Breadline Africa Annual Review
Breadline Africa Annual Review
Breadline Africa Annual Review
2009/10
aBout us
Breadline Africa is a UK-registered, Southern African based charity, that seeks to put an end to poverty in Africa. Our aim is to break the cycle of poverty, helping communities to help themselves by: Finding sensible, sustainable, long-term solutions to the problems created by poverty quick fixes have a limited impact; Supporting projects that will make a permanent difference in the lives of communities affected by extreme poverty hunger, homelessness, lack of skills training, unemployment; Ensuring that as far as possible the projects we get involved with are run and managed by their beneficiaries; Not imposing solutions, but helping others be innovative in finding their own answers to the problems caused by poverty.
Breadline Africa works throughout Southern Africa. Our focus areas are the SADC (Southern African Development Community) countries, namely: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Why give to Breadline Africa? Chairpersons Statement Directors Report Focus Areas of Work Container Committee Report Online Fundraising Initiatives Projects Funded Financial Statements Trustees and Advisory Committees
Experience
Founded in 1993, Breadline Africa has a wealth of experience, working hand-in-hand with hundreds of projects to address a multitude of needs in Southern Africa. From Paternoster in the Western Cape to the shores of Lake Malawi, Breadline Africa has made its mark.
Grassroots Organisations
Grassroots community organisations work at the coalface of community development, surviving on tiny budgets, but making a large impact. A major problem with these projects is their lack of resources, including the ability to fundraise. You wont find them on Facebook or Google, but they desperately require funding and exposure to continue their vital work. Breadline Africa partners with many such projects and, in some cases, provides additional funding for more connected community workers to support their valuable work.
Costs
Breadline Africa is committed to maintaining extremely low overheads in order to provide donors with value for their investment.
Sustainability
Whereas many funders place strict limits on the duration for which they will provide funding to a particular organisation, Breadline Africa believes in a more sustainable partnership. While we always ensure that organisations that we fund have other sources of funding, we dont drop projects merely on the basis of the duration of funding. We believe that the quality of work done and impact achieved is crucial to continued funding and we are willing to partner with effective organisations for the long term. As an individual donor you are faced with a similar dilemma. If you give to an organisation this year, what happens next year? One-off giving can be very beneficial to organisations but can also create huge problems and cutbacks in difficult economic times. That is why we are convinced that giving through Breadline Africa offers many benefits to donors. We raise funds from a variety of sources, which means that your long-term or once-off investment is used to provide consistent, sustainable giving in a true partnership.
chairpersons statement
There is never a dull moment as the Chairperson of Breadline Africa! On a freezing day in November, I found myself being presented with a huge bright red shipping container in the forecourt of the BBC headquarters in Wood Lane, London. This was the BBC Box, which had been the subject of a year-long documentary about world trade. The owners of the container, NYK Shipping, had generously decided to donate the container to Breadline Africa. The Maersk shipping group then shipped the container to Cape Town, free of charge, where it was converted into a much needed soup kitchen in a deprived area close to Cape Town. This container kitchen has provided a meal for hundreds of vulnerable children every day since its official opening by the Lady Mayoress of London on a visit to Cape Town. In March 2010, I was invited to meet with President Zuma and eleven senior South Africa Government Ministers during his state visit to Britain, along with many other charitable and voluntary organisations working in South Africa. This was a very valuable opportunity for Breadline Africa and other UK charities to bring our work to the attention of the South African government and to discuss the problems and frustrations of trying to help the poor and vulnerable in South African society. The President promised to establish a forum for discussion among the many UK charities working in South Africa to coordinate our work and enable us to operate in a more efficient and effective group. The forum would facilitate easier and faster access to relevant government agencies in South Africa. I remain hopeful that this will lead to a new era for the voluntary sector in South Africa. The continuing tough economic environment makes raising charitable funds even more of a challenge than usual. Our wonderful loyal donors have responded as generously as possible to our continued please for help but the average size and number of donations is considerably down on the previous year. This has a direct impact on the number and size of projects we can afford to support. However with the dedication of our employees and volunteers as well as the ongoing support of our donors we are optimistic that we can return to growth in the near future. I would like to express particular thanks to my hard working and long suffering fellow trustees this year. Given the very difficult fundraising climate, the trustees felt that we should do everything we could to help. To date the UK trustees have raised around 40,000 (R440,000) and the Irish Trustees 10,000 (R100,000) from their families, friends and contacts. Most now say they have no friends left but it has all been worth it to know that we have raised enough money to convert ten shipping containers into badly needed facilities for some of the most deprived and vulnerable children in South Africa. We are doing everything we can to strengthen our core focus areas of children and young people. We are exploring every type of alternative fundraising to complement direct mail which has been our traditional source of funding. We are actively seeking to obtain grants from grant giving trusts, corporates and government sources and we continue our constant quest to reduce costs. Tim Smith, the South African-based Director of Breadline Africa, and his small dedicated teams in Cape Town and Ipswich do a wonderful job on a very tight budget and I remain extremely grateful to them. Tims own rather hairraising participation in the Argus Cape bicycle challenge is a typical example of the wonderful commitment of our staff. The South African fundraising department also organised the first ever geek fashion show in Cape Town in aid of Breadline Africa which was a resounding success. In the coming year we will continue to strive to provide an efficient and effective solution to poverty in Southern Africa. Louise Seligman Chairperson
of the BBC Declan Cleary Seligman with ent of Louise ive Vice Presid eimler, Execut and Svein St rope NYK Group Eu
directors report
2010 will be forever remembered by us in South Africa as the year of the World Cup. The Breadline Offices are situated in Green Point, near the beginning of the Fan Walk from the city to the stadium, so during the World Cup and for quite a while before we heard the sound of the vuvuzela from early morning until dusk. Later came the crowds of football fans in different colours, the marching bands and clowns and people on stilts, and a wonderful carnival atmosphere that marked those days as very special. In our offices, we hung flags of all the nations, dressed in yellow to support our national team on Fridays, and sometimes joined the crowds en route to the stadium. Throughout the build-up to the World Cup and this historic year, we were conscious of a basic question: When the World Cup has come and gone, what legacy will it leave for us and the children of Africa whom we support? In order to help make a small difference, we selected a project which promotes football in some of the poorest townships, and asked our donors to contribute towards the renovation of a container for use as a changing room. And you did so, marvellously (see page 6 for the story). During the past year Breadline Africa was again able to help thousands of people through the many projects we fund. This year we are funding projects from Cape Town all the way to Zambia, Malawi and beyond. Our projects all support young people in one or more of three focus areas: health, education, or sports, arts and culture. This last year we distributed over 700,000 (R7.7 million/770,000) to worthy beneficiaries throughout the subcontinent. We continued our special focus on supplying containers, and this year were especially delighted when the BBC presented us with their famous BBC Box after its year-long journey around the world (see page 7 for story). Our staff too, aware of the difficult times, have made their own efforts, and organised events here in Cape Town ranging from the Geek Fashion Show, to participating in an annual Cycle Race and a Comedy Show as well. Everyone has made their own contribution. We continue to be especially grateful to you, our donors, who have helped us through thick and thin. We are very aware of how difficult life has become because of the recession, and yet you continue to show your generosity to those less fortunate. May you find rich rewards from the joy of giving, and the knowledge of the difference you have made in the lives of so many little ones. Tim Smith Director
This year, for the first time, we extended our reach and began supplying containers in other provinces. A container library and media centre was supplied to the Bertrams Junior School in Johannesburg, and a container dining room to the Kingdom Care Centre in Tembisa in Gauteng. In these provinces, we made use of the services of local container conversion companies to assist with this work. Container applications are now screened by a Container Committee, which meets once a month to assess them and to allocate funds for container renovations. The committee is constantly receiving applications from all over South Africa, and is looking at ways of extending our support to areas further afield. With the funds that the trustees raised this year we will be able to provide at least 10 new containers for child care centres in the Western Cape. We congratulate them and thank them on behalf of the many beneficiaries, mostly children, who will benefit from their generosity.
During this past year we provided converted containers to the following projects in the Western Cape:
a container soup kitchen in Gugulethu a container library in Lavender Hill a container ablution block for the Ebantwaneni Educare Centre, Philippi a container classroom for Mothers Unite in Village Heights, Lavender Hill a container day and night centre for Zanokhanyo in Khayelitsha a container for musical training and storage of instruments for the Salesians Trash band a container club house for Dangerous Heroes Football Club in Philippi a container donated by the BBC for a soup kitchen in Eerste River a container for the Phakamani Football Club in Khayelitsha.
Lady Mayoress of London, Claire Anstee, opens the Eerste Rivier soup kitchen
The Box was welcomed in style and formally opened by the Lady Mayoress of London, Claire Anstee, on 25 March 2010. She was received by local dignitaries and excited children, who entertained the visitors with choral and dance performances. Thanks and deep appreciation were expressed to all who had a hand in bringing the Box to its new home the BBC, NYK and Maersk shipping lines, and Mr CJ Pieters, principal of the RR Franks school, which hosts the new kitchen in their grounds. The container that once sailed the ocean waves has come to rest in a tiny part of the Western Cape that experiences great hardship. In its new form as a community kitchen for the hungry, the Box will provide for the most basic of human needs by nourishing children, the elderly and patients from a nearby clinic. We think its the Boxs greatest adventure yet!
The words geek and fashion show tend to be mutually exclusive. Geeks are not known for their model look, but rather for their ability to programme, code, develop, tweet and blog! But Breadline Africa has always been a different kind of charity so we came up with a rather original idea to throw a Geek Fashion Show, featuring some of the top online personalities and bloggers in Cape Town. To ensure the success of this novel event, we integrated our social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to
raise awareness, engage the community and sell tickets. The result was a sold out event with all proceeds going directly to Breadline Africa and our projects. Plus a further 330 (R3600) was raised during our auction on the big night. We have also been developing and expanding our email marketing programme, with great success. Our Christmas emailer resulted in some of the highest donations we have ever received online.
Limpopo DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Eastern Cape Orphanage environmental camps Axium Education Maths bootcamps Elim Care Group supporting and Bulungula Incubator Child wellness training staff from Drop-in-Centres food gardens and feeding hi Ta Pfuneka Drop-in-Centre Calabash Trust Children and hiwisile Drop-in-Centre youth development hlaneki Drop-in-Centre CATCh Projects Street children and Intamakuphila Home Based Care other children from informal settlements Keep The Dream youth leadership RABTI delivery of sports materials and development training and development of sports in Khanimamba Training and Resource rural areas Centre 2010 training of preschool Umzamomhle Special Day Care Centre teachers place of safety for abandoned and Khomanani Drop-in-Centre abused babies and toddlers Maniini Drop-in-Centre Mapayeni Drop-in-Centre Northern Cape Nhlayiso Drop-in-Centre KOOR youth training and development Ntlakuso Drop-in-Centre Rivala Drop-in-Centre Free State Thusang Setshaba Drop-in-Centre CCS Impilo Kitchens: network of kitchens Ubuntu Self help Educare Resource feeding vulnerable communities Centre toy libraries Vonakarisani Drop-in-Centre Gauteng Melodi Music Project musical training Mpumalanga and education in classical music Makhundu Christian Support Lambano Sanctuary care for very ill care and feeding of vulnerable children babies and children Zimbanathi Project training and support for youth 9
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financial statements
Breadline Africa is striving to reduce its fundraising costs whilst maintaining and growing income for our essential work supporting poor communities in Southern Africa. Through diversification of funding sources and the extra mile that trustees, staff and volunteers have all been putting into fundraising this year, we are seeing an improvement in our income to fundraising cost ratio which we believe we can sustain and continue to improve upon.
Trustees Statement We confirm that the summarised financial statement on this page represents financial information extracted from Breadline Africas Annual Report and accounts approved by trustees on 9 September 2010. The accounts have been audited by Izod Bassett, registered auditors, and received an unqualified opinion. The accounts will be submitted to the Charity Commission and Companies House within the statutory deadlines. Signed on behalf of the trustees, Sir Robert Dunbar (Chairman of the Breadline Africa Financial Committee) Independent auditors statement to the trustees of Breadline Africa We have examined the summarised financial statement for the year ended 5 April 2010 on this page. Respective responsibilities of the trustees and auditors The trustees are responsible for preparing the summarised financial statements in accordance with applicable United Kingdom law and recommendations of the charities SORP. Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on the consistency of the summarised financial statements with the full annual financial statements and the trustees Annual Report. We conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin 2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Opinion In our opinion the summarised financial statements are consistent with the full annual financial statements and the trustees annual report for the year ended 5 April 2010. Izod Bassett Chartered Accountants and statutory auditors 105 High Street Needham Markets Suffolk IP6 8DQ The summarised financial statements may not contain sufficient information to allow for a full understanding of the financial affairs of Breadline Africa. For further information the full Annual Report and Financial Statements, including the report of the independent auditors, should be consulted. Copies of these can be obtained from Breadline Africa, 29 Lower Brook Street, Ipswich, Suffolk IP4 1AQ, UK, email: info@breadlineafrica.org. uk, or from Breadline Africa country offices (contact details can be found on the back cover of this Annual Review, or on www.breadlineafrica.org)
Statement of financial activities for the year ended 5 April 2010 Total Funds 2010 Incoming resources from generated funds: Total Funds 2009 1,689,373 143,326 1,832,699
Voluntary income: Donations and gifts Activities for generating funds: Investment income interest receivable
Total incoming resources Resources expended Costs of generating funds: Costs of generating voluntary income Charitable activities Governance costs Total resources expended Net incoming/(outgoing) resources for the year Other recognised gains and losses Currency translation differences on foreign currency net assets Currency translation differences on foreign currency transactions in year Net movement in funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward
113,528 (15,767) 114,586 652,585 767,171 2009 159,861 1,246,176 1,406,037 (591,107) 814,930 (47,759) 767,171 727,544 39,627 767,171
Balance sheet at 5 April 2010 Current assets: Debtors Cash at bank and in hand Creditors: amounts falling due within one year Net current assets Creditors: amounts falling due after one year Net assets Funds Unrestricted Restricted Total funds 74,630 1,440,169 1,514,799 (670,096) 844,703 (37,372) 807,331 752,516 54,815 807,331
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