## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From: 12 Sep 24 To: 4 Apr 25** ## **Charity name: Bowerham School Foundation** ## **Charity registration number: 1209999** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve financial hardship and**
**advance education for the public benefit**
**of pupils of Bowerham Primary and**
**Nursery School by providing additional**
**food; learning support materials and**
**equipment (not required to be provided**
**by the LEA); and financial grants to**
**enable attendance on school trips and**
**clubs, and in extremis to ameliorate**
**home deprivations that impede learning. **| |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 School’s free-to-use breakfast club**
**has primacy when allocating charitable**
**funds. Consequently, as the charity is in**
**the early stages of raising money, the**
**small sums of money raised to date**
**have been exclusively allocated to**
**support this.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Trustees reviewed the Charity**
**Commission guidance on public benefit**
**prior to approving the Constitution and**
**accompanying policies at a formal**
**meeting on 27 Nov 24.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**Trustees approved a policy on Grant**
**Making on 27 Nov 24.**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| ||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|**This first annual report comprises a**
**shorter period of six months, from the**
**approval of charity registration to the**
**end of the financial year. This period**
**has primarily focused on establishing**
**governance mechanisms for good**
**practice and initiating fundraising.**
**We partnered with Easyfundraising in**
**Dec 24 and received our first payment**
**from the passive fundraising through**
**their platform in Feb 25. This money**
**has been allocated to purchase food**
**items to support the free-to-use**
**breakfast club.**
**We have created a page on the school’s**
**website providing information on the**
**charity, how funds raised will be used,**
**and how to donate.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Objective 1: Establishing governance**
**mechanisms.**
**In this first six months, Bowerham**
**School Foundation has formulated and**
**approved the following governance**
**documents: Board Code of Conduct,**
**Conflict of Interest Policy, Financial**
**Control Policy, Ethical Fundraising**
**Policy, Grant Making Policy, Fundraising**
**Due Diligence Policy and Risk**
**Management Policy.**
**Bowerham School Foundation has**
**gained the Charity Excellence**
**Framework watermark.**
**Objective 2: Initiate fundraising**
**We have collaborated with**
**Easyfundraising to generate income**
**passively. Once proven as a positive**
**means to generate funds, we sought to**| |---|---|---| ||**increase registration for this within our**
**school community, with a two week**
**period of additional communication to**
**parents and carers. Easyfundraising**
**provided an incentive scheme, donating**
**£1 for each new registration over this**
**period. This has provided a solid**
**startpoint for donations with 34 new**
**registrations. **
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set
Para 1.41
**At the date of the last formal Trustees**
**meeting (19 Mar 25), income was limited**
**to the donations from Easyfundraising,**
**and the total was allocated in entirety to**
**the Breakfast Club (but not transferred**
**until after the end of the reporting**
**period).**
**Shortly before the end of the reporting**
**period, a web page providing**
**information on the charity was created**
**on the school website and launched on**
**school communication channels.**
**Following this, the charity received**
**direct donations totalling £1205, made**
**using Gift Aid. These donations, and the**
**pending tax relief from them, has**
**significantly increased the ability for the**
**charity to meet its objectives on a**
**sustained footing for the next FY.**
**Communication on donations received**
**and how the income has been spent will**
**be the focus for the next reporting year,**
**to encourage further donations either**
**directly or through increased**
**registrations and use of**
**Easyfundraising.**
Investment performance
against objectives
Para 1.41
**The charity has agreed no investment**
**objectives.**
Other| |---|---| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity has been focused on**
**establishing secure governance**
**mechanisms in this first reporting**
**period, and did not expect to raise**
**significant funds in its first six months.**
**The money that has been raised has**
**enabled these mechanisms to be tested**
**and has been attributed to supporting**
**the school’s breakfast club as a primary**
**object of the charity.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves will be held to ensure**
**consistent termly allocation to the**
**Breakfast Club and, once funds allow,**
**for grants. In practice this means that**
**the income held at the end of the**
**reporting period has been divided into**
**three and apportioned to each of the**
**academic terms, to ensure at least 12**
**months continuous provision. This will**
**be reviewed at each trustee formal**
**meeting in light of funds received**
**subsequently.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|
**£1204**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**At the time of the trustees formal**
**meeting (19 Mar 25), £19 was held in the**
**charity account, but with pending**
**payments from Easyfundraising**
**exceeding this. It was therefore agreed**
**to allocate all funds held to the breakfast**
**club in the knowledge that income paid**
**in before the next meeting would**
**provide reserves exceeding the amount**
**allocated. By the end of the reporting**
**period, additional donations provided**
**significantly more income, and so the**
**reserves now held are in excess of**
**those planned. The agreed sum of £19**
**was rounded up to £20 as it had not yet**
**been transferred.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**NA**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**The charity has no overheads that need**
**to be met. Any and all income is able to**
**be allocated to the charity’s purposes.**| ## **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|**Principal funds are from direct**
**donations using GiftAid, which include**
**one direct debit, providing forecastable**
**further income.**
**A second continuous form of income is**
**from the passive fundraising through**
**Easyfundraising. The charity has**
**significant potential to increase this by**| |---|---|---| ||**encouraging more of the school**
**community to register: at the date of this**
**report, there were 54 supporters**
**registered.**
Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted
Para 1.46
**No investment of funds will be made in**
**the next FY.**
A description of the principal
risks facing the charity
Para 1.46
**The charity goes into the next FY in a**
**position to increase the school’s**
**pastoral spending (additional to that**
**funded from official funds such as the**
**Pupil Premium Grant). This is hoped to**
**provide tangible improvements for**
**disadvantaged pupils, that will be visible**
**to the school community. If we are**
**unable to sustain and increase income**
**to the charity, there is a risk of**
**disappointing pupil and parent**
**expectations.**
Other| |---|---| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Charitable Incorporated Organisation**
**(Foundation Model)**| |
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 comprised from the**
**School’s Governing Body.**
**The Chair of Trustees was voted by**
**trustees at the Formal Meeting on 27**
**Nov 24.**| ## **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|Bowerham School Foundation| |---|---| |
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Bowerham Primary and Nursery School
Bowerham Road
Lancaster
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Dickinson|Treasurer|| ||Jane Shepherd||| ||Simon Oakley||| ||Joanne Banks||| ||Daniel Baxter||| ||Eve Elliott||| ||Benjamin Hanley||| ||CraigSmith||| ||Peter Thomas||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| 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)** |**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**
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**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 dèclare that they havè approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of the charity's trustees Slgnature Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chalr. etc) David Knight Chair e Banks Headteacher Date 17 Jul 2025 CHARITY COMMISSION Fok ENGLAND AND WAIES Receipts and paynients accounts CC16a For the period from To Section A Receipts and payments UnreSli ILte funds Restrict-- d fund5 End,?W'llQL)I lunds Total funds -ast yaa to tho nparp8¢ its tho nBaf*&t£ to the neargsi £ 10 1110 no0￿¢ £ A1 Rgcel t$ 19 95 19 1.20S Oon81ior)s Inieresi on Oeposil acGouni Sub total (Gross income loi. ARI A2 A88¢t and InveBtment Sales. 1.224 1.424 Sub total Total receipts 1,224 A3Ptt In¢ints Bre8k.'b¥i C.knJ Grants Sub total A4 Asset and investmen¢ urcl7JsE¥, lsèe tab18 Sub total Total payments Net of re¢91pt￿{P&ymentsj A5 Transfer$ between A6 Cash funds last year end C-.-h i undt this y*9ar end. 1,22.) 1.224 9,224 CCXX Rl accounts ISSI 30106. J25 Sectior¥ B Statement o Ro< tririEd funds to nearo$t £ I'JEiiv*ent furFds to ne4ro8t E funds to nearest f 81 Cash funds Lloyd5 1.224 Total cash funds 1.224 14greebaiancesWlth iec¢ipt5 anty par.eni$ 8ecourrtiiii Unrestrlct•d fupds io llo¥r•$i E Re8trl¢ted 'iJNds to n¢Jrfr$i £ Endowment lunds to nearoBt £ 82 Other monetary assets Tax reclyim due 301 Fund ID vlhlch ••sgt bfylo eosi loptloDall 83 Investment as8tsts FL'nd to whlch tssol bolon Ll oyal 84 A$s9ts rotained for th• charlty'8 own use Fiind to whith A￿0￿￿1 Vhèn due BS Liabilities Signed by op.e or Iwo Irustees on Ig.iatiire Print Name Dele of approval Daiid Kni I7￿￿L2 CCXX R2 aecounls ISSI 30106.,'2025