
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From 30 April 2025 Period start date   To   30 April 2026 Period end date** 

## **Charity name: Help Beyond Tears** 

## **Charity registration number: 1201372** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|1. For the public beneft, the<br>prevention or relief of poverty in<br>the UK and overseas by providing:<br>grants, items and services to<br>individuals in need and/or<br>charities, or other organisations<br>working to prevent or relieve<br>poverty.<br>2.For the public beneft, to<br>preserve and protect the health of<br>women who are at risk of bleeding<br>during birth in the UK and<br>overseas, by providing and<br>assisting in the provision of<br>facilities, medical services, support<br>services and equipment not<br>normally provided by the statutory<br>authorities and by educating<br>hospital staf and trainees.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|**1.**<br>**Feed hungry children**<br>**2.**<br>**Pay registration fees to register**<br>**children who lack fees to start**<br>**primary school**<br>**3.**<br>**Train health workers how to**<br>**manage women who bleed in**<br>**pregnancy and birth**<br>**4.**<br>**Distribute free iron tablets to**<br>**women who are anaemic in**<br>**pregnancy and birth.**|
|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have|Para 1.18|**The trustees fully complied with the**<br>**guidance issued by the Charity**|





had regard to the guidance **Commission on public benefit.** issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Followed when offering food to hungry**<br>**destitute children.**|
|Policy on social investment<br>including program related<br>investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by<br>volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers who distributed food were**<br>**not paid.**|
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## **Achievements and Performance** 

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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|**1.**<br>**25 children were enabled to start**<br>**primary school overseas.**<br>**2.**<br>**30 destitute children were offered**<br>**a free meal for the day**<br>**3.**<br>**No maternal death occurred**<br>**among women who received free**<br>**iron tablets overseas.**<br>**4.**<br>**The charity was accommodated**<br>**freely to keep it operational.**|



|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**<br>You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|
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|Achievements against|Para 1.41|**Only the above-mentioned ones.**|





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|Performance of fundraising<br>activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
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## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is still unable to raise funds**<br>**beyond voluntary contributions received**<br>**from trustees.**|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**-**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**-**|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|**No investments or significant funds**<br>**raised.**|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|**-**|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|**-**|



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|<br>The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|<br>Para 1.47|<br>**Voluntary contributions from some**<br>**trustees**|
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**On-going failure to open a bank account**<br>**in the UK**|
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## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|**Selection from volunteers from the**<br>**general assembly who meet the**<br>**eligibility criteria.**|



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|<br>Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|<br>Para 1.51|<br>**-**|
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51|**Chairperson and Contact, Deputy**<br>**Chairperson, General Secretary and**<br>**Treasurer**|
|Relationship with any<br>related parties|Para 1.51|**-**|
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## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|Help Beyond Tears|
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|Registered charity number|**1201372**|
|Charity’s principal address|84 Grafton Road<br>Brizlincote<br>Burton-on-Trent<br>Staffordshire<br>DE15 9EL|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Achier Deng Akol|Chairperson and<br>Contact|||
||Victoria Awit Bona<br>But|Treasurer|||
||Deng Achier Deng<br>Akol(DengSenior)|Deputy Chairperson|||
||Ayay Achier Deng<br>Akol|General Secretary|||
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|Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved|Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved|Corporate trustees–names of the directors at the date the report was approved|
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Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** 

- Description of the assets held in this capacity - Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects - Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of**<br>**adviser**|**Name**<br>**Address**|**Name**<br>**Address**|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

Professor Andrew Weeks, Patron 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

**-** 

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## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** Achier Deng Akol **Full name(s)** Achier Deng Akol 

**Position (eg Secretary,** Chairperson and Contact **Chair, etc)** 

**Date** 

17/01/2026 

