## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **01 09 2024 31 08 2025 From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Czech School & Community Manchester **Other names charity is known by** Czech School Manchester **Registered charity number (if any)** 1170346 Czech School & Community Manchester **Charity's principal address** 4 Brindley Road Old Trafford Manchester **Postcode M16 9HQ** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Tereza Kokocinska|||Board of Trustees| ||Lenka Halova|||Board of Trustees| ||SydneyBailey|||Board of Trustees| ||Petr Prause|||Board of Trustees| ||Petra Travnickova|||Board of Trustees| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted Charitable Incorporated Organisation - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by the charity trustees, members of our community are always Trustee selection methods welcome and invited to step forward to become trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 1 The organisation has adopted all required policies: You **may choose** to include Health and Safety Policy additional information, where Privacy Notice relevant, about: Safe Recruitment Policy • policies and procedures policies and procedures Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy Fees policy - policies and procedures policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - The trustees meet on a regular basis and manage all activities of the charity in accordance with the constitution. - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - Mrs Pavla Mataskova is employed as the Headteacher and Managing director of the charity. The charity also has another part-time employee managing the Czech Community Centre. Both also teach at the Saturday Supplementary School. - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. - The charity also employs 6 teachers and 2 teaching assistants for the Saturday supplementary school. - The school cooperates with other Czech and Slovak Schools in the UK and is a member of the Association of Czech and Slovak Schools in the UK. The charity also works closely with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in London and the Consulate General in Manchester. - The trustees identified as the major risk to our activities frequent lack or limited number of suitably qualified teaching staff, so we are on a constant look-out for new colleagues. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To advance education for the public benefit in particular but not exclusively in the language, history, geography, the arts, culture and heritage of the Czech Republic by: - teaching the Czech language and Czech history and geography to children and young people; - teaching the Czech language to adults; - promoting and organising events that support Czech culture, art and folklore; and **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its** . **governing document** - organising educational trips for children and young people The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit among people who are nationals of the Czech Republic settling in the North West region of England who are or feel they are socially excluded by providing: - education and training in the English language; - support and general advice; and - social and recreational facilities and events involving the local community. - “Socially excluded” means being excluded from society or part of society. March **2012** **TAR** 2 In planning our activities for the year we kept in mind the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit at our trustee meetings. The main focus of our activities was on the education of classes for Czech speaking school-age children (Year 1 – 9 plus a class for children who learn Czech as a foreign language), and 2 pre-school classes for children age 3 – 5 years. In total, we had 55 children enrolled. All children lessons were held at St Teresa’s RC Primary School in Old Trafford, Manchester on Saturdays term-time only, in total 31 sessions of 4 hours each. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** For the whole Czech community, we organise a number of expats **public benefit in relation to** events, for children, whole families as well as Czech adult population. **these objects (include within** We've been able to renew our traditional events such as Cimbalom music **this section the statutory** evening, Saint Nicolas day for kids on December, Costume party before **declaration that trustees have** the Lent period or Czech is fun (theme educational games). We also **had regard to the guidance** organize some new events and make nice tradition of Easter eggs **issued by the Charity** decoration or Christmas wreath making. In the end of the school year we **Commission on public** had BBQ when we provided end of year certificates to our kids. **benefit)** We also run the Czech Community Centre in Manchester, where we provide evening adult courses, more workshops for children and families, cultural events for both children and adults, run our holiday club-like Czech language learning clubs for children, as well as provide the school with a solid base that would support the high quality of teaching and learning we are endeavouring to provide. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Volunteers participation on the planning, management and execution of our events is still below the level we would have liked. All our events as well as main activities are run by the trustees and two main employees. It is our current aim to try to involve more our community in the everyday running of the organisation. That said, we are very grateful to the parents of the children enrolled at the school who support our events with contributions to our food stalls or raffle and who help with some of our events. - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance We produced a record number of events at the Czech Community Centre **Summary of the main** as well as elsewhere, which fulfils our charity objectives of Promoting and **achievements of the charity** organising Czech culture, art, and folklore events and Providing support **during the year** and general advice to nationals of the Czech Republic and Slovakia settling in the North West region of England. Through careful financial management we have also almost doubled our net profit, stabilising thus the organisation in the post-covid environment. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Although we do not have an official policy on reserves, we monitor our cash flow very carefully and always have funds to cover the vitals costs during the year, such as rent and teachers’ payments. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** Not applicable ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. Main income of the school is from the school fees. We keep them to the bare minimum as we want the school to be affordable to the widest possible community. The fees are supplemented by our fundraising activities during our events, such as raffle, food donations to our food stalls, etc. We are also recipients of grants from the Czech Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. - Following the contractual agreement with the Department of Education we are recipients of a regular subsidy based on number of pupils, teaching costs and a coefficient as set up by the DofE of the Czech Republic. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Lenka Halova Petr Prause **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**[Trustee ] Trustee **Date** 13/06/2025 30 March **2012** **TAR** 5 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIAND AND WAIES Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a For the perlod To 01fi)9r2023 3110812024 Section A Receipts and payments Unregtri¢ted funds Restri¢t fvnd• Endowment funds Total funds Last y•ar to th• n•4r•Bt É toth• n•arnst£ to lh• rb•arnBt É lo th• n•ar•*t£ A1 R￿•1 t• 19.944 1.240 40,$54 19.944 19,174 3,049 51.050 r￿nat￿n5 Gr8nl$ 48,$54 o￿nIS Sub lotal{Gross income f ARJ 7(110 7&000 A2 Asaet and In¥•itmènt s41M. Is•• table). Sub total Total rncelpts 7&180 78,908 A3Pa ent• 58IBDe5 menl •Dd admini51ialion& Ttachin Mana Reni Oth•r S•ty4￿3 Isi(ngt. ￿eb. po$i89•. telephone. inl•rn•l. pnnlirp. 51Bff lrniThrpl 17,575 21,255 25,98S 17.L171 21.255 25,981 19.002 12.150 27,962 4308 229 2.231 425 352 39 7&399 4.308 5,210 3,184 Consum•N•s aThY Tiavel exoen$e$ Books 8fvJ MI￿nalS Insurance Other •r•r•l 2.231 421 352 39 78,399 657 352 960 71,097 Sub total A4 Asset and In￿$1M￿nI urchatyes. e tabl• Sub total 78,399 70,399 71.097 Net olre¢elpts/(payments) A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds lèst y•ar •nd C•sh funds thls yur end 2219 2.219 7.708 33,688 31.469 33,688 31,469 21,433 29,141 CCXX R1 accounts Issi 05106r202 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestri¢ted tunds to n•ar•st É Restri¢ted fundty to n•ar•&t É Endowment funds to nearnst£ Categories Detalls B1 Cèsh fund8 29,213 Pttty¢•¥h 1.381 Total cash funds 30,594 Unr•$trfjct•d funds R•strSct•d funds t• h••f••t£ Endowm•nt funds Details Fund to wN¢h CMI I•piboTh•ll ¢urr•nl Dot811s Fund lo *thlch Curr•nt v•lu• Dotails Ca•t lopUon*ll 84 Assets r•taSned for th• ¢horlty's own u•• Fund to whkh mount du• on•1 •n¢J tlon•l Details B5 Llablliti Signed by one cr Iruslees on behaw of all the truste88 SwJnalur• Prinl Name Dale of roval Lenka Halova 0510612028 Petr Prause 0SIQ612026 CCXX R2 accounts ISSI 0510612026 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Czech School & Communrty Manchester On accounts for the year ended 3110812025 Charity no Ilf any) 1170346 Set out on pages 3-11 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3110812024. Responsibilities and basis of report As the dBrity'S trustees, you are resportsible for the preparaticm of the accourts in a¢¢ordan¢e with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 he Acr). I report in r8SFÉd of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by th8 Charity Commission under sertion 145(5)(b) of the Ad. Independent I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have examinerfs statement come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below") which gNes me cause to believe that in, any material resp8cL' the accountiry records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Chanties AGt,' or the accounts did not accord V￿th the accounting records., or the accourrts did not compty wtth the applicable r8quirèments con￿mIng 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 Irue and faiff view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matter5 in connection with the examination to which attention should te drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the words in the braGkets rfthey do not apply. 3010612026 Signed: All￿ PAaso Director Name: ice Mason IER Oct 2018 Relevant professional quallficatlon(s) or l>ody (rfany): Institute of Certffied Bookkeepers Address: 13 Stone Ptl Close Lowton WA3 2TD Section B Disclosure Only ¢omplete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concem (see CC32. Independent examin*on of charity a¢¢ounts'. directions and guidance for examiners). Glve here brief detalls of any itoms that th examiner wishes to disclose. NIA IER Oct 2018