## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] Oct 2024 Period start date To 30[th] Sept 2025 Period end date**
## **Charity name: Friends of Longparish School (FOLS)**
## **Charity registration number: 1001539**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The charity’s main activity is to advance**
**the education of pupils at Longparish CE**
**Primary School by providing and**
**assisting in the provision of facilities,**
**equipment and experiences not normally**
**provided by the local education authority.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**During the year the charity organised**
**fundraising events, such as cake sales,**
**frozen Fridays and the Christmas bazaar,**
**as well as community activities that**
**brought together parents, staff and**
**pupils. The funds raised were used to**
**purchase educational resources and**
**improve the learning environment for the**
**benefit of all pupils.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Christmas workshop**
**Play equipment**
**Hall lighting**
**Class gifts**
**Chicks for reception class**
**Books for children**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity is in a healthy position, and**
**continues to be able to fund requests**
**from the school and pupil requirements.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charities reserves are held in a**
**current account to ensure funds are**
**readily available to meet expenditure**
**commitments and to provide a**
**contingency for unforeseen expenses.**
**The trustees aim to maintain reserves,**
**equivalent to approximately 1 year’s**
**typical running costs, to ensure the**
**charities activies can continue in the**
**event of a shortfall in income.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£11783**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Association**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by members at the agm**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Friends of Longparish School (FOLS)|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1001539|
|Charity’s principal address|Longparish C of E Primary School
Longparish
Nr. Andover
Hampshire
SP11 6PB|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Alexandra
McWalter|Chairman|Whole year||
||Sarah Smart|Trustee|Wholeyear||
||Leonora Lennie|Treasurer|Wholeyear||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|Leonora Lennie|Alexandra McWalter|
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||Leonora Lennie|Alexandra McWalter|
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||Treasurer|Chairman|
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