Sponne School Parents’& Friends’ Association Sponne School Brackley Road Towcester Northamptonshire NN12 6DJ 20/06/2025 ## **PFA trustees annual report for 2023/2024** Sponne School PFA (Parents’ & Friends’ Association) is a registered charity (number 285714) with the sole aim to raise funds for activities and equipment to enhance the learning experience of the students at Sponne School. Sponne is a comprehensive secondary school in Towcester -Northamptonshire. The charity constitutes of a group of teachers and parents who organise various events and activities during the school year to raise funds. All the charity trustees and members are volunteers; the charity does not own premises or any generating income assets. All our charity work is local to the school area and the charity mostly benefits from the generosity of local trades and community. During 2023/2024 financial year, the PFA main income came from the time spent volunteering during Silverstone Grand Prix car park event. PFA organised a Treasure Trove competition, tickets were sold in Sept/Oct time and the winner of £30 was drawn every month for the rest of the financial year. Sponne Parents and Friends Association, Brackley Road, Towcester, Northants, NN12 6DJ Tel: 01327 350284 Email: sponnepfa2@gmail.com Registered Charity No 285714 PFA organised Christmas and Easter raffles with donated prizes and a virtual duck race in Spring with cash prizes. PFA provided refreshments during school events like Christmas and Easter concerts and Les Miserable performance (bar income). PFA also organised two successful events: the wreath making night just before Christmas 2023 and a quiz night just before Easter 2024. PFA also benefitted from donations (one donation was the amount collected during the funeral of a former Sponne governor) and from the EasyFundraising website. PFA also sold tickets to students, parents, friends and carers for Sponne musical and drama events, these incomes are donated directly to music and drama department respectively. All the PFA profits go directly to Sponne School. During 2023/2024 financial year PFA worked to raise funds towards a new school minibus, PFA only aims to keep a minimum of £2000 in the charity current account and to donate any surplus to Sponne school. ## **TRUSTEES:** Paola Goracci PFA treasurer 11, Calvert Close Greens Norton NN12 8DE Northamptonshire Anne Clare Ward PFA secretary 43, West End Silverstone NN12 8UY Northamptonshire Elizabeth Jane Francis PFA trustee 121, Alchester Court Towcester NN12 6RN Northamptonshire Catherine Underwood PFA trustee 12, Forsythia Close Bicester OX26 3GA Oxfordshire Sponne Parents and Friends Association, Brackley Road, Towcester, Northants, NN12 6DJ Tel: 01327 350284 Email: sponnepfa2@gmail.com Registered Charity No 285714 **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |The Sponne School Parents and|No. 285714| |Friends Association| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period|01/09/2023|31/08/2024| |To| |from| |ee|ee|ee| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |£| |A1 Receipts| |Treasure Trove|1,524|-|-|1,524|1,034| |Raffles & Duck Race|3,604|-|-|3,604|3,614| |Bar|2,684|-|-|2,684|2,971| |Donations|1,698|-|-|1,698|2,095| |Events|2,056|-|-|2,056|-| |Fundraising|458|-|-|458|906| |Silverstone Car Park|4,000|-|-|4,000|-| |Bank Interest|9| |Ticket Sales|15,068|-|-|15,068|1,800| |Sub total|(Gross income for| |31,092|-|-|31,092|12,429| |AR)| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total receipts|31,092|-|-|31,092|12,429| |——————| |A3 Payments| |Treasure Trove|460|-|-|460|300| |Licencing & Duck Race|139|-|-|139|83| |Membership|153|-|-|153|140| |Events|1,589|-|-|1,589|885| |Gifts|19|-|-|19|-| |Music Donation|15,489|-|-|15,489|3,199| |Donations|22,500|-|-|22,500|7,296| |Sundry|(Events)|74|-|-|74|69| |Bank Charges|-|-|-|-|122| |Sub total|[ 40,423 ]|-|-|40,423|12,094| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases,|(see table)| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|[ - ]|-|-|-|-| |—|Total payments|—————|40,423|-|-|40,423|12,094| |Net of receipts/(payments)|- 9,331|-|- - 9,331|335| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|- -|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|-|- -|-|-| |Cash funds this year end|===|- 9,331|-|- - 9,331|>>|335| **----- End of picture text -----**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 24/06/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**| |---|---| |**Categories**|**funds**
**funds**
**funds**
**Details**| ||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**2,015**
**-**
**11,346**
**150**
**-**
**150**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,165**
**-**
**11,496**
OK
OK
Agreement Error
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank
Petty Cash
~~SS=~~| ||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**
**Endowment**| ||**funds**
**funds**
**funds**| ||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**Details**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~===~~| |**B3 Investment assets**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**Details**
**Details**
~~== ===~~| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~====~~| ||**Fund to which**
**Amount due**
**When due**| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
19/06/2025
19/06/2025
**Details**
Print Name
Paola Goracci
Anne ClareWard
Signature
~~=~~
~~SS S=~~
~~=~~| |CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2
24/06/2025| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES ••+ Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinevs Report Report to the trusteesl members of The Sponne School Parents. and Friends. Association On accounts for the year ended 31* August 2024 Charity no lif any) 285714 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Ihe Trust.) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Yhe 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 Charily Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention leth8Ftha￿￿dI￿4O%￿) 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., or the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the fomi and contents of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Yrue and fair. view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. Independent examiner's statement I have no COn￿rnS 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 accounls to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply Signed: Date: 612 Name: SuzAfvJtJt fiSkl Relevant professional PAer AAT qualification(s) or body (if any): PRoFESSIOK)AL BcOl&c￿ Address: 11 Ht CLO TOLD￿)rC NL)£THPW rs NJ kJ12 6RF IER October 2018 Section Dlsclosure 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 brièf details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. w/ IER Octobér 2018