2022-08-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name East Anglian Russian and International Cultural Society

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1121269

Charity's principal address 12 Cranwell Grove Kesgrave, Ipswich Suffolk Postcode IP5 2YN

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Vladimir Filimonov	Ipswich
	Anvar Valiyev	Ipswich
	Irina Webb-Krohina	Ipswich
	Agata Faro	Ipswich

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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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 adviser Name Address
Fundraising	Mr. Bruce	Director
	MacGregor	Ipswich Community Media CIC
		International House
		South Street
		Ipswich IP1 3NU
		Tel: [phone]
		[e-mail]
		www.ipswichcm.org.uk
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

It is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission on 18.10.2007 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) The constitution was adopted, by the Executive Committee on 07.09.2014 How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) The board of trustees, which can have up to 3 members, administers the Trustee selection methods charity. The board meets quarterly. (eg. appointed by, elected by)

• (eg. trust, association, company)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

• policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;

• the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;

The charity has a close relationship with the St Helens Primary School in Ipswich and with Wilson Marriage in Colchester through joint collaboration we have set Education and Development Centre “Lingua” (formerly the Russian School “Raduga” was established in 2007) as part of the community activities

Our Charity is the member of the Association of Russian Cultural and Educational Organisations in the UK "Eurolog" and the member of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in UK. Our Education and Development Centre “Lingua” is the member of the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education (NRC) and has the status of Supplementary School from 27/03/08.

• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

1.To advance the education and training of communities of Eastern European Countries in need thereof so as to advance them in life and assist them to adapt within a new community 2.To advance the education of the public in the languages, culture and history of Eastern European Countries 3. To advance the education of members of the community in English and other useful information to help them in integrating into British Society.

-to promote and maintain the cultural heritage of Russia and Eastern European Countries within Suffolk and East Anglia; -to promote the teaching of Russian and Eastern European Countries languages and culture; -to provide a lively, informal meeting-place for those who are interested in Russia and her culture; -provide access to information about living in the UK and teaching English to the Russian-speaking and other Communities of Eastern European Countries; -to facilitate, coordinate and disseminate information about Russian cultural events in Suffolk and elsewhere in the UK; -to maintain and develop active contacts and collaboration with the widest possible range of cultural and sport institutions and organizations in the Russian Federation and in other countries; -to develop creative links with other cultural organizations, both British and Russian, but it remains independent and is not aligned with, dependent upon or subordinate to any outside political, commercial or institutional interests; -to support new & emerging Russian speaking communities in integration into British society; -to develop and maintain links with other ethnic minority communities in Suffolk; -to initiate programs of events both independently and collaboration with other organizations; -to create opportunities to play an active role in social and cultural life.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Our volunteers put into our school in the academic year 500 hours. Some of them worked with children assisting the teachers, the others help to organise events and meeting. One volunteer assisted children doing drama lessons.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and erformance p

Our charity with Education and Development Centre “Lingua” (formerly the Russian School “Raduga” was established in 2007) are providing learning opportunities for all children and their parents, carers, grandparents or other family members, who is interested in Russian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian languages and cultures. We are a member of the informal Suffolk Supplementary School Partnership and have supported other supplementary schools by sharing ideas and examples of documentation that we have adopted. We are continuing work with Ipswich Museum on a British Academy funded project to explore how the Museum can be used to support language learning across the curriculum. Young people from Lingua also took part in a DVD ‘In Their Own Words’ which was shown at the Suffolk Prevent Conference to an audience of over 150 people from organisations around the county.

We work also with national supplementary schools and have links National Rossotrudnichestvo, Pushkin House, Pushkin Institute and a link with a school in Estonia enabling us to exchange books.

Our work is greatly appreciated by the Russian and Lithuanian Embassies and we have received letters of thanks and certificates from them in recognition of our contribution to children’s education in the UK. In the year 2014 our school was awarded from National Resource Centre of Supplementary Education (NRCSE) with Bronze, in 2015 with Silver and in 2016 with Gold.

Our School is providing an opportunity for families to learn basic non-qualification based language, reading and writing through a series of activities based on story telling, drama and art. There was organised the sessions for parents to help them understand what their children will be learning at school, in order to involve them to help their children to do a homework.

All events of traditional celebrations are organised jointly with children and their members of family. Charity with Education and Development Centre “Lingua” are trying to encourage the members of Russianspeaking Diaspora for multilateral education in the Russian language and culture as well as create an atmosphere of the Russian language communication for members of mixed families and their children, a platform for the use of natural language and the exchange of information.

Our Charity is trying to support and encourage the members of families and other adults of community in integration into British Society.

Our Charity was awarded as Charity Of The Year 2018 at Suffolk Business Awards Ceremony in October 2018.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

1. EDC Lingua has 10 classes with Russian Language, 2 classes with Lithuanian Language. We teach East European languages for children aged (3 to 18+) We have today 84 children from 44 families in our school. Most of the families have 2–3 children

2. From next Academic Year there will be reopened classes with Ukrainian Language. These classes were in our School in 20142017 years and were closed due to resigning Ukrainian Teacher. Now we have found Teacher of Ukrainian Language.

3. We offer Music, Drama, Art and Craft, History and Culture, Ball Dances. We also provideTheatre Studio sessions designed to help pupils develop confidence and public speaking

4. We provide opportunities for everyone to

5. express their personal aspirations

6. to value individual talent

7. to appreciate what we have in common

8. to tolerate difference and be inclusive

9. We aim to ensure that the languages “ethos” is a vital part of the atmosphere. It is not something superimposed on normal school life, but gives meaning to all our activities.

10. We also support our students and parents to prepare for GSCE and A Level in Russian over a number of years. All our students generally achieve A* grades at GCSE and A Level.

11. We support our children to become

12. Effective Communicators

13. Critical Thinkers

14. Active and Collaborative Community Members

15. Reflective and Informed Decision Makers

8. We are running

• Courses of English and Russian languages for parents and adult of community to improve mutual understanding between members of family and community.

• Library of Russian Books, CDs, DVDs and Videos to help to learn language, history and culture by children and adults.

9. Our Charity was awarded as Charity Of The Year 2018 at Suffolk Business Awards Ceremony in October 2018

Our Charity has organized 7 events for children for this period.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

The school meets at the St Helens Primary School in Ipswich on Saturdays and Sundays and at the Wilson Marriage in Colchester on Saturdays. These venues provide rooms set up and equipped specifically for teaching. There are secure outside play areas and a car park on the site. The pupils are expected to be punctual and attend the school on a regular basis. The attendance rate of our students is 99,8%. These venues are very convinience for our school.

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Section D Achievements and erformance p

Section E Financial review

In 2021-22 the trustees have carried out a detailed review of the charity’s Brief statement of the activities and produced a plan for the charity. charity’s policy on reserves 15-th Academic Year of EDC Lingua (previous Russian School “Raduga”) has been working successfully Due to the Remaining Recourse from previous academic year, we were able to cover the expenses to Hire Premises of St Helens Primary School Details of any funds materially for EDC Lingua without raising of Parental Fees and could help some in deficit parents and teachers to prepare students to achieve A* grades at GCSE and A Level within Pandemic period.

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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In this academic year the parent’s fees for teaching were £46227. That is £16000 more than in previous year because we have begun to teach children not via Online Session. All expenditure was aimed to support main objectives of charity.

Section F Other optional information

There is evidence that out of school activity for their most deprived pupils helps with learning, attendance and behaviour. The project is also being supported by number of locally based cultural organisations such as Gecko Theatre Company as well as Suffolk County Council’s Locality Officers. We have also previously successful worked with the Borough Council and Ipswich library on multi-cultural days and with the University to encourage young people from migrant’s backgrounds to continue their education

At 2021-22 academic year we have not got any accidents with children, parents, staff and volunteers.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Vladimir Filimonov Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc)

Date 21/01/2023

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ACCOUNT of EAST ANGLIAN RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL SO Education and Development Ce

3852.82 Leaves Balance on 01.09.21
	Sep-21	Oct-21	Nov-21	Dec-21	Jan-22
INCOME
Total monthly income	6587.5	3859	3434	5633	4859.59
Non-sales
Personal
Big Lottery Fund from Main Grants
Grants and Governance
Donation due to market in EDC Lingua
Suffolk Community Foundation (Bircetts Grant)
Suffolk County Council APORS
Refund Credit					45.09
Bank interest
Russian Embassy in London compensation				270
Amazon Europe Core
Sales
Teaching in School	6587.5	3859	3434	5363	4814.5
Teaching in Courses
Translation Service
Expenditure
Total monthly expenses	1329.1	3578.6	4196.08	4529.32	5568.56
Drawings (wages)	735	2355	2825	3130	2500
Volunteer costs	0	478.08	224.8	224.8	186.4
Activity costs	0	50	420	795.08
Capital Costs	0	0	6	133.94	45.09
Premises costs	500	605	605	200	2740
Office costs	94.1	90.47	115.28	45.5	97.07
Leaves: Balances	9111.22	9391.67	8629.59	9733.27	9024.3

OCIETY for 2021-2022 Years ntre “LINGUA”

Feb-22 Mar-22 Apr-22 May-22 Jun-22 Jul-22 Aug-22 TOTAL INCOME 2468 7965 3727 5351 2563 40.37 60.08 46547.54 Total month 0 Non-sales 0 Personal 0 Big Lottery Fu 0 Grants and Go 0 Donation due to m 0 Suffolk Comm 0 Suffolk County 45.09 Refund Credit 0.37 0.08 0.45 Bank interest 270 Russian Emba 5 5 Amazon Europ 46227 Sales 2468 7965 3727 5346 2563 40 60 46227 Teaching in Sc 0 Teaching in Co 0 Translation Se

Expenditur

3605.89 4360.18 6467.33 3003.02 5437.86 5149.65 3162.1 50387.59 2810 2530 3395 2230 3799 3335 665 30309 197.84 192.84 270.16 305.68 313.2 211.92 100 2705.72 192.59 127.24 1041.91 118 2744.82 12 33.98 91.35 322.36 530 1533.6 2520 200 200 1360 2348.3 13341.9 68.05 91.74 55.6 48.75 83.75 124.73 48.75 963.79 7886.41 11491.23 8750.9 11098.88 8224.02 3114.74 12.77 12.77	Total month
	Drawings Volunteer cost Activity costs Capital Costs Premises cost Office costs Leaves: Bala

Chair Vladimir Filimonov 9/24/2022

188y in London compensation

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of East Anglian Russian and International Cultural Society On accounts for the year 2021-2022 Charity no 1121269 ended (if any) Set out on pages (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 trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

• accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or

• the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:		15/05/2022
	Ritu Srivastava
	CIMA, Adv Dip MA Body: Charted Institute of Management accounting
	464, Landseer Road
	Ipswich, Suffolk
	IP3 9LU

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention. any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

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