## **Annual Report**
1[st] April 2024
to
31[st] March 2025
## **Securing Success**
## **Securing Success Trustees’ Annual Report and Financial statements For Year End 31[st] March 2025**
## **CONTENTS**
1. Legal & Administrative Information-------------------------------------------- Page 1 2. Trustees Annual Report----------------------------------------------------------- Page 2 3. Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) -------------------------------------- Page 6 4. Balance Sheet ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 7 5. Accounting Policies & Accounting Notes -------------------------------------- Page 8 6. Independent Examiner’s Report ------------------------------------------------ Page 14
**Securing Success Report of the Trustees** For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION**
**CHARITY NUMBER**
**CHARITY NUMBER** 1164630 **START OF FINANCIAL PERIOD** 1[st] April 2024 **END OF FINANCIAL PERIOD** 31[st] March 2025 **TRUSTEES** Farid Mall Treasurer Carole Tobin John Paxton Chairperson Gillian Roberts
**LEGAL STATUS** Incorporated Charity
**OBJECTIVE** Securing Success is a charitable incorporated organization (CIO) which works in partnership with local authorities, charities and schools to raise achievement of underachieving children and support the integration of families and communities.
**REGISTERED OFFICE** Securing Success 34A Sedgemere Avenue, London N2 OSX Tel: 020 8444 1053 Email: joycollins1@outlook.com Website: www.securingsuccesssupportingachievement.com **PRIMARY BANKERS** HSBC Bank Plc 26-28 St Ann’s Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 1LA **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER** Romero Tayong FCCA 105 Fullbrook Avenue, Spencers Wood, RG7 1FE
## **Financial Statement:**
A summary of our Independently Examined Accounts for the year ending 31st March 2025 can be found at the end of this report.
The Board of Trustees is satisfied with the performance of the charity during the year and the position on 31st March 2025 Trustees' Report 24-25.doc and considers that the charity is in a position to continue its activities during the coming year, and that the charity’s assets are adequate to fulfil its obligations.
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**Securing Success Report of the Trustees**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **Trustees’ Annual Report**
## **The Work of the Charity**
## **Our Mission**
Enhance educational opportunities, provided mainly by supplementary schools in NW London, through: partnerships, financial assistance, training, guidance, advice and support.
## **Our Values**
## **Collaboration:**
We work in partnership with local councils, charities and schools to make our work most effective.
## **Celebration:**
We encourage learning, development, aspiration to excellence and celebrate achievement.
## **Diversity:**
We value the wide range of communities and recognise their contribution to the richness of British society.
## **Aims:**
_The aim of this project is to work in partnership with local authorities, mainstream schools, Young People’s Foundation Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education and voluntary organisations in order to develop the quality of Saturday school provision in Harrow. In particular we aim to:_
1. Increase the resilience of supplementary schools, particularly as they recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. This aim particularly refers to their financial resources, human resources (staff and volunteers), premises resources, and depth of teaching and organisational expertise.
2. Enable as many disadvantaged children as possible to access high quality provision in Maths, English, and Science. This includes ensuring that the quality of in-class teaching is as high as possible, learning is linked to the national curriculum and relates to children’s academic needs.
3. Ensure that supplementary schools are safe, accessible, and have strong governance. This aims to ensure that they have strong background managerial processes such as
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**Securing Success Report of the Trustees** For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
4. safeguarding and other policies, are responsive to children’s needs, and adhere to best practice charity governance structures which keep them effective and outward looking.
## **How the project is being delivered:**
During the past year Securing Success has carried out the following activities which together achieve the three aims above:
1. PROMOTION OF THE YPF Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education QUALITY MARK 2024-25
This aims to ensure that Harrow supplementary schools have strong background managerial processes such as safeguarding and other policies, are responsive to children’s needs, and adhere to best practice charity governance structures which keep them effective and outward looking.
Securing Success has worked closely with The YPF Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education, to promote the revised Foundation Quality Mark in Harrow. For example, Securing Success commissioned a four - day training in Harrow from YPF Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education, to support schools to update policies in line with DfE guidance for OOSS in September 2023. 11 schools signed up to the training: MathsMakers, Qing Hua Mandarin School, Mashal, Stag Lane Saturday School, Valar Thamil Nilayam, Alridha, Zawiyah, Ariana (part of the Afghan Association of London), Romanian School Mihai Eminescu, Harrow Somali Supplementary School and The Maths Society. All 11 schools completed the training and 9 will complete the Foundation Quality Mark and progress to the full Quality Mark Award. Securing Success hopes to commission further training to promote children’s rights and creative teaching and learning (2 of the Quality Mark standards).
## 2. CHAIR THE HARROW SUPPLEMENTARY SCHOOLS’ FORUM
The aim is to increase the resilience of supplementary schools. This aim has been achieved. Forum meetings are held termly:
- The Spring meeting was held on 28[th] February 2024 and introduced the theme of mental health and well-being for young people. There were presentations from the charities Healing the World, Mary Rose Foundation, and Big Beat which offered 100 free tickets to children and families from supplementary schools. Dr Mon Partovi provided an update on the Quality Mark at each meeting.
- The summer meeting was held on 12[th] June 2024 and continued the theme of emotional well -being with a presentation from the counsellor at Stanmore College. Patrick O’Dwyer, Director of Education thanked the supplementary schools for their contribution to children’s education and welfare. Betty Lin, Programme Manager of the Children’s University Programme for Harrow introduced her project. This seemed an opportunity for the learning at supplementary schools to be included.
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**Securing Success Report of the Trustees**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
- The autumn term meeting was held on 22[nd] October 2024. Four supplementary schools were invited to share news of projects delivered at their settings. Additionally, Keisha Njoku, the Training Development Lead at YHF discussed training opportunities, a bespoke offer to the supplementary sector.
## 3. PROMOTE THE STUDY SUPPORT PROJECT
The aim is to enable as many disadvantaged children as possible to access high quality provision in Maths, English, and Science. This aim has been achieved. 8 Supplementary schools have been funded this year:
- Valar Thamil Nilayam - Maths 11 children
- MathsMakers – Maths 64 children
- Zawiyah – Maths 10 children
- SCEA - Maths club 11 children
- Alridha – Maths, English and science 55 children
- Ariana – Maths and English 38 children
- Mashal - English, maths and coding 36 children
- The Maths society - coding and robotics 50 children
Total = 275 children supported
## 4. PROMOTPARTNERSHIPS AND LINKS WITH MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS
We were pleased that a recent introduction between MathsMakers and Belmont School resulted in a summer term programme for year 5 and will continue next year when the children enter year 6.
The successful partnership between Paiwand and Stag Lane School continues.
Ongoing partnerships between Securing Success and mainstream schools have continued with five schools in Harrow and eight schools in Ealing through the Parent Ambassador projects, established and managed by Securing Success in partnership with partner schools.
## 5. LINKS WITH HARROW COUNCIL AND THE YPF Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education
Meetings with Patrick O’Dwyer, the Divisional Director, Education Services, Harrow Council continued. Recently permission was given to add the Harrow Council logo and that of Voluntary Action Harrow Cooperative to the Foundation Quality Mark Certificate awarded to 9 Harrow supplementary schools (see section 1 paragraph 2 above).
Links with the YPF Trust/Centre for Supplementary Education continue with Joy Collins attending appropriate networks and commissioning new Quality Mark training for supplementary schools in Harrow. Dr Mon Partovi regularly attends the Harrow Supplementary Schools’ Forum to provide updates on the development of the Quality Mark.
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Securing Success
Report of the Trustees
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
A Children'5 Rights programme was delivered at the Greek School, Harrow and both Zaitun
Virani-Roper and Gillian Robert5 Isecuring Success trustees) have contributed to the
development of the Quality Mark standards with respect to evidence reflecting children's
rights.
6.RELATED ACTIVIT]ES TO RAISE ACHIEVEMENT OF VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE IN
NORTH WEST LONDON
Links have been made with the charity Joining Old and Young (JOY) which runs school
workshops for intergenerational story-telling. A network meeting of Parent Ambassadors in
Harrow was an opportunity to share their offer. Big Beat Summer Festival also offered 100
free tickets to be distributed by supplementary schools to families.
Looking ahead
Going forward. the project will continue to raise standards through mentoring
supplementary schools to achieve the Quality Mark accreditation and providing support to
supplementary schools via the study support grant which will be used to engage with 5 - 8
supplementary schools each year.
The project will provide general support to supplementary schools and out of school
education projects in Harrow. This will involve supporting them with issues such as gaining
funding. technical advice on teaching methods, creative approaches to teaching and
learning, learning about children's rights and children's voice, recruiting teachers and pupils,
and networking and training. We will achieve this through providing training. visiting each
supplementary school. lesson observation. coordinating the Harrow Supplementary School
Forum, and providing strategies and infom)ation to supplementary schools so they can
support themselves.
In addition. Securing Success will generate awareness of the role carried out bv
supplementary schools with parents. mainstream schools, and other bodies that might be
able to support them. This will be carried out by facilitatin8 the development of formal
partnerships between supplementary and mainstream schools. discussions and work with
bodies such as Harrow Council.
Securing Success will also continue to carry out other work that enhances the academic
performance. wellbeing and integration of young people in North West London. This
includes maintaining parent ambassador projetts in Harrow and Ealing. We believe the
above successes and aspirations reflect robust planning and adaptability on the part of
Securing Success. This has been possible as a result of partnerships with supplementary
schools developed over time and key partners such as John Lyon's Charity, YHF, YBF and the
YPF Trustlcentre for Supplementary Education.
Name of chair:
Mr. John Paxton
Signature of chalr:
eknfo
Date:
## **Securing Success Statement of Financial Activities** For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **Statement of Financial Activities**
|||Unrestricted|Restricted|**TOTAL**|**TOTAL**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Funds|Funds|**2024/25**|**2023/24**|
||Notes|£|£|**£**|**£**|
|**INCOMING RESOURCES**||||||
|Incoming Resources from Generated Funds||||||
|Income from Charitable Activities||||||
|Main Grant|3a|-|70,000|**70,000**|**95,000**|
|Activities for Generating Funds|3b|5,658|-|**5,658**|**5,233**|
|**TOTAL INCOMING RESOURCES**||5,658|70,000|**75,658**|**100,233**|
|**RESOURCES EXPENDED**||||||
|Costs of Generating Funds||||||
|Publicity & Consultancy|4a|2,285|50,000|**52,285**|**25,794**|
|Disbursement Supplementary school|4b|-|34,853|**34,853**|**20,995**|
|Charitable Activities & Salaries|4c|-|23,586|**23,586**|**24,892**|
|Governance & Professional Costs|4d|-|1,100|**1,100**|**950**|
|Support Costs|4e|262|-|**262**|**178**|
|**TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED**||2,547|109,539|**112,086**|**72,809**|
|NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING)||||||
|RESOURCES||3,111|(39,539)|**(36,428)**|**27,424**|
|Total Funds Brought Forward||28,341|25,208|**53,549**|**26,125**|
|Transfer Within Funds||(25,000)|25,000|**-**|**-**|
|**TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||**6,453**|**10,669**|**17,121**|**53,549**|
All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There were no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above. The attached notes form part of these financial statements.
The accompanying accounting policies and notes form an integral part of these financial statements.
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Securing Success
SLqtement of Financial Activities
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
Balance Sheet
Unrestricted
Funds
Restricted
Funds
TOTAL
2024125
TOTAL
2023124
Notes
Fixed Assets
Tangible assets
410
410
Current A55ets
Cash at bank and in hand
Debtors & Prepayments
Total Current A55ets
6.042
36.592
176
36,769
42,635
176
42,811
99.336
164
99.499
Creditors: amounts falling due within lyr
126,1(N))
126.ICK)1 145,9501
Net Current Assets
6.042
10,669
16.711
53,549
ASSErs
6,453
10,669
17.121
53.549
Funds of the Charity
General Funds
Restricted Funds
Totsl Funds
6.453
6.453
10,669
17,121
28.341
25.208
53,549
10.669
25,208
28,341
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question
in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 26. The accounts have been prepared in
accordance with the special provisions relating to small companies under s477 of the Companies Act
2006
The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with
respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts. These accounts have been prepared in
accordance with the provision applicable to companies subject to the small companies, regime and in
accordance with Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities {effective April 2C()81.
Approved by the trustee on
and
Signed on behalf of the Trustees
Date=
ci
The accompanying accounting poIleS and notes form an integral part of these financial statements.
**Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements** For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **Incoming Resources**
## **Recognition of Incoming Resources**
These are included in the Statement of Financial Activities (SOFA) when:
- The charity becomes entitled to resources
- The trustees are virtually certain they will receive the resources; and
- The monetary value can be measured with sufficient reliability
## **Incoming Resources with Related Expenditures**
Where incoming resources have related expenditure (as with fundraising or contract income) the incoming resources and related expenditure are reported gross in the SOFA.
## **Grants and Donations**
Grants and Donations are only included in the SOFA when the charity has unconditional entitlement to the resources.
## **Tax Reclaims on Donations and Gifts**
Incoming resources from tax reclaims are included in the SOFA during the same period as the gift to which they relate.
## **Contractual Income and Performance Related Grants**
This is only included in the SOFA once the related goods or services has been delivered.
## **Gifts in Kind**
Gifts in kind are accounted for at a reasonable estimate of their value to the charity or the amount actually realized. Gifts in kind for sale or distribution are included in the accounts as gifts only when sold or distributed by the charity. Gifts in kind for use by the charity are included in the SOFA as incoming resources when receivable.
## **Donated Services and Facilities**
These are only included in incoming resources (with an equivalent amount in resources expended) where the benefit to the charity is reasonable, quantifiable, measurable and material. The value placed on these resources is the estimated value to the charity of the service or facility received.
## **Volunteer Help**
The value of any voluntary help received is not included in the amount but is described in the trustees' annual report.
## **Investment Income**
This is included in the account when receivable.
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**Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **Expenditure and Liabilities**
## **Liability Recognition**
Liabilities are recognised as soon as there is a legal or constructive obligation committing the charity to pay out resources.
## **Governance Cost**
Include costs of the Independent Examination or Audit of statutory accounts, the cost of the trustees meeting and cost of the any legal advice to trustees on governance or constitutional matters.
## **Grants with performance conditions**
Where the charity gives a grant with conditions for its payments to be specific level service or output to be provided, such grants are only recognised in the SOFA once the recipient of the grant has provided the specified services or output.
## **Grants payable without performance conditions**
These are only recognized in the accounts when a commitment has been made and there are no conditions to be met relating to a grant which remains under the control of the charity.
## **Support Costs**
Support costs included central function and have been allocated to the activity cost categories on a basis consistent with the use of the resources, e.g. allocating property costs by floor area, or per capita, staff costs by time spent and other costs by their usage.
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**Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements** For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **2. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS**
Depreciation is calculated at a rate to write off the cost of tangible fixed asset on a reducing balance basis over their estimated useful lives. The rates applied per annum are as follows:
|Freehold property
2%
Office, Fixture & Fittings
20%
Technological Equipment
33%
Fixed Assets
Cost at 1 April 2023
Additions/(Disposal)
**Cost at 31 March 2024**
Accumulated Depreciation
Depreciation During the year
**Total Depreciation**
**Net Book Value as at 31 March 2025**
**Net Book Value as at 1 April 2024**
Net Book Value as at 1 April 2024
Additional Fixed Assets
Total at Costs
Depreciation Allocation
Net Book Value as at 31 March 2025||**Office Equipment Technology**
**Total**
**Furniture**
**Equipment**
**£**
**£**
**£**
1,015
-
1,015
-
612
612|
|---|---|---|
|||**1,015**
**-**
**1,627**|
|||1,015
-
1,015
-
202
202|
|||**1,015**
**-**
**1,217**|
|||**-**
**410**
**410**|
|||178
-
178|
|||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Total**
- -
-
612
-
612
**612**
**-**
**612**
202
-
202
**410**
**-**
**410**|
||||
||||
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## **Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **3. INCOMING RESOURCES**
|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|**3.INCOMING RESOURCES**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**a) Income from Charitable Activities**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Grants John Lyon's Charity
-
45,000
45,000
95,000
Grant John Lyon’s for Consultancy
-
25,000
25,000
**Total income from Charitable Activities**
**-**
**70,000**
**70,000**
**95,000**
**b) Activities for Generating Funds**
Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Small Grant
-
-
-
-
Service Rendered
5,658
-
5,658
5,233
**Total Income from Generating Funds**
**5,658**
**-**
**5,658**
**5,233**
**4. RESOURCES EXPENDED**
**a) Publicity & Marketing Costs**
Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Generating Funds- Publicity,
Consultancy
2,285
50,000
**52,285**
25,794
**Total Publicity & Marketing**
**2,285**
**50,000**
**52,285**
**25,794**
**b) Disbursements**
Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Disbursements to supplementary school
-
34,853
34,853
20,995
**Total Disbursement to Supplementary Schools**
**-**
**34,853**
**34,853**
**20,995**
**c) Charitable Activities & Salaries**
Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
Salary and National Insurance
-
21,000
21,000
21,000
Travel & Volunteer Expenses
-
50
50
-
Training & PA Promotions
-
227
227
60
Insurance
-
410
410
446
Quality Assurance
-
897
897
2651
Organisation Overhead
-
952
952
735
**Total of Charitable Activities & Salaries**
**-**
**23,586**
**23,586**
**24,892**|||||||
||||**5,658**||||
||||Unrestricted
Funds
**£**
2,285
**2,285**
Unrestricted
Funds
**£**
-|Restricted
Funds
**£**
50,000
**50,000**
Restricted
Funds
**£**
34,853|**TOTAL**
**31-Mar-25**
**£**
**52,285**
**52,285**
**TOTAL**
**31-Mar-25**
**£**
34,853||
||||**-**|
**34,853**|**34,853**|**20,995**|
||||Unrestricted
Funds
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-|Restricted
Funds
**£**
21,000
50
227
410
897
952|**TOTAL**
**31-Mar-25**
**£**
21,000
50
227
410
897
952|**TOTAL**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
21,000
-
60
446
2651
735|
||||**-**|**23,586**|**23,586**|**24,892**|
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## **Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
|**d) Governance & Professional Costs**
Accounting & Audit Fees
**Total Governance & Professional Costs**
**e)Support Costs**
Depreciation
Bank Charges
**Total Support Costs**|Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
1,100
1,100
950|
|---|---|
||**-**
**1,100**
**1,100**
**950**|
||Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
202
-
202
178
60
-
60
-|
||**262**
**-**
**262**
**178**|
## **5. RESTRICTED FUNDS**
|**RESTRICTED FUNDS**||
|---|---|
|John Lyons Charity|**Balance**
**B/forward**
**Income**
**Expenditure**
**Transfer**
**Balance**
**C/forward**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
25,208
70,000
(109,539)
(25,000)
10,669|
||**25,208**
**70,000**
**(109,539)**
**(25,000)**
**10,669**|
## **John Lyon's Charity:**
The aim of this project is to work in partnership with local authorities, mainstream schools, National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education and voluntary organisations in order to develop the quality of Saturday school provision in Harrow. The funding is paid for the salary of Project manager, financial support to various supplementary schools and organisation overhead.
## **6. CASH AT BANK AND IN HAND**
|**6. CASH AT BANK AND IN HAND**||
|---|---|
|HSBC Current Account
**7. DEBTORS AND PREPAYMENTS**
Prepayments|Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Fund
Fund
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
6,042
36,592
42,635
99,336|
||**6,042**
**36,592**
**42,635**
**99,336**|
||Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Fund
Fund
**31-Mar-25**
**31-Mar-24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
176
176
164|
||**-**
**176**
**176**
**176**|
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## **Securing Success Notes to the Financial Statements**
For the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **8. ACCRUALS AND DEFERRED INCOME**
|**Accruals:**
Z Suleman Accounts & Payroll Fees
R Tayong Independent Examination
Quality Assurance
Supplementary School
**Deferred income:**
Deferred Income (Advance from John Lyon's Charity)
**Total Creditors falling due in one year**|Unrestricted
Restricted
**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
Funds
Funds
**2024/25 2023/24**
**£**
**£**
**£**
**£**
-
850
850
700
-
250
250
250
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
**-**
**-**
25,000
25,000
45,000|
|---|---|
||**-**
**26,100**
**26,100**
**45,950**|
## **9. STAFF COSTS AND NUMBERS**
|**STAFF COSTS AND NUMBERS**|||
|---|---|---|
||**TOTAL**|**TOTAL**|
||**2024/25**|**2023/24**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Gross Wages and Salaries|21,000|21,000|
|Employer's NI (Director NI)|-|-|
|**Total Staff Costs**|**21,000**|**21,000**|
|Employees who were engaged in each of the following activities:|||
||**TOTAL**|**TOTAL**|
||**2024/25**|**2023/24**|
|Management and administration -Part Time|**1**|**1**|
|**Total Number of Employee**|**1**|**1**|
No employee received emoluments in excess of £60,000. Staff are paid through the PAYE System using Money Soft Payroll Software.
## **10. TRUSTEES AND RELATED PARTIES**
|Payment to the trustees
**Total Number of Trustees paid**|**TOTAL**
**TOTAL**
**2024/25**
**2023/24**
**-**
**1**
**-**
**1**|
|---|---|
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Final Accounts for the Year Ended 31 March 2025
## **Securing Success Independent Examiner's Report**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF SECURING SUCCESS**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Securing Success for the year ended 31 March 2025.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) or under Regulation 10(1)(a) to (c) of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (the 2006 Regulations) and that an independent examination is needed. I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act and under section 44(1)(c) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 (the 2005 Act);
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the 2011 Act; and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner's report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission and is in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view' and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
## **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 giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
(1) accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the Act;
(2) the accounts do not accord with those records; or
(3) the accounts do 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.
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**Romero Tayong** FCCA Membership No: 0922393
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