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Company registration number: 11969924 Charity registration number: 1199590

STANFORD EDUCATION & CULTURAL ASSOCIATION TRUSTEES' REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2025

Green & Peter(UK) Ltd

Stanford Education & Cultural Association Contents

Page
Reference and Administrative Details 1
Trustees' Report 2—3
Independent Auditor's Report 4—5
Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) 6
Balance Sheet 7
Notes to the Financial Statements 8—12
The following pages do not form part of the statutory accounts:
Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) 13

Stanford Education & Cultural Association Reference and Administrative Details For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

Trustees Mr Muhammad Siraj Ali - Chair (appointed 11/11/2024)
Mr Mohammed Shaista Miah - Trustee (appointed 11/11/2024)
Mr Ahmedur Reja Choudhury - Trustee (appointed 11/11/2024)
Charity Number 1199590
Company Number 11969924
Registered Office 18-20 King Street
Stanford-Le-Hope
England
SS17 0HL
Accountants Green & Peter(UK) Ltd
The Limes
1339 High Road
London
N20 9HR
Bankers Barclays Bank Plc
Edgware Road
Leicestershire
LE87 2BB

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Company No. 11969924 Trustees' Report For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

The trustees present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 30 April 2025.

Objectives and Activities

Public Benefit

The Trustees have paid due regard to guidance issued by the Charity Commission in deciding what activities the should undertake.

The trustees confirm that they have complied with the requirements of Section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit.

Financial Review

Reserves Policy

It is the policy of the that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure. The Trustees consider that reserves at this level will ensure that, in the event of a significant drop in funding, they will be able to continue the ’s current activities while consideration is given to ways in which additional funds may be raised. This level of reserves has been maintained throughout the year.

Structure, Governance and Management

Trustee Selection Methods

Recruitment and appointment of trustees

None of the Trustees has any beneficial interest in the company. All of the Trustees are members of the company and guarantee to contribute £1 in the event of a winding up.

The company's current policy concerning the payment of trade creditors is to follow the CBI's Prompt Payers Code (copies are available from the CBI, Centre Point, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU).

The company's current policy concerning the payment of trade creditors is to:

Trade creditors of the company at the year end were equivalent to XX day's purchases, based on the average daily amount invoiced by suppliers during the year.

Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

The trustees (who are also the directors of Stanford Education & Cultural Association for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statement unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing the financial statements the trustees are required to:

The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at anytime the financial position of the charitable company and to enable them to ensure that the accounts comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

The trustees are responsible for the maintenance and integrity of the corporate and financial information included on the charitable company's website. Legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements may differ from legislation in other jurisdictions.

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Trustees' Report (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

Statement of Disclosure of Information to Auditors

Each of the persons who are trustees at the time when this trustees' report is approved has confirmed that:

they have taken all the steps that they ought to have taken as trustees in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the charitable company's auditors are aware of that information.

Small Company Rules

This report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions relating to companies subject to the small companies regime within Part 15 of the Companies Act 2006.

The trustees' report was approved by the board of trustees and signed on its behalf by:

Mr Muhammad Siraj Ali Trustee 28/01/2026

Mr Mohammed Shaista Miah Mr Ahmedur Reja Choudhury Trustee Trustee

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Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Stanford Education & Cultural Association

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Stanford Education & Cultural Association (the "charity") for the year ended 30 April 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account), Balance Sheet and the related notes, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice), including FRS 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland".

In our opinion the financial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of the charitable company's affairs as at 30 April 2025 and of its incoming resources and application of resources, for the year then ended;

Basis for Opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and the provisions available for small entities, in the circumstances set out in note 16 to the financial statements, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions Relating to Going Concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least 12 months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other Information

The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on Other Matters Prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

the information given in the Trustees' Report, which includes the Director's Report prepared for the purposes of company law, for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Director's Report included within the Trustees' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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Independent Auditor's Report (continued) to the Members of Stanford Education & Cultural Association

Matters on Which We Are Required to Report by Exception

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the charitable company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Director's Report included within the Trustees' Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of Trustees

As explained more fully in the Trustees' Responsibilities Statement set out on page 2—3, the trustees (who are also directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charity or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Other matters

Your attention is drawn to the fact that the charity has prepared financial statements in accordance with "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102)" (as amended) in preference to the Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice issued on 1 April 2005 which is referred to in the extant regulations but has now been withdrawn.

This has been done in order for the financial statements to provide a true and fair view in accordance with current Generally Accepted Accounting Practice.

Use Of Our Report

This report is made solely to the charitable company's members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company's members those matters that we are required to state to them in an auditor's report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company's members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Forhad Ahmed (Senior Statutory Auditor)

for and on behalf of Green & Peter (UK) Limited, Statutory Auditor

28/01/2026

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

Notes
INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:
Donations and legacies
3
EXPENDITURE ON:
Raising funds
5
NET INCOME
NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS:
Total funds brought forward
TOTAL FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD
12		 2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
168,503		 2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
418,178
(46,108) (4,853)
122,395 413,325
122,395
424,785		 413,325
11,460
547,180 424,785

The notes on pages 8 to 12 form part of these financial statements.

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Balance Sheet As At 30 April 2025

Notes
FIXED ASSETS
Tangible Assets
9
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year
10
NET CURRENT ASSETS (LIABILITIES)
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES
Creditors: Amounts Falling Due After More Than One Year
11
NET ASSETS
FUNDS OF THE CHARITY
Unrestricted Funds
TOTAL FUNDS
12		 2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
721,308		 2024
Total
funds
£
721,894
721,308
3,893		 721,894
26,389
3,893
(18,530)		 26,389
-
(14,637) 26,389
706,671 748,283
(159,491) (323,498)
547,180 424,785
547,180 424,785
547,180 424,785

These accounts have been prepared in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

On behalf of the board

Mr Muhammad Siraj Ali Mr Mohammed Shaista Miah Mr Ahmedur Reja Choudhury Trustee Trustee Trustee 28/01/2026

The notes on pages 8 to 12 form part of these financial statements.

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Notes to the Financial Statements For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

1. General Information

Stanford Education & Cultural Association is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England & Wales, registered number 11969924 and registered charity number 1199590. The registered office is 18-20 King Street, Stanford-Le-Hope, England, SS17 0HL.

2. Accounting Policies

2.1. Basis of Preparation of Financial Statements

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP (FRS 102) "Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019)", Financial Reporting Standard 102 "The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland" and the Companies Act 2006.

The charitable company is a Public Benefit Entity as defined by FRS 102.

The financial statements have departed from the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 only to the extent required to provide a true and fair view. This departure has involved following the Statement of Recommended Practice for charities applying FRS 102 rather than the version of the Statement of Recommended Practice which is referred to in the Regulations but which has since been withdrawn.

The financial statements are prepared in sterling, which is the functional currency of the . Monetary amounts in these financial statements are rounded to the nearest £.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention, modified to include the revaluation of freehold properties and to include investment properties and certain financial instruments at fair value. The principal accounting policies adopted are set out below.

2.2. Going Concern Disclosure

The trustees believe that the going concern basis is not appropriate as the charitable company has no realistic alternative but to cease trading (or go into liquidation, or the trustees intend to cease trading or place the charitable company into liquidation) (Explain the basis of the conclusion and accounting policies applied in preparing the financial statements etc.)

2.3. Significant judgements and estimations

In the application of the ’s accounting policies, the Trustees are required to make judgements, estimates and assumptions about the carrying amount of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. The estimates and associated assumptions are based on historical experience and other factors that are considered to be relevant. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

The estimates and underlying assumptions are reviewed on an ongoing basis. Revisions to accounting estimates are recognised in the period in which the estimate is revised where the revision affects only that period, or in the period of the revision and future periods where the revision affects both current and future periods.

2.4. Fund Accounting

Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives at the discretion of the trustees.

Designated funds comprise unrestricted funds that have been set aside by the trustees for a specific purpose.

Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor.

Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the financial statements.

2.5. Incoming Resources

Income is recognised when the is legally entitled to it after any performance conditions have been met, the amounts can be measured reliably, and it is probable that income will be received.

Cash donations are recognised on receipt. Other donations are recognised once the has been notified of the donation, unless performance conditions require deferral of the amount. Income tax recoverable in relation to donations received under Gift Aid or deeds of covenant is recognised at the time of the donation.

Legacies are recognised on receipt or otherwise if the has been notified of an impending distribution, the amount is known, and receipt is expected. If the amount is not known, the legacy is treated as a contingent asset.

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

2.6. Resources Expended

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to transfer economic benefit to a third party, it is probable that a transfer of economic benefits will be required in settlement, and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Expenditure is classified by activity. The costs of each activity are made up of the total of direct costs and shared costs, including support costs involved in undertaking each activity. Direct costs attributable to a single activity are allocated directly to that activity. Shared costs which contribute to more than one activity and support costs which are not attributable to a single activity are apportioned between those activities on a basis consistent with the use of resources. Central staff costs are allocated on the basis of time spent, and depreciation charges are allocated on the portion of the asset’s use.

2.7. Tangible Fixed Assets and Depreciation

Tangible fixed assets are measured at cost less accumulated depreciation and any accumulated impairment losses. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write off the cost of the fixed assets, less their estimated residual value, over their expected useful lives on the following bases:

Freehold 0
Fixtures & Fittings 0
Computer Equipment 0

The gain or loss arising on the disposal of an asset is determined as the difference between the sale proceeds and the carrying value of the asset, and is recognised in the statement of financial activities.

2.8. Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents are basic financial assets and include cash in hand and deposits held at call with banks, other short-term highly liquid investments that mature in no more than three months from the date of acquisition and are readily convertible to a known amount of cash with insignificant risk of change in value, and bank overdrafts.

Basic financial assets

Basic financial assets, which include debtors and cash and bank balances, are initially measured at transaction price including transaction costs and are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial assets classified as receivable within one year are not amortised.

Basic financial liabilities

Basic financial liabilities, including creditors and bank loans are initially recognised at transaction price unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the debt instrument is measured at the present value of the future payments discounted at a market rate of interest. Financial liabilities classified as payable within one year are not amortised.

Debt instruments are subsequently carried at amortised cost, using the effective interest rate method.

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of operations from suppliers. Amounts payable are classified as current liabilities if payment is due within one year or less. If not, they are presented as non-current liabilities. Trade creditors are recognised initially at transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Derecognition of financial liabilities

Financial liabilities are derecognised when the ’s contractual obligations expire or are discharged or cancelled.

2.9. Employee Benefits

The costs of short-term employee benefits are recognised as a liability and an expense, unless those costs are required to be recognised as part of the cost of stock of fixed assets.

The cost of any unused holiday entitlement is recognised in the period in which the employee's services are received.

Termination benefits are recognised immediately as an expense when the charitable company is demonstrably committed to terminate the employment of an employee or to provide termination benefits.

3. Income from Donations and Legacies

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

Donations and gifts
4.
Net Income/(Expenditure)
The net income is stated after charging/(crediting):
Depreciation of tangible fixed assets - owned
5.
Analysis of Expenditure
Raising funds
Raising funds
6.
Support Costs
Employee costs
Premises expenses
General administration
Depreciation
General administration
Depreciation		 Activities
undertaken
directly
£
4,000		 2025
Unrestricted
funds
£
168,503		 2024
Unrestricted
funds
£
418,178
2025
£
586		 2024
£
586
Support
costs
(see note 6)
£
853		 2025
Support
costs
(see note 6)
£
46,108
2024
Total
£
4,853
2025
Raising
funds
£
9,504
33,490
2,528
586
46,108
2024
Raising
funds
£
267
586
853

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

7. Staff Costs

Staff costs were as follows:

Wages and salaries

2025 2024
£ £
9,504 -

No employees received employee benefits (excluding employer pension costs) for the reporting period of more than £60,000.

8. Average Number of Employees

Average number of employees during the year was: 3 (2024: 3)

9. Tangible Assets

Cost
As at 1 May 2024
As at 30 April 2025
Depreciation
As at 1 May 2024
Provided during the period
As at 30 April 2025
Net Book Value
As at 30 April 2025
As at 1 May 2024
0.
Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year
Other creditors
Accruals and deferred income
1.
Creditors: Amounts Falling Due After More Than One Year
Other creditors		 Land &
Property
Freehold
£
719,550		 Land &
Property
Freehold
£
719,550		 Fixtures &
Fittings
£
2,930		 Total
£
722,480
719,550 2,930 722,480
-
-		 586
586		 586
586
- 1,172 1,172
719,550 1,758 721,308
719,550 2,344 721,894
2025
£
18,030
500
18,530
2025
£
159,491		 2024
£
-
-
-
2024
£
323,498

10. Creditors: Amounts Falling Due Within One Year

11. Creditors: Amounts Falling Due After More Than One Year

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Notes to the Financial Statements (continued) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

12. Movement in Funds

Unrestricted funds
General:
General unrestricted fund
Total funds
Unrestricted funds
General:
General unrestricted fund
Total funds		 As at 1 May
2024
£
424,785		 Income
£
168,503		 Expenditure
£
(46,108)		 As at 30
April 2025
£
547,180
424,785 168,503 (46,108) 547,180
As at 1 May
2023
£
11,460		 Income
£
418,178		 Expenditure
£
(4,853)		 As at 30
April 2024
£
424,785
11,460 418,178 (4,853) 424,785

13. Transactions with Trustees

None of the trustees received any remuneration or any other benefits from an employment with the charity or a related entity during the current or previous year.

No trustee expenses have been incurred.

14. Related Party Disclosures

There were no disclosable related party transactions during the year (2024 - none).

15. Company limited by guarantee

The company is limited by guarantee and has no share capital.

Every member of the company undertakes to contribute to the assets of the company, in the event of a winding up, such an amount as may be required not exceeding £1.

16. FRC's Ethical Standard - Provision Available for Small Entities

In common with other businesses of our size and nature we use our auditors to prepare and submit returns to the tax authorities and assist with the preparation of the financial statements.

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Stanford Education & Cultural Association Detailed Statement of Financial Activities (including Income and Expenditure Account) For The Year Ended 30 April 2025

INCOME AND ENDOWMENTS FROM:
Donations and legacies
Donations and gifts
EXPENDITURE ON:
Raising funds
Other trading activities
Wages and salaries
Light and heat
Repairs and maintenance
Cleaning
Computer software costs
Telecommunications
Accountancy fees
Bank charges
Sundry expenses
Depreciation
NET INCOME		 2025
Total
funds
£
168,503		 2024
Total
funds
£
418,178
168,503 418,178
168,503
-
(9,504)
(7,701)
(24,500)
(1,289)
(1,200)
(353)
(500)
(25)
(450)
(586)		 418,178
(4,000)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
(268)
1
(586)
(46,108) (4,853)
(46,108) (4,853)
122,395 413,325

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