## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **Period start date** 1 September 2021 **Period end date** 31 August 2022 **Charity name:** Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich ## **Charity registration number:** 1093116 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The aim of ‘The Friends’ is to advance the
education and enrich the experience of
the pupils of The Charter School North
Dulwich (‘The School’)| |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|Main activities:
Develop relationships and
communication between staff,
parents/carers and the local community
Engage in activities which support The
School and the local community, in
particular, with other local schools
Engage in fundraising, provide and assist
in activities, facilities or equipment that
support The School and advance the
education and experience of students
(not normally provided by The School
budget)
Provide practical support for the work of
The School in promoting and publicising
The School, its achievements and
activities
Promote pupil enrichment, inclusion,
wellbeing as part of a sustainable
approach in line with The School ethos.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|I can confirm that the trustees have had
due regard to the Commission’s guidance
at all relevant times.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **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|The end of lockdown has presented a
number of challenges and opportunities
for The Friends and the wider school
community.
Key achievements this year included:
Raising £20k in three main fundraisers –
reading garden, sports equipment and
staff welfare.
Raising £10k from the Christmas Fair and
Quiz Night – our first significant ‘in-
person’ events since lockdown.
Raising over £3k from the sale of second-
hand uniform.
Making grants of nearly £36k to The
School for a range of projects, including
the music room (£12k), staff welfare
(£8k), outside space (£7k), sports
equipment (£3k) and Duke of Edinburgh
trips (£2k).
We have also made grants of nearly £1k
from our hardship funds allowing a
number of pupils to participate in school
activities.| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|At the year end, the Charity had cash and
bank funds of £50k. There were no other
assets or liabilities.
£27k of this balance were unrestricted
funds, although the trustees’ intention is
to use c£7k to top up the outside space
fund and c£3k for a SEN project.
£23k of this balance were restricted
funds for five campaigns (inc £8k for staff
welfare and £6k for sports equipment).| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Friends aims to hold at least £1k in
unrestricted free funds at any one time.
This is anticipated to be sufficient to
meet one year of basic running costs (e.g.
termly meetings for parents, the AGM
and relevant insurance) assuming no
additional funds are raised.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|c£17k of ‘free’ unrestricted funds (see
year end position note above).| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Not applicable| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No funds are materially in deficit.| |---|---|---| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|The trustees consider the Charity to be a
going concern at the current date and
are unaware of any uncertainties that
would suggest otherwise.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Constitution
First adopted 17 June 2002
Subsequent amendments on
12 September 2018 and 8 October 2020| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The Friends is an Unincorporated
Association.| |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|Membership is open and free to The
School’s parents/carers and staff.
Trustees are generally the Committee
Office Holders who are elected or re-
elected at each year’s AGM.| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich| |---|---| |Other name the charityuses|‘FOTCSND’ orjust ‘The Friends’| |Registered charitynumber|1093116| |Charity’s principal address|The Charter School
Red Post Hill
London
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Eleanor Mitchiner|Chair||Members| ||Molly Jarvis|Co-Secretary||Members| ||Dr Clare Dunne|Co-Secretary||Members| ||Angus Farr|Treasurer||Members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Not applicable Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year **|| |---|---|---| |Not applicable||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets Not applicable held in this capacity 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)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details Not applicable ## **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Angus Farr|| ||
Treasurer|| ||28 September 2022|| ||28 September 2022|| **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31 August 2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1093116| ||||| ||3+4
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2022. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all 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 in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. 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 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._ **Date:** 4[th] October 2022 **Signed: Name:** Mandy Miller **Relevant professional** Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 17 Beaulieu Close, London SE5 8BA 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER** ||**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**1093116**|**1093116**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||01 September 2021||||31 August 2022||| ||||||||||| |**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**|||||||||| |Fundraising campaigns|**-**||**19,832**||**-**||**19,832**||**49,375**| |Events income|**17,271**||**-**||**-**||**17,271**||**10,078**| |Uniform sales|**3,048**||**-**||**-**||**3,048**||**851**| |Sponsorship|**2,500**||**500**||**-**||**3,000**||**1,550**| |Loyalty shopping schemes income|**1,491**||**-**||**-**||**1,491**||**1,336**| |Other income and donations|**2,049**||**-**||**-**||**2,049**||**764**| ||**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**26,359**||**20,332**||**-**||**46,691**||**63,955**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**26,359**||**20,332**||**-**||**46,691**||**63,955**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Grants to school|**20,098**||**16,056**||**-**||**36,154**||**59,886**| |Events expenses|**5,965**||**-**||**-**||**5,965**||**-**| |Administration expenses|**211**||**-**||**-**||**211**||**242**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**26,274**||**16,056**||**-**||**42,330**||**60,128**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**26,274**||**16,056**||**-**||**42,330**||**60,128**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**85**||**4,276**||**-**||
**4,361**||**3,827**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**27,247**||**18,841**||**-**||**46,088**||**42,261**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**27,332**||**23,117**||**-**||**50,449**||**46,088**| 3 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Lloyds Bank Account||||**25,926**|**23,117**||**-**| ||Pettycash||||**1,406**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**27,332**|**23,117**||**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK|OK||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||**Cost (optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||Date of
approval| ||||||Angus Farr, Treasurer|||28‐Sep‐22| |||||||||| 4 **Oct 2018** **IER** **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich|Charity Name
Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||31 August 2022|**Charity no**
**(if any)**|1093116| ||||| ||3+4
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)||| I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2022. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all 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 in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. 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 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._ **Date:** 4[th] October 2022 **Signed: Name:** Mandy Miller **Relevant professional** Accountant **qualification(s) or body (if any):** **Address:** 17 Beaulieu Close, London SE5 8BA 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER** ||**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**Friends of the Charter School North Dulwich**|**1093116**|**1093116**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||01 September 2021||||31 August 2022||| ||||||||||| |**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**|||||||||| |Fundraising campaigns|**-**||**19,832**||**-**||**19,832**||**49,375**| |Events income|**17,271**||**-**||**-**||**17,271**||**10,078**| |Uniform sales|**3,048**||**-**||**-**||**3,048**||**851**| |Sponsorship|**2,500**||**500**||**-**||**3,000**||**1,550**| |Loyalty shopping schemes income|**1,491**||**-**||**-**||**1,491**||**1,336**| |Other income and donations|**2,049**||**-**||**-**||**2,049**||**764**| ||**-**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**26,359**||**20,332**||**-**||**46,691**||**63,955**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment**
**sales, (see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**26,359**||**20,332**||**-**||**46,691**||**63,955**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Grants to school|**20,098**||**16,056**||**-**||**36,154**||**59,886**| |Events expenses|**5,965**||**-**||**-**||**5,965**||**-**| |Administration expenses|**211**||**-**||**-**||**211**||**242**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**26,274**||**16,056**||**-**||**42,330**||**60,128**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**26,274**||**16,056**||**-**||**42,330**||**60,128**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**85**||**4,276**||**-**||
**4,361**||**3,827**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**27,247**||**18,841**||**-**||**46,088**||**42,261**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_**|**27,332**||**23,117**||**-**||**50,449**||**46,088**| 3 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**|**Details**|**Details**|**Details**||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Lloyds Bank Account||||**25,926**|**23,117**||**-**| ||Pettycash||||**1,406**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**27,332**|**23,117**||**-**| ||(agree balances w ith receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK|OK||OK| ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**|**-**||**-**| |||||||**Cost (optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||**-**||| |||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name|||Date of
approval| ||||||Angus Farr, Treasurer|||28‐Sep‐22| |||||||||| 4 **Oct 2018** **IER**