## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/01/2024 Period start date To 31/12/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Help4Nam** ## **Charity registration number: 1192740** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The charity achieves its aims and**
**objectives, in particular but not**
**exclusively by: The relief of financial**
**hardship among people living or working**
**in Namibia, by providing such persons**
**with goods/services which they could not**
**otherwise afford through lack of means.**| |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|**Through generous financial donations we**
**were able to continue to provide needy**
**families in Namibia with food parcels**
**over the last 12 months. Donations were**
**used to purchase food and toiletries**
**which was distributed to underprivileged**
**homes in the 4 locations where the**
**charity focuses its work, namely**
**Windhoek, Rehoboth, Groot Aub and**
**Okahandja. As well as individuals**
**referred to us by social workers, the**
**beneficiaries also included a primary**
**schools and soup kitchens. Our**
**dedicated team of volunteers in Namibia**
**are a huge support to what we do. They**
**arrange quotations for food supplies**
**from supermarkets, delivery and packing**
**of the parcels, distributing to the**
**identified beneficiaries as well as cooking**
**meals at soup kitchens. Our volunteers**
**are unemployed and have no means of**
**transportation therefore they were paid**
**for their travel and other expenses**
**related to their work for the charity.**
**Help4Nam were extremely fortunate to**
**again receive funding of £5000 from**
**Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). This is**
**the third consecutive year of funding**
**from their Corporate Social**
**Responsibility Programme.**| |Statement confirming|Para 1.18|**The Trustees confirm that they have**| |whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit||**complied with the requirements of**
**Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to**
**have due regard to the public benefit**
**guidance published by the Charities**
**Commission for England and Wales.**| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Everyone working for our food bank are**
**volunteers-we have no paid employees.**
**We do reimburse volunteers for their**
**expenses related to work for the charity**
**such as travel expenses.**| |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|**During the past year Help4Nam has fed**
**approximately 2000 individuals through**
**distributing food parcels, providing food**
**for soup kitchens as well as hosting and**
**funding community cookouts.**
**Help4Nam also partnered with Gondwana**
**Care Trust to distribute 360 ‘back to**
**school bags’ to 3 primary schools in**
**Namibia as well as provide a meal to 300**
**school kids through their Meal for 2**
**Project.**
**Help4Nam also held their annual**
**Christmas parties at two state hospitals**
**in Windhoek, where 200 kids were**
**provided with toys and much needed**
**toiletries.**
**Our beneficiaries are extremely grateful**
**for the food parcels which provide much**
**needed sustenance in times when they**
**have nowhere else to turn. The current**| **unemployment rate in Namibia is a staggering 42% and most of our beneficiaries are unemployed. We aim to facilitate employment by identifying the needs of beneficiaries and connecting them with useful services and partners in our network in Namibia. As well as general hygiene products such as body soap, toothpaste and toilet paper, the parcels we provide consist of nonperishable, nutritionally balanced foodessential for those beneficiaries on medication for treatment such as AntiRetroviral Treatment (ART) for HIV/AIDS and other medical conditions such as Cancer and Diabetes.** **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The reserve is held to ensure that the**
**charity has adequate to fulfil the Food**
**Bank’s continuing operational costs**
**(such as yearly website subscription and**
**domain fees)**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£2000**| |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 where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our principle source of funds for this**
**financial year was received from the**
**Charities Aid Fund in the sum of £5000**
**and the remaining funds were financial**
**donations given by individual members**
**of the public.**| |---|---|---| |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|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |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|**Appointed by the current Trustees having**
**regard to the skills, knowledge and**
**experience needed for the effective**
**administration of the CIO.**| ## **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|**Help4Nam is also registered as a charity**
**in Namibia (HFN Charity Organisation)**
**with 2 Directors and 5 members**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Help4Nam| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Help4Nam Foodbank, HFN Charity Organisation| |Registered charity number|1192740| |Charity’s principal address|5 Goring Road
Staines
Middlesex
TW18 3EH| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephanie Collins|Chair||| ||Marliese Williams-
Gill|Trustee||| ||Catherine Paisley|Trustee/Treasurer||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** 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|N/A| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|N/A| ## **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)** C Paisley **Full name(s)** Catherine Paisley **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 25 October 2025 ||**Help4Nam**|**Help4Nam**|**Help4Nam**|**1192740**|**1192740**|**1192740**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024|**To**||31/12/2024||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**1,302**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**

**6,302**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,302**
**2,161**
**329**
**36**
**317**
**51**
**-**
**2,894**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,894**
**3,408**
**-**
**-**
**3,408**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**1,302**
**5,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,302**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,302**
**2,161**
**329**
**36**
**317**
**51**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,894**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,894**
**3,408**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Donations|**1,302**||||||**-**| |CAF Ambassodors for Good Funding|**5,000**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**6,302**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| |
Cost of foodparcels|**2,161**||||||**-**| |Wesbsite subscriptions/Memberships|**329**||||||**-**| |Bank charges|**36**||||||**-**| |Postage/Office supplies|**317**||||||**-**| |Donationprocessingfees|**51**||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**2,894**||||||**-**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||| ||**3,408**|**-**|**-**||**3,408**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**3,408**|**-**|**-**||**3,408**||**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 26/10/2025 1 |**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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Donations
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
C Paisley|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**3,408**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,408**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
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Print Name
Catherine Paisley|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||C Paisley|Catherine Paisley|25/10/2025| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 26/10/2025 2