The Trustees of the HCLUganda charity
include medical experts and financial experts to help ensure transparent
usage of funds. The UK trustees are familiar with the operations
of the Charity Commission and the Uganda-based medical expert
provides an independent oversight of the operations of the projects
in Uganda which are funded by HCLUganda.
We are very sad to announce the death of Dr Simon
McMinn on 23rd August 2012. Simon had taken great pleasure in
supporting the charity and his other work in the UK, particularly
helping drug users to reform their lives. On 25 November 2012, Michael J Mitchell passed away in Cheltenham. He had been a key part of the charity accounting and oversight with Dr McMinn. We have decided to wind-up the UK registered charity Hope Clinic Lukuli Uganda although the Ugandan NGO will continue to serve the population.
In the meantime the trustees
will safeguard and use the assets for the charitable purposes.
Dr Simon McMinn was a practising General Practitioner based in
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and a partner in the Yorkleigh
Surgery on St.Georges Road. He also provided consultation services
to the county police and prison services including management
of drugs rehabilitation programmes.
Stephen Lloyd is a retired architect and also worked in Cheltenham, but
lives in Southam, a Cotswold village near to the town. His business,
Cover Lloyd Design was located in Regent Street in Cheltenham.
He has been assisting the Ugandan project during the construction
of the new facility and is an active Rotarian in the Cleeve Vale
club.
Michael Mitchell was a Chartered Accountant and retired from
a sole practitioner business at Charlton Kings in Cheltenham.
He was familiar with taxation matters and small business accounting
having previously worked with RTZ in Cheltenham.
Dr RJ (Dick) Stockley has lived and worked in Uganda for many
years, firstly working with the Church Missionary Society in the
1980's in the Karamoja region of north-eastern Uganda. He now
leads a general practitioners clinic, The Surgery, in Kampala
which provides medical care to the residents as well as providing
support to various charitable organisations. Dick Stockley is
held in high regard among the national and expatriate communities
in Uganda and continues to provide philanthropic services as well
as being part of the leadership team for Kampala International
Church and organising its homegroups. His services to healthcare
were recognised in June 2005 when he received an MBE.
Philip Mitchell, son of Michael, is a Chartered Accountant (FCA)
and had lived with his wife and family in Uganda since 1996 working
for auditing firms and as a financial management advisor to the
Government of Uganda's development aid department. He has been
part of the supervisory management of the Hope Clinic Lukuli project
in Uganda since 2000. Philip and his family moved from Uganda
in June 2012 but remain in contact with the Ugandan board of the clinic.
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