## **Trustees Annual Report**
## **for the period 5 September 2020 to 4 September 2021**
**Charity name:** Bessemer Grange Primary School PTFA
**Other names charity is known by:** Friends at Bessemer; F@B
**Registered charity number:** 1096913
**Charity's principal address:** Bessemer Grange Primary School, Dylways, London, SE5 8HP
## **List of Charity Trustees who manage the Charity:**
|**Trustee Name**|**Role**|**Date acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Status at**
**30 June 2021**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Isabelle Ardizzone|Co-Chairperson||Active - Stepping
down|
|Shelley Morris|Co-Chairperson||Active - Stepping
down|
|Mark Wharton|Treasurer||Active|
|Hayley McGilp|Trustee||Active - Stepping
down|
|Ginny Paterson|Secretary||Active - Stepping
down|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Description of the Charity’s Trusts**
**Type of governing document:** Constitution adopted on 5 February 2003
**How the charity is constituted:** Unincorporated association
**How Trustees are appointed:** Trustees are appointed or re-appointed at the annual general meeting
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document:**
To advance the education of the pupils in the school in particular by
1. Developing effective relationships between staff, parents and others associated with the school;
2. Engaging in activities or providing facilities or equipment which support the school and advance the education of the pupils.
## **Activities in Year ending 4 September 2021**
This has been another exceptional year for F@B, contending with the challenges of fundraising in lockdown and balancing fundraising with an awareness of the financial pressures on families, combined with the need for events which bring the community together during a time of social distancing and lockdowns. F@B has built on the successes of the second half of 2019-2020 using online platforms to bring the community together and fundraise.
The new committee has continued to focus on three main goals:
- continuing to build a strong Bessemer community,
- providing enriching experiences for children and families,
- fundraising.
We have been seeking to increase the diversity of people involved in organising and attending F@B events and trying to increase the number of people involved however this has been particularly difficult during lockdown and remains a target for the coming year.
## **Communications** :
We have built on the success of last year to develop our communication network. Led by Lucy Adler we have been pushing out regular comms across several platforms:
1. The weekly school newsletter has a F@B segment.
2. The Whatsapp groups have been organised via a central “Whatsapp Warrior” team who push
- “messages from F@B” – this is an efficient way of reaching a proportion of the school community.
3. Classlist
## **FUNDRAISING**
F@B is Gift Aid registered, which enables us to make an additional 25% on eligible donations. We have a Virgin Money Giving page that people can use to make one-off or regular donations to F@B. This has been very well used this year. We had some regular donations on this page raising an important amount and we have set up donation pages for specific events and ah-hoc fundraising.
**Nature Garden:** Thank you to Leanne Bidnar and Amanda Leat who oversee the nature garden and have resumed the nature garden maintenance days. Leanne won a bid under Southwark Council’s Cleaner, Greener, Safer initiative of £2000 which will be used for maintenance to the area and repair of the pizza oven. **Nature Garden Parties** remain extremely popular, particularly with the reduced availability of indoor party venues during Covid.
**The Football Cage** – Vlad Stankovic has continued providing weekly football coaching to a group of children on Sunday afternoons and David Cahill has started a group for younger years also on a Sunday, with all donations being returned to school via F@B. **Football Floodlight campaign** – Led by Vlad Stankovich over £2,500 was raised to install floodlights. Thank you also to Ian Barber who organised the installation.
**Winter Fair and Raffle** – Due to lockdown restrictions this event took place online. A huge thank you to Nicola Cadbury for ensuring this event took place and for organising a varied and exciting morning of activities. Once again Ginny Patterson organised a fantastic array of prizes for the raffle which was again generously supported by Urban Village.
**Summer Raffle** – Ginny Patterson once again organised a fabulous raffle, raising nearly £1,500
**Halloween Balloon Racing –** This online fundraiser was organised by Ginny Patterson.
**Bessemer’s Got Talent** – It was wonderful to see so many children showcasing their talents which really were varied. This was a great event for bringing the community together during lockdown.
**Nature Garden Tote Bags** – The tote bags, a new venture for F@B, were a success thanks largely to Rebecca Williams’ beautiful design. Urban Village supported this venture by covering the cost of printing the bags. We still have around 300 bags that can be sold in the next academic year.
**Christmas trees** – In a change to last year’s format this year Dan White arranged for any trees purchased from Dulwich Pot and Plant Garden Centre to be eligible for a donation to F@B. This was a very easy way of raising money for the school and supporting a local business at the same time.
**Partizan Brewery –** Andy of Partizan brewery gives F@B £5 for every purchase made using the Bessemer code. This is a good way of supporting a local business and raising money for the school at the same time **.**
**Christmas Gifts for Keyworth and Bessemer** – In recognition of the challenges some families were facing at Christmas, money was raised to purchase gift cards for vulnerable families at Keyworth and Bessemer. A small excess of money was given to Lynette Mincher, SENCO at Bessemer, to use to further support those families.
**Easter Treasure Trail** – This was a new event for F@B, driven by a need for a fundraising event that supported our lockdown aims of bringing the community together and offering a way for families to engage in their local area whilst also promoting exercise and fresh air, and raised £600.
**Donations from Urban Village** – We are incredibly grateful to Urban Village for their continued support of the school. They have supported the Tote bags, Winter raffle and Summer raffle and the bike ride.
**Early Years’ playground** – F@B worked with the school to renovate the Early Years’ playground. £1,000 was raised through a dedicated Virgin Money Giving page towards the cost of the improvements. Rebecca Williams designed signs and boards to brighten the area, and Ian Barber built and installed a bug hotel, and also installed wooden tepees and a water play feature.
**Fun Run:** The fun run event was sponsored by Winkworth, covering the cost of medals. Less money was raised this year as there was less focus on raising funds through sponsorship, but there was still a profit of nearly £500
**Bessemer to Brighton Bike Ride:** 7 riders made the journey from Bessemer to Brighton, raising £2,400 for F@B
**Playstreet / Buzz Launch** – As lockdown restrictions lifted the school newspaper was launched by a group of parents supported by a playstreet where ice-creams and drinks were also sold.
## **OTHER EVENTS**
**Year 6 Disco** - An end of year event to celebrate Year 6 finishing their time at Bessemer. F@B provided pizzas and other refreshments.
Due to the Covid restrictions in place, it was not possible to hold many other events such as Science Week, regular Playstreets, Summer Fair and Ice Cream Fridays.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW FOR 4 SEPTEMBER 2021**
## **Summary of accounts 2020/2021**
The total income from the year’s events and grants was £29,135.
The total spend was £50,121 including donations to the school of £41,694. Funds carried over on 5 September 2018 = £70,137 Funds carried forward at 4 September 2019 = £49,151
The donations to the school were for the following resources / activities:
- £30,000 for IT upgrade
- £1.668 for Year 6 trip
- £9,510 for restricted GAYE donations
A summary of the financial results of the main events is below:
|Event|Income (£)|Expenditure (£)|Surplus / Deficit (£)|
|---|---|---|---|
|Virtual Balloon Race|621|30|591|
|Pumpkin Carving|60|35|25|
|Bessemer’s Got Talent|820|4|816|
|Tote Bags|1,180|650|530|
|Christmas Trees|600|-|600|
|Christmas Gifts|1,601|1430|171|
|Winter Fair|603|6|597|
|Winter Raffle|1,544|515|1,029|
|Nature Garden|1,215|957|258|
|Football Donations|149|-|149|
|Football Floodlights|2,605|2,735|(131)|
|Easter Trail|598|3|595|
|Early Years Playground|999|-|999|
|Bike Ride|2,375|11|2,364|
|Fun Run|716|226|491|
|Summer Raffle|1,426|3|1,423|
|Playstreet|585|125|460|
|General / Other|8,528|1,692|6,835|
|Previous year’s
campaigns|3,053|-|3,053|
|Donations to School|-|41,694|(41,694)|
|**Total**|**29,135**|**50,121**|**(20,909)**|
**Charity Name No (if any) Bessemer Grange Primary School PTFA 1096913 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 05/09/2020 04/09/2021
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**6,770**
**12,716**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,486**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,486**
**18,453**
**2,020**
**1,567**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,040**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**22,040**
**- 2,554**
**4,770**
**45,667**
**47,883**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**4,518**
**5,131**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,649**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,649**
**27,124**
**957**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,081**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,081**
**- 18,432**
**- 4,770**
**24,470**
**1,268**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**11,288**
**17,847**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,135**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,135**
**45,577**
**2,020**
**957**
**1,567**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50,121**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**50,121**
**- 20,986**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**6,770**|||||**84,137**|
|FundraisingEvents|**12,716**|||||**23,223**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
|||||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**19,486**|||||**107,360**|
||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**
|||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**107,360**|
||||||||
|Donations Paid|**18,453**|||||**59,719**|
|Cost of FundraisingEvents|**2,020**|||||**2,624**|
|Cost of Nature Garden||||||**212**|
|General Overhead|**1,567**|||||**1,054**|
|Bank Charges|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**22,040**|||||**63,609**|
||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
||**-**||||||
||**-**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**63,609**|
||||||||
||**- 2,554**|**- 18,432**|**-**|
**- 20,986**||**43,751**|
||**4,770**|**- 4,770**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**45,667**|**24,470**|**-**|**70,137**||**26,386**|
||**47,883**|**1,268**|**-**|**49,151**||**70,137**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
22/05/2022
1
## **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
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
CCXX R2 t SS|(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Bank account
PayPal account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**47,883**
**1,268**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**47,883**
**1,268**
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)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Mark Wharton
Beatriz Santana-Suarez|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||||22/05/2022|
||||25/05/2022|
||||22/05/2022|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
22/05/2022
2
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the**
## **Trustees of Bessemer Grange PTFA**
## **Year ended 4 September 2021**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the financial statements of Bessemer Grange PTFA ('the charity') for the year ended 4 September 2021.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements in accordance with the requirements of the Charities SORP
Having satisfied myself that the accounts of the company are not required to be audited under Part 16 of the 2006 Act and are eligible for independent examination, I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the 2011 Act’). In carrying out my examination I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
Since the charity’s gross income exceeded £25,000 your examiner must be a member of a body listed in section 145 of the 2011 Act. I confirm that I am qualified to undertake the examination because I am a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), which is one of the listed bodies.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or
2. the financial statements do not accord with those records; or
3. the financial statements do not comply with the accounting requirements of section 396 of the 2006 Act 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; or
4. the financial statements have not been prepared in accordance with the methods and principles of the Statement of Recommended Practice for accounting and reporting by charities applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)
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.
Kim D Hooper
Kim D Hooper Chartered accountant March 31 2022