## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 July 2024 30 June 2025
**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**
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**acted if**
**not for**
**whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||Stephen Charles Clarke|Chair|||
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||James Duckitt|Treasurer|||
||William Selby||||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser 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**
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted
Constitution
Trust
- (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 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_
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_STEM SUBJECTS, ON A NON-REMUNERATIVE BASIS._
**Summary of the main** The ATOM Festival of Science & Technology runs an annual week-long **activities undertaken for the** festival in March comprising a series of public talks, free public events **public benefit in relation to** (interactive displays and demonstrations) for families, and school **these objects (include within this section the statutory** activities for students of all ages open to all local schools. The festival, **declaration that trustees have** organised with local companies, academic organisations and schools, **had regard to the guidance** takes place in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **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 and performance ATOM Festival in March 2025 again attracted large numbers from local **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** and nationwide communities. **during the year** We had a strong focus on events for children (4 -18 years of age) and we were pleased that they were very well attended – these particular events encourage children to explore science further and some enter university to study STEM subjects. Talks in various subjects by prominent scientists were illuminating and again attracted high numbers of attendees. Following the successful launch of FameLab in 2024, our larger event in 2025 produced more interesting concepts. We look forward to maintaining our successes in 2026
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## **Section E Financial review**
The Trustees are mindful of the level of reserves and regularly review **Brief statement of the** these to ensure the charity’s continued operation.
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**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**
FameLab discovers, trains and promotes the best new voices in science – including social sciences – technology and engineering.
Participants have just three minutes to convey a scientific concept of their choice to an audience and expert panel of judges.
FameLab operates in over 30 countries.
## **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)**
**Date** 14/04/2026
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|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|||
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|**1176186**
**ATOM Festival Of Science & Technology**||||
|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|Period start date
**For the period**
**from**
01/07/2024|Period end date
**To**
30/06/2025|||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Grants,Sponsorship& Donations|**9,600**||**-**||**-**||**9,600**||**5,800**|
|Ticket Sales|**1,865**||**-**||**-**||**1,865**||**2,651**|
|Gift Aid|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**1,005**|
|Merchandise sales|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**11,465**||**-**||**-**||**11,465**||**9,456**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**9,456**|
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|Advertising|**1,975**||||||||**1,594**|
|Event costs|**3,875**||||||||**2,274**|
|Management Charges|**13,953**||||||||**1,981**|
|Speaker Costs|**-**||||||||**888**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**19,803**||||||||**6,737**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**6,737**|
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||**- 8,338**||||||||**2,719**|
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||**11,270**||||||||**8,551**|
||**2,932**||||||||**11,270**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank account
**Details**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank account
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,932**
**-**
**-**
**2,932**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**2,932**
**-**
**-**
**2,932**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||OK|
||||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
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||||||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
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||Signature||Print Name
James Duckitt|||||
||||||||Date of
approval|
||||James Duckitt||||14/04/2026|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
14/04/2026
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