REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER: 1163379
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Trusteu, Aooual Report and Accounts
For The Year Ended 31st Deeember 2024

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For the y￿r eJJded 31st December 2024
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Legal and AthniD&strative Information
Tn￿tees. Annual Rwrt
Accountsnts R¢m to the TTUStees
Receipts and Payments Accowit
Statement of A55ets and Liabili¢i¢s
Notes to the Finan¢ial Stat¢m¢nts

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Legal and Administrative Inforniation
For the year ended 31st Dccember 2024
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Charity Commission registered number: 1163379
Charity's principal address:
20 Staple Drive
Staplehurst
Tonbridge
Kent
TN12 OSH
Trustees:
Lesley Manners
Paul Hughes- Chairnian
Vanessa Pilcher- Secretary
Ri¢hard Ebank5
Accountants and Independent EiJminers:
Ronald Price FCA
Beak Kemmenc
Chartered Accountsnts and
Registered Auditors
1- 3 Manor Road
Chatham
Kent
ME4 6AE
Bankers:
National Westsnins¢¢r Bank PIC
5 The Parade
High Street
Staplehurst
Kent
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Trustees, Annual Report
For the year ended 31st December 2024
The ttwtees submit their r¢port together with the financi21 ￿ents of the charity from th¢ l* January 2024 to 3 1st
December2024.
Structure Governanee and Mana
ement
The trust¢¢s during the period under review w¢r¢:
Lesley Mann¢rs
Paul Hughes
Vanessa Pilcher
Richard Ebank5
Description of Charity's Governing doeumethl
Constitution adopted 9th January 2015 and amended ioth O¢tob¢r 2015.
The charity i% constituted as an associationand isTnanag¢d by a committee who meet on ￿ le&8t threeoccasions
during th¢ yw.
Reeruitment 2nd appointment of trusttts
Apart from the f]rst charity tNstees. tNstees are app)itited by the tnemb¢r5hip at the Annual Generdl Meeting (AGM).
AII tNstees retire at the n¢xt AGM but may stsnd for re-election. Th¢ wmmittcc of tTUStees has the power to appoint
additional trustees during the year but they will sthnd down at the AGM. The minimum number of trustees is thrce and
there is no m￿]mum.
Ob e¢tives and Activities
Objects of the charity
To relieve the needs of disabled children and th¢ir f8mll1￿ and carers in the UK in particular but not exclusiv¢ly by
providing support and communication aid5 for children with communication ditTiculties.
Main activities undertsken Cor the public beDefit
The provisson of Makaton signing Cours￿ free of charge to any person that w¢s for a child with communication
difficultie5. Th¢ provision of a support mechanism by providing events 5PEcifically centr¢d for ¢hildren with additional
needs.
When planning the activities for the year. the tTUStees have complied with the dury in Sectiort 4 of the Charitie5 Act 2011
to have due regard to guidan¢e published by the Clwity Commissioty itlcluding public benefit guidance.

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net unr¢stricted fijnds of th¢ 5tathl at Ell.712 a5 Qt 31° DE¢¢mbcr2024. Th¢¢ ￿ no reStsid￿ AS at 31°
Paul H￿e5
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Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustee5
On the Accounts for the year ended 31st December 2024
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31° 1)ecember 2024 s¢t out on pages 5 to 8 which hav¢ b¢¢n prepared under
the receipts and payments basis.
Respective responsibilities ofthe tTUSt¢¢5 *nd ex*mintr
The charity's trustees are resFonsible for the prepardiion of the accounts. The chaTity's trustees consider an audil is
not required forthis year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an indekrndent examination
is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
examitie the accounts undcr section 145 of the 2011 Ac
to follow the procedure5 laid down in the General DiredioDs given by th¢ Charity Commission under section
145(5)(b} of the 2011 A¢t- and
to state whether partiwlar matters have come to my attentithL
Basis of independent examiner's report
My exatnination wa5 carried out Én accordance with the G￿ernI Direction5 given by the Charity Commission. An
¢xamination includes a review of the accounting reconLs kept by the charity and a wrnparisoD of the accounts preseuted
with ihose records. li also includes considerntion of any unusual itelns or disclosures in the accounts, and the seeking of
explanations from you as trustKs concerning any such matters. Theprocedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence
that would be required in un audit an(L consequently. no opinion is given &s to wheth¢r the accounts present a 'true and
fair. view and the report 15 limited to those matters set out in the 5tat¢Tnent below.
IndepeThdent tlamlD¢r'y ststement
In connection with iny ¢xamination, no tnatw h&$ come ￿ llhy attcntioD:
which gives m¢ r¢&sonable cause to believe thaL in any matrriai respec4 the requirements:
to k￿p accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 ACL and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and ￿ comply with the accounting
r¢quirements of the Charities Aci have not been met" or
to which, in my opwion, attention should be drawn in otdtt ts) enable a pro￿ understanding of the accounts to
be reaehed.
Ronald Price FCA
BeaJ( Kemmenoe
Chartered Accountants
1-3 Manor Road
Chatham
Kent
ME4 6AE
Dated:

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Receipts and Payments Accounts
for the year ended 31st December 2024
UDrestrirted
fuDds
Restrieted
f￿ndS
Note5
TotaL$ 2024 Totsls 2023
Reeelpts
Incoming resources from generat¢d funds..
Voluntary income
25.506
25,506
13.145
Legacy incom¢
Activities for generating fijnds
3.953
3.953
912
Inlerest received
74
74
61
Other incoming resources
Other income- Makaton courses
4,740
4,740
10,690
Total ineomlng resource5
73
34273
24.808
PaymeDts
Clwitable activities costs
Costs of g¢n¢rating funds..
Costs of generating voluntary in¢om¢
10.088
1.612
11.700
6,992
l6.891
16,891
16.632
Total resources expended
26,979
1.612
28J91
23,624
Asset purchases
Purchase of f]xed a55¢ts
300
300
Eieess of payrnents over r¢¢eipts
6,994
(1,612)
5J82
1.184
Batjk accounts and brought forward
25.718
1.612
27,330
26,146
TrAnsfer between fimds
Bank aceoullts and easb t*rritd forward
32.Y12
27J30
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Notes to the A¢counts
ror the year end¢d 31st December 2024
Charitable activities costs
Unr¢strie¢ed
nds
Restricted
funds
Totsls 2024
Tota15 2023
Makaton course expenses
Childrens actiyities and resources
Support costs
7.553
396
2,139
10.088
1.612
9.165
396
1.572
4.725
695
6.992
1.612
2 Costs of g¢n¢rating voluntary iDeome
Unrestrieted
Restricted
nds
Totals 2024
Ttstsls 2023
Events
Other fundraising expens
Support costs
3.056
35
13.81X)
16,891
3.056
35
13.800
16,891
2,501
35
12,056
14,S92
3 Support costs
Unrestricted
fuDds
Rutricted
fllnds
Totsls 2024
Totsls 2023
Payroll aTLd ￿￿U81 wages
Audit and accountancy
Printing, postage and ststionery
Communication cosrs
Insurance
11,865
1,200
2.407
243
224
15,939
11.865
1200
2.407
243
224
939
9,805
1.200
1.349
173
224
12,751
Support Costs which have not already been allocated to th¢ appropriate activity cosL are those which
provide the organisationai infrastN¢iure enables the output producing activities to take place, and
have been apportioned on an estimated b&sis &s follows:
VDrestritted
fun
Restricted
funds
Tolals 21124
Tot819 2023
Cost of generating voluntsry income
Charitable adiyities Costs
13.800
2.139
15,939
13.800
2.139
15.939
12,056
695
12.751
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Notes to the A¢¢ovnts
for the yegr ended 3151 December 2024
4 Unr¢5tricted funds
Balanee
Tr*nsfer
between
BalaD¢e as #t
31 Detetnber
2024
J4nu*ry
2024
Incoming
sourees
Resources
expended
G¢n¢rdl fi￿d$
25.718
34273
(27,279)
32,712
Total unrestricted fimds
27
79
S Restrietsd funds
Balance as
atl
January
2024
Tr•Dsfer
between
Balance a5 at
31 December
2024
IncomiDg
Ruour¢es
pended
Project fund
1,612
{1.612)
1,612
1.612
6 Related p8rty transactions
No remuTh¢rJtion or other beuefits have F£en FAid to the tTUStees dwing the perityj ended 31st D￿eMb￿ 2024.
These nolafforni oftk 1￿cOM￿ts