Minutes:
TRUSTS FOR AFRICAN SCHOOLS
MINUTES OF OF THE 68TH MEETING OF TRUSTEES
ON 11 OCTOBER 2024 AT
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Present:
Norma
Empringham, (Chair), Ben Taylor, Sangdeep
Bakhshi, Lissa Campbell, Tom Marshall-Andrews, Will Jones, Luke Morris , Johnnie Morris, Douglas
Pinto, Gill Marshall-Andrews,
Apologies: None
In attendance: Stephen Kameti
1.. Minutes of the meeting on 11 April 2024 were
agreed.
2. School update
Stephen Kameti
gave an update on recent and current projects.
The new commercial banda at Mitamysi is nearly
completed and will be equipped soon. The
idea of making Afripads has been
discussed and rejected by the girls who prefer disposable pads. However these are much more expensive so the
discussion will go on as parents are in favour.
3. Treasurer
update
Funds are being
wound down and it is expected that, soon, only the funds received via Just
Giving for Laura’s sponsored ‘Walk with Maasai’ will be left.
These are currently around £7300.
As the current
balance at Barclays is £13,914 that
means there is £6555 of funds for TAS projects.
It was agreed that this sum – approx 1.1m KES should be transferred to
Karui and that the Karui sub accounts should be closed. This would mean a total sum in the main Karui
account of around
2.1m +1.1m =
KES 3.2m
Current
commitments are 2m for Kaseluni boys
dorm, 400,000 for Mitamysi mentorship, 120,000 for Jrajara trip, 250 for Boka
trip. If there is a residue of funds in
the Karui account after all commitments are met it was agreed these would be
transferred to the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust account in
Nairobi.
The expectation
is that the funds from Just Giving for the ‘Walk with Maasai ‘ will be
transferred by 30 November and that the
Barclays account can be closed then.
Douglas will
then handle the closure of the Karui bank account and entities.
4.. Proposals
for funding
We still await
a proposal from Mitamysi for the mentorship programme funded by PRD
(400,000KES).
5. Photo album
10 copies of
the TAS photo album were distributed. These have been paid for by GMA so anyone
wishing to hang onto one please re-imburse her.
Thank you.
6. Farewell
party -post meeting note!
The party was a great success. A huge thank you to Ben and Sangdeep for
their generousity. A fitting end to a
great adventure steered by the most wonderful band of trustees!
