## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] September 2023 To 31[st] August 2024**
**Charity name: Friends of the Archer Academy**
## **Charity registration number: 1159750**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the Friends of the Archer
Academy (hereafter the “association”) is to
advance the education of pupils in the
Archer Academy (hereafter the “school”) in
particular by:
1.1. Developing effective relationships
between the staff, parents and others
associated with the school
1.2. Engaging in activities or providing
facilities or equipment which support
the school and advance the education
of the pupils.|
|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|The association runs a wide range of
events to both raise funds for the school,
and to provide social opportunities for
pupils, parents, staff, governors, and the
wider school and local communities.
These include annual events such as the
Archella Summer Festival, Archers Got
Talent, and Lower School Disco, as well as
one-off events during each year.
The association also welcomes
suggestions from the membership for future
events.|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have had regard to the Charity
Commission’s guidance on public benefit
and believes the wide-ranging events and
activities arranged by the Association to be
beneficial to the public at large.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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||Para 1.38|Grant making decisions are carried out
based on the objectives of the Charityand|
|Policy on grant making||in conjunction with the current needs and
demands of the school that cannot be met
out of current budget and that are not part
of the statutory provisions.|
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|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|N/A|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|Our members and other volunteers are vital
to the activities of the association, and we
would not be able to run the wide range of
events organised each year without them.|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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 association organised a number of
events in 2023-2024, including:
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Lower School Winter disco
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The Winter Concert
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Archers Got Talent
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Musical Bingo
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A Comedy Night
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Archella Summer Festival
In addition, a 10thanniversary party was
arranged using professional events
organisers, which raised exceptional
income of £10,169 in September 2023.
Funds passed to the School £16,811,
included £12,949 to provide new laptops.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|N/A|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The accounts of the association are
prepared on a receipts and payments
basis. Total income of the association for
the year ending 31stAugust 2024 was
£27,490, and total expenditure was
£29,955. Net expenditure during the year
was £2,465.
Income included exceptional income of
£10,169 from the Archer Academy 10th
Anniversary Party which was organised by
professional event organisers.
Total cash held at the year-end was
£14,198.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The association does not have any ongoing
commitments, but it aims to hold free
reserves (unrestricted general funds) of at
least £3,000 to fund future events. These
funds permit the Charity to delivery key
fundraising activities such as the summer
event held each year.|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|As at 31stAugust 2024, free reserves held
totalled £14,198.|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|There are no uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern.|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|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:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|The association is governed by its
constitution adopted on 17thApril 2013.|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|The charity is constituted as an
unincorporated association.|
|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|The members of the association are the
parents, guardians or carers of any pupil
currently attending the school. The
association is governed by committee, and
the committee members are the trustees of
the charity (with the exception of the school
liaison). Committee members are elected at
the AGM and hold office until the next
AGM.|
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|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||The association has a close working
relationship with the Green Arrows, an
unregistered association that maintains the
Archer Academy Gardens on a voluntary
basis. In 23-24, the association passed
over in full, fundraising income £1,173,
received from the Archer Academy, acting
as a conduit for such funds. It also passed
over a donation of £200 for the Green
Arrows, received into the association’s
bank account. These sums have been
excluded from the accounts.
Prior year income and expenditure has
been reduced by £807, being the
fundraising income received from the
Archer Academy for the Green Arrows in
that year. Prior year income and
expenditure has also been reduced by|
£395 erroneously included in those accounts, belonging to St Mary’s School.
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Friends of the Archer Academy|
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|Other name the charity uses|N/A|
|Registered charity number|1159750|
|Charity’s principal address|The Archer Academy
Eagans Close
London N2 8GA|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Christopher Kurt-
Gabel|Co-Chair|Whole Year|Friends of the Archer
Academy (AGM)|
||Ella Rachamim|Treasurer|Whole Year|Friends of the Archer
Academy (AGM)|
||Sara Mohammadi|Treasurer|Whole Year|Friends of the Archer
Academy (AGM)|
||Lynn Sargeant|Treasurer|Appointed 21stOctober
2025|Friends of the Archer
Academy (AGM)|
||Louise Andres-
Vicaria|Secretary|Appointed 21stOctober
2025|Friends of the Archer
Academy (AGM)|
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **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
## **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)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**|||
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||Christopher Robin Kurt-Gabel||
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Co-Chair||
||06/04/25||
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||**The Friends of the Archer Academy**
**Charity Name**|**The Friends of the Archer Academy**
**Charity Name**|**The Friends of the Archer Academy**
**Charity Name**|**1159750**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
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**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||
||**For the period**
**from**|01/09/2023
Period start date|**To**|31/08/2024
Period end date||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|FundraisingActivities|**27,490**
**-**
**27,490**||**-**|**27,490**|**17,047**|
|Donations|||**-**|**-**|**580**|
|Compensation|||**-**|**-**
**27,490**|**200**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**-**||**17,827**|
|||**-**
**-**||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**|**-**
**-**|||||
||||**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||**27,490**|**-**|**-**|**27,490**|**17,827**|
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|Cost of FundraisingActivities|**13,144**
**-**
**-**
**16,811**
**29,955**|**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**13,144**|**4,264**|
|Archer Garden Expenditure|||**-**|**-**||
|Administration|||**-**|**-**|**210**|
|Funds donated to the Archer Academy|||**-**|**16,811**
**29,955**|**15,950**|
|**_Sub total_ **|||**-**||**20,424**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**||||
|**A4 Asset and investmentpurchases, (see table)**|**-**
**-**
**-**|||||
|Purchase ofassets|||**-**|**-**|**600**|
||||**-**|**-**
**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|||**-**||**600**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||**29,955**||
||**29,955**|**-**|**-**||**21,024**|
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||**- 2,465**|**-**|
**-**|**- 2,465**|**- 3,197**|
||**-**
**16,663**|**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**16,663**|**19,860**|
||**14,198**|**-**|
**-**|**14,198**|**16,663**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Florrie Bicycle and Cooler Box
Sumup Card Machines
Current Account
Cash in Hand
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**13,864**|**-**|**-**|
|||**334**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**14,198**|**-**|**-**|
|||OK|OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|OK|
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|**-**|
|||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||Unrestricted|**560**|**-**|
|||Unrestricted|**40**|**-**|
|||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**|
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|||||Date of
approval|
|||Christopher Kurt-Gabel||06/04/2025|
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
07/04/2025
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Independent examlner's reportto thetrustees of the Friends of the Archer
Academy (Charity Number 1159750)
I report to the trustees on my examination ofthe accounts ofthe Friends ofthe Archer
Academy charitable trust (the Trust) for the yearended 31 August 2024.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the charitytrustees of the Trustyou are responsible forthe preparation ofthe
accounts in accordance with the requirements ofthe Charities Act 2011 ('the Act'}.
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section
145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the
applicable Directions given bythe Charitycommission undersection 14515llb) ofthe
Act.
Independent examiner's statement
I have completed myexamination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my
attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any
material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of theTrust as required bysection 130 of
the Act: or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the
examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a
proper understanding ofthe accountsto be reached.
Signed-
Name: lan Bryden
Address:
59 Briarfield Avenue
London N3 2LG
Date: