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CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED
(A Company limited by guarantee)
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REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
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## **CHARITY NO: 1068047**
**COMPANY REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO: 3494207**
## **CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
## **LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION**
## **Status**
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 16th January 1998 and registered as a charity on 11th February 1998.
The company was established under a Memorandum of Association which established the objects and powers of the charitable company and is governed under its Articles of Association. Under the Articles, one-third of the trustees retire by rotation at the AGM and are able to offer themselves for re-election.
## **Directors and Trustees**
The directors of the charitable company ("the charity") are its trustees for the purpose of charity law and throughout the report are collectably referred to as the trustees.
The trustees serving during the year were as follows:
## **Trustees**
John Connolly Nicholas Smith (Vice Chair) Colin Turfus (Company Secretary) Derek Johnson (Treasurer) Kevin Mullally Gillian Pearce Liz Wakling Sue Johnson **Chair** Kevin Dupree
## **Registered Office**
Unit 301, Chimes Shopping Centre, Uxbridge, UB8 1GD
## **Accountants**
**Lewis Associates, Chartered Certified Accountants** 75 Coniston Gardens London NW9 0BA
## **Bankers**
Barclays Leicester LE87 2BB
**CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2026**
The trustees are pleased to present their report together with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31st March 2026
Legal and administrative information set out on page 2 forms part of this report. The financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the Memorandum and Articles of Association and the Statement of Recommended Practice - Accounting and Reporting by Charities.
## **Objects of the Charity**
The objects of the charity are to advance the education of children and young people particularly in respect of the damages of drugs and addictive materials and substances. Primarily teaching is provided by specially trained Educators, through skills development, interactive participation, with the assistance of a range of audio visual material and publications and by using any other means of dissemination and communication of educational material and information primarily in the London Borough of Hillingdon.
## **Organisation**
A board of trustees currently of nine members, who meet quarterly, administers the charity.
## **Investment powers**
Under the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the charity has the power to make any investment as the trustees see fit.
## **Review of Activities and Future Developments**
This year we are on target to reach nearly 9,000 children with 41 school visits across 37 different schools. We have retained all our schools bar one, however, we have had a number of schools reduce the number of days per visit. We are therefore needing to increase the number of schools we visit in order to compensate for this.
We have had a change in staffing numbers, and we sadly said goodbye to a long serving Educator in February 2026. Bookings for the Summer Term have been reorganised for one Educator to cover, with the agreement that extra days will be claimed on a monthly basis. We now offer all in- person workshops available, which allows educational settings to pick from over 20 workshops across the themes of Physical Health and Wellbeing, RSE, Mental Wellbeing and Online Behaviours. The type of educational setting that we can work in has now also increased to include nurseries and secondary schools, broadening the establishments we can target. Complimentary SCARF staff meetings are proving more popular this year and this has helped us to develop stronger bonds with our SCARF schools. We have gained a couple of new schools through Standalone conversions and are continually looking at ways of promoting our work, especially through Tour and Trial and local events such as Hillingdon Junior Citizens and Ruislip Manor Fun Day. There has been increased help from Head Office to support marketing strategies, including using CANVA to increase the quality of assets, rebranding to CoramSCARF to align marketing and an increased output on social media that can be shared by us on a local level.
Recently we gained possession of Life Space, an interactive, immersive learning space, which we look forward to introducing to schools in the Summer term and re-engage with some of the schools that we lost when the Life Bus was retired.
## **Statement of Public Benefit**
The aims of Coram Life Education Hillingdon Limited are to advance the education of children and young people, particularly in respect of the damaging effects of drugs and addictive materials and substances. Teaching is provided by specially trained Educators, using interactive teaching methods.
## **Ensuring our work delivers our aims**
The aims and objectives for Coram Life Education Hillingdon Limited are set out above and are reviewed at the direction of the trustees, subject to our licence and when activities are changed. We refer to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission's documents on public benefit when reviewing our aims and objectives and in planning our future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives they have set.
## **How our activities deliver public benefit**
Our service is available to all primary school children in the London Borough of Hillingdon and in surrounding boroughs and adjoining educational authorities. We believe that by offering our service, Coram Life Education Hillingdon Limited gives young local people the chance to learn in a structured way so that they can make informed choices. This has had a positive effect locally and we continually evaluate the effectiveness of our service. During the last financial year we have continued to extend our service to support parents and carers.
**CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
## **Report of the trustees for the year ended 31 March 2026 (continued)**
## **Trustee's responsibilities in relation to the financial statements**
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements that give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity at the end of the financial year and of its surplus or deficit for the financial year. In doing so the trustees are required to:
select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
*
make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
*
prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to * presume that the charity will continue in business.
The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. The trustees are also responsible for
safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
By order of the trustees:
## Kevin Dupree
………………………….. Kevin Dupree Chair of Trustees
14 July 2026
**ACCOUNTANTS REPORT TO THE DIRECTORS ON THE UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS**
## **OF CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
You are responsible for the preparation of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 set out on pages 5 to 8, and you consider that the company is exempt from an audit under the provisions of Section 477(1) of the Companies Act 2006. In accordance with your instructions, we have compiled these unaudited accounts to assist you to fulfil your statutory responsibilities, from the accounting records and information and explanations supplied to us.
## Lewis Associates
……………………………………..
14 July 2026
Lewis Associates Chartered Certified Accountants 75 Coniston Gardens London NW9 0BA
**CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (including Income and Expenditure Account) for the year ended 31st March 2026**
|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
School fees
39,512.00
Fundraising
757.00
Profit on sale Harold books
0.00
Bank Interest
191.00
Donation St. Leonards
500.00
Balance of unused a/c
0.00
Insurance refund
0.00
Bank compensation
200.00
Branch work for Coram
0.00
**Total incoming resources**
41,160.00
0.00
**Resources expended**
Salaries, tax and NI and pensions
33,507.00
Educator travel
199.00
DBS
16.00
Legal and professional fees
579.00
Software
25.00
Life Education licence fee
10,836.00
Training expenses
473.00
0.00
Insurance
914.00
Insurance for LifeSpace
0.00
65.00
Depreciation
467.00
Ruislip fun day
60.00
Classroom expenses
174.00
Printing
96.00
Phone card
15.00
Zoom
156.00
Conference
798.00
Room hire
67.00
iPad repair
80.00
Hall hire life space
0.00
33.00
School payment redirected
192.00
Job advert
0.00
Bad debt write off
670.00
**Total resources expended**
49,324.00
98.00
**Net incoming resources for the year**
-8,165.00
-98.00
Balance brought forward 1 April 2025
27,450.00
1,000.00
Bank Reconciliation Adjustment (see note 7)
**Funds balance carried forward**
19,285.00
902.00
**31-Mar-26**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
School fees
39,512.00
Fundraising
757.00
Profit on sale Harold books
0.00
Bank Interest
191.00
Donation St. Leonards
500.00
Balance of unused a/c
0.00
Insurance refund
0.00
Bank compensation
200.00
Branch work for Coram
0.00
**Total incoming resources**
41,160.00
0.00
**Resources expended**
Salaries, tax and NI and pensions
33,507.00
Educator travel
199.00
DBS
16.00
Legal and professional fees
579.00
Software
25.00
Life Education licence fee
10,836.00
Training expenses
473.00
0.00
Insurance
914.00
Insurance for LifeSpace
0.00
65.00
Depreciation
467.00
Ruislip fun day
60.00
Classroom expenses
174.00
Printing
96.00
Phone card
15.00
Zoom
156.00
Conference
798.00
Room hire
67.00
iPad repair
80.00
Hall hire life space
0.00
33.00
School payment redirected
192.00
Job advert
0.00
Bad debt write off
670.00
**Total resources expended**
49,324.00
98.00
**Net incoming resources for the year**
-8,165.00
-98.00
Balance brought forward 1 April 2025
27,450.00
1,000.00
Bank Reconciliation Adjustment (see note 7)
**Funds balance carried forward**
19,285.00
902.00
**31-Mar-26**|**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**Incoming resources**
School fees
39,512.00
Fundraising
757.00
Profit on sale Harold books
0.00
Bank Interest
191.00
Donation St. Leonards
500.00
Balance of unused a/c
0.00
Insurance refund
0.00
Bank compensation
200.00
Branch work for Coram
0.00
**Total incoming resources**
41,160.00
0.00
**Resources expended**
Salaries, tax and NI and pensions
33,507.00
Educator travel
199.00
DBS
16.00
Legal and professional fees
579.00
Software
25.00
Life Education licence fee
10,836.00
Training expenses
473.00
0.00
Insurance
914.00
Insurance for LifeSpace
0.00
65.00
Depreciation
467.00
Ruislip fun day
60.00
Classroom expenses
174.00
Printing
96.00
Phone card
15.00
Zoom
156.00
Conference
798.00
Room hire
67.00
iPad repair
80.00
Hall hire life space
0.00
33.00
School payment redirected
192.00
Job advert
0.00
Bad debt write off
670.00
**Total resources expended**
49,324.00
98.00
**Net incoming resources for the year**
-8,165.00
-98.00
Balance brought forward 1 April 2025
27,450.00
1,000.00
Bank Reconciliation Adjustment (see note 7)
**Funds balance carried forward**
19,285.00
902.00
**31-Mar-26**|**Total**
**Funds**
**2025/26**
**£**
39,512.00
757.00
0.00
191.00
500.00
0.00
0.00
200.00
0.00
41,160.00
33,507.00
199.00
16.00
579.00
25.00
10,836.00
473.00
914.00
65.00
467.00
60.00
174.00
96.00
15.00
156.00
798.00
67.00
80.00
33.00
192.00
0.00
670.00
49,422.00
-8,263.00
28,450.00
20,187.00|**Total**
**Funds**
**2024/25**
**£**
36,712.00
575.00
149.00
326.00
950.00
0.00
24.00
0.00
891.00
39,627.00|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||30,048.00
90.00
13.00
763.00
0.00
10,112.00
162.00
878.00
540.00
161.00
312.00
170.00
35.00
156.00
635.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
577.00
0.00
44,652.00|
|||||-5,025.00
32,866.00|
|||||-61.00
27,780.00|
||||||
The statement of financial activities indicates all gains and losses recognised in the year. All incoming resources and resources expended derive from continuing activities.
## **CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2026**
|**CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
**BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2026**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Note**
**Fixed Assets**
Tangible fixed assets
**4**
**Current Assets**
Current account 3490
BACS payments 8799
Debtors
**6**
**Less Current Liabilities**
Creditors
**Net Assets**
**Funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General purpose funds
**Restricted funds**||**2025/26**
**2024/25**
**£**
**£**
1,272.00
1081.00
3,077.00
1911.00
12,178.00
19147.00
3,660.00
6311.00
0.00
0.00
20,187.00
28450.00
**2025/26**
**2024/25**
**£**
**£**
19285.00
27450.00
902.00
1000.00
20187.00
28450.00|||
|||3,660.00|||
||||||
|||0.00|||
|||20,187.00|||
||||||
|||**2025/26**|||
||||**£**||
||||||
||||||
||||19285.00||
||||||
||||||
|||||902.00|
||||||
||||20187.00||
For the year ended 31 March 2026 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies. Directors ' responsibilities:
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year * in question in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act * with respect to accounting records at the preparation of accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies _subject to the small companies' regime and in accordance with FRS102._ Approved by the Board on 14th July 2026 and signed on its behalf by:Kevin Dupree Derek Johnson …………………………….. ……………………………. Kevin Dupree Derek Johnson Chair of Trustees Honorary Treasurer
## **CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED NOTES FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026 Accounting Policies**
## **1. Basis of prepration of accounts**
## (a)
These accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transactions value unless otherwise stated in relevant notes to these accounts.
The accounts have been prepared in accordance with:
* the statement of recommended Practice : Accounting and Reporting by charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK issued on 16th July 2014
The charity constitutes a public benefit entity as defined by FRS 102
(b) Grants are recognised in full in the Statement of Financial Activities in the year in which they are receivable.
(c) Resources expended are recognised in the period in which they are incurred. Resources expended include attributable VAT which cannot be recovered.
(d) Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity without further specified purpose and are available as general funds.
(e) Designated funds are unrestricted funds earmarked by the management committee for particular purposes.
(f) Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund, together with a fair allocation of management and support costs.
## **2 Trustees' Remuneration**
No remuneration directly or indirectly out of the charity was paid or payable for the period to any trustee or any person or persons known to be connected with any of them in attendance of meetings or functions. **3 Taxation**
The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax on its charitable activities.
|**4**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**
**Equipment**
**£**
**Cost**
Balance Brought Forward 1 April 2025
1081.00
projector bought 26/9/25
549.00
screen bought 26/9/25
110.00
**total**
1740.00
**Depreciation 33%**
Full year on BBF
357.00
1/4 to 26/9 on new
111.00
**total depreciation**
**468.00**
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 March 2026
1272.00|**4**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**
**Equipment**
**£**
**Cost**
Balance Brought Forward 1 April 2025
1081.00
projector bought 26/9/25
549.00
screen bought 26/9/25
110.00
**total**
1740.00
**Depreciation 33%**
Full year on BBF
357.00
1/4 to 26/9 on new
111.00
**total depreciation**
**468.00**
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 March 2026
1272.00|**4**
**Tangible Fixed Assets**
**Equipment**
**£**
**Cost**
Balance Brought Forward 1 April 2025
1081.00
projector bought 26/9/25
549.00
screen bought 26/9/25
110.00
**total**
1740.00
**Depreciation 33%**
Full year on BBF
357.00
1/4 to 26/9 on new
111.00
**total depreciation**
**468.00**
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 March 2026
1272.00|
|---|---|---|
|||357.00|
|||111.00|
|||**468.00**|
||||
||1272.00||
||||
**£**
**CORAM LIFE EDUCATION HILLINGDON LIMITED**
## **NOTES FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2026 (continued)**
## **5 Reserves Policy**
Coram Life Education Hillingdon aims to maintain a minimum level of reserves as required in order to ensure prudence in its financial management. The reserves policy aims to provide working capital to cover operational costs for three months. The reserves also cover salary costs for key staff members of staff, for a period of three months. The reserves required is (since March 2026) estimated to be £10,500. This figure acknowledges that income will continue to be generated during any period where a given contract is being reduced or discontinued. The total level of reserves may vary, dependent on Coram Life Education Hillingdon's operational budget.
## **6 Debtors**
Schools visited before 1st April 2026 but paid after Coteford 13 February 2026 £535.00 pd Frithwood 27 February 2026 £690.00 pd Robertswood 12 March 2026 £690.00 pd Grimsdell 13 March 2026 £405.00 Oak farm 18 March 2026 £790.00 Whiteheath 23 March 2026 £550.00 pd
## **£3,660.00**
## **total**
## **7. Reconciliation Note — Year-End Bank Balance**
As part of the 2024-25 year-end accounts preparation, all recorded income and expenditure for the financial year have been carefully checked and reconciled against the charity’s bank statements.
During this process, a small discrepancy of £60.64 was identified between the bank statement closing balance and the total recorded on the charity’s accounting spreadsheet.
All transactions have been reviewed, and every effort has been made to trace the source of this difference. Given the modest size of the discrepancy, and after verifying that all major transactions are correctly recorded, this figure has been noted as a Bank Reconciliation Adjustment in the accounts for transparency.
The charity will continue to monitor future reconciliations carefully to ensure all income and expenditure are fully accounted for.
## **8. Unpaid invoice from 2024/25**
The accounts for 2024/25 included figures for a number of unpaid invoices that had been issued in that year but not paid by the time the accounts were prepared. One school (Grange Park) refused to pay their invoice of £670. On investigation it became clear that there was a genuine midsunderstanding about the timing of their visit in relation to their SCARF licence. The school had already decided not to use our services any more. It was felt that the only option was to write off this debt.