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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**||||
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||**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity’s principal address**
**Postcode**|||**Registered charity number (if any)**1158693
**Charity’s principal address**47 Fullwood Avenue
Newhaven
East Sussex
**Postcode**
**BN9 9SW**
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|||**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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|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.||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.|
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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**|
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||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**|Period end date||||
||||6 Apr 2024|||5 Apr 2025||||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last Year**|
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|**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**|
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|**A2 Assets and**
**investment sales, (see**
**table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Total receipts_**|**6,440**||**5,357**||**-**||**11,797**||**13,446**|
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|**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**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
|Per List|0||0||||0||0|
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|**Sub total**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**Total payments**|**7,420**||**23,839**||0||31,259||**28,134**|
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|**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|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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