## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 02/04/2023 Period start date to 01/04/2024 Period end date**
**Charity name: Same Opportunities For All (SOFA)**
## **Charity registration number:** 1190662
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP
reference||
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|Summary of the
purposes of the
charity as set out in
its governing
document|Para
1.17|To contribute towards the elimination of discrimination on the
grounds of gender, disability, sexual orientation or religion in
Ghana, to advocate for and raise awareness on educational,
disability and human rights in Ghana and to promote social
inclusion for the public benefit by preventing social exclusion,
relieving the needs of those socially excluded and assisting them
to integrate into the society.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to
those purposes for
the public benefit, in
particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in
the accounts.|Para
1.17 and
1.19|Providing education materials, school uniforms, cooking
ingredients to 2 children living with disabilities in the rural areas
of in Namoalogo; Northern Ghana
Providing made to measure school uniforms to orphans in
Namoalogo; Northern Ghana|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees
have had regard to
the guidance issued
by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para
1.18|
This is to confirm that the trustees have taken into regards the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit|
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reference||
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Policy on grant making
|
Para 1.38|**n/a**|
||
|**n/a**|
|
Policy on social
investment including
program related
investment
|Para 1.38|
|
|---|---|---|
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Contribution made by
volunteers
|
Para 1.38|n/a|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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reference||
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|
Summary of the main
achievements of the
charity, identifying the
difference the charity’s
work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any
wider benefits to
society as a whole.
|
Para 1.20
Para 1.41
|
**-**Sense of ownership: Students that were normally given hand
me down uniforms could now boast of their own uniforms
through SOFA’s school uniform sponsorship program
-Disability Inclusion: Discussion with the families of the only two
children in the village living with a disability to reassure them
that if they accept, SOFA will want to be a part of their journeys
encouraging them every step of the way. SOFA provides
cooking ingredients every quarter to the families and is in
regular contact with the headteacher of their school for
progress report (with permission from their respective families)|
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the period|
Para 1.21|Since organizing and executing our first couple
of projects the last financial year, there have
been discussion during the trustee meetings
surrounding fundraisings & grant applications so
we are not relying on only donations in the
future|
|---|---|---|
|Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating why
theyare held|Para 1.22|SOFA has 0 holding reserves for now. This will
be reviewed in due course|
|Number of reserves held|Para 1.22|0|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|We saw no need for it during this financial year.
This will be reviewed in the next financial year|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|n/a|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|No uncertainties|
|
The charity’s principal sources
of
funds
(including
any
fundraising)
|
Para 1.47|Money donations was SOFA’s only source of
funds during this financial year. As we operate in
Ghana, the pound goes a long way due to the
currency exchange thus enabling us to carry out
the projects we set out to do.|
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|
Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted
|
Para 1.46|N/A|
|
A description of the principal
risks facing the charity
|
Para 1.46|N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document|Para 1.25
|Association Model Constitution|
|How is the charity constituted?
|Para 1.25|CIO|
Para 1.25
Trustee selection methods including details of any constitutional provisions e.g., election to post or name of any person or body entitled to appoint one or more trustees
Trustees or members may at any time decide to appoint a new charity trustee who shall retire at the conclusion of the next annual general meeting after the date of his or her appointment.
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint**
**trustee(if any) **|
|---|---|---|---|
|Chelsea Nyantakyi|Chair|||
|Eleni Matsa||||
|Tiwa Kiladejo||||
|Michaela Asare||||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|Same Opportunities For All(SOFA)|
|---|---|
|Other name the charityuses|N/A|
|Registered charitynumber|1190662|
|Charity’s principal address|40 Draycott Close SE5 7PD|
## **Corporate Trustees – names of the directors at the date the report**
## **was approved**
|**was approved **||
|---|---|
|**Director name**||
|**N/A**||
## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for**
**wholeyear**|
|---|---|
|**N/A**||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
||Description of the assets
held in this capacity
|none|
|---|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
fall within the custodian
charity’s objects
|n/a|
|---|---|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets
|n/a|
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** CNyantakyi **Full name(s)** Chelsea Nyantakyi **Position (e.g.,** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc.)**
**Date** 27/01/2025
**Accounts**
|**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**SAME OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL(SOFA)**|||**1190622**||||
|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
02/04/2023||**To**||Period end date
01/04/2024|||
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## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**to the nearest**|**£**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||
|Donations|||**291**||**-**||**-**|||**291**|||**3,850**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**291**||**-**||**-**|||**291**|||**3,850**|
|||||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||||
||||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
||**_Total receipts_**||**291**||**-**|||**-**||**291**|||**3,850**|
|||||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||
|Cost of Charitable Activities|||**291**||**-**||**-**|||**291**|||**-**|
||**_Sub total_ **||**291**||**-**||**-**|||**291**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||
||||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||||
||**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_**||**291**||**-**|||**-**||**291**|||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**||**3,850**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**10**||**-**||**-**|||**10**|||**-**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**10**||**-**|||**-**||**10**|||**3,850**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||||**funds**|
||||||||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Bank Current Account||||**10**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**_Total cash funds_**|||**10**||||**-**||**-**|
||||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||||OK|||OK|||OK|
||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|||**Endowment**|
||||||||**funds**||||||**funds**|
||||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|
|**B2**|**Other**|**monetary assets**|||||**-**||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
||||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3**|**Investment assets**||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||||||
||||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B4**|**Assets retained for the**||||||||||**-**||**-**|
|**h**|**it ’**|||||||||||||
||||||||**Fund to which**|||**Amount due**|||**When due**|
||||**Details**||||**liability relates**|||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**|
|**B5**|**Liabilities**||||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|||Signature||||Print||Name||||Date of approval|
||||**CNyantakyi**||||**Chelsea**||**Nyantakyi**||||**27/01/2025**|