2024-12-31-accounts

Charity No 1190838

Friends of Kididima

Annual Report and Financial Statement

For the year ended

31[st] December 2024

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Contents	Page
Reference and administrative details	3
Report of the Trustees	4
Balance Sheet	7
Report of the Independent Examiner	7 - 9
Approval	10

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Friends of Kididima

Reference and administrative details of the charity For the year ended 31[st] December 2024

Charity registration number 1190838

Trustees

Trustees who served during the year and up to 31[st] December 2024

Mrs Maureen Elizabeth Recine Miss Moira Ann Cullen Mrs Judith Sarah Woods Mrs Julie Karen Tanner Mrs Veronica Gurman

Independent Examiner

Barbara Martin - MAAT, Dip Cha

Bank

Co-Operative Bank 42 43, Greengate Street, Stafford ST16 2JA

KCB iBank. Mtwapa Branch, Mombasa Kenya

Family Bank Mtwapa Branch, Mombasa Kenya

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Trustee Report

The Purpose

• The purpose of the Friends of Kididima is to support the school by facilitating the education and care for 250 - 300 very poor and needy children from the age of three years.

Overview of year

• The charity has focused on increasing the number of sponsors and promoting the trust, we are meeting our objectives.

• Guiding and Scouting remains very active at Kididima School

• Three visits have been made to the school during the year

• The trustees have held five meetings during the year. Four were held via zoom and 1 face to face.

• Weekly zoom meetings have been held with two UK trustees the School Headmaster and when possible, a Kenyan Trustee.

• Through donations received the trust has been able build a kitchen and employ two cooks to prepare porridge in the morning and a lunch

Sponsors

• During the year the charity has recruited new sponsors and 14 more children. We now have 89 children sponsored which has increased from the previous year.

• The sponsored children have written to their sponsor to thank them for the support and sponsors received an end of year educational report about the child they support.

• Two newsletters have been sent to all sponsors and supporters during the year.

• We continue to purchase all the consumables i.e., cleaning materials, masks, sanitiser etc and the provision of a tank to provide fresh drinking water.

• We have been delighted to receive additional donations from some of our sponsors to enable us to support the teachers and children, with books, wall charts and teaching aids.

Education

• Generous donors made it possible to purchase text books to enable good educational delivery.

• The teaching staff has not changed which has a very stabling impact on the school.

• Three teachers are enrolled onto certificate and diploma courses in primary education

• National assessment tests have been carried out during the year and the students’ performance continues to improve.

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• The results from the Grade 6 examinations were the last to be taken as the new system is fully embedded. These were the best that Kididima had recorded

• The academic standards across the school continue to rise. This is in part due to the textbooks that we have been able to provide from donations and the new environments they are working in

• A Sports day was held for all children and some children were able to join a school outing which they wrote about afterwards and we shared this with the sponsors

• All teachers now have a laptop or access to a laptop. These remain the property of the trust

Support & Care

• First Aid kits have been re-stocked and given to the school

• We have continued to help the families with shoes or school uniform for their child when we are able to due to the generosity of our sponsors.

• Fresh drinking water is provided for children daily

• All sponsored children’s end of year reports were sent to their sponsors in November 2024

Public Relations

• The 10K Road race (of which we are part of the organising committee) went ahead and gave us the opportunity to promote support for the trust and raise our profile whilst raising funds.

Financial Review

Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities

Charity Law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for the financial year which gives a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity and its financial activities for that period. In preparing those financial statements, the trustees are required to:

• select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently

• make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent

• state whether applicable accounting standards and statements of recommended practice have been followed

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• prepare the financial statements using the presumption that the charity will continue in operational existence

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

• Fundraising

The charity is enrolled for “Easyfundraising” and has invited sponsors and supporters to help us by using this.

Many sponsors agree to Gift Aid Claims being made which has been extremely beneficial

• Principal Funding Source

The principal funding source continues to be sponsorship and donations.

• Specific donations “Ring Fenced”

We have funds in hand which have been donated specifically for taking electricity to the school and to build a dining shelter. These funds

have been “restricted”

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FRIENDS OF KIDIDIMA

Year ended 31 December 2024

Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of the Friends Of Kididima (Charity Number 1190838)

Responsibilities and basis of report

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/12/2024.

As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

Independent Examiner’s statement

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

1 August 2025

Mrs B J Martin MAAT, Dip Cha Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 8TU

Barbara Martin is licensed and regulated by AAT under licence number 1003827.

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			Balance sheet Jan 2024 Dec 2024	Balance sheet Jan 2024 Dec 2024	Balance sheet Jan 2024 Dec 2024	Balance sheet Jan 2024 Dec 2024
		Income						Expenditure
		Balance c/f	22340.44
		Sponsors	8955					Twinkle donation for road race	1000
		Donations	3205					Bank charges	29
		Funeralgift	550					Transfers to Kenya	10000
		Gift Aid	2710.88					School uniform brought in uk	424
		Easyfundraising	86.45					Transportpaid for Augtripin kenya	580
		Road Race	3500					Medicalprovisions	62
								cash withdrawn for kitchen build	7000
								closingbalance	22252.77
			41347.77						41347.77
	Income total for 2024		£19,007.33
	Expenditure total for 2024		£19,095.00

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Approval

This report was approved by the trustees on the date shown below and signed on their behalf by:

M Recine Chair

On behalf of the Trustees

Dated: 6th August 2025

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