KENYA SUNBEAM MINISTRIES
TRUSTEES, ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 29 FEBRUARY 2024.
1. TRUSTEES
The names of the charity's trustees who served during the year are:
ELLEN ALLISON
JOHN HOYLE
2. PURPOSE AND GOVERNANCE
Kenya Sunbeam Ministries (KSM) raises funds to support a children's home
and school in Teso, westem Kenya near the Ugandan border. In December
2022 KSM was registered with the Chanty Commission of Northem Ireland to
take over the work of the Kenya Sunbeam Ministries Trust which was
established in 2007 to alleviate poverty and to assist in the provision of
education and to promote health and wellbeing among adults and children in
K8nya.
The purpose of KSM is to raise funds to help alleviate poverty amongst children
and young people in Kenya and to assist in the provision of education and to
promote health and wellbeing.
The two trustees give their time freely and do not re￿1ve any remuneration or
benefits from the charity.
3. ACTIVITIES
During the year KSM administered a children's home and refuge (xntre for
children who have experienced severe neglect or abuse. On average 74
children were accommodated in the children's home at Teso and these are the
majority of KSM'S beneficiaries. Some of these children have very traumatic
backgrounds which of course can lead to problems: these chIld￿n need
counselling and require a lot of patience from the stsff. However, to see these
traumatised children change into happy and contended children is very
rewarding and worth the effort.
Other beneficiaries include those children who are part of the home support
programme which helps and assists disadvantaged children stsy to within their
family home and receive assistance from KSM. This assistan￿ consists of food
parcels and paying for their education for about 15 families. KSM also supports
a spiritual outreach that mainly includes children's work. good news clubs,
youth club fellowship where the Bible can be studied.
Ellen Allison, a Trustee of KSM, lives on the site in Teso and she is a volunteer
and has a registered work pennit thal allows her to live in Kenya. She does not
receive a salary. Ellen is treated as a volunteer and part of her duties indudes

overseeing the work in Teso and ensuring that the financial support provided by
KSM is used in the appropriate manner. The financial expenditure in Teso is
monitored on a monthly basis and details of the expenses are sent to KSM'S
Treasurer.
There is a school on the Teso site called the Raint)ow Academy. The school
currently has about 130 children attending it of which 45 or so are from the
children's home. Other beneficiaries of the school indude some childr8n from
the local community.
The Teso sile has a farm known as a shamba whith provides an economic
benefit to the site. The farm grows different types of fruit and vegetables such
as bananas, apples. pawpaw, mango, passion fruit. A cow shed was e￿cted
during the year; at the present time there are 3 pedigree cows providing milk for
the children's home and school.
Just as the children benefit from a setued home life free from fear, the wider
community in Teso benefit from the employment of 44 stsff by KSM. Eleven of
the staff are fully qualified teachers, and there is also a fully qualified social
worker and a counsellor. Other staff at Teso include security workers, monitors,
deputy monitors and administrators.
The wider community also benefits from a café on the Teso site which is used
by the staff for breakfast, tea breaks and lunch and was opened as a means of
supporting the community so that people can come and have breakfast and
some who use the café are suffering from starrfation.
Supporters of KSM are actively encouraged to visit Kenya to see the work on
the Teso site for themselves and to meet the children they sponsor. In the
summer of 2023, a number of church groups and families from Northem Ireland
and America visited Teso.
4. FINANCIAL REVIEW
The main source of income during the year were monthly and one-off donations
which amounted to £91,149, bank interest £33- expenditure totslled £113,481
leaving a net expenditu￿ total of £22,299. Assets and unrestricted funds were
£5083 as at 29 February 2024.
Signed by the charity's trustees:_
ELLEN ALLISON
JL
N HOYLE