## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/09/2023 Period start date To 31/08/2024 Period end date** **Charity name: LA PETITE ECOLE D’EALING** **Charity registration number:** 1162966 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To advance the education of children**
**with an existing knowledge of French by**
**providing teaching and group activities**
**in the French language, French culture**
**and in the study of the language,**
**literature, history and culture of the**
**francophone world.**| |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|**- To advance the education of children**
**by enabling those children who are**
**being educated in local English-**
**speaking schools, to practice French as**
**an extra-curricular activity and to extend**
**their linguistic skills (both written and**
**spoken).**
**- To advance the education of children,**
**by promoting the learning of the diverse**
**cultures of the francophone world, to**
**bilingual children within the local**
**community of Ealing.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**I n 2023-24, the Charity has provided to**
**318 pupils the possibility to learn and**
**practice French during 3 hours for 30**
**Saturdays during term time.**
**Children from 3 to 18 years old were**
**able to learn French and the French**
**culture.**
**The Charity has also provided French**
**Class for English speaking parents.**
**A library is organised at every session**
**to give access to the pupils to French**
**Books depending on their age.**
**We confirm the trustees have had**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**Guidance on public benefit.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**While the Charity does not rely on the**
**help of volunteers to achieve its primary**
**objectives, it relies on them to offer the**
**following activities:**
**-Run the library**
**-Run the coffee stand**
**-Provide additional reading support**
**for the children who need it**| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**On top of our French classes, other**
**cultural activities such as musical,**
**artistic, theatre workshops have been**
**organised for our pupils.**
**We have also organised French classes**
**for the parents who don’t speak French**
**as a mother tongue.**
**The charity also helps the French**
**speaking families living in London to**
**develop a network by organising**
**cultural events and networking activities**| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We have achieved our main objectives.**| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We have achieved our fundraising**
**activities against our objectives.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**Despite the high increase in rent and**
**payments made to our teachers we**
**managed to have a positive financial**
**position. This was achieved by**
**increasing the subscription fee, which**
**we have kept to the minimum required.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We intend to maintain our reserves at a**
**level which is at least equivalent to a**
**rental deposit of six month’s rent plus**
**one term’s operational expenditure. This**
**is to mitigate against our principal risks**
**of fluctuating pupil numbers and in the**
**eventuality of having to find new rental**
**premises. The Charity maintains a**
**rigorous budgeting procedure every**
**year and forecasts are reviewed termly**
**to ensure our expenditure remains in**
**line with budget and that reserves are**
**adequate to fulfil our continuing**
**obligations.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**The Charity’s current reserves position**
**is as follows:**
**Unrestricted funds (reserves) £ 42,996**
**Our reserves result from accumulated**
**unrestricted surpluses.**| |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|**n/a**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**The principal source of funds are the**
**fees paid by the parents, which are set**
**to the minimum amount required to**
**allow the Charity to achieve its primary**
**objectives.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**We have a deposit account.**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Constitution of a Charitable**
**Incorporated Organisation with voting**
**members other than its charity trustees**| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**Elected at the Annual General Meeting**
**by members of the Association**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**We have policies and procedures in**
**place and training provided by the**
**charity “Parapluie FLAM”.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Charity is part of the network**
**maintained by “Parapluie FLAM”, an**
**association of French supplementary**
**schools based in the UK.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|**LA PETITE ECOLE D’EALING**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1162966| |Charity’s principal address|c/o St. Augustine's Priory
Hillcrest Road
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||THOMAS DESODT|CHAIRMAN||| ||BAMBI CISSE|DEPUTY||| ||CLAIRE MORRIS|TRUSTEE||| ||SARAH CAUCHOIS|TRUSTEE|07/10/2023|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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**||| |---|---|---| ||Thomas Desodt|| ||
CHAIR OF TRUSTEES|| ||24/06/2025|| ||24/06/2025|| ||**Petite Ecole d'Ealing**|**Petite Ecole d'Ealing**|**Petite Ecole d'Ealing**|**Petite Ecole d'Ealing**|**Petite Ecole d'Ealing**|**1162966**|**1162966**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date
01/09/2023||**To**||Period end date
31/08/2024|| |||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**128,541**
**2,432**
**-**
**693**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**131,666**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**131,666**
**37,747**
**83,301**
**326**
**855**
**3,820**
**1,081**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**128,541**
**2,432**
**-**
**693**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**131,666**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**131,666**
**37,747**
**83,301**
**326**
**855**
**3,820**
**1,081**
**4,128**
**67**
**-**
**131,325**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**131,325**

**341**
**-**
**67,003**
**67,344**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |School Fees|**128,541**|||||||**121,189**| |Social Event + Fund raising|**2,432**|||||||**2,218**| |Grants|**-**|||||||**603**| |Investment income|**693**|||||||**334**| |||||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**131,666**|||||||**124,344**| |||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||| ||**-**|||||||| ||**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||**-**| |||||||||| |**_Total receipts_**|**131,666**|||||||**124,344**| |**-**||||||||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||| |
Rent|**37,747**||||**-**||**37,747**|**33,564**| |Professional fees & admin teaching
services|**83,301**||**-**||**-**||**83,301**|**77,331**| |Insurance|**326**||**-**||**-**||**326**|**312**| |Admin Costs|**855**||**-**||**-**||**855**|**3,905**| |Teaching/ Trainingcosts|**3,820**||**-**||**-**||**3,820**|**1,626**| |Fundraising|**1,081**||**-**||**-**||**1,081**|**934**| |Other Costs|**4,128**||**-**||**-**||**4,128**|**4,212**| |Bank charges|**67**||**-**||**-**||**67**|**66**| |Miscellanous|||**-**||**-**||**-**|**0**| |**_Sub total_ **|**131,325**||**-**||**-**||**131,325**|**121,950**| |||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||||| |**,**|**-**|||||||| ||**-**|||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||| |||||||||**121,950**| |||||||||| ||**341**||||||
**341**|**2,394**| ||**-**||||||**-**|| ||**67,003**||||||**67,003**|**64,608**| ||**67,344**||||||**67,344**|**67,002**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/06/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|deferred income
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current Account
Deposit Account
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**42,536**
**42,996**
**- 18,448**
**260**
**-**
**67,344**
**-**
OK
OK
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**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
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**liability relates**
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**(optional)**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 30/06/2025 2 CHARITY (OMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the Irustees On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) Set oul on pages I réport to the trusle&s on my examinats'on of the accounts of the above charity I'the TNst'} for the year endèd Responslblllties and basis of report As the charitls trust888, you are responsible for the preparatlon of the accounts in accordanc8 With the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {'Ihe Act.). I report in respect of nry examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have follow8d all thé applicable Directions given by th8 Charity Commission under section 14515llb} of Ihe Act. Independent tThe charity's gross income exceeded £250.000 8nd l am qualified lo examlnerf8 Statement und8rtake thè éxamination by being a qualrfied mèmber of linsert name of applicab18 listed bodyll. Delete [ l if not applicable. I have Completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wlh tho examination (other than Ihat disclosed below.) vthich gives me cause to believe that in, any material spe¢t. the accounting r8cords not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the a￿Ounts did nol accord with the accounting records; or the accounts did not comply wlh the applicable requirements conceming the form and content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any r8quir8m8nt that the accounts give a 'true and fairf view thich is not a m8tter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come auoss no other matters in connection with the exarninalion to thich attention shoukl be draM in this report in order to 6nabl8 8 proper understanding of the accounts to be rea¢hed. ' Please delele the words in the brack8ts rfthèy do not apply. Signed.. 02 Name: b)Ti Relevanl professional qualrficalionls) or body AAT Q,a, IER Oct 2018 (if any): Address: LONJ￿0￿) IAJ3 7DC Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examinakn.on of chafity accounts.. dirécb'ons and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detallg of any items that the examinerwlshes to discloi•. IER Oct 2018