## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] April 2023 to 31[st] March 2024** ## **Charity name: Ghana School Aid** ## **Charity registration number: 299178** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|Ghana School Aid is a small charity
established to help the education of
children in schools and colleges in Ghana,
particularly those in rural areas.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Ghana School Aid seeks to fulfil its aims by
making grants to schools and colleges in
Ghana in support of local efforts, for
example for school building improvements
or essential educational equipment. We
provide school furniture, books, writing
materials, and occasionally computer and
technical equipment, as well as building
materials. This year we have supported
schools to undertake renovations, mend
leaking roofs, provide KG desks and bunk
beds and mattresses for Technical
Institutes.
Our aim is to support efforts to enable
Ghanaian children to acquire a sound
education appropriate for them to take their
place in the world today.
Our main annual social event – the AGM
and Reunion – is also a fund-raising event.
We publish and distribute a booklet,
annually, called the Ghana School Aid
Newsletter, containing articles of interest,
reports of activities and projects, with many
pictures and photographs.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Trustees have had regard to guidance
issued by the charity Commission on public
benefit.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|Whereas in recent years we have accepted
applications submitted to us via our
website, a policy which resulted in a very
large number of applications to be
considered, we are now taking applications
from schools and projects that already have
some contact with GSA or with one of our
Ghanaian representatives or with a member
of the GSA Committee. The priorities for
giving grants are explained on the Grants
page of our website –
www.ghanaschoolaid.org| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|All Trustees, Ghana representatives and
committee members work for Ghana
School Aid on a voluntary basis.| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The 19 grants given out during the year
2023- 2024 included repairs to schools and
to pupil transport following heavy rain,
furniture for schools, completion of a boys’
dormitory in a Technical Institute, building a
toilet block in a JHS and completion of
repairs to teachers’ quarters.
Schools report a great improvement to the
facilities for schools to function better, and
to the school environment.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41| |---|---| Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Balance at the end of the period was
£21,976 after income of £34,764 and
expenditure of £24.395. Financial details
are supplied with this report including a list
of grants to schools.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|Para 1.22|Reserves are held to allow for any
unexpected expenditure;| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£1,000| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Legacies, donations in memory and trusts| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|There are no funds invested| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|Trust Deed dated 8th July 1987| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|Trust| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Appointed by current Trustees| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Ghana School Aid| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|299187| |Charity’s principal address|30 Merchant Taylors Almshouses
Brandram Road
London SE13 5RX| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Edward Mayne|Vice Chair||| ||Letitia Boateng|||| ||PennySewell|Website Manager||| ||Jo Hallett|Secretary||| ||Nigel Dennis|Treasurer||| ||Jennifer
MacDougall|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser **
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Represent**
**ative in**
**Accra**|Kofi Ohene|Zenith University College, Accra, Ghana| |**Rep in**
**Tamale**|Salifu Baako|Formerly Headteacher, Kanvilli Tawfikiya JHS, Tamale,
Ghana| |**Rep in**
**Eastern**
**Ghana**|Patrick Nyante|Former Headteacher, Eastern Region| |||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signed** **on behalf of the**|**charity’s trustees**|| |---|---|---| |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Jo Hallett|Nigel Dennis| ||Jo Hallett|Nigel Dennis| ||

Secretary|Treasurer| ||31/01/2025|| ||31/01/2025|| ## **GHANA SCHOOL AID TRUST – CHARITY NUMBER 299178** ## **Treasurer’s Report 1[st] April 2023 – 31[st] March 2024** |**INCOME**
Earle Bequest
Other Donatons In Memory and Legacies
Donatons from Trusts
Donaton from Morel Trust forAyebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
Donatons for Atkagome School
Other Donatons
Donatons through Give as You Live
Annual Lunch Bookings and Donatons 2022
Annual Lunch Bookings and Donatons 2023
Annual Lunch Bookings and Donatons 2024
HMRC Gif Aid
Interest
**TOTAL INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE**
Grants to projects in Ghana (See Analysis)
Grant toAyebia Clarke Publishing Ltd donated by Morel Trust
Grant to Let’s Read Ghana
Advertsing Leafets
Newsleter May 2023
(and May 2022)
Website
Lunch and AGM 2023
Lunch and AGM 2024
Fundraising
Expenses of Ofcers in Ghana
Bank Transfer Fees
**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**
**FUNDS at 31st March 2024**
NatWest Current Account Balance 1stApril 2023
Income less Expenditure
£34,764.23 - £39,456.96
**Nat West Current Account Balance 31st March 2024**|**2023 - 2024**
**£**
10,000.00
2,150.00
8,150.00
3,000.00
-------------
5,711.85
3,197.88
-------------
1,080.00
442.00
1,032.50
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**34,764.23**
**£**
33,845.00
3,000.00
-------------
179.22
734.72
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342.52
215.00
885.50
225.00
30.00
**39,456.96**
**£**
=|**2022 - 2023**
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3,739.87
10,650.00
---------------
950.00
6.132.00
2,409.99
40.00
292.00
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176.25
5.43
**24,395.54**
26,208.50
360.10
219.22
686.95
60.00
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-------------
980.98
100.00
17.00
**28,632.75**
**£**
26,668.77
(4,692.73)
**21,976.04**| |---|---|---| |**GRAND TOTALS 1986 – 31st March 2024**
**INCOME**|**EXPENDITURE**|**EXPENDITURE**| |---|---|---| |**£**|**£**|| |1986 – 31stMarch 2023
453,754.55|427,085.78|| |1stApril 2023 – 31stMarch 2024
34,764.23|39,456.96|| |**Total**
**488,518.78**|**466,542.74**|| |**Income less Expenditure**
**£488,518.78 - £466,542.74 =**|**£21,976.04**|| |**ANALYSIS OF GRANTS TO PROJECTS IN GHANA 2023-2024**||**£**| |Abonse School for repairs due to heavy rainfall||£2,000.00| |Action Through Enterprise for repairing desks||£320.00| |Asokore Holy Trinity Primary School for 100 dual desks||£2,200.00| |Golazoli Amalia E/A Primary School for furniture for pupils||£1,000.00| |Hartley Trust Foundation School for repair to Pupil transport||£2,000.00| |Jisonayilli MA JHS for 40 metal dual desks||£1,000.00| |Kumawu Technical Institute for 60 mattresses for bunk beds||£2,000.00| |Kumawu Technical Institute for bunk beds||£2,000.00| |Kunkulung D/A Primary School for roofing||£1,000.00| |Lungbun Gundaa Primary School for three new classrooms||£3,000.00| |Lungbung DA JHS for renovation of buildings||£1,800.00| |Sorugu JHS for 4 toilet block||£1,500.00| |Sorugu JHS to finish work already undertaken to build a toilet||£250.00| |Tibung DA Basic School for completion of teachers' quarters & repairing roof||£1,500.00| |Voggu DA JHS for renovation of concrete floors and repair of roof|leaks|£2,400.00| |Zagyuri Miskiya KG and Primary School for finishing KG building||£3,000.00| |Zagyuri Miskiya KG and Primary School for equipment||£375.00| |Zuarungo Moshie JHS for flooding; Renovation of buildings & gravel area||£2,850.00| |Zugu Dabogni Technical Institute for completion of boys' dormitory||£1,000.00| |**Total**||**£33,845.00**| ## **REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT EXAMINER TO THE TRUSTEES OF GHANA SCHOOL AID. CHARITY NUMBER 299178 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024** I report on the attached Income and Expenditure of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2024. ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required this year (under section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: - examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, - to follow the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act), and - to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. ## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement** My examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. ## **Independent examiner's statement** In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the Income and Expenditure did not accord with the accounting records; or - the Income and Expenditure did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the Income and Expenditure give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the Income and Expenditure to be reached 30/01/2025 Seth Koranteng 5 Watervale Dunstable LU5 6FY