## **NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
## **31 MARCH 2025 Company Registration Number 07987573 Registered Charity Number 1147295**
## **TRUSTEES REPORT**
## **CONTENTS**
## **Trustees Annual Report**
The Trustees, who are also directors for the purposes of company law, have pleasure in presenting their Directors' report and the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 March 2025. The Trustees confirm that the report and the financial statements comply with current statutory requirements, the requirements of the charity's governing document and relevant for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
Registered Charity name: New Gumboots Afterschool Club.
Charity registration number: 1147295
Company registration number: 07987573
Registered office: East Dulwich Community Centre 46-64 Darell Road, London SE22 9NL
## **The Trustees**
The Trustees who served the charity during the year were as follows:
Kristy MacDonald
Michelle Toll
Etherline Joseph
## **Independent Examiner**
Shreshtha Rawal Alfred A Malnick & Co. 420a Streatham High Road London, SW16 3SN
## **Banker**
H S B C 66, Lordship Lane London, SE22
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## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT**
Past and present users of the facilities of the Charity form its membership and elect the Executive Committee at the Annual General Meeting. One third of the Executive Committee Members resign at each AGM but are eligible for re-election.
Day to day management is delegated to the General Manager to whom all staff are responsible
## **TRUSTEES**
The Trustees for the New Gumboots Afterschool Club are all volunteers. The current Board of Trustees offer a broad and diverse range of skills.
The Trustees are former parents of the club and members of the local community who are able to articulate the needs of local families.
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
The main aim of New Gumboots Afterschool Club is to provide education through play and to provide safe and stimulating play activities for primary school aged children.
The mission of New Gumboots Afterschool Club is to deliver out of school hours activities for primary school children which meet the needs of the children and their parents.
## **ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE**
New Gumboots Afterschool Club sets very high standards in service delivery. It has passed Southwark's Pathways to Quality scheme which is a recognised quality improvement scheme endorsed by Southwark Council.
New Gumboots Afterschool Club has received high and perfect marks for its Food Safety from Environmental Health.
New Gumboots Afterschool Clubs aim to meet the requirements of OFSTED. All clubs' are currently judged as Good.
New Gumboots Afterschool Club has grown steadily since it began in 1995 and now runs across 2 sites with an average of approximately 106 children per day.
New Gumboots Afterschool Club has previously run successful summer play projects.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
The results of the year's operation are set out in the attached financial statements. The Charity made an operating loss of £28,119. The Charity’s main source of income is parents fees.
## **Reserves policy**
This has yet to be agreed.
## **Risk policy**
The Trustees have reviewed the key risks to which the Charity is exposed. There are operating, financial and compliance controls that have been implemented to reduce / eliminate those risks. The Trustees consider that there is an ongoing process for identifying, evaluating and managing the Charity's risks.
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## **PUBLIC BENEFIT**
The aim of the Charity is to provide support for local parents particularly lone parents, to enable them to work or study full time while providing an out of school hours service for their children. The aim of this service is to enable children to develop both socially and academically. Both these services have clear benefit to the local community in Dulwich and surrounding areas.
The Trustees do not consider there is any detriment or harm caused by these services.
The opportunity to benefit from the Charity's work is largely limited to the Dulwich and Peckham and surrounding areas.
The service itself can assist parents in Dulwich and Peckham and neighbouring areas to better themselves and therefore reduce poverty levels.
The Trustees do not consider those partially in poverty are excluded from benefit.
Trustees do not receive any fees or remuneration in respect of their activities and are only reimbursed for necessary travel expenses. In the year ended 31 March 2025 no such expenses were reimbursed.
## **SOME KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 2024/25**
The Charity has:
- **.** regularly looked at improving / giving training to staff
- **.** Run 2 successful afterschool clubs.
## **PLANS FOR THE FUTURE**
To maintain a high standard of work and performance in relation to out of school hours care.
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## **RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEES**
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.
Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year.
Under that law the Trustees have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
The financial statements are required by law to give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and of the surplus or deficit of the Charity for that period.
In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:
- **.** select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently:
- **.** make sound judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
**.** prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Charity will continue in operation.
The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with Companies Act 2006. The Trustees are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER**
Shreshtha Rawal Alfred A Malnick & Co 420a Streatham High Road London SW16 3SN
## **Small Company Provisions.**
This report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to the small companies exemption.
Signed by the Directors:
Michelle Toll…………………………………………………………………………………………
Etherline Joseph…………………………………………………………………………………………
> Dated 16/12/2025 18/12/2025
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## **Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of New Gumboots After School Club**
I report on the accounts of the charitable company for the year ended 31 March 2025, which are set out on pages 6 to 10.
## **Respective responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner**
As the charity's Trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) does not apply, and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts under 145 of the 2011 Act and to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the General Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145 (5b) of the 2011 Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of Independent Examiner's Report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as Trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
## **Independent Examiner's Statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- (a) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 386 of the Companies Act 2006; and (b) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the S396 of the Companies Act 2006 and with the methods and principles of the statement of Recommended practice: Accounting and Reporting by Charities have not been met: or
2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
**Shreshtha Rawal Alfred A Malnick & Co 420a Streatham High Road London SW16 3SN**
## **Date:**
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## **NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Note**
**Income**
Income from Charitable activities
2
**Total income**
**Expenditure**
**Direct Charitable Expenditure**
Staff costs
3
Management and Administration
4
**Total expenditure**
**Net income / (expenditure)**
**and net movement in funds**
Balance at 1 April
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
236,941
**236,941**
220,077
44,983
**265,060**
**( 28,119)**
31,155
3,036|**Total**
**Total**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**-**
236,941
240,093|
|---|---|---|
|||**236,941**
**240,093**|
|||**-**
220,077
195,136
**-**
44,983
48,981|
|||**-**
**265,060**
**244,117**|
|||**-**
**( 28,119)**
**( 4,024)**
**-**
35,179
35,179|
|||7,060
31,155|
The notes on pages 8 to 10 form an integral part of these accounts.
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## **NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
## **BALANCE SHEET**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Note**
**Fixed assets**
Tangible Assets
6
**Current assets**
Debtors
Cash at bank and in hand
**Creditors: Amounts falling due**
**within one year**
7
**Net current assets**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Charity Funds:**
Unrestricted funds
8
**Total funds**|**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
3,979
21,057
25,035
(21,999)
3,036
3,036
3,036
3,036|**Restricted**
**Total**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
**£**
**-**
-|**Total**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
-|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**-**
3,979
6,173
**-**
21,057
46,073
**-**
25,035
52,246
(21,999)
(21,091)|6,173
46,073|
||||52,246|
|||3,036
31,155||
|||3,036
31,155||
|||**-**
3,036
31,155||
|||3,036
31,155||
For the financial year ended 31 March 2025 the company was entitled to exemption from audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.
## Directors' responsibilities:
- The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its financial statements for the year in question in accordance with section 476:
- The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of financial statements.
These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.
## 16/12/2025
Approved by the board on ……………………... and signed on their behalf by: -
…………………………………………………..
Michelle Toll Director
…………………………………………………..
Etherline Joseph Director
Company Registration No 07987573
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**NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
**NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
**FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1 Accounting convention**
## **(a) Accounting convention**
The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with 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 (FRS 102) (Charities SORP (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006.
The Charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).
The financial statements are prepared in sterling which is the functional currency of the charity. Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.
## **(b) Income and expenditure**
All Income and expenditure have been recorded on an accruals basis and are unrestricted funds which are available for use at the discretion of the Trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the Charity and which have not been designated for other purposes.
## **(c) Tangible fixed assets and depreciation**
Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost less estimated residual value of each asset over its expected useful life as follows:
Fixtures, fittings and equipment: 25% reducing balance.
|**2**
**Income from Charitable Activities**
Club fees
**3**
**Staff costs**
Staff costs were as follows: -
Agency fees
Wages and salaries net
NI Contribution, PAYE and Pension Contribution|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
236,941
240,093|
|---|---|
||236,941
240,093|
||**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
48,478
41,920
140,334
127,824
31,264
25,392|
||220,077
195,136|
The average monthly number of employees during the year was 19 (17 in 2024).
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## **NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Management and administration costs**
**4**
Club Rent
Return of fees
Insurance
Memberships
Telephone
Accountancy fees
Sundry
Bank charges
Depreciation
Club supplies
Petty cash
Ofsted|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
18,395
14,782
1,356
2,200
874
849
75
75
2,321
2,039
3,200
4,800
2,380
3,078
97
99
-
79
14,385
18,160
1,830
2,750
70
70|
|---|---|
||44,982
48,981|
## **5 Taxation**
The charity is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes.
|**6**
**Tangible fixed assets**
**Cost**
At 1 April 2024
Additions
At 31 March 2025
**Depreciation**
At 1 April 2024
Charge for the year
At 31 March 2025
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2025
**Net book value**
At 31 March 2024|**2025**
**£**
2,890
-|
|---|---|
||2,890|
||2,890
-|
||2,890|
||-
-|
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## **NEW GUMBOOTS AFTERSCHOOL CLUB**
## **NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**7**
**Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year**
Other creditors
**Unrestricted**
**8**
**Analysis of charity funds**
**Funds**
**£**
Balance at 1 April 2024
31,155
Net incoming/(outgoing) resources
( 28,119)
Balance at 31 March 2025
3,036|**Restricted**
**Funds**
**£**
-
-|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
21,999
21,091|
|---|---|---|
|||21,999
21,091|
|||
**Total**
**Total**
**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
31,155
35,179
( 28,119)
( 4,024)|
||-|3,036
31,155|
## **9 Financial commitments**
At 31 March 2025 the company was committed to making the following payments under non-cancellable operating leases as follows:
|Operating leases which expire:
Between two and five years|**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
6,930
6,930|
|---|---|
## **10 Trustees remuneration and expenses**
No remuneration and expenses directly or indirectly out of the funds of the charity were paid or payable for the year to any trustee or to any person or persons known to be connected with any of them.
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