## **Trustees' Annual Report**
## _The Heights Primary School Parent Teacher Friends Association (PTFA)_
**For the period:** 01 September 2024 to 31 August 2025
## **Section A: Reference and administration details**
- **Charity name:** The Heights Primary School Parent Teacher Friends Association (PTFA)
- **Registered charity number: 1164551**
- **Charity's principal address:** The Heights Primary School, **129 Upper Woodcote Rd, Reading RG4 7LB**
- **Names of the charity trustees who managed the charity during the period:**
- **Chair:** Anna Pazi
- **Treasurer:** Cinzia Scotellaro
## **Section B: Structure, governance and management**
- **Type of governing document:** Constitution.
- **How the charity is constituted:** Association (comprising parents, teachers, and friends of the school).
- **Trustee selection methods:** Elected annually by the members of the Association at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).
## **Section C: Objectives and activities**
- **Summary of the objects of the charity:** To advance the education of pupils in the school in particular by developing effective relationships between the staff, parents, and others associated with the school; and engaging in activities or providing facilities or equipment which support the school.
- **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit:** The trustees confirm they have had regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. The PTFA organizes a variety of inclusive community events and fundraising initiatives to provide supplementary tools that enhance the school environment for all pupils.
## **Section D: Achievements and performance**
During the 2024/2025 financial year, the PTFA successfully ran a dynamic calendar of community-building events and passive fundraising initiatives including Summer and Christmas Fayres, Quiz Night, and Sports Day. Funding was allocated to projects such as My Child's Art supplies and Year 6 Leavers gifts.
## **Section E: Financial review**
- **Review of the financial position:** Total gross income was £40,557. Total expenditure was £28,963 generating a net surplus of £11,594.
- **Reserves policy:** Unrestricted cash reserve stood at £43,340, to be deployed toward large-scale capital improvements, like refurbishing the playground for EYFS/KS1
- **Principal funding sources:** Volunteer-led events, corporate matched funding, sponsorships, and community donations.
## **Section F: Declaration**
## **6. Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees' Report above. **Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees:**
**Anna Pazi** _Chair of the Trustees / PTFA Chair_ **Date: 10.06.2026**
||**Charity Name**
**The Heights Primary School PTFA**|**Charity Name**
**The Heights Primary School PTFA**|**Charity Name**
**The Heights Primary School PTFA**|**No (if any)**
**1164551**|**No (if any)**
**1164551**|**No (if any)**
**1164551**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01-Sep-24|**To**||Period end date
31-Aug-25|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
17,834
9,926
4,419
2,946
2,510
2,922.00
**-**
**-**
**40,557**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,557**
17,943
8,132
880
545
1,463
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,963**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,963**
**11,594**
**-**
**31,746**
**43,340**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**- **
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**17,834**
**9,926**
**4,419**
**2,946**
**2,510**
**2,922**
**-**
**-**
**40,557**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**40,557**
**17,943**
**8,132**
**880**
**545**
**1,463**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,963**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,963**
**11,594**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Fundraising Events & Community Hub
Receipts_(Fairs, Feasts, Quizzes)_
Merchant Platform Giving Portal Sales
_(Stripe & SumUp Daily Clearing)_|
17,834||||||**-**|
||
9,926||||||**-**|
|Corporate Gift Aid & Matched Funding
Schemes(Benevity, CAF, Charities Trust)|4,419||||||**-**|
|Continuous Voluntary Giving Partnerships
(Your School Lottery/ Gatherwell)|2,946||||||**-**|
|Local Business Event Sponsorships &
Program Ad Support|2,510||||||**-**|
|Direct Cash & Cheque Branch Deposit|2,922.00||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for_~~
_AR)_|
**40,557**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
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|
Direct Educational Project Support Grants
(Bellevue Place Education Trust)|17,943||||||**-**|
|Event Operating Supplies, Materials &
Production Expenses|8,132||||||**-**|
|School Educational Transport & Coach
Hire(Horseman Coaches)|880||||||**-**|
|Year 6 Leavers Event Subsidies &
Presentation Book Awards|545||||||**-**|
|Subscription Software, Platforms & Core
Governance Costs(Zoom,Bank Fees)|1,463||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**28,963**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**11,594**|**-**|**-**||**11,594**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**31,746**|**-**|**-**||**31,746**||**-**|
||**43,340**|**-**|**-**||**43,340**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
29/06/2026
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
PTFA Community Bank Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
43,340
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**43,340**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Anna Pazi|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Anna Pazi|10/06/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
29/06/2026
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The Heights PTFA
|31 August 2025|31 August 2025|||
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|Charity no.:|1164551|Company no.:||
I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity for the year ended 31 August 2025
As the charity’s trustees of the Charity, you are responsible for the preparation of
the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charity Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of your charity’s accounts as carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”). In carrying out my examination, I have followed the Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act.
- I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that:
- Accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- The accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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