## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01/09/2024 Period start date To 31/08/2025 Period end date Charity name: Les Petites Voiles** **Charity registration number:** 1196130 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The object of the CIO is to advance the
education of the public in particular but not
exclusively children issued from francophone
families and living in the area covered by
Southend on Sea Borough Council by:
a. Teaching French language as an
extracurricular activity, and;
b. Organising cultural events to
develop understanding of
francophone cultures and traditions.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The main activities undertaken for the public
benefits are, depending of the children level:
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Teaching French primary curriculum
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Providing a forum to improve
understanding of French culture
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Learn about customs, geography and
history
All allowing children to improve ability to
communicate with wider family, understand
their roots, their partial heritage to help
progress toward a resilient adulthood,
respectful of cultural differences.
To note, this year 24/25 the charity restarted
full operation after ayear of limited activity.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|We hereby declare that the trustees have had
regard to the guidance issued by the Charity
Commission on public benefit.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The main achievements of the charity in 24/25
has been to:
* Successfully onboard new trustees
* Successfully restart the charity full operation
* Successfully delivering lessons to 3 groups of
children aged between 2 and 10 years old.
* Increase the number of families benefiting of
the service
* Produce a website to promote and explain
our service
* Facilitate the hosting and organisation of
wider social and cultural event open to the
wider French communities
* Progress in the updating policies and process
* Understanding strengths and weaknesses of
various delivery model.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|The charity has achieved all and above
originally set objectives to fully restart and
sustain the activity| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|Lesson learnt from fundraising activity
demonstrated that social events outside the
classroom opened to the wider community,
did not lead to increase fund, but improve
visibility of services.| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Carried out by chair trustee| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The reserves from previous year in the form of
material have been used, and the charity did
not make any profit this year, which make
“holding reserve” non-existant. The charity
relies and grants and family fees to fund the
services.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|0| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|It is the charity policy that the families
contributions remain as low as possible, and
any spare revenue is refunded to participating
families.| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|No deficit| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Na| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Charity principal source of funds is from
families membership when operating fully. For
24/25, the majority of the cost were covered
by the family membership, while a small
proportion was sponsored by grant from
French Foreign Education Agency.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The main risks faced by the charity are:
* the increased cost of life, limiting the budget
and number of participating families.
*the high amount of volunteering offered by
trustees is unsustainable
* the increased wages and difficulties to recruit
teachers| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||3 trustees| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Trust deed (by default)| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|CIO| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Voluntary - trustees| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Les Petites Voiles| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charitynumber|1196130| |Charity’s principal address|37 avenue Road
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Anne Norton||From 10/11/2024|| ||Pierre Zilliox||From 10/11//2024|| ||Helene Bataille|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved |**Director name**||| |---|---|---| |Helene Bataille|11.09.2025|| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** |Description of the assets
held in this capacity|na| |---|---| |Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|na| |Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own
assets|na| ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **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)**||| |||| ## **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)** Anne Norton **Full name(s)** Helene Bataille Ep Minson **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Secretary **Chair, etc) Date** 11.09.2025 **Charity Name Les Petites Voiles** **No (if any) 1196130** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** |**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01.09.2024|**To**|Period end date
31.08.2025| |---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |
Familysubcription|**1,240**||**-**||**-**||**1,240**||**-**| |Donations|**24**||**-**||**-**||**24**||**-**| |Fundraising|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Raffle|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Grant(AEFE)|**450**||**-**||**-**||**450**||**-**| |Refund|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**1,714**||**-**||**-**||**1,714**||**-**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**-**| ||||||||||| |
Adminstrative support to build and keep
policies up to date (contractor)|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |Special events (GDR, CDN, GMR, fete de fin
d'annee)|
**193**||||**-**||**193**||**-**| |Classroom hire|**530**||||**-**||**530**||**-**| |Insurance|**87**||||**-**||**87**||**-**| |Internet + website service|**15**||||**-**||**15**||**-**| |Teachingassistant|**357**||||||**357**||| |Fundraisingcost|||||||**-**||| |Trainingcost|**32**||||||**32**||| |Flam membership (journees flam)|**80**||||||**80**||| |Advertisment|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |School books, digital support, storage
solution|**395**||||**-**||**395**||**-**| |School supplycraft|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |DBS|**24**||||**-**||**24**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**1,714**||**-**||**-**||**1,714**||**-**| ||**-**
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**1,714**
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**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| |website|||||| |tablets|||||| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| 131.84 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** **Details** 0 **Unrestricted Restricted funds Endowment funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £** 11/09/2025 **to nearest £** **Categories** CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 |**B1 Cash funds**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))||OK|||OK|||OK| ||||**Unrestricted**|||**Restricted funds**|||**Endowment**| ||||**funds**||||||**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**|||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||**-**||**-**| |**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**|||**Amount due**|||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**|||**(optional)**|||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print||Name||||Date of approval| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 11/09/2025 2