## **FRIENDS OF VISPA** ## Trustee’s Annual Report Registered Charity Name: Friends of VisPa Registered Charity Number: NIC 102928 Charity Address: 71 Parkfield Road Ahoghill Ballymena BT42 1LY **----- Start of picture text -----**
The financial year the report relates to 2024
A summary description of the purposes of the charity Friends of VisPa was created to assist in fundraising
efforts to provide financial support to VisPa Emmanuel
Centres in Kisumu, Kenya.
VisPa provides education support and shelter for highly
vulnerable children.
Child Sponsorship is a key fundraising activity to
provide financial support for the education and
development of school children at VisPa.
The name of the person, or body of persons, The trustees of Friends of VisPa may appoint new
permitted by the trusts of the charity to appoint one trustees.
or more new charity trustees and a description of the Trustees are appointed to meet the skills, knowledge
method used to make such appointments. and experience needed for the effective administration
of the charity.
New trustees may be appointed by resolution of the
trustees passed at a special meeting.
A summary of the charity’s: The charity has continued to raise funds from the
 Main activities to further its purposes for the public in the form of child sponsorship and also through
public benefit. other fund-raising projects to fund capital projects such
 Main achievements in the year. as new school buildings. Donors are usually allocated a
specific Kenyan child whom they support on an ongoing
basis in order to provide the necessary funding for the
Kenyan children’s education.
A review of the charity’s financial position at the end The UK charity can only donate the funds it raises to
of the year Kenya in terms of child sponsorship and building
projects.
Funds are generally remitted to Kenya monthly.
The charity endeavours to attract new donors on an
annual basis, and those donors tend to be
acquaintances of some of the individuals who visit the
work of VisPa each year in Kenya.
Details of any fund held by the charity that was
materially in deficit at the end of the year and steps None to date.
taken by the charity trustees to eliminate the deficit.
The names of:
 All charity trustees on the date the report was Colin Hayburn
approved and Emma McAllister (resigned 21-08-2023)
 All individuals who served as charity trustees Kenneth McDowell
during the year.
A statement that trustees have had regard to the The trustees consider that the activities of the charity
commissions Public benefit requirement statutory achieve the charity’s objective to support the
guidance. vulnerable and particularly disadvantaged in Kenya.
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## **Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ Report. ## **Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:** Signature: Full Name: Colin Hayburn Position: Trustee Date: Signature: Full Name: Kenneth McDowell Position: Trustee Date: