September 2024 - August 2025 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 this locations:
- Parkside Community College, Parkside, Cambridge (CB1 1EH)
On Saturday mornings, the school operates in Parkside Community College for three hours. Our pupils are divided into nine classes mostly according to their age and level:
-
Three 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 (8 to 11 years old)
-
Two classes for secondary school age children: One class Aurore year 6 to 7, 10 to 12 years old) and one class Flora (year 8 to 9 12 to 13 years old). This allows children to deepen their writing skills but also to be more exposed to French literature.
In total, the school now has around 150 pupils, eight teachers and up to three teacher assistants.
The teachers meet regularly to work on course content and exchange on teaching practices. Les Petits Caméléons’ head teacher, Ms Pauline Montiel, meets regularly with all the teachers to discuss teaching practices, materials and the curriculum which is adapted to bilingual children. The teaching staff have five yearly meetings to discuss the preparation of the new school year as 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.
1/4
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. The trustees and the administrative staff are:
-
Chair: Céline Ramond
-
Deputy Chair: Audrey Wakim
-
Treasurer: Jean-Charles Callu
-
Deputy Treasurer: Loan Chamayou
-
Secretary: Fabienne Ericher
-
Deputy secretary: Aliénor Vellay
-
Member : Hélène Grislin
-
Member: Jérôme Boulanger
-
Member: Anne Pajon
-
Head teacher: Pauline Montiel
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.
School’s objectives and planned activities
The school’s objectives are to achieve:
-
High quality education
-
Financial balance (no profit)
-
Fair practice for all
2/4
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 and fifty 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.
The school has been steadily growing since its creation, with a dip due to the covid-19 pandemic, but it managed to grow again the 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 families for their support and the confidence they are showing in the charity.
3/4
Financial report
The financial period starts on the 1st September 2024 and finishes 31st August 2025. Amounts are rounded to the nearest pound
Income and spending
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 2024 | £ 6,744 | £ 28,546 | £35,289 |
| 31st August 2025 | £ 11,210 | £ 34,944 | £46,154 |
| Balance | +£10,865 |
4/4
| Les Petits Caméléons |
Les Petits Caméléons |
Les Petits Caméléons |
Les Petits Caméléons |
No 1164264 | CC16a | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receipts and payments accounts | ||||||
| For the period from |
01/09/2024 | To | 31/08/2025 | |||
| Section A Receipts and payments | ||||||
| Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ A1 Receipts |
Restricted funds to the nearest £ |
Endowment funds to the nearest £ |
Total funds to the nearest £ |
Last year to the nearest £ |
||
| School fees | 83,778 | - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- |
- -- |
- 83,778- |
69,739 | |
| Memberships | 1,320 | - -- |
- 1,320- |
1,584 | ||
| Subventions | 0 | - -- |
- -- |
0 | ||
| Savings interest | 399 | - -- |
- 399- |
280 | ||
| Misc credit and refunds | 96 | - -- |
- 96- |
43 | ||
| 0 | - -- |
- -- |
0 | |||
| 0 | - -- |
- -- |
0 | |||
| 0 | - -- |
- -- |
0 | |||
| Sub total(Gross income for AR) 85,593 A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
85,593 | - -- |
- -- |
- 85,593- |
71,646 | |
| A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). |
||||||
| Deposit to savings account | 6,000 | - -- - -- |
- -- |
- 6,000- |
10,000 | |
| Withdrawal from savings account | 0 | - -- |
- -- |
0 | ||
| Sub total 6,000 Total receipts 91,593 A3 Payments |
6,000 | - -- |
- -- |
- 6,000- |
10,000 | |
| 91,593 | - -- |
- -- |
- 91,593- |
81,646 | ||
| Teaching services | 41,326 | - -- - -- - -- |
- -- |
- 41,326- |
34,233 | |
| Direction services | 10,850 | - -- |
- 10,850- |
22,567 | ||
| Rent | 16,236 | - -- |
- 16,236- |
14,242 | ||
| Printing | 2,374 | - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- - -- |
- -- |
- 2,374- |
- -- |
|
| Consumables | - 882- |
- -- |
- 882- |
- -- |
||
| Equipment purchases | - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
425 | ||
| Insurance | 814 | - -- |
- 814- |
759 | ||
| Disclosure services | 370 | - -- |
- 370- |
240 | ||
| Training | 190 | - -- |
- 190- |
437 | ||
| Refunds | 399 | - -- |
- 399- |
4 | ||
| Miscellaneous | ||||||
| 121 | - -- - -- - -- - -- |
- -- |
- 121- |
600 | ||
| Food and drink | 317 | - -- |
- 317- |
220 | ||
| GoCardless fees | 849 | - -- |
- 849- |
709 | ||
| Bank fees | 1 | - -- |
- 1- |
1 | ||
| - 74,728- |
- -- |
- -- |
- 74,728- |
- 74,437- |
||
| A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) |
||||||
| Deposit to savings account | - 6,000- |
- -- - -- |
- -- |
- 6,000- |
- 10,000- |
|
| Withdrawal from savings account | - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| Sub total - 6,000- Total payments - 80,728- Net of receipts/(payments) - 10,865- A5 Transfers between funds - -- A6 Cash funds last year end - 35,289- Cash funds this year end - 46,154- |
- 6,000- |
- -- |
- -- |
- 6,000- |
- 10,000- |
|
| - 80,728- |
- -- |
- -- |
- 80,728- |
- 84,437- |
||
| - 10,865- |
- -- |
- -- |
- 10,865- |
- 2,791- |
||
| - -- |
- -- - -- - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - 35,289- |
- -- |
- 35,289- |
- 38,080- |
|||
| - 46,154- |
- -- |
- 46,154- |
- 35,289- |
|||
| Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period | ||||||
| Categories B1 Cash funds |
Details Current account Saving account |
Unrestricted funds to nearest £ |
Restricted funds to nearest £ |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
||
| - 11,210- |
- -- |
- -- |
||||
| - 34,944- |
- -- |
- -- |
||||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||||
| Total cash funds | - 46,154- |
- -- |
- -- |
|||
| (agree balances with receipts and payments account (s)) |
OK | OK | OK |
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 | - | 11,210- | - | -- | - | -- | |||||||
| Saving account | - | 34,944- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| - | -- | - | -- | - | -- | |||||||||||
| Total cash funds | - | 46,154- | - | -- | - | -- | ||||||||||
| (agree balances with receipts and payments account (s)) |
OK | OK | OK |
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
6/22/2026
1
| B2 Other monetary assets B3 Investment assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Details | Unrestricted funds to nearest £ |
Restricted funds to nearest £ |
Endowment funds to nearest £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| - -- |
- -- |
- -- |
||
| Current value (optional) |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| Current value (optional) |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| - -- |
||||
| When due (optional) |
||||
| Date of approval | ||||
| 18/10/2025 | ||||
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
6/22/2026
2
Independent examiner's report on the accounts
Section A Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees Charity Name Les Petits Caméléons
| Charity Name Les Petits Caméléons |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages |
31 August 2025 | Charity no (if any) |
1164264 |
| 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) |
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2025.
Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
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(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 (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
-
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
-
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
-
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
- Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Date: 22 June 2026 Name: John Stuart Frazer Anthony Relevant professional ICAEW 7881435 qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: The Barn House, Manor Farm, Collingbourne Kingston, Marlborough
1
Oct 2018
IER
Wiltshire, SN8 3SD
Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .
2
Oct 2018
IER