Minutes:
TRUSTS FOR AFRICAN
SCHOOLS
MINUTES OF MEETING OF
TRUSTEES ON 28 JUNE 2012 AT ERNST AND YOUNG 1 MORE LONDON PLACE.
Present: Lissa Campbell, Guy Cowley, Heather Flint,
Steve James, Will Jones, Luke Morris, Johnnie Morris, Gill Marshall-Andrews
Apologies: Norma
Empringham, Tim Flower, Ben Howland, Tom Marshall-Andrews, Ben Taylor
Johnnie Morris in the Chair.
1. Minutes of meeting on 1 March 2012 were
agreed.
2. Update on schools – the newsletter was
discussed. It was agreed that we need
more completion reports for the website and that new funding should not be sent
until current projects are signed off.
Johnnie will compile a list of missing completion reports and we will
ask Stephen Kameti to sit with headteachers and get these done. In the case of
funding for teachers we will ask that the teachers’ appraisals be attached to
the report.
Will reported on the new arrangements for the Self Help
Group that supports Kimphe Langano School.
It is hoped that these will ensure good governance of the funds we are
planning to send.
3. Exam results – Johnnie gave out tables of
exam results and enrolment for 7 of the 8 schools for which we have
information. He was congratulated for
his work compiling this data. He will get
it ready for the website and Tom has agreed to construct a table for each
school so standard information is collected and added year on year.
4. School Partnerships – These are
continuing, albeit with communication problems in some cases. The partnership between Kimphe Langano School
in Ethiopia and Heathfield Primary School in Whitton will be revived now that
the Self Help Group has a new secretary and bank signatories.
5. Roll out via KWS – The KWS project with
DfID will involve 32 schools - 4 around
each of the 8 National Parks in Kenya.
The money is $330,000 over 2 years.
There does not seem to be much going to schools in the first year – it’s
mainly establishing the school trusts and training of trustees and KWS
personnel. Its to be hoped that funds are channelled into schools in the second
year.
6. Finance –
Luke and Nathan were congratulated on finishing the marathon. Together they have raised around £3500 which
has come in via Virgin Money Giving. We have around £40k in the sterling bank
account and $1500 in the dollar account.
We expect around £8k from the donor who is funding the Boka girls
dormitory but this wont come till August.
However we have the funds in place for all the proposals agreed today.
Barclays forms are nearly completed and it is hoped that
the new mandate will be in place very soon.
This will enable Ben to do the 2011 accounts and apply for the Gift Aid.
7. Proposals for funding – it was agreed
that we send out £24,464 straight away.
There are outstanding proposals to the value of £36,450 for which we will
need to raise funds.
There was agreement that TAS should make new money
conditional upon receiving completion reports for previous projects.
8. Next meeting was provisionally agreed for 22
October – the week before half term.
Ben to be asked if we can have it at Ernst and Young again at 6pm. TO BE CONFIRMED.
9. POST MEETING NOTE. There was a discussion about a possible
trustees’ trip to Kenya in January. We
could arrange to visit some of the schools and a safari. Spouses would of course be welcome. Please let me know if you are interested.
