding
received
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