Hungarian School Oxford Charity Report of trustees for the year ending 31 August 2020
The Governors of the Hungarian School Oxford Charity present their annual report and audited accounts for the year ended 31 August 2019 and confirm they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011, the trust deed and the Charities SORP (FRS 102).
The Charity is managed by five trustees as follows:
Agnes Bodoni - Chair,
Eniko Nagy - Secretary and Teacher Coordinator,
Maria Vernicos - Treasurer,
Monika Bangha - Public Relations,
Eva Beregi - Administrator.
HSO has invited any members to consider joining the Committee as a trustee. New Trustees can be appointed by a resolution of the existing Trustees. We provide necessary training to the newly appointed trustees by making any information about HSO available.
OUR AIMS:
The HSO principal aim is to establish a strong and authentic sense of community for people with Hungarian connections in Oxford and the surrounding areas. Its mission is to promote Hungarian cultural excellence through different activities. The beneficiaries are our pupils, their families, the teachers and also general public at open events.
OUR OBJECTIVES:
The objective of HSO is to provide Hungarian language and cultural education for children who live in Oxford and the surrounding areas for the benefit of the public. As a supplementary school, the weekend activities will be based on a planned timetable and led by teachers and volunteers.
REVIEW OF ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS:
- The school starts on 14th of September 2019. It was advertised on the School’s Facebook page and on many Hungarian related Facebook pages (e.g. Hungarians in Oxfordshire, Hungarian families in the UK, etc.):
We continued to use our venue in Botley (Dean Court Community Centre), now familiar to all attendants. Last year’s improvements had a significant impact on the number or children attending the school, so we introduced a new group (baby/toddler group) for our youngest members.
- The structure of the school-year remained 2 semesters with 9 meetings in each semester. Because of the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, we were not able to continue our activities after the 14[th] of March 2020. The planned 2019-2020 school year:
| First Semester 14 September 2019 28 September 2019 12 October 2019 26 October 2019 9 November 2019 30 November 2019 7 December 2019 11 January 2020 28 January 2020 |
Second Semester 1 February 2020 15 February 2020 29 February 2020 14 March 2020 28 March 2020 25 April 2020 9 May 2020 30 May 2020 13 June 2020 |
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3. Pupil numbers and fees:
We have been awarded a grant from Hungary (Bethlen Gabor Alap, £2795.64 / 12.08.2019) and therefore we were able to offer a substantial 50% discount for our member families and a 30% discount for the new families. The fees for a semester were as below:
| member families (50%), one child:£54 member families (50%), two children:£90 |
new families (30%), one child:£75.60 new families (30%), two children:£126 toddler group (30%):£37.80 (two children£63) |
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Number of children: 37
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There were some changes in the staff and trusties. Our former teacher, Edina Okros took a year off for Maternity Leave. The substitute teacher, Mrs Timea Demeter Erdei joined our team for this school year, along with a kind and skilful volunteer, Mrs Beata Molnar and a new trustee, Ms Eva Beregi.
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Activities were based on a planned timetable and led by experienced teachers and volunteers. The curriculum also included the development of the whole individual, including the ‘soft skills’ of self-presentation, public speaking, team work and social skills. Within the classroom the curriculum was used creatively to draw out these skills.
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The two one-hour long learning sessions were held with half an hour break between them. During this break we all gathered in the big hall for tea (provided by parents in a rota scheme, often traditional Hungarian dishes), birthday celebrations, learning a new song and using our small Hungarian library.
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We continued to operate our Facebook page, a platform to inform the large public about all the activities. Through regular newsletters teachers and trustees communicated with families whose children attended the School. We shared photos, ideas, enquiries and information through our Closed (Hungarian School Oxford Parents) Facebook Group.
The educational activity for under 6's was delivered in two separate modules, the focus being on the coordination of movement, music and language in the first part (learning trough play, experiment, repetition, etc.) and creativity, arts and crafts in the second part.
The main part of the curriculum for the group for 7 years plus was reading and writing, which was delivered by our experienced teacher through topics related to Hungarian culture and tradition as it follows:
The younger children (3-6 year old) spent one hour with Mrs Klára Müllerné Deák, reading stories, talking about different topics and one hour with Mrs Agnes Bodoni, singing songs, learning nursery rhymes and playing traditional children’s games (Mrs Bodoni made a glossary of the songs and rhymes and it is available to all parents on printed copies).
The newly formed baby/toddler group was a big success. We held a single, 50 minutes long session with singing, sensory play and rhyming. Parents were continually and actively involved during the sessions. After the activity the parents and their youngsters were invited to stay in the big hall to relax and chat together while children played.
Despite the pandemic, we managed to build a strong and supporting community, we had lots of fun together, families made friends with each other and most of all the children connected more with Hungarian language and culture throughout the year.
We are planning on expanding our activities, inviting Hungarian speaking teens for board games sessions and also reintroducing teaching Hungarian for adults, as we had a couple of request regarding this.
Another plan is to apply for new grands and keep the fees at the discounted rates.
Date: Chair: 25/06/2021 Agnes Bodoni
Charity Name No (if any) Hungarian School Oxford 1163729
Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y
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For the period Period start date Period end date To from 01/09/2019 31/08/2020
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted Endowment Restricted funds Total funds Last year funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
| 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 £ |
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| A1 Receipts | 3,474 387 - - - - - - 3,861 |
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3,474 387 - - - - - - 3,861 |
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| Tuition Fee | 3,474 | - | - | 3,474 | 3,157 |
| Donations, Fundraising (Special events, refreshments) |
387 | - | - | 387 | 3,027 |
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| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 3,861 | - | - | 3,861 | 6,184 |
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) | 3,861 | - | - | 3,861 | 6,184 | ||||
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| A2 Asset and investment sales, | |||||||||
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| Sub total | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Total receipts | 3,861 | - | - | 3,861 | 6,184 |
| CCX | A3 Payments | 924 1,300 883 145 447 |
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924 1,300 883 145 447 |
~~24/06/2~~021 1,440 972 144 398 |
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Refund of fees |
924 | - | - | 924 | ||
| Teachers fees | 1,300 | - | - | 1,300 | 1,440 | |
| Venue Hire | 883 | - | - | 883 | 972 | |
| Statutoryexpenses(Insurance,DBS) | 145 | - | - | 145 | 144 | |
| ~~X R1 accounts (SS)~~ Materials,Food,Prizes |
447 | ~~1~~ - |
- | 447 | ~~24/06/~~ 398 |
| Communication and transport (Fuel, Phone, | ||||||||||||
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| Postage, Team dinners) | 325 | - | - | 325 | 13 | |||||||
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| **Sub total ** | 4,024 | - | - | 4,024 | 2,966 | |||||||
| A4 Asset and investment | ||||||||||||
| purchases, (see table) | ||||||||||||
| - | - | - | - | |||||||||
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| **Sub total ** | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Total payments | 4,024 | - | - | 4,024 | 2,966 | |||||||
| Net of receipts/(payments) | - | - | - | - | 3,218 | |||||||
| A5 Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| A6 Cash funds last year end | 4,115 | - | - | 4,115 | 897 | |||||||
| Cash funds this year end | 3,951 | - | - | 3,951 | 4,115 |
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
24/06/2021
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets |
Current Account Balance Money in Cash Box Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) None Details None |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 3,926 25 - 3,951 OK Unrestricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - OK Restricted funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Cost (optional) - - - - - |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Endowment funds to nearest £ |
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| Current value (optional) |
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| None | - | - | ||
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Details
Fund to which asset belongs
Cost (optional)
Current value
(optional) 24/06/2021
CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
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| B4 Assets retained for the | None | - | - | ||||||
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| charity’s own use | - | - | |||||||
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| Fund to which | Amount due | When due | |||||||
| Details | liability relates | (optional) | (optional) | ||||||
| B5 Liabilities | None | - | |||||||
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
| Signature | Print Name AgnesBodoni |
Date of approval |
| AgnesBodoni | 25/06/2021 | |
CCXX R4 accounts (SS)
24/06/2021
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