Annual Report 2013 2014

Annual Report 2013 – 2014

Registered in Northern Ireland by HMRC under the Charity Reference Number: XR62512

Welcome to the Moving Mountains 2013-2014 Annual Report Thank you once again to everyone who has supported our work over the year and to all our volunteers, longterm supporters, donors and friends. We are proud to continue Moving Mountains with your support.

Contents: 1. Trust Details, Trustees, Officers and Professional Advisors 2. Chairman's Statement 3. Trustees' Report 4. Developing Operations 5. Review of Charitable Activities  Kenya  Nepal  Borneo  Tanzania 6. Financial Statement and Balance Sheet 7. Notes on the Financial Statements 8. Thank You 1. Moving Mountains Trust Board of Trustees: Chairman Secretary Treasurer Trustee Trustee Trustee Trustee

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Gavin Bate Chris Little Andrew MacDonald Susan Birkett Katie Brown Dot King Douglas Hull

Trust Co-ordinator:

Michael Evans

Address and registered office:

Moving Mountains Trust, PO Box 14, Portstewart, Northern Ireland BT55 7AG

Bankers:

Ulster Bank, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

Website:

www.movingmountainstrust.org

Email:

info@movingmountainstrust.org

Phone:

(+44) (0)2870 835 124

2. Chairman's Statement - Gavin Bate There are big challenges in the third sector and we have decided to tackle these with a strategic review and a positive outlook on the future. We are keen to adapt to the changing environment, embrace new ideas and be one step ahead in a crowded and competitive marketplace.

Primarily we want to stay true to our core values and therefore we are looking carefully at all our data collection and evaluation methods, and ensuring that our audit procedure is progressive and responsive to both donor expectations and community needs. Those needs are culturally and geographically specific, and our aim is to gaining the PQASSO quality standard, currently the only such mark in the charity sector.

We want to avoid getting stale and falling into the trap of complacency, so we will be attracting fresh minds into the organisation with new Trustees and new staff to work on training and recruitment, plus interns doing development electives. Additionally we will be taking professional advice on branding, a new website and logo, online promotion and grant funding.

As Trustees we are confident in our ability to manage programmes and projects well. Most of us now have fifteen years experience in the sector, and we are unusual in that the majority of the day to day management is done by three of the Trustees. But there needs to be more face to face interaction with potential supporters and volunteers and we need to ensure that Moving Mountains is the primary promoter for all volunteering trips abroad.

For the last few years during a protracted recession we have relied on cash reserves to supplement the projects we are funding, but we will be restricting any funding increases until we see the benefits of all these changes. We are well within our reserve policy and the main consequence of this action is a reduction in the more expensive construction projects.

I lecture widely on international development and I am constantly struck by how robust our development model is. We concentrate on getting the fundamental ethos right and we tackle the stereotypes which exist around aid, and we think in long term chunks of time. Our approach is also in line with the sustainable development goals for 2015, and I believe we provide long term assistance to many people and communities who have benefited from empowerment and equality.

We now have enough data over the past fifteen years to see evidence of wealth creation and poverty reduction in the communities we support, and we have seen children enter tertiary level education on the grants we provide. We have given people jobs, built schools and clinics, invested in businesses and seen many families achieve upward social mobility. We have also planted many trees!

Sticking to principles has enabled us to move mountains for many people but we now face hard decisions over how to build our brand and promote our cause. Please help us grow by thinking of opportunities and ideas which we might benefit from, and please also accept our heartfelt thanks for the continued loyalty and support.

Gavin Bate - Chairman

3. Trustees' Report The Trustees of Moving Mountains Trust present their annual report for the year ended 5th April 2014, together with the accounts for the year and confirm that the latter comply with the requirements of the Charities Regulations 2008 for reporting. We also confirm that all of the activities undertaken by the charity were to further its charitable purposes for the public benefit.

As ever, the integrity of our work remains uppermost and it is always with great pride that the charity remains true to its objectives. We continually try to attract new donors and volunteers as the backbone of our support.

The aim of the Trust is to provide funding in East Africa, Nepal, and Borneo, which upholds the remit of our charitable objectives and creates lasting change in targeted areas and geographies, based on need, and on the interests of the Trustees and the local stakeholders. The Trust partners with organisations that share our values and methodologies and that fully represent the views and needs of local stakeholders.

During the year 2013-14 we conducted a strategic review of Moving Mountains which included adding an objective to the trust deed, putting up a new website, designing a new logo, working on an extensive campaign of evaluation models, rewriting our vision and mission statement and values, restructuring a lot of the work we do in-country to fit the feedback coming from all the data collection we did and putting in place new training programmes in Kenya and Nepal.

In 2013/14 our principal objectives were the following:      

to continue long-term programmes and projects around health, social welfare, education and social enterprise; to fund this work through building sustainable income streams based on volunteering and longterm relationships with supporters; to strengthen our operational capabilities through increase in staff resources, technology and improved data collection and evaluation; to maintain a strong focus on control of expenditures and efficient use of donor funds to advance the education of the public in global citizenship and youth development through expeditions in all areas where Moving Mountains operates; to undertake a strategic review of the charity so that we accurately reflect all the developments in the last ten years.

Financial Review and Results During the year the Trust raised £160,666, an increase of 44.5% from the previous year. The year saw continued efforts to widen our funding base and enhance our communication programme for supporters and volunteers. The large increase in funding was largely down to the European Union awarding Moving Mountains two grants to take volunteers from the UK to Kenya and our continued push for people on Adventure Alternative trips to also fundraise for Moving Mountains.

Total expenditure for the year was £165,592, an increase of 35% from the previous year. The core costs of the Trust were covered by donations in kind from Adventure Alternative once again, enabling us to devote 80.5% of our funds to charitable purposes, 9% to staffing and general administration, 4% to governance, 6.5% to promotional and fundraising activities.

Our main funding continues to come from volunteers and visiting groups promoted through Adventure Alternative, plus a number of dedicated monthly standing orders and annual support from organisations such as the Ben Clark Foundation in Northern Ireland, Sarah’s Hope in Canada, and new supporters like the Russell Group in London.

With the end of the recession in sight we were able to get our volunteer groups travelling to Kenya, Nepal and Borneo involved with maintaining the commitment that the Trust has to the programmes involving the livelihoods of people, children's school fees, and financial support for teachers, social workers, counsellors and social welfare staff.

The Trustees have focused on creating sustainable income streams for our programmes and to focus on three primary objectives for income generation:   

to ensure core costs remain covered by corporate in-kind donations through Adventure Alternative; to demonstrate long-term relationships with supporters based on effective stewardship and evidence of the impact of its programmes; to develop the volunteering programme in areas which are currently difficult to obtain funding for while at the same time promoting a high degree of integrity and social responsibility towards the expectations of volunteers and local host communities.

Furthermore the Trustees continue to ensure expenditure and grants are monitored regularly and are in line with approved budgetary controls, with continued improvement in use of ‘cloud’ services for live sharing of information and VoIP technology to provide free communication.

Grant Making Analysis Decisions on grants to Kenya, Nepal and Borneo are made by the Trustees. Trustees approve grants or fund projects which demonstrate public benefit within the remit of the Trust objectives and within the criteria of guidance taken from the Charity Commission. In addition the Trust actively looks for projects or programmes that show leverage through involvement and additional funding from local authorities and other organisations.

Out of the total funding given during the year of £132,972 the breakdown of expenditures across the different countries was as follows: 67.1% to Kenya, 24.6% to Nepal, 8.3% to Borneo. Cash funds at the end of year were £58,839, a drop of 8% from the previous year.

Overall the Trustees were pleased that the Trust was able to maintain grant-making in its core operations, cover overheads, maintain its underlying financial base and increase its donor base through improved communications.

Reserve Policy The reserve policy is to provide sufficient capital to continue its grant-making programme and support future expenditure plans, and also to build up its unrestricted reserve to manage against unforeseen circumstances such as economic uncertainty. The Trustees believe that the unrestricted reserves should be maintained at a minimum of £30,000, and this policy is reviewed quarterly.

Going Concern The Trusts financial position and performance has been outlined in the financial review above. The Trustees have assessed projected future income, expenditure and cash flows and have analysed the strength of the Trust's reserves, its liquid assets and its ability to withstand a material fall in incoming resources. Consideration has been given to stability and diversity of various income streams in making this assessment.

The Trustees have concluded that there is a reasonable expectation that the Trust has adequate resources to continue activities for the foreseeable future. Accordingly they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

Risk Management The Trustees are satisfied that the major risks identified in the main areas - financial, governance, operational, compliance and external – have been mitigated through proper and comprehensive planning and operational decision-making, management systems, insurance cover, specialist advice and holding appropriate levels of funds for residual reserves. The risk management assessment is monitored regularly by the staff and by the Trustees. The Trustees have also considered any potential conflicts of interest and the implications of the Bribery Act 2010.

Structure, Governance and Management The Trust was originally registered as a charity in Northern Ireland by the HMRC under the reference XR62512, however as of the 12th February 2015 the Trust will be registered with the Charity Commission of Northern Ireland with Charity registration number - NIC100742.

The Trust was formed on 13th March 2002 as a charity and is governed by its Trust Deed signed on 1 st January 2002 and further amended by special resolutions dated 11th May 2003, 1st November 2005 and 30th November 2013.

Public Benefit The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and setting grant making policies. In particular, the Trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set. There will be no restrictions on future grant making through poverty, location or lack of entitlement.

Disclosure of Information The Trustees who held office at the date of approval of this Trustees' report confirm that they have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as a Trustee to make themselves aware of any relevant financial information and to establish that the relevant authorities are aware of that information.

Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

In preparing the financial statements the Trustees are required to select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently, observe the methods and principles in the charities SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice), make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent, and prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue its activities.

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity's transactions, and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Trust. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Trust and for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the financial information included on the charity’s website. Legislation in the UK governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by

Gavin Bate – Chairman

4. Developing Operations Over 2013-2014 the trustees implemented a number of important changes to develop and improve the way the charity operates.

Strategic Review During the year 2013-14 the Moving Mountains trustees conducted a strategic review, assessing the development of the charity to date and planning for the development of the organisation and our operations over the coming years.

This ten year review included adding an objective to the trust deed; increasing and widening the level of expertise and experience on the board of trustees; employing an extra member of staff; putting up a new website and designing a new logo; developing our impact assessment work and monitoring and evaluation programmes; rewriting our vision and mission statement and values; restructuring our projects and programmes; developing our training programmes; and making the decision to begin working towards submission of an application for accreditation from the PQASSO quality standard for charities.

Ammendment of Trust Deed As part of the strategic review the trustees decided to amend the charity's trust deed to include an objective of personal development, enabling us to deliver the benefits of volunteering and global citizenship as one of our charity aims.

The trust deed was ammended in November 2013 to include the objective: “to advance the education of the public in global citizenship and youth development through expeditions in all areas of operation”.

We will continue to promote responsible volunteering as a primary way of getting attention and funds, as well as using volunteers to assist with the collection of quantitative and qualitative data to help with evaluation and justification of funds spent.

Addition of Trustees We will aim to attract new Trustees with specific skills to assist us in this process of the strategic review and also to assist us in managing the long-term strategy of the charity. We also agreed to make better use of staff in recruiting donors and visitors in the UK and training groups in preparation for their trips abroad.

We will also aim to employ qualified and motivated people on a contract basis specifically to assist with website development and SEO and with grant applications. We will also be aiming to make more use of enthusiastic and motivated interns with specific campaign work and social media. At the end of 2013 we also welcomed two new trustees on board.

Dot King has been a long-term supporter of Moving Mountains and has helped to coordinate a number of volunteering trips and groups, including medical camp projects in Nepal and trips to Borneo. Dot helped to establish our partnership with the University of Bristol and brings lots of experience to add to Moving Mountains.

Doug Hull had previously worked with Moving Mountains on an internship whilst at Cambridge University, also helping to establish a Moving Mountains society at the university. Doug is now employed in the charity sector in London and brings some good additional expertise to the board.

Development of Branding and Communications We decided to use a professional firm to develop the brand and profile of the charity including development of a new website, a new logo and an increased online presence.

Moving Mountains Website: The trustees made a decision to develop a new website to improve the presentation and communication of the work of the charity. We have been working with a website design company to produce a new website which will go live later tin 2014. Funding for development of the new website was kindly provided by Andrew Styles to whom we extend a sincere thank you.

Moving Mountains Logo: We also decided to update the Moving Mountains logo to reflect this new period of development for the charity. The new logo is now in use and features in this report. With support of donors and volunteers we hope to create a strong charity brand which reflects our values and helps us to achieve the objectives of the charity.

Impact Assessment and Monitoring and Evaluation In 2013/14 a decision was also made to restructure our impact assessment systems and the way in which we monitor and evaluate projects and programmes. This included a decision to develop theory of change documents for each project and programme we run and to improve our data collection systems to improve the monitoring of our work and reporting on projects and programmes. This is a long-term process which will help to improve reporting and project management as well as staff knowledge and engagement with best development practice.

Training Programmes in Kenya As a result of these changes to impact assessment and monitoring and evaluation systems we also worked closely with staff in Kenya and Nepal train them in data collection and project and programme monitoring.

Vision and Mission Statement and Values We spent a long time reviewing our vision, mission statement and values to bring us up to date with the direction in which the charity is heading. This has given us clear direction for the coming five year

duration and more appropriately reflects our ethos, working culture, aims and objectives. The new vision, mission and values can be seen on our website here: http://movingmountainstrust.org/about/what-we-stand-for/the-mm-vision Restructuring Our Volunteer Opportunities One of our main aims was to restructure ourselves in a way which properly reflects changes to funding and funding types. We made a major alteration to the way in which we run trips in 2013, splitting the donation money from trip money between AA and MM to ensure transparency and clarity to volunteers and to increase fundraising to the charity.

We also decided to increase the role of the charity in promoting volunteering trips, ensuring that they are correctly presented as Moving Mountains volunteering trips with Adventure Alternative seen as the logistics provider for volunteers.

Increasing Support to Volunteers In order to compliment this restructuring of trips and increased focus on volunteering, we also began employing a new member of staff in the UK to work with us on volunteer preparation and management.

Rachael Reynolds began working with us in January 2014. She has a lot of previous experience working with Moving Mountains, both as a volunteer and trip leader, has a degree in Swahili and Social Anthropology from SOAS and has spent time living and working in Kenya and Tanzania.

Rachael's role involves working with volunteer groups, undertaking training and preparation sessions, supporting group trips, post-project activities and developing our links with universities and groups in the UK and Ireland.

Sustainable Income Streams We will also be looking carefully at reviewing the long-term plans for each area of operation of the charity. As changes in income continue to affect the charity sector, we will be aiming to make more use of our long-term supporters and attracting more visiting groups to help fund projects.

PQASSO PQASSO is a quality standard for charities, which assesses all aspects of the operations of charities, from governance to leadership, planning to service delivery. All aspects of the charity are assessed and measured against accepted quality standards, highlighting areas where the charity can improve and recognising good practice which is already implemented and used.

The trustees made a decision to carry out the PQASSO self-assessment process with a view to submitting a PQASSO application in 2015. This process is part of our ongoing strategic review and will help us to develop all aspects of the charity and our operations over the next few years.

5. Review of Charitable Activities Moving Mountains in Kenya 2013/14 was another busy and successful year for the charity in Kenya. As well as continuing to fund all of our ongoing programmes we also developed a range of new projects and initiatives to extend our support to communities and maximise the impact of our funds and resources to reach beneficiaries.

Educational Support: We supported 42 students through primary, secondary and tertiary education through 2013/14. Post-secondary courses for supported students ranged from masonry to biochemistry to social work.

Developing School Facilities: We also continued our ongoing programme of collaborations with schools across Kenya to renovate and construct classrooms and infrastructure. In 2013-2014 we carried out the following school projects in Kenya: 

Barkatado Primary School – relaying of floors, installation of glass in windows and painting of the inside and outside of classes 3 & 2. Painting of the outside of classes 4 & 5, renovation and finishing of roof for one of the classrooms. This a rural school with which MM Kenya has recently begun working. These were our first projects with the school which currently serves around 240 pupils in the Primary School and 70 in the Early Childhood Development centre.

Funding for these projects was raised by Round Square International and Team Kenya Northern Ireland, both of whom sent volunteer groups to Kenya to help to implement the projects.

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Malunga Primary School – renovation of one classroom at the school: fitting of steel windows and a door, floor relaying, painting of walls, provision of 30 new school desks. This was also the first project we have carried out at Malunga Primary, another rural school in the Siaya region in Western Kenya, serving around 250 pupils and a further 40 in their ECD centre. Volunteer group involved in the project and funding raised by Round Square International.

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Gatwe Primary School – renovation of third and fourth classrooms at the school, including rendering of walls, relaying of floors, hardpaving of the external covered walkway between classrooms, painting of inside and outside of classrooms and installation of roofs, doors and windows. Funding for this project provided by Sarah's HOPE group from Ontario, Canada as part of their long-term partnership with Gatwe Primary through Moving Mountains. The project was implemented with support from our Welsh Africamp group.

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Chris Morrone Kiamathaga Secondary School – Construction of separate toilet blocks for students and staff for this secondary school which we are constructing with the local community in Tigithi. Our collaboration allowed the school to proudly open its doors in 2013 to start teaching its first intake of students in one of the two newly constructed classrooms we built at the school in 2012. The school is named after a former Moving Mountains volunteer from Wales who became close to young people from Tigithi during his time with Moving Mountains in Kenya. Projects at the school are being financed by fundraising work from schools, groups and individuals in South Wales through the Chris Morrone Fund and by Africamp groups who also helped to implement this project.

Volunteers in Kenya: We were proud to once again provide opportunities for volunteers to get involved in projects and programmes and contribute to our work in Kenya.

In 2013/14 our staff in Kenya welcomed Africamp groups from the University of Wales, Zara McKeague's 'Team Kenya' group from Northern Ireland, a large Welsh Africamp team and a group from Adams Grammar.

We also had visiting groups from Moving Mountains Ireland (travelling and trekking across Kenya's Great Rift Valley before spending time volunteering at Ulamba Children's Home and visiting the MM projects in the region) and a group of magistrates from Gwent in South Wales, led by Sue Blair and Adventure Alternative trip leader Andy Hunt. The 'Doing Justice to Kilimanjaro' group visited our projects and programmes in Kenya as well as climbing the mountain, raising over £4,500 for Moving Mountains, a big thank you to everyone involved.

In addition to our normal MM volunteering placements which ran throughout 2013/14 we also began two EVS (European Voluntary Service) projects, EU funded projects which are benefiting eight volunteers in total from disadvantaged backgrounds in the UK. The volunteers are working with us in Siaya and Embu to develop activities and non-examinable curricula for local schools as well as working with Ulamba and Embu Rescue Centre.

We also began new collaborations this year with Leeds University RAG and University of Ulster RAG. Both organisations have been fundraising for our projects in Kenya and three groups from Leeds RAG are due to travel out to Kenya with us in the summer of 2014 to help to implement another project at Tigithi Secondary School to build a third classroom at the school.

Black Cats: We continued to run our Black Cats sports and youth rehabilitation programme in Kenya during 2013/14, providing daily opportunities and support for some of the most disadvantaged young people in Kenya. Special thanks to Elise Vazelakis and her family for fundraising for the Black Cats programme, introducing basketball to our sports portfolio and sourcing a donation of kits and equipment American School of Dubai. Thanks also to Will Webster who is also supporting Black Cats and visited the teams in Nairobi with some much needed equipment.

Extra-Curricular Clubs and Activities: Through working with volunteers and local stakeholders we continued to provide additional youth opportunities through 2013/14. The Music Club at Embu County Primary had children competing in the national finals of the Kenyan Music Festival once again in 2013.

Their participation was supported by Musequality who also originally helped us to establish the club, support its development and help the school to source instruments.

Social Welfare Support: In 2013-2014 we continued to provide loans and grants to particularly disadvantaged families for food, medicines, clothing, school transport, educational materials and for development of economic initiatives.

Ulamba Children's Home and Community Centre: Ulamba Children's Home continued to be the focus of our operations in Siaya, providing a home to 31 orphaned children.

Nineteen of the children cared for at Ulamba are in primary school or in the Ulamba ECD centre which Moving Mountains constructed with support from long-term donors The Ben Clark Foundation and MM Ireland. Ten children from Ulamba go to secondary school and one child is in the special needs unit.

Embu Rescue Centre for Street Children: The Rescue Centre continued to provide a vital service for the street children of Embu during 2013/14, benefiting some of the most disadvantaged children and young people in Kenya.

In 2013 fifty of the street children who visit Embu Rescue Centre successfully completed a training workshop on drugs and substance abuse. We also started a dance group for the street boys and children who come to the Rescue Centre.

Water for Life: In October 2013 we undertook the first stage of our 'Water for Life' project in Solio. The volunteer team worked alongside Francis Kioni and members of the community in Solio to dig trenches, lay piping, install water tanks and connect water outlet taps throughout the villages.

Families have to walk for up to 6km to collect and carry the heavy water containers to their homes, requiring a lot of time and effort.

The project is expected to reduce time spent collecting water by 85% on average per household, reducing from an average of 3.275 hours to an expected average of 0.5 hours per day. Our baseline data study showed that females on average bear 73.75% of the responsibility for collecting water and children 16.25 % of responsibility (likely to underestimate the contribution of children since many will accompany their mother or father). The project will benefit each household, greatly reducing the domestic workload and increasing the time which children can spend to study and play and which parents and particularly mothers can use to find/maintain employment and to relax, as well as impacting on health, hygiene and well-being.

Health: In 2013-2014 we continued our long-term partnerships with hospitals and medical centres in Kenya.

In early 2014 we also worked with Dr. Mary Favier from Cork, Ireland, providing health education classes at our partner schools in Siaya, increasing awareness and good practice for healthy living.

In 2013 we were also able to donate medical equipment to Siaya District Hospital. Natasha Davendralingam, a medical elective student working with us in Western Kenya, kindly raised funds for the purchase of ear thermometers, oxygen delivery flow metres and blood pressure monitors, requested by the hospital doctors to improve the quality of diagnosis and care on offer to the thousands of patients they treat from the surrounding area.

Embu Rescue Centre Youth Group and Car Wash: In 2013 Moving Mountains helped the older street boys from our rehabilitation programme establish and register as a youth group with the Ministry of Gender and Social Services and with the Jua Kali Association of Embu. We then helped to facilitate training for the members in income-generating activities and in group loans and savings with Care Kenya.

Following the training the group opened a savings account that has been active for the last year and decided to start a car wash business to provide themselves with an income and build on what they had learnt. The car wash aims to create employment for 20 youths from the Rescue Centre and especially those boys who did not get an opportunity to go to school or polytechnic.

Beekeeping in Solio: In late 2013 we established a new partnership with UK NGO Bees Abroad. The Bees Abroad team in Central Kenya met with Kioni and visited our partner communities in Solio in early 2014 for an initial community training session.

Community members will receive training in hive construction and management from Bees Abroad's Kenyan project managers. This will allow the communities to harvest honey for consumption and sale as well as beeswax from which they can produce candles and other products for domestic use and sale. The project is part of our support for the communities and for income-generation, social enterprise, food security and capacity building projects in Kenya.

Hives are to be constructed from timber offcuts and bamboo, locally available materials with minimal cost involved. The beekeeping suits are also made from empty ugali flour sacks.

Learning About Social Enterprise in Kenya: We also welcomed a group from Oxford Brookes University to Kenya in early January 2014, part of our ongoing collaboration through Roberto Daniele, senior lecturer at the university. The social enterprise students visited our projects and learnt about how we use a social enterprise and income-generating approach to ensure sustainability of projects and empowerment of local people as agents of change and development.

Moving Mountains in Nepal In Nepal we continue to collaborate extensively with the villages of Bumburi and Bupsa in the Solukhumbu region of the Himalayas.

Our projects and programmes have helped to transform these rural villages, and make a positive impact on education, health, environmental sustainability, economic development, jobs and culture.

In 2013-2014 we progressed with important projects, particularly focusing on the first stages of development of a permanent medical centre in Bumburi.

Education in the Himalayas: During 2013/14 Moving Mountains once again provided crucial support for education and schools in Bupsa and Bumburi, supporting the salaries of ten teachers in total at the two schools during this period.

This support ensures that the schools are able to provide education to a higher age band, meaning that children from the surrounding area can get a decent level of education whilst staying in their own villages and contributing to community life.

This helps to ensure the vibrancy and dynamism of the region and to arrest the wider demographic trend in Nepal of young people having to migrate away from rural villages in order to pursue their education or find employment in the city.

Buddhist Education and Culture: In 2013-2014 we also continued to fund the salary of a lama at Bupsa Monastery. Boys from the local communities attend the monastery to study traditional Buddhist teaching under the guidance of the lama, take part in puja ceremonies, meditate and train to become Buddhist monks.

In early 2014 the previous teacher, lama Pasang, left the monastery to be replaced by lama Furtenji.

The older children studying at the monastery graduated from the programme and went to India to continue their studies whilst the younger students continue their studies under lama Furtenji.

Vocational Training and Further Education: We also continued to pay university costs and living costs for three students from the villages to attend university in Kathmandu, studying tourism and hospitality (Lokendra), nursing (Mingma) and community health (Ang Dawa).

Sapta Gandaki, Kathmandu: We continued to fund the education of twelve young people from the villages of Bupsa and Bumburi to attend Sapta Gandaki boarding school. The school provides a high standard of education and with classes in English the students gain a high level of competency in this language which is vital for securing skilled employment in Nepal.

In early 2014 we also began supporting another student to attend Sapta Gandaki, thanks to support

from Paul Lewis and friends who met Kanchi Maya on a climb of Yala Peak earlier this year and committed to her school sponsorship.

Kanchi is eleven years old but will have to start out her new life in school at nursery level due to lack of previous education.

Previously Kanchi was working at a lodge in Kanji village where she earned about 3,000 Nepalese Rupees a month (about ÂŁ18) picking up Yak excrement, washing and cleaning, so to get this sort of sponsorship means a lot to Kanchi and her family.

Kanchi and her family are very happy for this opportunity and are now part of the wider Moving Mountains family. Saraswoti, one the MMNepal trustees, will visit Kanchi regularly and introduce her to the other MM sponsored kids at Sapta Gandaki as well as take her out when there are holidays and provide additional support and mentoring.

Medical Camp: In August of 2013 we continued the successful partnership between Moving Mountains and Bristol University to contribute to improving health in the Solukhumbu. Volunteer medical students from Bristol, also joined this year by students from Cambridge University, worked under the leadership of experienced Nepalese doctors and medical staff to run free medical clinics in August 2013.

The team provided medical assistance to 1,385 patients from the villages of Bupsa and Bumburi and from the surrounding region over two weeks. All of the information from the last four years of these camps is feeding into plans for development of the new medical centre we have begun constructing in Bumburi.

Bumburi Health Centre: In August 2013 we also began constructing the new health centre which we have been planning with the local community and village development committee in Bumburi.

A team of volunteers from Kingsbere Explorers in Dorset worked alongside our MMNepal staff and members of the community to put in the foundations and start the construction process. The Kingsbere Explorer group also raised funds to allow the first stage of this project to go ahead, a big thank you to them for their efforts and commitment to help get this project off the ground.

The health centre will have four rooms: a general clinic, a recovery/treatment room, a pharmacy and a dental surgery. It will eventually serve around 10,000 people from the surrounding area who currently lack regular access to doctors and decent medical facilities. We have built up a comprehensive picture of health issues in the area through collection of data and through consultation and treatment of villagers during the medical clinics we have been running, all of which has fed into plans for the medical centre and the medical services it will offer.

Moving Mountains in Borneo Our tree planting and community project in Sarawak is run in five Penan villages and we average about eight to ten thousand saplings planted each year since 2010.

We have continued our support for the communities through 2013/14, and now employ a local villager to manage it.

Tree Planting Project with Penan Communities Seeds are collected by community members from the rainforest during fruiting and planted in the community managed tree nurseries we supported the communities to create.

The Penan communities gain an income from the project which acts as an alternative to employment offered by the logging companies, whose actions are opposed by the Penan people. This also helps to ensure that the communities can remain on their traditional lands.

A small proportion of new trees planted also provide a source of wood for community use, ensuring that the existing magnificent ancient forest on their land can be preserved.

Volunteer Groups and Project Support In 2013 we received a grant from AITO (Association of Independent Tour Operators) in recognition of our work for which we were presented the 2012 AITO Roger Diski Community Project Award. The grant was used to fund the construction of a visitors centre in one of the communities.

The tree planting programme attracts international visitors and volunteers to the communities as part of a small scale eco-tourism initiative run through the cooperative, bringing additional income to the communities and helping to maintain their financial viability. Attraction of international visitors to the communities helps to raise awareness of deforestation, sustainable forest management and the Penan struggle to protect the rainforest.

In 2013-2014 we facilitated visits to the project and Penan communities for two groups from Bristol and Cambridge Universities. Volunteer groups travel out to Borneo to visit the Penan communities, staying in the villages, learning about traditional Penan culture, exploring the incredible ancient rainforest and assisting with the tree planting project to reforest damaged and cleared areas of the rainforest.

In 2013 we were also proud to have our partnership and project with the Penan communities in Borneo selected as a beneficiary of the carbon offset programme of the International AIDS Society's 2013 conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The project in Borneo received funding from delegates who visited the conference which took place over a week in June and July.

Moving Mountains in Tanzania In early 2014 MM Kenya board members Joseph Mungai and Francis Kioni visited the community of Marangu on the slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to undertake a project identification visit.

They visited Ng'aroni Primary School and Mbahe Primary School where pupils currently have to share facilities, meaning classrooms are very crowded and teachers and pupils lack their own school buildings and equipment. All of this places a strain on the community.

Following the visit and subsequent meetings and discussions we have agreed to begin working with Ng'aroni on a community project to be carried out over the summer of 2014 to construct a first new classroom for the school. We hope to implement this first project at Ng'aroni Primary with support from an Africamp group from Writhlington School, Bath, who have begun fundraising to support the work.

6. Financial Statements

7. Notes to the Financial Statements The majority of funds received into the Trust are unrestricted; the notes below refer only to specific programmes and projects donated by donors as restricted funds. Full details on request.

1. Restricted Donations to Kenya Category

Restricted Fund

Donor

Social Welfare Social Welfare Education Education Education Education Education Education Personal Development Personal Development Personal Development Personal Development Personal Development Personal Development Health Health Health Health

Community Infrastructure Ulamba Children's Home & ECD School Classrooms School Classrooms School Facilities School Facilities School Fees Teachers' Salaries Black Cats football coaching EVS Volunteers - Ulamba EVS Volunteers - Embu Black Cats football clubs Embu County School Orchestra Starehe Students' Camp Home Healthcare Water Project Water Project Water Project

BBC Radio NI Appeal Ben Clark Foundation Chris Morrone Fund Sarah's Hope Fund, Canada King Edward's School Round Square Sue Best I M Morgan-Jones Tshering Sherpa European Commission European Commission Elise Vzlks Musequality Grant Round Square Joanna Byers Jane Cairns Catriona Crosby Kathryn Telford

2. Restricted Funds to Nepal Category

Restricted Fund

Donor

Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Health Education

Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Healthcare facilities Building clinic Building clinic School Fees

Eleanor Badger Emily Gwinnell Sara Qandil Lervi Guo William Hann Amy Samson Lauren Fern Hazel Powell Andrew Armson Maria Jinks Natalie Murray Jemima Graham William Harper Emma Lang Michael Campbell Ian and Diana Ventham Kingsbere Explorer Scouts Paul Lewis & Friends

3. Restricted Funds to Borneo Category

Restricted Fund

Donor

Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Environmental Economic Economic

Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Forest regeneration, Sarawak Social enterprise Social enterprise

F. Maspero and E. Quacquarelli Rosalia Myttas-Perris Ross Harrison Anonymous Sarah Bryant Ellie Quacquarelli Fiona McLaughlin Francesca Maspero Rosalia Myttas-Perris Lucinda Davies Roger Diski Award - AITO Carbon Offset Grant

4. Restricted Funds in the UK Restricted Fund

Donor

Category

Economic Economic

Vodafone Andrew Styles

Career Development Website

5. Staff costs, Volunteers, Contribution in Kind and Fundraising Expenditure

Adventure Alternative - donation in kind: Donations in kind included office space, telephone, stationery, postage and travel expenses as well as 25% of the time of three full-time members of staff in the Adventure Alternative UK office, amounting to an estimated total of ÂŁ30,000 per annum.

8. Thank You All of the trustees, staff and beneficiaries of Moving Mountains would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of our donors and supporters around the world.

Your support and commitment over 2013 and 2014 has ensured that we were able to continue to achieve our objectives as a charity, benefiting disadvantaged children, young people, families and communities and working towards long-term development outcomes and strategies.

We are deeply grateful for all the donations from our supporters and for the trust placed in us to manage those funds for the benefit and development of others. We consistently aim to achieve maximum integrity in all that we do, and to achieve maximum benefit with the money we have.

We extend a special thank you to the following donors and groups who have been instrumental in supporting the charity and enabling us to achieve our objectives over 2013/14:                   

The Ben Clark Foundation The Russell Group 'Team Kenya' Northern Irish Africamp Welsh Africamp 2013 Adam's Grammar The Chris Morrone Fund Sarah's HOPE Sue Best Emma Chivers and the University of Wales Roberto Daniele and Oxford Brookes MoMaC – Cambridge University University of Bristol RAG Kingsbere Explorer Scouts Paul Lewis and friends Musequality Youth in Action (EU) Round Square International Andrew Styles 'Race Me to The Pole' fundraising donors

 Adventure Alternative  Moving Mountains Ireland  Sue Blair and the 'Doing Justice to Kilimanjaro' Group  University of Ulster  University of Leeds RAG  King Edward's School  Writhlington School  Elise Vazelakis and family  Will Webster  'Water for Life' Team  Bees Abroad  Dr. Mary Favier  All of our Standing Order donors  Natasha Davendralingam  AITO  International AIDS Society