## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
**DREAM MAKERS**
**Charity No: 1045148**
**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT AND STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024**
**THOMAS & YOUNG LIMITED CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS**
**Solihull**
## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT AND STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES For the year ended 31 March 2024**
|**CONTENTS**||
|---|---|
||**Page**|
|Charity Information|1|
|Annual Report|2|
|Accountants' Report|3|
|Receipts and Payments Account|4 - 5|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|6|
Page 1
## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
## **CHARITY INFORMATION**
|DECLARATION OF TRUST|8 March 1995|
|---|---|
|TRUSTEES|J B M Walsh - Cooper|
||J McKeown|
||C McKeown|
|BANKERS|Lloyds TSB Bank Plc|
||Erdington|
||Birmingham|
|ACCOUNTANTS|Thomas & Young Limited|
||Chartered Accountants|
||Carleton House|
||266-268 Stratford Road|
||Shirley|
||Solihull|
||West Midlands|
||B90 3AD|
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## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
## **ANNUAL REPORT**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2024**
Dream Makers charity is constituted by a declaration of trust and is a registered charity, number 1045148. Its address is 69 Meriden Road, Hampton in Arden, Solihull, West Midlands, B92 0BS. The charity trustees during the year to 31 March 2024 were:
J B M Walsh - Cooper J McKeown
C McKeown
The above trustees were appointed on 8 March 1995.
The object of the charity is to relieve people, particularly but not exclusively children, their families and carers, who have severe physical, mental or life-threatening illnesses.
## **Reserves policy**
The trustees consider that the level of reserves should remain as shown to generate sufficient resources to fund the day-to-day running of the charity and any future major costs.
Additional liquid funds are being accumulated to finance purchase of a replacement caravan as the trustees consider an existing one is nearing the end of its useful life. An impairment review of existing caravans has been conducted.
The accumulated excess of receipts over payments is represented by cash reserves.
This report was approved by the trustees and signed on their behalf by:
J B M Walsh – Cooper
Date:
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## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
## **ACCOUNTANTS’ CERTIFICATE**
As described below, you have approved the receipts and payments account and statement of assets and liabilities for the year ended 31 March 2024, set out on pages 4 to 6. In accordance with your instructions, we have compiled these unaudited accounts from the accounting records and information and explanations supplied to us.
Thomas & Young Limited Chartered Accountants Carleton House 266-268 Stratford Road Shirley Solihull West Midlands B90 3AD
Date:
## **CLIENT’S DECLARATION**
I approve the receipts and payments account and statement of assets and liabilities on pages 4, 5 and 6 and confirm that the records produced, together with the information and explanations supplied to Thomas & Young Limited, constitute a true and correct record of all the transactions for the year ended 31 March 2024.
J B M Walsh – Cooper
## Page 4
## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **for the year ended 31 March 2024**
|||**Unrestricted**||
|---|---|---|---|
|||**Funds**||
||**2024**||**2023**|
||£||£|
|**RECEIPTS**||||
|**From Voluntary Sources:**||||
|Donations|87,179||45,896|
|||||
|**Total Receipts**|87,179||45,896|
|**Total Payments listed on page 5**|(80,447)||(18,914)|
||______|||
|**Surplus/(deficit) for the year**|6,732||26,982|
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## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY**
## **DREAM MAKERS**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
(continued) **for the year ended 31 March 2024**
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Unrestricted
Funds
2024 2023
£ £ £ £
PAYMENTS
Direct charitable expenditure:
Charitable donations - -
Caravan maintenance and site expenses 14,832 10,070
Fundraising - costs 37,982 8,298
52,814 118,368
Other expenditure:
Fixed asset impairment 27,000 -
Accountancy and bookkeeping 475 475
Sundries 158 71
27,633 546
80,447 18,914
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## **THE NATIONAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY DREAM MAKERS STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES at 31 March 2024**
|||**2024**||**2023**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||£|£|£|
£|
|**FIXED ASSETS**|||||
|Caravans at cost/valuation||42,995||69,995|
|**CURRENT ASSETS**|||||
|Cash at Bank and current assets|76,019||42,687||
||______||______||
|||76,019||42,687|
|||______||______|
|||119,014||112,682|
|||______||______|
|**LIABILITIES**|||||
|Creditors: Accountancy charges||(475)||(875)|
|||______||______|
|||(475)||(875)|
|||______||______|
|**TOTAL NET ASSETS**||118,539||111,807|
|||______||______|
|**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**|||||
|Unrestricted funds||118,539||111,807|
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