**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 


||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**From**|1|January|2024|**To**|31|December|2024|



## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name** 

Bright Start Education and Mentorship Programme 

**Other names charity is known by** 

Bright Start UK 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 119305 

**Charity's principal address** 

14a Harpenden Road St Albans London **Postcode AL3 5AD** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled to**<br>**appoint trustee(if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Charles Anthony<br>Pringle|Chairman|||
||Zilla Margaret<br>Schuurmans-<br>Stekhoven|Secretary|||
||Andre Strydom|Treasurer|||
||Andrew George<br>Porton|Trustee|||
||Wendy Theresa<br>Garrard|Trustee|||
||Amy Iris von<br>Engelhardt-<br>Schoenheyden|Trustee|||



**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of adviser**<br>**Name**<br>**Address**|||
|**NA**|||
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## **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 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted 

Charitable Incorporated Organisation 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods 

- By a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. 

- (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 following policies were adopted: 

   - Data Privacy Policy 

      - Grant Making Policy 

   - 

   - Memorandum of Understanding between Bright Start South Africa and Bright Start UK 

- 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** 

For the public benefit, to advance the education of children living in deprived or disadvantaged areas in South Africa including but without limitation by **Summary of the objects of the** providing grants to Bright Start South Africa to support education and provide **charity set out in its governing** activities and projects that are charitable according to the laws of England and **document** Wales 

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## Main activities undertaken: 

- Selection of Bright Start South Africa as the core charity to support and signature of the memorandum of understanding between the 2 organisations 

- Provision of coaching and mentoring to staff in South Africa 

- • Establishing a structure for managing the charity such as: coaching for education manager, opening of a bank account (completed) and fundraising channels, registration for Gift Aid (completed) 

- Capacity development and strategic input to Bright Start South Africa 

- • Fundraising 

**Summary of the main activities** • Fundraising **undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees** All trustees declare that they have had regard to the guidance issued by the **have had regard to the guidance** Charity Commission on Public Benefit **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

Main achievements: 

- Progress made in conversations with potential fundraisers 

- Agreement and relationship development with Bright Start South Africa 

- Capacity development and strategic advice given to Bright Start South Africa 

- Development of the Website and Social Media presence 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

The charity has commenced operations and as of yet do not have any significant fixed costs to maintain other than bank charges. The trustees have therefore decided to maintain enough reserves to cover any possible bank charges. 

At the end of the year, the funds available cover the annual bank charges paid during 2024 more than 25 times. The reserves are therefore sufficient at this stage. 

Should operations expand to such a degree that more fixed overheads are required, the reserve policy will be reviewed by the board of trustees. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

No deficit to report. 

**Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

The principal source of funds will be donations from the public through various fund-raising initiatives. 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- 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)** Andre Strydom **Full name(s)** Charles Anthony Pringle **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman Treasurer **etc) Date** 24/10/2025 

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|**BRIGHT START EDUCATION AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME**<br>**Charity Name**|**BRIGHT START EDUCATION AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME**<br>**Charity Name**|**BRIGHT START EDUCATION AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME**<br>**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||
|**For the period from**|01/01/2024<br>Period start date|**To**|31/12/2024<br>Period end date|



**CC16a** 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Endowment funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Donations received|**20 670**||**-**||**-**||**20 670**||**20 587**|
|Gift aid receipts|**2 633**||**-**||**-**||**2 633**||**4 169**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**23 303**||**-**||**-**||**23 303**||**24 756**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**<br>**table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**24 756**|
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|Bank charges|**25**||**-**||**-**||**25**||**109**|
|Grants awarded|**23 000**||**-**||**-**||**23 000**||**25 750**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**23 025**||**-**||**-**||**23 025**||**25 859**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**<br>**(see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**25 859**|
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||**278**||**-**||**-**||**278**||**-                      1 103**|
||**-**|<br>|**-**|<br>|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**353**||**-**||**-**||**353**||**1 456**|
||**631**||**-**||**-**||**631**||**353**|



CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 

2025/10/24 

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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of<br>all the trustees<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>Cash and cash equivalents|**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**<br>Cash and cash equivalents|**Unrestricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**<br>**to nearest £**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**631**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**631**||**-**||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**||**Fund to which asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
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||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which liability relates**||**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**When due (optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
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||<br>Signature||Print Name<br>Charles Anthony Pringle | Chairman<br>Andre Strydom | Treasurer||||Date of approval|
||||||||24/10/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

2025/10/24 

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