## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 16/9/24 **Period start date To** 31/12/25 **Period end date** **Charity name:** Friends of Blue Smile **Charity registration number:** 1210034 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the Friends are to enhance
the mental health of school pupils in
Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area,
for the benefit of the public, by making
grants and providing resources to Blue
Smile(registered charity 1139279), and by
any other charitable means that the
trustees may determine, for the provision of
counselling, therapy and support to children
and young people in need; and to advance
public understanding and awareness of
children’s mental health needs.| |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 Blue Smile operates in aid of
Blue Smile (registered charity 1139279), by
organising and attending events in
Cambridge and the environs to raise funds
which are utilised to provide 1:1 arts-based
therapy and specialist mental health
support to children in schools in
Cambridgeshire and the surrounding area.
At these events the Friends distribute
information material regarding children’s
mental health needs with the aim of raising
public understanding and awareness
thereof. We raise funds by selling greetings
cards and other merchandise and we
organise fund-raising events, such as
bridge drives and literary events.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The Trustees have due regard for the
objects of the charity which are to promote
and protect the mental health of pupils of
schools in Cambridgeshire and the
surrounding area, for the benefit of the
public, evidenced by the fact that all profits
from our fundraising go to Blue Smile which
provides support for children in local
schools.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|When funds are available we invite Blue
Smile to submit a grant application form
stating the purposes for which the funds
will be used. Each application is considered
by the Trustees before agreeing to the
payment.| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|There are no paid employees and all
volunteers give their time freely by
participating in fund-raising activities.| |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|The charity has run a substantial number of
activities during this period thereby raising
funds which enable grants to be given to
Blue Smile. These grants are used to fund
therapeutic work in Partner Schools in
Cambridgeshire and surrounding environs.
Blue Smile have found that children seen
by therapists reported 87% progress
towards their goals after therapy.
The Friends also raise awareness of the
need to support children’s mental health by
handing out Blue Smile leaflets at events
and talking to members of the public who
visit the charity’s stalls.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| ||Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set||| |---|---|---| |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|This is our first Annual Report and covers
the period 16/9/24 to 31/12/25. During this
period sales of greetings cards and other
items remained strong, and our fundraising
events were well attended and successful.
We also received two significant donations.
We have seen a small increase in the cost
of events, but the cost of producing cards
and other items has not risen too much.
Our donations to Blue Smile were slightly
lower than in the previous year, but our
bank balance at 31/12/25 leaves us able to
offer a grant to Blue Smile early in the new
year.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Our reserves policy is to maintain a positive
balance in our bank account at all times
and to achieve this we keep working capital
of at least £500. We also keep restricted
funds over and above the working capital
amount. At the year-end we were holding
£1,500 in restricted funds which were
donated to cover the cost of future card
production**.**We do not need to hold
significant reserves as we have no long-
term liabilities, and we have not entered
into any agreements with commitments to
make future payments. We don’t rent
premises and we don’t employ anyone. We
only make purchases and donations when
we have funds available.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£2,000 at 31/12/25| |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|None| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Selling greetings cards and other items, and organising events. The charity’s principal sources of funds (including Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||N/A| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Our constitution as submitted to the Charity
Commission.| |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|The Trustees were elected by the
committee of Friends of Blue Smile.| ## **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|We have a Working Agreement with Blue
Smile (registered charity 1139279) which
was updated in 2025| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of Blue Smile| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1210034| |Charity’s principal address|The Merchant’s House
97 Commercial End
Swaffham Bulbeck
Cambridge CB25 0ND| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mary-Louisa Glynn|Chair|2024-2025|Committee of Friends of Blue
Smile| ||Rosamund Williams|Treasurer|2024-5|As above| ||Celia Dickinson|Events organiser|2024-5|As above| ||Lorna Brown|Secretary|2024-5|As above| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Not applicable Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |None||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None held in this capacity Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for N/A 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 ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Mary-Louisa Glynn|| ||
Chair|| ||17 July 2026|| ||17 July 2026|| ||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Friends of Blue Smile**|||||**1210034**|||| ||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||| ||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||| ||||16/9/24||||31/12/25||| ||||||||||| |**Section A Receipts 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**|||||||||| |Sale of cards|**8,996**||**-**||**-**||**8,996**||**5,002**| |Sale of other items|**1,997**||**-**||**-**||**1,997**||**1,427**| |Fundraising events|**12,770**||**-**||**-**||**12,770**||**5,303**| |Donations|**2,499**||**1,500**||**-**||**3,999**||**850**| |Interest on bank account|**61**||**-**||**-**||**61**||**40**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**26,323**||**1,500**||**-**||**27,823**||**12,622**| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| |**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Total receipts_ **|
**26,323**||**1,500**||**- 0**||**27,823**||**12,622**| ||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Cost of producing cards|**5,034**||**-**||**-**||**5,034**||**3,665**| |Cost of producing other items|**753**||**-**||**-**||**753**||**977**| |Cost of events|**4,376**||**-**||**-**||**4,376**||**1,991**| |Donations to Blue Smile|**7,436**||**-**||**-**||**7,436**||**8,023**| |Administration|**313**||**-**||**-**||**313**||**475**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|
**17,912**||**-**||**-**||**17,912**||**15,131**| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| ||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||**- 0**| ||||||||||| |**_Totalpayments_ **|
**17,912**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**17,912**||**15,131**| ||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**8,411**||**1,500**||**-**||**9,911**||**-**
**2,509**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**1,875**||**-**||**-**||**1,875**||**7,702**| |**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**10,286**||**1,500**||**-**||**11,786**||**5,193**| ||||||||||| ||||||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||| |**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| ||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|Santander Bank||||**10,286**||**1,500**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**_Total cash funds_**||||**10,286**||**1,500**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||OK||||OK| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 01/07/2026 1 ||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||Date of approval| ||||||Rosamund Jane Williams||||27/1/26| ||||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 01/07/2026 2 ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/ members of** Charity Name Blue Smile **On accounts for the year ended** 16[th] September 2024 to 31 December 2025 **Charity no (if any)** 1210034 **Set out on pages** 1 AND 2 OF THE ATTACHED CC16a (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 12 / 2025 As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._ **Signed:** **Date:** 21/06/2026 **Name:** 1 **October 2018** **IER** Almudena Cano ## **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):** ACCA – ASSOCIATION OF CHARTERED CERTIFIED ACCOUNTANTS MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 0698203 **Address:** 75 LONG ROAD CAMBRIDGE CB2 8HE **Section B Disclosure** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER**