## **Trustees’  Annual  Report Latchmere  School’s  Parents’  Association** 

From: _1  January  2023_ To: _31  August  2023_ 

## **SECTION  A:  REFERENCE  AND  ADMINISTRATION  DETAILS** 

|Charity  Name|_Latchmere  School’s  Parents’  Association_|
|---|---|
|Other  names  the  charity  is  known  by|_LSPA_|
|Registered  Charity  Number|_272376_|
|Charity’s  principal  address|_Latchmere  School_<br>_Latchmere  Road_<br>_Kingston  upon  Thames_<br>_KT2  5TT_|



Names  of  the  charity  trustees  who  manage  the  charity 

|**No.**|**Trustee  Name**|**Office  (if  any)**|**Dates  acted  if  not  for**<br>**whole  year**|**Name  of  person**<br>**(or  body)  entitled**<br>**to  appoint  trustee**<br>**(if  any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1.|_Olivia  Evans_|_Co  Chair_||_N/A_|
|2.|_Anna  Jarman_|_Co  Chair_||_N/A_|
|3.|_Caroline  Braun_|_Secretary_||_N/A_|
|4.|_Catherine  Butcher_|_Treasurer_|_Appointed  Treasurer_<br>_09/05/2023  (previously_<br>_committee  member)_||
||_Nimet  Pygram_|_Treasurer_|_Resigned  09/05/2023_|_N/A_|
|5.|_Katie  Lawford_|_Vice  Chair_|_Appointed  Vice  Chair_<br>_09/05/2023  (previously_<br>_committee  member)_||
|6.|_Rebecca  Ruttley_|_Vice  Chair_|_Resigned  as  Vice  Chair_<br>_09/05/2023(stays  on  as_<br>_committee  member)_|_N/A_|
|6.|_Gemma  Pope_|_Committee_|_Resigned  09/05/2023_|_N/A_|





|**No.**|**Trustee  Name**|**Office  (if  any)**|**Dates  acted  if  not  for**<br>**whole  year**|**Name  of  person**<br>**(or  body)  entitled**<br>**to  appoint  trustee**<br>**(if  any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||_Member_|||
|7.|_Nina  Holland_|_Committee_<br>_Member_||_N/A_|
|8.|_Zoe  Reynolds_|_Committee_<br>_Member_|_Resigned  09/05/2023_|_N/A_|
|10.|_Marie  Hodgson_|_Committee_<br>_Member_|_Resigned  09/05/2023_|_N/A_|
|11.|_Anne  Marie_<br>_Summers_|_Committee_<br>_Member_||_N/A_|
|12.|_Rachel  Wood_|_Committee_<br>_Member_||_N/A_|
|13|_Steph  McMahon_|_Committee_<br>_Member_|_Appointed  09/05/2023_|_N/A_|



Names  of  the  trustees  for  the  charity,  if  any  (for  example,  any  custodian  trustees) 

|**Name**|**Dates  acted  if  not  for  whole  year**|
|---|---|
|_N/A_||



## Names  and  addresses  of  advisers  (optional  information 

|**Type  of  adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
|---|---|---|
|_N/A_|||



## **SECTION  B:  STRUCTURE,  GOVERNANCE  AND  MANAGEMENT** 

Description  of  the  charity’s  trusts 

|Type  of  governing  document  (e.g.<br>trustees  deed,  constitution)|_LSPA  Operational  Manual,  constitution  document_|
|---|---|





|How  the  charity  is  constituted  (e.g.<br>trust,  association,  company)|_Association  with  appointed  Trustees_|
|---|---|
|Trustee  selection  methods  (e.g.<br>appointed  by,  elected  by)|_Election  at  AGM_|



Additional  governance  issues  (optional  information) 

You **may  choose** to  include  additional  information,  where  relevant  about: 

- policies  and  procedures  adopted  for  the  induction  and  training  of  trustees; 

- The  charity  organisation’s  structure  and  any  wider  network  with  which  the  charity works; 

- relationship  with  any  parties; 

- trustees’  consideration  of  major  risks  and  the  system  and  procedures  to  manage  them. 

_The  LSPA  is  an  appointed  charity  to  supplement  the  learning  of  children  at  Latchmere  Primary School._ 

## **SECTION  C:  OBJECTIVES  AND  ACTIVITIES** 

Summary  of  the  objects  of  the  charity  set  out  in  its  governing  document. 

_The  principal  activity  of  the  charity  is  to  provide  for  the  advancement  of  education  in Latchmere  Schools  by  contributing  to  educational  facilities  and  extending  relationships between  staff  and  parents.  The  charity  was  registered  on  the  27th  January  1977._ 

Summary  of  the  main  activities  undertaken  for  the  pubic  benefit  in  relation  to  these  objects (include  within  this  section  the  statutory  declaration  that  trustees  have  had  regard  to  the guidance  issued  by  the  Charity  Commission  on  public  benefit) 

_Fundraising  events  and  community  engagement._ 



Additional  details  of  objectives  and  activities  (optional  information) 

You **may  choose** to  include  further  statements,  where  relevant,  about: 

- Policy  on  grantmaking 

- Policy  programme  related  investment; 

- Contribution  made  by  volunteers. 

_N/A_ 

## **SECTION  D:  ACHIEVEMENTS  AND  PERFORMANCE** 

Summary  of  the  main  achievements  of  the  charity  during  the  year. 

_Fundraising  net  total  of  c£34k  and  grants  to  the  school  of  £67k  to  improve  and  enhance  the experience  at  Latchmere  of  the  school  community._ 

## **SECTION  E:  FINANCIAL  REVIEW** 

Brief  statement  of  the  charity’s  policy  on  reserves. 

_General  fund  reserves:  £30,633_ 

_Restricted  fund  reserves:  £0_ 

_All  reserves  are  net  fundraising  balances  held  to  finance  projects  as  and  when  requested  by Latchmere  School.  Grants  are  paid  to  the  school  once  the  cost  is  incurred._ 

_The  LSPA  agreed  at  the  2022  AGM  that  the  reserves  should  be  c.  £10k  at  the  end  of  each year.  We  have  committed,  but  not  paid,  for  the  new  KS2  Gate  (£16,100)  and  History  Wall (£3,590).  After  these  two  payments  (which  will  be  made  imminently),  the  cash  balance  will  be £10,943.  This  is  inline  with  the  agreed  policy._ 

_The  restricted  fund  related  to  the  swimming  pool,  the  balance  was  granted  to  the  school  in  the year  and  the  bank  account  has  been  shut._ 

Details  of  any  funds  materially  in  deficit. 

_N/A_ 



Further  financial  review  details  (optional  information) 

- You **may  choose** to  include  additional  information,  where  relevant,  about: 

   - The  charity’s  principal  sources  of  funds  (including  any  fundraising); 

   - How  expenditure  has  supported  the  key  objectives  of  the  charity; 

   - Investment  policy  and  objectives  including  any  ethical  investment  policy  adopted. 

_The  charity’s  principal  source  of  funds  are  a  Summer  and  Christmas  Fair._ 

_The  charity  accounts  on  a  receipts  and  payments  basis._ 

## **SECTION  F:  OTHER  OPTIONAL  INFORMATION** 

_N/A_ 

## **SECTION  G:  DECLARATION** 

The  trustees  declare  that  they  have  approved  the  trustees’  report  above Signed  on  behalf  of  the  charity’s  trustees. 

|**Signature**||
|---|---|
|**Full  Name**|_Anna  Jarman_|
|**Position**|_Co-Chair,  LSPA_|
|**Date**|_21.01.2024_|





||**LATCHMERE  SCHOOLS  PARENTS'**<br>**ASSOCIATION**|**LATCHMERE  SCHOOLS  PARENTS'**<br>**ASSOCIATION**|**LATCHMERE  SCHOOLS  PARENTS'**<br>**ASSOCIATION**|**LATCHMERE  SCHOOLS  PARENTS'**<br>**ASSOCIATION**|**LATCHMERE  SCHOOLS  PARENTS'**<br>**ASSOCIATION**|**272  376**|**272  376**||**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Receipts  andpayments  accounts**|||||||||
||**For  the  period**<br>**from**||1  January  2023||**To**|31  August  2023||||
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|**Section  A  Receipts**<br>**andpayments**||||||||||
||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total  funds**||**Last  year**|
||**to  the  nearest  £**||**to  the  nearest  £**||**to  the  nearest  £**||**to  the  nearest  £**||**to  the  nearest**<br>**£**|
|**A1  Receipts**||||||||||
|Event  Receipts|**50,153**||||**-**||**50,153**||**57,644**|
|Other  Receipts|**3,745**||**38**||**-**||**3,783**||**2,704**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub  total(Gross  income_**<br>**_for  AR)_**|<br>**53,898**||**38**||**-**||**53,936**||**60,348**|
|||||||||||
|**A2  Asset  and  investment**<br>**sales,(see  table). **||||||||||
|n/a|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub  total_**|<br>**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||||||||||
|**_Total  receipts_**|<br>**53,898**||**38**||**-**||**53,936**||**60,348**|
|||||||||||
|**A3  Payments**||||||||||
|Event  Payments|**19,668**||**-**||**-**||**19,668**||**14,863**|
|Other  Payments|**1,484**||**54**||**-**||**1,538**||**2,229**|
|Grants  to  School|**62,333**||**3,844**||**-**||**66,178**||**11,970**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub  total_**|<br>**83,486**||**3,898**||**-**||**87,384**||**29,061**|
|||||||||||
|**A4  Asset  and  investment**<br> **purchases,  (see  table)**||||||||||



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|n/a|||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
|**_Sub  total_**|||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Total  payments_**|||**83,486**||||**3,898**||||**-**|||||**87,384**||||**29,061**||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Net  of_**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_receipts/(payments)_**|||**-  29,587**||||**-  3,860**|||||**-**||||**-  33,448**||||**31,287**||
|**A5  Transfers  between**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**funds**|||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||
|**A6  Cash  funds  last  year**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**end**|||**60,221**||||**3,860**|||||**-**||||**64,081**||||**32,794**||
|**_Cash  funds  this  year  end_**|||**30,633**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**30,633**||||**64,081**||
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|**Section  B**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**Statement  of**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**assets  and**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**liabilities  at  the  end**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**of  theperiod**||||||||||||||||||||||



|n/a|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
|**_Sub  total_**|<br>**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||
||||||||
|**_Total  payments_**|<br>**83,486**||**3,898**|**-**|**87,384**|**29,061**|
||||||||
|**_Net  of_**<br>**_receipts/(payments)_**|<br>**-  29,587**||**-  3,860**|**-**|**-  33,448**|**31,287**|
|**A5  Transfers  between**<br>**funds**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|**A6  Cash  funds  last  year**<br>**end**|**60,221**||**3,860**|**-**|**64,081**|**32,794**|
|**_Cash  funds  this  year  end_**|<br>**30,633**||**-**|**-**|**30,633**|**64,081**|
||||||||
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|**Section  B**<br>**Statement  of**<br>**assets  and**<br>**liabilities  at  the  end**<br>**of  theperiod**|||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**|||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|||||**to  nearest  £**|**to  nearest  £**|**to  nearest  £**|
|**B1  Cash  funds**|LSPA  Main  Account|||**30,633**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**_Total  cash  funds_**|||**30,633**|**-**|**-**|
||(agree  balances  with  receipts  and<br> payments  account(s))|||OK|OK|OK|
|||||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**Details**|||**to  nearest  £**|**to  nearest  £**|**to  nearest  £**|
|**B2  Other  monetary**<br>**assets**|Cash  float|||**51**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||||**Cost  (optional)**||
||**Details**|||**Fund  to  which**<br>**asset  belongs **||**Current  value**<br> **(optional)**|
|**B3  Investment  assets**|n/a||||**-**|**-**|



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||**Details**||||**Fund  to  which**<br>**asset  belongs **||**Cost  (optional)**||**Current  value**<br> **(optional)**|
|**B4  Assets  retained  for**<br>**the  charity’s  own  use**|n/a||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**||||**Fund  to  which**<br>**liability  relates**||**Amount  due**<br> **(optional)**||**When  due**<br> **(optional)**|
|**B5  Liabilities**|n/a||||||**-**|||
||||||||**-**|||
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|Signed  by  one  or  two  trustees<br>on  behalf  of  all  the  trustees|Signature||||Print  Name||||Date  of<br>approval|
||||||Anna  Jarman||||2101/2024|
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# **Independent  examiner's  report on  the  accounts** 

**Section  A Independent  Examiner’s  Report** 

> **Report  to  the  trustees/** Latchmere  Schools  Parents’  Association **members  of On  accounts  for  the  year** 31  August  2023 **Charity  no** 272  376 **ended (if  any) Set  out  on  pages** 1-3 

(remember  to  include the page  numbers of  additional  sheets) 

I  report  to  the  trustees  on  my  examination  of  the  accounts  of  the  above charity  (“the  Trust”)  for  the  year  ended **31/08/2023** . 

- **Responsibilities  and  basis** As  the  charity  trustees  of  the  Trust,  you  are  responsible  for  the  preparation  of **of  report** 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** I  have  completed  my  examination.  I  confirm  that  no  material  matters  have **statement** 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._ 

**Date:** 21/01/2024 **Signed: Name:** Anthony  Perera 

**Relevant  professional** MAAT,  AATQB **qualification(s)  or  body  (if any):** A  N  Perera  &  Co 173  Barnfield  Avenue **Address:** Kingston  upon  Thames Surrey  KT2  5RQ 

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**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** . 

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