**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 01 April 2024 **To** 31 March 2025 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** TAMIL ORPHANS TRUST **Other names charity is known by** TOT |**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---| |1 A E Amalanathan|||| |2 K S Indrakumar|||| |3 V Theivendram|||| |4 A Kandasamy|||| |5 J Kandasamy|||| |6 A Ramanathan|||| |7|||| |8|||| |9|||| |10|||| |11|||| |12|||| |13|||| |14|||| |15|||| |16|||| |17|||| |18|||| |19|||| |20
~~Oe~~|~~Oe~~|~~Oe~~|~~Oe~~| March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document - (eg. trust deed, constitution) - How the charity is constituted Constitution Trust - (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by Trustees Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The primary aim of the charity is to provide financial support for the accommodation, sustenance, education, training, and overall development of Tamil orphans in Sri Lanka. In addition, the charity provides essential equipment to schools and offers emergency relief support, including funding for families with children affected by natural disasters such as flooding. March **2012** **TAR** 2 The charity undertook a range of activities in Sri Lanka in furtherance of its objectives for the public benefit. These activities provided clear public benefit by supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals, including orphaned children and families affected by natural disasters, by improving access to basic necessities, education, and essential relief. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** The trustees confirm that they have had due regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit when planning and carrying out these activities. **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance During the year, the charity undertook a range of activities in furtherance **Summary of the main** of its objectives for the public benefit. This included the provision of **achievements of the charity** educational equipment, books, and food supplies to schools and **during the year** orphanages in Sri Lanka, supporting the welfare and development of disadvantaged children. In response to severe flooding in November 2024, the charity provided emergency relief in the form of food packages to over 200 affected families with children, helping to meet their immediate needs during a period of hardship. In addition, donated clothing was sent from the UK to Sri Lanka for distribution to those impacted by the floods. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** The charity’s policy is to maintain minimal reserves, as funds are **Brief statement of the** generally applied directly towards its charitable activities. During the **charity’s policy on reserves** year, a comparatively large donation resulted in a large surplus, which the trustees intend to utilise in furtherance of the charity’s objectives, while retaining a reserve for unforeseen expenditure and short-term commitments. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** N/A ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include Principal sources of funding remain primarily through Membership additional information, where subscriptions and donations through well-wishers. relevant about: • the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** We report on the accounts of the trust for the year ended 31[st] March 2025 which are set out as a separate document. The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts and consider that an audit is not required for this year under Section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed, which has been carried out and attached together with Income Expenditure Accounts. ## **Section G Declaration** ~~a~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** J Kandasamy ~~ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman **etc)** ~~es~~ **Date** 24 March 2026 ~~Po~~ 5 March **2012** **TAR** **TAMIL ORPHANS TRUST** ## **INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT** ## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025** |**INCOME**
Calendars 2025
Donations
Fundraising
Distribution from Solicitors (Birkett Long LLP)
Membership Fees
Interest Received
**EXPENSES**
Donations
Telephone
Website costs
Calendar Costs
**EXCESS OF EXPENDITURE OVER INCOME FOR THE YEAR**|**£**
**£**
1,651.50
295.16
1,852.54
40,306.39
3,965.00
56.61
48,127.20
6,278.20
308.78
849.60
712.00
(8,148.58)
39,978.62|**£**
**£**
1,651.50
295.16
1,852.54
40,306.39
3,965.00
56.61
48,127.20
6,278.20
308.78
849.60
712.00
(8,148.58)
39,978.62| |---|---|---| ||6,278.20
308.78
849.60
712.00|| |||| |||39,978.62| ## **TAMIL ORPHANS TRUST** ## **BALANCE SHEET** ## **AS AT 31 MARCH 2025** ## **£** ## **CURRENT ASSETS** |Barclays Current Account
Barclays Business Premium Account
Santander Current Account
Cash in Hand|61,107.93
0.01
5,666.50
0.00| |---|---| ||66,774.44| ## **CAPITAL AND RESERVES** |Retained Income b/fwd
Net deficit for the year|26,795.82
39,978.62| |---|---| ||66,774.44| (0.00) Independent examiner's report to the trustees of Tamil Orphans Trust- Registered Charity No: 327809 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Tamil Orphans Trust for the year ended 31st March 2025. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {'the Act,). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concems 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 understsnding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Name: Jennifer Jones Relevant professional qualification or membership of professional bodies (rf any)= Address: Three Horseshoes Cottage, Chinnor Road, Towersey, Thame, OXON. OX9 3QY Date: 22rwJ March 2026