## The Childrens Art School
Charity number 1161225
## Annual Report and Financial Statements
for the year ended 31 March 2024
## The Childrens Art School
Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2024
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Trustees' report|2 to 3|
|Examiner's report|4|
|Receipts and payments account|5|
|Statement of assets and liabilities|6|
|Notes to the accounts|7 to 8|
## **Prepared by West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
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## The Childrens Art School
## Trustees' report for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **Reference and administrative details of the charity, its trustees and advisors**
The trustees during the financial year and up to and including the date the report was approved were: **Name Position Dates**
Catherine Patel Julie Eustance Jael Williams Shafina Akhtar
Sally Brown Maire Tracey
Resigned April 2023 Resigned March 2024
Appointed April 2023 Resigned August 2024 Appointed January 2023 Appointed January 2023
## **Charity number**
1161225
Registered in England and Wales
**Registered and principal address Bankers** 22 Back Lane The Co-operative bank Holmfirth P O Box 250 Huddersfield Skelmersdale HD9 1HG WN8 6WT
## **Independent examiner**
E J Beverley FCCA
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) foundation formed on 9 April 2015.
## **Method of recruitment and appointment of trustees**
The trustees of the charity are appointed at a meeting of the trustees.
## **Objectives and activities**
## **The charity's objects**
To promote the education of children and young people in the United Kingdom, particularly in West Yorkshire, by: providing visual and other arts classes and workshops advising and training teachers and arts facilitators; and raising awareness of the value of teaching creativity and innovation and its impact on the development and well-being of children and young people.
## **The charity's main activities**
Providing art classes and workshops for children and young people through Saturday Art School, after school clubs and experience days for schools.
Providing CPD training for teachers
Creating art works with children and young people for public display, arts festivals and community events.
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## The Childrens Art School
## Trustees' report (continued) for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **Objectives and activities (continued)**
## **Public benefit statement**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities our Trustees have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and in particular the advancement of education and the advancement of the arts and heritage.
## **Achievements and performance**
- l The Children's Art School has had 2160 visits from children during the year at our studio at Holmfirth Tech and over 3000 visits from children throughout the year at our Maker World Huddersfield space. We piloted MakerWorld in Dewsbury between April and October 2023 with 1560 visits from children. We delivered the Intergalactic Space Jungle project over the 2023 summer holidays. Young people and their families were invited to take part in a series of space themed sculpture, light and sound workshops, culminating in a light and sculpture installation at the Piazza Centre in Huddersfield. Drumming, music and dance workshops were also offered to visitors through Kirklees Year of Music 2023. The project was supported by the Department for Education’s Holiday Activities and Food Programme. This project was featured on BBC Look North and contributed to place-making aims as well as improving individual well-being and supporting community cohesion.
- l Our outreach programme in partnership with Chol Theatre reached 436 children across Kirklees and we worked with 360 children through work in schools facilitating their participation in the Woven in Kirklees STRUT event and Kirklees year of Music HERD project.
- l We successfully bid for Reaching Communities Lottery to fund MakerWorld until March 2026. This funding commenced in November 2023. TCAS continues to be involved at a strategic level with Evoke, the Kirklees cultural education partnership.
- l TCAS continues to work with Kirklees libraries, Kirklees Events team, Holmfirth Arts Festival, HAF programme and Kirklees Museum Service to deliver workshops to bring participatory opportunities for children and young people to events and projects.
- l We received a donation of £50,000 to develop a music offer alongside the visual art offer at MakerWorld. We are working with Musica Kirklees to develop this.
## **Financial review**
The net receipts for the year were £52,947, including net receipts of £50,163 on unrestricted funds and net receipts of £2,784 on restricted funds after transfers.
## **Reserves policy**
The charity's free reserves, at the year end were £60,749.
TCAS current reserves policy aims to hold reserves of 3 months operating costs for the purpose of enabling the smooth running of the charity and to enable allow for an orderly winding up should the charity need to close.
The free reserves are currently above this limit but will be used for organisational development and to further the aims of the charity.
Approved by the board of trustees on 28/01/2025
Jael Williams (Trustee)
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## The Childrens Art School
## Independent examiner's report to the trustees of The Childrens Art School
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the CIO for the year ended 31 March 2024, which are set out on pages 5 to 8.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the CIO you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').
I report in respect of my examination of the CIO's accounts as carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. In carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. 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 the charity as required by section 130 of the Charities Act; 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 of the accounts to be reached.
E J Beverley FCCA
29/01/2025
## **West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO**
Stringer House 34 Lupton Street Leeds LS10 2QW
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## The Childrens Art School
## Receipts and payments account for the year ended 31 March 2024
|Notes
2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
**Receipts**
Grants and donations
(2)
50,004
Sales and fees
56,625
**Total receipts**
106,629
**Payments**
Salaries and NIC
29,306
Freelance teachers and artistes
14,690
Rent
5,671
Materials and resources
10,363
Equipment
1,323
Marketing
621
Travel expenses
149
Subscriptions
340
Insurance
601
Miscellaneous
461
Accountancy and Independent examination
792
Organisational development
350
Legal and professional
-
Phone and internet
444
Printing
-
Outreach
-
**Total payments**
65,111
**Net receipts / (payments)**
41,518
**Transfers between funds**
8,645
**Net movement in funds**
50,163
**Fund balances brought forward**
10,586
**Fund balances carried forward**
(3)
60,749|2024
Restricted
funds
£
80,951
10,598
91,549
15,711
46,606
3,053
3,475
2,930
5,510
71
-
614
972
-
1,178
-
-
-
-
80,120
11,429
(8,645)
2,784
29,203
31,987|2024
Total
funds
£
130,955
67,223
198,178
45,017
61,296
8,724
13,838
4,253
6,131
220
340
1,215
1,433
792
1,528
-
444
-
-
145,231
52,947
-
52,947
39,789
92,736|2023
Total
funds
£
96,652
69,694
166,346
26,263
76,289
4,336
19,785
2,504
5,939
249
426
952
918
751
-
42
433
158
500
139,545
26,801
-
26,801
12,988
39,789|
|---|---|---|---|
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## The Childrens Art School
## Statement of assets and liabilities
|as at 31 March 2024
2024
Unrestricted
£
**Cash funds**
Cash at bank
60,749
**Total cash funds**
60,749
**Liabilities**
Accruals|2024
Restricted
£
31,987
31,987|2024
Total
£
92,736
92,736
2024
£
990
990|2023
Total
£
39,789
39,789|
|---|---|---|---|
The financial statements were approved by the board of trustees on 28/01/2025
Jael Williams (Trustee)
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## The Childrens Art School
## Notes to the accounts
for the year ended 31 March 2024
## **1 Accounting policies**
## **Basis of accounting**
The trustees have taken advantage of section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis.
There has been no change to the accounting policies since last year.
No changes have been made to the accounts for previous years.
## **Taxation**
As a charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds are available for use at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the general objectives of the charity.
Restricted funds are subjected to restrictions on their expenditure imposed by the donor or through the terms of an appeal.
Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts.
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## The Childrens Art School
## Notes to the accounts continued
## for the year ended 31 March 2024
|**2 Grants and donations**
Arts Council England
One Community
Kirklees Council
National Lottery Community Fund
Local Giving
Awards 4 All
Chol Arts
Little Lives UK
Didymus
Sir George Martin Trust
Chaps West Riding
Holme Valley Parish Council
Other donations
**3 Restricted funds**
Balance b/f
£
Intergalactic hudds
-
Little Makers Dewsbury
24,214
Maker World
4,989
29,203|2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
50,004
50,004
Incoming
£
34,461
6,826
50,262
91,549|2024
Restricted
funds
£
27,100
1,000
3,500
47,593
500
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1,258
80,951
Outgoing
£
31,461
24,699
23,960
80,120|2024
Total
funds
£
27,100
1,000
3,500
47,593
500
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
51,262
130,955
Transfers
£
(3,000)
(4,200)
(1,445)
(8,645)|2023
Total
funds
£
76,632
-
-
-
-
8,275
860
1,500
2,000
3,100
2,500
1,000
785
96,652
Balance c/f
£
-
2,141
29,846
31,987|
|---|---|---|---|---|
## **Purpose of restriction**
**Fund name Purpose of restriction** Intergalactic hudds Intergalactic Space Jungle project providing a participatory visual arts project for children and families in Huddersfield town centre during the summer of 2023. The transfer relates to management charges. Little Makers Dewsbury To deliver a Maker World offer in Dewsbury. The transfer relates to management charges. Maker World To fund a regular MakerWorld offer for children and families. The transfer relates to management charges.
## **4 Related party transactions**
## **Trustee expenses**
No trustee received any expenses during this year or the previous year.
## **Trustee remuneration and benefits**
No trustee received any remuneration or benefit during this or the previous year.
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