## **FRIENDS OF GREENSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL** 


Charity number: 1182058 

## **AGM: 29 JANUARY 2026 NOTES** 

## Attendees: 

- Clarissa Jensen _(continuing trustee)_ 

- Georgie Morris _(continuing trustee)_ 

- Helen Wrigley _(continuing trustee)_ 

- Ana Gomes _(continuing trustee)_ 

- Nora Pelizzari _(new trustee)_ 

- Will Marshall _(new trustee)_ 

- Maud Letreguilly 

- Billy Reid 

- Edward Ford 

## 1. **Trustees** 

- 1.1. Appointing new trustees. 

   - Clarissa, Helen, Georgie and Ana (being four of the five current trustees) appointed Nora and Will as additional trustees of FOGPS. 

   - Nora and Will each accepted their appointment as trustee. 

   - Nora and Will were provided with access to an electronic copy of the constitutional document and statement of accounts. 

- 1.2. Updates to Charity Commission required. 

   - It was agreed that Clarissa would update the Charity Commission with the change in trustees. 

- 1.3. Adding additional trustee to bank account. 

   - Either one of Nora or Will should be added to the bank account.  Decision on this to be taken later in the year. 

## **2. Treasurer** 

- 2.1. Will Marshall has agreed to be treasurer. 

- 2.2. Key responsibilities: file accounts and AGM minutes ideally in February. 

   - Clarissa will assist with this year’s reporting requirements. 



- 2.3. Gift aid claims need to be completed for the last couple of years 

   - This will be completed by Will later in the year. 

## **3. The financial year and deadlines** 

- 3.1. Financial year: 1 September to 31 August. 

- 3.2. Deadline to file is June. 

## **4. Finances** 

- Metro account: £18,260 

- SumUp: £4,350. 

- Wix: £0 

## **5. Recap of 2024/25 events and fundraising** 

- 5.1. Events 

   - Quiz night – raised £1,585. 

   - Wreath making – raised £440. 

   - Winter Fair: £3,832 including raffle (Christmas trees: £539) 

   - Volunteering day. 

   - Race night – raised £1,800. 

   - Summer Fair – raised £4,272. 

- 5.2. Other fundraising 

   - Estate agent boards x3: £ 2,875 

   - School photo: c. £300 

   - Direct debits: amount TBC 

## **6. Payments made to the school in 2024/25** 

- Sandpit for learning garden: £1,163 



- AV system for school hall: £6,896.00 

- Library system: £2,220. 

- Playground lines: £2,500. 

- KS2 reading book scheme: £3,862. 

- Touch typing subscription: £520. 

- New BBQ for events: £459 

## **7. 2025/26 events** 

## _To date:_ 

- 7.1. Babysitting night. 

   - Successful and low effort. 

   - Excludes younger years? 

   - Market/advertise differently next year? 

   - Next year, decide whether to go ahead or swap for quiz. 

- 7.2. Winter Fair. 

   - Fewer people this year – better marketing needed 

   - Move Santa’s Grotto next year – reluctance to go to the end of the corridor? Can we use the wooden rotunda in the garden? 

## _Upcoming:_ 

## 7.3. Volunteering day: Sunday 15 March. 

- Very successful last year. 

- Clarissa happy to advertise and organise again with help from the team (comms out very beginning of Feb). 

- Need to consider what tasks to do: 

   - Clarissa will discuss with Ms Finney. 

   - Possible planting this year (after weeding). 

   - Tidy up area outside year 2 and 3. 

   - Deep cleaning? 

## 7.4. Table top sale: Sunday 10 May. 



   - Nora to advertise and organise with help from the team. 

   - Need team to market and organise. 

- 7.5. Summer social: Thursday 11 June. 

   - Race night has had excellent feedback in previous two years – intention to repeat. 

   - Georgie to advertise and organise with help from the team. 

- 7.6. Summer fair: Saturday 4 July 

   - Helen to advertise and organise with help from the team. 

## **8. Merchandise** 

- 8.1. Water bottles, tote bags, magnets and mugs. 

   - Lots of merchandise remaining – push to sell online and at summer fair. 

   - Consider price, quality and re-ordering for 2026/2027. 

- 8.2. Baubles. 

   - Consider how to promote next year (as part of competition best tree featuring bauble and decent prize?). 

## **9. What are we fundraising for in 2025/26** 

- 9.1. Already committed: 

   - SEN room: £1,500 for equipment, £1,137 (already paid) materials for room. 

   - Guinea pigs: c £500. 

   - Equipment for learning garden: £1,611 (per Ms Finney’s email of 17 November 2025). 

- 9.2. Proposed upcoming: 

   - Playground mural. 

   - Completing sensory garden/fountain repairs 

   - Mud kitchens 

   - School counsellor/play leader 



- Microphone system in hall 

## **10. PTA communications with parents** 

- 10.1. Flyer (prepared by Nora). 

   - Send out in February? 

   - Are we set up for direct debit and monthly giving? 

## 10.2. Website. 

   - Amanda doing an amazing job running. 

   - Consider a blog post – how often should we write it and who should do it 

- 10.3. Instagram account 

   - Again, Amanda doing an amazing job. 

   - We’re happy with the content – consider how best to use this 

## **11. Works to school** 

- 11.1. Planning permission application. 

   - Being progressed by TEFAT with assistance from separate committee. 

   - Roof and other repairs to building. 

## 11.2. Funding. 

- Grant funding application committee made up of parents, school and TEFAT. 

- Involving RPM to do promo video for specific fundraising for this project. 



||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Friends of Greenside Charity**|||||**1182058**||||
||**For the period**<br>**from**||Period start date<br>9/1/2024||**To**||Period end date<br>8/31/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**||**Restricted funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**||**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Fundraising Income|**-**<br>**15,065-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**15,065-**||**-**<br>**17,380-**|
|Deposit Return|**-**<br>**659-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**659-**||**-**<br>**201-**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**-**<br>**15,724-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**15,724-**||**-**<br>**17,581-**|
|||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**<br>**table).**||||||||||
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|||
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
|**_Sub total_**<br>**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**|**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|
|||||||||||
||**-**<br>**15,724-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**15,724-**||**-**<br>**17,581-**|
|||||||||||
|Charitable Activities|**-**<br>**9,102-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**9,102-**||**-**<br>**13,418-**|
|Costs|**-**<br>**867-**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**867-**||**-**<br>**1,682-**|
||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**||**-**<br>**--**|



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||**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**|||||||||||||||||||||
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||**_Sub total_**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
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||**_Total receipts_ **||**-**|**15,724-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**15,724-**|||**-**|**17,581-**||
||**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||
||Charitable Activities||**-**|**9,102-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**9,102-**|||**-**|**13,418-**||
||Costs||**-**|**867-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**867-**|||**-**|**1,682-**||
||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||



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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**9,969-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**9,969-**|||**-**|**15,100-**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||||
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||**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||



|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||||||||||
|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||||||
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|**_Total payments_ **||**-**|**9,969-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**9,969-**|||**-**|**15,100-**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**-**|**5,755-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**5,755-**|||**-**|**2,481-**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**|**13,895-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**13,895-**|||**-**|**11,414-**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**-**|**19,650-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**19,650-**|||**-**|**13,895-**||
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|||||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**||||**Endowment**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Categories**|**Details**||||**funds**||||||||**funds**||
|||||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||
|**B1**|**Cash funds**||||**-**|**19,650-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
||||||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
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|||**_Total cash funds_**|||**-**|**19,650-**|||**-**|**--**|||**-**|**--**||
|||(agree balances with receipts and payments account<br>(s))|||OK||||OK||||OK|||



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## **B5 Liabilities** 

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

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||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||||**When due**|
||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||||**(optional)**|
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||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of approval||
||W. Ma�shal�||Will Marshall||||||06/09/2026|
||Clariss� Jense�||Clarissa Jensen|||||||
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