2024-03-31-accounts - Brightstars

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Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
From	Period start date			To	Period end date
	01	April	2023		31st	March	2024

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Brightstars

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1164295

1164295
West Stow Lodge
West Stow
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Postcode	IP28 6ET

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Steven Turpie	Chair of Trustees		ExistingTrustees
Paula Turpie	CharityAdministrator		ExistingTrustees
Sarah Thomas			ExistingTrustees
Abigail Proctor	Trustee for Whistleblowing		Existing Trustees
















Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser	Name Address	Name Address
Independent Accountant	Gabrielle Hammond	Highbury Ash, Burthorpe Green, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29 5DA

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

CIO Governing Document (Charity Commission Template) Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Existing Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Brightstars has a Management Committee that reports to the Board of You may choose to include Trustees and is made up of the Charity Administrator (Chair), at least one additional information, where other Trustee and the Play Leader. This committee is responsible for the relevant, about: day to day running of the Brightstars Club.

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Brightstars is OFSTED registered and follows a set of policies that ensure training of trustees; compliance with OFSTED regulations including the management of Risk.
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The Objective of the Charity is, for the public benefit, to relieve the needs of people with a disability in particular by the provision of help and support for them and for their families, dependants and carers by such charitable means as the charity Trustees determine, including but not limited to:

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1/ Providing respite care 2/ Providing information and advice 3/ Providing support services to the families, dependants and carers of people with a disability.

Brightstars currently runs a respite service for children and young people with a disability. This includes a Saturday Club that runs every other Saturday as follows:

9.30am to 12.30am – 5 to 11 year olds 13:30 to 16:30 12 to 19 year olds.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

The club operates at a ratio of one member of staff to every 2 children in addition to our play leader and volunteers. Each session provides fun activities for the children which is self-directed and includes physical play, arts and craft, cooking and games.

In planning the activities for the year the Trustees take note of the Charity Commission guidance on public benefit which has been reviewed accordingly.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Brightstars continues to receive excellent feedback from the parents and carers of the children we support and we are very proud of our accomplishments.

Brightstars continues to be ‘over-subscribed’ and we have a long waiting list. Our volunteer community continues to grow we continue to maintain the mandatory training requirements for OFSTED registration (First Aid, Safeguarding, Food Safety).

Our staff and volunteer induction has a strong focus on safety and we are designed to provide a fun but above all safe and secure group .

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the Brightstars does not have a reserve policy. charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially We have no funds in deficit. in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The Charities principal source of funds comes from

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

1/ Local Authority Grant 2/ Child attendance fees

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);

3/ Charitable donations

We have been successful in securing donations that have supported us
how expenditure has in buying specialist equipment, paying for staff training and helping fund supported the key objectives future training and recruitment for both staff and volunteers. of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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	Steven Turpie	Paula Turpie
	Steven Turpie	Paula Turpie
	Chair	Charity Administrator
	24th January 2024

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Charity Name			No (if any)
Brightstars			1164295
Receipts andpayments accounts				CC16a
For the period from	Period start date 1st April 2023	To	Period end date 31st March 2024

Section A Receipts and	payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 17,841 1,445 - - - - - 19,286 - - - 19,286 168 25 1,733 1,926 - - - 1,926 17,360 - - 17,360	Restricted funds to the nearest £ 28,700 - - - - - 28,700 - - - 28,700 1,187 28,117 180 818 116 4,592 35,010 - - - 35,010 - 6,310 - - - 6,310	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 17,841 1,445 28,700 - - - - - 47,986 - - - 47,986 1,187 28,117 180 818 - 284 25 1,733 4,592 36,936 - - - 36,936 11,050	Last year to the nearest £
Fees for Charitable Service	17,841				11,573
Donations - Unrestricted	1,445				5,000
Donations - Restricted	-				20,000

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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	19,286				36,573

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Sub total*	-				-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
					36,573

Staff Training					249
Staff Salaries					22,674
DBS Checks					125
Insurance					-
Equipment					-
Clothingand MarketingMaterials	168				115
Admin Overheads	25				114
Consumable Materials	1,733				1,538
Room Hire					3,672
**Sub total **	1,926				28,487

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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**Sub total **	-				-
*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
					28,487

	17,360	- 6,310	-	11,050	8,086
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	17,360	- 6,310	-	11,050	8,086

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories B1 Cash funds CCXX R1 accounts (SS)	Details Current Account ~~1~~	Unrestricted funds to nearest £ 88,662 -	Restricted funds to nearest £ -	Endowment funds to nearest £
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	*Total cash funds*	88,662		-	-
	(agree balances with receipts and payments
	account(s))	Agreement Error		Agreement Error	OK
		Unrestricted		Restricted	Endowment
		funds		funds	funds
	Details	to nearest £		to nearest £	to nearest £
B2 Other monetary assets		-			-
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	Details	Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B3 Investment assets				-	-
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	Details	Fund to which asset belongs		Cost (optional)	Current value (optional)
B4 Assets retained for the				-	-
charity’s own use				-	-
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		Fund to which		Amount due	When due
	Details	liability relates		(optional)	(optional)
B5 Liabilities	Staff Salaries	Restricted		-
	Insurance	Restricted
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees	Signature	Print	Name		Date of approval
	S Turpie	S Turpie			09/12/2024
	P Turpie	P Turpie			09/12/2024

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Brightstsrs On accounts for the year ended 31. March 2024 Charlty no (If any) 1164295 Set out on pages e paae numiws ol uddiiional shi.'Lls I report to the Irustees on my examinalion of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust-) for the year ended 31103 12024. Responsibllltles and basis of report As the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5}(b) of the Act. Independent The charity's gross income exceeded £25,000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualrfied member of ACCA I have completed my examination. I confirm thal no material matters have come lo my attention in connection wilh 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 ac(x)rdance 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 conceming the form and content of accounts set oul 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 COnM$ and have come across no other matters in conneclion 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 brdckets rfthey do not apply. . Slgned.. Date: 11 Dember 2024 Name: Gabrielle Hammond Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (rf any): FCCA Address: Highbury Ash. Burthorpe Green. Baow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. IP29 5DA

Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Goncern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts= directions and guidan for examiners). Glve here brief details of any items that Ihe examiner wishes to disclose.