Chairs report
Good evening everyone,
Thank you for joining us for this year’s Annual General Meeting. As co chair (but currently only chair) of FOHJINS, I’m delighted to present a summary of our activities, achievement over the past academic year.
I can’t believe how well we did this last year despite us ‘pulling back’ on a few events that we would usually do. I can only attribute this to brilliant teamwork across the committee and volunteers. Myself and Allison became Chairs around this time last year having never done the role before. The 2 of us worked really well together as we could each work on different projects spreading the workload, Keeping things more manageable (just about).
We took a different approach to Christmas activities due to uncertainty around having volunteers and not being able to commit to the planning as a committee so instead we held the Christmas raffle with a festive fun run. We were really surprised that together those events raised a similar amount to the usual Christmas fair with relatively little effort. In Spring we launched a new initiative, grow your pound which showed just how mighty a few can be. Just 16 children took part but blew us away with their imagination and managed to raise a massive £950! In a school of around 400 pupils imagine if even half of all the children took part. Our summer Fair was a great event, this year taking place on a Friday after school for the first time instead of a saturday. This was quite a busy day particularly for Leonie, Allison and myself, but the school community pulled together and it was a fantastic afternoon raising around £2K. There have been lots of collaborations with members of the HBA this year with Oliver at the wine bar, Forresters with their fozzfest event as well as wreath making with woobwoo fairy AKA Jane Baines and we thank them for their generosity. We have also received almost £2k from the coop community fund which is fantastic with thanks to Allison successfully applying to this for the second time! And finally we can’t forget the school discos which the children always enjoy and always raise much needed funds.
Thanks to the generosity of our school community, we raised a total of £9931.21 after deductions. This went towards an upgrade of the School Street outdoor space with Edens Forest, paid towards coaches for all year groups helping to continue to make these affordable, Visualisers for each classroom and the school recently joined the OPAL play scheme which will support better outdoor play opportunities for the children at break times. Support for wellbeing initiatives and staff appreciation
I’d like to extend heartfelt thanks to the committee members for unwavering support even when it can sometimes feel a little lonely. Thank you to the teachers who always support us particularly as first aiders at events, chaperones at school Discos, manning stalls at the summer fair, getting children to do their fabulous Christmas card designs
and generally ensuring messages get out. A special mention to Nicolle for always giving us a shout out in the Newsletter and the fabulous office staff for actioning our millions of school ping requests, printing things for us, collecting and distributing raffle prizes and I am sure much more. And the volunteers who help out at the discos and fair.
Like many PTAs, we face challenges around volunteer capacity and balancing fundraising with inclusivity. We’re exploring new ways to involve more families and ensure our events are accessible to all. It was warming to see new faces at the start of the year who have already got stuck in, which makes things feel quite exciting for the year ahead. Honestly if I can manage to support FOHJINS anyone can. People often say they don’t have time, lets face it none of us do. All you need is a drive to want the best for your children and a bit of team work. Wouldn’t it be lovely to see even more new faces.
**Friends of Honley Junior, Infant and Nursery School 1175936 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 9/1/2024 8/31/2025
**CC16a**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Fundraising
12,998
Floats
Other
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,998**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 12,998**
**A3 Payments**
Fundraisingcosts
**3,066**
Coaches
**2,140**
School activityandproject costs
Playequipment
Xmas books
Sports Flag
Leavers festival
**250**
Eden Forest KS1 Garden summer 24
**3,947**
Visualisers for classrooms
**1,232**
Opal
**5,698**
Other
**_Sub total_ 16,333**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 16,333**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 3,335**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**10,492**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 7,157**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**12,998**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,998**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**12,998**
**3,066**
**2,140**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**250**
**3,947**
**1,232**
**5,698**
**-**
**16,333**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,333**
**- 3,335**
**-**
**10,492**
**7,157**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**12,998**|**13,247**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**12,998**|**13,247**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**12,998**|**13,247**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**3,066**|**4,473**|
||||**2,140**|**3,475**|
||||**-**|**1,278**|
||||**-**|**545**|
||||**-**|**318**|
||||**-**|**223**|
||||**250**||
||||**3,947**||
||||**1,232**||
||||**5,698**||
||||**-**|**153**|
||||**16,333**|**10,465**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**16,333**|**10,465**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 3,335**|**2,782**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**10,492**|**7,710**|
||**-**||**7,157**|**10,492**|
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Bank current account
Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,056**
**-**
101
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,157**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Lynda Ann Dunn
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Lynda Ann Dunn|6/30/2026|
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