## **ANNUAL REPORT 2024-2025**
th AGM 10 DECEMBER 2025
## **Introduction**
This year has been one of progress and exciting changes behind the scenes. We have been lucky to remain in a stable financial position whereby we have comfortably had funds available to cover our expenses and training costs as well as improving our groups.
## **How we achieve our aims**
The provision of information about breastfeeding.
Campaigning to improve services, facilities and support for breastfeeding families in the county of Gloucestershire.
The promotion of services including groups and course support services in preparation for breastfeeding and to support breastfeeding.
The provision of support services for parents who wish to breastfeed by training local peers who have breastfed to enable them to support breastfeeding families.
The provision of training and information for peer supporters by Qualified Breastfeeding Counsellors.
The education of those who will become parents and those who are supporting parents.
The fostering and undertaking research into any aspects of the objects of the Charity and the dissemination of the results of any such research. The promotion of good working relationships with others to achieve greater understanding of the benefits of breastfeeding.
## **Accounts**
Please see the balance sheet attached. In summary:
Income: **£46,309.08** Expenses: **£19,725.14** > Gross Profit: **£26,583.94** Administrative costs: **£2,124.31 NET PROFIT: 24,459.63**
## **Financial Position**
We are delighted to report that GBSN found itself in a stable financial position at the end of the accounting year. This is due in no small part to the tireless work of Lisa Cam and Sarah Houghton, who continued to apply successfully for grants, including funding from the National Lottery. We cannot rest on our laurels, and fundraising remains a vital source of income.
## **Objects of the Charity**
To advance and promote the physical and psychological health of parents and children through education of the techniques of and the provision of training regarding breastfeeding in the county of Gloucestershire, including but not limited to raising the awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding
## **BBC “All in The Mind”**
This year, GBSN was nominated and placed in the final group for the BBC Radio 4 “All in The Mind” awards.
We provide so much more than just breastfeeding support. The impact of our work on postnatal mental health is huge. We cannot underestimate how much of a difference we make to the lives of the families who walk through our doors.
We were absolutely honoured to be recognised in this way, and to be a voice for the value of breastfeeding support.
## **Group Highlights**
Our main highlight as ever, has been to see families come through the doors of GBSN groups, needing our support, and our helping them to achieve their breastfeeding goals.
Some will leave us after a few visits, but many will stay, and from their time with us, they will forge friendships and even choose to volunteer with us as Peer Supporters or Hostesses.
We are forever grateful to all our volunteers; you make us who we are.
Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters’ Network is a charitable company, limited by guarantee Registered in England. Company No. 6239404 Registered as a Charity in England and Wales No. 1121337 www.gbsn.org.uk
## **ANNUAL REPORT 2024-2025**
th
AGM 10 DECEMBER 2025
## **Future Plans**
## **Statistics**
Restart our online **Antenatal Preparation for Breastfeeding Workshops**
- Develop our relationship with the NHS trust by providing **in person workshops** , as a pilot through Stroud Maternity Unit
**Continue to work with** Health Visiting Teams and the Gloucestershire Infant Feeding Support Partnership
Present **Information for Breastfeeding Parents at Work** , with sessions delivered in the workplace
Number of attendees at groups: **2,344**
Number of video calls to date: **3,733**
Number of video calls this year: **251***
Number of new Peer Supporters trained: **14**
*That’s one for almost EVERY weekday in the year!
## **Changes Ahead**
Two Trustees are to retire: Kirstie Clarke and Nicky Wilson
Two Trustees are to be appointed: Elena Mills and Alice Rawstorne
The Charity is to be registered as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, simultaneously with the appointment of the above named Trustees
Danni Smith is to become the new Chair of the Charity.
Angharad Tebbutt is to become the new Safeguarding Lead
Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters’ Network is a charitable company, limited by guarantee Registered in England. Company No. 6239404 Registered as a Charity in England and Wales No. 1121337 www.gbsn.org.uk
Company registration number: 06239404 Charity registration number: 1121337
**GLOUCESTERSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORTERS' NETWORK TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025**
Rebecca Benneyworth & Co Chartered Accountant
**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1—3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
|Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|5|
|Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|6|
|Balance Sheet|7—8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9—14|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|15—16|
**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Company No. 06239404 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
To advance and promote the physical and psychological health of parents and children through education of the techniques of and the provision of training regarding breastfeeding in the county of Gloucestershire, including but not limited to raising the awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding
## **Public Benefit**
The activities the charity carries on to achieve its aims includes:
The provision of information about breastfeeding.
- Campaigning to improve services, facilities and support for breastfeeding families in the county of Gloucestershire.
- The promotion of services including groups and course support services in preparation for breastfeeding and to support breastfeeding.
- The provision of support services for parents who wish to breastfeed by training local peers who have breastfed to enable them to support breastfeeding families.
- The provision of training and information for peer supporters by Qualified Breastfeeding Counsellors.
- The education of those who will become parents and those who are supporting parents.
- The fostering and undertaking research into any aspects of the objects of the Charity and the dissemination of the results of any such research.
- The promotion of good working relationships with others to achieve greater understanding of the benefits of breastfeeding.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
Nicola Bradley Kirstie Clarke Rebecca Hooper Kate Martin Nicola Wilson
## **Charity Number**
1121337
## **Company Number**
06239404
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## **Independent Examiner**
Rebecca Benneyworth Chartered Accountant Rebecca Benneyworth & Co Chartered Accountant Valley View The Ridge Bussage Stroud GL6 8HD
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Small Company Rules**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Kirstie Clarke
Trustee 27 February 2026
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
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 your 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**
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 Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts 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 accounts 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.
Rebecca Benneyworth Chartered Accountant 27 February 2026 Valley View The Ridge Bussage Stroud GL6 8HD
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**6**
Charitable activities:
**6**
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
44,314
1,722
273|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
118
-
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
44,432
1,722
273|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||46,309|118|46,427|32,040|
||(2,910)
(18,940)|1
-|(2,909)
(18,940)|(1,000)
(18,613)|
||(21,850)|1|(21,849)|(19,613)|
||24,459|119|24,578|12,427|
||24,459
24,420|119
4,143|24,578
28,563|12,427
16,136|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**6**
Charitable activities:
**6**
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|
|---|---|---|---|
||32,040|-|32,040|
||(1,000)
(18,613)|-
-|(1,000)
(18,613)|
||(19,613)|-|(19,613)|
||12,427|-|12,427|
||12,427
11,993|-
4,143|12,427
16,136|
||24,420|4,143|28,563|
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Balance Sheet As At 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
**9**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stocks
**10**
Debtors
**11**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**12**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
866|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
866|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
866|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||866
2,638
131
46,650|-
-
-
4,262|866
2,638
131
50,912|866
2,638
131
26,679|
||49,419
(1,406)|4,262
-|53,681
(1,406)|29,448
(1,751)|
||48,013|4,262|52,275|27,697|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
||||4,262
48,879|4,143
24,420|
||||53,141|28,563|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Balance Sheet (continued) As At 31 May 2025**
For the year ending 31 May 2025 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts 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 trustees on 27 February 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
Kirstie Clarke
Trustee
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 06239404 and registered charity number 1121337. The registered office is .
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.
The charitable company is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Incoming Resources**
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.Interest income is recognised when receivable.
## 2.3. **Resources Expended**
Costs of activities in furtherance of the charity's objects comprise those costs incurred by the charity as a result of delivery of its services. Governance costs comprise the costs incurred by the charity in meeting its constiutional and statutory requirements. Costs of generating funds compriose the costs associated with generating voluntary income.
## 2.4. **Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Fixtures & Fittings 10 years Computer Equipment 5 years straight line
## 2.5. **Stocks and Work in Progress**
Stocks and work in progress are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value after making due allowance for obsolete and slow-moving stocks.
Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out method. Cost includes all direct costs and an appropriate proportion of fixed and variable overheads.
At the end of each reporting period stocks are assessed for impairment. If an item of stock is impaired, the identified stock is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell and an impairment charge is recognised in the statement of financial activities. Where a reversal of the impairment is required the impairment charge is reversed, up to the original impairment loss, and is recognised as a credit in the statement of financial activities.
## 2.6. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Donations and gifts
Grants
Donations and gifts
Grants
.
**Income from Other Trading Activities**
Income from other trading activities
Fundraising events
.
**Investment Income**
Bank interest receivable|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
10,264
34,050|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
118
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
10,382
34,050|
||44,314|118|44,432|
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
14,377
17,300|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
14,377
17,300|
||31,677|-|31,677|
|||**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
1,722|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
211
-|
|||1,722|211|
|||**2025**
**Unrestricted **
**funds**
**£**
273|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
152|
## 4. **Income from Other Trading Activities**
## 5. **Investment Income**
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 6. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|Raising funds
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
Raising funds
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
.
**Support Costs**
General administration
Governance costs
General administration||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
2,128
17,671|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
2,128
17,671|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 7)
**£**
781
1,269|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
2,909
18,940|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||19,799||2,050|21,849|
|||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
1,000
16,568||**Support**
**costs**
(see note 7)
**£**
-
2,045|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
1,000
18,613|
|||17,568||2,045|19,613|
|||**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
781
-|||**2025**
**Total**
**£**
1,952
98|
|||781|1,269||2,050|
|||||||
## 7. **Support Costs**
## 8. **Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: NIL (2024: NIL)
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 9. **Tangible Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Depreciation**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 May 2025
As at 1 June 2024
10.
**Stocks**
Stock
11.
**Debtors**
**Due within one year**
Other debtors
12.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Trade creditors
Bank loans and overdrafts
Accruals and deferred income|**Fixtures &**
**Fittings**
**£**
150|**Fixtures &**
**Fittings**
**£**
150|**Computer**
**Equipment**
**£**
1,836|**Total**
**£**
1,986|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||150||1,836|1,986|
||-||1,120|1,120|
||-||1,120|1,120|
||150||716|866|
||150||716|866|
||||**2025**
**£**
2,638
**2025**
**£**
131
**2025**
**£**
-
581
825
1,406|**2024**
**£**
2,638|
|||||**2024**
**£**
131|
|||||**2024**
**£**
68
858
825|
|||||1,751|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 13. **Movement in Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
MOBS
Restricted income fund
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
MOBS
Restricted income fund
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**As at 1**
**June 2024**
**£**
24,420
435
3,708|**Income**
**£**
46,309
118
-|**Expenditure**
**£**
(21,850)
1
-|**As at 31**
**May 2025**
**£**
48,879
554
3,708|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||4,143|118|1|4,262|
||||||
||28,563|46,427|(21,849)|53,141|
||**As at 1**
**June 2023**
**£**
11,993
435
3,708|**Income**
**£**
32,040
-
-|**Expenditure**
**£**
(19,613)
-
-|**As at 31**
**May 2024**
**£**
24,420
435
3,708|
||4,143|-|-|4,143|
||||||
||16,136|32,040|(19,613)|28,563|
## 14. **Transactions with Trustees**
Nicola Bradley received payment of £1,848.00 during the year for the provision of breastfeeding counselling services.
No trustee expenses have been incurred.
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 15. **Related Party Disclosures**
There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that require disclosure, except for those disclosed in the Transactions with Trustees note.
## 16. **Company limited by guarantee**
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts
Grants
**Other trading activities**
Income from other trading activities
Fundraising events
**Investments**
Bank interest receivable
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Staging fundraising events
Marketing and advertising costs
Insurance
Sundry expenses
**Charitable Activities:**
**Promotion and support of breastfeeding**
BFC Hourly fee
Room hire for weekly groups
Sundry group expenses
Sundry costs
Training volunteers
Computer software, consumables and maintenance
Insurance
Accountancy fees
Bank charges
Other office costs|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
10,382
34,050|
|---|---|
||44,432
-
1,722|
||1,722
273|
||273|
||46,427
(1,072)
(1,056)
(782)
1|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|Sundry expenses
Companies House fees
DBS check costs
**NET INCOME**|(94)
(34)
(64)|-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
||(18,940)|(18,613)|
||(21,849)|(19,613)|
||24,578|12,427|
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Company registration number: 06239404 Charity registration number: 1121337
**GLOUCESTERSHIRE BREASTFEEDING SUPPORTERS' NETWORK TRUSTEES' REPORT AND UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MAY 2025**
Rebecca Benneyworth & Co Chartered Accountant
**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Contents**
||**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' Report|1—3|
|Independent Examiner's Report|4|
|Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|5|
|Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|6|
|Balance Sheet|7—8|
|Notes to the Financial Statements|9—14|
|The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:||
|Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account)|15—16|
**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Company No. 06239404 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Objectives and Activities**
## **Aims and Objectives**
To advance and promote the physical and psychological health of parents and children through education of the techniques of and the provision of training regarding breastfeeding in the county of Gloucestershire, including but not limited to raising the awareness of the health benefits of breastfeeding
## **Public Benefit**
The activities the charity carries on to achieve its aims includes:
The provision of information about breastfeeding.
- Campaigning to improve services, facilities and support for breastfeeding families in the county of Gloucestershire.
- The promotion of services including groups and course support services in preparation for breastfeeding and to support breastfeeding.
- The provision of support services for parents who wish to breastfeed by training local peers who have breastfed to enable them to support breastfeeding families.
- The provision of training and information for peer supporters by Qualified Breastfeeding Counsellors.
- The education of those who will become parents and those who are supporting parents.
- The fostering and undertaking research into any aspects of the objects of the Charity and the dissemination of the results of any such research.
- The promotion of good working relationships with others to achieve greater understanding of the benefits of breastfeeding.
The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.
## **Reference and Administrative Details**
## **Trustees**
Nicola Bradley Kirstie Clarke Rebecca Hooper Kate Martin Nicola Wilson
## **Charity Number**
1121337
## **Company Number**
06239404
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Independent Examiner**
Rebecca Benneyworth Chartered Accountant Rebecca Benneyworth & Co Chartered Accountant Valley View The Ridge Bussage Stroud GL6 8HD
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## **Small Company Rules**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:
Kirstie Clarke
Trustee 27 February 2026
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Company for the year ended 31 May 2025.
## **Responsibilities and Basis of Report**
As the charity trustees of the Company (and also its directors for the purposes of company law), you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”).
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 your 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**
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 Company as required by section 386 of the 2006 Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records; or
3. the accounts 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 accounts 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.
Rebecca Benneyworth Chartered Accountant 27 February 2026 Valley View The Ridge Bussage Stroud GL6 8HD
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**6**
Charitable activities:
**6**
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
44,314
1,722
273|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
118
-
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
44,432
1,722
273|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||46,309|118|46,427|32,040|
||(2,910)
(18,940)|1
-|(2,909)
(18,940)|(1,000)
(18,613)|
||(21,850)|1|(21,849)|(19,613)|
||24,459|119|24,578|12,427|
||24,459
24,420|119
4,143|24,578
28,563|12,427
16,136|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Comparative Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
Donations and legacies
**3**
Other trading activities
**4**
Investments
**5**
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
Raising funds
**6**
Charitable activities:
**6**
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
**NET INCOME**
**NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS**
**RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:**
Total funds brought forward
**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
31,677
211
152|
|---|---|---|---|
||32,040|-|32,040|
||(1,000)
(18,613)|-
-|(1,000)
(18,613)|
||(19,613)|-|(19,613)|
||12,427|-|12,427|
||12,427
11,993|-
4,143|12,427
16,136|
||24,420|4,143|28,563|
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Balance Sheet As At 31 May 2025**
|**Notes**
**FIXED ASSETS**
Tangible Assets
**9**
**CURRENT ASSETS**
Stocks
**10**
Debtors
**11**
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
**12**
**NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)**
**TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES**
**NET ASSETS**
**FUNDS OF THE CHARITY**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted Funds
**TOTAL FUNDS**
**13**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
866|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
866|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
866|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||866
2,638
131
46,650|-
-
-
4,262|866
2,638
131
50,912|866
2,638
131
26,679|
||49,419
(1,406)|4,262
-|53,681
(1,406)|29,448
(1,751)|
||48,013|4,262|52,275|27,697|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
||48,879|4,262|53,141|28,563|
||||4,262
48,879|4,143
24,420|
||||53,141|28,563|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Balance Sheet (continued) As At 31 May 2025**
For the year ending 31 May 2025 the charitable company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
The members have not required the charitable company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts 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 trustees on 27 February 2026 and were signed on its behalf by:
Kirstie Clarke
Trustee
The notes on pages 9 to 14 form part of these financial statements.
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 1. **General Information**
Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 06239404 and registered charity number 1121337. The registered office is .
## 2. **Accounting Policies**
## 2.1. **Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.
The charitable company is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.
## 2.2. **Incoming Resources**
Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.Interest income is recognised when receivable.
## 2.3. **Resources Expended**
Costs of activities in furtherance of the charity's objects comprise those costs incurred by the charity as a result of delivery of its services. Governance costs comprise the costs incurred by the charity in meeting its constiutional and statutory requirements. Costs of generating funds compriose the costs associated with generating voluntary income.
## 2.4. **Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation**
Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:
Fixtures & Fittings 10 years Computer Equipment 5 years straight line
## 2.5. **Stocks and Work in Progress**
Stocks and work in progress are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value after making due allowance for obsolete and slow-moving stocks.
Cost is determined using the first-in, first-out method. Cost includes all direct costs and an appropriate proportion of fixed and variable overheads.
At the end of each reporting period stocks are assessed for impairment. If an item of stock is impaired, the identified stock is reduced to its selling price less costs to complete and sell and an impairment charge is recognised in the statement of financial activities. Where a reversal of the impairment is required the impairment charge is reversed, up to the original impairment loss, and is recognised as a credit in the statement of financial activities.
## 2.6. **Cash and Cash Equivalents**
Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 3. **Income from Donations and Legacies**
|.
**Income from Donations and Legacies**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|Donations and gifts
Grants
Donations and gifts
Grants
.
**Income from Other Trading Activities**
Income from other trading activities
Fundraising events
.
**Investment Income**
Bank interest receivable|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
10,264
34,050|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
118
-|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
10,382
34,050|
||44,314|118|44,432|
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
14,377
17,300|**Restricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
-|**2024**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
14,377
17,300|
||31,677|-|31,677|
|||**2025**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
-
1,722|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
211
-|
|||1,722|211|
|||**2025**
**Unrestricted **
**funds**
**£**
273|**2024**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**£**
152|
## 4. **Income from Other Trading Activities**
## 5. **Investment Income**
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 6. **Analysis of Expenditure**
|Raising funds
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
Raising funds
Promotion and support of breastfeeding
.
**Support Costs**
General administration
Governance costs
General administration||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
2,128
17,671|**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
2,128
17,671|**Support**
**costs**
(see note 7)
**£**
781
1,269|**2025**
**Total**
**£**
2,909
18,940|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||19,799||2,050|21,849|
|||**Activities**
**undertaken**
**directly**
**£**
1,000
16,568||**Support**
**costs**
(see note 7)
**£**
-
2,045|**2024**
**Total**
**£**
1,000
18,613|
|||17,568||2,045|19,613|
|||**Raising**
**funds**
**£**
781
-|||**2025**
**Total**
**£**
1,952
98|
|||781|1,269||2,050|
|||||||
## 7. **Support Costs**
## 8. **Average Number of Employees**
Average number of employees during the year was: NIL (2024: NIL)
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 9. **Tangible Assets**
|**Cost**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Depreciation**
As at 1 June 2024
As at 31 May 2025
**Net Book Value**
As at 31 May 2025
As at 1 June 2024
10.
**Stocks**
Stock
11.
**Debtors**
**Due within one year**
Other debtors
12.
**Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year**
Trade creditors
Bank loans and overdrafts
Accruals and deferred income|**Fixtures &**
**Fittings**
**£**
150|**Fixtures &**
**Fittings**
**£**
150|**Computer**
**Equipment**
**£**
1,836|**Total**
**£**
1,986|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||150||1,836|1,986|
||-||1,120|1,120|
||-||1,120|1,120|
||150||716|866|
||150||716|866|
||||**2025**
**£**
2,638
**2025**
**£**
131
**2025**
**£**
-
581
825
1,406|**2024**
**£**
2,638|
|||||**2024**
**£**
131|
|||||**2024**
**£**
68
858
825|
|||||1,751|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 13. **Movement in Funds**
|**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
MOBS
Restricted income fund
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**
**Unrestricted funds**
General:
General unrestricted fund
**Restricted funds**
MOBS
Restricted income fund
**Total restricted funds**
**Total funds**|**As at 1**
**June 2024**
**£**
24,420
435
3,708|**Income**
**£**
46,309
118
-|**Expenditure**
**£**
(21,850)
1
-|**As at 31**
**May 2025**
**£**
48,879
554
3,708|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||4,143|118|1|4,262|
||||||
||28,563|46,427|(21,849)|53,141|
||**As at 1**
**June 2023**
**£**
11,993
435
3,708|**Income**
**£**
32,040
-
-|**Expenditure**
**£**
(19,613)
-
-|**As at 31**
**May 2024**
**£**
24,420
435
3,708|
||4,143|-|-|4,143|
||||||
||16,136|32,040|(19,613)|28,563|
## 14. **Transactions with Trustees**
Nicola Bradley received payment of £1,848.00 during the year for the provision of breastfeeding counselling services.
No trustee expenses have been incurred.
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**Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
## 15. **Related Party Disclosures**
There have been no related party transactions in the reporting period that require disclosure, except for those disclosed in the Transactions with Trustees note.
## 16. **Company limited by guarantee**
The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.
Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|**INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:**
**Donations and legacies**
Donations and gifts
Grants
**Other trading activities**
Income from other trading activities
Fundraising events
**Investments**
Bank interest receivable
**EXPENDITURE ON:**
**Raising funds**
Staging fundraising events
Marketing and advertising costs
Insurance
Sundry expenses
**Charitable Activities:**
**Promotion and support of breastfeeding**
BFC Hourly fee
Room hire for weekly groups
Sundry group expenses
Sundry costs
Training volunteers
Computer software, consumables and maintenance
Insurance
Accountancy fees
Bank charges
Other office costs|**2025**
**Total**
**funds**
**£**
10,382
34,050|
|---|---|
||44,432
-
1,722|
||1,722
273|
||273|
||46,427
(1,072)
(1,056)
(782)
1|
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## **Gloucestershire Breastfeeding Supporters' Network Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) (continued) For The Year Ended 31 May 2025**
|Sundry expenses
Companies House fees
DBS check costs
**NET INCOME**|(94)
(34)
(64)|-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
||(18,940)|(18,613)|
||(21,849)|(19,613)|
||24,578|12,427|
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