
## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

**From 1  st April 2022  Period start date    To 30th April 2023 Period end date** 

## **Charity name: ABBOTS HALL OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB** 

**Charity registration number: 1179588** 

## **Objectives and Activities** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of<br>the charity as set out in its<br>governing document|Para 1.17|We provide childcare for children<br>aged 4-16 attending Abbots Hall<br>Primary Community School,<br>Stowmarket, Sufolk before and after<br>school during term time. During<br>school holidays we run a holiday club<br>ofering child care for children aged 4-<br>16 living in Stowmarket and<br>surrounding areas.|
|Summary of the main<br>activities in relation to those<br>purposes for the public<br>benefit, in particular, the<br>activities, projects or<br>services identified in the<br>accounts.|Para 1.17 and<br>1.19|The Club aims at complementing the<br>school by providing a daily Breakfast<br>Club before school and a daily<br>Afterschool club after school till 6pm.<br>This ofer is available to all parents in<br>need of child care before and after<br>school to enable extended working<br>hours and more fexible working for<br>parents to earn extra income or<br>further their careers.<br>The Club ofers a wide range of<br>activities to engage children of all<br>ages but serves no educational<br>purpose, i.e. home work or teaching.<br>Children attending the Club are also<br>provided with breakfast and a snack<br>for tea if they wish so. This is of<br>particular beneft to children who<br>were not fortunate enough to start<br>the day with a breakfast.<br>The Holiday Club during school<br>holidays (not bank holidays) ofer<br>scare from 7:30am to 6pm and<br>follows a similar set up like the<br>breakfast and after school club. The<br>activities range across a wide variety<br>of creative, mental and physical<br>activities and games in and outdoors.<br>Outdoor games (badminton, football,<br>varieties ofcatchetc.), creative arts|





|||depending on season, guessing<br>games, math games etc.<br>The Club also supports the local<br>council and ofers sessions to families<br>with support from the council. This<br>way the Club enables the children to<br>change from their normal routine and<br>mix with other children of all ages.<br>The Club works in close partnership<br>with the Abbots Hall Community<br>Primary School and regularly<br>exchanges information and ideas.|
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|Statement confirming<br>whether the trustees have<br>had regard to the guidance<br>issued by the Charity<br>Commission on public<br>benefit|Para 1.18|The Club declares that all members<br>have read the guidance issued by the<br>Charity Commission on public beneft.|



## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

SORP reference **n/a** Para 1.38 Policy on grant making **n/a** Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment **n/a** Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other 



## **Achievements and Performance** 

||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the main<br>achievements of the charity,<br>identifying the difference the<br>charity’s work has made to<br>the circumstances of its<br>beneficiaries and any wider<br>benefits to society as a<br>whole.|Para 1.20|We as charity, manage to provide<br>continuous support to the parents of<br>Abbots Hall Community Primary<br>School in Stowmarket as well as<br>childcare during school holidays for<br>the wider community in and around<br>Stowmarket.<br>Popularity of the Club has grown<br>further throughout the year,<br>particularly numbers in the Breakfast<br>Club. Overall the numbers of families<br>served increased by 20%<br>Holiday Club has been attended well<br>with up to 28 children per day. A<br>variety of special events have<br>undertaken, for example our popular<br>presentations of an ambulance crew,<br>visit of a police ofcer and the police<br>dog.<br>Opening up again fully since COVID<br>restrictions were lifted was welcomed<br>by all staf, children and families we<br>serve and our attendance levels have<br>increased but we have still kept some<br>practices in place in the club such as<br>group bubbles for diferent age<br>ranges as we feel the younger<br>children beneftted more with more<br>targeted activities, this was initially<br>introduced in 2021/22 but remains in<br>place today.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>Achievements against<br>objectives set|<br>Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising|||





|activities against objectives<br>set|Para 1.41||
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|Investment performance<br>against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||





## **Financial Review** 

|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s<br>financial position at the end<br>of theperiod|Para 1.21|The charity is not a proft making one<br>and at the end of 2022/23 period we<br>have anetgainof £2514.00|
|Statement explaining the<br>policy for holding reserves<br>stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The Charity aims at holding three<br>times the monthly cost as reserves,<br>which should be an average of 18k<br>GBP. This has been achieved this in<br>the annual period. This reserve<br>ensures that monthly fuctuations in<br>income and expenditure can be dealt<br>with without putting the charity at<br>risk. Further this ensures that in the<br>event that the charity had to be<br>resolved all open items including<br>redundancy payments can be done<br>withoutproblems.|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|£20633.22|
|Reasons for holding zero<br>reserves|Para 1.22|N/A|
|Details of fund materially in<br>deficit|Para 1.24|None|
|Explanation of any<br>uncertainties about the<br>charity continuing as a going<br>concern|Para 1.23|None|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|The charity’s principal<br>sources of funds (including<br>any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
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|Investment policy and<br>objectives including any<br>social investment policy<br>adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal<br>risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||





## **Structure, Governance and Management** 

|Description of charity’s<br>trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document<br>(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity<br>constituted?<br>(e.g unincorporated<br>association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**C.I.O**|
|Trustee selection methods<br>including details of any<br>constitutional provisions e.g.<br>election to post or name of<br>any person or body entitled<br>to appoint one or more<br>trustees|Para 1.25|Nominated and voted in at the annual<br>AGM via majority vote of the current<br>trustees.|



## **Additional information (optional)** 

## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: 

|<br>Policies and procedures<br>adopted for the induction<br>and training of trustees|<br>Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational<br>structure and any wider<br>network with which the<br>charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related<br>parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||



## **Reference and Administrative details** 

|Charity name|ABBOTS HALL OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1179588|
|Charity’s principal address|WINDMILL ROOM<br>ABBOTS HALL CP SCHOOL<br>DANESCOURT AVENUE<br>STOWMARKET<br>SUFFOLK IP14 1QF|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||JANIE ROSE|CHAIR||Members of the charity|
||ANNE-MARIE<br>SHORT|VICE CHAIR &<br>TREASURER||Members of the charity|
||KIM DEACON|SECRETARY||Members of the charity|
||SEEMA MOSS||||
||PAUL MARTIN||||
||CHARMAINE<br>MCCULLUM||||
||STUART MONK||||
||GILLIAN SHAW||||
||LEO COX||||
||ALEXANDRA COX||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved 

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|**N/A**|**N/A**|**N/A**|
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## Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity 

|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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|**N/A**|**N/A**|**N/A**|
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## **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 

## **Additional information (optional)** 

## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 

|**Type of**<br>**adviser**|**Name**<br>**Address**|**Name**<br>**Address**|
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|ACCOUNTAN<br>T|IAN GORHAM|257 Colchester Road, Ipswich, IP4 4SH|
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

CATHERINE MARTIN (CLUB MANAGER) 

## **Exemptions from disclosure** 

Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details 

## **Other optional information** 



## **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-MARIE SHORT **Position (eg Secretary,** VICE CHAIR & TREASURER **Chair, etc) Date** 27.6.2023 



Abbots Hall Chrt of School Club
(Reg 140: 1179588)
Accounts lor the year to 31st Idarch 2023

Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees of
Abbots Hall Out of Sc1K￿l Club (Reg No: 1179588)
I rep)rt on the accounts of the charity ￿4nded 31st March 2023, a
The chanvs lJuslees are respc￿SU1 fr for the preparat￿ of the accounts. The ¢haritys trustees
Commjswn under 1451Sllbl of the Clwities and
conceming any such matters. The w0￿dureS undertaken do not provide all the emdence that
content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulabons 2008
ntsknbe
CCAI
Ipswch
IP4 4SH

(Reg No: 11795881
Tot•1 fund• lund•
Chantswe a￿l¥l￿eS
74.404
117
191
4.125
separa￿ mawial rtem of irKcfflo
63,178
12.159
IB.
315
2.542
ln
315
2.542
173
svmables
2.294
457
Insuraft
158
510
510
Other
Tufal
79.414
1514
1514
1514
Z514
Extraofdlnary Items
Other recogni3ed yin•llloue•l:
mov•m•nt lft fyftds
2.514
2.514
T￿31 lunds IcThMrl
25.158
2S.158
27.672
25.851
25.158

Abbots Hau of Scho(A Club
(Reg No: 1179588)
Balance Sl*et as at 31st IAarth 2023
fund•
yoar
1.845
28.894
30.740
30.048
(2,376)
(5.582)
27.672
25.15B
27.672
27,6r2
25.158
Funds of1M Charfty
Endowmenl fvnds (Note 27)
27.672
27.672
25.158
Total fund•
25.158

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Rog No: 11795881
Year-ended 31st IAarch 2023
Accounllng Polkle•
The financial sl*ements ofthe thaffiable L7)mpary. T*thM* is a publ￿ benefft entity under FRS 102.
have been prepared in acctydarte with the Clwities SORP (FRS 102)'AcC￿ntin9 and Rewr￿ ty
(FRS 102} (eltethe 1 2015Y. RqKffj SlaKtsd 102 Tr F￿JaI Rewxtry
Standard appl￿b￿ ￿ the UK and RewbtK of Ireland and Ihe Chanlies Act 2011.The financial
fair vw/. This doparture has invow folltr4*ing the h£c￿nting and Reporting by Charities: Statemont
The financ￿ ststements a￿ preparad C￿ a goiNJ c(xw tOSis uThkr hisbyKal cost convention.
In¢om?
All income is rwnL8ed in Statemert of FLnanCI￿ P£bvths onc£ the chaTty entitlem￿1 to
rdaled to the calegory. Whefe c¥)sts cannot te direcuy attnbuted to panicular headings Ihey have
purFK)5es.

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Reg No: 1179588)
2022
Sundry Debtors
1.845
Cr•dity•
2023
2022
1.381
3,DJ1
Taxes
576
1376
Movement In Fund#
Unrestricted funds
25.158
1514
27.6T2
24158

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Reg No: 11796881
Unrestricied funds
1514

Abbots Hall Chrt of School Club
(Reg 140: 1179588)
Accounts lor the year to 31st Idarch 2023

Independent Examiners Report to the Trustees of
Abbots Hall Out of Sc1K￿l Club (Reg No: 1179588)
I rep)rt on the accounts of the charity ￿4nded 31st March 2023, a
The chanvs lJuslees are respc￿SU1 fr for the preparat￿ of the accounts. The ¢haritys trustees
Commjswn under 1451Sllbl of the Clwities and
conceming any such matters. The w0￿dureS undertaken do not provide all the emdence that
content of accounts sel out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulabons 2008
ntsknbe
CCAI
Ipswch
IP4 4SH

(Reg No: 11795881
Tot•1 fund• lund•
Chantswe a￿l¥l￿eS
74.404
117
191
4.125
separa￿ mawial rtem of irKcfflo
63,178
12.159
IB.
315
2.542
ln
315
2.542
173
svmables
2.294
457
Insuraft
158
510
510
Other
Tufal
79.414
1514
1514
1514
Z514
Extraofdlnary Items
Other recogni3ed yin•llloue•l:
mov•m•nt lft fyftds
2.514
2.514
T￿31 lunds IcThMrl
25.158
2S.158
27.672
25.851
25.158

Abbots Hau of Scho(A Club
(Reg No: 1179588)
Balance Sl*et as at 31st IAarth 2023
fund•
yoar
1.845
28.894
30.740
30.048
(2,376)
(5.582)
27.672
25.15B
27.672
27,6r2
25.158
Funds of1M Charfty
Endowmenl fvnds (Note 27)
27.672
27.672
25.158
Total fund•
25.158

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Rog No: 11795881
Year-ended 31st IAarch 2023
Accounllng Polkle•
The financial sl*ements ofthe thaffiable L7)mpary. T*thM* is a publ￿ benefft entity under FRS 102.
have been prepared in acctydarte with the Clwities SORP (FRS 102)'AcC￿ntin9 and Rewr￿ ty
(FRS 102} (eltethe 1 2015Y. RqKffj SlaKtsd 102 Tr F￿JaI Rewxtry
Standard appl￿b￿ ￿ the UK and RewbtK of Ireland and Ihe Chanlies Act 2011.The financial
fair vw/. This doparture has invow folltr4*ing the h£c￿nting and Reporting by Charities: Statemont
The financ￿ ststements a￿ preparad C￿ a goiNJ c(xw tOSis uThkr hisbyKal cost convention.
In¢om?
All income is rwnL8ed in Statemert of FLnanCI￿ P£bvths onc£ the chaTty entitlem￿1 to
rdaled to the calegory. Whefe c¥)sts cannot te direcuy attnbuted to panicular headings Ihey have
purFK)5es.

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Reg No: 1179588)
2022
Sundry Debtors
1.845
Cr•dity•
2023
2022
1.381
3,DJ1
Taxes
576
1376
Movement In Fund#
Unrestricted funds
25.158
1514
27.6T2
24158

Abbots Hall Out of School Club (Reg No: 11796881
Unrestricied funds
1514