Siyakhanya
Trustees’ annual report for the financial year ending 31 December 2024
Reference and Administrative Details
Charity Name: Siyakhanya (‘REPOSA’ from 16 August 2023 until 1 December 2023)
Registration number: 1204363
Registered contacts:
Principal office: 2 Woodview, Faringdon, SN7 8EL E-mail: sawubona@siyakhanya.org Tel: 0791 089 5679
Trustees:
Amanda Arthurton (appointed 27 November 2023) (Donations Secretary) Rev Philip Dorling (appointed 16 August 2023) Andrew Pemberton (appointed 16 August 2023) Nigel Taylor (appointed 16 August 2023) (Chair) Liz Williams (appointed 16 August 2023, resigned 21 November 2024) Dr Susan Young (appointed 13 September 2024)
Independent Examiner :
Peter Kerr, 64 Bouncers Lane, Prestbury, Cheltenham, Glos, GL52 5JN.
Bankers: Co-operative Bank, 1 Balloon Street, Manchester, M60 4EP
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Trustees’ Annual Report
The trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the Charity for the financial year ending 31 December 2024 covering the period from the charity’s registration on 16 August 2023 until 31 December 2024. The Reference and Administrative Details set out above, form part of this report.
Structure, Governance and Management
Siyakhanya’s registration as a charity in August 2023 was in recognition that the trustees of the Helwel Trust (charity no. 271713) were clear in their intention to bring that charity to formal closure on 31 March 2024 whilst there remained both the need to support one of the Trust’s long-standing charitable partners in South Africa - ACAT KwaZulu-Natal (ACAT)[1] - and opportunity to raise funds in Britain. The founding trustees of Siyakhanya took the opportunity to establish the new charity with a different legal entity, a new brand, and a clearer focus in the Object reflecting ACAT’s work and Christian foundations. The name ‘REPOSA’ was used as a place-holder until after extensive deliberations the trustees chose the name ‘Siyakhanya’. This name has the sense in the isiZulu language that ‘together, we are bringing light’ reflecting both the challenges of life in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and also a strong theme in Christian teaching.
In this context, REPOSA (later Siyakhanya) was registered on 16 August 2023 with a constitution as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation following the Foundation Model whose only voting members are its charity trustees.
The Charity has no employees and is administered by its unpaid trustees, of whom there are currently five.
Appointment of Trustees
Trustees are appointed by invitation.
Trustee induction and training
Newly appointed trustees are given a full introduction to the background and work of the trust and are provided with all the necessary documents.
Organizational Structure and Decision Making
The Trustees meet at regular intervals to ensure governance and management of the charity is maintained at the highest level, in particular through considering news from KwaZulu-Natal, the Charity’s financial position and how best to use funds.
Risk Management
The Trustees identify and review from time to time the risks to which the Charity is materially exposed and the action to be taken to mitigate them. Presently they are seen as:
- The loss or incapacity of senior management at ACAT.
Objectives, Activities and Public Benefit
Charitable object:
THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA, BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO CHRISTIAN ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH EQUIPPING THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY WITH KNOWLEDGE AND LIFE SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM TO OVERCOME POVERTY IN THEIR OWN LIVES, AND TO INFLUENCE AND ASSIST OTHERS TO
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ACHIEVE THE SAME. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, "CHRISTIAN ORGANISATIONS" MAY MEAN ANY THAT ADHERE TO TRADITIONAL AND ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FAITH AND PRACTICE.
The Trustees have maintained their commitment to further the Charitable Object by channelling resources through the South African non-governmental organisation (NGO) ACAT.
Achievements and performance
In the year to December 2024, the charity made one grant of £6600 to ACAT. This grant was to cover the full costs of three Youth Basic Life Skills courses. The courses were each held over four days in the September 2024 school holidays with the intended outcome that teenagers were equipped with the information and knowledge they need to make appropriate life choices. The courses were held in three areas where ACAT works – Nquthu, Loskop and Mnambithi. There were a total of 142 participants, 85 female and 57 male, aged between 12 and 20, with a median age of 14.
Public benefit statement
The Trustees confirm that they have complied with their duty to have due regard to the guidance on public benefit pubished by the Commission in exercising their powers and duties.
Financial Review
In practice, Siyakhanya only started to operate after the Helwel Trust had ceased operations on 31 March 2024.
In the financial year to 31 December 2024, the charity had total income of £10,086 . This included £6391 from individual donations, £1250 from Gift Aid, a donation of £500 from St Luke’s Church Battersea, £595 following the closure of the Helwel trust, and £1350 from donations through the Charities Aid Foundation and Stewardship Fund. The trustees are very grateful to all who gave so generously to enable Siyakhanya to reach this income in its opening months.
In the financial year, the charity made one grant of £ 6600 to ACAT to cover the full costs of the three Youth Basic Life Skills workshops.
Consequently, the charity carried forward a balance of £3486 .
Reserves policy
The broad aim of the charity is to carry and invest unrestricted reserves adequate to avoid a sudden disruption in the funding made available to ACAT as a beneficiary organisation, with the aim of having sufficient funds to cover three months operating costs of the ACAT Integrated Livelihoods Programme around Nquthu. Currently this would amount to approximately £9000. The charity’s reserves reached this level in 2025.
Plans for future periods
At a meeting in October 2025, trustees agreed to continue to support the ACAT Integrated Livelihoods Programme (ILP) around Nquthu in 2026 with minimum funding sufficient to cover six months expenditure but with the aspiration to raise sufficient funding to fully cover costs in 2026. This flagship programme equips vulnerable rural families to break the cycle of poverty, with this positive change impacting the wider community. Objectives for participants in the ILP include becoming members of sustainable community structures; to become food-secure by having a least a basic food garden using sustainable agricultural practices; running a profitable income generating activity using sustainable business prctices; and to be aware of, understand, and actively address HIV.
The trustees will continue to communicate to supporters in the UK through a regular newsletter.
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The trustees are developing organisational policies in critical areas, to be approved by the close of the current financial year.
Trustees continue to seek additional trustees with suitable skills and experience, and identification with the charity’s Object. They are particularly seeking members of the South African diaspora in Britain who would share the charity’s vision.
Signed:
Nigel Taylor Chair
31 October 2025
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