## **Flavour School Trustees’ Annual Report for the period from April 2023 to March 2024**
Charity registration number: 1178048
## **Objectives and Activities**
|**Objectives and Activities**||
|---|---|
|_Summary of the purposes of_
_the charity as set out in its_
_governing document (SORP_
_reference Para 1.17)_|The advancement of sensory education of children and the preservation
and protection of health for the benefit of the public by the promotion of
sensory education and helping people to build a healthy relationship with
food.|
|_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 & 1.19)_|Flavour school promotes and enables sensory food education, through a
simple, fun, accessible and affordable programme of lessons and
activities, designed for UK Early Years and primary school children. We
develop and share teaching materials, offer teacher training, and promote
sensory food education generally, to encourage and enable schools to
carry out the programme.|
|_Statement confirming whether_
_the trustees have had regard_
_to the guidance issued by the_
_Charity Commission on public_
_benefit (Para 1.18)_|The trustees confirm they have had due regard to the guidance issued by
the Charity Commission on Public Benefit.|
## **Achievements and Performance**
|_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)_|
2023/24 was the sixth year of operation for Flavour School as a
registered charity.
1.**Research**:
In his role as a fellow at the University of Leeds, Flavour School trustee
Dr Nick Wilkinson completed a multi-year research project on the effects
of Flavour School on Reception and Key Stage 1 children in October
2022. Dr Wilkinson completed the paper reporting this study with his
co-authors during 2023-24, and the study is now published in the journal
Appetitehttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107756.
2.**Early Years programme development**:
Nicholas Wilkinson conducted a series of practical pilots in four early
years settings in Bradford and Leeds to develop and test activities for the
Flavour School Early Years teaching programme, in collaboration with the
Early Years Alliance.
Three Bridges Primary in Ealing, London, has included the Flavour
School programme in the curriculum since the 2021-2022 school year.
Trustee Katie Robertson, in her role as Early Years lead and teacher at
the school, oversaw this and described how the programme has been
carried out:
“Over the course of the half term we do food-related whole-class sessions
where we discuss vocabulary and prior knowledge. Then the teachers
and teaching assistants take small groups of children to go through the
Flavour School programme. Typically it takes 2-3 days for all the groups
to work through each of the five senses. While that’s happening we try to
also run other food-related activities – printing with fruit and veg, natural
food dying, fruit and veg observational drawing, toy food in the home
corner, a fully stocked mud kitchen, fruit and veg colouring etc. A guest
teacher comes in and runs a fresh pasta-making workshop, and we try to
bring in the language and vocabulary discussed during the Flavour
School sessions.”|
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“It’s been fantastic—the kids absolutely love it and we definitely observe more willingness to try foods as the sessions go on. We tweak it to suit our cohort and staffing levels, and we are always trying to find more ways to expand on the programme.”
## **3. Dissemination of the Flavour School programme and approach:**
Flavour School provided children’s food brand Ella’s Kitchen with continued scientific advice and insights on sensory food education, to inform the development of their Eat. Play. Love campaign promoting sensory food play for Early Years settings, which then ran during 2024.
Throughout the year, the teaching manual remained free to download from the Flavour School website and the trustees replied to any requests for further information or guidance coming in via the website from interested potential users.
## **Financial Review**
|_Review of the charity’s_
_financial position at the end of_
_the period (Para 1.21)_|At the end of the period (31stMarch 2024), Flavour School had £7,874.09
in its bank account.|
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|_Statement explaining the_
_policy for holding reserves_
_stating why they are held_
_(Para 1.22)_|Flavour School has not formalised a written reserves policy, but the
trustees have agreed that in practice the charity should always retain
sufficient funds to cover its expected essential annual operating
expenses.|
|_Amount of reserves held (Para_
_1.22)_|n/a – but the Trustees were satisfied that there were sufficient funds in
the account throughout 2023/24 to guarantee ongoing operations for the
year and beyond.|
|_Additional information_|The trustees agreed to pay one trustee for services provided to the
charity in the year 2023/2024. This was approved by the other trustees in
line with Charity Commission guidance (with one trustee removing
herself from the approval process/decision, as a connected person).|
## **Additional information**
|_The charity’s principal sources_
_of funds (including any_
_fundraising) (Para 1.47)_|Flavour School’s principal source of funding in 2023/24 was the
donations in previous years from children’s food brand Ella’s Kitchen,
provided to support the further development of the Flavour School
programme (with a small proportion allocated to covering the charity’s
core costs). We continued to draw on these funds in 2023/24.|
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|_A description of the principal_
_risks facing the charity (Para_
_1.46)_|The principal risk facing Flavour School in 2023/24 was uncertainty
about the longer-term direction of the charity. The trustees devoted time
to considering this question during trustee meetings and in between, and
will continue to assess the potential pathways the charity could take to
best deliver on its mission and deliver public benefit into the future.|
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|_Type of governing document_
_(Para 1.25)_|Flavour School has a**Foundation model CIO Constitution**(its only
voting members are its Trustees).|
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|_How is the charity constituted?_
_(Para 1.25)_|Flavour School is a**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**/ CIO.|
|_Trustee selection methods_
_including details of any_|As per Flavour School’s constitution, apart from the first charity
trustees, every trustee must be appointed by a resolution passed at a|
|_constitutional provisions e.g._
_election to post or name of any_
_person or body entitled to_
_appoint one or more trustees_
_(Para 1.25)_|properly convened meeting of the charity trustees. The trustees must
have regard to the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the
effective administration of the CIO.|
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## **Additional information**
|**Additional information**||
|---|---|
|_Policies and procedures_
_adopted for the induction and_
_training of trustees (Para 1.51)_|As per Flavour School’s constitution, the charity trustees will make
available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first
appointment: a) a copy of the current version of this constitution; and
b) a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of
accounts.|
|_The charity’s organisational_
_structure and any wider network_
_with which the charity works_
_(Para 1.51)_|Flavour School retained the same trustees for the year; Flavour School
had no paid staff.|
|_Relationship with any related_
_parties (Para 1.51)_|No particular relationships to report.|
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|_Charity name_|Flavour School|
|---|---|
|_Other name the charity uses_|None|
|_Registered charity number_|1178048|
|_Charity’sprincipal address_|148 ValleyRoad, London, SW16 2XR|
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office**|**Name of person entitled to appoint trustee**|
|---|---|---|
|Geraldine Gilbert|Chair|Foundingtrustee|
|Nicholas Wilkinson||Foundingtrustee|
|Mark Breen||Appointed byG Gilbert and N Wilkinson|
|Kate Morris||Appointed byG Gilbert, N Wilkinson and M Breen|
|Katherine Robertson
nee Mitchell||Appointed by G Gilbert, N Wilkinson and M Breen|
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:**
|**Signature**||
|---|---|
|**Full name**|Geraldine Gilbert|
|**Position**|Foundingtrustee/chair|
|**Date**|28 January2025|
|||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||**CC16a**||
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|||**FLAVOUR SCHOOL**||||||1178048||||
|||||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||
|||**For the period from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||||
|||||01/04/2023||||31/03/2024||||
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||**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
||**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
||None|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
||**_Sub total (Gross income for AR)_**|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
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||**_A2 Asset and investment sales_**|||||||||||
|||||||||||||
||**_Sub total_**|**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_£0_**||**£0**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Total receipts_**|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
|||||||||||||
||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
||Website / email address fees|**£398.51**||**-**||**-**||**£399**||**£648**||
||Banking fees (monthly account charge)|**£60**||**-**||**-**||**£60**||**£60**||
||Trustee travel expenses|**£0**||||||**£0**||**£49**||
||Grant 1: Cost reimbursements to schools
participating in research, interviews.|||**£0**||||**£0**||**£440**||
||Grant 2: Early years research/pilots|**-**||**£2,730**||||**£2,730**||**£3,640**||
||**_Sub total_**|**£459**||**£2,730**||**-**||**£3,189**||**£4,837**||
|||||||||||||
||**_A4 Asset and investment purchases_**|||||||||||
||**_Sub total_**|**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_**|**£459**||**£2,730**||**-**||**£3,189**||**£4,837**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-£459**||**-£2,730**||||**-£3,189**||**-£4,752**||
||**A5 Transfers between funds**|**£0**||||**-**||**-**||**£0**||
||**A6 Cash funds last year end (31 Mar 2023)**|**£2,180**||**£8,883**||**-**||**£11,063**||**£10,028**||
||**_Cash funds this year end (31 Mar 2024)_**|**£1,722**||**£6,153**||**-**||**£7,875**||||
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||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||||
||**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment funds**||
|||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
||**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account 31 March 2023||||**£1,722**||**£6,153**||||
|||||||**-**||**-**||||
|||**_Total cash funds_**||||**£1,722**||**£6,153**||||
|||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||OK||OK||
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|||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||**-**||**-**||
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|||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due (optional)**||
||**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||||
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||**Signed by one or two trustees on**
**behalf of all the trustees**|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval||
|||Geraldine Gilbert||||Geraldine Gilbert||||24/01/2025||
|||Nick Wilkinson||||Nick Wilkinson||||24/01/2025||
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|||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**||**No (if any)**||**CC16a**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**FLAVOUR SCHOOL**||||||1178048||||
|||||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||||||
|||**For the period from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||||
|||||01/04/2023||||31/03/2024||||
|||||||||||||
||**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
||**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
||None|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
||**_Sub total (Gross income for AR)_**|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
|||||||||||||
||**_A2 Asset and investment sales_**|||||||||||
|||||||||||||
||**_Sub total_**|**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_£0_**||**£0**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Total receipts_**|||||**-**||**£0**||**£85**||
|||||||||||||
||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||
||Website / email address fees|**£398.51**||**-**||**-**||**£399**||**£648**||
||Banking fees (monthly account charge)|**£60**||**-**||**-**||**£60**||**£60**||
||Trustee travel expenses|**£0**||||||**£0**||**£49**||
||Grant 1: Cost reimbursements to schools
participating in research, interviews.|||**£0**||||**£0**||**£440**||
||Grant 2: Early years research/pilots|**-**||**£2,730**||||**£2,730**||**£3,640**||
||**_Sub total_**|**£459**||**£2,730**||**-**||**£3,189**||**£4,837**||
|||||||||||||
||**_A4 Asset and investment purchases_**|||||||||||
||**_Sub total_**|**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||**_-_**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Total payments_**|**£459**||**£2,730**||**-**||**£3,189**||**£4,837**||
|||||||||||||
||**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**-£459**||**-£2,730**||||**-£3,189**||**-£4,752**||
||**A5 Transfers between funds**|**£0**||||**-**||**-**||**£0**||
||**A6 Cash funds last year end (31 Mar 2023)**|**£2,180**||**£8,883**||**-**||**£11,063**||**£10,028**||
||**_Cash funds this year end (31 Mar 2024)_**|**£1,722**||**£6,153**||**-**||**£7,875**||||
|||||||||||||
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||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||||
||**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment funds**||
|||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
||**B1 Cash funds**|Bank account 31 March 2023||||**£1,722**||**£6,153**||||
|||||||**-**||**-**||||
|||**_Total cash funds_**||||**£1,722**||**£6,153**||||
|||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||OK||OK||
|||||||||||||
|||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**||
||**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**|||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due (optional)**||
||**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||||
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||**Signed by one or two trustees on**
**behalf of all the trustees**|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval||
|||Geraldine Gilbert||||Geraldine Gilbert||||24/01/2025||
|||Nick Wilkinson||||Nick Wilkinson||||24/01/2025||
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