2024-12-31-accounts - Cafe Bless

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Charity Name: Café Bless SCIO

Trustees’ Annual Report 31/03/2024 – 28/06/2024

High School Students pO

Charity contact information

Café Bless International

Scottish Charity Number: SC046032

12 Walliwall

Road

Kirkwall

KW15 1LQ

www.cafeblessinternational.com

Facebook: Café Bless

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Charity Trustees

Name all of your charity trustees for the period, and the date they left if they were not in post for the whole year

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Charitable purposes:

During this final reporting period, Café Bless SCIO remained committed to its objectives of advancing education, health, and poverty relief. As the charity prepared to close operations, it focused on responsibly allocating remaining funds to benefit its sponsored beneficiaries and ensuring the continuity of their education.

Summary of the main activities in relation to these objectives:

In this closure period, Café Bless SCIO worked to ensure a smooth transition for its 19 sponsored high school students and 2 college students. The remaining funds were utilised to:

Pay for the next year of high school education for all 19 sponsored students, ensuring continuity in their studies.
Allocate the remaining balance to the 2 sponsored college students, supporting them in completing their degrees by June 2026.
Additionally, local sponsors were identified to support the high school students after the charity's closure, ensuring their continued access to education.

Structure, governance, and management

Type of governing document

Trust deed

The Trust is administered in accordance with terms of the Trust Deed

Trustee recruitment and appointment.

The Trustees shall be entitled, by way of a resolution passed by a majority vote at a meeting of the Trustees, to appoint any individual a Trustee.

The Trustees shall have power to remove any individual as a Trustee, by way of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Trustees by a majority vote of two thirds or more of the Trustees then in office.

An individual holding office as a Trustee may retire by giving notice in writing to that effect to the remaining Trustees currently in office.

The Trustees resolved to close the charity effective 28 June 2024 , following the successful completion of its core objectives. All remaining commitments to beneficiaries were fulfilled, and partnerships with local sponsors were established to ensure the sustainability of the programs.

Achievements and Performance

During this final period:

Remaining funds were allocated to cover the next year of high school education for 19 students and provide continued financial support for 2 college students.
Local sponsors were secured to continue funding the high school students until they graduate.
The 2 sponsored college students received sufficient funds to complete their degrees, ensuring a lasting impact on their futures.

Financial Review

Gross income for the period totalled £510 , comprising £210 of unrestricted funds and £300 of restricted funds. Total expenditure was £3,451 , including:

£3,151 from unrestricted funds to cover high school and college sponsorships, ensuring beneficiaries could continue their education uninterrupted, and
£300 from restricted funds, specifically allocated for child sponsorship purposes. These restricted funds were used to directly support educational needs by purchasing school supplies for the sponsored children.

As of 28 June 2024 , the charity held no remaining funds, marking the conclusion of its financial responsibilities and a successful transition of its commitments to alternative local sponsors.

Future Café Bless SCIO officially ceased operations on 28 June 2024. The high school students previously supported by the charity will continue their studies under local sponsorship, ensuring an uninterrupted education. The 2 college students have received sufficient funds to complete their teaching degrees, with graduation expected in June 2026. Signed:

Café Bless International

Period ended 28 June 24

Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Café Bless International

I report on the accounts of the charity for the period ended 28 June 2024 set out on pages 10 to 13

Respective responsibilities of trustee and examiner

The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner's statement

My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanation from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.

Independent examiner's qualified statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention

which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4
. of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of
. the 2006 Accounts Regulations

have not been met, or

to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of
1. the accounts to be reached.

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Voluntary Action Orkney ‘Anchor Buildings’ 6 Bridge Street Kirkwall, KW15 1HR

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Café Bless International

Receipts and Payments Accounts For the period ended 28th June 2024

Receipts Notes Donations 4 Activities for Generating Funds 5 Total Receipts Payments Charitable Activities 6 Cost of Generating Funds 7 Governance costs Total Payments Transfers Surplus/(Deficit) for period	Funds 28/06/24 Funds 28/06/24 Total 28/06/24 Total 31/03/24 210 300 510 2,063 - - - -
	210 300 510 2,063 3,151 300 3,451 1,644 - - - - - - - 120
	3,151 300 3,451 1,764 - -
	(2,941) - (2,941) 299

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Café Bless International

Statement of Balances

For the period ended 28th June 2024

Notes Bank & Deposit Balances 2 Bank and cash balances Brought Forward Movement in period: - Surplus/(Deficit) Bank and cash balances Carried Forward	Funds 28/06/24 Funds 28/06/24 Total 28/06/24 Total 31/03/24 2,941 - 2,941 2,642 (2,941) - (2,941) 299
	- - - 2,941

Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf,

Trustee Dated

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Café Bless International Notes to the accounts For the period ended 28th June 2024

1. Trustee Remuneration and Related Party Transactions

There were no trustee remunerations during the period and no trustee had any personal interest in any contract or transaction entered into by the charity.

No trustees received remimbursed expenses during the period (31/03/24: £29)

2. Movement in Funds

Unrestricted funds General fund Restricted funds Child Sponsorship	As at 01/04/24 Receipts Payments Transfers As at 28/06/24 2,941 210 3,151 - -
	- 300 300 - -
	2,941 510 3,451 - -

Purpose of Funds

Unrestricted funds

Unrestricted funds are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the charity

Restricted funds

Child Sponsorship

This money is used to sponsor children to attend school and college in the Philippines.

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Café Bless International

Notes to the accounts (Cont) For the period ended 28th June 2024

4. 5. 6. 7	Analysis of Receipts Donations Donations Activities for Generating Funds Fundraising events Analysis of Payments Charitable Activities Other charitable activities Cost of Generating Funds	Funds 28/06/24 Funds 28/06/24 Total 28/06/24 210 300 510
		210 300 510
		- - -
		3,151 300 3,451
		3,151 300 3,451
		- - -

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