Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 1 April 2020 31 March 2021 From To
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Community Action Ghana Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1188867
Charity's principal address 192 Botley Road Oxford Postcode OX2 0HW
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Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee (if
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1 Adrian Rosser Chair
2 Heather Rosser Secretary
3 Alyrene Rosser Manager
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
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Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
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Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by existing trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
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| Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document |
‘The prevention or relief of poverty in Ghana by providing: grants, items and services to individuals in need and/or charities, or other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.’ |
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| Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public beneft in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public beneft) |
Successful fundraising in excess of £4,000 to allow the charity to undertake it’s objectives. Planning for fundraising activities such as recruiting runners for the 2021 Oxford Half marathon has been undertaken, A 10 cubicle toilet block has been fnished in Alavanyo Dzogbedze A 10 cubicle toilet block has been started in Alavanyo Agome A library has been refurbished and stocked with books in Alavanyo Kpeme Books have been supplied to a library in Taf Atome The donation of 3,000 books was organised by Community Action Ghana from Book Aid International. A survey for a potable water supply has been undertaken in Gbedema Kof in preparation for drilling a borehole providing a pump and storage tank when funds allow |
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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policy on grantmaking;
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The website www.communityactionghana.org has been set up. The site and particularly the blog page is regularly updated and has good traffic driven organically and from our social media presence (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
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A volunteer worked on the search engine optimisation of the website
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Volunteers from the London School of Economics (LSE) have helped with: Communications and branding Fundraising Reviewing monitoring and evaluation methods
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
Sufficient funds have been raised to allow the activities of the charity to continue.
Visits to Ghana by the trustees have not happened due to the Covid 19 Pandemic but our partners in Ghana have proved invaluable in keeping the projects running and identifying other projects.
Getting the active cooperation of the communities of Alavanyo Kpeme, Dzogbedze, Agome, Tafi Atome and Gbedema Kofi to help with the projects in their communities. (Community Action Ghana tries wherever possible to get the communities to contribute about 50% of the costs through work in kind and providing locally available materials.)
The website www.communityactionghana.org has been set up and is updated regularly.
Talks have been given to a the Leos (Junior section of the Lions Club) school in New Zealand over Zoom culminating in their fundraising for the successful exploratory geological survey of the possible site for a borehole in Gbedema Kofi.
Section E Financial review
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The charity does not have reserves as such but as there are no Brief statement of the expenditures incurred without funds being available there is not charity’s policy on a need for reserves or a reserves policy. reserves Details of any funds None materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)
When projects are identified and costed fundraising is done to You may choose to include cover these costs. additional information, where relevant about: At present we have local business contributions and personal the charity’s principal friends of the trustees donate. sources of funds (including any The Trustees undertook fundraising for their Golden Wedding fundraising); Anniversary which raised over £2,000 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
Section G Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Adrian Clive Rosser Position (eg Secretary, Chair Chair, etc) Date 24/06/2021
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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Communlty A¢tlon Ghana Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th8 perfod from To 01- r-20 31-Mar-21 Section A Receipts and payments Unre8tricted lund5 Rostricted funds Endowment fund$ Totsl fund8 Lastyear Jth• to th• n•Dr••t£ toth• A1 Recel L&Thbons tota rt)ss InGome or AR) 9,051 951 set an lsee tsblel. nvestrnent sa A3Pa ments Money b3nsferfees Intemeifees Office SUpleS UK & Ghana Menals UK & Gh Haulage Gh¥na Tcx)is GharLa Customs clearan¢t Ghan8 Supervision Ghan8 68 128 3.052 473 612 310 1,085 128 473 $12 310 Sub total 0.713 &773 A4 Asset and Investment urcha$e8 $e8 tablt Sub total 4rn Not of receipts/(payments) A5 Transfers betsve8n funds A6 Cash funds last year •nd Cash funds thls year end 4078 CCXX R1 acJunts ISSI 07)7rxo1
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrl¢ted funds ¢0 nMr•StE Restricted lund to nr•lE Endowm¢nt funds Cat8godes Detai15 81 Cash fund$ cPA Cash GhAnp Tolal ¢8sh funds 5,385 rfllll 01.. Unre8trl¢td fund8 to neJrgt£ OK ox Éndowment fund8 tu M•rn*t£ Re8tr1¢ted fund8 Detalls Fundto whlch a8B•i belon Cuffgntyalup ona Costlopuonfyll Detsll8 B3 Irivostsment assèts Fund towhi¢h 488•t bèlon Curténtval Details Cost{optional) 34 A$$•ts retain for th• charity's own use Fund to which knount duA Wn dua Details 85 Liabilitles Sywd ty one oriwo twsteos on behajfof all the tN8tees &gnature Prirt Narn 10-7-21 CCKX R2 a¢<tyJnll ISSI 077r2021