2023-08-31-accounts - Slovak School And Community Manchester

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 09 22 To 31 08 23

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Other names charity is known by

Slovak School and Community Manchester

Registered charity number (if any) 1185004

Charity's principal address 2 Silchester Drive Manchester Postcode M408NT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Anna Pazdurova	Chairman, Founder, Treasurer	1.7.2019	Trustee themselves, Previously trustee o Czech and Slovak School and CommunityManchester
Sandra Nazarej	Trustee, Online Manager Warrington Manager	From 1.1.2021	Trustee Themselves

Daniela Bessassi	Childsafety Protection Officer	1.7.2020 – 31.12.2022	Trustee themselves
Lucia Potocna	PR, Events	1.3.2020-30.6.2022	Trustee themselves
Ingrid Harandzda	Manchester School Operations	30.6.2022- present	Trustee themselves

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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name	Dates acted if not for whole year
Miroslava Matusikova	From Jan 2024

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)
Anna Pazdurova - Chairman

Anna Pazdurova - Chairman

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organization How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Appointed by the charity trustees, members of our community are always Trustee selection methods welcome and invited to step forward to become trustees (eg. appointed by, elected by) TAR March

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

The organisation has adopted all required policies. The trustees meet on a regular basis and manage all activities of the charity in accordance with the constitution. There are policies in place such as: Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, Safe Recruitment policy based on principles outlined in Constitution of CIO Slovak school and Community Manchester The charity cooperates on contractual basis with 5 -6 teachers (Incl online). Organization also cooperates with universities in Slovakia and we are providing teacher training via Ministry o Education in Slovakia, Manchester Council – Supplementary Schools Department. The school cooperates with other Slovak Schools in the UK as well and is a member of the Association of Slovak Schools in the UK.

SCCM also cooperates with other Charitable organizations in the UK and actively supports care homes with “act of kindness” activities with children. The charity also works closely with the Embassy of Slovakia in London. The major risk to our activities frequent lack or

limited number of suitably qualified teaching staff, so we are on a constant look-out for new colleagues.

Section C Objectives and activities

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Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

I.	To advance education for the public benefit in particular but not
	exclusively in the language, history, geography, the arts, culture and
	heritage ofSlovakiaby:
• teaching theSlovaklanguage andSlovakhistory and geography to children,
young	people;
• teachingSlovaklanguage to adults;
• promoting and organising events that supportSlovakculture, art and folklore;
and
• organising educational trips for children and young people.
II.	The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit among people who are nationals of Slovakia settling in the North West region of
	England who are socially excluded on the grounds of language and
	their social position by providing:
•	education and training in the English language;
•	support and general advice; and
•	social and recreational facilities and events involving the local
	community.

	I. To advance education for the public benefit in particular but not exclusively in the language, history, geography, the arts, culture and heritage ofSlovakiaby: • teaching theSlovaklanguage andSlovakhistory and geography to children, young people; • teachingSlovaklanguage to adults; • promoting and organising events that supportSlovakculture, art and folklore; and • organising educational trips for children and young people. II. The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit among people who are nationals of Slovakia settling in the North West region of England who are socially excluded on the grounds of language and their social position by providing: • education and training in the English language; • support and general advice; and • social and recreational facilities and events involving the local community.
Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)	When planned and organizedour activities for the year,we keptinmind theCharity Commission's guidanceon public benefit at ourtrusteemeetings. Themainfocusof our activitieswasontheeducation ofthechildren, sustaining national heritageand teaching themtheSlovak language.Thecharity ran 7 classes including adult classes Slovak. Active classes and online: 1 class preschool kids – class “Motyliky” , class “Sovicky” Adults class 1, English class 1-1 – 1 class, Beginner one to one 1 class, Intermediate online 1 class, Upper intermediate online 1 class, .ln total,wehad up to 35 children enrolled, up to 25 active.Allchildren lessonswereheldat Manchester Communication Academyon Saturdays term-time. We held events too Weekly sessions in premises lasted of3 hours each, online classes max 2 hours depending on age group. Signification miles stone for school was Covid 19 situation and we have been still affected by loss of students during Covid which has never returned to original pre-Covid state, Also the fact we haven’ts received grants from any governenment in previous periods created significantly challenging situation and had to use reserve funds. We got grants from Slovakia during this reporting period and we covered loses from last period from then and we will also save it as reserves. Therefore volunteers and trustees were not paid any expenses and we involved many volunteers to ensure our organization is running smoothly. In addition we had to Erazmus students hence this had massive impact on finance balance. Half of students decided to continue online which has been positive fact for school long term and for the future. This had significant impact of school and community finances, but we supported community request to our best abilities. For thewholeSlovak community, we organisedanumberof expats events, for children, wholefamiliesaswellSlovak adult population. Regarding events, we managed to make Carneval , May Day and Saint Nicolas Day. We hosted 40 children from Slovakian Charity in 2022 for full day of program and food and networking who came to visit UK covered by Slovakian Charity. In March 2023 we hosted Slovak Theatre in London and co-organized theatre performance at our premises. The highlight of events was St Nicolaus day where“Santa”was traveling all

I.
To advance education for the public benefit in particular but not
exclusively in the language, history, geography, the arts, culture and
heritage ofSlovakiaby:
• teaching theSlovaklanguage andSlovakhistory and geography to children,
young people;
• teachingSlovaklanguage to adults;
• promoting and organising events that supportSlovakculture, art and folklore;
and
• organising educational trips for children and young people.
II. The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit among people
who are nationals of Slovakia settling in the North West region of
England who are socially excluded on the grounds of language and
their social position by providing:
• education and training in the English language;
• support and general advice; and
• social and recreational facilities and events involving the local
community.

Summary of the main
activities undertaken for the
public benefit in relation to
these objects (include within
this section the statutory
declaration that trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit)

When planned and organizedour activities for the year,we keptinmind
theCharity
Commission's guidanceon public benefit at ourtrusteemeetings.
Themainfocusof our activitieswasontheeducation ofthechildren,
sustaining national heritageand
teaching themtheSlovak language.Thecharity ran 7 classes including
adult classes Slovak. Active classes and online: 1 class preschool kids –
class “Motyliky” , class “Sovicky” Adults class 1, English class 1-1 – 1 class,
Beginner one to one 1 class, Intermediate online 1 class, Upper
intermediate online 1 class,
.ln total,wehad up to 35 children enrolled, up to 25 active.Allchildren
lessonswereheldat Manchester Communication Academyon Saturdays
term-time. We held events too Weekly sessions in premises lasted of3
hours each, online classes max 2 hours depending on age group.
Signification miles stone for school was Covid 19 situation and we have been
still affected by loss of students during Covid which has never returned to
original pre-Covid state, Also the fact we haven’ts received grants from any
governenment in previous periods created significantly challenging situation
and had to use reserve funds. We got grants from Slovakia during this
reporting period and we covered loses from last period from then and we will
also save it as reserves. Therefore volunteers and trustees were not paid
any expenses and we involved many volunteers to ensure our organization
is running smoothly. In addition we had to Erazmus students hence this had
massive impact on finance balance. Half of students decided to continue
online which has been positive fact for school long term and for the future.
This had significant impact of school and community finances, but we
supported community request to our best abilities.
For thewholeSlovak community, we organisedanumberof
expats events, for children, wholefamiliesaswellSlovak
adult population. Regarding events, we managed to make Carneval , May
Day and Saint Nicolas Day.
We hosted 40 children from Slovakian Charity in 2022 for full day of program
and food and networking who came to visit UK covered by Slovakian Charity.
In March 2023 we hosted Slovak Theatre in London and co-organized
theatre performance at our premises.
The highlight of events was St Nicolaus day where“Santa”was traveling all

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over to Manchester in costume and delivered presents as alternative to traditional folk dance events.

We have also some small folk group of singing / dancing children in traditional dresses who perform at our activities.

We were privileged to be featured in Slovak TV JOJ and Radio Slovakia.It was great honor to host also His Excellency Mr Lubomir Rehak in Feb 2020, Slovak Ambassador at Slovakia Embassy at premises of our school. We have now secured visit of new Ambassador in 2024.

Our teachers took part in trainings specialized in teaching o bilingual kids – Slovakian as second language..

Children proactively organized fundraising “Lemon-aid” Stall projects where they were fundraising money for school on internal school events. Now Lemon-aid has a break due to founders decision and transformation process to different style of fundraising and rebranding.

At majority of events we were fundraising to cover operational costs of school.

Volunteers assisted a lot during events and without them we wouldn’t be able to organize it.

Trustees took active part in leadership, especially at the events and acted as deputees during running of Manchester operations . Online lessons are running smoothly, there is financial risk though as they have been in loss. Aim is to cover it by grants or increase fees after responsible trustee analyses the situation.

Our aim to tryt to involve more our community during our events and lessons. That said, we are very grateful to the parents of the children enrolled at the school who support our events with contributions to our food stalls or tombolas and who help with some of our events.

For unexpected situations, although we do not have an official policy on reserves, we monitor our cash flow very carefully and always have funds to cover the vitals costs during the year, such as rent and teachers' payments. Thanks to reserves we survived this year and we hope to get grants for next years.

We plan to continue cooperation with local charities and actively promote social inclusion which is our purpose and passion of our people.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

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Main income of the school is from the school fees. We keep them to the bare minimum as we want the school to be affordable to the widest possible community. The fees have remained on the same level since the school opened

The fees are supplemented by our fundraising events and activities during our events, such as tombolas, children performances food donations to our food stalls, etc.

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

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;

WE are grateful for regular volunteers who helped to run school successfully online and offline.

Our aim is to increase marketing levels to attract more community, organize more events and apply for funding to be able to deliver quality events for community to feel like “at home” and make lasting connections and friendships.

contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and erformance p The trustees endeavour to continue the successful management of the Summary of the main school, which has grown significantly since its foundation and has achievements of the charity established itself as major and the only one Slovak community in the North during the year West with Children from radius of 100 km and online children from all over the UK and Scotland.

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Section E Financial review

There in no official policy on reserves, however we proactively keep Brief statement of the charity operating charity model in way that reserves are created for charity’s policy on reserves unforeseen circumstances. We strictly monitor our cash flow in order to support our operating charity model to create reserves and keep charity and community going thus support communities in the UK.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

We organize community fundraising events and we keep expenditures to You may choose to include minimum by keeping volunteers on site. In the future we plan to apply for additional information, where grants from Slovakia office for Slovaks abroad. relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

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Receipts and payment5 account yle 3V812023 RECEIPTS PAYMENTS SCHOOL FEES CHARABLE ACTIVITIES 6589.(M) OTHER ENTRY 499.Crf) 735.45 FUNDRAISING EVENTS 875.47 REFUND 140.02 GRANTS INCOME 3215.(Kl 3215. DONATIONS 18.41 18.41 TOTAL 10697.88 10697.88 STAFF Cost STAFF COST ITEACHINGI ACCOUNTING 4842.55 6042.55 12CK).OD PREMISES RENT PREMISES RENT 2303.(K) 2303.(1) INSURANCE INSURANCE ZOOM 179.88 MATERIAL PRINTING POSTAGE 140.88 178.50 67.72 COST OF CHARITABLE AcnvmES 1287.54 MEEfiNG 249.(K> REFUND 24.50 REWARDS 447.06 REFRESHMENTS IC4)2.04 COST OF FUNDRAISING EVENts SERVICES 77.52 1135.03 OTHER 55.47 TRAVELLING 317.60 MARKEnNG & PROMOTION MARKING 30.(M) REPRESENTATION 36.70 BANK CHARGES BENK FEES 3.23 TOTAL 11155.65 11155.65 BALANCE -457.77 TAR Mar¢h 2012

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

Mirka Matusikova Full name(s) Anna Pazdurova Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair, Acting Treasurer Trustee etc)

Date 30th June 2024

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