**Lady Boswell’s School Parent Teacher Associa�on Registered charity no. 1034434** Report and Accounts 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022 **Your PTA’s dona�ons to the school totalled £22,518 in the 2021-22 academic year. Thank you for suppor�ng our events - here’s what we bought!** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Contribu�on towards computers for ICT Suite x 33 £12,000
Headphones for ICT Suite £327
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Sports Equipment £1,656
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1 **Recorders and Gardening club music books £327 greenhouse £158** **Picnic benches for KS2 playground £1,152** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Year R – Dinosaur Day £449
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**Year 2 – Great Fire of London Day £600** **Year 3 – Ancient Egyp�ans Day £541** **Year 5 – Ancient Greeks Day £476** 2 **French Produc�on £415** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Black History Month Workshops £640
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**Science Week** **£1,350** ## **Christmas Crackers £162** **Easter Eggs £66** **Pla�num Jubilee celebra�ons £199** 3 ## **- Review of the Year 2021 22** ## **The Commi�ee is pleased to report a fundraising total for the academic year of £32,084 and dona�ons to the school of £22,518.** Fundraising: this was another challenging year for the PTA, given the con�nued constraints of the Covid-19 pandemic and an almost en�rely new Commi�ee. In spite of this, it was a record fundraising total for the year! In October 2021 we hosted Happy’s Circus for the first �me which proved very popular, raising £2,363. In December 2021, despite not being able to hold our annual Christmas fair for a second year running, we were s�ll able to hold a number of Christmas events, including Christmas stalls each week on the playground (£1,672), the Countdown to Christmas raffle (£4,553) and Santa’s Gro�o (£741). We also ran a Fes�ve Film Night (£1,104), Christmas card project (£771), Ska�ng day (£349) and sold Lady Boswell’s calendars (£230). In March 2022, our Mother’s Day pop-up shop was a great success and very much enjoyed by the children (£1,124). During the summer term, we had cake sales each week on the playground (£1,784), and for the first �me in 3 years we were able to hold a summer fair (£4,711) and summer ball & silent auc�on (£8,298). Other successful fundraisers included second hand uniform sales (£1,399), Break the Rules Day (£733), fun run (£459) and Father’s Day pizza & cookies (£230). We also raised £243 from the sale of Pla�num Jubilee merchandise. In addi�on, Easyfundraising and AmazonSmile raised £912 and other indirect dona�ons raised further funds. Dona�ons to School: these accounts show the analysis of the £22,518 dona�ons to school in 2021-22 and many are pictured. ## **Outdoors £1,310** Picnic benches for KS2 playground (£1,152), greenhouse for gardening club (£158) **IT Equipment £12,327** Contribu�on towards computers for ICT Suite (£12,000), headphones for ICT Suite (£327) ## **Classrooms £1,400** Classroom contribu�ons (which enable each teacher to purchase £100 of items for their class) (£1,400) **Curriculum Enrichment £5,071** Year R Dinosaur Day (£449), Year 1 Seaside Day (£600), Year 2 Great Fire of London Day (£600), Year 3 Ancient Egyp�ans Day (£541), Year 5 Ancient Greeks Day (£476), Black History Month Workshop (£640), French Produc�on (£415), Science Week (£1,350) ## **Extra-curricular £1,983** Sports equipment (£1,656), recorders & music books (£327) ## **Other £426** Christmas crackers (£162), easter eggs (£66), Pla�num Jubilee celebra�ons (£199) At the start of the current financial year, 1 September 2021, the PTA held £18,931 on deposit in interest bearing accounts with The Chari�es Aid Founda�on (CAF). At 31 August 2022 this figure was £27,197. The Commi�ee works closely with the school to agree how funds should be spent and holds the principle that monies raised should be spent within a reasonable �me and in a way that can best benefit the pupils and the school. ## **Louise Mullen, PTA Co-Treasurer** **3[rd] April 2023** 4 ## **PTA Structure, Governance and Objec�ves** Lady Boswell’s Parent Teacher Associa�on is an associa�on of which all parents/carers of pupils and teaching and non-teaching staff of Lady Boswell’s Primary School are automa�cally members. It is governed by its cons�tu�on adopted on 6th June 2017, which is based on the Parentkind (formerly PTA-UK) model cons�tu�on. The Commi�ee is elected from the membership and for the period under review the following members made up the Commi�ee: Sharon Saunders (Chair), Helen Gush, Louise Mullen (CoTreasurer), Yulia Glavin (Co-Treasurer), Sarah O’Prey, Gayle Co�on, Claire Leslie, Anneen Aucamp, Jill Bond, Erica Popplewell, Jemma Jackson and Joanna David. The objec�ve of Lady Boswell’s PTA is to advance the educa�on of the pupils of Lady Boswell’s C.E. Primary School by fundraising to provide ac�vi�es and facili�es (not normally provided by the Local Educa�on Authority). When planning our ac�vi�es for the year, the Commi�ee has considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public ## **Co-Headteachers’ Thanks** As you will see from this latest copy of the PTA’s Report and Accounts, our creative and pro-active PTA have, again, played a pivotal part in helping to enrich school life at Lady Boswell’s. At the same time, they have offered us all some exciting and fun events for children, adults and staff to share and enjoy. As you will appreciate, as costs rise and school budgets continue to be seriously reduced, this inevitably places restraints on the learning experience we constantly strive to provide for our children. The hard work of the PTA, and your unwavering support, ensures that your children are still able to benefit from an enhanced school environment and exciting and valuable experiences which bring their curriculum to life. Last year the PTA raised an amazing £32,084 and this newsletter shows the tangible results of their hard work and dedication. Thank you. As we look ahead, we commend the work of our PTA Committee to you and ask that, should you have capacity to help out, even in a minor way, that you contact the PTA and let them know. We all embark on the children’s exciting learning journey together and your decision to get involved would make a real difference to every child in the School! **Hannah Pullen and Sharon Saunders** **Co-Headteachers** 5 ## **Get Involved!** Ge�ng involved with, suppor�ng and volunteering your help for PTA events is fulfilling, a lot of fun and is vitally important for the school. All of the children at Lady Boswell’s benefit from PTA events and fundraising. You do not need to be on the Commi�ee to get involved, you can offer to be a ‘Friend of the PTA’. Friends provide support for PTA events but they do not normally a�end Commi�ee mee�ngs (which take place once a term). Would **YOU** like to join the Commi�ee or become a Friend of the PTA? Have **YOU** got a good idea for an event or ac�vity that could raise money for the school? Does **YOUR** employer provide matched funding or support for your charitable ac�vi�es? Do **YOU** have a skill that could be useful? Do **YOU** have contacts/suppliers who could help the school save money, to add to the PTA database? Please contact the PTA by email at: ladyboswellspta@googlemail.com We ac�vely encourage open dialogue so that all parents can ‘have their say’. In the last 20 years your PTA has helped parents raise the amazing sum of over £304,000. Well done! ## **Matched Funding** This is a fantas�c scheme whereby employers provide funding for charitable organisa�ons such as the PTA through their employees. It is a very simple yet immensely valuable resource from which extra funding can be raised for our school. In most cases, the company will match pound for pound up to a maximum level per employee each year. We are fortunate to have parents at the school who work for companies that do matched funding including State Street Bank, Ernst & Young, Addleshaw Goddard, BMS Group and Visa. _**There are hundreds more companies offering matched funding so please contact your Human Resources department to find out if they operate a scheme**_ **and email us at ladyboswellspta@googlemail.com so that we can build a database and hopefully access this funding.** ## **Easyfundraising** To date we have raised over £7,402 via www.easyfundraising.org.uk, an excellent FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at the same �me, at no cost to you, raise funds for Lady Boswell’s. There are over 7,000 brands on board ready to make a dona�on – including eBay, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com and M&S. _**If you shop online and have not yet registered, please do so NOW – we are missing out on free money!**_ Register your cause as Lady Boswell’s School – Sevenoaks and _**upload the ‘Dona�on Reminder’ so you never miss a dona�on**_ . 6 **Other ways you can help fundraise:** ## **My Name Tags** School ID is 31490. School life is a lot easier when things don’t go missing, so labelling your child’s belongings can be of big help. The My Nametags labels are extremely hardwearing and save a great deal of effort and poten�al lost property. They can be used on school uniforms, brownies/guides clothes, football kits, in fact almost anything. For every order of personalised labels, My Nametags will contribute to the school. Order online at www.MyNametags.com and use our unique School ID number (31490), you’ll be raising much needed money for the school. For more informa�on on our fundraising scheme, please go to: h�ps://www.mynametags.com/sta�c/img/downloads/MyNametags_fundraising_informa�on.pdf ## **S�kins** School ID is 11439 | h�ps://www.s�kins.co.uk/ Lady Boswell’s fundraising number is 11439. Please use this when you purchase your s�kins. S�kins name labels are designed to be a truly mul�purpose name labelling solu�on. One pack of our s�ck on name labels can label pre�y much everything and anything so you don’t have to buy different labelling products for different items. The S�kins school fundraising scheme has distributed thousands of pounds amongst par�cipa�ng schools every year since 2004. While the details of our fundraising scheme have been fine-tuned over the years, its core principles have remained constant. We want to give schools and PTAs the opportunity to raise money while helping parents to safely and securely label their children’s belongings. ## **Thank you for your support!** 7 **----- Start of picture text -----**
Lady Boswell's Parent Teacher Association Registered Charity
1034434
Financial Statements
1 September 2021 - 31 August 2022
INCOME & EXPENDITURE Income Expenditure Surplus/(Deficit)
£ £ £
Fundraising
Summer Ball & Silent Auction 14,249 (5,951) 8,298
Summer Fair 5,728 (1,017) 4,711
Countdown to Christmas Raffle 4,874 (321) 4,553
Happy's Circus 6,607 (4,244) 2,363
Cake Sales 1,784 - 1,784
Christmas Stalls 1,672 - 1,672
Second Hand Uniform Sales 1,419 (20) 1,399
Mother's Day Pop-Up Shop 1,625 (501) 1,124
Festive Film Night 1,323 (219) 1,104
Easyfundraising & AmazonSmile 912 - 912
Christmas Cards 771 - 771
Santa's Grotto 1,260 (518) 741
Break The Rules Day 733 - 733
Fun Run 702 (243) 459
Skating 2,929 (2,580) 349
Jubilee Bags/Mugs 243 - 243
Father's Day Doughies 230 - 230
Calendars 551 (322) 230
Donations 226 - 226
Big PTA Raffle 125 - 125
Stonepitts Christmas Trees 58 - 58
47,837 (15,936) 32,084
Other Items
Interest and charges on CAF bank accounts (1) 8 (129) (121)
Subscriptions & licenses (2) - (532) (532)
Contribution to leavers' yearbooks - (175) (175)
Sundry items - (148) (148)
8 (984) (976)
Surplus 2021/22 before Donations to School 47,845 (16,919) 31,108
Donations to School (22,518)
Change in Net Assets 8,591
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STATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIES AS AT 31 AUGUST 2022
As at 31/08/22 As at 31/08/21
ASSETS £ £ £
Cash held in CAF Bank Accounts 27,197 18,931
Prepayment - Happy's Circus 2022 330 84
Accrued Income - Fun Run Gift Aid 79 -
27,606 19,015
LIABILITIES
Accrued Expense - -
27,606 19,015 8,591
NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS
(1) CAF (Charities Aid Foundation)
(2) Subscriptions & licenses £
PTA Events subscription 300
Lottery license - Sevenoaks District Council 20
Localgiving subscription 96
Parentkind membership* 116
532
*Parentkind is the national association of Parent Teacher Associations
Analysis of Donations to School 2021-22
£
Outdoors
Picnic benches for KS2 playground 1,152
Greenhouse 158
1,310
IT Equipment
ICT Suite computers 12,000
Headphones for ICT Suite 327
12,327
Classrooms
Classroom resources 1,400
Curriculum Enrichment
Year R Dinosaur Day 449
Year 1 Seaside Day 600
Year 2 Great Fire of London Day 600
Year 3 Ancient Egyptians Day 541
Year 5 Ancient Greeks Day 476
Black History Month Workshop 640
French Production 415
Science Week 1,350
5,071
Extra-curricular
Sports Equipment 1,656
Recorders & music books 327
1,983
Other
Christmas crackers 162
Easter eggs 66
Jubilee celebrations 199
426
Total Donations to School 2021-22 22,518
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Twenty Year Summary of Fundraising and Donations
Donations to
Year Fundraising school
£ £
2021-22 32,084 22,518
2020-21 11,812 10,796
2019-20 10,202 16,971
2018-19 28,104 15,381
2017-18 20,031 18,397
2016-17 28,676 31,737
2015-16 14,569 9,600
2014-15 24,895 25,389
2013-14 27,999 38,519
2012-13 12,382 8,017
2011-12 19,651 13,320
2010-11 18,790 15,794
2009-10 9,301 13,322
2008-09 7,091 4,328
2007-08 10,457 7,473
2006-07 4,554 5,975
2005-06 7,850 5,995
2004-05 4,942 7,223
2003-04 4,534 2,548
2002-03 6,150 -
304,074 273,303
Report and Accounts produced by Accounts examined and approved by
Louise Mullen (PTA Co-Treasurer) Taisia Hughes
3rd April 2023 17th April 2023
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10 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** |**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**|**Section A**
**Independent Examiner’s Report**| |---|---| |**Report to the trustees**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of report**|Lady Boswell’s Parent Teacher Association
31 August 2022
**Charity no**1034434
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(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 08 / 2022.
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
(“the Act”).| I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. **Date:** 17/04/2023 **Signed: Name:** Taisia Hughes **Relevant professional** ICAEW **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 13 Hitchen Hatch Lane Sevenoaks Kent TN13 3AU **Oct 2018** **IER** 11 **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . **Oct 2018** **IER** 12