## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 July 2023 30 June 2024 **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** ATOM Festival of Science and Technology **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1176186 **Charity's principal address** 39 Belsyre Court Observatory Street Oxford **Postcode** OX2 6HU ## **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)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Stephen Clarke|Chair||| ||Peter Williams|Secretary||| ||James Duckitt|Treasurer||| ||Will Selby|||| ||Professor Russell Foster|||| ||Bryan Brown|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive**|**or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING INTEREST IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHS (STEM) SUBJECTS, AMONGST CHILDREN OF ALL AGES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WITHOUT March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the main activities**
**undertaken for the public**
**benefit in relation to these**
**objects (include within this**
**section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit)**|ANY DISTINCTION, IN THE PARISH OF ABINGDON AND SURROUNDING
REGION (AREA OF BENEFIT), SUCH PROMOTION TO BE CARRIED OUT B
SUPPORTING LOCAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THEIR PROVISION OF
STEM SUBJECTS, ON A NON-REMUNERATIVE BASIS.|Y
| |---|---|---| ||The ATOM Festval of Science & Technology runs an annual week-long
festval in March comprising a series of public talks, free public events
(interactve displays and demonstratons) for families, and school
actvites for students of all ages open to all local schools. The festval,
organised with local companies, academic organisatons and schools,
takes place in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.|| ANY DISTINCTION, IN THE PARISH OF ABINGDON AND SURROUNDING REGION (AREA OF BENEFIT), SUCH PROMOTION TO BE CARRIED OUT BY SUPPORTING LOCAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THEIR PROVISION OF STEM SUBJECTS, ON A NON-REMUNERATIVE BASIS. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** ATOM Festival allows communities to discover world-class science and technology through Education/training: Arts/culture/heritage/science. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. |Section D|Achievements andperformance| |---|---| |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|ATOM Festval in March 2024 atracted large numbers of the local and
natonwide community.
The events staged for children (4 -18 years of age) in partcular were very
well atended and encouraged children to explore science further.
Fame-Lab was implemented this year and was successful in that a larger
event will be enacted in 2025.
Talks in various subjects by prominent scientsts were exhilaratng and
again atracted high numbers of atendees.| ## **Section E Financial review** March **2012** **TAR** 3 ## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The Trustees are mindful of the level of reserves and regularly review these to ensure the charity’s continued operation. ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **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. ## **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)** James Duckitt **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)** March **2012** **TAR** 4 Date 1010412025 TAR Maich 2012 **Charity Name No (if any) ATOM Festival Of Science & Technology 1176186 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 7/1/2023 6/30/2024 ## **CC16a** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Grants, Sponsorship& Donations
**5,800**
Ticket Sales
**2,651**
Gift Aid
**1,005**
Merchandise sales
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,456**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total receipts 9,456**
**A3 Payments**
Advertising
**1,594**
Event costs
**2,274**
Management Charges
**1,981**
Speaker Costs
**888**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total 6,737**
**-**
**-**
**Sub total -**
**Total payments 6,737**
**Net of receipts/(payments) 2,719**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**8,551**
**Cash funds this year end 11,270**
**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 £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**5,800**
**2,651**
**1,005**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,456**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,456**
**1,594**
**2,274**
**1,981**
**888**
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**6,737**
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**6,737**
**2,719**
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**8,551**
**11,270**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**|**5,800**|**9,160**| |||**-**|**2,651**|**3,147**| |||**-**|**1,005**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**227**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**9,456**|**12,534**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**9,456**|**12,534**| |||||| |||**-**|**1,594**|**3,620**| |||**-**|**2,274**|**4,770**| |||**-**|**1,981**|**4,811**| |||**-**|**888**|**3,389**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**6,737**|**16,590**| |||||| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|| |||**-**|**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**6,737**|**16,590**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**|**2,719**|**- 4,056**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**8,551**|**12,607**| ||**-**|**-**|**11,270**|**8,551**| ## **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**|**Details**
Bank account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**11,270**
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**11,270**
OK
**to nearest £**
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**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print Name
James Duckitt|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||James Duckitt|4/10/2025| ||||