2023-08-31-accounts - Wentworth Primary School Parent Teacher Association

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Wentworth PTA Annual General Meetng

Massive thank you to the whole PTA team this year for making all our events so successful and profitable. Great team working and use of innovative ideas such as Adventure Island tickets and Southend Sealife Adventure, Christmas Panto tickets and some returning favourites including Bag2School and Preloved uniform
We Welcomed Jackie joining the PTA as Secretary – Massive thank you to Fiona and Annika for easing Jackie in with the transition over the year – Jackie has been a wonderful asset to the team and has got stuck in from the get go revamping our Facebook Page, tackling uniform and supporting all of the events throughout the year whilst being a mum to three children on maternity leave!
We welcomed 2 beautiful PTA babies Ivy and Bebe – I would like to personally thank Suzy for stepping up as Co-Chair for the year, we make a fantastic team and play to each other’s strengths, Su is the best buyer in the country and is a fantastic asset to the committee.
Creating a robust preloved uniform service on a monthly basis – ensuring all parents and carers have access to affordable uniform – we continued with a New Starters sale which again has been very popular and well received amongst new parents/carers

How we involve children in making purchases & How children have been benefted

-New playground Sails which have been in use throughout the summer
We will continue to fund the Xmas pantomime which all years get to enjoy
Secret shops 3 times a year have been a roaring success. Making sure no children are excluded from choosing a gift
Year 6 students were able to have a stall at the Summer Fair selling cakes
No Child goes Cold Initiative– A variety of brand new FatFace coasts have been purchased at a reduced cost which will be given out by the school as an when needed by children

How we give parents carers opportunity to ask questons / make suggestons

One nominated person dealing with feedback in an positive way – then sharing feedback with the wider team and coming up with solutions
Not taking feedback negatively – Not using Facebook/social media as a negative platform
Coming to a resolution with parents/carers when there is a complaint and looking at how we can improve events in the future.
Continuing to use our Social Media platform to advertise events has been useful and sharing out facebook page at new starter events. Big thanks to Jackie who has taken over the care of our facebook page throughout the year which has grown our page over the last twelve months
More presence now at new starter events which hopefully will generate more new parents/carers will want to join

Lost property was difficult to reunite with children – The PTA have now taken on responsibility for sorting through lost property. We arrange as an when required to sort and reunite uniform with children, taking unform back to classes, bringing the lost property box as part of our uniform and using any unclaimed non labelled uniform as part of the Pre Loved Uniform Sale. Any clothes that have been unclaimed and unlabelled are also recycled with thew Bag2School Scheme in which the PTA generates a profit
Some parents of children with allergies where not happy with the gifts being used for the Easter Bingo ( Bag of sweets and a Easter Craft Bag) the sweets did contain gluten that was problematic for one child resulting in them only being able to have a craft bag as also had a dairy allergy – when we plan our Bingo event this year we will try and find a more suitable gift for older children with allergies

Plans for the coming year – All dates to be confrmed

Big thank you to April Crowley for keeping another years’ worth of PTA accounts

Profit from Events:

Xmas Pantomime 2024 £1008.00 Playground Sails £4531.38.00

No Child Goes Cold Coats £60.00

MonthlyExpense May2022 - April 2023	MonthlyExpense May2022 - April 2023	MonthlyExpense May2022 - April 2023	MonthlyExpense May2022 - April 2023
Month	Purchases & Other	MoneyIn	MonthlyTotals
May	£855.11	£1,393.38	£538.27
June	£583.24	£1,176.00	£592.76
July	£1,983.74	£3,729.47	£1,745.73
August	£0.00	£0.00	£0.00
September	£240.97	£2,298.50	£2,057.53
October	£7,479.88	£7,876.96	£397.08
November	£890.69	£567.87	-£322.82
December	£1,765.90	£4,257.07	£2,491.17
January	£3,664.63	£1,072.20	-£2,592.43
February	£1,231.98	£1,463.32	£231.34
March	£1,236.99	£2,930.84	£1,693.85
April	£29.00	£135.00	£106.00

Total

£19,962.13 £26,900.61

£6,938.48

Votng in new Commitee Members

Current Committee Members

PTA Co Chairs -Sophie Bowman & Suzy Hardy

Treasurer – April Crowley

Secretaries – Fiona Maclean, Annika Barnett and Jackie Tubb

-Chair