**Friends of Barrow Hill Junior School** Charitable Incorporated Organisation
## **ANNUAL REPORT**
For the year ending 31 March 2025
_Friends of Barrow Hill Junior School is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation independent of the school_
_Registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales – number 1164719 Address: Barrow Hill Junior School, Bridgeman Street, London NW8 7AL_
## **Website: friendsofbarrowhill.co.uk**
## **ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE (EXTENDED) YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2025**
The charitable objects of Friends of Barrow Hill Junior School are: “The advancement of education of pupils in Barrow Hill Junior School in particular by: a) developing effective relationships between the staff, parents and others associated with the school;
b) engaging in activities or providing facilities or equipment which support the school and advance the education of the pupils.”
This is an ‘annual’ report for an extended year because we decided to change our accounting year so that it ends on 31 March rather than 31 December, given that many organisations are moving to align their reporting years to closer to the financial year-end. During the period from 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2025, our activities have included the Summer BBQ, the ever-popular Winter Fair, ‘popcorn’ afternoons and other activities for fostering the school community and supporting the school. We are very grateful to the many parents, teachers, pupils and friends who have contributed their time, energy, ideas, cooking skills, money and in-kind donations to foster a sense of community and to raise funds to support the school.
It is fair to say that this has been a very challenging period for the School, and this has inevitably had an effect on our own activities. The local authority has been proposing to amalgamate the School with Robinsfield Infants School and George Elliot Primary School, so as to temporarily close the Robinsfield site and create a new two-side primary school to be known as St John’s Wood Primary School. This has been a controversial proposal on which many parents have strong feelings.
As a result of the local authority’s decision to proceed with the proposal, the three schools effectively closed at the end of Summer Term 2025 and a new school, St John’s Wood Primary School, opened in their place in Autumn Term 2025. It is anticipated that our charity will change its name to ‘Friends of St John’s Wood Primary School’ and will continue its work under that banner.
Our accounts for the extended year ending 31 March 2025 show income of £6,724 (compared with £5,054 last year). Outgoings were £1,163 – £1,000 of which was spent on the coaches for the Sayer’s Croft trip. We ended the year with £13,481 cash at bank (compared with £7,920 last year). This reflects the extent to which grant-making was delayed pending clarification as to the future of Barrow Hill Junior School (so as to ensure that funds were not dispersed inappropriately). We have no other significant assets.
## Trustees
The trustees of FOBH are responsible for governing the charity, including by deciding how our funds should be spent to assist the school in pursuance of the second limb of our charitable objects.
We seek to maintain a board of trustees that is representative of the school community and brings an appropriate spread of useful skills and experience.
## Financial policies and reserves
FOBH is a small charity. We do not employ any staff, enter into any significant contracts with suppliers, or have any major liabilities. We use our assets to buy equipment, or fund activities, in conjunction with the school in order to support its mission. We do not hold any funds held as a custodian trustee for any other person or organisation.
The Trustees of Friends of Barrow Hill Junior School CIO 20 November 2025
||**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**FRIENDS OF BARROW HILL JUNIOR SCHOOL**|**CC16a**|
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||**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||||
||**For the period**
**from**|**01/01/2024**|**To**||**31/03/2025**|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**3,481**
**3,243**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,724**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,724**
**163**
**1,000**
**1,163**
**-**
**-**
**1,163**
**5,561**
**-**
**7,920**
**13,481**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**
**3,481**
**3,243**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,724**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**6,724**
**-**
**163**
**-**
**1,000**
**-**
**1,163**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**1,163**
**5,561**||**Last year**
**to the nearest**
**£**|
|Grants & Donations|**3,481**||||||**3,450**|
|Fundraising Events|**3,243**||||||**1,604**|
||||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**6,724**||||||**5,054**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**5,054**|
|||||||||
|
Cost of fundraisingevents|||||||**560**|
|Parentkind Subscription|**163**||||||**145**|
|WorryWipers training|||||||**-**|
|Coaches Sayers|**1,000**||||||**1,000**|
|Carpet tiles / Seating / Science Quality Mark /
Reading for Pleasure INSET / Zoo Access
Scheme|||||||**10,476**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**1,163**||||||**12,181**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**12,181**|
|||||||||
||**5,561**|**-**|**-**||**5,561**||**- 7,127**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**7,920**|**-**|**-**||**7,920**||**15,047**|
||**13,481**|**-**|**-**||**13,481**||**7,920**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Cash at Bank|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**13,481**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Cash at Bank|**13,481**|**-**||
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own**
**use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|**Signature**
_Alan Bates_
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts
and payments account(s))
**Details**|**13,481**|
|---|---|---|
||_Alan Bates_|Alan Bates|
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