2024-10-31-accounts - The Back Home Project

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The Back Home Project

Registration Number: 1192594

Registered Address: 14 Sunninghill Road SE13 7SS London

Board of Trustees:

David Mark – Chair Lore Peeters – Treasurer Jacob Timms Adarsh Nagmoti Amedu Mark Edward Ajene

Structure, governance and management:

The Back Home Project is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered as a charity on 1st December 2020. We are governed by a board of trustees that meet every 3-6 months. Trustees are appointed by resolution passed at a meeting of the charity trustees.

In 2024, the charity transitioned from offering direct services to its beneficiaries. Services will now be offered through a third party based in Nigeria. The charity retains oversight and provides the funding, and a partnership agreement is in place.

The new structure is:

Otukpo Tech Academy is the name of the teaching organisation in Nigeria (https://www.otukpotech.org/).
Teaching services are provided by a third party under a partnership agreement. This organisation provides teaches, staff and is responsible for the day to day running of Otukpo Tech Academy. The third party is a registered company in Nigeria and run by Daniel the current teacher
The Back Home Project funds the work through grants, monitors the teaching, provides oversight and directly owns the equipment

This new structure streamlines our operations and delegates responsibilities to those on the ground in Nigeria who are best placed to enable us to meet our objects and aims.

Aims and Objectives:

The Back Home Project provides free IT training to young adults in Nigeria, enabling the next generation to drive their own future.

We do this by running free, in person, IT courses. We teach a programming language and the skills necessary to get a job in the IT industry. To add some context, unemployment for young adults is around 42% in Nigeria.

Our impact in 2024

2024 was a challenging year to operate in Nigeria due to rising inflation, unemployment and power supply issues in Nigeria.

Despite that we ran 2 coding programmes:

Each programme comprised around 325 hours of intensive training. Skills taught included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, API integration, Vue.js, PHP, SQL.

Students studying

From the 2 programmes we graduated a total of 19 web developers.

In addition to the programmes, we ran short (week long courses) and also hosted outreach events at local schools. One of the challenges we’ve been experiencing is candidates which lack basic IT skills. Historically, we had to reject them for our programmes, but this year we experimented to widen participation. Several week-long computer literacy courses were run which has allowed us to upskill students and widen participation.

Support

All our courses are completely free and held in person at a venue donated by a local businessman in Nigeria.

We are grateful for all the support offered from our volunteers such as volunteering to review students code and for all the donations we received.

Our goals for 2025:

Deliver 2 bootcamps
Update the syllabus to include AI training and skills

Graduation ceremony

Public benefit statement

The charity continues to provide free IT training that enables individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.

The Backhome Project

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Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y

CC16a

For the period 1/11/2023 31/10/2024 To from

Section A Receipts and payments

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
to the nearest £ A1 Receipts Trustee Contribution 1,196 Fundraising 410 - - - - - - 1,606 - - Sub total- Total receipts 1,606 A3 Payments Education Costs 214 Tech Costs 191 Teacher Salaries 1,200 Unrestricted funds Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).		Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Endowment funds	Total funds to the nearest £ 1,196 410 - - - - - - 1,606 - - - 1,606 214 191 1,200 -	Last year to the nearest £
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Education Costs	214	-	-	214	-
Tech Costs	191			191
Teacher Salaries	1,200			1,200
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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B5 Liabilities

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

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	Signature	Print	Name				Date of approval
		Lore Peeters					23/8/2024
		David		Mark
							23/8/2024

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