## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 08/02/2024 Period start date To 31/07/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Friends of Southampton Gymnastics Club** ## **Charity registration number: 1206936** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Friends of Southampton Gymnastics**
**Club promotes community participation**
**in healthy recreation in Southampton by**
**providing equipment and funds to**
**support the operation of Southampton**
**Gymnastics Club.**| |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|**Friends of Southampton Gymnastics**
**Club raises funds, primarily through**
**events, to provide equipment and other**
**financial support to Southampton**
**Gymnastics Club**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees confirm that they have had**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit when**
**planning and carrying out the charity’s**
**activities.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making 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|**During the year Friends of Southampton**
**Gymnastics Club raised funds, primarily**
**through events, to provide financial**
**support and equipment for**
**Southampton Gymnastics Club. This**
**support helped the club continue to**
**provide gymnastics opportunities for**
**children and young people in**
**Southampton, promoting participation**
**in healthy recreation, physical fitness,**
**teamwork and personal development.**
**Over £5,000 was spent on purchasing**
**specialist equipment for the club,**
**providing items which improve the**
**participation of children and young**
**people and support them in developing**
**their skills and confidence.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |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|**The charity ended its first accounting**
**period in a strong financial position.**
**Cash held at bank is sufficient to**
**support planned future fundraising**
**events and charitable activities without**
**adversely affecting cash flow.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity aims to maintain sufficient**
**reserves to meet ongoing operating**
**costs, support future fundraising**
**activities and ensure financial stability.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£XXXX**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**There are no uncertainties about the**
**viability of the charity as a going**
**concern. Costs are limited to the**
**expenses of fundraising events, which**
**continue to provide a good return on**
**investment in order to fulfil the stated**
**charitable objectives.**| ## **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|
**Principle source of funds is fundraising**
**events. This includes social events,**
**events held at the club including**
**competitions, and other related**
**activities. Funds are generated from the**
**sale of refreshments, selling other small**
**sundry items, raffles, and operating a**
**vending machine.**| |---|---|---| |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|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**CIO Foundation constitution (registered**
**8 February 2024)**| |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|**Trustees are appointed in accordance**
**with clauses 9, 11 and 14 of the CIO**
**constitution.**
**The CIO is a Foundation Model**
**Charitable Incorporated Organisation,**
**and the members of the CIO are its**
**charity trustees (Clause 14).**
**The first trustees are named in the**
**constitution and were appointed for**
**three-year terms.**
**Under Clause 9:**
**The CIO must have a minimum of 3 and**
**a maximum of 12 trustees.**
**Trustees must be natural persons aged**
**16 or over.**
**Trustees may appoint new trustees**
**provided the maximum number is not**
**exceeded.**
**Under Clause 11:**
**Trustees may retire by written notice.**
**Trustees may be removed due to**
**absence, incapacity, death, or**
**disqualification under the Charities Act**
**2011.**
**Retiring trustees are eligible for**
**reappointment.**
**There is no provision for election by the**
**wider membership or for appointment**
**by an external body. Trustee**
**appointments are made by the existing**
**trustees in accordance with the**
**constitution.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees |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|Friends of Southampton Gymnastics Club| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|FOSGC| |Registered charity number|1206936| |Charity’s principal address|Southampton Gymnastics Club
Cuckmere Lane
Southampton
SO16 9AR| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jemma Cartin||March 2024 – August
2024|| ||Joanne Williams|||| ||Emma Cole|Chair||| ||Martin Sampson|Treasurer||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** 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 Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details **N/A** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** _JWilliams_ **Signature(s)** _ECole_ JOANNE WILLIAMS **Full name(s)** EMMA COLE **Position (eg Secretary,** CHAIR TRUSTEE **Chair, etc) Date** 28/05/2026 28/05/2026 **Charity Name No (if any) Friends of Southampton Gymnastics Club 1206936 Receipts and payments accounts For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 2/8/2024 7/31/2025 ## **CC16a** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Income from fundraisingevents
**21,466**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,466**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 21,466**
**A3 Payments**
Cost of fundraisingevents
**9,546**
Cost ofgymnastics equipment
**6,128**
Cost of support forgymnastics club
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 16,174**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 16,174**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 5,292**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 5,292**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**21,466**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,466**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,466**
**9,546**
**6,128**
**500**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,174**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**16,174**
**5,292**
**-**
**-**
**5,292**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**21,466**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**21,466**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**21,466**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**9,546**|**-**| ||||**6,128**|**-**| ||||**500**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**16,174**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**16,174**|**-**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**5,292**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**5,292**|**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
_Ecole_
_J Williams_
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,293**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,292**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
Print Name
EMMA COLE
JOANNE WILLIAMS
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
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**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| ||_Ecole_|EMMA COLE|5/28/2026| ||_J Williams_|JOANNE WILLIAMS|**5/28/2026**|