2025-08-31-accounts - Latchmere Schools Parents' Association

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Trustees’ Annual Report Latchmere School’s Parents’ Association

From: 1 September 2024 To: 31 August 2025

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 Latchmere Road Kingston upon Thames KT2 5TT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

No.	Trustee Name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1.	Stephanie McMahon	Co Chair		N/A
2.	Catherine Lawford	Co Chair		N/A
3.	Nina Holland	Co Chair		N/A
4.	Louise Page	Secretary	9/9/24–ongoing	N/A
5.	Amy Phillpot	Treasurer	9/9/24–ongoing	N/A
6.	Felicity Kneen	Committee Member	9/9/24–ongoing	N/A
7.	Tom Brock	Committee Member	9/9/24–ongoing	N/A
8.	Catherine Freeman	Committee Member	9/9/24–ongoing	N/A
9.	Amelia Ledsham- _Hannigan _	Committee Member	9/9/24–June 2025	N/A
10.	Evie Hutchinson	Committee Member	9/9/24–June 2025	N/A
11.	Houda Hanna	Committee Member	9/9/24–January 2025	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

Description of the charity’s trusts
Type of governing document (e.g. trustees deed, constitution)	LSPA Operational Manual LSPA constitution document to be updated and used as part of governance going forwards
How the charity is constituted (e.g. trust, association, company)	Association with appointed Trustees
Trustee selection methods (e.g. 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. It is governed according to the LSPA Operational Manual. Risks are managed by

completing comprehensive risk assessments for all events that the LSPA host.

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£70.5k and grants to the school of £60.5k 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: £21,000 Restricted fund reserves: £0

All reserves are net fundraising balances held to finance upfront expenses for fundraising

events and to fund 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.

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 prepares financial 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	Louise Page
Position	Secretary, LSPA
Date	21.01.2026

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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

port to the trustees	Latchmere Schools Parents’ Associati	on
On accounts for the year ended Set out on pages	31st August 2025	Charity no (if any)	272 376

	1-2 (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 / 2025 .

Responsibilities and basis As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the of report 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 all 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 in connection with the examination ~~(other than that disclosed below *)~~ which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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: 23/12/2025

Name: Laura Gimeno Relevant professional CIMA qualification(s) or body (if any):

Oct 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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 .

Oct 2018

IER