The Venkat Trust is looking for help with our annual accounts from a finance professional. We are a well established and successful small education charity working in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
What difference will you make?
Your help would be of huge assistance to a small charity which achieves so much despite having no UK staff and no overheads – all our costs here are paid by the trustees and all the money raised goes to our work in India.
The Trust was set up on a wing and a prayer in August 2004 to bring education to the poor fishing village of Kovalam, near Chennai in South India which had no free secondary school.
That was 23 years ago; today that then poor village is a village of educational excellence, the higher secondary school we built for a thousand pupils has been named the best free school in the state of Tamil Nadu. From a life of poverty, the village now has hundreds of graduates, many of them with brilliant careers, all with ambitions which are being fulfilled. On behalf of the Venkat Trust, our Founder Sylvia Holder was awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) and won The Times Sternberg Award.
Can you help us? It would make all the difference.
What are we looking for?
In the UK, the Trust is run by its trustees, all volunteers, of which none are finance professionals, although our books are kept fully up to date. We all have our different strengths and we would love to work with someone who is interested in what we are doing and would enjoy being part of our small team, which includes people of all ages.
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What will you be doing?
We are looking for help to complete our accounts for the Charity Commission, due on 31 January 2027 (and thereafter) and to act as an Independent Examiner. Our annual income is generally around £200,000.
The accounts are not complete and we would need help with this. We have all the information as our bank statements are reconciled every month using a custom-made Excel system. We can provide the annual totals for individuals, corporate, restricted and unrestricted, legacies etc. Once a year we receive details of the annual outgoings in India, which comprise money paid to sponsored children, university fees, salaries and all the usual overheads.
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