|**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** ||1
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**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**|| ||||||| ||||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
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**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: March **2012** **TAR** 2 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)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 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 March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## 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** . March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **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)**
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**Date**|Steven Turpie|Paula Turpie| |---|---|---| ||Steven Turpie|Paula Turpie| ||Chair|Charity Administrator| ||24th January 2024|| March **2012** **TAR** 6 |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Brightstars**|||**1164295**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
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**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**17,841**
**1,445**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,286**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**19,286**
**168**
**25**
**1,733**
**1,926**
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**-**
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**1,926**
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**28,700**
**1,187**
**28,117**
**180**
**818**
**116**
**4,592**
**35,010**
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**35,010**
**- 6,310**
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**- 6,310**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
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**to the nearest £**| |Fees for Charitable Service|**17,841**|||||**11,573**| |Donations - Unrestricted|**1,445**|||||**5,000**| |Donations - Restricted|**-**|||||**20,000**| |||||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**19,286**|||||**36,573**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_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**
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**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**28,487**| |||||||| ||**17,360**|**- 6,310**|**-**|**11,050**||**8,086**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**17,360**|**- 6,310**|**-**|**11,050**||**8,086**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**
Current Account
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**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||**-**||**-**| |**charity’s own use**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|Staff Salaries||Restricted||**-**||| ||Insurance||Restricted||||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
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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) 09/12/2024 2 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 COn￿M$ 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 De￿mber 2024 Name: Gabrielle Hammond Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (rf any): FCCA Address: Highbury Ash. Burthorpe Green. Ba￿ow, 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.