## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 31 march 2022 Period start date To 31 march 2023 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Life reform Africa** ## **Charity registration number:1175379** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**For relief of poverty in Kenya and**
**elsewhere. Provision of**
**education,training ,healthcare and**
**housing and to empower individuals to**
**be self sustaining and sufficient through**
**income generating project support. To**
**advance christian faith and other**
**charitable purposes related to the charity**
**as trustees may see fit.**| |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|**The charities primary goal is to provide**
**less privileged children like orphans with**
**education and basic needs. The charity**
**has provided funds to build a school and**
**facilitate its operations. 240 children of**
**whom 140 are orphans aged 3 to 13 are**
**provided with education.**
**The charity continued to make monthly**
**donations to fund teachers salaries in the**
**year ended 31 March 2023.**
**During the same period ,the charity gave**
**donation for supply of school stationary**
**and sanitary equipment.**
**An annual sports event was organized for**
**the youth to allieviate antisocial**
**behaviour**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**charity commissions guidance on public**
**benefit in making decisions about the**
**charity.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Funds are only applied on the charities**
**charitable purposes. Sufficient checks**
**are done against illegal purposes such as**
**laundering, bribery or financing**
**terrorism.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Volunteers helped in parking sports kits**
**sent from UK for shipping and preparing**
**the venue for our charity presentation to**
**one of the churches in UK.**| |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|**As noted above,the charity has provided**
**less privileged children orphans with**
**education and basic needs, and provided**
**funds to facilitate its operations. 240**
**children of whom 140 are orphans aged 3**
**to 13 are provided with education.**
**The charity continued to make monthly**
**donations to fund teachers salaries in the**
**year ended 31 March 2023.**
**During the same period ,the charity gave**
**donation for supply of school stationary.**
**The Charity supported Church and**
**community outreach programmes like**
**seminars and sports events that have**
**Impacted the community in a very**
**positive way.**| **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
set|Para 1.41|| |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|**Income received during the year was**
**£5,962. Donations to beneficiaries in**
**Kenya totalled to**
**£5699. Bank charges and other costs**
**were £198. Balance after Expenditure**
**from income was £65. The net assets of**
**the charity at at 31 March 2023 were**
**£1,879**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity holds no reserves**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**0**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Charity has no legal commitment that**
**would give rise to future expenditure**
**obligations**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**None**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**| |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|**Appointment by the 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** |Charity name|Life Reform Africa| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|None| |Registered charity number|1175379| |Charity’s principal address|14 Orchard House, Dobson Road, Crawley, West Sussex
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Wanyonyi
Makokha|Vice Chair||| ||Benedict Van Nes|chairman||| ||Christine Wanyonyi|Secretary||| ||Paul Reginald
Ambridge|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **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** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Wanyonyi Makokha **Position (eg Secretary,** Vice Chair and principle contact **Chair, etc)** **Date** 24/03/2024 |**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts and Payments Accounts for the Year Ended 31st March 2023**|||||||| ||||||||| ||**GENERAL FUND**||||||| ||||||||| |RECEIPTS||||PAYMENTS|||| ||||||||| ||2022/23|2021/22||||2022/23|2021/22| ||£|£|||£|£|£| ||||||||| |Lettings|24,154.50|17,158||Light and heat|||| |||||Gas|1,056.13||518| |Donations|50.00|300.00||Electricity|1,348.19||445| |||||||2,404.32|963| |Interest received|311.14|2|||||| |||||General expenses|||| |200 Club income|1,483.00|1,501||Caretaking|4,738.86||3,951| |||||Insurance|1,081.14||1,029| |59 Club income|2,090.00|2,080||Rates and licences|1,312.04||1,111| |||||Miscellaneous costs|308.19||712| |Business Support Grants|~|11,962||||7,440.23|6,803| ||||||||| |Sale of chairs|~|435||Repairs and maintenance||2,106.76|1,914| ||||||||| |Transfer from Hall Extension Fund|~|15,259||New and replacement chairs||~|9,096| ||||||||| |||||200 Clubprizes||1,015.00|900| ||||||||| |||||59 Clubprizes||730.00|765| ||||||||| |||||Surplus of receipts overpayments||14,392.33|28,256| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||28,088.64|48,697||||28,088.64|48,697| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**HALL EXTENSION FUND**||||||| ||||||||| |RECEIPTS||||PAYMENTS|||| ||||||||| ||2022/23|2021/22||||2022/23|2021/22| ||£|£||||£|£| ||||||||| |Grants:||||Work carried out||~|20,741| |Bedford Borough Council Rural Grant|~|25,000|||||| |Bedford Borough Council Ward Grant|~|2,000|||||| |Harpur Trust|~|5,000|||||| |Willington Parish Council|~|4,000||Transfer to General Fund||~|15,259| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||~|36,000||||~|36,000| ||||||||| |**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**|**WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Statement of Accumulated Funds as at 31st March 2023**|||||| ||||||| ||**GENERAL FUND**||||| ||||||| |BALANCE|||REPRESENTED BY:||| ||||||| ||£|||£|£| ||||||| |Balance brought forward 1st April 2022|75,655.03||Bank account balances(Nat West)||| ||||Current account|18,659.85|| |Surplus of receipts overpayments|||Deposit account|71,387.51|| |for theyear ended 31st March 2023|14,392.33||||90,047.36| ||||||| ||||||| ||90,047.36||||90,047.36| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||**HALL EXTENSION FUND**||||| ||||||| |The Fund w|as closed duringtheyear ended 31st March 2022.||||| ||||||| ||||||| |**INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT**|||||| ||||||| |I haveprepared these statements from myexamination of the financial records of Willington Peace Memorial Hall for theyear ended|||||| |31st March 2023. In myopinionproper records have been kept and there are no matters that arise from myexamination.|||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |JOHN EDWARD CAVES|||||| |27 Northill Road|||||| |Cople|||||| |Bedford|||||| |MK44 3TU.|||||| ||||||| |13th April 2023|||||| ||||||| ## **WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL** |**Cash book summary year to 31st March 2023**
Opening balance (per accounts)
Receipts per spreadsheet
Payments per spreadsheet
Closing balance
**Bank reconciliation as at 31st March 2023**
Balance per bank statements
Add cash in transit (credited 3rd April 2023)
Balance per cash book|24,578.66
29,967.50
-35,886.31
18,659.85
18,539.85
120.00
18,659.85| |---|---| WILLINGTON PEACE MEMORIAL HALL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] MARCH 2023 ## INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT I have prepared the attached statements from my examination of the financial records of Willington Peace Memorial Hall for the year ended 31[st] March 2023. In my opinion proper records have been kept and there are no matters that arise from my examination. John Edward Caves 27 Northill Road Cople Bedford MK44 3TU. 13[th] April 2023