## **- Trustees Annual Report 1[st] Jan 2022 31[st] December 2022**
## **Name:**
Water Stars Foundation
## **Registration number:**
CE016310
## **Charity Number:**
1181730
## **Address:**
133 Hassell Street, Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffs, ST5 1BB
## **Trustees names:**
Simon Birchall, Robert Trimmings & Rachel Beckett
## **How it recruits trustees:**
We are in the process of taking on 2 more trustees.
## **Coronavirus Pandemic Impact**
We have no seen the removal of all restrictions in the leisure industry and returned to full operating order. We have seen a number of locations alter our hiring agreement and as a result lost 3 locations. This has impacted our ability to deliver as many lessons in the short term whilst we actively seek other facility options going forward. However, we are increasing our number of school educational lessons that has helped increase our income.
## **Aims/Objectives of our charity:**
To advance the education of the public in the subject of swimming and water safety. Creating lifelong learners and participants.
To advance the education of the pupils at educational institutions by providing swimming lessons. Teaching children vital skills of swimming, water safety and install life long skills.
To provide educational water safety courses for children in north Staffordshire to attend. Educating and increasing knowledge of risks involved with water activities.
## **Charity Overview:**
The charity operates within Staffordshire. Water Stars Foundation delivers educational swimming lessons for children to learn to swim. Water Stars Foundation delivers regular water safety courses for children to attend and gain knowledge and skills to stay safe in and around water. We work closely with schools in educational swimming lessons and train teachers in water safety
## **Income from charity over the 12month period:**
Income received from members to the CIO during the financial period was £489,999. This income was from both Educational establishments (Schools) and Water Stars Foundation members.
## **Spent money in the last year:**
Wages and salaries spend for the financial period was £263,132, we have recruited 3 new employees. Rent expenditure to pools account for £95,679 of outgoings. This was for all swimming pools we hired at during 2022. This is expected to rise in the next accounting year as we have price increases pending at a number of locations.
## **Achievements and performances:**
We have continued to teach children to learn to swim and grow our number of swimmers each week. Therefore achieving our goals and objectives in advancing the education of swimming.
## **A financial review including any debts and details of your reserves policy:**
Water Stars Foundation has continue to repay its bounce back loan over the . We are aiming to grow the reserves in the bank to £150,000 to cover 6 months of staffing wages.
## **How have we carried out our charity purposes for the public benefit?**
Our charity purposes are continuing to benefit the public, as we are offering members the opportunity to be educated and learn the skills essential in order to swim and stay safe in the water environment. Delivering schemes of work and delivering progressive swimming lessons whilst monitoring and assessing children.
## **Future plan**
Over the next 12 months we want Water Stars Foundation to continue to grow its number of members. This would allow more children access to our services and receive swimming tuition. Therefore, providing more members the opportunity to become life-long participants and the skills to continue to stay safe in and around water including every-day life when visiting the seaside, going abroad, visiting canals or rivers etc. We are developing our water safety section and links with more schools.
We will aim to continue to grow our school educational lessons in line with government National Curriculum guidelines.
## **Recruiting**
In 2023 we are looking to recruit new swimming teachers and grow our trustee’s base so we can help to grow our objectives and goals further across Staffordshire.
## **List Trustees**
Simon Birchall
Robert Trimmings Rachel Beckett
## **CEO**
Andrew Lipscomb
## **Profession Contacts**
## **Bankers**
Banking Services
Santander Bank 4-6 Town Road Hanley Stoke-on-Trent ST1 2HA
## **Accountant/Auditors**
Robert Moore Moores Accountancy 138 Hassel Street, Newcastle Under Lyme ST5 1BB
||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date|**To**||Period end date|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**490,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**490,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**490,000**
**466,713**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**466,713**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**466,713**
**23,287**
**-**
**-**
**23,287**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**490,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**490,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**490,000**
**466,713**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**466,713**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**466,713**
**23,287**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
||**490,000**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**490,000**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**466,713**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**466,713**||||||**-**|
|||||||||
|**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_**||||||||
||||||||**-**|
|||||||||
||**23,287**|**-**|**-**||**23,287**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**23,287**|**-**|**-**||**23,287**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
1
## **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**
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
Robert Trimmings
Signature
Simon Birchall
Current liabilities
Loan
2|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**23,287**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,287**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**34,338**
**27,461**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Simon Birchall
Robert Trimmings|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
||Simon Birchall|Simon Birchall|27/10/2023|
||Robert Trimmings
2|Robert Trimmings|**27/10/2023**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name WATER STARS FOUNDATION **members of On accounts for the year** 31 December 2022 **Charity no** 1181730 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 - 2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 December 2022.
**Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** Robert Moore **Date:** 27/10/2023 **Name:** Robert Moore **Relevant professional** Chartered Institute of Management Accountants **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 138 Hassell Street, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 1BB.
1
**October 2018**
**IER**
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
2
**October 2018**
**IER**