## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the Period** **From:** 12 February 2025 **To:** 31 December 2025 ## **1. Reference and Administration Details** - **Charity Name:** The Mopane Tree - **Registered Charity Number:** 1212117 - **Principal Address:** 29 Rectory Lane, Standish, Wigan. WN6 0XB. ## **Charity Trustees who managed the charity during the year:** 1. David Tracey 2. Caroline Tracey 3. Shaun Cooper 4. Deborah Cooper 5. Elisabeth GinniN ## **2. Structure, Governance and Management** - **Type of Governing Document:** Constitution. - **How the Charity is Constituted:** Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). - **Trustee Selection Methods:** Trustees are appointed or re-appointed by the existing trustees in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. - **Additional Governance Matters:** All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other financial benefits from the charity. ## **3. Objectives and Activities** ## **Summary of the Objects of the Charity:** 1. To alleviate poverty for the benefit of the communities living in the northern part of the Omusati Region of Namibia through the provision of food and such items or services as the trustees deem appropriate. 2. To advance education within the schools and kindergartens in the northern part of the Omusati Region of Namibia by providing such support as the trustees deem appropriate, including but not limited to the provision of educational material, food for the students, sports equipment and solar lighting so students can study at home in the evening. 3. To advance the Christian religion for the benefit of the communities living in the northern part of the Omusati Region of Namibia in particular but not exclusively through the supporting of the churches in that region, distributing literature on the Christian faith to enlighten others about the Christian religion and carrying out outreach work. ## To achieve these objects, the charity has undertaken the following activities during the year: We have helped two of the schools in the Okathitu area develop gardens to feed the schoolchildren. We have taken time to carefully consider what is needed to set the gardens up for success. After a lot of prayer and discussions with locals who know what’s needed, we have been able to send funds to get water connected at the schools and for large water tanks to be erected on site. We are also in talks about providing the funding for a full-time garden worker to develop and maintain the gardens going forward. We have had success growing pigeon peas within the gardens. Pigeon peas are an extremely hardy plant that can withstand severe droughts or floods. Once fully developed, the gardens will provide much needed nourishment to the many schoolchildren we support. At another school we support in Ruacana, we provided 50 egg-laying chickens. The money made from selling the eggs was then used to buy rice for the schoolchildren. The schoolchildren are getting fed once a day with a rice meal using these proceeds. ## The trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. We ensure our activities are always focused on delivering our core purposes to our target community. ## **4. Achievements and Performance** ## **Summary of the Main Achievements of the Charity During the Year:** the building blocks for future success. Having previously been a link between the churches in Horwich and Namibia we are now an independent charity with our own trustees, bank account, website and policies. We have been successful in raising funds from a number of generous supporters. This will allow us to meet our aims of supporting the schools, communities and churches in Northern Namibia going forward as well as spreading the gospel in those areas too. We have been successful in beginning to establish gardens at the schools we support which will greatly benefit the nutrition and educational needs of the c1000 children who attend. ## **5. Financial Review** - **Review of the Charity's Financial Position:** - from church funds held in relation to supporting Namibia was £12,386. Total expenditure was £1,139. The net surplus/deficit for the year was £11,247. The financial position remains positive to support our planned activities for the next year. - **Statement on Reserves Policy:** - incoming funds are directly applied to our active community projects. - None. ## **6. Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees' report above. ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:** **Signature:** _________________________________ **Full Name:** SHAUN COOPER **Position:** Trustee **Date:** 12 July 2026 **Charity Name N CC16a THE MOPANE TREE Receipts and payments accounts** ~~**For the period**~~ Period start date **To** P **from** 12-Feb-25 ### ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Regular donations from individuals
**2,390**
One-off donations from individuals
**165**
Donations from churches
**1,550**
Donations from other organisations
**3,000**
Fund-raising
**2,495**
Gift Aid
**-**
Initial funds transfer
**2,786**
**-**
**12,386**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 12,386**
**A3 Payments**
Payments to schools
**- 1,041**
Payments to churches
**-**
Payments to communities
**-**
Business enterprise support
**-**
Website and other communications
**- 83**
Other
**- 15**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ - 1,139**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ - 1,139**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 11,247**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 11,247**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**2,390**
**-**
**165**
**-**
**1,550**
**-**
**3,000**
**-**
**2,495**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,786**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,386**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,386**
**-**
**- 1,041**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 83**
**-**
**- 15**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 1,139**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- 1,139**
**-**
**11,247**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,247**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Co-op bank current
account
Co-op bank savings
account
~~**_Total cash_**~~
**_funds_**
(agree balances with
receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**11,247**
**-**
**-**
**11,247**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**11,247**
**-**
**-**
**11,247**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||OK| ||||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||Date of
approval| ||||||| |||||||