2025-04-05-accounts

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From	Period start date			To ril 2024	Period end date
	06	April 2024	ril 2024		05 A	05 April 2025	ril 2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Seaford Down’s Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group

		Other names charity is known by	Other names charity is known by	Other names charity is known by
	Registered charity number (if any) Charity’s principal address Postcode			Registered charity number (if any)1158693 Charity’s principal address47 Fullwood Avenue Newhaven East Sussex Postcode BN9 9SW ~~———~~
		Names of the charity trustees who mana		trustees who manage the charity
		Trustee name	Office (if any)			Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1		David Brown	Co-Chair				Membership
2		Alison Woodman	Co-Chair				Membership
3		Colin Morrison	Trustee				Membership
4		Michelle Evans	Trustee				Membership
5		Lisa Prior	Trustee				Membership
6		Michael Buroni	Trustee				Membership
7		Kevin Tant	Trustee				Membership
8		Jessica Shepherd	Trustee				Membership
9		Andrea Frogley	Treasurer	Treasurer		From November 2024	Membership
10	10	Caroline Lewis	Secretary	Secretary		From January 2025	Trustees Co-oped

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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

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)[Constitution ] How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) ] Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)[Elected by members and co-opted by trustees as per constitution ]

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include Trustees are inducted by adopting our constitution. additional information, where relevant, about: Disclosure and Barring Service checks are carried out prior to the commencement of employment or trusteeship. These checks are ● policies and procedures adopted renewed every 3 years or subscribed. (Currently in course) for the induction and training of trustees;

• All trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration

• ● the charity’s organisational or other benefits.

• structure and any wider network with which the charity works; We risk assess all activities, to minimise the risk of injury.

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• relationship with any related parties;

• trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C

Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

Provide resources and services for persons affected by Down’s Syndrome and/or other additional needs to include the advancement of education and the medical professions.

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)

At our planning meetings, we keep in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.

Our main activities normally include:-

Swimming Classes

Children are helped to engage in specially tailored swimming sessions, some with parents and/or siblings in the pool to promote confidence and the more advanced children partake on their own. These sessions run multiple times over each weekend.

Drop-in Sessions

We host a monthly family oriented drop-in with activities for all of the family, which now incorporate our previously separate Music Sessions.

Advice/Education

We offer warm, positive advice to parents, especially those who have children who are newly diagnosed with extra needs.

Speech Therapy

We offer Speech Therapy with a local authority approved therapist monthly to supplement a local hiatus. Currently 12 children benefit from this activity.

Youth Club

We run a bi-monthly youth club, inviting children 12 years old and over to partake in teen related activities to promote independence and improve confidence whilst encouraging friendships.

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Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

• policy on grantmaking;

We have a number of extremely helpful volunteers who help to provide support in various ways such as admin, play work and fundraising.

• policy programme related investment;

• contribution made by volunteers.

Section D

Achievements and performance

Summary of the main Overall, we support approximately 160 active member families. We achievements of the charity continue to run our Swimming Programme self funded. We continue to during the year run a Youth Club for our older members and our Speech and Language Therapy sessions. We ceased our Music sessions due to poor attendance but continue to have a half hour session at our monthly Drop In which is well received .

Section E

Financial review

Brief statement of the We do not have a policy on reserves. charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially none in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional Information)

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Youmay chooseto 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.		Sources of funds are: ● We have received Donations from the local community such as the Newhaven Rotary Club, Town & Village, the Crafty Ladies and Paypal receipts through a card reader we now use and the web page link. Donations total £1834 ● We continued with our ongoing fundraising efforts. Various individual and group fundraising initiatives were undertaken most notably “Maisie and her friends go the distance for Pip”, Lucy’s Super Sprint Triathlon, Seahaven Dance and Life Church’s ChyngFest, which together added up to £4187. Our Swimming and Speech Therapy participants donated a further £5357. ● Total income therefore was £11797 (down from £13,446 the previous year) against expenditure of £31,259 (compared with £28,134 from last year). Our cash position has decreased from £63,844 to £44,382 Whilst still looking reasonably comfortable this only covers c2 years expenses should we not be successful in sourcing other funds to replace the discontinued CIN grants.

Section F Other optional Information

Section G Declaration

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The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) ~~e~~ David Paul Brown ~~e~~ Andrea Frogley ~~oe e~~ Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer etc.)[Co-Chair ] ~~a~~ Date August 2025 ~~ot~~

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	Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group	Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group	Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group	Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group	Seaford Down's Syndrome and Special Needs Support Group	1158693	1158693		CC16a
	Receipts and payments accounts
	For the period from		Period start date		To	Period end date
			6 Apr 2024			5 Apr 2025
Section A Receipts and payments
	Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds		Endowment funds		Total funds		Last Year
	to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £		to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Donations	1,834		5,357				7,191		8,750
Fundraising	4,187						4,187		4,696
Grants			0				0		0
Cash Tin deposits	419						419		0
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Sub Total (Gross income for AR)	6,440		5,357		-		11,797		13,446
A2 Assets and investment sales, (see table)
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Sub total	-		-		-		-		-
Total receipts	6,440		5,357		-		11,797		13,446
A3 Payments
Swimming	0		16,058				16,058		15,126
Music	0		350				350		731
Room Hire	3,800		0				3,800		3,750
Equipment	0		0				0		0
Speech	0		7,431				7,431		6,801
General	3,237		0				3,237		1,726
Sensory Integration	0		0				0		0
Cash Tin Debits	259		0				259		0
Stationery and Postage	124		0				124		0
Sub total	7,420		23,839		-		31,259		28,134
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
Per List	0		0				0		0
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Sub total	-		-		-		-		-
Total payments	7,420		23,839		0		31,259		28,134
Net of receipts/(payments)	(980)		(18,482)				(19,462)		(14,688)
A5 Transfers between funds	(18,482)		18,482
A6 Cash funds last year end	63,844						63,844		78,530
Cash funds this year end	44,382		0		0		44,382		63,844

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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=>	Total cash funds =>			=>	44,382 =>		- >>	>>	- >>
=>	(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) =>			=>	OK =>		OK >>		OK >>
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=—===	=—=== SIGN			=—===	David Brown =—===			=—===	30/9/2025 =—===
=—===	=—=== SIGN			=—===	Andrea Frogley =—===			=—===	30/9/2025 =—=== August 2025