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TANZANIA
DEVELOPMENT TRUST Registered Charity No 270462
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL
REPORT and ACCOUNTS, 2013
The Britain-Tanzania Society’s
Tanzania Development Trust Every pound raised is spent on projects
www.TanzDevTrust.org
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Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the
Tanzania Development Trust for the period 1
st July 2012 to 30
th June 2013
INTRODUCTION: HOW IS TANZANIA DOING?
If you were just to look at the World Bank
League Tables of poor countries, you
would say that there was not much sign of
economic progress. At the Millennium in
the year 2000, Tanzania was placed 158th
out of 184 countries with a Gross National
Income (GNI) per capita of $310. In 2011,
it was placed 152nd
out of 167 countries
with a GNI per capita of $540 and it was
way below average for countries in sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the figures mask
the fact that different regions of Tanzania
are developing at very different rates. The
map opposite is an attempt to show this. The regions coloured dark green are
prospering and their economies are growing thanks to gold, other minerals,
tourism and (to a lesser extent) coffee, tea and other exports. There is major
Chinese investment and Tanzania was the second country to be visited by new
Chinese President, Xi Jinping . He and President Kikwete signed 16 Trade
Agreements. The regions coloured light green have excellent prospects, especially
Lindi and Mtwara, where the offshore gas field may be larger than those found in
the North Sea. The regions coloured brown (and it is in these regions that TDT
works) remain mostly very poor.
What has changed for the better? First of all the roads- You can drive from
Kigali in Rwanda to Dar es Salaam, from Kampala to Mwanza, from Arusha to
Zambia and never leave a tarred road. Air travel is much easier, with more routes
being developed. A new carrier Fastjet, is offering flights at fares that many
Tanzanians can afford. Mobile phones have transformed communications. Cheap
handsets are within the reach of almost all Tanzanians; coverage is good and rates
are low and it is very easy to top up pay-as-you-go phones everywhere.
The picture on the front cover shows the Dispensary at Kikukwe
Village– see page 11.
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M-Pesa, the system of transferring money by mobile phone has revolutionised
getting cash and payments from one place to another.
And the negatives: How to provide services in rural areas?
Because Tanzania is still a very rural country with 75% of the population living in
the countryside and often very far from tarred roads, it is a massive task to provide
effective services. In Mara my wife and I visited the site of a proposed rural
Dispensary. It was reached by a cart track and is 40km from the nearest tarred
road. Likewise some of the problems in the rural schools are caused by their
isolation - it is very hard to recruit enough teachers prepared to work in places
where there is no electricity, nor water system and where housing may not be
provided. Road safety - When you get to a tarred road, road safety is very low. We
passed an accident where two buses had a head on collision and many were killed.
On average over 3,800 people per year are killed on Tanzania’s roads. The railways
– no change yet. The Minister, Dr Mwakyembe promises that the railways will
improve, but at the moment they make no significant contribution to the national
economy through moving goods or passengers, although a short commuter line
has opened in Dar-es-Salaam.
Corruption -Transparency International publishes the highly respected Corruption
Perceptions Index (CPI) which ranks countries and territories based on how
corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. The 2012 survey covers 176
countries and out of which Tanzania is placed 102nd
, better than Kenya and
Uganda, but below Malawi and Zambia. For very many years, TDT has been able to
say in response to questions that we see very little or no evidence of corruption in
our project partners. We can still say that about the vast majority of our projects,
but not all. Now most applications are emailed to us as attachments and the
volume has greatly increased- there have been 141 enquiries since 1st
July 2012.
We have also learned in the past year just how easy it is with computers, scanners,
and digital manipulation of images to forge documents, including references from
Government officials and even from an Archbishop. In one extremely plausible
case, where we were deceived and have lost money, a whole vocational training
centre was a non-existent scam. The consequence of this is greatly increased work
for our Project Officers as the identities of all applicants have to be checked and
referees telephoned to verify that what we have received is genuine.
You can help TDT by joining BTS. Go to www.btsociety.org
or contact Ann Brumfit [email protected] or write to her
at 24 Oakfield Drive, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 9NR
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We may also, except in rare cases, have to restrict grants to areas where we have
Local Representatives. It is, at least good to be able to report that in some of the
cases where we have reported forged documents to the local authorities, this has
been treated with great seriousness and we have been promised maximum co-
operation and in two cases we have begun to recover embezzled funds. We are
grateful to BTS Chair, Willie Fulton for arranging a meeting with H.E. Peter Kallaghe
to discuss some of these issues. Our loss in the past year has been about 7.7% of
our total income, (and this could be reduced to 5.7%) - that is very low by the
standards of major NGOs, but very sad for us - and we are doing everything
possible to try to ensure that 100% of funds are used properly and to retain the
confidence of donors and members.
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES (LRs)
One of the ways we
are combatting fraud
and ensuring that
members’ and
donors’ gifts to TDT
are used properly is
through much more
extensive use of our
team of Local
Representatives. Last
year we welcomed
Evelyn Leonard in
Kigoma to join the
doyen of our work in
Tanzania, Mzee Elias
Mashasi. This year we
have been joined by Adriano Kalisti, who looks after Tabora and Shinyanga and by
Rhobi Samwelly, who takes responsibility for Mara. All of them liaise also with
Danny Mwasandube, the project officer of BTS in Tanzania, who is based in Dar es
Salaam. In due course we hope to be able to add representatives for other
regions.
The LRs all work in a voluntary capacity, but TDT reimburses their expenses when,
for example, they travel to research or monitor a project. All applications from
their area are copied to the Local Representative who undertakes a number of
checks on the identities of the applicant/s, the status of their organisations, the
validity of the references they supply and the soundness and security of their
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accounting procedures. When a project is granted funding, our representatives
then help us monitor the progress of the project and often guide us when to make
second stage payments. The success of this method of working is shown by the
fact that we have had almost no problems in any project that has had the prior
approval of the local representative. Difficulties mentioned above predate these
arrangements. On behalf of all BTS/TDT members, I say a big Asanteni Sana to
these now vital members of our team.
In late September, the TDT Vice-Chairs are flying (at their own expense) out to
Tanzania to have a meeting with the LRs in Mwanza. This will involve in-service
training, and arrangements for even more improved liaison and co-operation. We
are able to pay the expenses of the LRs thanks to another
important development of the past year. A close working
partnership has been developed with the David Anderson
Africa Trust (DAAT). [You can read about the distinguished
career of David Anderson OBE at http://www.daat.org.uk/
about.html ]. As a result, most of DAAT’s grants will be channelled through TDT.
The Trusts fit together well. TDT prioritises grants for capital expenditure but
cannot pay, for example, for in-service training for individuals. DAAT specialises in
adult training, distance learning and the support of individuals. The relationship
between the two Trusts is at an early stage but it already opens creative
opportunities for more extensive support for projects. We hope that the Mwanza
conference will help very much in this.
Despite problems mentioned above, there is so much over which to rejoice, and
especially the talent and leadership of local people determined to do their part to
lift their communities by the provision of better health care, more effective
schools, clean water, vocational training, and improved agriculture. Mostly all that
holds them back is a lack of capital. In some cases, and in a small way as the
project accounts below show, TDT is able to help and the results are abundant -
and really change lives for the better.
TDT was set up by the Britain-Tanzania Society in 1975 and the Society ‘s members
have sustained the Trust – their Development Charity – and paid its small
expenses for the past 38 years of service to the people of Tanzania. Please also
read the BTS Annual Report, which complements this one.
The work of the Trust is governed by a Trust Deed dated 3rd
November 1975. TDT
is a UK registered charity, No. 270462.
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Robert Gibson writes: The past three years’ fund-raising shows the importance of
income from trusts, other organisations, and especially legacies. Contributing
some 70% of the trust’s income, these enable TDT to extend its work well beyond
the level of BTS members’ donations. Income from Trusts was lower in 2012-13,
partly because income from the Hilden Charitable Fund came after our year-end.
Total income for TDT projects was £110,739, almost half coming from Christine
Lawrence’s wonderful legacy. The non-legacy giving and fund-raising of members
was almost unchanged, each year being boosted by a £10,000 donation from the
same very generous donors.
Almost £100,000 was disbursed to projects during the year, taking the 3-year total
above £350,000. To sustain the success of their Trust and maintain this level of
spending, we would again ask all members to consider how to contribute via
regular giving, donations, sponsorship or, taking Christine Lawrence’s example, by
a gift in their Will.
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THE PROJECTS IN DETAIL
Page No. REGION PROJECT TYPE
8 1 All Hassan Majaar Trust Education
8 2 Kagera ELCT Kasheshe Fish farm, Karagwe Agriculture
8 3 Kagera HCF Ikimba Cluster Education
9 4 Kagera HCF Ikimba Cluster Rubale Secondary Education
10 5 Kagera Kibeta Secondary Education
10 6 Kagera Kiboju Village Water Water
11 7 Kagera Kikukwe Dispensary Health
11 8 Kagera Muleba Schools Solar Power Education-Solar
12 9 Kagera Zakia Meghig Secondary School Education
12 10 Kigoma Found. / Poverty Alleviation, Solar Power Health-solar
13 11 Kigoma Found. / Economic Services (Patients’ beds) Health
13 12 Kigoma Kasimbu Sec School Education
13 13 Kigoma Kasulu Youth Development Voc. training
14 14 Kigoma Kibirizi Women-YAAPA Business start-up
14 15 Kigoma KIOO Sunuka Helembe Desks Education
15 16 Kigoma Rushoko Development Solar Health- solar
15 17 Kigoma Social & Economic Devpt. Group (Bed-nets) Health
15 18 Mara Matongo Dispensary water Water
16 19 Mwanza Hurumia Watoto tools shipment Business start-up
16 20 Rukwa Mkole Primary School Education-Solar
16 21 Rukwa Recoso tree Nursery Agriculture
17 22 Shinyanga Ebeneza Group Orphans
17 23 Shinyanga Kahama Education Voc. training
18 24 Tabora CYN NGO organis.
18 25 Tabora FADICE Education
19 26 Tabora Friends of Urambo and Mwanhala Education
19 27 Tabora Tabora Albino Society Agriculture
20 28 Tabora Goodness Organisation Apiculture
20 29 Tanga Duga Old people’s home Infrastructure
21 30 Tanga Medical Supplies, A Puttick & C Anderson Health
21 31 All VSO Small grants Various
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The TDT Committee decided in 2011 to give priority to projects in Tanzania’s
poorest areas. We take as our reference point the annual speech made by
Tanzania’s Prime Minister when he gives the per capita income levels for the
different regions. In 2012, the poorest regions were Dodoma, Kagera, Kigoma,
Lindi, Mara, Mtwara, Pemba North, Pwani Rural, Shinyanga, Singida, and Tabora.
There were no viable applications in the past year from Lindi, Mtwara, Pemba
North, Pwani Rural, and Singida. Exceptions were made for 2 projects in Rukwa
and 2 in Tanga as explained in the project reports.
(1) HASSAN MAJAAR TRUST (£1,020)
The Trust was established in July 2011 in memory
of Hassan Shariff Maajar who died in a tragic
road accident in 2006. The mission of the Trust “is
to improve the quality of the classroom
environment to make the school the best place to
be for all pupils….” “A Desk For Every Child”
Campaign - Since the Trust was launched in July
2011, it has donated a total of 4,125 desks and seated 12,372 children in 6 regions
in Tanzania; Mwanza, Singida, Njombe, Shinyanga, Rukwa and Lindi. This has been
facilitated by funds donated by various individuals and organization, including
£2,000 from BTS and TDT. Congratulations to Danny Mwasandube for his work on
this Trust.
(2) KAGERA REGION: KASHESHE FISH FARM (£3,488)
This project in association with a local Credit Union is to start
fish farming as nutrition for the vulnerable people who are
living with HIV/AIDS, for the community at large and as a
source of income for the villagers who are living in the district
where there is no lake or river for fishing.
This project is well supported by the community as well as
government officials who have given some training so that the
project is sustainable.
(3) KAGERA REGION: THE IKIMBA GROUP OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS [with
grateful thanks for funding from the Hilden Charitable Fund] - £16,000,
paid in July 2013, therefore not shown in the accounts. Following generous funding by Hilden Charitable Fund (HCF) of the first year of the
three year programme of support, considerable progress has been made in the
provision of text books, science equipment and sports equipment. Visits made in
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January 2013 by Julian Marcus
confirmed that the new text books
were supporting improvements to
classroom teaching and learning.
The new science equipment has
enabled a greater amount of
practical experiments in the
curriculum and sports equipment is
in constant use in all the schools.
TDT is grateful to HCF for further
funding for the second year. Each school will receive £4,000 with an additional
£1,000 from TDT. A fourth school, Rubale Secondary, has been added to the
cluster- See (4) below. The second year programme includes the establishment of
a library in each school so that text books, reference and reading books in English
and Kiswahili will be more readily accessible and available on loan. Approximately
1,850 pupils annually will benefit from this programme.
There is still much work to be done in encouraging student focused styles of
teaching and learning using the new books and TDT is grateful to VSO Tanzania in
appointing an experienced National Volunteer educator to work in the schools
under the guidance of the District
Education Officer and the VSO team in
Bukoba, supporting the use of libraries
and learning resources. TDT project
officers will be visiting the four schools
in October 2013. The continuing
advice and support from Josiah
Karwihula and local TDT representative
Elias Mashasi is much appreciated.
(4) KAGERA REGION: THE IKIMBA GROUP- RUBALE SECONDARY - £3,924
(but funding will be accounted in the 2013-14 year)
Rubale was not included in the first year of funding, but as it is between the other
schools, the District Education Office requested its inclusion. TDT has therefore
provided a grant to enable Rubale to be school to “catch up” in its resource
provision to the same level as the other three schools. Rubale has close to 500
pupils in Forms 1-4.
Pupils at Tunamkumbuka Secondary School
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(5) KAGERA REGION: KIBETA SECONDARY SCHOOL -£3,485
Kibeta is a new Community Secondary
School on the outskirts of Bukoba,
founded in 2010. The school has
benefited from strong leadership and
management and has better buildings
than many new schools in more rural
areas. In 2011, working with READ
International, TDT paid for a Library to
be fitted out at Kibeta and this is well
used. It was very encouraging in
January 2013 to see the pupils’ work well displayed. The Kibeta library is being
used as a model for those to be constructed in the Ikimba Group. This grant
provided textbooks, science equipment, sports equipment and a computer and
printer.
(6) KAGERA REGION: KIBOJU VILLAGE WATER SUPPLY- £6,722
Kiboju village sits on a limestone
escarpment, about 50km north of
Bukoba. The problem for the 1700
villagers is that the limestone is
extremely porous so that water from
the rains rapidly drains through the
rock and out to springs far below
before reaching the flood plain.
Currently the villagers trudge several
times a day up and down an ankle-
turning steep path carrying heavy
water buckets with 20 or more litres of water on their heads. A village committee
headed by a local teacher applied to us for a grant for a borehole. Julian and Ann
Marcus visited in January with Kagera Local Representative, Elias Mashasi, and the
steep climb down and up was enough to convince them of the villagers’ case! After
a careful survey was completed, TDT has approved payment of a borehole which
will provide safe and healthy water for the village community and save them,
especially the women, hours of back breaking up and down climbing and carrying
of water.
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(7) KAGERA REGION: KIKUKWE
DISPENSARY - £3,456 (With
special thanks to Seaford
Rotary Club and Mrs Margaret
Noble and anonymous donors)
Kikukwe Dispensary is one of
TDT’s most long standing projects
in association with the Kikukwe
Community Development
Initiative (KCDI). KCDI has worked
hard to provide medical facilities
in this remote part of Kagera region, close to the Uganda border. The last TDT visit
was in 2011 and it was disturbing to find this year that the Dispensary still had no
electricity, nor water supply. Because there was no fridge to store vaccines, the
Dispensary nurse was not permitted to give vital immunisations to the children.
We are there very grateful to donors who have combined with TDT to enable the
connection to the local TANESCO mains electricity and for the installation of a
water harvesting system. When the work is complete, the Dispensary should be in
full operation and children now not being immunised will be protected - put quite
simply, lives will be saved.
(8) KAGERA REGION: MULEBA SCHOOLS SOLAR POWER- £8,383
Kibanga and Bulyakashaju are two very rural Community Secondary Schools with
no prospect of ever being connected to TANESCO’s national grid. A Muleba based
NGO, KADETA, the Kagera Development and Training Association applied to TDT
for funds to fit both schools with extensive solar power installations, sufficient that
they would not only be able to light classrooms and power a laboratory, but also
to be able to run a suite of computers. Funding for these has been promised by
Muleba District Council. Almost all the children
who attend the schools come from a very poor
area where no homes have any electric lighting,
and solar power will enable the schools to
provide facilities for pupils to do homework at
school and for the schools to run catch-up and
revision classes as exams approach. At the time
of writing, the installation is complete at
Kibanga school and under way at Bulyakashaju.
First computer at Kibanga
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(9) KAGERA REGION (now GEITA
REGION): ZAKIA MEGHIG SCHOOL
GIRLS’ DORMITORY - £3,020
Zakia Meghig is a mixed Government
Secondary School founded in 2003. Girls
travel up to 8km to get to the school.
The grant will be used to complete the
construction of one dormitory with solar
lighting for 120 girls, 8 of whom have
disabilities, who attend the school. Local contributions and community manpower
will supply and build 4 toilets for this dormitory. The dormitory will allow girls to
attend school on a regular basis, ensure their safety and promote the opportunity
for academic achievement. The Project, previously funded by the Sylvia Adams
Trust and TDT progressed well, but after Chato District was moved to Geita, new
building regulations were imposed which changed the design and severe rains also
hampered construction.
(10) KIGOMA REGION: MWAMGONGO and SUNUKA DISPENSARIES SOLAR
POWER - £6,540
Mwamgongo, a village of 8000 inhabitants on the shore of Lake Tanganyika is
north of Kigoma at the border of Gombe National Park, famed for the chimpanzee
studies of the Jane Goodall Institute. The small health centre offers maternity and
first level health intervention to this remote rural fishing community. The
Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (FPA) NGO in Kigoma, approved by TDT local
representative Evelyn Leonard, applied for funding for solar power to provide
lighting for night time maternity services, electric refrigeration for vaccines and
charging facilities for portable medical equipment. A medical officer was quoted as
saying, “Faced with a labour case at night, we sometimes had to use the light
from our cell phones which was not adequate for such procedures due to lack of
electricity , therefore solar electricity is needed”
Completion of the project was efficiently managed by FPA and Evelyn Leonard
made a monitoring visit by boat to confirm that all the lighting was working.
The second project (also £3,250) by FPA for solar power at the equally remote
Sunuka village, population 5,734, situated just south of the delta of the Malagarasi
River, about 120 km south of Kigoma was also completed during the preparation
of this report.
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Village leaders, medical staff and community members of Sunuka took part in the
hand-over ceremony. Unlike development projects here in the UK, to a small very
remote rural community this is such a life changing improvement to their basic
health facilities that they celebrate in true Tanzanian fashion.
(11) KIGOMA REGION: FOUNDATION
FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SERVICES
- £2,520
The Foundation is a community based
organisation working in the health sector
in Kigoma and the surrounding rural areas.
There is a high rate of infant mortality here
as many women prefer to have their
babies at home attended by untrained
midwives. The foundation requested funds
to purchase ward beds and maternity beds to enable planned deliveries to take
place at local dispensaries. On receipt of the funds, beds were purchased from
Morogoro, a considerable journey from Kigoma, and have now been distributed to
dispensaries in the villages surrounding Kigoma.
(12) KIGOMA REGION: KASIMBU SECONDARY
SCHOOL (£2,020)
Kasimbu Secondary School is a community school
based in the village of Ujiji, close to Kigoma. The school
has next to no textbooks, thus the very poor exam
results came as no surprise. The grant should enable a
broad selection of books to be available, thus giving
the students a better chance of learning and
encouraging school attendance. A first report on the project has been received
and handover of the books is expected in August 2013.
(13) KIGOMA REGION: KASULU YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (KAYD) [with
grateful thanks for funding from the Anonymous Trust]- £3,933
KAYD has successfully completed the first six month training course at this new
Vocational Training Centre, despite lower enrolment numbers than was hoped for.
Staff and committee are extremely committed to this project being a success, and
have sent us regular reports of their progress.
Students trained in practical skills have included male, female & disabled.
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Thanks to the Anonymous Trust last year,
and recently £800 from TDT, the
workshops have been finished, and
equipment bought for their training
courses in metal work, carpentry, and
tailoring.
Their long term plan is to build a hostel, to
accommodate those rural students who
live far from the centre, and who cannot
afford to rent rooms in the local town of
Makere. Both Julian Marcus, and Evelyn Leonard our local representative, have
made visits to this very worthwhile local initiative.
(14) KIGOMA REGION: KIBIRIZI WOMEN’S TAILORING PROJECT - £2,690
YAAPA (Youth Against Aids and Poverty
Association), is a non-profit membership
organisation, registered in Ujiji, set up to
empower women and girls at grass root level.
Our grant is to purchase equipment and
materials to train 120 women and mature
girls (impacted by HIV/AIDS, divorced
mothers, pregnant girls that have been victim
of rape/ sexual violence) in tailoring, weaving
and knitting skills in order to secure their livelihood. The beneficiaries will be
from nearby village, Kibirizi, in the ward of Gungu situated along the shores of
Lake Tanganyika. The training will last 12 months.
(15) KIGOMA REGION: HELEMBE SECONDARY SCHOOL - £2,020
Helembe Secondary School is in Sunuka, far south of Kigoma, on Lake Tanganyika.
We received an application from an NGO with which TDT had satisfactory dealings
in the past, although this project for much needed school desks was sponsored by
the local Sunuka branch, whereas our previous dealings were with the NGO
headquarters. When we received the first stage project report it included a
number of forged documents. Then we heard from the Headteacher that no desks
had been received by the school. The second stage payment was not made, and
investigations through the District authorities, and by our local representative,
have yet to recover the first stage payment. These investigations are hampered by
the remoteness of Helembe and Sunuka, where there is no mobile phone signal.
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(16) KIGOMA REGION: RUSHOKO DEVELOPMENT SOLAR PANELS - £3,020
Rushoko Development Foundation (‘RDF’) was granted
£3,000 to install solar panels on a rural dispensary in the
village of Kidahwe, in rural Kigoma. The lack of electricity
was proving a severe handicap to providing proper
maternity care to mothers during childbirth as well as
other medical care. The solar panels will also enable the
refrigeration of medicines. After some communication
difficulties with RDF, we have independent verification
that the panels have been installed and thus the project
has been completed.
(17) KIGOMA REGION: SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GROUP,
TREATED BED-NETS - £1,520
SEDG is an NGO based in Kigoma town, but
operating in surrounding rural villages where
there are currently no programmes run by the
Government or major aid agencies to provide
insecticide treated anti-malaria bed-nets. 50,000
children in Tanzania die each year from malaria.
The bed-nets were distributed as planned and
very grateful thanks came from the village
chairmen where families had benefited.
(18) MARA REGION: MATONGO DISPENSARY WATER SUPPLY HYDRAULIC
SURVEY - £900
Matongo in Butiama District is
described by its Councillor Masero
as ‘the forgotten valley’. Lying
around 40km from the nearest
tarred road, it is accessed only by a
narrow track. Yet in this broad valley
are scattered hamlets with a total
population of around 10,000. There
are no medical facilities at all, and
pregnant mothers have to climb the surrounding high hills to reach an ante-natal
clinic 15km away. It has long been the dream of the community to have their own
Dispensary and when Julian and Ann Marcus visited in January for the inauguration
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of the project they witnessed the commitment of the local people who have made
30,000 bricks, gone 50 trips to collect sand and stones, and acquired 100 bags of
cement. There is no safe source of water and so TDT’s commitment is to help
provide this. In this year we have paid for a professional hydraulic survey and we
are most grateful to the Anonymous Trust which has provided funding so that a
bore hole and pump can be provided. The clean water will contribute greatly to
community health.
(19) MWANZA REGION: HURUMIA WATOTO TOOLS SHIPMENT- £170 Although we now do not normally fund projects in Mwanza region, which is not
one of Tanzania’s poorest, an exception was made to allow the Hurumia Watoto
Group, whom we have previously funded, to pay for the shipment of computers
and a knitting machine from Tools with a Mission, based in Ipswich.
(20) RUKWA REGION: MKOLE PRIMARY SCHOOL –
SOLAR PANELS - £2,632 (with special thanks to
International Monetary Fund staff, TRR and two BTS
members
Mkole Primary, with nearly 450 children, is in the remote
and poor Nkasi district of Rukwa region 500km from
Mbeya. Lack of electricity is a particular problem for the
standard six and seven pupils studying for final year
exams. The Headteacher was keen to get pupils staying at
school in the early evening to do their homework in a calm
and disciplined environment. Three solar panels were
installed by Village Power, which has a workshop in Sumbawanga. The system is
now operating effectively providing electricity to the admin block and 4 classrooms
at the school, and the pupils are using the facility after dark.
This project was a good example of TDT co-ordinating the work of different
agencies and donors. Total project spend was £4237; TDT's contribution of £2632
was funded by Mrs Margaret Hyatt and private donors working at the IMF
(£2,067– part to this project, part to others), the balance coming from BTS
member Anne Monheim and Tanzania Rural Revival.
(21) RUKWA REGION: RUKWA ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION SOCIETY
(RECOSO) - £2,420
Recoso is based in Sumbawanga and working with villagers in Matai ward 50km
south west of Sumbawanga. This is the second grant made to Recoso and the
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current grant has been used to re-establish a
central tree nursery in Matai village. Most of
the grant has been spent on seeds and
polythene tubing used for planting the
seedlings. Other expenditure has been for
transport of the seeds and tubing, watering
cans and pesticides.
The project officer visited the site in June and
saw well established plants including a wide
variety of trees as well as grasses used for combating soil erosion around new road
works. From October to December this year villagers will come to the nursery to
collect trees for planting around their homes. The trees will eventually be used for
firewood and building materials. In addition the project will sell trees to various
institutions – Catholic churches, secondary schools, and the District Council.
22) SHINYANGA REGION: EBENEZA GROUP - £4,040
Ebeneza is a community based organisation focused on orphans, women and
people living with HIV/aids. They support 86 orphans and vulnerable children of
whom 37 attend the nursery centre which Ebeneza runs. 39 children attend
primary school and 6 secondary school. They used the grant to build a cow and
calf shed, milking parlour and poultry houses. Later they purchased 2 cattle, 310
chicks, chicken feed, veterinary drugs, and 2 acres of land for pasture. A visit by
our local representative in May 2013 witnessed the buildings in use and saw the
cows and chicks. He also visited the
pasture land.
The income from the sale of milk and
eggs is used to fund the work of the
organisation, including the nursery.
The income also helps support to the
orphans at school – uniforms, school
fees etc.
(23) SHINYANGA REGION- KAHAMA EDUCATION: £2,064
BTS members may remember that we reported enthusiastically about this
Vocational Training Project in the 2011-12 report and quoted one young man’s
story of how he had been helped to gain employment. The Director of the centre,
Benson Mganga, applied to TDT for assistance with purchasing and transporting
materials from Dar es Salaam so that a dormitory could be built. It was a huge
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shock to Julian and Ann Marcus on visiting Kahama to discover that the whole
vocational training centre was bogus and that TDT had been taken in by an
ingenious and carefully constructed fraud which entailed the forgery of many
receipts, this photo and even a letter from an Archbishop. Thanks to the initiative
of TDT’s representative in Tabora and
Shinyanga, Adriano Kalisti and the co-
operation of the District Commissioner and
police, Benson Mganga and his wife were
arrested and the legal process is now
underway whereby his assets can be
sequestered by the Court and sold to
provide repayment to TDT. Our procedures
have been greatly strengthened to prevent
any similar loss in future.
(24) TABORA REGION: CHRISTIAN YOUTH
ORGANISATION- £120
The Christian Youth Organisation, which, despite
its name serves the whole community irrespective
of religious affiliation, was our partner last year in
an excellent project to provide goats to strengthen
the nutrition and income of very poor families.
The Director, Adriano Kalisti, who is also our
representative in Tabora and Shinyanga asked for an additional lap-top to improve
the efficiency of administration and we were happy to provide one with help from
Computers4Africa.
(25) TABORA REGION: FADICE for
LWANZARI & KARIAKOO
SECONDARY SCHOOLS - £6,715
A local NGO in Tabora (Fair Education &
Information Centre – FADICE) made an
application on behalf of these two
secondary schools, and proved a reliable
and effective partner. The application
was to raise the ratio of textbooks to
pupils in each subject in each school
year to 1:4. Prior to this, the ratio in some subjects was so large that effectively
pupils had no access to textbooks. FADICE recognised that provision of textbooks
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alone was not enough – they instituted a library system in each school, organised
seminars for staff to embed the system, explained the system to the pupils and
ensured that all the books were stamped as school property. The project was
delivered effectively and FADICE have promised to monitor the system in the
coming months, which should provide valuable learning for TDT in the
implementation of similar projects.
(26) TABORA REGION: SEMEMBELA SCHOOL GIRLS’ DORMITORY – £3,000
The Friends of Urambo and
Mwanhala (FUM) -
Semembela is a remote village in the
Nzega District of Tabora
Region. During the rainy season it is
often completely cut off from the
outside world as the dirt roads become
impassable. The furthest satellite
villages are too far from Semembele to
enable children to attend daily. The
boys stay in the school itself but a dormitory block is needed to house the girls.
Phase two of the project is coming to an end and will provide a good quality
building with sleeping places for 48 students, bathrooms, toilets and a laundry
facility as well as a communal entrance hall. The walls are complete, the roof is on
and blocks are ready on site to close the gap between walls and roof. Sand, ballast
and cement is on site for the laying of the floor and ceilings doors and windows are
soon to be fitted.
(27) TABORA REGION: TABORA ALBINO SOCIETY - £2,520
This project targeted disadvantaged albino women in 5 rural districts. Those
selected were to be given dairy cattle to provide a source of improved nutrition for
their families and an income from sales of excess milk. A ‘pass on’ system of the
first heifer calf would have sustained the project and assisted more women as the
project progressed. The package included training in livestock husbandry, building
shade houses for the cows and support through the district livestock office.
This project failed due to the chairman of the Tabora Albino Society absconding
with the initial tranche of TDT funding. There had been no reason to suspect this
might occur. He is yet to be prosecuted for the embezzlement.
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Despite rigorous efforts to track the Chairman, and involvement with the National
Albino Society of Tanzania, there has been no success in retrieving the funds.
(28) TABORA REGION: GOODNESS ORGANISATION - £3,750 (With grateful
thanks to the Just Trust for supporting this project in full) Goodness Organisation is a Community Based Organisation set up to help
widowed, separated and divorced women,
many of whom are destitute. The purpose of
this project is to train and equip a group of 50
women to be bee-keepers in order to enhance
their incomes and to provide a source of
nutrition for their families. Tabora Region is
well-known for honey production and there is a
great deal of local expertise which has been
available to help the women set up their
project. In phase one they commissioned 50
hives from local carpenters (thus creating
employment) and in phase two the hives have
been transferred to a rural location. The women have received the necessary
training and now have protective clothing and other necessary equipment. The
hives should produce their first honey in October 2013.
(29) TANGA REGION: DUGA OLD PEOPLE’S HOME – KITCHEN STOVES -
£2200 (with grateful thanks to Ruth Edwards for her donation of £800
from the sale of her pictures)
Duga is an Old persons Home just south of Tanga town, run by the local District
Council. In 2012 TDT gave a grant of £10400 which was used for the repair of the
dining room and renovation of the kitchen.
During a visit by a project officer
in September 2012 it was
noticed that the newly
renovated kitchen was being
spoiled by smoke emission from
the old stoves that had not been
replaced when the renovation
took place.
The second grant was made to
enable the purchase and
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installation of 2 new large catering stoves supplied by an engineering firm in
Korogwe. The new wood fired stoves have an outer casing to provide heat
insulation, new sealed smoke outlets and stainless steel cooking pots – 1 of 40
litres capacity and 1 of 60 litres. The wall is going to be repainted!
(30) TANGA REGION: MEDICAL
ELECTIVE PLACEMENT - TUELE
HOSPITAL, MUHEZA - £750
Two University of Cambridge School
of Clinical Medicine students, Amy
Puttick and Clare Anderson, applied
for funding towards their elective
placement to purchase medical
items. The total grant of £750 was
spent as follows: 12 boxes of 50
Glucose Stix, (very small
consumable items, which are essential for the use of reusable electronic blood
sugar monitors already in use by the hospital), 4 Pulse Oximeters, 2 spare neonatal
probe, 2 spare adult probes. The equipment was purchased from Lifebox, a not-
for-profit organization, which is saving lives by improving the safety and quality of
surgical care in low-resource countries. Although the hospital is not in a priority
region the application was viewed by the committee as a VSO type placement and
fitted the criteria for such an application. TDT looks forward to receiving reports
from Amy and Clare on their elective during July – September.
(31) VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS (VSO) SMALL GRANTS SCHEME -
£6,000 [TDT thanks Graham Child for his generous donation from his
family trust of £2,000 for four VSO small grants]. TDT has continued its highly successful VSO Small Grants Scheme during 2012 –
2013.
A further fourteen volunteers received small grants ranging from Tshs 550,000 to
the maximum of Tshs 1,250,000. ( About £480) As last year the applications and
outcomes have been varied and successful for the volunteers and their local
communities. They show the creative possibilities of utilising a volunteer small
grant in providing support and strategies for communities to work towards a more
sustainable income generation and safer and more healthy life opportunities.
They have also enabled volunteers to receive a financial “kick start” for their
projects which may have not otherwise been available in the form of small pieces
of equipment and other resources. Applications have continued to be received
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from volunteers from the UK and National Volunteers from other countries. A
condition of the grants is that the volunteer must send in a report and
photographs for publication on the TDT web site and Facebook. Interested readers
may find there many examples of the amazing work being carried out in volunteer
projects.
www.tanzdevtrust.org and https://www.facebook.com/tanzdevtrust
SMALL GRANTS
Diana Hernandez, Zanzibar: English methodology adviser, training teachers for the
new English curriculum at Kiembesamaki Teachers’ Centre
Adrian Strain, Mtwara: English adviser, developing speaking and listening skills in
English for teachers and student teachers at Mtwara TTC.
Kelly Atkins, Zanzibar: Pro poor tourism adviser, supporting small business
marketing for tourism and improving income in disadvantaged communities.
James Davies, Lindi: Hospital Laboratory trainer and adviser: St Walburg’s
Hospital, Nyango. Outreach programme for HIV testing and counselling to rural
villages and hospital service
information to encourage
early diagnosis and treatment.
Steven Barevuga, Zanzibar:
Small and medium business
enterprise adviser supporting
farmers /small holders to
develop marketing strategies.
Annastacia Mutiso,
Mpwapwa, Dodoma:
Capacity building for farmers,
especially women in bee
keeping, honey harvesting and
marketing.
Michael Padden, Mtwara: Vocational training adviser in health and safety
practices in carpentry.
Kayley Arthington, Mtwara: Vocational training adviser in health and safety
practices in electrical maintenance.
Claude Reysenn, Mtwara: Vocational training adviser in health and safety
practices in food preparation.
James Davies and colleague from St
Walburg’s hospital
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Paul Burbridge, Mtwara: Vocational training adviser in health and safety practices
in welding and fabrication.
Khalfan Gajian, Dodoma: Adviser in management capacity building and
organisational management training.
Barbara Forbes, Kagera: Livestock and agribusiness adviser, increasing income
through use of building resources.
Susan Taylor, Manyara: Teacher adviser for English, improving English in primary
schools through development of reading cards and teacher workshops.
James Taylor, Manyara: Teacher adviser for English, improving English in primary
schools through development of reading cards and teacher workshops.
CONCLUSION
Another sometimes difficult, but mostly very successful year in the life of
our charity has depended on the contributions of very many people. I have
already mentioned the team of Local Representatives, Adriano,Danny,
Elias, Evelyn, and Rhobi whose service to TDT has been outstanding,
sometimes in testing circumstances. All the Vice-Chairs have shown great
commitment and a particularly heavy burden fell on David Ackland and
From Monica Chalawe, Head of Laboratory, St Walburg’s hospital:
“I have to thank the donors who donated some funds to enable us to conduct Outreach. It has helped in different ways, for instance to give education to the people to live safely from getting HIV and for those affected to show the way of getting ARV <Anti retroviral drugs> by referring to CTC centres. Also the outreach exercise helped to build a good relationship with the surrounding villagers. Thank you a lot to TDT donors.
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Jonathan Pace when I was away visiting projects in Tanzania. Robert Gibson has
continued his dual role of managing our finances with great accuracy and care
and maintaining our website and Facebook page. A priority for this year must
be to relieve him of that additional responsibility - it is an unfair burden. Rachel
Lindley has reduced lengthy discussions to concise and purposeful Minutes - a
great art. All deserve many thanks from our members.
We are very thankful, of course, to members who support us and individuals
who have donated including David Ackland, Graham Child, Barbara Edmondson,
Ruth Edwards, Pat Hudis, Margaret Hyatt, a group of IMF staff, Tom Kirsch, Mick
Miller, Anne Monheim, Margaret Noble and JS and M Read. We have also had
some champion fund-raisers who have run or climbed for us and these include
Rachel Lindley, Dan Cook, Sasha Cook and Sophie Stainer. Generous support
has come from All Saints Church, Sanderstead, the Anonymous Trust, the David
Anderson Africa Trust, the Hilden Charitable Foundation - our most long-
standing partner, the Just Trust
and Seaford Rotary Club, and a
BTS member who makes a very
large annual donation. Much of
what we have achieved has been
because of a generous legacy
received from the late Christine
Lawrence one of the most faithful
members of the Britain-Tanzania
Society. I was very glad in the
tour of 27 projects my wife Ann
and I made in January to present
several with plaques recording the fact their funding came from the bequest of
Bibi Christine who loved their country so deeply. We have heard recently of
another very generous bequest from the late Ian
Gibson, the brother of our Treasurer. This makes
Robert’s words on page 6 all the more poignant and
relevant. Finally, on a cheerful note, many
congratulations go to former BTS Chairs, Ron and Liz
Fennell on their MBEs - a little acknowledgement of
their lives of service to others.
Ian Gibson Christine Lawrence
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Julian Marcus
Chairman, on behalf of the Trustees (Andrew Coulson, David Gibbons, Robert Gibson,
Trevor Jaggar, Tony Janes and Julian Marcus)
TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT TRUST: STATEMENT OF INCOME 2012-2013
2011-12 2012-13 INCOME – UNRESTRICTED
£ £
27,054 Members Donations & fundraising 26,870
1,189 Legacy Income & In Memoriam Donations 56,565
44 Interest received 49
10,565 Recoverable Tax - General Income 4,030
1,655 Sales of Christmas Cards 1,608
476 Other sales 291
5,757 JustGiving.com - Members' Fund Raising & Donations 2,171
Recovered from uncompleted project 443
46,740 TOTAL UNRESTRICTED INCOME 92,026
2011-12 INCOME – RESTRICTED (includes Gift Aid restricted to each project) 2012-13
£ £
460 Langiro School, Songea
13,500 HCF: Ikimba Group Secondary Education Cluster
7,550 Duga Old People's Home 925
1,596 Kividea Children's Playground
4,000 Just Trust: Kividea Youth Centre
1,650 HCF: Kividea Catering Course
4,120 HCF: KIOO Vocational Training Centre
2,000 Kabingo Primary School (Food For Thought)
1,460 Kikukwe Secondary School (Food For Thought)
2,240 Isunta Primary School
3,275 Sylvia Adams Trust: Zakia Meghig Secondary School
500 Matongo Dispensary (2013 Anon Trust) 10,000
6,515 Anon Trust: Kasulu Youth Development
3,485 Anon Trust: Basanza Dispensary Well
4,000 Ashworth Trust: Mwabagole Primary School
4,000 Just Trust: Goodness Organisation
800 Mkole Primary School (Mrs M Hyatt) 200
Kikukwe Dispensary - various donors 1,709
TDT VSO Small Grants Scheme (G Child, D Ackland) 2,518
Mkole Primary School (IMF donors) 1,633
BLEMA Initiative (Sanderstead All Saints Church) 1,000
NyaGro Poultry Project (D Cook) 1,172
11,818 Lake Victoria Disability Centre, Musoma 3,890
10,826 Emusoi Centre, Arusha 11,764
3,100 Roy Medcalf: Kiviwama 3,870
9 Just Giving Ring-fenced fundraising
22,500 William's House: W Costaschuk 41,950
Ndanda Hands' 1,911
Christina Everett for A Makalla 2,760
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Peter Bacon for ACTT 2,119
1,649 BTS Zanzibar Ferry Appeal 548
111,054 TOTAL RESTRICTED INCOME 87,967
157,793 TOTAL INCOME 179,994
2011-12 2012-13
£ EXPENDITURE £
300 Jifunzeni in Social Services Promotion, Mbeya region
2,840 Nusuru Yatima Orphanage, Kagera
3,828 Langiro School, Songea
2,524 Hurumia Watoto 172
2,520 VSO Volunteer link & support
7,358 VSO small grants scheme 6,577
10,424 Duga Old People's Home 2,220
1,395 Kikukwe-KCDI Omurushenye Primary School
5,080 Kahama Education Centre
4,020 Kividea Youth Centre
1,632 Kividea Children's Playground
1,670 Kividea Catering Course
7,570 Lake Tanganyika Primary School
3,520 Mang'ula Sustainable Development
1,200 Kwa Mkono Polio Hostel
820 Kikuwe-KCDI Mango Cultivation Project
3,165 Igoma Secondary School
6,920 Fundo Fisheries
4,020 Ng'ambwa Primary School
4,045 Sambala Primary School
2,220 Mkata Mashariki Poultry Project
110 Tumaini Women's Group
5,020 Ifwagi Secondary School
2,020 Kabingo Primary School
1,520 HEPO/ Namanditi Deaf Pupils
2,520 Christian Youth Network
2,020 Bigabiro Primary School
2,020 Kambarage Primary School
1,020 Kitala Secondary School
2,020 Luiche Primary School
6,572 Zakia Meghig Secondary School 3,020
1,312 Kiembesamaki Teachers Centre
16,620 Ikimba Secondary School Group, Kagera
6,860 KIOO NGO, Ilagala
1,460 Kikukwe Secondary School
3,505 Basanza Dispensary Well
3,213 Kasulu Youth Development
2,452 Isunta Primary School
2,020 Youth Training Organisation
820 Kizumbi Primary School
1,870 Green Global Promotion
4,020 Mwabagole Primary School
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Hassan Majaar Trust 1,020
Kasheshe Fish Farm Karagwe 3,488
Kibeta Secondary School 3,485
Kiboju Village Water Supply 6,722
Kikukwe Dispensary 3,456
Muleba Schools Solar Power 8,383
Mwamgongo and Sunuka Dispensaries Solar Power 6,540
Foundation for Social and Economic Services 2,520
Kasimbu Secondary School 2,020
Kasulu Youth Development 4,172
Kibirizi Women's Tailoring Project 2,690
Helembe Secondary School Desks 2,020
Rushoko Development Solar Panels 3,020
Social & Economic Development Group ( Bed-nets) 1,520
Matongo Dispensary Water Supply Survey 900
Mkole Primary School 2,632
Recoso Tree Nursery (Rukwa Environmental Conservation) 2,420
Ebeneza Group 4,040
Kahama Education 2,064
Christian Youth Organisation 120
FADICE 6,715
Semembele School (Friends of Urambo and Mwanhala) 3,000
Goodness Organisation 3,850
Medical Placement, Tuele Hospital, Muheza 751
Tabora Albino Society 2,520
Local reps' expenses, unassigned to specific project 1,334
Loss to criminals purporting by fraud to be Kibeta Secondary School 3,935
31,982 Lake Victoria Disability Centre, Musoma 5,791
13,143 Emusoi Centre, Arusha 11,296
21,100 William’s House: W Costaschuk 51,860
Christina Everett for A Makallah 2,723
Peter Bacon for ACTT 2,251
BTS Zanzibar Ferry Appeal 2,196
2,795 Kiviwama (Roy Medcalf) 3,055
215,085 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 176,495
TANZANIA DEVELOPMENT TRUST: STATEMENT OF ASSETS
June 30th 2012 June 30th 2013
£ ASSETS £
33,600 Cash at bank 35,433
Held by BTS (Tanzania) on behalf of TDT 1,665
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33,600 NET ASSETS AT 30 JUNE 2013 37,098
Representing:
90,891 Funds Balance at 1st July 2012 33,600
-57,291 Plus Net Flow of Funds 3,498
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33,600 37,098
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Analysed as:
Unrestricted:
7,051 General Purposes 6,776
Restricted:
NyaGro Poultry Project (Dan Cook) 1,172
Ikimba Secondary Schools Cluster 8,004
Muleba Schools Solar Power 2,801
559 Matongo Dispensary 10,000
3,302 Kasulu Youth Development 51
BLEMA Initiative 1,000
4,000 Goodness Organisation
800 Mkole Primary School
361 Dogodogo Children's Centre, DSM 361
33 Buigiri Adult Blind Rehabilitation Centre
200 Cheju Marine Secondary School, Zanzibar
3,691 Lake Victoria Disability Centre, Musoma 1,790
134 Emusoi Centre, Arusha 603
305 Kiviwama (Roy Medcalf) 1,120
11,369 William’s House: W Costaschuk 1,458
Ndanda Hands 1,911
Christina Everett for A Makalla 37
1,649 BTS Zanzibar Ferry Appeal
Just Giving Fundraisings:
74 Lena Papadoulos 74
Peter Bacon -132
73 Hazel Geatches (Sichildren) 73
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33,600 Balance at 30 June 2013 37,098
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE
I certify that the Income and Expenditure Account for the year ended 30
June 2013 and the Balance Sheet at that date are in accordance with the
books of account of the Trust, that the operations recorded therein comply
with the terms of the Trust Deed, and that I have received all the
information and explanations I required.
Signed
27th August 2013
TDT’s ASSISTANCE TO PRIVATE DONORS TO PROJECTS IN TANZANIA
For private donors’ projects, in 2012-13 TDT received £68,264 and transmitted £76,975
(including some funds raised in 2011-12).