Friends of Grasmere School Charity Registration No. 1053981
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Trustees’ Annual Report for year ended 31 August 2025
Dear Members,
The trustees of the Friends of Grasmere School (FroGS) are pleased to provide the following report on FroGS’ activities during the year ended 31 August 2025.
Our object and activities
The object FroGS is to advance the education of pupils in Grasmere Primary School. We do this by raising funds and organising activities to:
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(a) develop relationships between the staff, parents and others associated with the school,
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(b) support the school and advance the education of the pupils attending it, and
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(c) help to provide educational facilities and items for the school, in consultation with the school’s managers and governors.
In all our activities, the trustees of FroGS have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
Our achievements and performance in the year ended 31 August 2025
In the past year, FroGS has organised social events including our annual Summer Fair and Winter Fair, a Garden Party and Pub Quiz for parents and carers, and a Bonfire Night Disco, Chess Tournament, Cinema Night and Enterprise Fair for pupils. We also held an Autumn Jumble Sale and a Spring Jumble Sale to raise funds to support the school. All these events were organised and run by volunteers from among Grasmere’s parents, carers, teachers and staff. Their effort and enthusiasm have made all these events possible, and we are tremendously grateful for their hard work.
Parents and carers have also supported FroGS and the school by making direct donations, by buying FroGS merchandise (including cookbooks, tea towels, tote bags, t-shirts and our annual Christmas tree sale), by donating through the ‘Asda Rewards’ app, by participating in a sandwich board promotion by estate agents Location Location and by making use of workplace ‘matched giving’ schemes to support their volunteer fundraising efforts on behalf of FroGS. We are tremendously fortunate to have such a generous and supportive community of parents and carers.
Thanks to the support of our parents and carers, we have been able to finance equipment for the school including a new AV system for the assembly hall, easels and outdoor storage for the nursery playroom, phonics resources for the school library, activity tables for the outdoor learning space and various play equipment. We have also been able to finance enrichment
events for the pupils ofthe school including yoga workshops, school visits by children’s authors and class trips. We have also supported the school in raising funds for Save the Children’s Gaza Appeal.
Financial review of the year ended 31 August 2025
In the past year, FroGS raised £26,529 from events, donations, grants and other sources. Out of this total, £4,896 was raised for specific purposes (including Save the Children’s Gaza Appeal, special fundraising for Year 5 events and the Year 6 leavers’ party, and year group cake sales). £15,211 was income from social events, £4,802 was made up of individual donations from parents and carers, £6,517 was raised through other fundraising including merchandise sales, matched giving grants and bank interest. Payment processing fees amounting to £236 are excluded from these sub- totals.
During the year, FroGS spent £23,142. Out of this, £2,474 was spent running FroGS events (all of which were profitable), £1,821 on other fundraising expenses including the cost of merchandise sold and transaction fees for digital payments, £733 on administrative expenses (comprising insurance, film licencing, website costs and purchasing equipment for the general use of FroGS), £6,754 comprised spending of funds raised for specific purposes (including spending on sports equipment, school garden improvements and class treats from funds raised in prior years) and £18,144 was spent on other charitable purposes including equipment and enrichment events for the school.
At the start of the year, FroGS’ cash balance stood at £31,689. At the close of the year, it had increased to £33,218. Out of this, £1,816 comprised ‘restricted funds’ which were raised for a specific purpose (primarily ‘class treats’ funded by year group cake sales). A further £10,546 has been provisionally allocated to specific expenditures (including a new reading room, a new sign for the Albion Road entrance to the school, refurbishment of the reception classroom and completing the garden upgrade), with the balance of £20,854 being available for other FroGS activities.
FroGS’ fundraising activities are generally self-financing on an event-by-event or term-by-term basis, and we have limited need to hold cash reserves beyond funds allocated to specific projects. In its meeting held on 25 January 2024, the committee adopted a reserves policy of striving to always maintain approximately £3,000 in uncommitted cash reserves.
Please see AnnexA to this report for a copy ofthe accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025. The accounts have been prepared on a ‘receipts and payments’ basis, in line with Charity Commission guidelines for small charities. More details about FroGS’ financial position are available on request from the Treasurer.
Because FroGS had income in excess of £25,000 in the year ending 31 August 2025, Charity Commission guidance requires us to have our accounts examined by an independent examiner. Nicola Kleynhans, who is a Chartered Accountant and a former Treasurer of FroGS, has been appointed as the independent examiner. She will not be paid for her report, a copy of which is set out in Annex B.
Our structure, governance and management
FroGS is an unincorporated association established in 1996 and governed by a constitution which was most recently amended in an annual general meeting held on 22 September 2023. FroGS is a registered charity (no. 1053981). FroGS has its principal address at Grasmere Primary School, 92 Albion Road, London. FroGS has a_ website at www.triendsofgrasmere.com, where a copy of the constitution may be downloaded. All parents and guardians of pupils attending Grasmere Primary School are members of FroGS, as are all teachers at the school. FroGS is managed by a committee made up of members who are elected in an annual general meeting or (in the case of casual vacancies) co-opted by the committee until the next annual general meeting. The annual general meeting is at the start ofthe school year, and the committee meets approximately twice each term. Committee meetings are open to all members of FroGS (i.e., all parents, guardians and teachers).
The trustees of FroGS are appointed by the committee under article 23 of the constitution from among the committee members and the Head of Grasmere Primary School.
All committee members and trustees are volunteers recruited from among the parents, guardians and teachers at Grasmere Primary School. The following were trustees of FroGS during the year ended 31 August 2025:
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Name Office Dates Acted
Léa Teuscher Chair entire year
Caroline Potter Secretary entire year
Magnus Jones Treasurer entire year
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Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved this Trustees’ Annual Report.
Signed on behalf of the trustees by:
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Annex A
Annual Accounts for year ended 31 August 2025
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Friends of Grasmere School
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Independent Examiner’s Report
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Report to the trustees/ lame
members of |FRIENDS OF GRASMERE SCHOOL
On accounts for the year | 31 AUGUST 2025
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Charity no | 1053981
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2025.
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Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act’).
| 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, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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Independent | have completed my examination. | 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:
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*® accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
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e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Name: | NICOLA KLEYNHANS
Relevant professional | ICAEW qualification(s) or body (if any):
Address: | 25 ALBION ROAD
LONDON
N16 9PP
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
IER
1 October 2018
Give here brief details of INONE any items that the examiner wishes to disclose.
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October 2018