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2025-04-01-accounts

RNV Nepal Annual Report: April 2024 to March 2025

President's Report – Keith Brook MBE

This has been another deeply rewarding and eventful year for RNV Nepal. Between April 2024 and March 2025, our charity continued its work supporting disadvantaged children and communities in Nepal, fostering educational opportunities, and responding to hardship with compassion and urgency. Our approach remains rooted in relationship, local empowerment, and faithful stewardship of the funds and goodwill entrusted to us.

Charity Information

Trustees (as of March 2025)

During the year two trustees stepped down, Rev Jonathan Haigh and Sue Heyes (Treasurer). As founding trustees we want to express our heartfelt thanks for all they have contributed since the very beginning. Their commitment, wisdom, and steady support have helped shape the charity into what it is today.

Structure and Governance

RNV Nepal is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO), governed by a board of trustees. The charity operates in close partnership with known contacts and educational institutions in Nepal, supporting projects through trusted local leaders. All trustees serve voluntarily.

Trustees are recruited in accordance with our Trustee Recruitment Policy, which ensures new members bring relevant skills, share the charity’s values, and enhance the board’s ability to oversee and guide our work. Nominations are made by existing trustees or long-term supporters, and appointments are confirmed following informal discussions and trustee approval.

Objectives and Activities for the Year

Our primary aim is to support disadvantaged children and families in Nepal through education, healthcare, and direct hardship relief. In 2024–25, our key activities included:

Achievements and Public Benefit

RNV Nepal supported numerous families in keeping children in education during 2024–25. We also responded to urgent medical needs through our hardship fund. Several fundraising events took place, and a sponsored Half Marathon in October 2024 raised funds and awareness. The 'Nepal updates' email kept subscribers well informed, and we received immediate responses to requests for emergency supplies during the floods in October. All activities clearly demonstrate our commitment to the public benefit objectives defined in our governing documents: the relief of poverty and advancement of education.

1. Emergency Response – Usha’s Story

We encountered a heartbreaking case involving Usha, a six-year-old girl with widespread recurrent neuroblastoma. Having already lost a kidney as a baby, she now faced tumours in her liver, bone, and stomach.

Following consultation with a retired UK paediatrician and in discussion with our Nepalese contacts and trustees, we explored the possibility of transferring her abroad for treatment. However, after consulting with several hospitals, it was agreed that Usha was too unwell to travel.

Our hardship fund enabled us to provide palliative care and pain relief locally. Usha passed away not long after, but we were thankful to be able to offer comfort and dignity in her final days.

2. Emergency Response – Flood Relief

In late September and early October 2024, severe flooding struck several of our partner areas, including schools and a nearby leprosy colony. We acted swiftly, working with local partners to assess needs and direct support.

Funds were released to assist families whose homes and livelihoods were damaged, providing temporary shelter, food, clothing, and school supplies. Our local headteachers played a key role in fair and timely distribution. Essential supplies were also delivered to the leprosy colony to replace what was lost in the flood.

3. Administrative Progress

Our financial oversight and accountability processes were further strengthened this year. Disbursement of funds was carried out via trusted partners including Aanandit charity and two headteachers in Nepal. This allowed timely and well-targeted support to those affected by flood damage and other hardship.

4. Financial Review

RNV Nepal continues to maintain a strong financial position in accordance with our financial reserves policy. We maintain cash reserves to enable us to act quickly when emergencies occur, however the speed and generosity with which our donors acted when the floods occurred in Nepal during the year meant that we did not need to dip into our reserve fund and were still able to act swiftly to send much needed funds to our partners in Nepal. Our operating costs remain minimal which means the financial risk to the charity is low. As such the outlook of the charity is positive looking into the future, and that our robust financial health will allow us to achieve our charitable objectives on an ongoing basis.

Looking Ahead

Although no volunteer trip took place during the reporting period, our work has continued with strong momentum. (At the time of writing, a team has just returned from Nepal – October 2025 – able to review and report on the effectiveness of our support.) We remain firmly committed to our values of access, compassion, and partnership.

Thank you to everyone who supported RNV Nepal during this past year — through time, donations, prayer, or encouragement. Together, we are making a lasting difference.

Keith Brook MBE President, RNV Nepal Charity Number: 1197238

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