## Project Romania ## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 July 2025 The trustees who are also directors of the charity for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006, present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019). Page | Project Romania ## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 July 2025 ## OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES ## Pu blic benefit Thé Public benefits that flow from the purposes of Project Romania are:- (1) Education opportunities for the beneficiaries aiding the reduction of unemployment. As 4 charity we aim to work in the developing country of Romania and maintain contact with over 20 schools in _ the Sighisoara area of Central Transylvania. Most of our work continues in the villages of Shapte Novembrie, Seleus, Tigmandru, Soard, Laslea and several others. We continue to assist several people from these communities to help us to fulfill the other aims of our work and by so doing educate them in building and other trades. It has been encouraging to see Some of them now getting full time employment and thus attaining a better standard of life for themselves and for their families. We continue to support the hospital in Laslea with medical supplies, which include medical equipment, incOntinence pads and surplus medications from the medical clinics. We also help with transport providing a nine seater minibus when needed. At present we have been unable to do medical clinics in the various villages where we conducted clinics since 2002. (2) Increasing health and well-being leading to a better quality of life for the beneficiaries. We continue to seek to provide the 3 basic things necessary for the health and wellbeing of our clients leading to a_ better quality of life: a) Adequate nutritious food plus warmth in the winter and spring season Over this year we have continued with our food parcel distribution. This year we made three trips to Romania and were able to provide finance to some of our friends in Romania so they could buy food for the people in different villages. b) Good standard of housing and sanitation Over the year we have had to depend on some of our co-workers in Romania to continue with the building program. This past year a complete block of houses was destroyed in the village of Shapte Novembrie. Along with the town mayor and many other organisations, we were able to contribute to rebuild houses for some of those families. ## c) Access to medical help when needed Most of the people we work with are from Roma community and it is difficult for them to access medical help. We have helped where we can but realize we must work closely with them and the medical profession in Romania. We continue to support the local hospital in the village of Laslea and have provided them the use of our nine-seater minibus as needed. Our charity has also helped to provide toiletry bags for injured soldiers who are being medivacked to Romania for rehab. At the moment, we have not been able to re-establish our mobile medical clinics but hope to do so at our first opportunity. Our medical doctor who worked with us is now retired and with various health problems cannot facilitate these clinics any longer. (3) Increasing awareness and knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ in order to seek to show a better way of life. We continue to support children's meetings in Tigmandru and our aims remain the same- to teach them respect for each other. When we replace a house for a family we tell them 1) there is to be no domestic violence, 2) there is to be no alcohol abuse, 3) children must attend school, 4) we would encourage them to attend a place of worship to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and 5) as God has provided them with a new home they need to help us to dig the foundations of the next house we build. Our charity continues to mentor some young men and couples who are involved in seeking to increase the awareness and knowledge of Jesus Christ. We have done this by providing finance for tuition fees, transport fees and Christian books translated into the Romanian language. Hordu is now pastoring a church in Tigmandru and he is also evangelizing in five of the local villages in the area. His church is growing and is now fully established. Through this continual work we have seen amazing changes in the life of local communities and individual families. His church has grown to over 100 in attendance. How our organisation operated over this year. Each year our charity operates both in Northern Ireland and Romania. We were abel to get three teams out to Romania this year. We ourselves were in Romaniea three times with aid for the Roma communities and the Ukrainian refugees. Weare thankful to all our supporters for their continued giving of finance enabling us to send out finance throughout the year to help with food parcels, building, transport, maintenance, tuition, and medical needs and to send out 15 pallets mainly for shoeboxes (including Christmas shoeboxes for Ukrainian children). Over this past year the Romanian government have implemented new laws which make it virtually impossilbe to bring secondhand clothes into the country. This has greatly impacted our ministries and also the ministries of many of the other charities. We ourselves have faced some health issues which has curtailed our work but thankfully our co-workers are still very active and we support them financially where possible. Page 2 Project Romania ## Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 July 2025 As a charity we believe we have sought to fulfill the purposes for which we operate 1.e.: the prevention/relief of poverty although this year it has been difficult to operate at our full potential. However, we seek to help by:- (1) delivering aid including food parcels and firewood logs through our friends in Romania. - (2) providing funeral assistance to several families. Project Romania has aided the increased health and well-being of the beneficiaries by:- - A) Financing nationals to help with their education both secular and spiritual. - B) Working with established organisations and churches. - C) Seeding to break down ethnic barriers through education and personal conduct. - D) Assisting people from ethnic minorities giving them acceptance and self-worth. - E) Training nationals for the advancement of God's kingdom. - F) Working continually in Roma villages through the nationals to try and raise their standard of living through education and providing food, clothes and practical help. - G) Conducting evangelical outreaches and supporting other organisations and churches in their ministry. - H) Providing accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and also school items for their children. I) Providing short holiday breaks for Romanian Christian workers. Thankfully we have continued to provide finance for food parcels, building and other programs mentioned above as_ well as expanding our work to help the Ukrainian refugees (over 400) in the Sighsoara area in Romania and along the Romanian border. Working with three other N.G.O.'s together we continue to support the kindergarten for Ukrainian refugee children, and also make available a house for 12 Ukrainian refugees in Sighisoara. With continuing war in Ukraine, we seek to help provide aid where possible but with the new laws in Romania this ts becoming increasingly difficult. ## STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document The charity is controlled by its governing document, a deed of trust, and constitutes a limited company, limited by guarantee, as defined by the Companies Act 2006. REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS Registered Company number N1632538 (Norther Ireland) Registered Charity number 104517 Registered office 20 Thornburn Road Newtownabbey Co. Antrim BT36 7JA Trustees Mrs J Croker Mrs F Farmer N Farmer S P W Wallace Company Secretary Independent Examiner R Savage & Company Accountants & Taxation Consultants Old Bank House 2 Crossgar Road Saintfield Ballynahinch Co. Down BT24 7BD Page 3 Project Romania Report of the Trustees for the Year Ended 31 July 2025 i 79 ApProved by order of the board of trustees on bhufes and signed on tts behalf by: ## DD. Auer > MrsF Farmer - Trustee Page 4