2024-04-05-accounts - Oxford Armenia Foundation

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	From	Period start date				T o	Period end date
		06	Apr		2023		5	Apr		2024

Section A		Reference and administration details

Charity name				Oxford Armenia Foundation

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any)				1193788

Charity's principal address				6 Wellington Road
				Upper Heyford United Kingdom

				Postcode					OX25 5AL

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
	Martin Robert Lewis
	Inna Harutyunyan
	Marianna Asatryan
	Talin Muriel Clark

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)

Type of adviser Name Address

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)

Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected for a three-year period of time, as per our constitution Trustee selection methods

(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 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

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ARMENIA BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY. ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AND ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION THEREOF TO ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO GENERATE A

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SUSTAINABLE INCOME AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT.

Summary of the main activities inaugural undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

Our projects in 2023-24 Supporting refugees from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) OAF supported forcibly displaced families from Nagorno-Karabakh, who faced a critical situation as winter approached. These families urgently needed heating devices and fuel to endure the harsh weather. The Karabakh Armenian community, deeply rooted in family values, often marries young and raises large families under one roof. Tragically, since December 2022, these families have been deprived of essential resources, including food, medicine, and heating fuel, leaving them with urgent needs. In response, OAF provided heating devices and fuel to support 150 families during this challenging time. Developing reading skills at pre-school This project aimed to provide professional development training to preschool teachers living and working in remote villages of Armenia. We developed a curriculum for facilitator-led online training sessions to help teachers foster children's love of reading, socio-emotional skills, reading motivation, and comprehension in a safe, child-centered learning environment. In partnership with NorArar, an educational charity specialising in literacy, we recruited and trained six community reading facilitators with a passion for reading to deliver a unique early-years reading curriculum. The project also involved acquiring books and providing training to local teachers and librarians to support its implementation. Engage & Empower Project Engage & Empower is a program of safe, fun and engaging afterschool clubs where children learn through experiences. 2023-24 project targeted disadvantaged and remote schools that had previously benefited from book donations. We provided the necessary supplies and local teachers to run a variety of free afterschool clubs: foreign language learning, arts and crafts creations, science experiments or sports clubs.

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We believe after-school clubs provide a space for children to engage in situations where they put into practice core skills such as critical thinking, public speaking and confidence building. This project aims to empower rural children to think positively to overcome obstacles and achieve their own goals.

One school library a month project

This project is driven by the necessity to close the educational gap between urban and rural areas of Armenia. We aim to create easy access to books in disadvantaged schools in an effort to support literacy skills building and engage children to develop their curiosity and critical thinking.

To achieve this goal, we have partnered with Teach for Armenia to identify schools in need of engaging library books. Each month, we work with a school community to provide a range of fiction and nonfiction books to boost their library stock.

With a £300 budget per school library per month, we can buy a stock of modern extracurricular books managed by a TeacherLeader. Together with the teachers, we handpick each book according to novelty, popularity and subject-based books complementing lessons.

We kickstarted the project this month with our first school library beneficiary: Zangakatun Middle School and its 150 pupils in the Ararat region are about to receive book donations to replenish its library.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about: ● policy on grantmaking; ● policy programme related investment; ● contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and erformance p Completion of the Educational project "Tackling Educational Summary of the main Disadvantage in Rural Armenia" achievements of the charity during the year Networking activities with charities based in Armenia.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the

As of 31/03/2023 Charity had £2195 in reserves which are planned to be spent on an upcoming summer project in rural Armenia.

charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially No funds materially in deficit in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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

● 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) MARIANNA ASATRYAN

Full name(s) MARIANNA ASATRYAN

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Chair of Trustees

Date 26/01/2025

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	Oxford Armenia	F	oundation			R	eg: 1193788

	Recei	p	ts and pa	y	ments ac	c	ounts	CC16a
	For the period		06-Apr-2023				06-Apr-2024
	from				~~To~~

Section A Receipts a	ndpayme	n	ts
	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds		Total funds	Last year
	to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £	to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
24/04/2023			5.00		-		5.00	2,195.31
27/04/2023			50.00		-		50.00	- .00
27/04/2023	-		47.11		-		47.11	- .00
16/05/2023	-		27.97		-		27.97	- .00
19/05/2023	-		19.33		-		19.33	- .00
31/05/2023			50.00		-		50.00	- .00
08/06/2023			892.75				892.75
08/06/2023			2,000.00				2,000.00
30/06/2023	-		100.00		-		100.00	- .00
04/07/2023			293.50				293.50
31/07/2023			100.00				100.00
16/08/2023			232.70				232.70
22/08/2023			91.12				91.12
24/08/2023			100.00				100.00
01/09/2023			100.00				100.00
01/10/2023			235.42				235.42
01/10/2023			100.00				100.00
01/11/2023			100.00				100.00
11/03/2023			1,793.18				1,793.18
11/06/2023			150.00				150.00
11/10/2023			100.00				100.00
11/28/2023			1,000.00				1,000.00
11/30/2023			100.00				100.00

12/01/2023		6,339.23		6,339.23
12/01/2023		1,000.00		1,000.00
12/12/2023		50.00		50.00
12/22/2023		100.00		100.00
09/01/2024		50.00		50.00
01/30/2024		300.00		300.00
01/31/2024		2,642.42		2,642.42
02/06/2024		170.06		170.06
02/13/2024		108.18		108.18
02/15/2024		50.00		50.00
02/19/2024		280.00		280.00
02/20/2024		47.95		47.95
02/23/2024		100.00		100.00
03/06/2024		50.00		50.00
03/09/2024		698.41		698.41
04/01/2024		856.75		856.75
04/01/2024		100.00		100.00

*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	-	20,631.08	-	20,631.08	2,195.31

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
	-	-	-	-
	-	-	-	-	-
*Sub total*	-	-	-	-	-

*Total receipts*	-	20,631	-	20,631	2,195

A3 Payments
25/04/2023		1,650.00	-	1,650.00	-
29/04/2023	5.00		-	5.00	-
29/05/2023	5.00		-	5.00	-
29/06/2023	5.00		-	5.00	-
07/07/2023		1,200.00	-	1,200.00	-
29/07/2023	5.00		-	5.00	-

29/08/2023	5.00		-	-		5.00		-
01/09/2023			2,060.00	-		2,060.00		-
01/09/2023			30.00			30.00
29/09/2023	5.80					5.80
29/10/2023	5.00					5.00
29/11/2023	5.00					5.00
02/12/2023			9,950.00			9,950.00
29/12/2023	5.00					5.00
29/01/2024	5.00					5.00
16/02/2024			4,000.00			4,000.00
29/02/2024	5.00					5.00
29/03/2024	7.00					7.00

*Sub total*	63		18,890	-		18,953		-

A4 Asset and investment ~~purchases (see table)~~
~~,~~	-		-	-		-
	-		-	-		-
*Sub total*	-		-	-		-

*Totalpayments*	63		18,890	-		18,953		-

**Net of receipts/(payments) **	- 63		1,741	-		1,678		2,195
A5 Transfers between funds	-		-	-		-		-
A6 Cash funds last year end	-		-	-		-		-
**Cash funds thisyear end **	- 63		1,741	-		1,678		2,195


Section B Statement	of assets	a	nd liabilitie	s at the en	d	of the per	io	d
Categories	Details			Unrestricted ~~funds~~		Restricted ~~funds~~		Endowment ~~funds~~
				to nearest £		to nearest £		to nearest £

B1 Cash funds				-	-	-
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	T	ot	*al cash funds*	-	-	-
	(agree balances wit	h re	ceipts and payments account(s))	Agreement Error	Agreement Error	OK
				Unrestricted funds	Restricted funds	Endowment funds
	Details			to nearest £	to nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets				-	-	-
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	Details			Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets					-	-
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	Details			Fund to which asset belongs	Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the					-	-
charity’s own use					-	-

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	Details			Fund to which liability relates		Amount due (optional)	When due (optional)
B5 Liabilities						-
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Sig	na	ture	Print	N	ame	Date of approval