2025-12-31-accounts

Charity registration number 1043260

Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Year ended 31st December 2025

Index

1. Reference and Administrative Details

2. Trustees Report

3. Statement of Financial Activities for the Year ended 31[st] December 2025

4. Balance Sheet as at 31st December 2025

5. Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year ended 31st December 2025

Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society Reference and Administrative Details

Trustees Mr I Chappell Mr D M Williams Mr P G Drake Mr S Dixon Mr D Robinson Mr R Smith Secretary Vacant Registered Office 11Cornflower Drive Bessacarr Doncaster DN4 7DH Charity Registration 1043260 Number

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Trustees' Report

The Trustees present the annual report together with the financial statements of the charitable organisation for the year ended 31st December 2025

Objects and aims

The advancement of education of children in the area of Yorkshire particularly relating to the study of the environment by means of recreation and leisure time activities of an enterprising or exploratory nature so to develop their physical mental and spiritual capacities that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved.

Objectives, strategies and activities

Grants of £3225 were approved in the year to six young people participating in expeditions throughout the World.

Public benefit

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of section 4 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the public benefit guidance published by the Charity Commission for England and Wales

Structure, governance and management

Nature of governing document

Yorkshire Schools Exploring Society (YSES) is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association in 1964. In the event of the organisation being wound up members have no liability to contribute to its assets and no personal responsibility for settling its debts and liabilities.

Recruitment and appointment of trustees

The charity trustees for the purposes of charity law and under the organisation’s articles are also members of the Committee.

Organisational structure

YSES is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and the trustees, in accordance with the constitutional document, form the Committee, which is a voluntary body. The charity trustees may create associate or other classes of non-voting membership. Ongoing responsibility for the day-to-day administration is shared between the Chair (in the absence of a Secretary) and Treasurer.

Major risks and management of those risks

The trustees have assessed the major risk factors to which the charity is exposed and are satisfied that systems are in place to mitigate exposure to them. The risk factors have been vastly reduced due to the change in focus of the charity. The society continues to keep up to date with minor and major risks the society may face and feels appropriate systems are in place to mitigate exposure to them.

The annual report was approved by the trustees of the charity on the 24 th of March 2026 and signed on its behalf by:

Mr I Chappell Trustee

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Statement of Financial Activities for the year ending 31st December 2025

	2025	2024
	£	£
Income and Endowments from:
Member subscriptions and Donation	0	100
Bank and Building Society Interest	5617	6631
	5617	6731
Expenditure on:
Charitable Activities
Governance Costs	3532	3884
Net Surplus	2085	2847
Total Funds bought forward	127039	124192
Total Funds carried forward	129124	127039

All funds are unrestricted

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Balance Sheet at 31[st] December 2025

	2025	2024
	£	£
Current Assets
Debtors, Prepayments and Accrued interest	6489	2987
Cash at Banks and Building Society	125860	127152
	132349	130139
Less Creditors less than a year	3225	3100
Net current assets	129124	127039
Net Assets	129124	127039
Funds of the charity
Unrestricted funds	129124	127039

The financial statements on pages 3 to 5 were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on the 24[th] of March 2026 and signed on their behalf by:

Mr I Chappell Trustee

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Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ending 31st December 2025

1. Charity Status

The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

2. Accounting Policies

Basis of preparing the financial statements

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A ‘Small Entities’ of Financial Reporting Standard 102 ‘The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland’. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention.

Taxation

The charity is a registered charity and is therefore exempt from taxation.

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