Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 4

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: -1

VANA TRUST

Aiming to relieve poverty, sickness and distress and advance good health and education for children and young people in Southern Africa and the UK.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23		£113	£148	£-35	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	6
31/03/22		£206	£147	£59	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/21		£175	£239	£-63	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/20		£105	£106	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	7
31/03/19		£102	£107	£-5	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£75	£89	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17	*	£81	£88	£-7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£102	£79	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£77	£75	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£75	£68	£7	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£71	£65	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12	*	£60	£81	£-21	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£110	£77	£33	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£34	£74	£-40	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£30	£4	£25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08	*	£9	£15	£-6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07	*	£36	£30	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£3	£3	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£4	£4	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04	*	£1	£0	£1	£0	£0	£0	NAN	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 20 years

www.vanatrust.org.uk

info@vanatrust.org.uk

03001021566

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Animals
Disability
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
General Charitable Purposes
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Other individual and family services

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Other charitable activities
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides services

Where it operates

Buckinghamshire, South Africa, Zimbabwe,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
6 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Vana Trust Organic Farm
£30,000	27/03/2023	Core funding for the organisation to deliver horticultural therapy, social inclusion and cooking club for people with learning disabilities.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Vana Trust Organic Farm
£500	06/05/2022	Staff sponsorship from our colleague Holy Saunders who participated in a 125km coastal and mountain race to raise funds for the charity
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Vana Trust Organic Farm
£20,000	11/04/2022	0
National Lottery Community Fund - Seed To Supper
£9,820	17/05/2018 12	This organisation will deliver weekly gardening sessions to people with disabilities and mental health issues. They will work together to create their own vegetable gardens, and grow ingredients for ....more This organisation will deliver weekly gardening sessions to people with disabilities and mental health issues. They will work together to create their own vegetable gardens, and grow ingredients for a weekly communal meal. This will improve their confidence, self-esteem and improve wellbeing.
National Lottery Community Fund - Learn & Grow
£10,000	24/06/2015 12	The funding will be used to provide horticulture and animal care workshops for people with disabilities and mental health issues. The project will provide therapeutic activities to help improve the ....more The funding will be used to provide horticulture and animal care workshops for people with disabilities and mental health issues. The project will provide therapeutic activities to help improve the health and wellbeing of participants and increase their skills and chances of getting employment.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

BLESSINGS KASEKE Appointed: 2016

EKUNDAYO AKANDE Appointed: 2023

NYASHA GWATIDZO Appointed: 2016

SAVIO FERNANDES Appointed: 2023

ALI MONJACK Appointed: 2023

JEAN MUTSA MUCHOPA Appointed: 2021

NICHOLAS AUBREY HYMAN

PETER JAMES FLEMING

RICHARD RUSHWORTH Appointed: 2023

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 03/08/2004, number: 1105276

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR17: 1 days late, AR16: 0 days late, AR12: 2 days late, AR08: 53 days late, AR07: 12 days late, AR05: 113 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

11 ROMOLA ROAD
LONDON
SE24 9BA

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH PRIMARILY BUT EXCLUSIVELY OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND PEOPLE IN THE UK AND AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE LIVING IN ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, SUDAN, TANZANIA AND KENYA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UK AND AFRICA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE LIVING IN ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, SOUTH AFRICA, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, SUDAN, TANZANIA AND KENYA

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