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

**From** 

> Period start date **To** Period end date 1 April 2024 31 March 2025 

**Charity name** Viva Gymnastics Club 

**Other names charity is known by** 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1187339 

**Charity's principal address** John Pounds Centre 23 Queen Street Portsmouth **Postcode PO1 3HN** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

**Dates acted if not for whole Trustee name Office (if any) year** 1 Charlotte Vella Chair 2 Georgina Lane 3[Diane Fryer ] 

**appoint trustee (if any)** Per 10.1 of Viva Gymnastic Club’s constitution: “ Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee must be appointed [fo a term of [three] years] by a resolution passe at a properly convened meeting of the charit trustees.” 

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

|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
|---|---|---|
|Charlotte Vella|||
|Georgina Lane|||
|Diane Fryer|||



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

**Type of adviser Name Address** 

**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Charlotte Vella 

1 March **2012** 

**TAR** 



**Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

Type of governing document 

- (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

> [Constitution ] 

> [Charitable Incorporated Organisation ] 

Trustee selection methods Per 10.1 of Viva Gymnastic Club’s constitution: “ Apart from the first charity trustees, every trustee (eg. appointed by, elected by) must be appointed [for a term of [three] years] by a resolution passed at a properly convened meeting of the charity trustees.” 

## **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. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

|**Summary of the objects of the**<br>**charity set out in its governing**<br>**document**<br>**Summary of the main activities**<br>**undertaken for the public**<br>**benefit in relation to these**<br>**objects (include within this**<br>**section the statutory**<br>**declaration that trustees have**<br>**had regard to the guidance**<br>**issued by the Charity**<br>**Commission on public benefit)**|The charitable objective of Viva Gymnastics Club is the advancement of<br>amateur sport which promotes health by involving physical or mental skill<br>or exertion and which is undertaken on an amateur basis.|
|---|---|
||The main activity undertaken by Viva Gymnastics Club for the public<br>benefit is the running of gymnastics classes for children in the Portsmouth<br>area, including provision for gymnasts with a variety of disabilities and<br>additional needs.<br>The club’s gymnastics classes are intended to benefit participants by<br>providing physical exercise and mental stimulation, and enabling<br>skill-building. Gymnasts with disabilities and additional needs have often<br>found themselves excluded from the sport of gymnastics, but it is the aim of<br>Viva Gymnastics Club to ensure that disabilities are not a barrier to<br>participation.<br>All trustees of Viva Gymnastics Club confirm that they have regard to the<br>Charity Commission’s public benefit guides PB1, PB2 and PB3 when<br>making decisions, exercising any powers or duties and carrying out<br>activities to which theyare relevant.|



March **2012** 

**TAR** 

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**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

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

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

Viva Gymnastic Club continued the delivery of gymnastics to the local community, including as a provider to Testlands (for SEND sessions in early 2025) and of HAF (Holiday Activities & Food) camps and sessions for Portsmouth City Council over the winter 2024, Easter 2025 and Summer 2025 holiday periods. 

The Club continued to build its coaching base by upskilling young trainee coaches and members of staff. 

The Club received a £1,000 Community Inclusion Grant from Portsmouth City Council, which was used to fund spaces for families facing financial difficulties as part of the Club’s Vivability programme. 

Funds raised during the Cash For Kids “Sports Challenge” 2024 campaign (totalling £15,238.84) were used to buy equipment and fund sessions during the cold winter months as part of the Club’s Warm Winter Project. 

A donation by the Chalk Cliff Grant (of £3,000) was used to help fund SEND sessions. 

## **Section E                    Financial review** 

The charity’s reserve funds are reinvested into the club by way of **Brief statement of the** purchasing gymnastics equipment, buying fundraising supplies, funding **charity’s policy on reserves** coaching courses and covering the charity’s running costs. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

**Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

3 March **2012** 

**TAR** 



You **may choose** to include additional information, where 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. 

The charity’s principal sources of funds are members’ fees, including individual gymnast bookings, charity group booking and school group bookings, and additional fundraising undertaken by the Club, such as grant applications for projects, general fundraising events, competitions, occasional sale of ‘tuck shop’ items and sales of Club kit. 

All purchases made for the charity are in support of the charity’s aims and to enable the charity to operate. The charity purchases new gymnastics equipment so that all gymnasts can access equipment and learn skills, including those gymnasts with disabilities and additional needs. For example, soft play and sensory equipment is purchased for those gymnasts with sensory needs, whilst accessibility aids are purchased to make the gymnastics equipment accessible to those gymnasts with physical disabilities. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

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

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** 


**Full name(s)** Charlotte Vella 

**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** 

Chair 

**Date** 30-09-2025 

4 March **2012** 

**TAR** 



**Charity Name No (if any) Viva Gymnastics Club 1187339 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a** 


**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01-Apr-24 31-Mar-25 

|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**-**<br>**15,096**<br>**164,251**<br>**15,282**<br>**6,500**<br>**39**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**201,168**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**201,168**<br>**368**<br>**851**<br>**90**<br>**984**<br>**1,005**<br>**701**<br>**63,909**<br>**4,976**<br>**6,000**<br>**838**<br>**793**<br>**2,000**<br>**49**<br>**661**<br> <br>**116**<br>**2,778**<br>**58,902**<br>**288**<br>**310**<br>**223**<br>**4,163**<br>**38,584**<br>**753**<br>**-**<br> **189,342**<br>**20**<br>**4,778**<br>**687**<br>**10**<br> **5,495**<br>**194,837**<br>**6,331**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<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>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>1|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<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>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**15,096**<br>**164,251**<br>**15,282**<br>**6,500**<br>**39**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**201,168**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**201,168**<br>**368**<br>**851**<br>**90**<br>**984**<br>**1,005**<br>**701**<br>**63,909**<br>**4,976**<br>**6,000**<br>**838**<br>**793**<br>**2,000**<br>**49**<br>**661**<br>**116**<br>**2,778**<br>**58,902**<br>**288**<br>**310**<br>**223**<br>**4,163**<br>**38,584**<br>**753**<br>**-**<br>**189,342**<br>**20**<br>**4,778**<br>**687**<br>**10**<br>**5,495**<br>**194,837**<br> <br>**6,331**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|Bank interest on deposit accounts|**-**||||**-**|
|Donations andgrants|**15,096**||||**-**|
|Membership subcriptions and fundraising<br>fees|**164,251**||||**-**|
|External organised fundraising|**15,282**||||**-**|
|Loans|**6,500**||||**-**|
|Supplier refunds|**39**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_<br>_AR)_|**201,168**||||**203,756**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||
|Refunds/credits|**-**||||**495**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**495**|
|**_Total receipts_**<br>**A3 Payments**||||||
||||||**204,251**|
|||||||
|<br>Advertising|**368**||||**1,107**|
|Badges, certificates, medals/competition<br>costs|**851**||||**960**|
|Bank interest and charges|**90**||||**90**|
|Clothingand materials|**984**||||**2,826**|
|Coachingcourses|**1,005**||||**1,645**|
|Coachinginsurance|**701**||||**1,039**|
|Contract services(self-employed)|**63,909**||||**56,257**|
|Cost of fundraisingevents|**4,976**||||**1,901**|
|Equipment hire|**6,000**||||**6,257**|
|Equipment insurance|**838**||||**1,042**|
|First aid supplies/courses,PPE|**793**||||**449**|
|Grants and donations paid<br>Legal/professional fees|||||**8,817**|
||||||**2,130**|
|Loan repayment|**2,000**||||**-**|
|Members' subscription refunds|**49**||||**325**|
|Motor and travel|**661**||||**180**|
|Printing, postage, stationery and computer<br>supplies|<br>**116**||||**627**|
|Repairs and maintenance|**2,778**||||**5,611**|
|Rent: hire of rooms/gyms|**58,902**||||**48,968**|
|Safeguardingchecks/courses|**288**||||**159**|
|Software,cloud storage,web,email|**310**||||**456**|
|Sundrysupplies|**223**||||**31**|
|Utilities|**4,163**||||**752**|
|Wages,salaries,NI andpensions|**38,584**||||**58,013**|
|Website|**753**||||**2,112**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**189,342**||||**201,754**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases (see table)**||||||
|**,**<br>Furniture for storage|**20**||||**383**|
|<br>Gymnastics equipment|**4,778**||||**3,949**|
|<br>Kitchen and Office equipment|**687**||||**550**|
|<br>Sensory equipment|**10**||||**63**|
|<br>**_Sub total_ **|**5,495**||||**4,945**|
|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>CCXX R1 accounts (SS)||||||
||||||**206,699**|
|||||||
||**6,331**|**-**<br>1|**-**|<br>**6,331**|**-                2,448**<br>28/10/2025|





**A5 Transfers between funds - -                           - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 534 -                           - 534 2,983** _**Cash funds this year end**_ **6,865 - -                     6,865 535** 

CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 

28/10/2025 

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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B3 Investment assets**|Signature<br>Loans from Charlotte Vella<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Retained assets at 31.3.25<br>Current bank account<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))<br>**Details**|**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**6,865**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**6,865**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>OK<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Cost (optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**16,490**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**<br>Unrestricted<br>**49,500**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>Print Name<br>Diane Fryer|**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**<br>**funds**<br>**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
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||||Date of<br>approval|
|||Diane Fryer|28.10.25|
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CCXX R3 accounts (SS) 

28/10/2025 

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I CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examinerfs report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustees
Viva Gymnastics Club
On accounts for the year
end•d
31 March 2025
Charlty no
(if any)
1187339
Set out on pages
tharity (Yhe Trusf,) for the year ended 31 March 2025
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Chartties Act 2011
I'the ACV).
Responsibilities and
basis of report
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Acl and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5){b) of the Acl.
Independent I have completed my examination. l Gonfirm that no material matters have
examinerfs statement come to my attention in conneclion with the examination which gives ma
cause to believe that in, any material respect-.
the arKounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
onceming the forn and content of accounts set out in the Charities
{Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a Irue and fair, view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no Concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should tre drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Ple
e delete the wonys in the brackgls if they do not apply.
Signed:
31 /0&/202
Namè:
Raymond Osborne
Relevant professlonal
qualifi¢atlon{s) or body
{If any)".
Fellow of the Institut8 of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
Addross:
10 Golden Cross Road, Rochford, Essex SS4 3DG
IER
Oct 2018