## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Tetara Debi Education Charity **Other names charity is known by** N/A **Registered charity number (if any)** 1191287 **Charity's principal address** 20 Brunel Close Romford Essex **Postcode RM1 4GR**
Tetara Debi Education Charity
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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## **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**
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## **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
Constitution, 15 September 2020
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
CIO
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by existing Trustees Trustee selection methods
(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**
Advancing education for the public benefit by the provision of a school for children aged 5 to 18 in the district of Siwan, Bihar, India.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Provision of a school building, furnishings, teaching staff, teaching resources and school bus.
The school provides employment for 5 teachers (including the principal) from the local area and a part-time graduate adviser, as well as a driver for the school bus and a school cleaner.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit 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 benefit)**
One of the teachers is an IT student (part-time), who will graduate at the end of March 2026. He supports the teachers and the pupils very effectively in developing their IT skills. The school now has 6 laptops donated from the UK and taken to the school by Trustees on visits to the school.
The school serves a mixed community of Muslims and Hindus and provides a fully inclusive education to children in the locality, regardless of their gender, class, caste or religion.
The Trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission and are all fully committed to ensuring that this is upheld.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
There is one young graduate (BA in English) who lives locally and who volunteers for two hours a week on Saturday mornings. She supports the work of the teachers in their teaching of English and works with the pupils in the classroom.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
The Charity improvements made in the school building by the addition of a reception area and school office, have continued to enhance the experience of parents and visitors and support the administrative functions of the staff and principal. The number of pupils in attendance is now 90 and a third ground floor classroom is currently under construction, with an expected completion date of July 2026. This will provide the additional space needed to accommodate the increase in pupil numbers. The age range of pupils is now from 4/5 to 9 years.
The school continues to have a very positive reputation in the locality, and is seen as innovative and a place where pupils thrive.
The curriculum includes IT, science, maths, reading and writing in Hindi and local languages, and English in the form of speaking and listening, reading and writing. No other local primary schools include IT, English or science in their curriculum.
The science includes learning about the solar system and plant growth and study of local plants and plant life-cycles. We have been fortunate to receive support from The Commonwealth Association of Science, Technology & Mathematics Educators (CASTME), which links science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educators across the Commonwealth. CASTME partners with Findel International Education Resources to sponsor annual awards, and in both 2022 and 2023 the TDEC was awarded prizes in the Community (2022) and Education (2023) categories. The prizes have provided £200 worth of science equipment, including hand held magnifiers and magnets, and measuring equipment - jugs, weighing scales, a trundle wheel and a window thermometer – plus some lovely posters showing the life cycle of a plant, and an ‘Intro to Structures Bridges Set’. All of this was taken to the school (March 2024) to develop and support the emphasis on practical work – using the equipment, growing seeds, and looking at gravity, magnetism etc. in the context of play. In an extended visit to the school in April 2024 the chair of the trustees, who is a physics graduate and retired teacher trainer in the UK, worked with the teachers to develop their skills in all of these aspects of science teaching. This kind of approach to teaching science is new in terms of education in this part of India, where rote learning is the default in both private and state schools.
In addition, the children are beginning to have some experience of using the donated laptops to learn keyboard skills and we expect IT skills to be developed further in the coming academic year.
Maths is based on the English National Curriculum with a focus on counting, place value, number bonds and relationships, and e.g. understanding commutativity and associativity for addition and multiplication.
The Tetara Debi Academy continues to support poorer families in the community by keeping fees to a minimum, and in cases of hardship, fees for children are waived. At present, 20% of the pupils pay no fees. A school bus, funded and owned by the Charity, is used to ensure that, where appropriate/necessary, pupils are safely transported from home to school and back again. The bus is fully paid for and the Charity provides the funds to maintain the vehicle and employ the driver.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
The Charity is funded entirely from donations and occasional fund-raising activities. Regular monthly donations have increased again in the last twelve months with contributions from friends and family of the Trustees, and the Trustees themselves.
March **2012**
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## **Section E Financial review**
No reserves held.
**Brief statement of the** All incoming funds have been held in the current account. **charity’s policy on reserves** All financial commitments have been met and the account is in credit.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
None
## **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);
The Charity continues to be funded entirely from regular small donations and occasional larger donated sums, from friends of the Charity. Regular monthly donations are sufficient to cover the day-to-day running costs of the school, including salaries, classroom resources and general maintenance. Some larger one-off donations have funded the building of an additional classroom, expected to be completed in summer 2026.
- 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)** _Carol L Singh_ Birendra Singh Birendra Singh **Full name(s)** Carol Lesley Singh **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Secretary Chair **etc) Date** 31/01/26
March **2012**
**TAR**
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**No (if any)**
**Tetara Debi Education Charity**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
4/1/2024 3/31/2025 **To**
**For the period from**
## **CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**A1 Receipts**
Donations
**7,177**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**7,177**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,177**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,177**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
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|Donations||||**10,175**|
|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||||**10,175**|
|**7,177**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
Salaries
**4,550**
Travel expenses
**120**
Bus maintenance
**140**
School District registration
**660**
Buildings maintenance
**700**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**
**6,170**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**7,177**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,550**
**120**
**140**
**660**
**700**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,170**|**10,175**
**-**
**-**|
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|Salaries||||**-**|
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|Travel expenses||||**-**|
|Bus maintenance||||**-**|
|School District registration||||**-**|
|Buildings maintenance||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**||||**5,955**|
|**6,880**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
School equipment and furniture
**710**
**_Sub total_**
**710**
**_Total payments Net of_**
**_receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds A6**
**Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**297**
**-**
**3,440**
**3,737**|**6,880**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
School equipment and furniture
**710**
**_Sub total_**
**710**
**_Total payments Net of_**
**_receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds A6**
**Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**297**
**-**
**3,440**
**3,737**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**710**||
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||||**-**|**710**|**810**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**6,880**
**297**
**-**
**3,440**
**3,737**|**6,765**
**3,410**
**-**
**-**
**3,410**|
||**6,880**
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||**297**
**-**
**3,440**
**3,737**|||||
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1/31/2026
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**to nearest £**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Account balance 31 March 2025|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**3,737**
**-**
**-**
**3,737**
OK
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
Unrestricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Unrestricted funds
Print|||
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|||**-**||**-**|
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|||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
School land and buildings
School bus
Donated laptops (8)
Furniture, fixtures and fittings
Signature
C L Singh||||
|||C L SINGH|||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
1/31/2026
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