Trustees’ Report & Accounts
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Administrative Details
| Charity number: 1197242 |
Charity number: 1197242 |
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| Registered office: 1 Scotts Close |
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| Downton | |
| Salisbury | |
| Wiltshire | |
| SP5 3RA | |
| Trustees: Tim Varney – Chair |
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| Rebecca Harwood Lincoln - Vice Chair | |
| Jaskiran Singh - Treasurer | |
| Clive Barnett - Safeguarding Lead | |
| Nick Cusack | |
| Glenn Hudson | |
| Elise Perraud | |
| Aliraza Alimohamed | |
| Mick Regan (resigned 19/11/2024) | |
| UK Banker: HSBC |
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| 19 Minster Street | |
| Salisbury | |
| Wiltshire | |
| SP1 1TE | |
| Tanzanian Banker: Exim Bank Ltd |
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| Lindi House | |
| Agakhan Rd | |
| Mtwara | |
| Tanzania |
Independent Examiner: Mrs Erica Parker FCCA Clifford Fry & Co Chartered Accountants St Mary’s House Netherhampton Salisbury SP2 8PU Tanzanian Auditor: CCB & Partners Certified Public Accountants Tanu Rd Nangwanda Stadium P.O. Box 1413 Tanzania
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Structure
EdUKaid was established in 2003 and operated as an unincorporated registered charity in the UK and a Non-government Organisation in Tanzania. EdUKaid registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 21 December 2021 for the purpose of carrying on the activities of EdUKaid as an incorporated body. EdUKaid completed the transfer of assets and liabilities on 31 March 2024.
Governance
EdUKaid recruits trustees in the UK with the skills and experience to ensure the charity carries out its activities effectively and efficiently. The trustees take an active interest in operational activities and remain informed through regular reports and three full board meetings a year. The board of trustees regularly reviews its ‘fitness’ with reference to the charity’s purpose, plans, solvency, resilience, and governance.
Our Tanzanian board of trustees represents the communities in which we work with the skills and experience to inform strategy, advise on programme development, and provide operational oversight.
Objectives
EdUKaid’s primary objectives are the advancement of education and training for children and teachers and the relief of poverty in the developing world. We believe that through education children can achieve their full potential and develop the skills to make life choices.
Vision
Our vision is for a world where every child has access to the education they need to realise their potential and attain the skills to improve their life chances.
Mission
Our mission is to raise the quality of education and welfare in the developing world, thereby helping to eradicate poverty.
Core Values
Our core values underpin all aspects of our activities:
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Community-led
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Sustainability
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Equality
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Inclusion
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Collaboration
Public Benefit
The trustees have given due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and have taken it into consideration when making decisions. This report provides a summary of our main activities undertaken in 2023-24 demonstrating our charitable purpose for the public benefit.
Safeguarding
The trustees believe that the welfare of children and vulnerable individuals is paramount. The charity trains its programmes team and operates within the framework of comprehensive Safeguarding, Prevention of Sexual Abuse and Exploitation and Whistleblowing policies which clearly state how incidents and allegations will be handled should they arise. Policies and practices are reviewed annually. EdUKaid is considered a leading organisation with regard to safeguarding in Tanzania and has been highly influential in improving stakeholder safeguarding practices across the districts in which we operate.
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Activities
EdUKaid works alongside communities in the southern Mtwara District of Tanzania. Our activities aim to reduce marginalisation, increase opportunity, and provide the most disadvantaged children with an education. Supporting particularly isolated communities, we develop sustainable solutions in partnership with local stakeholders - widening educational access and promoting a culture of inclusion.
Core activities include:
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School and Community Capacity Building aimed at providing teachers, community leaders and key education and welfare stakeholders with the skills they need to deliver a quality education.
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Pre-primary Education delivering early years education across 16 primary schools. Establishing community led pre-primary satellite classes and training teachers across the Mtwara District to deliver a child-friendly, play-focused education in government schools.
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Inclusive Education activities that improve access to education for adolescent girls and children living with a disability, leading to dramatic improvements in enrolment, attendance, and academic attainment.
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Primary School Development renovating neglected environments, constructing classrooms, improving sanitation facilities, and promoting community engagement at some of the most disadvantaged government schools in Mtwara District leading to better health and improved learning outcomes.
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Extra Tuition supporting children struggling to progress through the school system, improving learning outcomes and reducing dropout rates.
Risk Management
EdUKaid recognises that development can only be achieved with an element of considered risk. Sound risk management is essential to its governance and to sustainable operation services. EdUKaid’s Risk Management policy provides guidance on managing organisational risk to pursue the EdUKaid mission. The Trustees are satisfied adequate systems are in place to mitigate our exposure to major risks where possible.
Volunteers and In-Kind Support
EdUKaid is grateful to its invaluable team of dedicated volunteers who provide support in fundraising, marketing, and administration activities. EdUKaid also benefits from in-kind office space and administrative support provided by our main corporate supporter, Doozy Life. This support reduces our UK overheads and helps to focus resources on delivering work in Tanzania.
Reserves
It is our policy to maintain sufficient funds in reserve to enable our core activities of inclusive pre primary education to continue over a period of 6 months to allow the trustees to re-orientate the charity, with the overall aim of children completing the academic year, should a shortfall in income or a serious risk occur.
Strategic Planning
In consultation with stakeholders in both Tanzania and the UK, we conducted a review in 2021 which led to the development of our 2021-26 Strategic Plan. The charity is taking a similar approach to shaping its strategy for the forthcoming period.
Achievements
EdUKaid continued to deliver a range of activities focusing on building capacity and improving educational outcomes for the disadvantaged children and communities in rural Mtwara, Tanzania:
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Early Years Education
We delivered our Pre-primary Satellite Project, with 10 classes in the most remote villages in Mtwara District. As a result, over 400 children who have previously struggled to get to school have been able to gain access to the early years education they desperately need to lay their foundations of learning. Crucially, these classes have been established in partnership with their local communities – setting up community committees who will take responsibility for the long-term sustainability of the project. Community committees have coordinated a range of income generating activities in support of their classes including salt harvesting, farming, fishing. Community members have also donated land and bricks so that permanent classrooms can be constructed.
We continued to provide essential pre-primary education to nearly 1,500 children across 16 government primary schools in Mtwara District through EdUKaid pre-primary classes. Our Montessori-based education provides children with the best possible start in life, giving them the foundation they need for lifelong learning. Delivering child-centred, play-focused education within state primary schools and working collaboratively with school leaders influences the wider school culture, indirectly improving learning outcomes for an additional 11,000 children from standard 1 to standard 7.
Gender and Disability Inclusion in Education
Our Inclusion Project builds on the incredible success and learnings from our disability and gender inclusion activities over the previous few years. This project ensures that all 106 primary schools in Mtwara District have the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver a truly inclusive education – removing the cultural and attitudinal barriers that prevent girls and disabled children from achieving their full potential. By the end of the financial year 14,302 girls had learnt how to manage their periods with dignity, 1,144 disabled children are accessing an inclusive education, and 40,000 children are learning to embrace equality.
Extra-Curricular and Community Activities
Our newly renovated Community Centre is now a hive of activities, with daily storytelling sessions and regular literacy-focused activities providing opportunities for the Mikindani community to engage in education in a fun and inclusive way. We are aiming to build a further 4 Community Libraries in rural areas in 2024 which will also deliver a range of activities to benefit children and communities living in remote villages in Mtwara.
We continued to deliver Extra Tuition activities 7 days a week at the Community Centre to over 200 children leading to improvements in academic attainment and reductions in the number of children dropping out of school. In November and December we also delivered pre-form one activities preparing over 300 children for their transition from primary to secondary school.
We built 4 Volunteer-led Community Libraries at 4 central schools which will be accessed by children across the most remote villages in Mtwara District. These libraries offer a range of activities to develop an independent reading culture, improve literacy and numeracy skills, promote healthy life-choices, encourage parents to improve their own basic skills and bring communities together in a safe and inclusive setting. We also launched our new Income Skills Training Project which takes place in the Community Library buildings aimed at providing girls who have dropped out of school with the skills they need to earn money.
Individual Support
We continue to provide ongoing support for a small number of individual children including those with special educational and support needs. This support includes the provision of uniforms, resources, transport and specialist equipment which have been essential in ensuring that the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children have access to a safe and inclusive education.
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Fundraising Performance
In 2023-24 we continued to generate income from a range of sources in line with our strategy to reduce reliance on any one single income stream.
Grant funding continues to represent our largest funding source with 63% of our income donated by trusts and foundations. We are incredibly grateful to our funders and we are especially thankful to those that supported the growth of our work and impact over a number of years. This makes it possible to effectively plan and deliver our activities.
Our corporate supporters have shown great commitment to supporting children in Tanzania, with donations totalling £20,861. In addition, we are grateful to businesses and individuals connected with the vending industry who raised an incredible £30,804 at our 13[th ] annual Great Vending Get Together.
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of EdUKaid
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of EdUKaid (Charity No.1197242) for the year ended 31 October 2024.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent examiner’s statement
Since the charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with my examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
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1 accounting records were not kept in respect of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
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2 the accounts do not accord with those records; or
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3 the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair view’ which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Mrs Erica Parker FCCA
St Mary’s House Netherhampton Salisbury SP2 8PU
17 July 2025
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
EDUKAID
Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31 October 2024
| Note Incoming resources Donations and legacies 1a 1b Other trading activities 1c Investments 1d Resources expended Raising funds 2a Charitable activities 2b Separate material item of expense Other 2c Net income/(expenditure) Transfers between funds Net movement in funds Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total funds 2024 Total funds 2023 £ £ £ £ 23,330 187,580 210,910 236,778 39,019 - 39,019 48,501 61 - 61 15 |
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| 62,410 187,580 249,990 285,294 |
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| 11,955 2,400 14,355 20,709 14,688 186,458 201,146 239,481 - - - 15,706 7,722 3,830 11,552 10,840 |
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| 34,365 192,688 227,053 286,736 |
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| 28,045 (5,108) 22,937 (1,442) - - - - 28,045 (5,108) 22,937 (1,442) 82,927 42,888 125,815 127,257 |
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| 110,972 37,780 148,752 125,815 |
The notes at pages 10- 12 form part of these accounts.
Signed on behalf of EdUKaid by:
Tim Varney - Chair of Trustees
Date: 15 July 2025
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Balance Sheet
as at 31 October 2024
| Note Fixed assets Tangible assets Current assets Debtors 3 Cash at bank and in hand Total current assets Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Net current assets/(liabilities) Total assets less current liabilities Total net assets/(liabilities) Funds of the Charity Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Total funds |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Total 2024 Total 2023 £ £ £ £ 4,176 1,006 5,182 4,321 9,423 954 10,377 18,505 102,085 74,498 176,583 150,368 111,508 75,452 186,960 168,873 4,712 38,678 43,390 47,379 106,796 36,774 143,570 121,494 110,972 37,780 148,752 125,815 |
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| 110,972 37,780 148,752 125,815 |
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| - 37,780 37,780 42,888 110,972 - 110,972 82,927 |
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| 110,972 37,780 148,752 125,815 |
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
| Note 1 | 2024 |
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| Total funds | |
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| a. Donations and legacies | |
| Donations and gifts - regular giving | 13,339 |
| Donations and gifts - individuals | 14,043 |
| Corporate donations | 20,861 |
| Gift Aid | 3,689 |
| Legacies | - |
| 51,932 | |
| 2024 | |
| b. Grants | £ |
| The Marr-Munning Trust | 39,600 |
| States of Guernsey - Overseas Aid & | |
| Development Commission | 23,578 |
| Educational Opportunity Foundation (BFSS) | 21,228 |
| Scott Bader Commonwealth Ltd | 25,000 |
| Berfred Foundation | 15,845 |
| Charles Hayward Foundation | 15,000 |
| Stewardship | 10,281 |
| Score | 3,946 |
| KCCF Small Grant (PWCF) | 2,000 |
| St Mark's Overseas Aid Trust | 1,500 |
| Gilchrist Ed | 1,000 |
| 158,978 | |
| b. Other trading activities | |
| Great Vending Get Together | 30,804 |
| Other fundraising events | 8,215 |
| 39,019 | |
| c. Income from investments | |
| Interest income | 61 |
| 61 |
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
EdUKaid Trustees’ Report & Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024
Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 October 2024