## **The Kerkham Foundation – Report 2024/25** ## March 2024 Bank of Scotland bank account set up after many struggles. Deposited £50000 from WHK’s current account into TKF prior to WHK year end. ## April 2024 After communicating with Bodhi Garrett of The Andaman Center to Migrant Education (ACME) we agreed to fund the following; 44,800 Baht (circa £1000) for teacher and staff bonus’ for the semester just finished. Payable before the end of April. We struggled to get our account set up international payment and tried sending through ‘wise’. This failed and Julian Kerkham(JSK) had to make the payment personally. This amounted to £969.60 which TKF will refund to JSK. We hope this does not happen again. All payment paperwork is present and traceable. We also committed to ACMEs Classroom Equipment Funding request which is estimated at 40,060 baht (circa £8924) which is not expected to be called for until August/September 2024 when the new classroom block is complete. We also expressed an interest in helping to fund future re-development of the original old school rooms. This is estimated at circa 4000000 baht (£89000). We might look at a match funding proposed potentially up to 50% of the cost. This is unlikely to be thought of again until January 2025 and the earliest requirement for funds being May/June 2025. This is not a commitment. ## May 2024 £969.60 paid by TKF to JSK. International payee set up to ACME so private payments are no longer necessary. ## July 12.07.24 £750 paid to The Black Dog Music Project based in Norwich 21.07.24 £250 paid to the Swan Project to provide free lunches to children in Downham Market organised by Mabel’s Bakery ## August 2024 14.08.24 £10,000 paid to Andaman as a stage payment for the new school building (and a £15 bank charge) 29.08.24 £7,000 paid to Andaman to cover costs of Moken Ocean Guardians and the proposed move into plastic recycling at Kuraburi (and a £15 bank charge). Project planning is ongoing. This amount also paid for work into safeguarding the Moken language via the translation into Moken of The Little Prince. ## December 2024 Travelled to Mae Sot and made connections with Fred Stockwell who assists the garbage people of Mae Sot but with no registered charitable status this lead can go no further currently Met with a member of staff at The Joy House which is an arts-based psycho-social Burmese refugee organisation working in Mae Sot, the refugee camps and on occasion deeper into Myanmar. Connection was also made with Ton Baars who teaches and is an organizer at one of the Burmese refugee camps. The project discussed with Ton was planned to be revisited in February 2025 with a view to implementation in 2025. Donald Trump’s withdrawal of USAid which contributed 40% of all aid to the refugee camps immediately resulted in the closure of all medical facilities and the repatriation programme among others. The huge problems this caused meant that the limited staff had no ability to anything other than fight their biggest fires. They had no time to contemplate any small new project with us. ## January 2025 A connection was made with Arrri on Koh Phangnang (Sol and Tania) who use drone and AI Technology to locate ghost fishing nets around coatlines. They recover and educate. A new business funded by grants and donations that will move into being funded commercially if successful. A connection was made with Seksan at Wonpanit, a plastic (and other product) recycling centre based at Krabi and across Southern Thailand. Future plans with Wongapanit could be charitable and/or commercial. This is the most exciting recycling operation I have seen in Thailand and could be the focus of significant time and efforts by JK. March 2025 $500 (£396.95) paid to Phalla Yai with a £15 bank charge. Phalla runs a small village education unofficial charity near Siem Reap in Cambodia. We have donated to enable Phalla to buy educational equipment and 3 bins for their village to promote rubbish collection and recycling, neither of which currently happen. |Date of transactio|TKF code|Beneficiary/donor||Income|Thai Baht|US $|Expenditure|Expenditure|Comment| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |28.03.24|A|WHK|£|50,000.00
|||||| |30.04.24|2|Andaman Discoveries Co Ltd|||44800||||Staff bonus' ACME school paid by JSK| |||Bank Charge for above|||||||£5.98Paid by JSK| |21.05.24|2|Julian Kerkham|||||£|969.60
|Repayment for blue above| |30.07.24|3|The Black Dog Music Project|||||£|750.00
|Running cost contribution| |30.07.24|4|Mabel Bakery|||||£|250.00
|Swan youth project| |14.08.24|5|ACME stage payment 1|||||£|10,000.00
|Construction of new building| |14.08.24|6|Bank Charge for above|||||£|15.00
|| |29.08.24|7|ACME stage payment 2|||||£|7,000.00
|Construction of new building| |29.08.24|8|Bank Charge for above|||||£|15.00
|| |20.02.25|9|ACME Final stage payment 3|||||£|8,343.41
|Construction of new building| |20.02.25|10|Bank Charge for above|||||£|15.00
|| |24.02.25|11|Felixtowe volunteer RNLI|||||£|1,000.00
|Last Orders on The Orwell| |24.02.25|12|ACME school|||||£|5,099.56
|Part payment of new school bus| |24.02.25|13|Bank Charge for above|||||£|15.00
|| |18.03.25|B|WHK|£|75,000.00
|||||| |24.03.25|C|WHK|£|100,000.00
|||||| |27.03.25|16|Phalla Yai||||500.00|£|396.95
|Education and recycling| |27.03.25|17|Bank Charge for above|||||£|15.00
|| |31.03.25|D|WHK|£|25,000.00
|||||| ||||£|250,000.00
|||£|33,884.52
|| Bank statement opening balance £ 50,000.00 01.04.24 closing balance £ 216,115.48 31.03.25 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees The Kerkham Foundat￿ CIO On accounts for th• year ended March 2025 Charity no (if any) 1206718 Set out on pago$ I report to the trustees on ry examination of the accwnts of the above charty lkne Trusfi forthe year ended 3110312025. As the ¢hariVs trustees, you are ￿sponsIble for the preparation of the accounts in &cordance with the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 lkn Acf). Re8ponsiblllties and ba818 of report I report in ￿SpeCt of my exarninat￿n of the Tnjsl's 8ccounts carried out under sectK)n 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examlnation. I have followed all the appl￿ble Directions given by the Charlty Commisslon under section 145ISXbl of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have examlnor'6 Statement come to my attent￿n in I￿nneCtIon with the examination (other than that discbsed below'l which gives me cause to bélieve that in, any malerlal respect.. the acc¢)unting records were not kept in accordance with Section 130 of the Charities Act.. or the accounts not accord with the a￿unting records,. or the accounts did not ccNnpty wrth the applicabb requirements conceming the fomi and contenl of accounts set out in the Charities IAccount$ and Rep¥Ntsl Regulations 2008 olhef than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fail view whlch is not a matter conS￿ered as part of an Independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection wlth the examination to which attention Should be drawn in this reF()rt in order to enable a proper understanding ol the accounts to be reached. ' Pl88 delete the words in the b￿kot$ if they do nol apply. Dats: Slgned.. Namo". Relevant professlonal qualificalionls} or body (rf any): nla Addres8: itrJ4& L f4Jr IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete If the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of chanty axounts: directions and guKlan¢e for examiners). Glve here brlef details of any ftems that the examlner wlshos to dlsclose. IER Oct 2018