Trustees' Annual Report for the period
Period start date Period end date 1[st] April 2022 31[st] March 2023
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Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1157725
Friends of Ambler
Charity's principal address Ambler Primary School and Children’s Centre Blackstock Road London Postcode N4 2DR
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
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Trustee name | Office (if any) | Dates acted if not for **whole year ** |
Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany) |
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| Nicola Jane Dawkins | Chair | |||
| Emma Guirao | Secretary | |||
| Meriel Sarah Louise Cartwright | Treasurer | Until September 2022 as Treasurer, remained Trustee |
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| Jennifer Chiu | Treasurer | From September 2022 |
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)
Type of adviser Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)
Section B Structure, governance and management
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Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
How the charity is constituted
Association
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Elected by the charity membership
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
2.1 Developing effective relationships between the staff, parents and others associated with the school
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
2.2 Engaging in activities or providing facilities or equipment which support the school and advance the education of the pupils
- 2.3 In exceptional circumstances, supporting the families of Ambler Primary School and Children's Centre directly
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The benefits arising from Friends of Ambler’s activities are additional resources and opportunities for pupils at Ambler Primary School and Children’s Centre, and strengthening links between the school and the local community.
These benefits are demonstrated through the activities of the PTA, working in partnership with the school and engaging support from parents and carers, and the provision of activities for pupils which would not be available via school funding.
There is no harm arising from any of the purposes.
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)
The charity’s beneficiaries are the pupils of Ambler Primary School and Children’s Centre.
Charity trustees (PTA committee members) are usually also parents and carers of pupils at Ambler school and hence gain benefit in the same way as all other beneficiaries. This benefit is incidental and necessary to ensure the benefit is provided to all beneficiaries.
Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
The start of the financial year included a fantastic leaving party for Juliet Benis, Ambler’s long-standing headteacher, which was a well-deserved send off to a wonderful Head. We also had our first summer fair since 2019, which was circus themed and included a bouncy castle, circus skills and 2 fire engines. With thanks to our sponsors, Winkworths, we raised an enormous amount.
The 2022/2023 school year was extremely busy. We held discos for all year groups. We also ran the Greetings Card Project, which we do annually, and organised a Silent Auction which was even more popular than the previous year. This was, once again, a huge community effort with many people donating their time and skills.
We also put on a Winter Day of Fun for the kids, instead of a Winter Fair, which they all enjoyed. Stalls ranged from a golf game to face painting, to guess the name of the Penguin. By doing it during the school day, it meant that every Ambler child got to be there. We also hosted a Winter Party at the end of the school day to include parents with festive music and hot chocolate.
Also in the Winter Term, Ambler Arts created a beautiful Calendar showcasing the artwork from Arts Week. This was sold to raise money for art projects at Ambler. We also ran a second-hand uniform sale and a second hand Christmas jumper sale in order to create a culture of reuse at Ambler. Finally, we set up the Ambler Community Fund, which is a separate fundraising campaign, where the money goes to support individual families in Ambler struggling with the costs of school trips and clubs.
In January 2023, we held a hilarious comedy night for the Ambler adults, which was hosted by Tom Price. It was a night of laughter with fantastic acts: Athena Kugblenu, Rosie Holt and Jimmy McGhie.
In February 2023, we put on four movie nights to cover all the year groups. As ever, the kids talked through the films but loved watching them together and chomping on popcorn.
Ambler Arts Ambler Arts helped organize and fund Arts Week in Summer 2022. With artist Aya Haidar, the pupils in each year group worked in smaller groups on beautiful DREAMs squares, which were then stitched together to make two quilts – a main one and a smaller one as a gift for Juliet. The main quilt was subsequently picked for the Young Artists Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Ambler Arts also organized an incredible graffiti workshop for the Year 6 pupils.
Ambler Arts also provided support to the school with finding appropriate art workshops, museum and gallery visits that are on offer this year.
Grow Ambler hosted three very successful gardening days last year, one each term, where families volunteered and helped to do tasks such as planting, weeding and maintaining the planters, spreading woodchip in the forest, and generally tidying up the school grounds. Families brought a picnic, and everyone enjoyed a fun, relaxed and sociable day. Other team members liaised with the school on initiatives to reduce our carbon footprint, and continued to lobby the relevant authorities to introduce measures to improve air quality, reduce pollution and traffic.
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Section D Achievements and erformance p
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Section E Financial review
Friends of Ambler has limited running costs of around £15 pcm. Trustees Brief statement of the have agreed that £2000 should be kept available as a minimum to enable charity’s policy on reserves costs for fundraising events to be met in order to sustain the activities of the charity.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
None.
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
Section F Other optional information
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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date |
N. Dawkins |
M.Avery |
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| Nicola Jane Dawkins | Meriel Sarah Louise Cartwright | |
| Chair | Treasurer | |
| 31/01/2024 | ||
| 31/01/2024 |
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Friends of Ambler No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 4/1/2022 3/31/2023
Section A Receipts and payments
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| A1 Receipts CAF Donate Income 2,239 Commissions 401 Corporate Sponsorship 5,046 FundraisingIncome 21,172 Misc. Income 46 - - - 28,904 - - Sub total - Total receipts 28,904 A3 Payments Contributions to meet Charitable Aims 33,113 Fundraisingexpenditure 4,942 Runningcosts 297 Year 6 3,615 - - - - - Sub total 41,967 - - Sub total - Total payments 41,967 Net of receipts/(payments) - 13,063 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 25,875 Cash funds this year end 12,812 Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ Sub total(Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
to the nearest £ 2,953 - - - - - - - 2,953 - - - 2,953 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2,953 - - 2,953 Restricted funds |
to the nearest £ Endowment funds |
Total funds to the nearest £ 5,192 401 5,046 21,172 46 - - - 31,857 - - - 31,857 33,113 4,942 297 3,615 - - - - - 41,967 - - - 41,967 - 10,110 - 25,875 15,765 |
Last year to the nearest £ |
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5,192 | 1,964 | ||
| 401 | 334 | |||
| 5,046 | 5,606 | |||
| 21,172 | 15,771 | |||
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| 31,857 | 24,526 | |||
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33,113 | 15,212 | ||
| 4,942 | 5,327 | |||
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| 41,967 | 20,875 | |||
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- 10,110 | 3,651 | |
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| 2,953 | 15,765 | 3,651 |
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B5 Liabilities B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Details Details Cash float held Details Details Details Signature Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) |
to nearest £ to nearest £ 15,765 - - - - - 15,765 - Agreement Error Agreement Error to nearest £ to nearest £ 200 - - - - - - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Print Name Nicola Dawkins Meriel Cartwright Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Unrestricted funds Restricted funds Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which asset belongs Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) |
to nearest £ Endowment funds |
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| Nicola Dawkins | |||
| Meriel Cartwright |
CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees Friends of Ambler On accounts for the year ended 31 Mar 2023 Charity no (If any} 1157725 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of thè above charity (he Trust") for the year ended 3110312023. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wilh the requiremenls of the Charities Act 2011 {"the Act'l. I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts Caled out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145151{b} of the Act. Independent he charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examlner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of Iinsert name of applicable listed body]l. Delete I l if not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in wnnection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accor(Jance with section 130 of the Charities Act.. or the accounts did not accord wlh the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other Ihan any requirement that the accounts give a ttrue and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connertion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete Ihe words in the brackets if they do not 8ppIy. Signed: Date: 3110112024 Name: James McDonald Relevant professional qualrfication(s} or body Chartered Institute of Management Accountants IER Oct 2018
(if anyl: Address: The Helicon, 1 South Place, Moorgate, London United Kingdom EC2M 2RB Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Gonrn {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts." directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detalls of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018