Report and financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2012

July 2013

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Index

LetteR fRom the boaRd..................... 3

the numbeRS – SInce 2008.................. 4

Go heLP – Who We aRe...................... 5

chaRIty RaLLIeS – What We do.............. 6

ouR added VaLue........................... 7

ouR actIVItIeS ........................... 8

ouR VoLunteeR PLacementS................. 14

ouR SucceSS.............................. 15

LookInG ahead............................ 17

ouR PaRtneRS............................. 18

ouR PeoPLe............................... 19

Go heLP fundInG SouRceS.................. 21

StRuctuRe, GoVeRnance and manaGement..... 22

fInancIaL ReVIeW......................... 23

aPPendIx a............................... 25

aPPendIx b............................... 26

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charity Ralliers, It has been yet another fantastic year for Go Help and its fundraising arm: Charity Rallies. We have seen more teams drive more vehicles, raise more money, and help more people than ever before. The huge increase in our numbers on social media, interest in our website, and addition of several volunteers to our team, not to mention the fantastic ralliers who have participated in the events this year and the money they have raised, have gone a long way to making this one of our best years to date.

Our established office in Mongolia has seen the success of new and existing projects reaching out to more and more people in and around Ulaanbaatar. This success has also paved the way for the creation of an outlet in Tajikistan to increase our presence and opportunities in the country.

These two main fundraising events, the Mongolia Charity Rally and the Roof of the World Charity Rally, have grown in recognition, and the enthusiasm we have seen for our projects has prompted us to widen our net and look further afield for opportunities to help those in need. Following the test-run of two ambulances driven from San Diego to Honduras at the end of 2011, we have spent much of the past year doing the necessary research and building the relationships that will hopefully allow us to offer this third adventure fundraising event to our ralliers come summer 2014.

So, as the reporting year draws to a close, it is that time once again for us to send out a huge thank you to all the people who make it possible for us to do what we do. First and foremost, our thanks go out to those brave ralliers who have dedicated not only time, but money, vehicles and supplies, not to mention effort, sweat and tears to our projects. The vehicles and fundraising donated find great homes, help countless people, and go a long way to bettering lives.

Thank you too, to our volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise to helping us deliver the events that our ralliers love. Thank you to our staff in Mongolia and Tajikistan, the former ralliers who run the show, and the future ralliers who take interest in what we do; and of course our partners and sponsors who do everything they can to help. And finally thank you to the royal Parks for giving our teams the send-off they deserve.

We hope that next year will be as, if not more, successful than the last.

David Griffiths on behalf of the Board of Trustees

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the numbeRS – SInce 2008

270teams

Over

8,000 patients helped

through ambulance

donations

Over

2,700,000

miles driven

That means 270+ vehicles, carrying 1000+ people, have driven a total of over 2,700,000 miles, over the course of 5 years, raising an incredible £400,000, and counting, through Go Help.

Of those 270+ teams, just under 750 people have taken the leap and driven the Mongolia Charity Rally, braving the 10,000 mile arduous journey to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, donating 240 vehicles, and raising a whopping £387,000 for projects in Mongolia.

22,459Twitter

followers

Over

£400,000 raised11,148

Facebook

‘likes’ 1,287Facebook‘friends’

3rally events

Over

1000 participating

ralliers

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Go heLP – Who We aReThe Board of Trustees of Go Help presents their report and Go Help’s financial statements for the period ended 30 September 2012.

Go Help is a UK adventure charity that is committed to working with local communities in Central Asia and Central America to improve their access to education and healthcare services. It is run by volunteers, and begun as an effort to launch and operate ambulance services in third world countries. The cause is now much broader and we endeavour to help local organisations in any way we can.

Our charitable activities are largely in the fields of Healthcare and Education.

Go help’s core objectives include:• Toenableaccesstoprimaryhealthcarethroughtheprovision,distributionandmaintenanceofemergency

vehicles;

•Tofosterlocaltalent,throughprovidingscholarshipsandemploymentopportunitiesforyoungpeople;

•Tosupporteducationprojectswhichprovideopportunitiesforliteracyandself-improvement;and

•Tofacilitatetheplacementofskilledhealthandeducationvolunteerswiththeaimofenhancingthecapacity of local communities.

Go Help is staffed almost solely by volunteers and most are past ralliers. As part of Go Help, enterprising ralliers have pioneered and trialed a number of other projects in recent years, including an ambulance to Nepal and tuk-tuks through the Cambodian jungles. There are always new and great ideas in the pipeline.

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chaRIty RaLLIeS – What We doCharity Rallies is the fundraising arm of Go Help. Under this umbrella, Go Help currently runs three rallies: the Mongolia Charity Rally, from London to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; the Roof of the World Charity Rally, from London to Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and the MesoAmerica Charity Rally from San Diego to Siguatepeque, Honduras. Each of these works with different projects in the destination country, all within the fields of healthcare and education.

Go Help’s flagship Rally, the Mongolia Charity Rally has been running since 2007. With an established office in Ulaanbaatar, a dedicated team with contacts to the Mongolian Government, as well as a host of successful partnerships with local projects, the Mongolia Charity Rally pulls in over 50 teams a year. The Mongolia Charity Rally is an epic 10,000 mile pan-continental road trip for charity across mountain ranges, deserts, and more barren and inhospitable lands than you’d care to shake a gear stick at. It traditionally starts in London, though the starting point is entirely flexible, and ends in the ancient Mongol capital of Ulaanbaatar.

The Roof of the World Charity Rally was started by former ralliers who took part in the Mongolia Charity Rally several years before. Following their visit to Tajikistan and the realisation that the country is in need of help, Go Help assisted these volunteers in setting up the rally which treks some of the most dangerous high altitude roads in Asia. On the ground in Tajikistan Go Help employs a small office that helps the ralliers with vehicle donation, paperwork and general admin, as well as keeping up the relationships with our projects in the country.

The MesoAmerica Charity Rally, the newest of the Charity Rallies, ran a successful test run in 2011 that saw two U.S. ambulances donated to Siguatepeque and Comayagua in Honduras. These ambulances have since been put into active practice and have seen the fruits of the labour of the ralliers. The progress and use of the ambulances is regularly monitored by Go Help volunteers. The relationships built during this test run were positive and long-lasting, and this Rally will be opening to the public in the summer of 2014 running much-needed ambulances to Honduras’ second city.

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The Go Help fundraising platform is unique. Since its inception in 2007, Go Help’s fundraising arm, Charity Rallies, has strived to make all its adventure fundraising events as good as they can be. We have spent years building strong relationships both at home in the UK, and on the ground in Mongolia. Our dedicated office in Mongolia’s ancient capital of Ulaanbaatar is manned by a small but impressive team of locals who have the contacts, the know-how and the enthusiasm to help us and lead our partner projects.

Our efforts to work hand in hand with local partners has earned us a positive reputation with the Mongolian authorities with whom we have regular contact, to ensure that our endeavours always remain an asset and never become a hindrance. We have undertaken various analysis and research projects to help us determine the gaps that we can fill in Mongolia, and how best to go about this.

This reputation extends to our partnerships with established associations such as the London Ambulance Service and Save the Children. These relationships are important to us and we work hard to maintain them. Our personal attention to our teams, our cause and fundraising projects sets us apart from others. Keeping our rallies small we ensure a personal service, an ability to respond in person in a timely fashion and interact personally with the teams. We are also able to keep the Charity run by volunteers, allowing for our 100% donation to charitable causes.

Our volunteers have experience, drive, charisma, and have all completed at least one of our rally events themselves. We can thus all give advice from experience, understand what teams are going through, the complexities of taking part in an event such as this, and can help in the best way possible.

Go Help is always there to help both the participating teams and the volunteers who work so hard to keep Charity Rallies a growing success.

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ouR actIVItIeS Since Go Help opened its doors, we have worked hard to build on-going projects in Mongolia. Our flagship enterprise, the Ambulance Project, aims to facilitate the import of ambulances into the country. We also now run educational projects, including the Book Ger Project and the Mobile Library. The Book Ger Project aims to increase the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of the local children and also provides space for mothers and retired people to use for reading and socializing. Our Mobile Library takes this project on the road, ensuring that even children in the remotest areas have access to books.

Go Help’s projects aim to provide benefit and support to disadvantaged children in marginalised communities in Mongolia. The centers we have funded and continue to work with provide teaching, activities, educational materials and a welcoming space to learn.

Go Help projects are needed by the community. After a series of very severe winters (or dzuds) in Mongolia many traditionally nomadic families have found themselves forced to move into urban areas to find other work. In May 2010 the UN estimated that in one winter, around 17% of the entire country’s livestock perished, leaving thousands without any source of food or income. Consequently the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar has seen significant urban sprawl and poverty on an enormous scale. Unfortunately, many children do not have the relevant documentation required to enroll in state run schools, and many of the existing state school are not able to provide capacity to take in new children, many children and teenagers cannot access formal education. Go Help’s Book Ger Project is providing a crucial point of access to non-formal education and provides learning materials, learning activities and a safe environment for all children as well as provides a focal point for the community.

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the ambulance Project mongolia Through the Mongolia Charity Rally, Go Help has procured the donation of ambulances to hospitals, clinics and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working in Mongolia. Since the charity was founded, 22 ambulances have been donated to Go Help, which were then in turn either donated to hospitals, clinics and NGOs, or retained for use in charity projects.

Through its staff in Ulaanbaatar, Go Help works to better understand the shortfall in emergency vehicles in Mongolia, both through independent research and through contacts with the Mongolian Government.

The official figures provided to Go Help by the Mongolian government highlighted a shortfall of roughly 100 ambulances across the country. What this figure doesn’t take into account is the many vehicles already allocated to hospitals that are broken, old or lacking medical capabilities. The actual need is far greater than the figures indicate.

Since Go Help opened its doors and started facilitating the import of ambulances to Mongolia, a number of other organisations have approached the charity with the hope of obtaining an emergency vehicle.

to date:

Ambulance service

Preventive inspection

Immunization Pregnant, new born

visitsOther services

Total number of patients

Service area’s total population

2285 4235 204 99 676 8280 135766

the ambulance Project 2013: the future of the Project The leasing stage of the Ambulance Project started in March 2012 with five ambulances to be leased by June 2012 from Go Help’s inventory. After donating 22 ambulances over the years Go Help has encountered some of the pitfalls of full ambulance donations and our new leasing arrangement allows for a better opportunity to monitor, collect data, maintain and ensure appropriate usage of the ambulances we place. While the leasing of the ambulances to clinics, NGOs and hospitals is at no cost to the lessee, the on-going monitoring we undertake provides reassurance and incentives to the lessee to look after the ambulances that have been provided to them. In addition, Go Help is looking into the possibility of passing title of the leased ambulances to the lessee in future years if the leasing organisation provides a good track record or usage and care over the first year of the lease.

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the ambulance Project tajikistan The Ambulance Project in Tajikistan is a lot smaller in scale than the Mongolia operation. This is because the event through which donations occur has lower team numbers and also Go Help does not have an office in the country or the developed networks to facilitate potential placements.

Regardless of current limitations, Go Help has facilitated the donation of two ambulances over the last two years through partnering with a local British NGO called Sworde-Teppa, based in the southern city of Kurghan-Tyube. Sworde-Teppa has excellent contacts in the medical community and good knowledge of the medical facilities. It was through the partner charity that we initially assessed the need for ambulances in Kurghan-Tyube and found that in a city of approximately 80,000 people they had no medically equipped emergency vehicles and very much needed

one. Since then Go Help has arranged, via Sworde-Teppa and the teams themselves to donate two vehicles, one of which went to the maternity hospital in Kurghan-Tyube and one that went to the main city hospital.

Go Help received an anonymous grant from a charitable foundation in 2011 that allowed a research trip to take place to Tajikistan to build partner and government links to enable the donation and monitoring of ambulances across a wider area and to undertake research as to what the current needs of the country were for emergency vehicles. This research concluded that there was a massive unmet need for emergency vehicles (circa 700) and a range of medical equipment across the country and an initial relationship and arrangements were made for potential future donations via the Ministry of Health.

The Tajikistan Ambulance Project 2013: The Future of the Project

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the book Ger Project In 2011 Go Help opened the Book Ger in the Nalaikh District on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar. The Book Ger Project was setup by Go Help in partnership with the Mongolian Education Alliance. The Book Ger is a new concept and the first trial ger is now established and running in Ulaanbaatar. The Book Ger provides a comfortable reading and community environment for the children and young people in the outlying districts of Ulaanbaatar. It is stocked with children’s books, magazines and games, as well as running activity, homework and reading sessions. The purpose of the Book Ger is to provide children with space to do reading in their spare time and in doing so encourage their interest in books and improve their literacy skills, and in the long term reduce school dropout rates in the ger district community. The local children initiate other activities such as taking books to children who have physical impairments, who cannot come to the Book Ger themselves.

The Project aims to increase the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills of the local children and also provides space for mothers and retired people to use for reading and socializing. The Book Ger is located in the heart of the community, close to homes so local people do not have to travel long distances to take advantage of the activities.

About 45 children between the ages of 9-16 use the Book Ger frequently and we have an average of 23 children using the facilities daily. The Book Ger has over 1,000 books for children and Go Help organises regular activities such as homework clubs and reading sessions.

In an effort to further improve the Book Ger Project, Go Help is looking to find additional funders to support the charity. The Book Ger is still in need of essential equipment and facilities, including the installation of electricity, heating and further learning materials.

Ten of the Mongolia Charity Rally teams - a total of 32 people - visited our Book Ger Project last year.

Plans for the project:

number of children who registered for a library membership card and number of consistent visitors.

Since the beginning of the project, a total of 90 children have registered for a library membership cards. At the end of 2012, five children had moved away; 30 memberships were not consistent visitors; and 55 of them were consistent visitors of our Book Ger Project.

number of children involved permanent activities

The English course is the Book Ger Project’s primary permanent activity. It was started in February of 2012. Every week on a Saturday, Go Help’s staff and volunteers organize an English lesson for the children. In 2012 a total of 370 children took the English course. We have 10 to12 children permanently attending the English course. In 2012 we gave a total of 90 hours of English lessons.

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the mobile Library Project

our achievements:

1. Successfully organising The book celebration three times in Erdenet city;

2. The Mobile Library travelled through the Bulgan province’s 10 soums for 12 days, and Erdenet city for 2 days;

3. This project enabled children to read lots of new books. We also presented a lecture named “The Fastest Way to Reach a Child’s Heart” to the parents and to the teachers. During this activity we chose three students to be rewarded gold medals as “Good Readers”.

Our mobile library travelled a total of 1,200km through the Orkhon province, Bulgan province’s 10. This took 14 days from and involved 1500 children in the President of Mongolia’s ‘Let’s read more’ journey. As part of the project, “The Fastest Way to Reach a Child’s Heart” lecture was presented to 950 parents and teachers, and the cities of Erdenet and Darkhan, and the Bulgan province’s librarians participated in a “Child, book, e-reading” seminar.

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child Protection ProgrammeGo Help has worked with Save the Children in Mongolia over a number of years as part of the Child Protection Programme. The project goal is to contribute to the development of a child protection system and to building capacity at national and local levels to improve the quality and accessibility of child protection services for poor and marginalized children in Mongolia.

Go help Scholarship ProgrammeThe Go Help Scholarships programme is aimed at students in Ulaanbaatar, from lower economic backgrounds that were struggling with the increasing tuition fees at universities. Go Help had already supported a student called Khalii through her accountancy degree for two years, and following on from that Go Help decided to increase the number of students supported, resulting in 7 scholarships last year. The students are from varying disciplines of study and all have basic conversational and written English. Their participation in Go Help and our projects has been immeasurable in enhancing the achievement of

Go Help’s aims and objects. Their regular participation in volunteer activities at charity projects has allowed Go Help operate more efficiently and afford us the chance to expand our work and reach out to more projects. In return the students are able to study, rather than work part-time in an unregulated environment, and gain valuable experience, improving their English and their levels of professionalism. Each of our students has a role within Go Help and works towards improving their skills and giving back to the organisation and the local community.

evaluation and Research Go Help recognises the need to demonstrate the effectiveness and outcome of its work and has begun the process of developing a monitoring and evaluation strategy in order to do so. This is something that is being developed with our Mongolia office. Go Help’s staff in Mongolia is being trained with respect to the information that needs to be collected, researched and communicated for the effective development of projects and the communication of results. Over the last year there has been great strides made in communication particularly with the development of the Go Help website in Mongolia that they can control and add information to help our work with local partners.

The research for our charity projects is thorough with our Mongolian staff having great knowledge on the ground and contacts. Go Help is opening an office in Tajikistan in 2013 and already works with other established charities working there, however for the development of the Ambulance Project a research trip was required (as there are no charity partners doing that work) and the charity was thrilled to receive a grant from a charitable trust that enabled that research to take place as well as lay the foundation for future ambulance donations.

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ouR VoLunteeR PLacementSGo Help has this year placed over 30 volunteers into local organisations. Through our office in Mongolia we know that voluntary skills are incredibly sought after. Some of the organisations we have worked with include:

•Thepolicecentreforstreetandlost/abandonedstreetchildren–Donationsofclothing,volunteeringforactivities and presents are distributed here by Go Help.

•Lotusorphanage-NGO

•FlourishingFutures-NGO

•SavetheChildren

•Nairamdal-InternationalChildren’sCentre-governmentagency

•ScoutsofMongolia-NGO

•MongolianEducationAlliance-NGO

•HealthClinicsinAmgalan,Gachuurt,Selengeprovince,Uvsprovince,BayanOlgiiprovince

•KindergartenNo.10-RehabilitationCentreforChildrenwithDisabilities

•Batsumber-Retirementhome

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YearTeams

for MCRMoney raised

Teams for ROTW

Money Raised

Total teams

Total Money raised

2008 67 £ 214,764.36 / / / £ 214,764.36

2009 27 £ 48,933.26 7 £ 5,002.93 34 £ 53,936.19

2010 34 £ 55,472.55 10 £ 8,311.56 44 £ 55,472.55

2011 34 £ 32,372.27 5 £ 9,072.93 39 £ 41,445.20

2012 33 £ 36,050.66 4 £ 6,240.43 37 £ 42,291.09

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ouR SucceSSSince 2008, Go Help’s Charity Rallies have helped over 270 teams raise money for third world countries.

That means 270+ vehicles, carrying 1000+ people, have driven a total of over 2,700,000 miles, over the course of 5 years, raising an incredible £400,000, and counting, through Go Help.

Of those 270+ teams, just under 750 people have taken the leap and driven the Mongolia Charity Rally, braving the 10,000 mile arduous journey to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, donating 240 vehicles, and raising a whopping £387,000 for projects in Mongolia.

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“LookInG ahead”

Some of our aims for next year are:•ToincreasethenumberoftrusteesofGoHelpwithsuitableexpertisetohelpusgrow;

•Todevelopourvolunteerpolicies,supportnetworkandimprovecommunicationchannelsforvolunteers;

•Takeonapermanentparttimememberofstafftoprovidekeysupportacrossthecharityandforvolunteers;

•ToapplytotheVodaphoneWorldofDifferenceSchemeagaintotryandgainvaluablesupportatthecharity.

Increasing Go help’s public profile One of Go Help’s strategic aims for 2011 and 2012 was to increase our public profile. In order to raise greater awareness of our work, Go Help now has an official charity website, in English and in Mongolian. We have been in the process of redeveloping the event websites with an aim of increasing the team numbers and make them more user-friendly.

Over 2012, we have significantly developed our online presence through improved search engine optimisation, link building and social media activity. We were awarded a Google Grant that enables us to develop targeted and effective Google Ads.

In 2013, we aim to further engage with our supporters and volunteers by further extending the charity’s work in the social media arena, and by promoting offline information and fundraising events.

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ouR PaRtneRSThroughout our projects, and in close collaboration with our team in Mongolia, we have built strong relationships over the past few years with many associations, NGOs and government authorities. These bodies and the relationships we work so hard to maintain are very important to us. To date, in Mongolia we work with:

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board of trustees

William Dodsworth is a co-founder of Go Help. He is a lawyer based in London. He has also worked as a teacher at the Mongolian National Legal Centre.

David Griffiths is a co-founder of Go Help. He is a lawyer based in New York. He has pro bono experience, having assisted, among others, the UN World Food Programme.

Charlie Hogg took part in the Mongolia Charity Rally in 2008 driving the first fully equipped ambulance to Mongolia. He joined the board of trustees in 2009 and won the Rotary Young Citizen of the Year award the same year.

Ryan Walker is a founder of the annual Go Help fundraising event the ’Roof of the World Charity Rally.’ He is an F2 data engineer and he became a trustee in 2010.

Dulguun Batkhishig was previously head of the Go Help Mongolian Office in Ulaanbaatar. She is now a trustee.

Volunteers

Myagmardagva Byambasuren is the Head of the Mongolian Office in Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia charity projects coordinator.

Tseveendavaa Ozoi is our Legal advisor in Mongolia. He deals with the Ministry of Finance and Mongolian Customs on vehicle tax exemption.

Fel. J. Cruz manages Mongolia team imports and is our customs guru.

Sophie Willingale runs the fundraising and development for the Roof of the World Charity Rally and the general admin and events for Go Help in the UK.

Joanna Meade manages the Branding and Marketing Communications for Go Help, as well as managing our volunteers. She took part in the test run for the MesoAmerica Charity Rally in 2011 and is now a Marketing Communications Manager in London.

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Go Help has an office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia that has to date been sponsored by a local business. The charity hasacountryrepresentative/projectmanager,logisticsexpertandamechanic.Inadditionwefundalibrarianinthe Book Ger and we have between 7-9 Scholarship students who contribute in the Go Help office and community projects a minimum 4 hours a week each. In the coming year we aim to open a small office an employ our first member in Tajikistan. In opening this office we will attempt to replicate the success of our on-the-ground efforts in Mongolia.

The trustees and a core group of volunteers run all of the charity’s duties that fall outside the remit of the Mongolia staff. The additional paid roles within the charity over this year have been a retainer based website developer which movedtoavoluntarybasislaterintheyear,aVodaphoneWorldofDifferencePlacementthatallowedfortwomonths full time work by a volunteer working on developing the Ambulance Project that was increased by the charity to cover some additional months, and the charity took in two paid interns for three months over our busiest period.

Go Help volunteers have been crucial to the charity and its development. The charity has volunteers of many different nationalities based in many different countries and they work across the spectrum of website development, accounting, event management, media and charity development. In addition the teams taking part in our events often add value by volunteering in community projects in Mongolia and donating much needed equipment such as ambulances and wish list items for children in orphanages and community centers.

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Go heLP fundInG SouRceSGo Help’s mission is to work with local communities to improve their access to education and healthcare services.

Go help derives it’s principal funding from the following sources:(A) Go Help operates an internal fundraising platform under the Charity Rallies brand. Charity Rallies

organizes innovative fundraising events such as the Mongolia Charity Rally, an annual 10,000 mile pan continental drive from London, UK to Ulanbaatar, Mongolia. Go Help derives income from its Charity Rallies events a follows:

(1) Entry fees: participants in the events pay an entry to Go Help to take part in the events;

(2) Mandatory fundraising: Go Help’s fundraising events typically set a minimum fundraising amount that participants must fundraise before being able to participate in the events; and

(3) Donations of vehicles: Participants in Go Help’s events typically donate the vehicle that they use to participate in the event to Go Help. Go Help will then either

(a) use the vehicle in its existing charity projects;

(b) donate the vehicle to other governmental or non-governmental organizations that are deemed by Go Help to be appropriate beneficiaries; or

(c) sell the vehicle, with proceeds being used to support Go Help’s charitable mission.

(B) Go Help is the beneficiary of grant funding from external organizations which funds, among other things, charity projects and staff costs.

Go Help maintains a principal objective of maintaining low overheads and administrative costs by relying to the greatest extent possible on volunteer support to carry out its aims and objectives. Further to this aim, Go Help seeks to fund its overhead and administrative costs primarily from proceeds of entry fees to its events, and specific grants from external organizations. Go Help seeks to ensure that 100% of the funds raised for Go Help by participants in its events are passed through to charity projects.

Funding for Go Help’s charity projects comes primarily from funds raised by participants in Go Help’s events. Go Help’s principal charity projects are currently located in Mongolia, and are operated by Go Help staff in Mongolia. Prior to any funds being disbursed to fund its charity projects, Go Help’s board requires staff managing it’s charity projects to provide a budget for the charity project, which is then reviewed, negotiated, and either approved or rejected. Following the approval of a charity project budget, Go Help’s board will then authorize the disbursement of charity funds to fund it’s charity projects.

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StRuctuRe, GoVeRnance and manaGementReference and administrative information set out in Appendix A hereto forms part of this report. The financial statements, Appendix B, comply with current statutory requirements, the memorandum and articles of association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities (issued in March 2005).

Legal StructureGo Help is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 17 September 2007 and its objects and powers are set out in its Memorandum and Articles of Association. Go Help was registered at the charity commission on 20 April 2009.

Details of MemorandumThe Memorandum is the governing document of Go Help and prohibits any distribution of funds to the trustees of Go Help, other than for the proper reimbursement of costs incurred on the charity’s operations.

Methods of Recruiting and Appointing New TrusteesThe trustees have appointed a Chair and membership is open to other individuals: trustees may appoint additional individuals who can bring specific skills to the charity.

Trustees Induction and TrainingMost trustees are already familiar with the practical work of Go Help, having taken part in its existing fundraising events, where sources of fundraising, and Go Help’s supported charity projects, are observed. Training for any new trustees is provided as required, and trustees are regularly made aware of training courses that are available to them.

Organisational Structure and Decision MakingThe trustees hold regular meetings, and meet at least quarterly, to discuss the strategic direction of Go Help, to ensure its core aims and objects are being met in the most efficient way, to take account of any risks

that Go Help undertakes, and to ensure that all legal obligations are satisfied.

Outside of these quarterly, the day to day business of Go Help is handled by the trustees and executive staff of Go Help.

Related PartiesThere are no subsidiaries, organisations or charities controlled by the same trustees.

Risk StatementThe trustees have considered the major risks faced by the charity and have put in place systems and controls to mitigate them. A risk register has been established and is updated at least annually. Risks are continuously monitored, and reviewed at each trustee meeting.

The trustees have a duty to identify and review the risks to which the Charity is exposed and to ensure appropriate controls are in place to provide reasonable assurance against fraud and error.

The greatest potential risk to Go Help in the short-term is a fall in funding from our international fundraising events we organise as this is where the vast proportion (over 90%) of Go Help’s charity and project funding originates from. The charity has to date managed to generate all its own unrestricted funds from one major event but relying on this one form of income from this event has limited the charities growth and made it vulnerable to external shocks.

Go Help is looking to lower the risk to the charity with a two pronged approach; by developing other events in different geographical locations and embarking on the process of diversifying our income streams via trusts and foundation funding. It’s hoped that by bringing in other funders we will bring external support to our charity projects, add some stability to the charity’s funds and allow further expansion and development. We will be applying to a range of donors for funding as well as developing the charities website to keep funders and supporters better informed about the development of projects and news. The implementation of this strategy should improve our financial sustainability.

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Ensuring Go Help’s Work Delivers Our AimsWe review our aims, objectives and activities each year. Our 2012 review analysed our achievements and the outcome of our work in the previous 12 months, and in particular the success of each key activity and the benefits they have brought to those groups of people that we are set up to Go Help. The review also helps us ensure our aim, objectives and activities remained focused on our stated guidance on public benefit when reviewing our aim and objectives and in planning our future objectives they have set.

How Go Help’s Activities Deliver Public BenefitThe trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when reviewing Go Help’s aims and objectives, and when planning its future activities. This report contains an explanation of the significant activities undertaken during the year in order to carry out the charity’s aims for the public benefit and also the achievements measured against the objectives set by the trustees.

Our principal activities in achieving our aims are:Partnerships–Weprefertoworkwithsmallgrassrootsorganisations that have a greater understanding of local needs and who have cost effective and useful projects benefiting the community. Go Help has worked with a range of partners and we use our resources to develop projects that are in difficulty to become more sustainable and to meet funding gaps.

ResearchandLearning–OurstaffinMongoliaareheavily involved in research which helps to inform the feasibility and development of our projects. The Ambulance Project is grounded in research to enable the optimum benefit gained from our ambulance donations and placements. The research we undertook in Tajikistan this year was essential for enabling the development of the Ambulance Project as there is no published details of ambulance data for the country. All of

Go Help’s projects are continuously monitored, either by our own staff or through partner charities.

fInancIaL ReVIeWReserves policyThe trustees’ reserve policy ensures that Go Help maintains sufficient general fund reserves to be able to meet our essential charity commitments before facing an orderly curtailment of activities over three months if necessary.

Go Help’s reserve policy looks at the scenario of Go Help’s fundraising events being unable to run for one year and the totality of Go Help’s income being lost. This could happen under a number of scenarios such as a change in government policy or international unrest and it is a major risk identified by our risk management strategy.

Go Help’s reserves policy enables Go Help to have enough funds to continue the student scholarship placements as this is the only Go Help project that requires ongoing funding. In addition, Go Help has placed reserve status on what would be called wind up costs, or three months local office funding, to allow staff and projects to make any transitions necessary. These combined costs equate to total reserves of £7,200. The policy is reviewed annually.

Main Sources of FundingGo Help receives funds principally from its fundraising events, the Mongolia Charity Rally, the Roof of the World Charity Rally and the MesoAmerica Charity Rally, which are long distance adventure driving events. These funds are split between entry fees, which cover Go Help’s administrative costs, if any, and donations, which form part of the grants that Go Help makes to charity projects.

Go Help has started to apply to charitable trusts and foundations and was fortunate to receive one grant of £5,000 for the Tajikistan Ambulance Project research and a small grant from the Lottery Awards for All funding stream which allowed us to invest in equipment and training for volunteers at the charity. All grant application fundraising was undertaken by a volunteer and there were no associated costs to the charity.

For further information on Go Help’s funding sources, please refer to the Go Help Funding Sources section herein.

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Investment PolicyAside from retaining a prudent amount in reserves each year, most of Go Help’s funds are to be spent in the short term so there are few funds for long term investment. Having considered the options available, the trustees have decided to retain the small amount that it has available in an interest bearing deposit account. While the overall return on long term investments and deposits are not ideal, given current circumstances in credit markets, the trustees consider this to be the most prudent of its options, and will review it on a regular basis to ensure that the decision continues to be the best one for Go Help.

How Go Help’s Expenditure Supports Its Charitable ObjectivesThe income of Go Help is applied solely towards the fulfillment of its charitable objects. Due to Go Help’s low administrative costs, 100% of funds received as donations will be passed on as grants to charity projects that Go Help supports.

Go Help’s Future PlansGo Help aims to continue to fulfill its charitable objects in the most effective, efficient and sustainable manner. Go Help plans continuing the activities outlined above in the forthcoming years subject to satisfactory funding arrangements. Plans are also being developed to work on a number of new fundraising events which it is hoped will lead to an increase in the amount of funds available for Go Help to grant to new and existing charity projects.

Statement of Responsibilities of the trusteesThe trustees are required to prepare financial statements for each financial period, which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of Go Help and the incoming resources and application of resources, including the net income or expenditure, of Go Help for the period. In preparing those financial statements the trustees are required to:

• Selectsuitableaccountingpoliciesandthenapplythem consistently;

• Makejudgmentsandestimatesthatarereasonableand prudent;

• Statewhetherapplicableaccountingstandardsand statements of recommended practice have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

• Preparethefinancialstatementsonthegoingconcern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that Go Help will continue in operation.

The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of Go Help and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of Go Help and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees confirm that to the best of their knowledge there is no information relevant to their financial statements of which their Independent Examiner is unaware. The trustees also confirm that they have taken all necessary steps to ensure that they themselves are aware of all relevant financial information and that this information has been communicated to the Independent Examiner.

Members of Go Help guarantee to contribute an amount not exceeding £1 to the assets of Go Help in the event of winding up. The total number of such guarantees at 30 September 2012 was six. The trustees are members of Go Help but this entitles them only to voting rights. The trustees have no beneficial interest in Go Help.

Approved by the trustees on 18 July 2012 and signed on their behalf by:

David Griffiths Chairman of the Board of Trustees

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Reference and administrative Information

Reference and Administrative Information Charity Name: Go Help

Charity Registration No.: 1129226

Company Registration No.: 06373076

Registered Office and Operational Address: 66 Redbridge Lane West, Wanstead, E11 2JU, London, United Kingdom

Board of TrusteesTrustees, who are also directors under company law, who served during the period and up to the date of this report were as follows:

David Griffiths - ChairWilliam DodsworthPeter GroganCharles HoggRyan Walker

Secretary Peter Grogan

Senior Management TeamSophie Willingale Senior Projects ManagerDulguunBatkhishig CountryRepresentative–Mongolia

Bankers:HSBC, 100 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1BG

Independent Examiner: Monahans, Chartered Accountants, 38-42 Newport Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 3DR

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annual accounts for Go help for the year ended 30 September 2012