Minutes:
MINUTES OF MEETING OF
TRUSTEES ON THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2020 VIA
ZOOM.
Present on ZOOM: Norma Empringham, Lissa Campbell, Guy
Cowley, Will Jones, Tom Marshall-Andrews, Gill Marshall-Andrews, Johnnie Morris, Luke Morris, Ben Taylor, Luke Morris.
In attendance: Stephen Kameti
Apologies: Douglas
Pinto
1. Minutes
of the meeting on 6 August 2020 were agreed.
2. Kenya and Schools update:
Stephen Kameti joined the meeting from Mwingi and
presented his report which gives detail of the general situation in Kenya and
the current school situation.
Briefly, the schools are partially re- opening this week
for exam classes only ie Classes 4 and 8 in primary schools and Form 4 in
secondary schools.
Where there has been a caretaker or teachers on site during
the lockdown the buildings and compound
are in reasonable condition but where there has been no-one on site
there has been some deterioration. In
Kaseluni where TAS has funded a tree caretaker the trees have done fairly well
but in Jarajara where the Youth Training Service recruits who care for the
trees have been absent, many of them have died.
The Waterloo Foundation grant of around £4k has been
distributed to schools who applied for funding to support the re-opening and to
encourage students who are not in class to engage in sports and extra
curricular activities. These funds will
purchase sports, gardening and IT equipment, and also some motivational
speakers.
The other projects that have been implemented during lockdown
are:
Fences at Kora and Mitamysi Secondary Schools (completed)
2 bandas at Mitamysi ( awaiting roofing)
Refurbishment of 3 classrooms at Eburru Primary (expected
to be completed by end of October).
3. Charity Commission returns
Guy presented the draft Annual Report to the Charity
Commission. There is more detail this
year of restricted/unrestricted funds and partner organisations ie Karui
Ltd. The draft was agreed.
4. Karui Ltd
Douglas has been liaising with the accountant in Nairobi
who is in the process of preparing non profit returns for Karui till end
2019. He will report on progress
shortly.
5. Funding
The draft report to Property Race Day was presented and
agreed. GMA will send it when the bandas
have been finished. We don’t know yet if
we will receive any funds this year. GMA
to report.
Tom Holroyd has indicated that he hopes to be able to
send funds later this month.
Our marathon runner Fritha Dickie has said she would like
to run next April 2021.
St James Place Foundation funds have been sent out to the
Eburru Primary School Trust for the classroom re-furbishment. When this project is complete we hope it may
be possible to apply for further funding.
6. Proposals for funding
Projects to the value of £18,690 were agreed of which
£9400 come from PRD restricted funds .
7. Possible new trustees
Kate Hallam’s CV was circulated and there was enthusiastic agreement to a meeting with her
– possibly a walk in Richmond Park. GMA
to arrange.
Sangdeep Bakhshi ,
a colleague of Ben’s at E&Y has also expressed an interest in becoming a
trustee/treasurer. GMA will follow up.
8. Meetings and thanks
Thank you to Lissa for hosting the zoom meeting.
Next meeting will be at 6pm on Monday 7 December 2020. This will probably be via Zoom.
