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**KISAKYE MINISTRIES** TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT _01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024_
## **The charity’s main activities to further its purposes for the public benefit**
- **i.** The purposes of the charity are:
- To provide families living in poverty with housing, education and arable land to promote self-sustainability.
- To provide accessible copies of the Bible to those who may otherwise not be able to access it.
## **ii.** Beneficiaries
- _In setting our objectives and planning our activities for the year the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s guidance on public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the charity’s purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries._
- The beneficiaries of the charity’s main activities throughout the financial year 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 were a community of eight families living in rural Uganda. These families were initially found to be living in poverty and were assisted with housing, education and arable land to promote self-sustainability.
- As each family had already been provided with accessible copies of the Bible in previous years, this main activity was not developed further in the financial year 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
## **iii.** Activities in 2023/2024
- We spent **£23,491.29** on charitable activities in the areas of prevention or relief of poverty. We provided direct support to more than fifty individuals through our projects, explained in more detail below:
- Kisakye Ministries continued to provide funds for the education of forty-three children within the eight* families assisted by the charity ( _eleven at nursery school, twenty-three at primary school and nine at secondary school_ ). * _Close to the end of this financial year, one family resettled away from the village in their own housing and sustain themselves.._
- In addition to this, Kisakye Ministries ensured that each of the aforementioned eight families were given emergency food when the crops they had grown on land provided by the charity were not sufficient. This assistance took place at times of greatest need such as when harvests were heavily affected by periods of drought
- Funding was provided to enable sick children to access emergency medical care for illnesses such as malaria and sickle-cell anaemia that would not have been affordable for the families affected. All medical care was administered by healthcare professionals at hospitals or health centres with no connection to Kisakye Ministries.
- The outside of four of the houses in which families assisted by Kisakye Ministries reside were refurbished with plaster and stone.
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**The charity’s main achievements in the year 2023/2024**
## **iv.** Achievements
- As the charity’s work centres around the ‘prevention or relief of poverty’, one of Kisakye Ministries’ methods of working towards this continues to be providing the possibility of an improved quality of life through access to education. **According to UNICEF, secondary school level enrolment of the poorest 20 per cent of families in Uganda is just 8.2 per cent.** As ‘costs associated with education account for 6 out of 10 people leaving school’ (https://www.unicef.org/uganda/what-we-do/education), Kisakye Ministries aims to ensure that the children in families assisted by the charity have the funding and requirements to finish their education up to secondary level.
_Throughout 2023/2024, forty-three children and young people completed their school year and had fees covered by Kisakye Ministries._
- To promote lasting self-sustainability, Kisakye Ministries commits to assisting with emergency food aid only when the harvest already grown by families associated with the charity is finished or spoiled. As a consequence, time spent without sending food aid is viewed as an achievement of sorts. During the 2021/2022 financial year, Kisakye Ministries sent **£5,144.30** of emergency food aid to families. Throughout 2022/2023, **£3,744.02** was necessary. In 2023/24, only **£2,106. 09** was sent.
_The organisation views it as an achievement that families working towards selfsustainability required 44% less food support this year than last year._
- Kisakye Ministries was able to help in the ‘prevention or relief of poverty’ by assisting with life-saving medical care throughout the year 2023/24.
_Individuals with disabilities, injuries, malaria and sickle-cell anaemia were supported with medical care and remain relatively healthy._
- **v.** Restrictions on who can benefit:
- In order to ensure maximum productivity, effectiveness and accountability, the activities carried out and achieved throughout the year 2023/24 focused on the eight families Kisakye Ministries aims to assist and the approximate fifty-three individuals therein.
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- **vi.** Harm: how the charity has mitigated any harm flowing from its purposes
- Throughout the year we communicated regularly with local Ugandan community leaders and representatives to ensure that families and individuals were in receipt of the correct care and gain invaluable local perspectives. This process also enables the charity to anticipate and prevent issues with education, food provision or health care.
- **vii.** Private benefit
- The work of the charity provides families living in poverty with housing, education and arable land to promote self-sustainability. Any private benefit received by nearby businesses, and educational institutions or healthcare bodies is purely incidental to the purposes of our work.
## **A statement of compliance with the duty to have regard to the Commission’s guidance**
- In setting our objectives and planning our activities for the year the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland’s guidance on public benefit to ensure that the activities have helped to achieve the charity’s purposes and provide a benefit to the beneficiaries.
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## **Kisakye Ministries Accounts for the year 2023/2024**
|**RECEIPTS**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
|---|---|---|
|Restricted Income: Child Sponsorship|£10,590.00|£10,890.00|
|Unrestricted Income: Donations|£8,282.13|£16,876.84|
|Fundraising income|£0.00|£0.00|
|**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|**£18,872.13**|**£27,766.84**|
|**PAYMENTS**|**Total funds**|**Last year**|
|Education fees and resources|£12,040.15|£13,563.62|
|Emergency food relief|£2,106.09|£3,744.02|
|Medical care and sanitation|£1,158.17|£1,292.27|
|Building work|£1,334.62|£351.28|
|Crop preparation and farming|£1,152.93|£784.44|
|Admin, transfer fees, flight and general|£5,599.33|£2,971.18|
|Sponsor gifts|£100.00|£100.00|
|**TOTAL PAYMENTS**|**£23,491.29**|**£22,806.81**|
|Net of receipts/(payments)|(-£4,619.16)|£4,960.03|
|Cash funds last year end|£5,393.75|£433.33|
|**CASH FUNDS THIS YEAR END**|**£774.58**|**£5,393.36**|
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## **Reference and Administrative Details**
_Charity Name_ Kisakye Ministries
## _Charity Number_
Registered Charity in Northern Ireland, No 107487
_Principal Address_
7 Slievenabrock Avenue, Newcastle County Down Northern Ireland BT33 0HZ
_Charity Trustees as of March 31st, 2024_
Mr Christopher Brown Mrs Hannah Brown (formerly Creaney)
## **Summary of Objectives and Activities**
_Organisation's governing document:_
- Trust Deed (Adopted on 01/09/2019)
## _Charitable Objectives_
The objectives of the charity as set out in the Trust Deed:
- To provide families living in poverty with housing, education and arable land to promote self-sustainability.
- To provide accessible copies of the Bible to those who may otherwise not be able to access it.
## _Charitable Purposes_
- The prevention or relief of poverty
- The advancement of religion
## _The main focus of activities_
- Accommodation/housing
- Education/training
- Religious activities
This Trustees’ Annual Report has been approved and adopted at a meeting of the trustees on 31[st] August 2024 and signed on behalf of all trustees by:
Christopher Brown _Trustee_
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