## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 6 April 2024 **To** 5 April 2025 **Charity name:** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool **Charity registration number:** 1167280 ## **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 in accordance
with the charitable purpose for the
advancement of education and aim:
To advance the education of the public and,
in particular but not exclusively, children
educated in local English-speaking schools
and having a knowledge of French living in
Liverpool and surrounding areas by:

Providing teaching services in French
as an extracurricular activity,

Organising cultural activities in order to
develop the knowledge of the culture
and history of the francophone world.
Nothing in this constitution shall authorise
an application of the property of the CIO for
the purposes which are not charitable
in accordance with section 7 of the
Charities and Trustee Investment| |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|ONGOING:
- Weekly lessons, for 2 hours on a
Saturday, for French-speaking children
(FLAM);
- Weekly lessons for students of Dovedale
school as an extracurricular activity (FLE);
SPECIFIC TO THIS YEAR
−
Paused the class for the older children
for lack of teachers. We carried out two
recruiting campaigns unsuccessfully.
−
We introduced additional pedagogic
material for the teachers to use.
−
We introduced a curriculum for each
class| La Petite Ecole de Liverpool − We introduced additional benefits for the families: discount for the 2[nd] child, discount on magazines, free access to Storyplay’r (in partnership with Parapluie flam) . Para 1.18 The Trustees have had regard to the guidance on public benefit as we welcome all people from all countries who have an interest in French language and culture to join our organisation. We have kept the charges to a minimum despite inflation in order to keep our classes affordable. We also have a policy for those families who cannot afford these costs to have a possibility to contribute in kind negotiated on a one-to-one basis **.** ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|n/a| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|We aim to develop skills for our teachers
and assistants through sending them also
for training, and promoting their
professional development.
We also provide equal access and
opportunities for families who cannot afford
the classes| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|The management committee is made of
volunteers, who also happen to be
members (i.e. parents of children
registered). They help organise and run the
classes, fundraise, organise cultural events
and manage the library.| |Other||We have had to move to a new location:
Childwall academy, as St Nicolas Academy
was closing its premises for rental.| Annual return 2024/25 Page **2** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool ## **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|Main achievements:
- Promoting French language and culture
- Providing opportunities for those with
French-speaking parents to be bilingual and
thus have broader opportunities as they
grow up
- To entertain the wider general public in
Liverpool by organising cultural events
- By developing teachers
- By growing the network and connection of
the French community in Liverpool as well as
their connection to other French-speaking
communities across the UK (through the
network of French schools called ‘Parapluie-
FLAM’)
- Promoting connection between different
languages schools through meetings and
planning joint events with other language
schools in Liverpool| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|All objectives achieved, though refocused, in
order to remain in line with a reduced
management committee, and volunteering
time.| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|n/a| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|n/a| |Other||The 2 Trustees Fabienne and Nadja have
resigned at the start of the year.| Annual return 2024/25 Page **3** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|This year, the income (totalling £9,789) came
from 2 sources:

FLAM: £5,047.50 , which represents
16.5 students in the year.

Dovedale school (FLE): £4,741.20
In terms of cashflow, the net income for the
year is £1,557.75.
When adjusted to cover only payments related
to the reporting period, the net income is
£1,440, as shown below:

+ £950 paid by Dovedale payment for ,
paid on 9 April 2025

(£344( paid as a salary on 10 April for
services provide in March 2025)

(£723.60) paid on 1stMay 2024 for
service provided February to March
2024.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|If we have a positive bank balance at the end of
the financial year we will adopt a continuous
cash flow into the next financial year for the
sum to be used to further the aims of the CIO
only.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|The bank account held a balance of £7,506 at
the end of the 2024/25 financial year| |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|n/a| ## **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|As described in the financial review previously,
the main source of funding for the Petite Ecole
is the activity held in Dovedale, helping
subsidise the charity’s main activity (i.e. the
FLAM lessons).| |---|---|---| |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|The risks identified are:
-
Our ability to balance the books,
-
Recruit and retain teachers,| Annual return 2024/25 Page **4** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool |||-
Recruit and retain volunteers to run the
charity.
All these risks are currently mitigated by the
committee.| |---|---|---| |Other||This year we have spent money on:
Facebook advertisement, to help with
recruitment of new students and teachers
(£142),
attended the FLAM annual meeting (£109)
2 years on webhosting fees (until Oct 2026)
(£151 over none last year)
 continued to spend a substantial amount on
DBS check (£134) to create a secure a safe
environment for children.| |||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|We have a constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|We are a Charitable Incorporated
Organisation (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|In summary, a trustee is selected from its
members (i.e. parents) currently but not
exclusively, selected for 2 years, position can
be renewed for another term.
Trustees are then voted in during the Annual
General Assembly.| **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|We have a document for new trustees
which explains what is meant as a trustee,
which refers to the trustee documents on
gov.uk, and which gives specifics about
being a trustee in our CIO.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|As above part of 2 networks:
- Parapluie FLAM: all French
supplementary schools in the UK.
Membership is not free.
- LSSN: Liverpool Supplementary School
Network (LSSN): all children native-
language schools in Liverpool. Membership
is free.| |||n/a| Annual return 2024/25 Page **5** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool Relationship with any Para 1.51 related parties n/a Other Annual return 2024/25 Page **6** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charityname|**La Petite Ecole de Liverpool**| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|**1176280**| |Charity’s principal address|c/o Anne-Claire Leydier, 18 Mayville Road, L18 0HQ, Liverpool| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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3
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7|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Anne-Claire Leydier|Director||General assembly with
members| ||Florent Alix|Treasurer||General assembly with
members| ||Yann Morvan|Safeguarding Officer||General assembly with
members| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name n/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| Annual return 2024/25 Page **7** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool ## **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 Annual return 2024/25 Page **8** of **9** La Petite Ecole de Liverpool ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **n/a** ## **Other optional information** **n/a** ## **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)** Anne-Claire Leydier **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc) Date** 19/01/2026 Annual return 2024/25 Page **9** of **9** ||**La Petite Ecole de Liverpool**
**Charity Name**|**La Petite Ecole de Liverpool**
**Charity Name**|**La Petite Ecole de Liverpool**
**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|06/04/2024
Period start date|**To**||05/04/2025
Period end date||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,789**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**4,902**
**2,132**
**199**
**80**
**151**
**114**
**317**
**142**
**134**
**60**
**8,231**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,231**
**1,558**
**-**
**5,948**
**7,506**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**9,789**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**9,789**
**4,902**
**2,132**
**-**
**199**
**80**
**151**
**114**
**-**
**-**
**317**
**-**
**142**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134**
**-**
**-**
**60**
**8,231**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**8,231**
**1,558**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |child subscriptions
Donations
Fundraising
Raffle
Grant
refund|**9,789**||||||**10,168**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||||||||**2,000**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**9,789**||||||**12,168**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**
Wages
Classroom hire
Hall event hire
Insurance
FLAM fees
Internet
Food and beverage
Fundraising costs
Events costs
(including paid to Trustee for services)
training costs
Equipment
Adverts
school books
school furnitures
website
DBS
Zoom subscription for online classes
bank fees
**_Sub total_ **|||||||| ||||||||**12,168**| ||||||||| ||||||||**5,818**| ||||||||**2,362**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**195**| ||||||||**42**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**11**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**1,904**| ||||||||**500**| ||||||||**21**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**50**| ||||||||**6**| ||||||||**6**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**150**| ||||||||**11**| ||||||||**-**| ||||||||**60**| ||||||||**10,634**| ||||||||| |**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_**|||||||| ||||||||**10,634**| ||||||||| ||**1,558**|**-**|
**-**||**1,558**||**1,534**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**5,948**|**-**|**-**||**5,948**||**4,414**| ||**7,506**|**-**|
**-**||**7,506**||**5,948**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 12/01/2026 1 |**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**
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**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
HSBC bank account
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,506**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,506**
**-**
OK
OK
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**funds**
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**to nearest £**
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Print Name
Anne-Claire Leydier|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
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approval| |||Anne-Claire Leydier|09/01/2026| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 12/01/2026 2