## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/04/2024 Period start date To 31/03/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: New Routes UK** ## **Charity registration number: 1191119** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Fundraising for Kenyan NGO New**
**Routes Foundation, set up to provide**
**education, housing and support for**
**Kenyan University students. **| |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|**New Routes UK is focused purely on**
**fundraising for the Kenyan NGO.**
**Fundraising is primarily from UK based**
**subscriptions but also includes one off**
**fundraising events and grants.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Charity’s Trustees have had full**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**Fundraising by New Routes UK has**
**enabled our Kenyan NGO to support a**
**growing number of full time university**
**students. From our original intake in**
**2021 two students have graduated and**
**are fully employed. One further student**
**will graduate in December 2025 and**
**although a fourth student had to be**
**removed from the programme through**
**non-compliance he is still completing**
**his degree.**
**Two students are in the final year and**
**we took on two more students in June**
**2024, one is pursuing a degree in**
**Nursing and Midwifery and the other a**
**degree in Education.**
**In April 2024 we found a new residence**
**offering ample space for all of our**
**students.**
**At the current rate of funding there is**
**sufficient funding to support these**
**students to the end of each of their**
**programmes.**
**As all of these students were orphaned**
**and vulnerable the programme is truly**
**life changing for them.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**(1) Our initial objective was to raise**
**sufficient funding to allow New Routes**
**Foundation to continue mentoring,**
**discipling, and educating our first intake**
**of students until the end of their**
**programme years. This objective was**
**met as we gained enough funds for each**
**student to finish the programme.**
**(2) Having achieved our first objective**
**we then set a further objective of raising**
**funds to allow two new students to join**
**the programme in 2023 and again in**
**2024 and this has been achieved.**
**(3) A third objective was to raise**
**sufficient funds to allow New Routes**
**Foundation to continue employing local**
**Kenyan staff. This objective was met as**
**we gained enough unrestricted funds to**
**enable the employment of two local**
**Kenyan staff members.**
**(4) A fourth objective was to raise**
**sufficient unrestricted funds to provide**
**safe student accommodation for all of**
**the students. This has been achieved.**| |---|---|---| ||Para 1.41|**We have successfully run various**
**diverse fundraisers (Christmas Appeal;**
**Fantasy Football; Fundraising Calendar;**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set||**Fundraiser Swim; Stand at University**
**Fair; and a number of grants of between**
**£1,000 and £2,500 each) which has**
**enabled us to fund some operational**
**costs for New Routes Foundation.**
**At the beginning of the year New Routes**
**UK was granted access to Gift Aid.**
**We have a new website and have set up**
**a Stewardship Partner Account.**| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**| |Other||**During the year to 31/03/25**
**approximately 93.9% of all our**
**expenditure was used directly for the**
**education and care of the students.**| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is in a strong financial**
**position at the end of its financial year,**
**able to carry out its objectives and fund**
**activities by the Kenyan NGO for a**
**number of years into the future. We hold**
**a proportion of our funds as reserves in**
**a savings account so that we have some**
**security going forwards.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**All fundraising is done on behalf of New**
**Routes Foundation, a Kenyan NGO.**
**Funds are transferred to them quarterly**
**as needed.**
**Additional funds are reserved until**
**needed, both in a current account and a**
**savings account. **| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£35,385**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |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|**N/A**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Mostly through private donations**
**although we also receive a number of**
**grants.**| |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**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**N/A**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|Para 1.25|**Election by current trustees**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Any newly appointed trustee has a**
**meeting with the current founders to**
**talk about the core values of New**
**Routes UK. They are given access to**
**previous board meeting minutes and**
**policies and procedures, together with**
**information from the Charity**
**Commission on how to be an effective**
**trustee. **| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**New Routes UK sends money to New**
**Routes Foundation. We receive regular**
**reports from the founders of New**
**Routes Foundation or directly from the**
**staff employed in Kenya. We also try to**
**insure that one trustee visits the work in**
**Kenya annually.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**New Routes UK is a fundraising charity**
**raising funds for Kenyan NGO New**
**Routes Foundation.**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**New Routes UK**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|**1191119**| |Charity’s principal address|**11 Maclaren Road**
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||**Arthur John Childs**|||| ||**Jennifer Mary Hooper**|||| ||**Sophie Jane Lindenberg**|**Co-Founder**||| ||**Bridie Ann McGough**|||| ||**David Wyborn**|**Chair**||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
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**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||**David Wyborn**|**Sophie Lindenberg**| ||
**Chair**|Co-Founder| ||05/01/2026|| ||05/01/2026|| **New Routes UK 1191119 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Christmas Giving 1,211 - 1,211 0
Donations / Sponsorship 4,149 5,806 - 9,955 11743
Events / Final Fantasy Football 629 355 - 984 1579
Grants 1000 2000 - 3000 4500
Other Revenue 23 - - 23 -
Gift Aid 9765 - - 9765 -
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR) 15,566 9,372 0 24,938 17822
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 15,566 9,372 - 24,938 17,822
A3 Payments
Bank fees 45 0 0 45 90
Transfer to New Routes Foundation 0 0 0 - 22,989
Fundraising Events 0 0 0 - 36
Website Maintenance 0 0 0 - -
Board & Volunteer Expenses 0 0 0 - 1,110
International Travel 1012 0 0 1,012 -
Christmas Appeal 0 1111 0 1,111 -
Direct Expenses 1113 5048 0 6,161 -
Studen Specific Expense 0 9112 0 9,112 -
Sub total [ 2,170 ] 15,271 - 17,441 24,225
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 2,170 15,271 - 17,441 24,225
Net of receipts/(payments) 13,396 - 5,899 - 7,497 - 6,403
A5 Transfers between funds -1697 1697 - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 14261 13627 - 27,888 34,291
Cash funds this year end 25,960 9,425 - 35,385 27,888
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at**|**the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash at bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**25960**
**9425**
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**-**
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**-**
**25,960**
**9,425**
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OK
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**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
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Print Name
Sophie Lindenberg
David Wyborn|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**funds**
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Date of
approval
09/01/2026
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