# **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<br>charity as set out in its governing<br>document|1. Advancement of Education<br>(a) “To advance the education of young girls and<br>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<br>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. 

## Additional information (optional) 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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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<br>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<br>guidance issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public benefit|towards the charities activities.<br>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<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6|Trustee name|Office (if any)|Dates acted if not for<br>whole year||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Teele Dunkley|Chair of Trustees|||
||Benjamin Ashford|Treasurer|Resigned 29.01.2023||
||||||
||Radek Vik||Started on 8.11.2022||
||Michaela<br>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