## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From:** 1[st] January 2025 **To:** 31[st] December 2025 **Charity name:** Friends of Halstow
**Charity registration number:** 1098833
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document:** The object of the charity is to advance the educational experience of pupils at Halstow Primary School. Thanks to the incredible generosity of parents and the community, we raise funds to support the school on items and experiences that fall outside of the school's budget capabilities.
**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:** The community raises money for Halstow Primary School through events such as the summer fair, a Halloween disco and a silent disco. Other smaller events also happen throughout the year.
## **Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by**
**the Charity Commission on public benefit:** In planning the activities the trustees have applied the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission.
**Contribution made by volunteers:** Volunteers contribute to the charity efforts by giving their time to run and staff fundraising events.
## **Achievements and performance**
**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:** The incredible generosity of the community has allowed Friends of Halstow to put £45,000 of funding directly back into the school. This included a new astro/ football area within the playground, activities for reception class, a Christmas pantomime, reading materials, author visits, items for the playground including a reading shed and scooters, therapeutic gardening sessions and environmental upgrades to the wildlife garden. These contributions benefited children across the school, enabling all families to have the same, enhanced learning experience.
## **Financial review**
**Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period:** Your donations helped raise a total of £37,798 (net) in 2025. This included £24,917 from charitable activities and £12,779 from donations and legacies. We put £45,313 of funding directly back into the school over the financial period.
**Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held:** Reserves are not held.
**Reasons for holding zero reserves:** Money is only paid out when raised and there are minimal overhead costs for the charity.
**The charity’s principal sources of funds:** While the charity does leverage some amount of sponsorship for event publicity from local businesses and direct donations from the school community, the principal source of funding is from ticket sales to events.
## **Structure, governance and management**
**Type of governing document:** Constitution.
**How is the charity constituted?:** Unincorporated Association.
**Trustee selection methods:** Potential candidates submit personal summaries for selection. Trustees are then voted by the attendees at the AGM on an annual basis.
**Relationship with any related parties:** Working relationship with the school senior leadership team.
## **Reference and administrative details**
Charity name: Friends of Halstow
Registered charity number: 1098833
Charity’s principal address: Halstow Primary School, Halstow Road, London SE10 0LD
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
|---|---|---|
|Alex Swann|Co-Chair||
|Hannah Martin|Co-Chair/ Trustee|Resigned as Co-Chair October 25 (still Trustee)|
|---|---|---|
|Sophie Kelly|Deputy Chair||
|Hinan Medouni|||
|Mary-Anne Moffatt|Treasurer||
|James Gadsby-Peet|Co-Chair|From October 2025|
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
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**Name:** James Gadsby-Peet **Position:** Co-Chair **Date:** 18/5/26
||||||||||**CC16a**|**CC16a**|
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||**Friends of Halstow**|||||**1098833**|||**CC16a**||
||**For the period**
**from**||1st January 2025||**To**|3|1st December
2025||||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
|**U**
**A1 Receipts**|**nrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds E **
**to the nearest £**||**ndowment funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
to the nearest £||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**||
|Donations
Events
Interest Received|**12,779)**||**-**||**-**||**12,779)**||**6,315)**||
||**24,917)**||**-**||**-**||**24,917)**||**36,590)**||
||**102)**||||||**102)**||75)||
|**_Sub total(Gross income for AR)_**|**37,798)**||**-**||**-**||**37,798)**||**42,980)**||
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**
Spend for Events
Payments to Halstow
Software and Bank Charges
**_Sub total_**|**0**||**-**||**-**||**0)**||||
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**37,798)**||**-**||**-**||**37,798)**||**42,980)**||
||||||||||||
||**(5,737)**||**-**||**-**||**(5,737)**||**(6,145)**||
||**(45,313)**||**-**||**-**||**(45,313)**||**(21,813)**||
||**(827)**||**-**||**-**||**(827)**||**(213)**||
||**(51,877)**||**-**||**-**||**(51,877)**||**(28,171)**||
||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases**|||||||||||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_**
**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**-**||**-**||||||
||||||||||||
||**(51,877)**||**-**||**-**||**(51,877)**||**(28,171)**||
||||||||||||
||**(14,079)**||**-**||**-**||**(14,079)**||**14,809)**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**63,292)**||**-**||**-**||**63,292)**||**48,485)**||
||**49,213)**||**-**||**-**||**49,213)**||**63,294)**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and**|**liabilities at the end of the period**||||||||||
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
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CAF Bank Account
NatWest Bank Account||||**nrestricted funds **
**to nearest £**
**39,437**
**9,777**
**-**||**Restricted funds**
**E**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**ndowment fund**
to nearest £|**s**|
||CAF Bank Account||||**39,437**||**-**||**-**||
||NatWest Bank Account||||**9,777**||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
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trustees|**_Total cash funds_**
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||||||||||**rrent value (option**||
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||||||||||**urrent value (option**||
||||||||||**-**||
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||||||||||Date of approval||
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||SIGN||||James Gadsby Peet||||18/5/26||
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name FRIENDS OF HALSTOW **On accounts for the year** 31 DECEMBER 2025 **Charity no** 1098833 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 TO 5 FOR ANNUAL RETURN, 1 TO 3 FOR ANNUAL REPORT, 1 FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTS (9 PAGES TOTAL) (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 31/12/2025. **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.
**Signed: Name:** FRASER BROWN **Relevant professional** ACA ICAEW (9161077) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 59 CALVERT ROAD, LONDON, SE10 0DH
**Date:** 18-MAY-26
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## **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** .
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**