## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date 1[st] Aug 2023 To Period end date: 31[st] July 2024** ## **Charity name: Chestnuts PSA** ## **Charity registration number: 1147386** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Co-operation throughout the school**
**community, put on events and activities**
**which enhance learning, welfare and**
**development of all pupils through**
**fundraising, donations and sponsorship.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Summer and Winter Fairs, quizzes,**
**various workshops run by outside**
**companies and paid for by PSA, film**
**night, treat sales, local business**
**sponsorship and jumble sale.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Our events are almost always at the**
**school and as such risks and benefits to**
**the public are regarded before each**
**event.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||
SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**We mainly focus on raising money for the**
**school and as such we don’t donate**
**money elsewhere.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**No policy exists on social investment**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**All our events are run by volunteers and**
**the charity trustees are all volunteers.**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**The main achievement of the charity is to**
**raise funds in order to pay for extra-**
**curricular activities and events for all**
**pupils - we have had a very successful**
**year, raising almost £80K.**
**We have continued to successfully invest**
**in outside companies/people, asking**
**them to run ‘workshops’ for the children**
**and parents.**
**We successfully ran a ‘Crowdfunder’ in**
**order to raise money for a MUGA in the**
**school playground, including receiving a**
**grant/match funding from Sport England.**
**We also continued to fund items for the**
**school, which would previously have**
**been covered by the school’s budget**
**which has now shrunk.**
**The school community has largely**
**benefitted from the increase in funds but**
**to an extent the wider community too, as**
**a lot of our events are open to non-**
**school people.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Our objective last year was to start**
**obtaining grants to increase our income**
**so we could fund larger things around**
**the school. We had a very successful**
**fundraising effort, raising almost £42K for**
**some new sporting equipment in one of**
**the playgrounds.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Annual review performed by Holt Baker**
**Ltd**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Any money raised is paid either to cover**
**event expenses or to the school.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Events but we are now looking at grants**
**as a long-term form of funding income.**| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**2 co-chairs, treasurer and volunteer**
**committee**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Election at AGM**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|
Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Chestnuts Primary School Parents and Schoool Association| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Chestnuts PSA| |Registered charity number|1147386| |Charity’s principal address|Chestnuts Primary School,
La Rose Lane,
London N15 3AS| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Gavin Talbot|Co-chair|16thOctober 2024|| ||Caroline Carter|Co-chair|24thJuly2024|| ||Caitlin Curtis|Treasurer|11thJune 2024|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name n/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **n/a** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Caitlin Curtis **Full name(s)** Caitlin Curtis **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc)** **Date** 28[th] May 2025 ## **`Chestnuts Primary School PSA Annual accounts 23/24`** ## **`Income & expenditure statement period: 1Aug23 - 31Jul24`** |**`INCOME 2023/24`**
**`EXPENDITURE 2023/24 (CASH AND BANK)`**
`Bank balance brought forward 1st Aug23:`
`£19,968.98`
`Cash balance brought forward 1st Aug23:`
`£0.00`
`BFWD sales outstanding`
`£80.66`
`BFWD exps outstanding`
`£4,983.37`
`£`
`Easy Fundraising/Just Giving/Amazon/PayPal`
`£1,766.55`
`Artist Workshops`
`£2,036.54`
`Choir`
`£0.00`
`School Clubs (Drama/Forest School)`
`£2,470.00`
`Friday Treats`
`£4,585.51`
`Halloween`
`£2,930.43`
`Quiz Night1`
`£1,178.50`
`Christmas Fair`
`£9,717.81`
`One World Night`
`£3,361.45`
`Quiz Night2`
`£379.50`
`Jumble Trail`
`£1,806.50`
`Art Sale`
`£858.00`
`Yr6 disco`
`£340.01`
`Summer Fair`
`£9,564.96`
`Crowd Funder`
`£37,331.96`
`Total income to date`
`£78,327.72`
`Parents' Meetings/Salisbury`
`£188.49`
`Artist Workshops`
`£809.94`
`Choir`
`£5,132.50`
`School Clubs (Drama/Forest School)`
`£1,766.96`
`Friday Treats`
`£1,072.68`
`Halloween`
`£1,015.72`
`Quiz Night1`
`£365.67`
`Christmas Fair`
`£3,057.48`
`One World Night`
`£951.43`
`Quiz Night2`
`£257.38`
`Jumble Trail`
`£127.52`
`Summer Fair`
`£3,636.89`
`Yr6 disco`
`£715.04`
`General running costs`
`£605.96`
`PTA annual fee`
`£153.00`
`Crowdfunder`
`£41,744.95`
`School funding (murals/class funding)`
`£19,116.02`
`Total expenditure to date`
`£80,717.63`
`General school funding to pay out`
`£0.00`
`Available funds:`
`£12,676.36`
`CASH POSITION/RECONCILIATION`
`££`
`Cash book balance @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£14,190.38`
`Petty cash @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£0.00`|**`INCOME 2023/24`**
**`EXPENDITURE 2023/24 (CASH AND BANK)`**
`Bank balance brought forward 1st Aug23:`
`£19,968.98`
`Cash balance brought forward 1st Aug23:`
`£0.00`
`BFWD sales outstanding`
`£80.66`
`BFWD exps outstanding`
`£4,983.37`
`£`
`Easy Fundraising/Just Giving/Amazon/PayPal`
`£1,766.55`
`Artist Workshops`
`£2,036.54`
`Choir`
`£0.00`
`School Clubs (Drama/Forest School)`
`£2,470.00`
`Friday Treats`
`£4,585.51`
`Halloween`
`£2,930.43`
`Quiz Night1`
`£1,178.50`
`Christmas Fair`
`£9,717.81`
`One World Night`
`£3,361.45`
`Quiz Night2`
`£379.50`
`Jumble Trail`
`£1,806.50`
`Art Sale`
`£858.00`
`Yr6 disco`
`£340.01`
`Summer Fair`
`£9,564.96`
`Crowd Funder`
`£37,331.96`
`Total income to date`
`£78,327.72`
`Parents' Meetings/Salisbury`
`£188.49`
`Artist Workshops`
`£809.94`
`Choir`
`£5,132.50`
`School Clubs (Drama/Forest School)`
`£1,766.96`
`Friday Treats`
`£1,072.68`
`Halloween`
`£1,015.72`
`Quiz Night1`
`£365.67`
`Christmas Fair`
`£3,057.48`
`One World Night`
`£951.43`
`Quiz Night2`
`£257.38`
`Jumble Trail`
`£127.52`
`Summer Fair`
`£3,636.89`
`Yr6 disco`
`£715.04`
`General running costs`
`£605.96`
`PTA annual fee`
`£153.00`
`Crowdfunder`
`£41,744.95`
`School funding (murals/class funding)`
`£19,116.02`
`Total expenditure to date`
`£80,717.63`
`General school funding to pay out`
`£0.00`
`Available funds:`
`£12,676.36`
`CASH POSITION/RECONCILIATION`
`££`
`Cash book balance @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£14,190.38`
`Petty cash @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£0.00`| |---|---| |`Total income to date`
`£78,327.72`|| |**`EXPENDITURE 2023/24 (CASH AND BANK)`**
`Parents' Meetings/Salisbury`
`£188.49`
`Artist Workshops`
`£809.94`
`Choir`
`£5,132.50`
`School Clubs (Drama/Forest School)`
`£1,766.96`
`Friday Treats`
`£1,072.68`
`Halloween`
`£1,015.72`
`Quiz Night1`
`£365.67`
`Christmas Fair`
`£3,057.48`
`One World Night`
`£951.43`
`Quiz Night2`
`£257.38`
`Jumble Trail`
`£127.52`
`Summer Fair`
`£3,636.89`
`Yr6 disco`
`£715.04`
`General running costs`
`£605.96`
`PTA annual fee`
`£153.00`
`Crowdfunder`
`£41,744.95`
`School funding (murals/class funding)`
`£19,116.02`|| |`Total expenditure to date`
`£80,717.63`|| |`General school funding to pay out`
`£0.00`
`Available funds:`
`£12,676.36`|| |`CASH POSITION/RECONCILIATION`
`££`|| |`Cash book balance @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£14,190.38`
`Petty cash @ 31st Jul 2024`
`£0.00`|| |`Total available`
`£14,190.38`|| |**`Outstanding income:`**
`cash to be paid in`
`£0.00`|| |**`Plus total outstanding income`**
**`£0.00`**|| |**`Costs still to pay:`**
`Expenses to pay out`
`£1,514.02`
`New funding requests`
`£0.00 `|`to pay to school`| |**`Less total unpaid costs`**
**`£1,514.02`**|| |**`New available funds balance`**
**`£12,676.36`**|| Our appointed auditor has unexpectedly become unavailable. Please could we request a month’s extension for submission of the verified accounts? Please contact Caitlin on 07743949736 for further information.