## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From 01-Jan-2022 (Period start date) To 31-Dec-2022 (Period end date)**
**Charity name: L’ecole des Filous**
## **Charity registration number: 1165754**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To advance education in the French
language and culture in such ways as the
trustees shall think fit in East Hertfordshire
and the surrounding area, in particular by
providing tuition to bilingual children
attending local schools who have an
existing knowledge and understanding of
the French language to enable them to
practice the French language as an extra-
curricular activity in order to extend their
written and oral linguistic skills and by
providing tuition to promote their
understanding of the diverse cultures of the
French speaking world.|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|• Providing language tuitions to bilingual
children in East Hertfordshire and
surrounding areas every Saturday
mornings during term time for 2 hours.
The quality of teaching has been valued by
our members. Our teachers are all native
French speakers and either qualified
teachers or experienced and as a result the
improvements in the children’s language
skills have been noticeable.
Our aim is to maintain small classes (about
8 children per teacher in each class) in
order to maintain the impact of teaching on
each pupil. We had 4 classes in 2022 and
1 to 2 teaching assistants moving between
classes in order to maintain that close
relationship teacher/pupil or teaching
assistant/pupil especially when there is a
different level of aptitude in French within
the same class.
• Offering a French literature library with
access for our students and their families.
• Organising social and cultural events
open to our students and their families.|
|||Through the years, we have arranged
events linked to celebrations from all
cultures, including French speaking
countries.
Examples of some of our events are listed
below:
●Workshop + cineclub themed
around specific events/celebrations
such as Easter, Halloween,
Christmas …
●Musical shows in collaboration with
another French school in Enfield
●Trip to London to see films as part
of the South Kensington Kids
festival or puppet show organised
by ‘les parapluies FLAM’
●Yearly participation in the Ware
Carnival
●End of year show followed by a
picnic/buffet to celebrate ‘Bastille
day’
●Christmas show
●2 to 3 day summer holiday club in
July for our students to enjoy
activities taught in French|
|---|---|---|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|N/A|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference N/A Para 1.38 Policy on grant making N/A Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment N/A Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers N/A Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|This year was our seventh year as l’ecole
des filous.
We have carried on learning on managing
the school post Covid, re-adapting our
ways of working being back post Covid
receiving extra advice and training through
the FLAM program (Both trustees and
teachers have benefited from these online
and F2F courses).
In parallel, we have carried on working on
improving our communication with our
current students and their families but also
with new potential students via our
Facebook pages and Mailchimp, as well as
improving our use of Quickfile, a software
to manage our invoices to parents and
suppliers. We have also started using
Seesaw to help with better and faster
communication with the families and are
still looking at improving this part of the
regular comms for homework.
Towards the end of 2022, we have had a
lot of issues with our website losing access
to it and therefore have done a lot of work
in order to find appropriate web designers
to rebuild it.
This year again, we have achieved to
transfer our passion of the French culture
and language.
One of our teachers led several lunch club
activities based on ‘French’ specific
themes
such as ‘La galette des rois’ in January,
‘Pancake day’ in February, ‘Easter egg
hunt’ in April, ‘Mother’s day’ in May or
‘Father’s day’ in June.
We managed to take part again in the
Carnival in Ware at the beginning of July
and also re-organised our annual ‘end of
year’ show mid July around ‘Bastille day’.
As previous years, teaching the French
language to children can be a challenge
due to the different levels of
speaking/understanding by the children
within the same class due to the small size
of the school, but the situation has been
well managed again by the whole team of
teachers, and all the pupils have shown
great progress in their ability to
understand, speak and write in French.|
**Additional information (optional)**
|You may choose to include further statements|You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
|---|---|---|
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|See above for full details|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Our classes are attended in school
premises in Ware, Hertfordshire, that are
rented by the charity (cost of renting of £9
per hour per classroom, i.e. £72 for each
Saturday sessions).
Despite being now in our seventh year
running, we have decided to keep the
tuition fees per term the same, i.e. £140 for
one child, £266 for 2 children and £385 for
3 children (maintaining 5% discount for the
2nd sibling and 10% discount for the 3rd
sibling).
The account shows that we are still
managing to achieve self-sufficiency, this
year.
We are still trying to build up a reserve in
order to invest into more books and DVDs
for our library and also to organise more
workshops and a few days as holiday club,
arrange new trips to French speaking
shows in or around London in collaboration
with other French schools and maybe
ultimately arrange an exchange with a
French school.
It has again been difficult to retain our
pupils (This year we have had just under
30 pupils attending our classes) so we are
hoping this number will remain stable.
In the future, we are still keeping in mind to
maybe be able to open one or more
classes to British children or adults
alongside the bilingual children currently
attending l’école des filous.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|None|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|Being in our seventh year running, we are
still not holding a reserve yet in a separate
bank account as we thought we still don’t
have enough to put aside yet and we would
like to spend the money accordingly to
expand the school.
We are aware that it is recommended, as a
good practice, to hold a third of the running
costs in a reserve account, and we are still
hoping to be looking into this in the near
future.|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the|Para 1.23||
charity continuing as a going concern
## **Account – Year end 2022 (January to December)**
|**Expenses**|||**Income**||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Teachers fees and
management cost|**£5,714.00**||Tuition fees: School|**£9,799.00**|
|School rental costs|**£1,458.00**||Lunch Club Activities|**£380.50**|
|Other expenses|**£1,402.17**||||
|Insurance|**£216.06**||||
|FLAM subscription|**£106.00**||||
|**Total expenses**|**8,896.23**||**Total income**|**£10,179.50**|
|**Profit**|**£1,283.27**||||
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|**Balance carried forward**
**from 2021**|**£12,438.66**||||
|**Balance at the end of 2022**|**£13,721.93**||||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|The charity principal source of funds is the
subscription fees from the families of the
children joining in.|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|N/A|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|Due to the current increased cost of living,
the number of pupils attending the school
may decrease in the coming years.|
|Other||N/A|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are appointed by a resolution
passed at a properly convened meeting of
charity trustees.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|As per constitution and including
safeguarding training and DBS if deemed
required.|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Part of ‘ Parapluie FLAM’, French
organisation grouping several Saturday
morning schools teaching French and
providing educational, cultural and
administrative support.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|N/A|
|Other||N/A|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|L’ecole des filous|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1165754|
|Charity’s principal address|42 Heath drive
WARE
SG12 0RF|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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||**Trustee name**||**Office (if**
**any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole**
**year**||**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**|
|**1**|**Nadege Galle**||||||
|**2**|**Celine Pereira**||||||
|**3**|**Catherine O’Sullivan**||||||
|**4**|**Xavier Mutzig**||||||
|**5**|**Emilie VanBaalen**|||01-Sep-2022|||
|Corporate trustees–names of||the directors at the date the report was approved|||||
|**Director name**|||||||
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|Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity|||||||
|**Trustee name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|||||
|**N/A**||**N/A**|||**N/A**||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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|**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|**N/A**|**N/A**|**N/A**|
|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|**N/A**|**N/A**|**N/A**|
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
**N/A**
## **Other optional information**
**N/A**
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