Trustees report for 1/1/25 to 31/12/25 

Trustees Abdul Sillah 4 Kabba Drive, Freetown, Sierra Leone 

Caroline Whitfield, 24 Russell Street, Chichester, PO19 7EL 

Luke Brennan, 50 Victoria Road Shoreham by Sea, BN43 5LA 

Village Schools of Sierra Leone (VSSL) charity number 1195387 

Registered at 24 Russell Street, Chichester, PO19 7EL 

VSSL helped to build and continues to help run 10 schools in rural Sierra Leone. 

All work and funds are dealt with and managed by our partner charity registered in Sierra Leone. Our partner is also called Village Schools of Sierra Leone and is formally registered as a charity in Sierra Leone. The trustees of this Sierra Leonean charity are also trustees or members of the UK charity. 

Detailed policies have been agreed between the Sierra Leonean charity and the communities with which we work in rural Sierra Leone. These policies include: 

1. how money will be paid and the mechanism by which a report is produced showing use of all monies; 

2. monitoring procedures for performance of the schools and the standard of education being provided; 

3. how vulnerable children, who are unable to access our schools, can be supported so that they can attend school; 

Funds are paid to provide resources to the schools such as books, printed documents, uniforms and teachers’ salaries. 

The charity also provides ongoing training for teachers in order to ensure a high standard of education is delivered to the pupils. 

The work in schools is supplemented by work in the communities such as adult literacy classes. 

Monthly audits of the standards of education being provided is undertaken monthly by the Sierra Leonean Charity. 

Please note that all administrative costs are covered by members of the charity in the UK. 

The charity expense in supporting the running of the schools is fairly predictable. 

Organisation of all fundraising events and donations are from friends and family of the members of the charity. 

1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025 accounts are as follows 



Total Expenditure £7958 

£4950 – teacher training and stipend 

£120 – school library costs 

£1600 – adult literacy classes at 6 locations 

£490 exam fees 

£798 support for vulnerable children to give access to school 

Income 

£7702 total of which £5845 was provided by direct donation from trustees and charity members 



**Village Schools of Sierra Leone** 

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## **Recei ts and a ments acco p p y** 

**For the period** 1/1/2025 **To from** 

## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** 

**to the nearest      £** 

**to the nearest £** 

**to the nearest £** 

## **A1 Receipts** 

|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**7,702**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
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|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**7,702**<br>||||**-**||||**-**||



|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
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|**_Total receipts_ **||**7,702**||||**-**||||**-**||



## **A3 Payments** 

|**A3 Payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**7,958**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**7,958**||**-**||**-**|



|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases,(see table)**|||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|**-**|





|**_Total payments_                    7,958**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ -                     256**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**-**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**1,709**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_                    1,453**|**-**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the** 

**Unrestricted Categories Details funds to nearest £ B1 Cash funds 1,453 - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **1,453** (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK **Unrestricted funds Details to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - - Fund to which Details asset belongs B3 Investment assets Fund to which Details asset belongs B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** 



## **Details** 

**Fund to which liability relates** 

## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|Signature<br>CML Whitield|Print N<br>Caroline W|
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## **o (if any)** 

## **ounts** 

**CC16a** 

12/31/2025 

## **Total funds** 

## **Last year** 

## **to the nearest £ to the nearest £** 

|**7,702**||**1,709**|
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|**-**||**-**|
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|**7,702**||**1,709**|



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|**7,958**||**-**|



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||**-**|**256**||||**1,709**||
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|||**1,453**||||**1,709**||



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## OK OK **Restricted Endowment funds funds** 

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Date of Name approval Whitfield 10/7/2025