## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From September 2021 Period start date To August 2022 Period end date** ## **Charity name: A S Neill Summerhill Trust** ## **Charity registration number: 1089804** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance the education of the public in
the educational philosophy, ideas, life and
writings of Alexander Sutherland Neill
(1883-1973), especially in the aims of
educating children to be happy, sincere,
balanced and sociable.| |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|To offer bursaries to poorer families of
children already attending Summerhill
School. To promote all aspects of the
school and A S Neill through the websites,
books articles and the media. To regularly
facilitate the translation and publication of
any of the books of A S Neill’s and of Zoë
Neill Readhead into other languages; to
raise funds for the Trust through these
translations. To specifically promote and
work towards the school’s Centenary year
in 2021 (delayed to 2022). To fund
students’ occasional extra-curricular
activities in the school (metalwork/music
etc)| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|During the year under review (2021-
2022), all the Trustees have been
informed of, and had regard to, the
guidance on public benefit issued by the
Charity Commission.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |||| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |---|---|---| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **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 2021-2022 Summerhill
School - like most of education across the
UK - sawthe beginning of a less acute
phase of the pandemic. Although some
restrictions remained in place, particularly
with regard to international travel, many of
the restrictions on daily life which coloured
the 2020/21 academic year had been lifted
by autumn 2021. Groups could gather
indoors, shops and hospitality venues were
open, and fully vaccinated contacts of
positive COVID cases were no longer
required by law to self-isolate. There were
some setbacks with Covid in school but the
school community fully respected any
students or staff who chose to continue
wearing masks. The loosening of restrictions
in society as a whole corresponded with a
gradual return to most of the pre-pandemic
norms at Summerhill.
For both the school and the Trust, the year
was dominated by preparations for
Summerhill’s Centenary celebrations such
as the highly successful Reunion (July 2022)
and the Festival of the Child (August 2022)
all of which had been delayed from 2021 to
2022 due to the pandemic. The Trust
contributed small funds to help with
promotion of the five-day Festival of the
Child, which had 1,000 people from 40
countries benefitting.
The Trustees spent much time and money
during the year on the awarding of bursaries
of children already attending the school; a
number of families had been hard hit by the
economic effects of the pandemic.| As part of the Centenary celebrations, November 2021 saw the Trust bank-roll and publish a new book about Summerhill titled ‘Barefoot in November. Parenting the Summerhill way’ written by the Principal, Zoë Neill Readhead. The Trust paid all production costs on the understanding these would be recouped from significant sales and overseas royalties (five countries to date) and this happened by August 2022 by a generous, positive margin. Further contracts covering five new overseas translations of some of Neill’s books were also secured by the Trust during the year under review, bringing in significant funds. All these books help parents, schools, education authorities and the world of academia with a wider understanding of what is possible from the educational experience in Summerhill. Throughout the year under review the Trust continued extensive preparations for the special art exhibition at the Institute of Education/University College London due to be held in September 2022. Again, the Trust agreed to pay the (non-recoverable) costs. Ten former Summerhillians from the 1930s1990s, who went on to have successful careers in the arts agreed to loan various artworks for the proposed exhibition and to donate one item each for a later art auction to raise funds for bursaries from the Trust. The Trustees worked extensively with the Institute of Education/UCL on this project during the year under review. A number of Trustees continued to help with the emerging A S Neill Archive and Research Centre based at the school, which is committed to professionally collecting and archiving thousands of items that tell the story of Summerhill from 1921 onwards. There were various public displays of archives during the year. The Trustees agreed a new Trust logo for the first time. **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **N/A** Achievements against Para 1.41 objectives set **N/A** Performance of fundraising activities against objectives Para 1.41 set **N/A** Investment performance Para 1.41 against objectives **N/A** Other ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|This was undertaken at all three of the
Trust’s meetings during the year under
review – Nov 3, 2021, Mar 9, 2022 and Aug
2, 2022.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|We do not have a policy.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|0| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|We make spending decisions to ensure a
healthy bank balance at all times.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **N/A** The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) **N/A** Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted **N/A** A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity **N/A** Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|It is a “Declaration of Trust constituting the A
S Neill Summerhill Trust”, dated April 2001.| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|As a registered Charitable Trust, governed
by the Trustees. It is not a registered
Company.| |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|When a Trustee leaves (as happened in
August 2022), the remaining Trustees
discuss potential candidates and discuss
whether to replace them, and vote on the
appointment of the new Trustee.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**N/A**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|The A S Neill Summerhill Trust| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|**N/A**| |Registered charity number|1089804| |Charity’s principal address|c/o Zoë Neill Readhead, Trustee, Hill Farm, Leiston, Suffolk
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OBE|Secretary||| ||Steve Fawdry|Treasurer||| ||HenryReadhead|Chair||| ||Zoë Readhead|||| ||TonyReadhead|||| ||Stephen Southgate|||| ||Nathalie Gensac|||| ||Martha Neighbours|||| ||Mark Griffiths|Resigned Aug2022||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** The Trustees are not directors, corporate or otherwise. **N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**N/A**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets **N/A** held in this capacity Name and objects of the **N/A** charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for **N/A** 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**
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**Date**||Steve Fawdry| |---|---|---| ||Mark Vaughan|Steve Fawdry| ||
Secretary|Treasurer| ||June 13, 2023
June 14, 2023|| ||June 13, 2023|| ## **The A S Neill Summerhill Trust** ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 AUGUST 2022 **INCOME £’s EXPENDITURE £’s** Donations 14,217.54 Expenses UCL/IoE 3,425.42 Royalties/contract 8,222.91 Paypal for Festival 74.03* Paypal for Festival 74.03* Art/Craft Budget 310.24 Zoë Barefoot Sales 6,052.50 Bursaries Paid 23,889.34 Gift Aid Claim 30.15 Extras/Lessons 1,424.60 Postage 94.20** Zoe’s Barefoot 7,722.00 Indept Exam. Accts 216.00 Postage repaid 94.12 TOTAL INCOME: £28,691.33 TOTAL EXPENSES: £37,155.75** ## **BALANCES** Opening balance 01.09.2021 £58,835.69 Income £28,691.33 Expenditure £37,155.75 **Closing Balance 31.08.2022 £50,371.27** ## **Accounts prepared from bank records** Lynn Kersey Date: 09.09.2022 Notes to accounts: * Paypal monies to Trust are for Festival & been transferred **Trust owes £0.08 postage to Summerhill account Accounting Serrfices The A S Neill Summerhlll Trust I planned and performed my ex6rnination so as to satisfy myself that the objertives of the independent examination are achieved and before finalising the report l obtained written assurances from the TrusteÈ5 of all material matter5. Independent Examinerfs Ststement. Report and Opinion Subject to the limitations upon the scope of rny work as detailed above. I have completed my examination: and can confirm that:_ Thi5 is a report in respert of an examination c3riied out under 145 of the Act and in accordance with the directions given by the Charity Commission under sertion 14515llbl of the Act which may be applicable- and that no material matters have tome to my attention in connertion with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:_ atcounting records were not kept in respect of the charity a5 required by with Section 130 of The Charities Act 2011,. the financial statements do not accord wtth those records- or the financial statements do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities IAtcounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than anv reqvirement that the accounts give and'true and fairf view, which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examinats0n- have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principals set out in the FRS 102 SORP Istatement of Recommended Prartice for Accounting and Reporting by Charities) 2015, las amended by the Bulletin i55ued in February 20161, (The SORPI. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention Should be drawn in this report tn order to enablè a proper understanding of the financial statement5 to be reached. For the year ending 31. August 2022 1 agree lo the trust ended with a deficit of £8.464.42, leaving the ￿serveS balance at £50.371.27 a5 of 31" August 2022. Reglstored Olfko.. Cha￿1 Road Arwurrfng SorvIc￿ Uffdt•d Carlton Park Hou80 Carlton Park Ind￿trial estat• saxmundham Suffolk IP17 2NL Contsct Deta1￿.. Emall: InfO￿￿1.C￿uk . p1yroll@craslA)￿k Ttl: 01728 687000 Pax.. 01728 888209 2915 Company No. 4717829 VAT No. 922072050 Accounting Services Signed:_ Miss Rebecca Brock- Independent Examiner CRASL Carlton Park House Saxmundham Suffolk IP17 2NL This report was signed on 12 June 2023 Regl8tsrod Offi¢e'. Chap•l Road Aecourfng S•1vl￿ Llmll•d Carlton Park Hou Carfton Park Indu8trfal E8tat• Saxmundhom Suffolk IP17 2NL C(Attact Dtrtslkn.. Emall.. 1nftyècr481.￿.yk - p•ymlWrnBI.co.uk T4.. 01728 687000 Fax.. 01728 888209 W8bslt6'. www.crasl.co.uk Company No. 4717829 VAT No. 922072050 The A S Nelll ￿mMerh•ll Tn￿t ACCOUNTS FOR YEAR ENDING 31 AIJGUST 2022 INCOME Donations Royaltie5 1 Contracts Paypal for Festival Zoe Barefoot Sales Gidt Aid Claim Postage TOTAL INCOME EXPENDITURE Expenses UCL/ LOE Paypal for Festtval Art I Craft 8udget Bursaries Paid Extras l lessons Zoe Barefoot Expenese5 Indep Exam Report Postsge Repaid TOTAL EXPENOITURE 14.217.54 8.222.91 74.03 6,052.$0 30.15 94.20 28.691.33 3,425.42 74.03 310.24 23.889.34 1,424.60 7.722.00 216.00 94.12 37,155.75 Surplus l -Deficlt for year 8A64AZ ASSETS 8ank Account 50.371.27 NEf ASSErs 50371.27 RESERVES Opening 8alarKe Deficit for Year Closin8 Balance 0110912021 £58.835.69 8,464.42 3110812022 £50,371.27 NOTES 11 Paypal monies to Trustr are for Festival and have been transfe￿ed in same period 21 Trust owes £0.08 posts8e to Summerhill account