## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From Period start date To Period end date 1st April 2022**
## **1st April 2021**
## **Charity name: UppFutures**
## **Charity registration number: 1191769**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve persons in rural**
**communities in the northern**
**region of Ghana and**
**surrounding areas that are in**
**financial hardship in such ways**
**as the Trustees from time to**
**time think fit, in particular, but**
**not exclusively by the**
**provision of school uniforms**
**for children from families who**
**are disadvantaged by means of**
**poverty**|
|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|**UppFutures has purchased uniforms for a**
**school in Tamale, Northern Ghana. The**
**school Prince and Princess Academy was**
**able to provide uniforms for 120 children**
**thanks to our donation.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
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||||**Thanks to successful fundraising efforts**||
||||**we were able to make our first donation**||
||||**to our partner school in Ghana during**||
||Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,|Para 1.20|**this financial year.**||
||identifying the difference the||**The donation we made allowed our**||
||charity’s work has made to||**partner school to purchase school**||
||the circumstances of its||**uniforms made of locally sourced fabric**||
||beneficiaries and any wider||**and hand-sewn by locally based**||
||benefits to society as a||**seamstresses and tailors. The 120**||
||whole.||**uniforms enabled an extra 60 boys and 60**||
||||**girls to attend the school during this**||
||||**academic year.**||
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We are pleased with the amount of**
**fundraising achieved, leaving us in a**
**position where we have enough funds in**
**reserve to make a full donation to our**
**partner school without requiring**
**additional funds.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We hold reserves until the next academic**
**year begins. When the school is aware of**
**how many new students have applied for**
**places and require a uniform, they will**
**then inform us and we will release funds.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£423.12**|
|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|**None**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Royal Charter**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
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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|**Trustees with selected after application**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|UppFutures|
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|Other name the charity uses|-|
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Registered charity number|1191769|
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Charity’s principal address|29a Hurst Avenue,
Exeter,
EX2 5LF|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**
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**trust**
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||Matt Webb|-|Whole Year|
||Joanna Czylok|-|Whole Year|
||Matt Judge|-|Whole Year|
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name Matt Webb**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets 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)**
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## **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)** M.Webb **Full name(s)** Matt Webb **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 16 Feb 2023