## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date To Period end date Charity name: BRIGHT CHILD BRIGHT MIND FOUNDATION** **Charity registration number:** 1191995 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide access to ICT to the most**
**deprived Primary level schools in**
**Namibia and Zimbabwe for the purposes**
**of accessing E-Learning curriculum.**| |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|**BCBM proposes to introduce the**
**Solar PV Systems to run**
**computer laboratories in**
**deprived rural Primary Schools**
**in Namibia and Zimbabwe for the**
**purpose of facilitating learners**
**with the access to the E-**
**Learning curriculum.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees have had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity Commission on**
**public benefit.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **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|**The Charity BCBM Foundation has been**
**in operation in Zimbabwe since it’s**
**formation but has not expanded to**
**Namibia as initially planned because of**
**circumstances beyond our control.**
**In Zimbabwe we have maintained a**
**skeleton staff of a driver, technician and**
**2 field workers.**
**Although there has been a lot of**
**groundwork, the charity has not been**
**able to move forward and we have failed**
**to get substantial donations to finance**
**the purchase equipment or donations in**
**kind.**
**Hence our Zimbabwe staff has had to**
**work as volunteers and only been paid**
**allowances and subsistence as and when**
**needed.**| |||
**the purchase equipment or donations in**
**kind.**
**Hence our Zimbabwe staff has had to**
**work as volunteers and only been paid**
**allowances and subsistence as and when**
**needed.**| |---|---|---| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We have identified schools but no work**
**has been done so far.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Not much fundraising has been done**
**chiefly because staff needs to be paid for**
**their expenses plus allowances but the**
**coffers are empty.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**None**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**NO FUNDS ARE CURRENTLY HELD**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**ZERO**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No donations but the little that we got**
**goes straight to cover expenses.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Our Operations director in Zimbabwe**
**FAITH CHIPARE unfortunately passed**
**away and most of our work has ground to**
**a halt.**| |||| |||| **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|| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**We have not managed to convince the**
**cooperate world to come on board and**
**the trustees were looking at altering or**
**coming up with new objectives going**
**forward.**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**TRUST DEED**| |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|**NOMINATION**| **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|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|BRIGHT CHILD BRIGHT MIND FOUNDATION| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|BCBM FOUNDATION| |Registered charity number|1191995| |Charity’s principal address|7 HESLEY COURT
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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