Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund Registered number: NIC101951 Trustees' Report
The trustees present their report and accounts for the year ended 5 April 2025.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 to the accounts and comply with Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund's constitution, the Charities Act 2011 and 'Account and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to the charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2015).
Objectives and activities
Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund is a charitable organisation comprised of a small group of people, that each year visit some of the most remote, impoverished parts of Tanzania in East Africa. The mission is to provide running water. Access to this most basic need is the first step out of poverty. On our missions, the team of volunteers have drilled various wells to retrieve clean accessible water. Providing this creates both a foundation on which communities can grow and an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty. With the provision of running water over the years the charity has helped build medical centres, health clinics, schools and workshops in extremely rural areas fo Tanzania.
The trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund should undertake.
Achievements and performance
Every year prior to travelling to the mission in East Africa, committee members and advisors carefully plan any construction and prepare the materials for the completion of each individual project. Essential materials and resources to aid the various projects on the mission are shipped to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and delivered to the mission. Trustee members and volunteers packed a 20ft container with essential medical items (e.g. a range of medical dressings, trachea sets, blood pressure kids, syringe and needle sets, blood sampling kits), clean water systems, borehole material requirements and general plumbing equipment, solar power systems and general electrical equipment, school and kindergarten items (e.g. school desks, school chairs, books, pencils, books), as well as a vast range of miscellaneous items (e.g. scaffolding, baby and children’s clothes and blankets, corrugated tin, computers). The container was shipped to Kisiju, Tanzania in October 2024.
Financial Review
At the backdrop of all our projects is a fundamental component - funding. To gather essential materials for all our projects, intensive fundraising is crucial. Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund held a Bingo night on the 27th December 2024 and various donated prizes were balloted.
The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the charity is exposed, and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks.
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Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund Registered number: NIC101951 Trustees' Report
Structure, governance and management
The organisation is a Northern Ireland registered charity NIC 101951 registered 16 April 2015 having previously been registered as a charity with HMRC. Kilimanjaro Africa Water Fund operates under an approved Charitable Constitution which satisfies the areas of public benefit - the provision of running water in the most remote impoverished parts of Africa.
The Trustees who served during the year were: Mr Cyril Jordan Mr Michael McGarrity Mrs Catherine McPeake Mr Raymond Jordan
The Trustees report was approved by the Board of Trustees
Catherine McPeake Trustee Dated: 4 February 2026
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