## September 2022 - August 2023 Report for Les Petits Caméléons 

## About the charity 

Les Petits Caméléons, (charity number 1164264) which was founded in 2013, is a school which teaches French language and French culture to primary school age pupils living within a French family environment or who have been exposed to enough French language to be able to understand spoken french. The aim is to provide support to these families who speak french; develop their children’s French skills; help them improve their communication skills and facilitate their possible integration into a French school in the future. 

Les Petits Caméléons’ school is based in Cambridge at these locations: 

- Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cambridge (CB1 1EH) 

- Morley Memorial Primary School, 91 Blinco Grove (CB1 7TX) 

On Saturday mornings, the school operates in Parkside Community College for three hours. Our pupils are divided into six classes mostly according to their age and level: 

- Two classes to improve french spoken skills (4 to 6 years old); 

- Two classes to learn how to read french (6 to 8 years old); 

- Two classes to master reading skills and learn written French ( year 4 to 6, 8 to 11 years old) 

- Two classes for secondary school age children: One class Aurore year 7 to 9, 11 to 14 years old) and one class Olympe (year 10 to 12, 15 to 18 years old). This allows children to deepen their writing skills but also to be more exposed to French literature. 

Les Petits Caméléons also runs an afterschool club every Tuesdays at the Morley Memorial Primary School. 

In total, the school now has around 132 pupils, nine teachers and up to two teacher assistants. 

The teachers meet regularly to work on course content and exchange on teaching practices. Les Petits Caméléons’ head teacher, Mrs Sandès Gaudin, meets regularly with all the teachers to discuss teaching practices, materials and the curriculum which is based on the one from France. The teaching staff have four yearly meetings to discuss the preparation of the new school year as 

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well as at the end of each term to discuss the term's achievements and issues as well as future plans. 

Parents/teachers meetings are organised yearly. Les Petits Caméléons brings all of the community together during the school Christmas and summer fetes. 

## School’s organisation 

From an administrative point of view, the school is a charity and elected trustees take all decisions regarding the running of the school. The school also recruits the services of a Head Teacher, a School Administrator and a Communication Officer. The trustees and the administrative staff are: 

- Chair: Céline Ramond 

- Deputy Chair: Anne Pajon 

- Treasurer: Thomas Godard 

- Deputy Treasurer: Loan Chamayou 

- Secretary: Fabienne Ericher 

- Deputy secretary: Jean-Charles Callu 

- Member : Hélène Grislin 

- Member: Jérôme Boulanger 

- Head teacher: Sandès Gaudin 

- School administrator: Amandine Ricciardi 

- Communication officer: Lynda Jeannot 

Les Petits Caméléons’ charity recruits its trustees mostly among parents of pupils and school’s teachers, but anyone can be appointed. New members may come forward at the general assembly meeting in July. Those obtaining a majority of charity members’ votes are elected to become new trustees. 

The committee of trustees meets one to three times per quarter depending on the level of activity, with peaks at the beginning and the end of the school year.  All changes in the way the school operates are voted by the trustees during these meetings. 

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## School’s objectives and planned activities 

The school’s objectives are to achieve: 

- High quality education 

- Financial balance (no profit) 

- Fair practice for all 

Training is continuously  provided for teachers and effort will be put on improving the organisation of the school’s resources. We had training for Safeguarding, First Aid has been provided to teachers and volunteers. Some teachers have also attended specialised training provided by a french organisation based in London helping french schools established outside France to get set-up and operate called “Le Parapluie FLAM”. 

Continuous review and improvement of Les Petits Caméléons’ school’s policies are carried out every year by the committee . 

## Contribution to the community 

Les Petits Caméléons contribute to the community by offering a unique french education and french environment to french speaking pupils. The school delivers about 140 hours of teaching every year to a hundred pupils. In addition to the success of teaching French to pupils, Les Petits Caméléons bring together the french-speaking community twice a year at specific events, though these events were paused during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The school has been steadily growing since its creation and, despite the Covid-19 pandemic, managed to keep the same level of enrolment in the past couple of years. Most pupils stay year after year in the school after joining. Les Petits Caméléons want to thank all the family for their support and the confidence they are showing in the charity. 

We also participate in local events, particularly the “Cambridge festival” where pupils were able to showcase some of the work they did during the lessons. 

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## Financial report 

The financial period starts on the 1st September 2022 and finishes 31st August 2023. Amounts are rounded to the nearest pound 

## **Income and spending** 


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## **Cash situation** 

The following table shows the cash situation at the beginning and end of our financial year 

|**_Date_**|**_Current Account_**|**_Saving Account_**|**_Total_**|
|---|---|---|---|
|1st September 2022|£9,957|£20,160|£30,117|
|31st August 2023|£19,814|£18,266|£38,080|
|||**_Balance_**|_£7,963_|



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|||**Les Petits Caméléons**|**Les Petits Caméléons**|**Les Petits Caméléons**|**Les Petits Caméléons**|**Les Petits Caméléons**||||||**No**|**No**|**No**|**1164264**|**1164264**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||||||||||||**CC16a**||
|||**For the period**<br>**from**|||||01/09/2022||||**To**||||31/08/2023|||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||||**Restricted funds**|||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**|||||**Total funds**||||**Last year**||
|||**to the nearest**|**£**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||
|School fees||**67,560.73**||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**67,561-**|||**-**|**49,752-**||
|Subventions|||**6,008**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**6,008-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Savings interest|||**106**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**106-**|||**-**|**30-**||
|Misc credit and refunds|||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**38-**||
||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|||**73,675**||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**||**73,675-**|||**-**|**49,820-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||||||||||||||||||||||



|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Withdrawal from savings|account|||**2,000**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**1,000-**||
|||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||**_Sub total_**|||**2,000**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**1,000-**||
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||**_Total receipts_**|||**75,675**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**75,675-**|||**-**|**50,820-**||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Teaching services||||**33,159**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**33,159-**|||**-**|**34,526-**||
|Direction services||||**17,229**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**17,229-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Rent||||**12,135**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**12,135-**|||**-**|**9,854-**||
|Equipment purchases||||**560**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**560-**|||**-**|**565-**||
|Insurance||||**721**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**721-**|||**-**|**710-**||
|Disclosure services||||**240**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**240-**|||**-**|**388-**||
|Training||||**427**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**427-**|||**-**|**78-**||
|Refunds||||**256**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**256-**|||**-**|**1,306-**||
|Food and drink||||**306**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**306-**|||**-**|**--**||
|GoCardless fees||||**678**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**678-**|||**-**|**--**||
|Bank fees||||**3**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**3-**|||**-**|**--**||
|||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|||||**0**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**65,712-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**65,712-**|||**-**|**47,427-**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||||
|Withdrawal from savings|account||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**||||||
||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
||**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**2,000-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**2,000-**||||||
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||**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**67,712-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**67,712-**|||**-**|**47,427-**||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|||**-**|**7,963-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**7,963-**|||**-**|**3,393-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**A6 Cash funds last**|**year end**||**-**|**30,117-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**30,117-**|||**-**|**27,891-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **|||**-**|**38,080-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**38,080-**|||**-**|**31,284-**||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

||||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||||||**funds**||
||||||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||
|**B1**|**Cash**|**funds**|Current account|||**-**|**19,814-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||Saving account|||**-**|**18,266-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||**_Total cash funds_**|||**-**|**38,080-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustees
Les Petits Carnéléons
On accounts for the year
ended
31 August 2023
Charity no
lrfany)
1164264
Set out on pages
I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the abov8
charity ('the Trust") for the year ended 51 02 2023
As the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordan￿ with the requirements of the Charyties Act 2011
("the Act).
Responslbilltles and
basls of report
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 by the Charity Commission
under section 145(51{bl of the Act.
Independent rrhp
examiner's statement urs
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50,.0
lified
in
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eof
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I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination {other than that
disclosed below.) which gives me cause to believe that in. any material
respect..
the accounting records were not kept in accordan¢e with section 130
of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or
the accounts did not comply wth the applicable requirements
concerning the form and Content of accounts set out in the Charities
{Accounls and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter
consideTed as part of an independent examination.
I have no COn￿rn$ and have corne across no other matters in connection
with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in Ihis report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
' Please delete the words in the brdckets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
3110712023
Name:
f4bl
Relevant professional
quallficatlonlsl or body
IER
Oct 2018

(If anyl:
Address:
£2 2
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete Il Ihe examiner tkeeds to highlight material matters of ￿n￿rn
{see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. direclions and
guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
Oct 2018