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**31st**|**March**|**2025**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Brightstars **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 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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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||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)** |**Names and addresses of**|**advisers (Optional information)**|**advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of adviser**|**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 Brightstars is OFSTED registered and follows a set of policies that ensure adopted for the induction and compliance with OFSTED regulations including the management of Risk. training of trustees; • 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** March **2012** **TAR** 2 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 **Summary of the objects of the** limited to: **charity set out in its governing document** 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. 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, **Summary of the main** arts and craft, cooking and games. **activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to** In planning the activities for the year the Trustees take note of the Charity **these objects (include within** Commission guidance on public benefit which has been reviewed **this section the statutory** accordingly. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **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** 2024/25 has been another positive year for Brightstars. We continue 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 future training and recruitment for both staff and volunteers. - supported the key objectives 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| ||12th December 2025|| ||12th December 2025|| March **2012** **TAR** 6 |**Charity Name**|||**No (if any)**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Brightstars**|||**1164295**||| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|1st April 2024
Period start date|**To**|31st March 2025
Period end date||| |**Section A Receipts and**|**payments**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**16,761**
**7,553**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,314**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,314**
**113**
**169**
**2,510**
**2,792**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,792**
**21,522**
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**-**
**21,522**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**29,325**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,325**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,325**
**1,200**
**32,170**
**173**
**420**
**4,808**
**38,771**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38,771**
**- 9,446**
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**- 9,446**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**16,761**
**7,553**
**29,325**
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**53,639**
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**53,639**
**1,200**
**32,170**
**173**
**420**
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**113**
**169**
**2,510**
**4,808**
**41,563**
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**41,563**
**12,076**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Fees for Charitable Service|**16,761**|||||**17,841**| |Donations - Unrestricted|**7,553**|||||**1,445**| |Donations - Restricted|**-**|||||**28,700**| |||||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**24,314**|||||**47,986**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**47,986**| |||||||| |Staff Training||||||**1,187**| |Staff Salaries||||||**28,117**| |DBS Checks||||||**180**| |Insurance||||||**818**| |Equipment||||||**-**| |Clothingand MarketingMaterials|**113**|||||**284**| |Admin Overheads|**169**|||||**25**| |Consumable Materials|**2,510**|||||**1,733**| |Room Hire||||||**4,592**| |**_Sub total_ **|**2,792**|||||**36,936**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| ||**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**36,936**| |||||||| ||**21,522**|**- 9,446**|**-**|**12,076**||**11,050**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**21,522**|**- 9,446**|**-**|**12,076**||**11,050**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|Current Account
Savings Account
**Details**
~~1~~|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**8,910**
**92,985**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**101,896**||**-**||**-**| ||(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**|||**-**||||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(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||**2,451**||**10 April 2025**| ||||||||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval| ||S Turpie||S Turpie||||12/22/2025| ||P Turpie||P Turpie||||| ||||||||12/22/2025| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to tha trusteesl members of Brightstsrs 1164295 On accounts for the year ended 31" March 2025 Charlty no {If any} Set out on pages I r8POrt to the trustees on my examinatlon of the accounts of the above charity ltrie Trusf) for the year ended 3110312025. As the charitys trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in a(￿rdance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examlnation of the Tnjst's accounts Carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Dirèctions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5Xb) of the ACL Rosponslbllltles and basls of report Independent The charbty's gross income exceeded £25,000 and l am quallfied to oxamlnorfs statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of ACCA I have ￿Mpleted my examlnatlon. I conflm that no materfal matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than Ihat disdosed below") which gives me cause to beli8ve that in. any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance Wlth 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 requiremènts concerning the fom 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 ind8pendent examination. I have no ca)ncems and have ￿rne across no othèr matters in conn8Ction with the examination to vthith attention should be drawn in this r8POrt in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Pl88s8 delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Date: 22nd December 2025 Slgned: Name: Gabrielle Hammond Relevant professlonal qualiflcation(s) or body (If any): FCCA Address: Highbury Ash, Burthorpe Green, Barrow, Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk, IP29 5DA Section B Oisclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material malters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Glvo here brief detalls of any Items that the examiner wlshes to dlsclose.