COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER 05726189
Kidz Aware Limited
Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
Charity Number 11188859
Kidz Aware Limited
Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Contents | Page |
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| Legal and administrative details | 2 |
| Directors report | 3 |
| Trustees’ annual report | 4 - 5 |
| Accountants report | 6 |
| Statement of income and retained earnings | 7 |
| Statement of financial position | 8 |
| Notes to the accounts | 9 - 11 |
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Kidz Aware Limited
Legal and administrative details for the year ended 31 March 2025
Status
Registered Company No: 05726189 Registered Charity No: 11188859
Trustees / Directors
M C Metcalfe J Brookes C Foreman K Gill A Pape P Walton
Principal Address
Office 7a RCM Business Centre Dewsbury Road Ossett West Yorkshire WF5 9ND Accountants B M Howarth Ltd Metic House Ripley Drive Normanton Wakefield West Yorkshire WF6 1QT Bankers TSB Bank plc 2-4 Northgate Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 1HD
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Kidz Aware Limited
Directors’ report for the year ended 31 March 2025
The directors’ present their annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Principal activities
The principal activity of the company continued to be that of providing education services to disabled children.
Directors
The directors who held office during the year and up to the date of signature of the financial statements were as follows:
M C Metcalfe J Brookes C Foreman K Gill A Pape P Walton
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small companies’ exemption.
On behalf of the board
M C Metcalfe Director 5 June 2025
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Kidz Aware Limited
Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025
The Trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025. The unaudited financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out in note 1 and comply with the Charity’s constitution, applicable law and the Statement of Recommended practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities (Charities SORP FRS102).
Administrative Information
The names of the Trustees and their advisors during the year, together with the principal address, are shown on page 2.
Structure, Governance and Management
The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated on 1 March 2006 and registered as a charity on 18 April 2007. The company was established under a Memorandum of Association, which established the objectives and powers of the charitable company, and is governed under its Articles of Association.
Objectives and activities
The company's objectives and principle activities are to provide disability equality awareness programs into educational settings. It provides parents/carer's information and advice to enable them to access services for the disabled person they care for. It provides a children’s charter of rights which will enable children to state what changes need to be made to enable them to address their own rights. It provides information, consultation and training packages for parents/carers of a Special needs person and to service providers, organisations and individuals with an interest in special needs.
Achievements and Performances
The main areas of charitable activity are the provision of consultation advice and information to parents/carer's and delivery of disability equality awareness. The mission of Kidz Aware Limited is to help to ensure that all children with a disability have the opportunities to achieve their aspirations in life.
Risk Assessment
The Trustees do not consider the Charity is subject to any substantial risks beyond the liabilities disclosed in the financial statements.
Financial Review
Against the backdrop of limited resources and insecurities over funding, it has continued to be difficult to plan or develop services. Nevertheless the charity, with the aid of sound financial management and the support of both its staff and volunteers generated a positive outcome financial outcome for the period.
Plans for the Future
The charity plans to continue the activities outlined above in the forthcoming years subject to satisfactory funding arrangements.
Small Company Provisions
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies entitled to the small company exemption.
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Kidz Aware Limited
Trustees’ annual report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2025
Trustees’ Responsibilities
The Trust Deed requires the Trustees to prepare annual accounts. Generally accepted accounting principles require these accounts to:
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be prepared on the basis of suitable accounting policies which are consistently applied
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include reasonable and prudent judgements and estimates
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follow applicable accounting standards and the Charities SORP; disclosing and explaining any departures in the financial statements; and
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prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to assume that the Charity will continue in operation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping accounting records which are such to disclose, with reasonable accuracy, the financial position of the Charity at any time, and to enable them as Trustees to ensure that the financial statements comply with Charity law. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the Charity’s assets, and hence for taking reasonable steps to the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Approved by the Trustees on 5 June 2025 signed on its behalf by:
M C Metcalfe Director
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Kidz Aware Limited
Accountants' report to the board of directors on the preparation of the unaudited statutory financial statements of Kidz Aware Limited for the Year ended 31 March 2025
In accordance with the engagement letter dated 6 June 2022, we have prepared for your approval the financial statements of Kidz Aware Limited for the Year ended 31 March 2025 set out on pages 4 to 11 from the company’s accounting records and from information and explanations you have given us.
As a practising member firm of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), we are subject to its ethical and other professional requirements which are detailed at http://www.icaew.com/en/ members/regulations-standards-and-guidance/
This report is made solely to the Board of Directors, as a body, in accordance with the terms of our engagement letter. Our work has been undertaken solely to prepare for your approval the financial statements of Kidz Aware Limited and state those matters that we have agreed to state to the Board of Directors, as a body, in this report in accordance with ICAEW Technical Release 07/16 AAF. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the company and its Board of Directors, as a body, for our work or for this report.
It is your duty to ensure that the company has kept adequate accounting records and to prepare statutory financial statements that give a true and fair view of the assets, liabilities, financial position and loss of the company. You consider that the company is exempt from the statutory audit requirement for the Period.
We have not been instructed to carry out an audit or a review of the financial statements. For this reason, we have not verified the accuracy or completeness of the accounting records or information and explanations you have given to us and we do not, therefore, express any opinion on the statutory financial statements.
B M Howarth Ltd Chartered Accountants Metic House Ripley Drive Normanton West Yorkshire WF6 1QT
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Kidz Aware Limited
Statement of income and retained earnings for the year ended 31 March 2025
| Total Funds | Total Funds | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| Notes | £ | £ | |
| Incoming Resources | |||
| Incoming resources from generating funds: | |||
| Voluntary income | 2 | 77,022 | 59,455 |
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| Resources Expended | |||
| Costs of generating funds: | |||
| Costs of generating voluntary income | 3 | (64,977) | (55,421) |
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| Net Income/(Expense) for the Year | 12,045 | 4,034 | |
| Reconciliation of Funds | |||
| Total funds brought forward | 47,114 | 43,080 | |
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| Total Funds Carried Forward | 59,159 | 47,114 | |
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The Statement of Income includes all gains and losses in the year and therefore a statement of total recognised gains and losses has not been prepared.
All of the above amounts relate to continuing activities.
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Kidz Aware Limited
Statement of financial position as at 31 March 2025
| as at | 31 March 2025 | ||
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| 2025 | 2024 | ||
| Notes | £ | £ | |
| Current Assets | |||
| Cash at bank and in hand | 59,159 | 47,114 | |
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| Total Net Assets | 59,159 | 47,114 | |
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| Funds | |||
| Unrestricted income funds | 5 | 59,159 | 47,114 |
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| Total Funds | 59,159 | 47,114 | |
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For the financial Period ended 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the Period in question in accordance with section 476.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies' regime.
The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 5 June 2025 and are signed on its behalf by:
M C Metcalfe Director
Company Registration Number: 05726189
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Kidz Aware Limited
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
1. Accounting Policies
Basis of accounting
These financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant notes to these accounts.
These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) and with the Charities Act 2011.
Going concern
The Trustees have reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in existence for the foreseeable future and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate in preparing the financial statements.
Recognition of income
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SoFA) when:
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the Charity becomes entitled to the resources;
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it is more likely than not that the Trustees will receive the resources; and
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the monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability.
Recognition of Expenditure
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
Charitable activities comprise those costs incurred by the Charity in the delivery of its activities and services for its beneficiaries together with the necessary indirect costs.
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Kidz Aware Limited
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
2. Voluntary Income
| 2. | Voluntary Income | |||
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| Unrestricted | Total Funds | Total Funds | ||
| Funds | 2025 | 2024 | ||
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| Donations | ||||
| Other income | 6,260 | 6,260 | 3,803 | |
| Fundraising | 4,414 | 4,414 | 6,597 | |
| Live Well | - | - | 3,500 | |
| Asda | - | - | 420 | |
| HAF (All seasons & Training) | 25,018 | 25,018 | 20,273 | |
| Co-operative | 500 | 500 | - | |
| Coalfield Trust | 2,000 | 2,000 | 5,000 | |
| Masonic | 2,500 | 2,500 | - | |
| Tesco Community | - | - | 300 | |
| Freemasons | 2,500 | 2,500 | - | |
| George Martins trust | 5,000 | 5,000 | - | |
| Unknown Funds | 2,101 | 2,101 | 2,990 | |
| Groundwork one stop | 1,000 | 1,000 | - | |
| Awards For All | 19,571 | 19,571 | - | |
| Harrison Trust | 2,000 | 2,000 | 430 | |
| Keith Howard Foundation | - | - | 3,000 | |
| Prosper & Nova | - | - | 13,142 | |
| Route 62 | 709 | 709 | - | |
| Rotary Phoenix Wakefield | 300 | 300 | - | |
| WACCL | 2,500 | 2,500 | - | |
| Wakefield Carers | 250 | 250 | - | |
| Arnold Clarke | 400 | 400 | - | |
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| 77,022 | 77,022 | 59,455 | ||
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| 3. | Cost of Generating Voluntary Income | |||
| Unrestricted | Total Funds | Total Funds | ||
| Funds | 2024 | 2024 | ||
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| Staff costs | 29,022 | 29,022 | 27,000 | |
| Donations | 35,955 | 35,955 | 28,421 | |
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| 64,977 | 64,977 | 55,421 | ||
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Kidz Aware Limited
Notes to the financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
4. Staff Costs and Emoluments
Total staff costs were as follows:
| Total staff costs were as follows: | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2024 | |
| £ | £ | |
| Wages and salaries | 29,022 | 27,000 |
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Particulars of employees:
The average number of employees during the year, calculated on the basis of full-time equivalents, was as follows:
| follows: | ||
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| 2025 | 2024 | |
| No | No | |
| Number of administrative staff | 3 | 3 |
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No employee received remuneration of more than £60,000 during the year (2024 - Nil).
5. Unrestricted Income Funds
| Unrestricted Income Funds | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incoming / | ||||
| Balance at | (Outgoing) | Balance at | ||
| 1 | April 2024 | resources | 31 March 2025 | |
| £ | £ | £ | ||
| General Funds | 47,114 | 12,045 | 59,159 | |
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The following pages do not form part of the statutory financial statements .
Kidz Aware Limited
Detailed statement of financial position for the year ended 31 March 2025
| 2025 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|
| £ | £ | |
| Voluntary Income | ||
| Other income | 6,260 | 3,803 |
| Fundraising | 4,414 | 6,597 |
| Live Well | - | 3,500 |
| Asda | - | 420 |
| Harrison Trust | 2,000 | 430 |
| Keith Howard Foundation | 3,000 | |
| HAF (All seasons & Training) | 25,018 | 20,273 |
| Co-operative | 500 | - |
| Coalfield Trust | 2,000 | 5,000 |
| Masonic | 2,500 | - |
| Freemasons | 2,500 | - |
| Tesco Community | 300 | |
| George Martins trust | 5,000 | - |
| Unknown Funds | 2,101 | 2,990 |
| Groundwork one stop | 1,000 | - |
| Awards For All | 19,571 | - |
| Route 62 | 709 | - |
| Rotary Phoenix Wakefield | 300 | - |
| Prosper & Nova | - | 13,142 |
| WACCL | 2,500 | - |
| Wakefield Carers | 250 | - |
| Arnold Clarke | 400 | - |
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| 77,023 | 59,455 | |
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| Costs of Generating Voluntary Income | ||
| Staff costs - Wages & Salaries | 29,022 | 27,000 |
| Donations (generating income costs) | 35,995 | 28,421 |
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| Total Resources Expended | 64,977 | 55,421 |
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| ───────── | ───────── | |
| Net Incoming/(Outgoing) Resources for the Year | 12,045 | 4,034 |
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