2023-08-31-accounts

Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period

From: 1/09/2022 To: 31/08/2023

Charity name: Lumi Education (during the period known as Sade Lumi Education) Charity registration number: 1193969

Company number:

Objectives and activities

Objectives and activities
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	1. Advancement of Education (a) “To advance the education of young girls and women at Lumi International School
	by providing and assisting in the provision of
	formal education at a free secondary
	school.
	(b) “For the public beneft to promote the
	education (including social and physical
	training) of women under the age of 30 years in
	Neno, Malawi in such ways as the charity trustees think ft, including by:
	(1) Providing their education (including the study
	of music or other arts), to undertake
	travel in furtherance of that education or to
	prepare for entry to any occupation, trade
	or profession on leaving any educational
	establishment.”
	2. Advancement of Transportation
	(a) “To provide transport facilities in Neno, Malawi
	for people who have special need of
	such facilities because they are living in isolated
	areas where there are no adequate
	public transport facilities by:
	(1) operating a regular bus service using adapted
	vehicles between areas not otherwise
	served by public transport in order to allow
	accessibility to attendL umi International
	School”.

Summary of the main activities in In this period our focus has been identifying small relation to those purposes for the scale ways to help the local schools and communities public benefit, in particular, the in Neno. activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. We have organised a fundraising events and also crowdfunded money through Crowdfunder platform so we could use it for activities in Malawi. The biggest fundraising event was Children to Children dance show in Brighton in March 2023. Other fundraising events included cakes sales and clothes sales. In Malawi, our volunteers visited the Jimbe primary school and started working with them to put plans together for improving the school with the help of our charity and the volunteers by building much needed toilets and changing rooms. Among other activities in August 2023 Lumi Education created a writing competition for the students. Statement confirming whether the All the profit raised in our fundraising events has gone trustees have had regard to the towards the charities activities. guidance issued by the Charity All community activities in Neno Malawi have been to Commission on public benefit improve the lives of the students and help the community.

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	Any running costs at this early stage of organisation
Contribution made by volunteers	such as paying for the website and the domain have
	been done by the trustees. Trustee Michaela has
	loaned the charity funds for paying any costs that
	came along with organising events and the money is
	has been returned to her. These figures will be
	included in the next years accounts as the
	transactions were made back to her after the 31
	August 2023.

Achievements and performance

Summary of the main activities in	In this period our focus has been identifying small
relation to those purposes for the	scale ways to help the local schools and communities
public benefit, in particular, the	in Neno.
activities, projects or services identified in the accounts.	We have organised a fundraising events and also
	crowdfunded money through Crowdfunder platform so
	we could use it for activities in Malawi.
	The biggest fundraising event was Children to Children
	dance show in Brighton in March 2023. Other
	fundraising events included cakes sales and clothes
	sales.
	In Malawi, our volunteers visited the Jimbe primary
	school and started working with them to put plans
	together for improving the school with the help of our
	charity and the volunteers by building much needed
	toilets and changing rooms.
	Among other activities in August 2023 Lumi Education
	created a writing competition for the students.
Statement confirming whether the	All the profit raised in our fundraising events has gone
trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	towards the charities activities. All community activities in Neno Malawi have been to
	improve the lives of the students and help the
	community.

Additional information (optional)

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

	Any running costs at this early stage of organisation
	such as paying for the website and the domain have
Contribution made by volunteers	been done by the trustees. Trustee Michaela has
	loaned the charity funds for paying any costs that
	came along with organising events and the money is
	has been returned to her. These figures will be
	included in the next years accounts as the
	transactions were made back to her after the 31
	August 2023.

How is the charity constituted?	The charity is a CIO.
for example limited company,
unincorporated association, CIO
Trustee selection methods including Trustees have been selected according to their
details of any constitutional	willingness to make the difference to the issues Lumi
provisions e.g. election to post or	Education has set out to improve in Malawi and on
name of any person or body entitled previous experience with community and charity work.
to appoint one or more trustees	Any new trustee has presented their CV to the team
	and has been voted into the position at a general
	meeting.

Reference and administrative details

Charity name Other name	Lumi Education
the charity uses Registered
charity number	1193969
Charity’s principal address	24 Cawston Road, Reepham, NR10 4LU

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 3 4 5 6	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
	Teele Dunkley	Chair of Trustees
	Benjamin Ashford	Treasurer	Resigned 29.01.2023
	Radek Vik		Started on 8.11.2022
	Michaela Pavlovicova
	Clanford Chirwa		Started 8.11.2022

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others	Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others
Description of the assets held N/A
in this capacity
Name and objects of the	N/A
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for	N/A
safe custody and segregation
of such assets from the
charity’s own assets

Declarations

The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors

Full name: Teele Dunkley

Signature:

Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc: Chair of trustees

Date: 25th June 2024