2025-04-05-accounts - Root And Branch Change

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ROOT AND BRANCH CHANGE A Charitable, Incorporated Organisation Charity Registration Number 1199565 ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 APRIL 2025 ROOT & BRANCH CHANGE

ROOT AND BRANCH CHANGE

A Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Charity Registration Number: 1199565

Registered Office: 19 Bevan Hill Chesham Buckinghamshire HP5 2QS Bankers: Lloyds Bank PLC Business Banking PO Box 1052 Cardiff CF11 1LJ Trustees: P H Brooks (Executive Chairman) T B Grist (to 6 February 2025) J S Spence S P Brooks (From 6 February 2025) S Wallace (From 15 October 2025) E Price (From 17 January 2026)

Independent Financial Examiner

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ROOT AND BRANCH CHANGE

TRUSTEES' REPORT (INCLUDING DIRECTORS' REPORT) FOR THE YEAR ENDED 5 April 2025

The Trustees present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 5 April 2025.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the guidelines of the Charity Commission for Charitable Incorporated Organisations (CIOs) with an income of over £25,000.

Objectives and Activities

The objects of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation are, for public benefit:

To prevent or relieve poverty in South Africa, in particular but not exclusively in the township of Munsieville and surrounding areas, by providing grants, items and services (including advocacy and education) to children and families in need and/or charities and other organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty amongst children and families
To advance the Christian religion in accordance with the statement of faith in the United Kingdom and South Africa, in particular but not exclusively through educating the public about the Christian religion and arranging missionary and outreach work amongst communities in financial hardship.

There have been no changes to these objectives since the last annual report.

When planning the activities for the year, the Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and are satisfied that the Charity’s activities met the principles laid out in that guidance. The Charity aims to benefit the public in the communities with which it works by raising funds and donations and undertaking activities for the prevention and relief of poverty and its impact on children and their families in Munsieville township, South Africa, and the development of long term strategies leading to improvements in the health, security and well-being of vulnerable children that can be sustained in the long term, with or without the direct involvement of the Charity. The Trustees have also worked to advance the knowledge and personal experience of individuals and churches regarding the central place within Christian discipleship of care and justice for poor, vulnerable and marginalised children in South Africa as well as in the United Kingdom.

In the year to 5 April 2025, the Trustees agreed that the Charity would devote its best efforts to addressing within Munsieville township a crisis impacting many thousands of children and teenagers throughout the Republic of South Africa; the crisis of child and young teen pregnancy. This work was to be undertaken alongside further development of its strategy to support the rescue, care and protection of children in or close to Munsieville township who have experienced sexual, physical or emotional abuse, neglect or abandonment, providing support either directly to those in need, or supporting carefully selected partners to act on its behalf.

The Trustees recognise that whilst abuse, neglect and abandonment of children is, to some extent, driven by poverty, it also perpetuates trans-generational poverty by limiting vital social development and access to education of children, restricting their opportunity to emerge into adulthood with the capacity to contribute positively to society and to their own future families. With this in mind, they are seeking to develop a core specialism in the prevention of family-based mistreatment of children, and in the challenge of transforming situations where abuse and neglect have occurred. These objectives have been greatly enhanced by the strenuous efforts by the Charity to consult broadly and to create synergetic working relationships and partnerships within our main theatre of operations through the period covered by this report.

Grant making policy

Root and Branch Change voluntarily agrees to work with other organisations to deliver some activities on its behalf. It does not consider unsolicited funding requests from external organisations. Small grants are made to individuals with the care of vulnerable children in our primary area of operation, who may be passing through a time of crisis. Such grants will only be considered when application is made to the Trustees by partner organisations in good standing with the Charity.

The Charity may, from time to time, provide gift in kind donations to external charitable organisations to undertake certain humanitarian activities that were pre-determined by the Trustees, being consistent with the objects of the Charity, and are in line with the strategic objectives of Root and Branch Change.

Achievements and performance

Root and Branch Change has made strenuous efforts over the year to build the capacity of its UK team of Trustees, advisors and operational volunteers, at the same time as working with its partners and contractors in South Africa to assess how the Charity can make the most impactful and sustainable contribution to overcoming the deep-seated challenges faced by children and families in the township of Munsieville, Gauteng Province, South Africa - challenges that have largely confounded attempts to address them for over a century.

The township and its immediate catchment area has an estimated population of some 60,000 people including some 25,000 infants, children and young people, two thirds of whom being defined as vulnerable using criteria established by UNICEF. Although Root and Branch Change is a relatively young organisation, set up to address the specific needs of children who are likely to fall through the “net” of services delivered by state providers or other NGOs, its founders have almost three decades of combined experience in this very township, having overseen significant improvements in the health and well-being of children as a result of systematic and committed targeting of resources on core contributors to trans-generational transmission of poverty, poverty and deprivation that has become the accepted norm in Munsieville. The Trustees have an unshakeable belief that significant, lasting change can be experienced by the most vulnerable people in the community – babies and infants who have been, or are likely to be, victims of serious abuse, neglect and abandonment. Along with rescue, protection and nurturing children so affected, the Charity has undertaken extensive consultation with local partners in support of its strategic aim of preventing such traumatic adverse experiences by establishing in-depth support for young, inexperienced parents and high numbers of young school-age girls who become pregnant, often as a consequence of rape, incest or coercion.

Throughout this reporting period, we have made advances in three key areas, all linked to our long-term objectives, seeking to lay firm foundations for our agenda of change within Munsieville, South Africa, and with churches in the UK:

1) Ga o Nosi (You are Never Alone) . Pregnancy amongst children and young teens is a huge problem right across South Africa. The scale of the problem is extremely hard to measure. Whilst the latest official figures report that 2,387 girls aged 10-14 years give birth in 2024 in South Africa, this is widely seen by charities working at grassroots level to be just the tip of the iceberg, with conservative estimates of girls in this age bracket becoming pregnant exceeding 20,000. The official figures only record reported births, not unreported births that are common in informal settlements and rural communities, nor do they reflect the number of aborted babies or those abandoned in infancy by their young mothers or families. What we do know from our own experience and that of our partner organisations also embedded in the Munsieville community, is that a significant number of children and young teens are engaged in sexual activity, subjected to statutory rape, incest and coercion, and become pregnant, with all the additional medical, psychological, social and spiritual risks. This is a crisis that points to severe systemic failures in child protection, sexual violence prevention and crime reporting and prosecution systems.

The Trustees, in 2023, made a commitment to prioritise the formation of a comprehensive service that would focus primarily on prevention of child pregnancy whilst also standing alongside those girls who are facing the challenges of pregnancy and those who, though children themselves, are now

mothers of infants, equipping them with the skills, structure and information for them to provide the best-possible start in life for their children as well as flourishing themselves. This new service, known as Ga o Nosi (You are not alone) was at the centre of the Charity’s work over the year from 6 April 2024, and was officially launched shortly before the end of that reporting period. The Charity engaged a young South African public heath graduate with a previous employment history in nursing, as a full-time consultant to advise and lead the development of the service for young mothers (“Sisters in Motherhood”) and to participate in creating resources and the Ga o Nosi Lounge – a comfortable, child-friendly facility for counselling and supporting fearful and ill-equipped mothers and pregnant children. We also have a flexible partnership with The Thoughtful Path: Munsieville, a local charitable organisation, to provide additional human resource to assist with the support of vulnerable young mothers and children experiencing sexual abuse, as and when necessary. The Trustees acknowledge deep gratitude, the steadfast and generous support of The Thoughtful Path/Project Hope UK, for the provision of rent-free accommodation at their Hope Park Children’s Health Campus as the physical base from which the Ga o Nosi service operates.

The core objectives of the Ga o Nosi initiative are:

a. To achieve measurable, sustained reductions in the number of children and young teens who become pregnant
b. To support those who are very young parents and their children to overcome their challenges and to thrive.
c. To establish a pioneering base for hands-on learning, developing evidence-based approaches in tackling the challenges of child and teen pregnancy that can ultimately be rolled out with confidence by other agencies and organisations in other similar locations across South Africa.
2) Youth Mission . In cooperation with the churches of the Parish of Great Chesham, the Charity led a party of twenty-three young people and eight leaders on a mission to Munsieville township for two weeks in July 2024, to give participants a taste of Christian mission in a challenging environment. This initiative was conducted in fulfilment of the Charity’s second charitable object ( see Objectives and Activities above ). The mission also included active involvement of young people from the Munsieville community and from Real Life Church, Krugersdorp, a partner church of the Charity.

The aim or the mission was i. to help embed Christian service as a life-long driving force in participants; ii. to encourage young residents of Munsieville to develop an attitude of service to others in need; and iii. to help transform a newly constructed youth centre from a structure of plain bricks and mortar into a vibrant, beautiful location that would attract young people from the township, give them a sense of pride and agency, and leave new facilities within the building and its grounds in support of future youth work operating in and from the centre.

The UK mission team bonded quickly with the indigenous young people and engaged with them in outreach projects to give them a better understanding of the challenges faced by people living in extreme, long-term poverty. They visited homes, often shocked by the conditions in which children are being raised, and went on to organise a large “Home Safety Fair” in a local sports arena, seeking to demonstrate simple low-cost or no-cost solutions to serious risks within the simple shacks in which thousands of children live. The local young people who were part of the mission were greatly encouraged by their visiting contemporaries from the UK and there was evidence after the mission of greater motivation to be actively involved in implementing improvements in their community. The most visible impact made by the mission team was the extraordinary styling to the interior and exterior of the new youth centre. Members of the team created a beautiful outdoor terrace, constructed a large pergola over another raised terrace/performing area to provide shade and shelter, undertook major landscaping and planting works to transform the grounds into a tranquil park, and applied murals and vibrant, colourful designs to the internal and external walls.

The charity continues to encourage participants in the mission to embrace the experiences and lessons learned as a part of their futures and, as young Christians, to continue to serve others as a central component of their commitment to Christ. The trustees have invited some of them to consider becoming Trustees of Root and Branch Change to further develop their voice on behalf of the poor, guided by God’s Holy Spirit.

3) Developing a sustainable support structure in the UK. Committed to developing a sustainable future for the new Charity, the Trustees have continued their endeavours to broaden its support base in the UK, and to establish an income generating project to raise renewable funding for ongoing operations in South Africa. We have seen an increase in the number of regular committed financial donors over the period and continue efforts to grow the capacity of the organisation to manage steady increases in both the quantity of donors over the coming years as well as their loyalty through active participation in the work of the Charity. The income from our own volunteer-run plant nursery, though still modest, has grown and will continue to benefit from the improvements to the nursery made over the year. The Trustees are most appreciative of the efforts of a small team of committed volunteers who help nurture the garden plants, tend the sales displays and care for the site which is gradually becoming a well-loved feature of the Chiltern Hills area. Income from the nursery is important to the charity and the enterprise has become a key component in promoting the work of the Charity in South Africa to customers in and around the town of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Alongside these activities, we have also developed a growing network of artisans and crafters, offering their products to our customers and receiving an income through a commission applied to their sales.

Safeguarding

The Trustees recognise that they bear a heavy responsibility for the safeguarding of the children, young people and families in South Africa for which the Charity exists, for its volunteers and stakeholders, any staff, paid or unpaid, whom it may employ, and for all participants in the work of the Charity. They are aware of the added complications imposed on the Charity by virtue of the extreme vulnerability of many of its beneficiaries and the difficulties of working under more than one regulatory jurisdiction. Prior to its registration by the Charity Commission in July 2022, the Trustee Board adopted robust policies and procedures covering the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, safer employment/engagement, and working/volunteering overseas, and other related topics. In a bid to remain at the cutting edge of “best practise” in safeguarding, the Trustees maintain membership of non-profit safeguarding organisation, Thirtyone:eight, through which policies and training will be further developed and DBS checks managed.

Fundraising

Over the year, Root and Branch Change has been sustained through the generous and committed support of a number of individuals. This has been augmented by the proceeds of fundraising sales of garden plants and gifts. The Charity is committed to develop a sustainable income stream from garden plant-growing activities operated by volunteers, and has further developed its charitable plant nursery facility in Buckinghamshire, attracting a loyal base of supporters for the charity.

The Charity acknowledges the continued support of the Church of England Parish of Great Chesham (UK), and of St Mary’s Church, Chesham in particular, with which Root and Branch Change is an official Mission Partner. In the autumn of 2024, St Mary’s Church Council agreed to make an annual financial contribution to the Charity; also, members of the St Mary’s congregation are currently a most significant source of income. In addition to this, the Parish of Great Chesham partnered with the Charity in a joint project to give practical mission experience in South Africa to 23 young people and eight leaders from churches in the Parish. The Parish co-funded aspects of the mission experience which took place in July 2024 and is reported on above.

The Charity has continued to work with local stakeholders in Munsieville, to develop a comprehensive new service called “Ga O Nosi”, detailed in the section above (Achievements and Performance). A small number of

individuals and families have provided funds to help initiate this long-term initiative. The Trustees acknowledge these generous donations with gratitude, not least for the faith implicit in them in the capacity of the Charity to deliver the project with excellence.

Voluntary help and donations in kind

All Trustees gave their time freely and without charge. We acknowledge and greatly appreciate the provision of rent-free land and services (for the Charity’s plant nursery) at Pressmore Farm, Ashley Green Road, Chesham. We are greatly indebted to a small band of faithful volunteers who have consistently gone above and beyond what could normally be expected, to facilitate activities in both Munsieville, and in Chesham, and are thankful and excited about our collaboration with The House of Tree at Pressmore Farm, Chesham, which is supporting our work to develop our nursery and adjacent community garden as both an income stream for the benefit of children in Munsieville, but also as a base to engage more people in the UK in creating solutions for children in Munsieville whom they are unlikely to ever meet.

Reserves

Root and Branch Change uses its resources efficiently and effectively which is evidenced by:

1) Very low frictional costs. We currently pay no staff – all personnel are volunteers, pay only very limited out of pocket expenses, and use office space and other property on a rent-free basis.
2) Delivering what we promised. All commitments have been honoured and no commitments are made by the trustees without robust plans for how they will be paid for.
3) Putting money raised to work. Root and Branch Change puts cash to work and currently runs with low reserves. This has been made possible by our low overheads and a low fixed cost structure that allows us to deliver a low burden of costs, as above. A higher level of reserves can be carried at any time if required by donors.
4) Establishing a three-month reserve fund. As the work of the Charity develops, with slightly higher regular commitments in connection with its South African operations, the Trustees have agreed to establish a policy, within the year ending 5 April 2026, of maintaining sufficient reserves to fulfil contractual obligations in place at any time. In practice, this means that funds will be reserved to pay any person or organisation that provides service or supplies to the Charity for at least three months, or until any fixed-term contracts have expired.

Risk management

The Trustees operate a rolling risk assessment programme, with emerging risks being assessed by Trustees at each of their meetings (minimum four per annum), covering the major risks to which the Charity is exposed, including those relating to the operations, volunteers, beneficiaries of the charity, and the finances of the charity. They are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to major risks in the UK and in its activity in South Africa.

Structure, governance, and management

Root and Branch Change is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and is governed by its Constitution. It is governed by a Board of Trustees who are all volunteers who give their time without remuneration and required to be members of the charity. The Trustees who served during the year are as follows:

P H Brooks (Executive Chairman) TB Grist JS Spence S P Brooks

The election of members to the Board, in place of those retiring, takes place at the Annual General Meeting. The Trustees may appoint any member to the Board to fill a casual vacancy or as an additional Trustee. A

Trustee so appointed shall hold office only until the next Annual General Meeting when he/she shall retire and be eligible for reappointment for a three-year term. When recruiting new Trustees, the Board makes enquiries with its advisors, and with relevant external bodies, in a bid to attract candidates with skills and experiences appropriate to the perceived needs of the charity at that time.

Training and mentoring are made available to Trustees as appropriate, to equip them to fulfil their duties in accordance with voluntary sector best practice and external requirements. The Executive Chairman and operational team of volunteers is charged with the responsibility to execute the day-to-day operations of the charity in accordance with the policies, procedures and budgets approved by the Board of Trustees. The Charity has no share capital or debentures.

Strategic plans for the future:

The principal focus of the Charity over the coming year will be to put in place the foundations that will allow it to deliver a range of connected services to address the cause and effects of pregnancy in young girls and teens, especially those in the age range of 10-14 years, to achieve year-on-year reductions in cases, at the same time as providing care and guidance to those who already have given birth. Our aim is to provide direct support to children and teenagers as well as to work indirectly to stimulate change to current cultural norms that contribute to the crisis. This work will include the following:

1) To establish the newly-launched Ga o Nosi Centre in Munsieville as a credible community resource, supporting children and young teens who are at risk of unwanted pregnancy, and cementing partnerships with organisations, agencies and individuals who share the aims of the initiative.
2) Further investment in the training and mentoring of the current programme lead responsible for the support of young mothers who are ill-equipped to provide adequate care for their babies, and to create and test a curriculum of instruction that can assist in their development.
3) Establish and test a range of outreach tactics to help achieve good community awareness of the impact of the child/teen pregnancy crisis, and of the services offered through Ga o Nosi
4) Appoint a project lead to spearhead child pregnancy prevention strategies needed to bring reductions in current prevalence.
5) Establish working partnerships with at least one of the Munsieville primary schools and the township secondary schools with a view to collaboration in strategies to drive the avoidance of harmful habits and the development of health life-style choices with their students.
6) To explore and develop strategies to engage men in the community to become better role models for young boys and men, and to become positive changemakers in their homes and community.
7) Grow renewable, regular funding from diverse income streams to support steady future growth for the Charity.
8) Rooting all aspects of the work of the Charity in clear biblical teaching, seeking to ensure that all actions and interventions are bathed in prayer and that they serve to demonstrate the love of God expressed in Jesus Christ.

The Trustees' Report was approved by the Board of Trustees at the Annual General Meeting on 17 January 2026.

SIGNED ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES Paul H Brooks Chair of Trustee Board

DATED: 17 January 2026

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Root and Branch Chang• Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 0610412024 0510412025 Section A Receipts and payments Unrgstricted funds Restricted funds Endowment fund$ Totsl funds L1 yoar to th• Mar••t tD th• ffl•ar••t È to th• n•ar•Jt È to th• n•ar•st È toth• n•ir•it£ A1 Recei 1•.•6J 4.796 7.222 47.21 57 67.182 4.D53 7,222 62A40 1.413 1,989 Gift R8etsvÈry Tradin9 Pro AR) 31.981 47,276 79.257 65,842 an 15eo tablel. nvg mgn •s. 78.257 A3Pa nts chi[e 8 Fle Support 3.820 3.820 3.504 29.286 9,695 R8C munsvIllaIG5 O Nosi Maeting Repairs & Renewals Tr*vel & Accomn)OdalvJn equipmBnl Phone & IT Bank Chary•s Sur1 9.59$ B2rtr 2.902 4.272 1.O5J B91 51 502 53.300 3,278 922 2.979 3.693 1.008 277 2.902 4.272 1.053 51 $02 14.319 Sub total 31,981 41,S19 A4 A550t and invostmont Sub total 53.300 Net ?f receipts/{payments) AS Tran$f¢rs tw¢¢fi funds Cash fun46 last Or end Cash lunds this year ond 25.957 CCXX R1 acctyjnts ISSI 1210112026

	Signature
		Paul H Brooks	17/01/2026
		John S Spence	17/01/2026

Statement of Financial Activities Charity Registration Number 1199565 Period ending 51412025 2025 2024 INCOME Donations Restricted Donations Unrestricted Gift Aid ReVery Restricted Gift Aid Recovery Unrestricted Trading Profit 47219 19963 57 2574 8611 45295 17146 2558 2889 78424 68232 LESS: EXPENDITURE Childcare & Field Support Youth Mission RBC MunsievilllGa O Nosi Marketing Repairs & Renewals Insurance 3727 29286 9694 820 2902 304 3447 27346 522 2979 203 Tl I Vehicle Costs Travel & . Phone & IT Safeguarding Bank Charges Equipment Sundries Depreciation 4272 891 174 51 1053 101 820 3683 277 145 1668 72 820 54095 41165 NET INCOME £24,329 £27,067 Note 1 Restricted Funds 2024 Youth Mission ReiptS 23651 Expenses -29286 Bal blf -£5.635 2024 45639 -29594 16045 Note 2 Restricted Funds RBC MunsielGo O Nosi Receipts 23625 Expenses -9694 Bal blf 13931

ROOT & BRANCH CHANGE CHARifi REGISTRATION NUMBER 1199565 AS AT 51412025 BALANCE SHEET 2025 2024 FIXED ASSETS Cost £3,278 Less Depreciation £1,640 £3,278 £820 £2,458 £1,638 ASSETS Stock Gift Aid Recovery Bank Cash Prepayment Flights in Advance £2,000 £0 £56,554 £53 £127 £0 £900 £2,222 £30,597 £53 £102 £0 £58.734 £33,874 LESS: LIABILITIES Expenses £0 £289 NET CURRENT ASSETS £60,372 £36,043 RESERVES Bal blf Net Income Restricted Funds £36,043 £16,954 £7,374 £8,976 £11,901 £15,166 £60,372 £36,043 12

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examlner's Report Report to the ¢rusteesl mèmb•fS of Root and Branch Change On accounts lor th• year •nd•d 5 April 2025 Charlty no Ilf any) 1199565 Set out on pages I report to the trusiees on my exarninalion of the accounis of the above charity l.thè Trust"} lor thè year èndod 0510412025 Rèsponslblllt5es and As tha charity trustaès of tha Trust, you arè r&sponsibl8 fof tha praparation basls of r•port of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 IW18 Act"). I report in respect of my examination ol the Tru51'5 accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I have followed Ihe applicable Directions given by the Ch8flty Commission under section 14515llbl of the Act. I have completed my exarninatKn. I confirm that no material matters have etsrna to rny att8ntion in connéction with tha èxamination which giv8s m8 cause to believe that in, any material respect". accounting records were not kept in acwrdance with section 130 01 the Act or the accounts do nol accord with the accounting records Indep8ndent examlngrfs statement I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connectK)n with th8 èxarnination to which attention should drawn in order to 8n8blg a proper understanding of the accounts io be reached. Dtè'. 1210112026 Slgnèd.. Nam?: Neena Se114 Relevant prof855ional quallficatlonlsl or body lif any).. ACCA Addrèss: Selll & Co CIO LAS ACC LTD. No.1 Royal Exchange. London. EC3V 3DG IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32. Independent examlnalion of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examinersl. Glve here brlef detalls of any items that the •xaminer wlshes to dlscloso. IER October 2018

ADJUSTMENTTO 2023-24 ACCOUNTS CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Root and Branch Chang• Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period from To 06104r2023 0510412024 Section A Receipts and payments Unre5trictgd lund$ toth• n••rsi Restricted lund$ to th• n••r••t E Endowmenl funds th• M41••t£ Totsl funds Last year th• n•4r••i £ to th• n••rn•t t A1 ft¢ 17.146 4S.2•8 62 62M41 1S.1$2 2,104 141 Gift Aid R8cov•ry Trading Pr¢1 1.589 1,989 ross Inciyy)e or AR) 211.486 45.357 65.843 18.104 an Isee tablo). Inves A3Pa ents Childcare & Field Support Ywth RBC MunsièvilltlGa O Nosi aTketing Repar9 & Rarthds Travel & A¢commodgtson Eiuipment PhDn8 & IT Bank Charyès Sundril 3.447 3M47 25,131 25,131 522 2.979 $22 2.979 J,$iJ 1.6 277 1,U1 Z,249 1.868 277 337 61 464 58 522 Sub total 10.794 27,438 38.232 A4 Asset and Investment RBC mr•• M¢M•r 3.278 Sub total 3,278 3,271 41.51tl Il•t of re¢elpts/(payments) A5 Tran5for5 botweon funds A6 Ca¥h funds last year end Cash funds thls year end CCXX R1 accounts ISSI 1210112026 15

AMENDMENT	AMENDMENT	AMENDMENT
Signature
	Paul H Brooks	17/01/2026
	John S Spence	17/01/2026

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Sectton A Independent Examiner's Report R•port ta the trust91 nmbern of R¢)018nd Branch Change On aeeounts for th• yèar ended 5" April 2024 Charlty nts lif any) 1199565 Sot out on p•g•$ I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charltyllhe Trust") for Ihg yoar ended 0510412024. Re¥ponsibilitles and A5 the ch8rity Irusl&es of the Trust, you are responsible for the prep8r81ion basls of rèport of th8 accounts in ac¢ordancg With the r9quiroments of Ihe Chaiitlgs Act 2011 I"Ihe Acl-l. I report in respecl ol my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I havè followed the applicablè Directions given by U)¢ Charity Commission under seth'on 14515llbl of the Ad. I have completed my exarninalion. I confirm that no material matters have comg lo my attèntion in conngdion with the Èxamination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting record5 were rt kept in accordance section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent oxaminorfs ststtrnont I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wf(h the examination lo which attention should be drawn in Order to enable prop8r understanding of thg accounts to bè rèa¢hed. Date: 2010112025 Amended 1210112026 Slgn•d: Namo.. Neena Selli Relevant profe¥¥lonal qualrfieationlsl or body Ilf any): ACCA Addr•$$- Selli & Co CIO LAS ACC LTD. No.1 Royal Exchange. London. EC3V 3DG IER October 2018

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs lo highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent exafflination of charity account5.' directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brlof detalls of any itern5 that the examingr wishes to discloso. The IE report submitted for year ended 2024 in January 2025. contsined some accrued and prepaid expenditure in error. This has now been amended lo confimi the accuracy of the figures being matched with the actual income and expenditure transactions as per bank slalements. These errors and amendments are not of material significance and no further disclosure apply. IER October 2018 18

ROOT & BRANCH CHANGE Charity Registration Number 1199565