## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1 September 2022 To: 31 August 2023**
## **Charity name: Rickmansworth School Foundation**
## **Charity registration number: 1081161**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To further the education of students**
**attending Rickmansworth school**
**including the provision of capital sums**
**for premises and equipment, plus other**
**financial assistance as required.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**The main activity undertaken by the**
**Foundation is the collection of**
**donations from parents of current and**
**former students of Rickmansworth**
**School. Donations are made either as**
**one off payments or regular gifts by**
**parents.**
**The donations received are then used to**
**improve the school setting in**
**accordance with the objectives of the**
**Foundation.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**During the year, the Foundation**
**received donations totalling £34,000 and**
**was able to supplement this through the**
**application of Gift Aid on eligible**
**donations of £6,140.**
**During the year, the Foundation**
**supported Rickmansworth School by**
**way of capital grants of £47,000 towards**
**new roofs for the school and £27,000**
**towards a new external escape for the**
**Science block.**|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The closing bank balance at 31 August**
**2023 was £23,854.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The Foundation continues to hold an**
**amount which will be used towards**
**future projects as identified by the**
**School and be in a position to assist**
**with said requests.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The Foundation has total reserves**
**carried forward as at 31 August 2023 of**
**£23,854.**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Not applicable**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Not applicable**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There are no uncertainties about the**
**charity continuing as a going concern.**|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are selected to reflect and**
**support the objectives of the Trust and**
**formal links with Rickmansworth**
**School. They are appointed on**
**recommendation of the chair and**
**agreement of existing trustees.**|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|RICKMANSWORTH SCHOOL FOUNDATION|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1081161|
|Charity’s principal address|Rickmansworth School
Scots Hill
Rickmansworth
Herts
WD3 3AQ|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or**
**body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Mr H.A.F. Collyer||||
||Mr J. de Braux||||
||Mr A. Walker|Chair|||
||Mr S.P. White||||
||Mr M. Fletcher||||
## **Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved**
**Director name None**
## **Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**||
|---|---|---|
|**None**|||
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Not applicable|
|---|---|
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects||
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|
|---|---|---|
|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|||
|**Accounta**
**nts**|Howard Wilson|36 Crown Rise, Watford, WD25 0NE|
|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
|---|---|---|
||Mr A Walker||
||
Chair||
||03/10/2023||
||03/10/2023||
## **Rickmansworth School Foundation No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts For the period** 01/09/2022 **To from** ~~a~~
01/09/2022 31/08/2023 **To**
**CC16a** ~~-~~
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Donations|**31,401**||**-**||**-**||**31,401**||**29,366**|
|Gift Aid|**6,140**||**-**||**-**||**6,140**||**5,784**|
|Interest|**31**||**-**||**-**||**31**||**1**|
|Other donations|**685**||**-**||**-**||**685**||**346**|
|Amounts received in error|**1,941**||**-**||**-**||**1,941**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**40,198**||**-**||**-**||**40,198**||**35,497**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**40,198**
**-**
**-**
**40,198**
**35,497**
~~———_—_—~~|||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
|General Expenses|**267**||**-**||**-**||**267**||**240**||
|Rickmansworth School|**74,000**||**-**||**-**||**74,000**||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|**74,267**||**-**||**-**||**74,267**||**240**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**74,267**
**-**
**-**
**74,267**
**240**
~~SS55—~~|||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 34,069**|**- 34,069**|**-**|**-**|**- - 34,069**|**- - 34,069**|**- - 34,069**|**- - 34,069**|**35,257**|**35,257**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**57,923**|**57,923**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**57,923**||**22,666**|**22,666**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|**23,854**|**23,854**|**-**|**-**|**- 23,854**|**- 23,854**|**- 23,854**||**57,923**|**57,923**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/10/2023
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank account
Deposit account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**17,870**
**-**
**5,984**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,854**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
Unrestricted
**1,941**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Mr A Walker|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Mr A Walker|03/10/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/10/2023
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name RICKMANSWORTH SCHOOL FOUNDATION **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 31 AUGUST 2023 **Charity no** 1081161 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** Trustee Annual Report (pages 1-6), Receipts and Payment Accounts (pages 1 and 2)
- I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 08 / 2023** .
- **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”).
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 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 03/10/2023 ~~-———~~ **Name:** JOHN WILSON ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional** FCA ATII **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 36 Crown Rise Watford Hertfordshire. WD25 0NE
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
## **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).
**Give here brief details of** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**