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TRUSTEES' ANNUAL REPORT FOR YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2025
## **Reference and Administrative Information**
Charity Number: 1197480
Operational Address: 16 College Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HZ
Bankers: Starling Bank Ltd
Independent Examiner: Darren Bond, Brebners, 130 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5AR
## **Trustees**
The charity is administered by the trustees. The following persons served throughout the year and since the year end.
Simon Rye (Chair)
Giulia Pepe Louise Jeffreys
Robert Boles
Georgina Boles (appointed 14 June 2025)
Jennifer Rye
James Collins (resigned 28 January 2025)
Each trustee must be appointed for a term of three years by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the existing charity trustees must have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience required for the effective administration of Do SlumThing.
## **Charitable Purposes**
Do SlumThing was formed to fulfil the following objectives:
To provide financial support for schools and individual past and present students in slum communities in India and elsewhere for the prevention or relief of poverty or financial hardship and to enable individuals to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient.
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered on 13 January 2022 and subject to a Constitution.
The charity is supervised by the trustees who meet as required but at least quarterly. All of the work of the charity is done on a voluntary basis by the trustees.
All our Trustees are unpaid volunteers and none are reimbursed their travel or other expenses.
## **Risk Assessment**
The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the Charity is exposed, in particular those relating to its operations and finances, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate the charity's exposure to the major risks.
## **Review of the Activities and Achievements**
We are an extremely small and intimate charity heavily reliant on the support of 45-odd individual monthly donors for our day-to-day operating expenses and the generosity of our two main corporate sponsors for the big ticket items - the construction of a new school in Harmada and our daily food program to give but two examples.
This is not to belittle the occasional one-off donation or the gifts in kind such as our accountants Brebners' generous offer to audit our accounts on a pro bono basis.
The trustees themselves personally donated approximately £2,330 which included a restricted donation of £1,520 to "volunteer support" expenses (specifically the undersigned's one month visit to Jaipur in October 2025)
I would also like to thank:
1. Maria and Irene from Italy and our local stalwart Dr Sharma who conducted a dental hygiene session respectively a medical camp in Kishan Bagh. The latter attracted over 60 patients.
and
2. all those volunteers - including Vicky (and her 4 friends), Stav (from Canada), Nora (Belgium), Asia (Italy), Candida and Melanie (Rachel's mum) - who gave their time so freely
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The trustees are confident that we have complied with the duty in section 4 of the Charities Act 2006 to have due regard to guidance on public benefit published by The Charity Commission
Our new school in Harmada (Zindagi Foundation School) had its Grand Opening on 16 April with Bob, Gina and Lorean as honoured guests from Ireland.
This school currently has 120 students who are taught in shifts: pre-schoolers and those excluded from any formal education in the morning and the remainder in the afternoons.
Here we have Rachel, our resident volunteer, plus 4 other full-time teachers (Shahadat, Sultan, Rahul and Sunita) plus one teaching assistant (Manisha), 2 cleaners and a handyman.
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Rachel, Shahadat and Sultan also hold morning teaching sessions Under the Bridge (20 students) and in Kishan Bagh (36 students). There we employ another 3 teaching assistants.
These two - Muskan (18) and Sonika (16) - are the most recent additions to our teaching staff.
Again Indian foreign exchange restrictions prohibit us from paying all but small sums to Indian recipients so all our full timers and those part-timers earning RS 5,000 (£45) or more a month are formally employed through our local charity partner Lok Seva Sangam (Mumbai) ("LSS") and we finance them accordingly.
In 2025 we made payments to LSS totaling £27,144.
## **Outlook**
Our schools are more social hubs than simple centers of education. Our teachers more social activists than regular teachers.
Our responsibility for the children does not start and end when they cross the school threshold; they remain under our protection in and out of school.
## **Harmada**
We will never be Board-certified for exam purposes so our aim is not to compete with the state recognised schools but to reintegrate our children into same.
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We have computer labs in both Harmada and Kishan Bagh.
In collaboration with another local NGO we provide certified daily sewing lessons for the older girls and women in the community.
## **Kishan Bagh**
Space here is at a premium.
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The property across from Sultan's family home on a plot measuring 18 x 60 feet was offered to us for 5 lakh (£4.5k) but this is an illegal settlement and the local police actively frustrate any attempts at (re)construction.
We continue our search for a solution.
## **Under the Bridge**
The shack we constructed here 2 years ago was destroyed by high winds and rain last Summer, rebuilt and blown down a second time.
Our proposed solution is to purchase a bus and covert same into a mobile school.
We retained a professional fundraiser to identify and approach 25 charitable foundations to whom this project might appeal. To date we have pledges totalling £3,000.
In the meantime, we shift from one temporary shelter to another such as one the latest SMBC delegation visited last November.
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We continue to provide periodic community sessions with ophthalmologists, dental hygienists and medical camps
## **Funds**
The charity holds unrestricted funds applied to general purposes and also restricted funds created from specific appeals for the under noted purpose:
Books
Mobile school Student sponsorship
## **Reserve Policy**
Total reserves carried forward at 31 December 2025 amounted to £50,889 (2024 - £63,504) of which £35,562 are restricted for the purposes previously described.
## **Investment Policy**
Any monies in excess of a £3-5,000 current account float are held on an Easy Access Savings Account with Shawbrook Bank.
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The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees
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Robert Boles
Trustee
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Simon Rye
Chair
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Do Slumthing 1197480
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period 01/01/2025 31/12/2025
To
from
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Donations, legacies and grants 24,816 7,348 - 32,163 72,714
Gift aid 2,380 - - 2,380 2,215
Sub total (Gross income for
27,196 7,348 - 34,543 74,929
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 27,196 7,348 - 34,543 74,929
A3 Payments
Teacher salaries 8,075 - - 8,075 5,117
Volunteer support costs 8,080 1,520 - 9,600 5,194
School refurbishment costs 619 13,302 - 13,921 18,910
School equipment and expenses 10,527 801 - 11,328 3,088
Administrative expenses 366 - - 366 513
Project costs 1,008 2,861 - 3,869 2,165
Sub total [ 28,675 ] 18,484 - 47,159 34,987
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - -
- - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 28,675 18,484 - 47,159 34,987
Net of receipts/(payments) - 1,479 - 11,136 - - 12,615 39,942
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 16,806 46,698 - 63,504 23,562
Cash funds this year end 15,327 35,562 - 50,889 63,504
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
09/04/2026
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
None
Bank account
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
None
**Details**
**Details**
None
**Details**
None
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**15,327**
**35,562**
**15,327**
**35,562**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
ROBERT BOLES
**-**
Print Name
SIMON RYE|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
**-**
13-Apr-26
09-Apr-26|
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
|**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|Charity Name
Do SlumThing|Charity Name
Do SlumThing|Charity Name
Do SlumThing|
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||31 December 2025|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1197480|
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||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 December 2025.
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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
- **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- • the accounts did 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
|**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**Address:**
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||Darren Bond||
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Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales||
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||Brebners Chartered Accountants||
||130 Shaftesbury Avenue||
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of** No matters of concern. **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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