CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Trustees. annual report (including Directors. report) for the period From: 01 August 2023 To: 31 July 2024 Charity name: ALLEYN COURT EDUCATIONAL TRUST Charity registration number: 1017369 Company number: 02737124 Objectives and activities SORP reference Para 1.17 Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its goveming document To promote and provide for the advan￿rnent of education and in connection therewith to conduct and carry on and acquire and develop a school to be known as Alleyn Court Preparatory School and any other boarding or day schools in the United Kingdom for the education of children and to supply to the pupils general instruction of the highest standard, together with physical, moral and spiritual training, and further to provide bursary support allowin access to education. Provision of education to all Alleyn Court School pupils, and the distribution of means tested bursaries to allow those without sufficient means to benefit from that education. 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. Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit Para 1.17and 1.19 Para 1.18 The trustees have had to regard to public benefit by allowing extemal community bodies to use the school grounds and by providing a generous scholarship scheme. Additional information (optional) You ma choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Grants and Bursaries to individual pupils are means tested and are assessed by an independent assessor. Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Parents volunteer to assist the school in a number of ways. During the year the Parents Association provided further equipment for the children's Play Area. Contribution made by volunteers Para 1.38 Other Achievements and performance School pupils at all levels have continued to do well in musical and sporting events, and the 11 plus results indicate the academic success achieved by pupils from all backgrounds. 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 Additional Information (optional) You ma choose to include further statements where relevant about: In September 2023, the School consolidated all classes on to one site. This required additional classrooms and other facilities to be built. which was achieved with minimal disruption to the provision of education. Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performan￿ of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41 other Financial review Review of the charity's financial position at the end of the eriod Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held Para 121 At 31 July 2024: consolidated net assets £1,224,273 (2023 - £1,264,738)" cash at bank £997,581 2023 - £538,506 . We hold reserves to provide facilities and capital for the school. Para 1.22 Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 At 31 July 2024: £1,224,273 (2023 - £1.264,738 . NIA Reasons for holding zero reserves Details of fund materially in deficit Para 122 Para 124 NIA Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concem Para 1.23 The Trustees continually review the future financial position of the charity and school. They consider that the Reserves are sufficient to enable the school to continue providing high quality teaching for the foreseeable future, and to maintain the School premises to the level expected by current and ros ective ils and arents. Addltional inforniation (optlonal} You ma choose to include further statements where relevant about: The charity's principal SoUr￿S of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.47 Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted Para 1.46 The largest single expense remains the payroll and related costs. Close attention is given at trustee meetings to the pupil numbers and the forecast fees in order to ensure that we remain solvent. Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity Other Structure, governance and management Description of charity's trusts: Type of goveming document: for example, trust deed, memorandum 2nd articles of association etc How is the charity constituted? for example limited company, unincorporated association, cio Para 1.25 Memorandum & Articles of Association Para 1.25 Charttable company 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 All Trustees are elected to their posts by the Trustee body as a whole. Additional Information (optional) You ma choose to include further statements where relevant about: New trustees receive training organised by the school and in consultation with existing members of the trustee body. All Trustees receive regular training and updates on safeguarding. All Trustees are required to provide a DBS report and certificate on joining the Board of Trustees. The Tnjst owns the entire issued share capital of Alleyn Court (Preparatory) Westcliff Limited. The Charity Trustees are the de facto Governors of Alleyn Court School. Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 Para 1.51 The charity's organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Relationship with any related parties Para 1.51 Other Reference and administrative details Chari name Other name the chari uses Re istered chari number Charity's principal address Alle n Court Educational Trust 1017369 Alleyn Court School Wakering Road Southend-on-sea Essex SS3 OPW Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Trustee name Officè (rf any) Dates acted rf not for whole ear Chair Name of person lor body) entitled toa oint truslee ifan Graham Reeder Elaine Oddie Richard Green Sarah Drummond George Wilcox John Wilcox Emily Fraser Mark Albon Resigned 30104124 Resigned January 2024 Resigned January 2024 Cor orate trustees - names of the directors at the date the re Director name NONE ortwasa roved Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charty Trustee name Dates acted rf not for whole ear NONE Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others Description of the assets NONE held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charit 's ob'ects Details of a￿angernentS for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charit 's own assets NIA NIA Additional information (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (optional information) Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional infonnation) Exemptions from disclosure Reason for non-disclosure of ke NIA ersonnel details Other optional information NONE Declarations The company has taken advantage of the small companies, exemption In preparing the report above. The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report {including directors, report) above. Slgned on behalf of the charlty's trusteesldlrectors Signature(s} Full name{s) Position (for example Secretary, Chalr, etc) GRAHAM REEDER CHAIR Date ALLEYN COURT EDUCATIONAL TRUST AUDITED CONSOUDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2024 Company No. 2737124 Registered Charity No. 1017369 Alleyn Court Eductrtlonal Trust Consolldated Flnoncial Slatemènts For Ihe Year Ended 31 July 2024 Page Auditors report to the mernber5 statement of financial octivities including income and expenditure account Consolidated bolonce sheet Company balonce sheet stalement of cosh flows Notes to the financiol statements 9- 17 Alleyn Courl Educational TTUSt Audilors Report to the Members For the Year Ended 31 Juty 2024 Opinion We have oudifed the consolidated financial stotements of Ajleyn Court Educational Trust for the year ended 31 July 2024 which comprise the Consolidoted Stotement of Financial Activities. the Consolidated Balance Sheet, the Company Balance Sheet and the Consolidated Cash Flow Stotemenl and notes to the financial statements. including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicoble law ond United Kingdom Accounting Standards. including FRS 102 'The Finonciol Reporting Standard Applicoble in the UK and Ireland, {United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). In our opinion the finonciol stotements: give o Irue and foir view of the stote of the charitable companys and group's offoirs os ot 31 July 2024 and of its incoming resources and opplicolion of resources. including its income and expenditure. for the year then ended. have been properly prepored in occordonce wilh United Kingdom Generolly Accepted Accounting Proctice." have been prepared in accordance wth the requirements of the Charities Act 2011. Basis for opinion We conducted our ovdit in occordance with Intemotional Stondords on Auditing IUKI IISAS IUKII and applicable low. Our responsibilities under those stondords are further described in the Auditors responsibilities for the oudit of the financial statements section of our report. We ore independent of the charitable company and group in occordonce with the ethicol requirements thot ore relevont to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC'S Ethical Standard. and we have fulfilled our other ethicol responsibilities in accordance wth these requirements. We believe thot the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide o b05is for our opinion. Concluslons relating to going concern In auditing the financial statemenls. we hove concluded thot the trustees. use of the going concern bosis of accounting in the preporotion of the finonciol stotements ts oppropriote. Based on the work we have performed. we have not idenlified ony moteriol uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively. moy cost significont doubt on the choritoble company's and group's cbility to continue as a going concern for a period of ol least ￿e1ve months from when the finoncial stotements cre outhorised for issue. Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of Ihe trustee5 Wth respect to going concem ore described in the relevant sections of this report. other infonnotion The trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the infomation included in the onnuol report. other than the financial statements ond our Report of the Auditors thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of ossuronce conclusion thereon. In connection wth our audit of the finoncial statements. our responsibility is to read the other information and. in doing so, considerwhether the other informotion s Material￿ inconsistent wth the finonciol 5totements or our krn0￿edge obtained in the oudit or olhewse oppears to be materially misstated. If. based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a malerial misstotement of this other information. we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in thi5 regard. Opinion on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 In our opinion, based on the work undertoken in the course of the audit: the infomotion given in the Report of the Trustees for the financial yeor for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent wth the finonciol statements: and the Report of the Trustees hos been prepared in accordance wth applicoble legol requirements. Poge 2 Alleyn Court Educational TTUSt Audltors Report to the Members For the Year Ended 31 July 2024 Matters on which we are requlred to report by exception In the light of the knowledge ond understanding of the choritoble compony and group and its environmenl obtained in the course of the audit. we have not idenlified material misstatements in the Report of the Trustees. We have nothing to report in respecl of the following matters where the Componies Act 2006 require5 US to report to you if. in our opinion: odequale occounting records hove not been kept by Ihe parent charitable company. or returns odequate for our oudit hove not been received from branche5 not V151ted by us.. or the parent choritoble company finonciol stotements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns,. or certain disclosures of tru5tees' remunerofion specified by low are not made,. or we have not received oll the infornation and explanations we require for our oudit. Responslbllllle$ of trustees As explained more fully in the Statement of Trustees Responsibilities, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitoble compony for the purposes of company lowl ore responsible for the preparation of the financial statements ond for being satisfied Ihal they give o tnJe and foir view. and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enoble the preparation of financial stotements that are free from material misstatement. whether due to froud or error. In preporing Ihe financial statements. the trustees ore responsible lor assessing the charitable company and group's obility to continue as a going concern, disclosing. os opplicable. matters related to going concern and using the going concern bosis of accounting unless the Injslees either intend to liquidote the charitable company and group or to cease operations, or hove no realislic alternative but to do so. Audltor's responslbllllles for the audlt of Ihe flnanclal statements Our objectives are to obtain reasonable ossvronce obout whether the finoncial stalemenls as o whole ore free from material misstatement. whelher due lo frovd or error, and to issue a Report of the Independent Auditors that include5 our opinion. Reasonable ossuronce is a high level of assurance but is not o guorantee that an audit conducted in accordance wth ISAS IUKI will a￿ayS detect a moteriol misstatement when it exists. Misstatements con arise from fraud or error and ore considered maleriol if. individuolly or in the oggregale, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial stolements. Irregularities. including froud. ore instances of non-complionce wth laws and regulotions. We design procedures in line wth our responsibililies, outlined above. to detect moleriol misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregulorities, including fraud 15 detailed below: The extent to whlch the avdll was consldered copuble of detecllng Irregularllles Includlng Irovd Our approach to idenlifying and ossessing the risks of material misslalemenl in respect of irregularities, including fraud and non-complionce wth laws ond regulations, was os follows.. the engagement portner ensured that the engagemenl team collectively hod the appropriate competence, capabilities ond ski115 to identify or recognise non-complionce wth applicable laws and regulations., we identified the laws and regulolions applicable to the Group through discussions with trustees ond other management. ond from our commercial kno￿edge ond experience of the sector in which the Group operates., we focused on specific lows ond regulations which we considered moy hove a direct material effect on the financial statements or the operations of Ihe Group, including the Companies Act 2006, Charities Act and SORP requirements. General Data Protection Regulations IGDPRI. Safeguording, Employment and Health ond Safety legislation,. we assessed the extent of compliance wilh Ihe lo￿* ond regulations identified above through making enquiries of management and inspecting legol correspondence: and Page 3 Alleyn Court Educational Trust Auditors Report to the Members For the Year Ended 31 Juty 2024 identified laws ond regulations were communicated wthin the oudit team regularty and the team remained alert to instonces of non