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|Trustees' report|1 - 5|
|Independent examiner's report|6|
|Statement of financial activities|7|
|Balance sheet|8|
|Notes to the financial statements|9-19|





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|||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|
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|||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**|**funds**||
|||**2025**|**2025**|**2025**|**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|
|**Notes**||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Income from:**||||||||
|Donations and legacies|3|6,031|130,711|136,742|121,477|164,880|286,357|
|Investments|**4**||856|856||595|595|
|**Total income**||6,031|131,567|137,598|121,477|165,475|286,952|
|**Expenditure on:**||||||||
|Raising funds|**5**||||581||581|
|Charitable activities|**6**|52,432|135,902|188,334|120,846|17,558|138,404|
|**Total expenditure**||52,432|135,902|188,334|121,427|17,558|138,985|
|**Net income/(expenditure)**||(46,401)|(4,335)|(50,736)|50|147,917|147,967|
|Transfers between||||||||
|funds||47,682|(47,682)|-|-|-|-|
|**Net movement in**||||||||
|**funds**|**9**|1,281|(52,017)|(50,736)|50|147,917|147,967|
|**Reconciliation of funds:**||||||||
|Fund balances at 1 September||||||||
|2024||50|147,917|147,967|-|-|-|
|**Fund balances at 31 August**||||||||
|**2025**||1,331|95,900|97,231|50|147,917|147,967|





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||**Notes**|**£**|**£**|£|£|
|**Fixed assets**||||||
|Tangible assets|**13**||61,399||25,589|
|**Current assets**||||||
|Debtors|**14**|21,810||4,006||
|Cash at bank and in hand||42,057||125,534||
|||63,867||129,540||
|**Creditors: amounts falling due within**|**15**|||||
|**one year**||(28,035)||(7,162)||
|**Net current assets**|||35,832||122,378|
|**Total assets less current liabilities**|||97,231||147,967|
|**The funds of the Charity**||||||
|Restricted income funds|**16**||95,900||147,917|
|Unrestricted funds|**17**||1,331||50|
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||**2025**|**2025**|**2025**|**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Donations and gifts|**1,831**|**-**|**1,831**|**624**|**-**|**624**|
|Grants|**4,200**|**130,711**|**134,911**|**120,853**|**164,880**|**285,733**|
||**6,031**|**130,711**|**136,742**|**121,477**|**164,880**|**286,357**|



||**Restricted**|**Restricted**|
|---|---|---|
||**funds**|**funds**|
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Interest receivable|**856**|**595**|



||**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|
|---|---|---|
||**funds**|**funds**|
||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Fundraising and publicity**|||
|Advertising||**581**|





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|||**Direct costs**|
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Direct costs**|||
|Staff costs|75,965|74,767|
|Depreciation and impairment|4,981|1,941|
|Young people activities|6,729|2,098|
|Rent & rates|22,819|19,345|
|Cleaning|1,060|579|
|Power, light and heat|1,238|3,357|
|Repairs|21,028|444|
|Insurance|1,945|1,131|
|Travelling expenses|35|258|
|Bank charges|71|-|
|Legal and professional|1,694|383|
|Consultancy fees|7,200|31,442|
|Printing and stationery|281|115|
|Computer running costs|851|300|
|Sundry expenses|493|180|
||146,390|136,340|
|Members costs of activities (see note 7)|37,846|-|
|**Share of support and governance costs (see note 8)**|||
|Governance|4,098|2,064|
||188,334|138,404|
|**Analysis by fund**|||
|Unrestricted funds|52,432|120,846|
|Restricted funds|135,902|17,558|
||188,334|138,404|



||**Direct costs**|
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||**2025**|
||**£**|
|Members costs:||
|ILEAP|9,412|
|Escape Community Art in Action|9,621|
|Lifespace|18,813|
||37,846|





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|**Support costs allocated to activities**|||
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|
|Governance costs|4,098|2,064|
|**Analysed between:**|||
|Accountancy|4,098|2,064|



||Governance costs Includes payments to the accountants of £2,514 (2024: £1,500) for independent|Governance costs Includes payments to the accountants of £2,514 (2024: £1,500) for independent|examiner|
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||fees and £1,584 (2024: £564) for bookkeeping and payroll services.|||
|**9 **|**Net movement in funds**|**2025**|**2024**|
|||£|£|
||The net movement in funds is stated after charging/(crediting):|||
||Fees payable to the charity's Independent examiner:|||
||- for the independent examination of the charity's financial statements|2,514|1,500|
||- for other financial services|1,584|594|
||Depreciation of owned tangible fixed assets|4,981|1,941|



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|The average monthly number of employees during th|e Period was:||
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||**Number**|**Number**|
||3|4|
|**Employment costs**|**2025**|**2024**|
||£|**£**|
|Wages and salaries|74,479|74,731|
|Other pension costs|1,486|36|
||75,965|74,767|





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||**Remuneration of key management personnel**|||
||The remuneration of key management personnel was as follows:|||
|||**2025**|**2024**|
|||**£**|**£**|
||Aggregate compensation|52,047|15,154|



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|**Tangible fixed assets**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Leasehold|Fixtures and|Computers|Total|
||improvements|fittings|||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Cost**|||||
|At 1 September 2024|26,602|134|794|27,530|
|Additions|40,472|-|319|40,791|
|At 31 August 2025|67,074|134|1,113|68,321|
|**Depreciation and impairment**|||||
|At 1 September 2024|1,773|33|135|1,941|
|Depreciation charged in the Period|4,664|25|292|4,981|
|At 31 August 2025|6,437|58|427|6,922|
|**Carrying amount**|||||
|At 31 August 2025|60,637|76|686|61,399|
|At 31 August 2024|24,829|101|659|25,589|
|**Debtors**|||||
||||**2025**|**2024**|
|**Amounts falling due within one year:**|||_£_|**£**|
|Trade debtors|||20,585|2,879|
|Prepayments and accrued income|||1,225|1,127|
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|**Creditors: amounts falling due within one year**|||
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||**2025**|**2024**|
||_£_|**£**|
|Other taxation and social security|1,613|1,469|
|Trade creditors|21,949|3,999|
|Other creditors|275|-|
|Accruals and deferred income|4,198|1,694|
||28,035|7,162|



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||**At 1**|**Incoming**|**Resources**|**Transfers**|**At 31 August**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**September**|**resources**|**expended**||**2025**|
||**2024**|||||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|Police & Crime Commisioners||||||
|Office|7,000|-|(7,000)||-|
|District council - Community||||||
|Infrastructure Levy|140,917|856|(25,986)|(47,682)|68,105|
|Holiday Activity Fund|-|9,192|(9,192)|-|-|
|BBC Children in Need|-|5,000|(5,000)|-|-|
|Warwickshire County Council|-|4,000|(4,000)|-|-|
|Heart of England CSW Fund|-|3,000|(3,000)|-|-|
|YMCA George Williams College|-|1,000|(1,000)|-|-|
|Rotary Club of Stratford|-|2,640|(2,640)|-|-|
|29th May 1961|-|7,500|(1,250)|-|6,250|
|Municipal Charities|-|2,000|(333)|-|1,667|
|Lifeways|-|4,250|(2,834)|-|1,416|
|Stratford Town Trust|-|92,129|(73,667)|-|18,462|
||147,917|131,567|(135,902)|(47,682)|95,900|





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|**16 **|**Restricted funds**|||||**(Continued)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Previous period:**|**At 1**|**Incoming**|**Resources**|**Transfers **|**At 31 August**|
|||**September**|**resources**|**expended**||**2024**|
|||**2023**|||||
|||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
||Warm Hubs Grant|**-**|500|(500)|**-**|-|
||Police & Crime Commisioners||||||
||Office|**-**|10,000|(3,000)|**-**|7,000|
||District council - Community||||||
||Infrastructure Levy|**-**|149,595|(8,678)|**-**|140,917|
||Holiday Activity Fund|**-**|5,380|(5,380)|**-**|-|
|||**-**|165,475|(17,558)|**-**|147,917|





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||**At 1**|**Incoming**|**Resources**|**Transfers At 31 August**|**Transfers At 31 August**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**September**|**resources**|**expended**||**2025**|
||**2024**|||||
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|General funds|50|6,031|(52,432)|47,682|1,331|
|**Previous period:**|**At 1**|**Incoming**|**Resources**|**Transfers At 31 August**||
||**September**|**resources**|**expended**||**2024**|
||**2023**|||||
||£|**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|General funds||121,477|(121,427)|-|50|



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|---|---|---|---|
||**funds**|**funds**||
||**2025**|**2025**|**2025**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**At 31 August 2025:**||||
|Tangible assets|762|**60,637**|61,399|
|Current assets/(liabllities)|**569**|35,263|35,832|
||1,331|**95,900**|97,231|
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**Total**|
||**funds**|**funds**||
||**2024**|**2024**|**2024**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**At 31 August 2024:**||||
|Tangible assets|760|24,829|25,589|
|Current assets/(liabilities)|(710)|123,088|122,378|
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||**2025**|**2024**|
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||**£**|**£**|
|Within one year|22,500|22,500|
|Between two and five years|13,125|35,625|
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||**Sale of services**|**Sale of services**|**Purchase of services**|**Purchase of services**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**2025**|**2024**|**2025**|**2024**|
||**£**|_£_|**£**|**£**|
|Member organisations|950|**-**|37,846|72,126|
|Other related parties|-|**-**|-|7,959|
||950|**-**|37,846|80,085|