## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1[st] April 2022 31[st] March 2023
**From**
**To**
## 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**
|1
2
3
4
5
6
7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Nicola Jane Dawkins|Chair|||
||Emma Guirao|Secretary|||
||Meriel Sarah Louise Cartwright|Treasurer|Until September
2022 as Treasurer,
remained Trustee||
||Jennifer Chiu|Treasurer|From September
2022||
||||||
||||||
||||||
## **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)**
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;
- relationship with any related parties;
- 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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- 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)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- 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|
|---|---|---|
||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**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**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 £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,192**|**1,964**|
||||**401**|**334**|
||||**5,046**|**5,606**|
||||**21,172**|**15,771**|
||||**46**|**851**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**31,857**|**24,526**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**31,857**|**24,526**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**33,113**|**15,212**|
||||**4,942**|**5,327**|
||||**297**|**336**|
||||**3,615**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**41,967**|**20,875**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**41,967**|**20,875**|
||||||
||**2,953**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 10,110**|**3,651**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**25,875**|**-**|
||**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**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||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