2024-03-31-accounts - Ealing Parent Carer Forum

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Section A

From

Trustees' Annual Report Period end date 27th Period start date July 2023 , 31st March 2024 To

Reference and administration details

Charity name[I] Ealing Parent Carer Forum

Registered charity number (if any) �[I ] 1_2 _0_4_12_7 _ �

Charity's principal address The Lido Centre 63 Mattock Lane London Postcode w13 sLA ~~l~~

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Ofice (if any)	Name of person (or body) entitled to aoooint trutee (if anvl
Charles Barnard	Chair	EPCF
Carol Swords		EPCF
Patrick Kennedy	Treasurer	EPCF

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

Matthew Jeatt - Executive Lead, Natasha Parslow - Participation Co-ordinator Heidi Appleton - Education Lead

Section B Structure, overnance and mana ement

Description of the charity's trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution

How the charity is constituted[Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) ]

Trustee selection methods[Trustees approved by the original EPCF steering group prior to ] confirmation of our successful application to become a registered charity.

Section C

Ob • ectives and activities

To relieve the needs of children and young people, including their parents, carers and families, who have disabilities and/or special educational needs in Ealing and the surrounding area, in order to improve their quality of life, Summary of the objects of the promote their inclusion in their local communities and to help and support charity set out in its them reach their full potential. governing document

Ealing Parent Carer Forum (EPCF) primarily delivers information and support to families in Ealing caring for children and young people with additional needs. We do this by keeping families informed about Summary of the main workshops, training and briefings from Local Authority, Health, Education activities undertaken for the and Social Care teams and professionals. We also provide opportunities public benefit in relation to for parents and carers to meet each other and support each other by these objects (include within sharing information between themselves about what is working, and what this section the statutory is not, in regard to the support their own children receive. declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance Anyone caring for a child or young person in Ealing with additional needs issued by the Charity is able to access our information and support simply by agreeing for us to Commission on public send them information about our activities by email and/or by us ensuring benefit) events are publicised with flyers and announcements shared with our local partners, service providers and others. Both the Trustees and Executive teams have regard to and are fully aware of the "public benefit" guidance.

Section D

Achievements and performance

We have successfully managed our transition from an unincorporated Summary of the main group to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation. We have restructured our achievements of the charity activities and shared responsibilities more widely in becoming an executive during the year team of 5 managed by our initial 3 trustees. The transfer of assets and liabilities was completed and recorded on the 4 [th ] October 2023. We worked with our local partners including Ealing Contact, Ealing Mencap, Ealing Anchor Foundation, Your Voice in Health and Social Care (SENDIASS providers) and others to deliver a "Fun Day" for our families where families could come for a morning or afternoon session with entertainment, activities, performers and more. We collectively provided food, drinks and snacks for everyone. This opportunity for our families to spend time with other families in a safe, secure and fun environment. Local Authority and Health professionals were in attendance to have informal opportunities to hear first hand about our families' experiences. We hosted "open" coffee mornings for our families where parents and carers can share their experience and knowledge as well as "in school" meetings where we meet with families in individual schools to offer support and information about services and support available. We continued to present online workshops on a variety of topics e.g. sleep disorders, toilet training, ADHD support and many others.

Section E

Brief statement of the charity's policy on reserves

Financial review

In this first short financial period all policies are in development as financial management and risk management processes become established.

The trustees believe the charity should hold 3 months running costs as a reserve, this equates to £4,000. The Charity currently holds £87,936 free reserves (the amount of money that is unrestricted at the year end).

Further financial review details (Optional information)

Our initial principal sources of funds have historically been from the
You may choose to include Department for Education Grant Award to each parent carer forum, this
additional information, where amounts to a maximum of £17,500 per year. We have also been previously
relevant about: funded by the Local Authority in the form of ad hoe grant funding to support
• the charity's principal the staffing and work of the forum. sources of funds (including any fundraising); Once we have become established in our new form we will be able to take
• how expenditure has advantage of our new ability as a registered charity to apply for charitable supported the key objectives grant funds to further develop our organisation and extend our reach and of the charity; visibility amongst the wide and diverse communities in Ealing.
• investment policy and objectives including any Expenditure and bank balances are discussed at every meeting with the trustees.
ethical investment policy adopted.

Section G Declaration

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

Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees

gned on behalf of the charity's trustees	's trustees
Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Chair, etc) �B�i Charles Barnard Chair Datej 14/08/2025 ~~r "~~ pt J,.. .,.n Patrick Kennedy Treasurer	�B�i	~~r "~~ pt J,.. .,.n
	Charles Barnard	Patrick Kennedy
	Chair	Treasurer

Report Of The Independent Examiner To The Trustees Of Ealing Parent Carer Forum

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the period from 27[th ] July 2023 to 31 s[t ] March 2024.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act').

I report in respect of my examination of the charity's accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act 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 Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or
the accounts do not accord with those records; or
the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true 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 be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

M. Cridland M,.�

Mr. M. J. Cridland B.A. (Hons) F.C.A Scott Vevers Ltd Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors 65 East Street Bridport Dorset DT6 3LB 15/08/2025

Date: ............................................. ..

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		For the period fom		27th Jui	2023		To		31st March 2024
SectionAReceipts and payments
		Unrestricted funds		Restricted funds			Endowment funds			Total	funds			Last year
		to the nearest £		to the nearest£		to the nearest £				to the nearest £			to	the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Openinq Funds DfE/Contact		28,133~~.~~			17,380						28,133 17,380
LB Ealina		60,000									60,000
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*Sub total (Gross income for AR)*		88,133			17,380						105,513
A Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Total receipts*	.	___ a8,1JJ_I	11,Jao11 . ___ _				• I		I		105,51311				• I
A3 Payments
Consultants Fees		~~.~~			6,130						6,130
Events Infrastrcture Website		76 ~~..~~			832 809 2,052						908 809 2,052
Meetings Training		121~~.~~			13 465						134 465

*Sub total*		197			10,301						10,498
A Asset and investment purchases, (see table) *Sub total* _Total payments_l 197~~11~~ *Net of rceiptsl(payments)* ------ A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end------ 87,936* 87,936 .					~~: I~~ 10,301~~1~~ 7. 07 � 7,079	~~I~~ ~~: I I~~ ~~: I~~ . ~~,~~_____• . 11 10,49a ~~1~~ � - _ 95. 0 15 E 95,015						~~1 - I~~ . ~~, _~~__ .I s: t

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

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B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetar assets
B3 Investment assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity's own use
B5 Liabilities
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behalf of all the trustees

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Patrick Kennedy
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