## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 01 2024 31 12 2024 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details FRIENDS OF NEFOS KENYA **Charity name** FRIENDS OF NEFOS KENYA **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1189688 **Charity's principal address** FLAT 3 ELM PARK 161, SEASIDE, EASTBOURNE, EAST SUSSEX **Postcode BN227LY, UK** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Benta Sharp|Chairperson||| ||Fran Wittke|||| ||Hellen Taylor|||| ||Amber Dickinson|||| ||Cecilia Barry|||| ||Jodie Inns|||| ||Anouk Van Der
Avoirt|||| ||Kamila Zamora|||| ||Anne Davidson|||| ||Sophie Hogg|||| ||Sonia Sobiwiek|||| ||Rachel Ochiel|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Trust Deed Trust - (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Appointment and Election - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To support a sustainable environment and food security by raising funds for Network for Environment and Food Security (NEFOS), which is a development organization that seeks to empower the rural **Summary of the objects of the** communities in Kenya to move towards sustainable **charity set out in its** development, through an overall increase in their knowledge, **governing document** skills, and capacities in areas that directly affect their standard and quality of life. NEFOS enables communities to achieve enhanced socioeconomic status through optimal utilization of local resources for sustainable March **2012** **TAR** 2 environmental management and food security. The key programs that the charity raises funds for include: Cultivation of reliant Crops: Promote improved and biofortified varieties of seeds. The approach is focused on working with groups or associations of farmers to increase access to improved seeds in the community based on local solutions. Capacity-Building Trainings: Develop the skills and knowledge of smallholder farmers to increase agricultural production and productivity, intensify **Summary of the main** sustainable **activities undertaken for the** agriculture based on agro-ecological principles, and manage natural **public benefit in relation to** resources **these objects (include within** sustainably. **this section the statutory** Agribusiness: Provide smallholder farmers with training in understanding **declaration that trustees have** the **had regard to the guidance** business demand and supply concepts and negotiating their products. **issued by the Charity** Through this **Commission on public** approach, skills will be developed not only for subsistence cultivation but **benefit)** also for agricultural businesses. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance During the year 2024, the charity supported four community-based **Summary of the main** organizations (CBOs) in Kenya to grow drought-resistant maize and **achievements of the charity** moringa plants and beekeeping. This impacted over 50 families and 250 **during the year** individuals. The charity also donated clothes to newborn babies and books to two primary schools, thereby improving their libraries. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** NEFOS Charity maintains financial reserves to ensure the stability of its **Brief statement of the** operations and the continued delivery of services to the community in the **charity’s policy on reserves** event of unexpected funding shortfalls or emergencies. The charity aims to hold reserves equivalent to **three to six months of normal operating costs** . This level is considered sufficient to cover essential expenses such as staff, program delivery, and administrative commitments while alternative funding sources are sought. Reserves will be reviewed annually by the trustees as part of the budgeting and risk management process to ensure they remain appropriate for the charity’s size, activities, and financial position. **Details of any funds materially** Friends of NEFOS does not have any funds materially in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** - You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - • 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** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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