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

**From: 1/09/2023 To: 31/08/2024** 

**Charity name: Lumi Education** 

**Charity registration number: 1193969** 

## **Company number:** 

|**Company number:**|**Company number:**||
|---|---|---|
|**Objectives and activities**|||
||Summary of the purposesofthe<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|
|||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<br>relation to those purposes for the<br>public benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or services<br>identified in the accounts.|In this period the charity has not run any fundraising<br>events and has not conducted any charitable activities.<br>This is due to the trustees not having any resource of<br>time during this period to run new fundraising events.|





Statement confirming whether the The charity has been inactive for the period of this trustees have had regard to the annual report guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

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|---|---|---|
||Contribution made by volunteers|All the trustees in UK and Malawi and the volunteers in|
|||Malawi are on standby until the charity is active again|
|||and can resume activities.|



## **Achievements and performance** 

Summary of the main achievements Changing rooms and toilets in Jimbe school in Malawi of the charity, identifying the are continually used for the benefit of the students at difference the charity’s work has the school and will be benefiting the students for many made to the circumstances of its years to come. beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole 

## **Financial review** 

|**Financial review**||
|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s financial<br>position at the end of the period|At the start of the fnancial year, the charity had in<br>the bank account the amount of bank account|
||£2,106.95 and we have £105.33 in cash held by|
||trustee Teele Dunkley.|
||The charity owed trustee Michaela Pavlovicova|
||the sum of£2072.33 that she hadspentonthe|
||running of charity events, marketing materials|
||and running costs from her personal account,|
||while we didn’t have access to bank account|
||and card payments to all trustees. This|
||amount was returned to her and the remaining|
||amount left on the account to cover the bank|
||accounts monthly payments. Teele Dunkley|
||currently still has 105.33 in cash for the|
||charity.|
|Statement explaining the policy for|The only regular outgoing the charity has had in this|
|holding reserves stating why they|period has been £5 monthly bank account fee. All the|
|are held|rest of the money that are has not been used to the|
||activities was held in our bank account and small|
||amounts as petty cash by our trustees.|



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|The charity’s principal sources of|The charity has not been fundraising during this|
|---|---|
|funds (including any fundraising)|period.|
|Investment policy and objectives|There is no investment policy in place for the|
|including any social investment<br>policy adopted|organisation at this point.|
|A description of the principal risks|The only financial risk the charity has is being able to|
|facing the charity|pay the monthly bank account fee.|



## **Structure, governance and management** 

|Description of charity’s trusts:||
|---|---|
|Type of governing document: for|The governing document is a charities constitution.|
|example,trust deed, memorandum||
|and articles of association etc||
|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<br>previous experience with<br>community and charity work.<br>to appoint one or more trustees|Any new trustee has presented their CV to the team<br>and has been voted into the position at a general<br>meeting.|
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## **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** 

||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**<br>**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**<br>**entitled to appoint trustee (if**<br>**any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Teele Dunkley|Chair of Trustees|||
|4|Radek Vik||||
|5|Michaela||||
||Pavlovicova||||
|6|Clanford Chirwa||||





## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

|Description of the assetsheld|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** 

## **Signature(s)** 

**Full name(s)** Teele Dunkley 

**Position (for example Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair of trustees 

**Date** 28th June 2025