## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025** **Charity name: Oasis English Language School** ## **Charity registration number: 1168323** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the CIO are:**
**• To develop the capacity of migrant**
**communities in Ipswich in such a way**
**that they are better able to identify, and**
**help meet their needs and to participate**
**more fully in society**
**• To advance the education of the public**
**in the subject of English as a second or**
**other language (ESOL)**| |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 English lessons; creche, free**
**lunch**
**The only English Language school in**
**Ipswich which provides a creche for pre-**
**school children.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Not applicable**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**Not applicable**| |||**Volunteers teach, manage the creche and**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**work in the kitchen to provide lunch for**
**students**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**Oasis English Language School had 90**
**students from 33 countries during this**
**academic / financial year.**

**Some progressed to more advanced**
**classes, some to further education and**
**some to volunteer jobs or employment.**

**The charity’s strapline is ‘communicate**
**to integrate’ and having a greater grasp**
**of English helps students manage their**
**own affairs and those of their families.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**£4565 carried forward**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Sufficient funds held to cover 3 months**
**operation - to provide time for Trustees to**
**meet to review the situation**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£3200**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**Increasingly difficult to obtain grants.**
**Despite reducing costs to the minimum**
**the funds being carried forward are**
**reducing each year**| |**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|**Grants**
**Donations from churches**
**Subscriptions from users (students)**| |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|**Obtaining grants**| |Other||**-**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?|Para 1.25|**CIO**| |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|**The Trustees invite suitably qualified**
**people to become 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|**Use Charity Commission information for**
**Trustees**| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**| |Other||**-**| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Oasis English Language School| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1168323| |Charity’s principal address|14 Wardley Close, Ipswich IP2 9RT| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rodney Cook|Chair||The Trustees as a body| ||Alan Durrant|Treasurer||| ||David Pepper|||| ||Alan Cutting|||| ||Jenny Howe|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **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)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Rodney Cook|Alan Durrant| ||
Chair of Trustees|Treasurer| |||| |||| ## **OASIS ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL** |**INCOME**
3,037
Brought forward
£ 11,807 £ 11,807
100
2,211
Registraton & Subscriptons
£ 2,000 £ 2,039
102
1,782
Gifs/Stewardship
£ 1,000 £ -
0
750
Shepherd Drive Baptst Church £ 750 £ 750
100
4,200
SCF 232705 A,B,C
£ - £ -
2,000
Belstead Trust
£ - £ -
10,000
SCT SCCAPORS
£ - £ -
400
Burlington Baptst Church
£ 400 £ 550
138
500
Local Giving Ltd
£ - £ -
0
Suf Comm 250295 C
£ - £ 2,000.00
0
IBC-PYTS 17946
£ - £ 250.00
24,880
**Total Receipts**
**£ 15,957 £ 17,396**
**109**
**BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 June 2025**
**2023-24**
**Actual**
**2024-25**
**Budget**
**Income to**
**date**
**% of**
**Budget**|**EXPENDITURE**
**Director**
10,520
Salary and Employment Costs (NI)
222
50
Training/networking/Misc expenses
**Volunteers**
322
Volunteers expenses
10
Team Meetngs
319
Training/networking/Misc expenses
**Students**
25
Social actvites
933
Lunches
**Resources**
0
Statonery / postage
153
Student books/Materials
67
Printer cartridges / copying
7
Website domain
185
Insurance
156
Examinaton of accounts / payroll
76
Publicity
27
Misc
13,073
**Total Payments**
**Budget (Defcit) Surplus for year**
**Actual Surplus for Year to Date**
**2023-24**
**Actual**|£ 10,750 £ 9,814
91
£ - £ -
£ 100 £ 24
24
£ 500 £ 372
74
£ 50 £ -
0
£ 300 £ 75
25
£ 25 £ 109
436
£ 1,100 £ 1,235
112
£ 100 £ -
0
£ 1,000 £ 62
6
£ 200 £ 211
105
£ 100 £ -
0
£ 192 £ 192
100
£ 160 £ 270
169
£ 100 £ 76
76
£ 250 £ 391
157
**£ 14,927**
**12,831**
86
**£ 1,030**
**£ 4,565**
**2024-25**
**Budget**
**Expend to**
**date**
**% of**
**Budget**| |---|---|---| ## **CURRENT ASSETS** **Cash in hand and at bank** **Cash £ - Bank £ 4,565.09 Total £ 4,565.09**