Present
Aster Belay, Siobhan Crawley, Feyisa Demie, Brian Foster, Teferi Degeneh , Girma Gebresenbet, Muluneh Oli
Apologies
Michael Hawkins, Bekana Edossa,
Minutes of previous meeting
Agreed
Matters arising
Aster has submitted all the trustee details to Barclays Bank.
We have held off submitting the application to CAF bank pending the outcome of the Barclays application.
Risk Assessment
We have agreed the Risk Assessment policy and will declare it on the Charity Commission website. Policy is open to regular review.
Brian has modified the Charity Commission website entry to record this.
Fundraising
Feyisa suggests we contact charities already working in Ethiopia e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for IT equipment.
Grima thinks it is a problem that we have no activities at the moment.
Garden fundraising lunch every weekend in August. To be confirmed next meeting.
Girma to work with Feyisa and Brian to research major funders to identify what they will fund, when the funding round is open. Establish a short list.
Any other business
Our Charities Commission website entry on Governance expects us to have these policies. The responses are taken from our original application apart from Risk management which has been added today.
- Risk management Yes
- Financial Management Yes
- Investment Not applicable
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries No
- Conflicting interests No
- Volunteer management No
- Complaints handling No
- Paying staff Not applicable
Siobhan to identify potential Safeguarding and Volunteer Policies