2025-07-31-accounts - Friends Of Richmond Park Academy

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Trustees' Annual Report					for the period
From	Period start date			T o	Period end date
	01	08	2024		31	07	2025

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name	Friends of Richmond Park Academy	Friends of Richmond Park Academy	Friends of Richmond Park Academy

Other names charity is known by	Richmond Park Academy PTA

Registered charity number (if any)	292864

Charity's principal address	Richmond Park Academy,
	Park Avenue, East Sheen
	London
	Postcode	SW14 8RG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole year 1 Sonya Wittenburg Chair 2 Jon Rippon Committee member 3 Marianne Scholes Committee member 4 Jackie Haigh Committee member 5 David Brewer Treasurer 26/11/2024-31/7/202 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15			Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if
			any)

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

Name Dates acted if not for whole year Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of Name Address adviser Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document Constitution (eg. trust deed, constitution) Constitution adopted 1 July 1985. Registration 05 November 1985 How the charity is constituted Unincorporated (eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods New trustees may be nominated and appointed by current Trustees. (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

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

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

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Section C Objectives and activities

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

The charity exists for the benefit of supporting the education of pupils at the school. It does this by providing, or helping to provide, educational facilities that the school would not otherwise be able to provide. In addition, to further its aim, the charity works in ways to strengthen relationships between staff, parents, and others connected with the school including the local community.

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Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public 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)

The main focus of the charity’s activities is to raise funds for the school to use for the benefit of staff and pupils. The charity achieves this mainly through fundraising events. During the accounting period, the charity organised a fireworks display in November, an 80s disco in November, and a quiz night in March. It also ran fundraising initiatives alongside school-organised events, such as shows in which pupils performed. The fireworks event was a large community gathering, attended by many families and local residents with no direct connection to the school. The quiz and disco were primarily enjoyed by staff and parents, while the shows arranged by the drama department or the school band club were attended by pupils and their families. These events also provided social and wellbeing benefits for pupils, parents, and staff. The Headteacher submits requests for funds to the charity on behalf of the teaching community. The trustees consider and prioritise these requests, and when they agree to provide funding, it is made as a financial donation to the school. The school, in turn, provides updates on the use of these donations, ensuring accountability for how the funds benefit pupils and teachers.

In addition to fundraising through events, the charity promotes its work to parents and potential donors through newsletters and other means. As a result, the charity receives a mix of regular and one-off donations, primarily from parents of current pupils.

The trustees have complied with their duty under section 4 of the 2006 Act to have due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit when exercising their powers and duties

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.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

As a result of the fundraising efforts of the volunteers, the charity has donated a total of £33,026 to RPA, enabling specific purchases identified by the head teacher as benefiting the school. These included new lighting and microphones for the drama department, funding for additional out of hours GCSE tutoring and sports kit for pupils and PE teachers. The year 11s have an end of year prom. This year the charity contributed £500 towards the cost of the prom to cover lowered ticket prices for the pupils.

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Section E Financial review Brief statement of the The charity does not hold reserves other than surplus cash necessary for charity’s policy on reserves the continued funding of the charity and events held by it. The charity aims to hold a reserve of around £10,000 to enable the payment for the larger events including the fireworks which has large up-front costs which need to be paid up to 6 months in advance to secure the booking. Details of any funds materially None in deficit ~~a~~ Further financial review details (Optional information) You may choose to include The principal fundraising activity is the annual bonfire night fireworks additional information, where display. Over 1,400 people from the local area regularly attended the relevant about: evening, raising net funds of almost £12,000 for the charity and, in • addition, providing a fundraising opportunity for the Year 11 prom. the charity’s principal sources of funds (including The annual quiz night raised net funds of more than £2,600, the 80s disco any fundraising); • how expenditure has over £1,600, and the shows by pupils raised more than £1,100. supported the key objectives Some parents opt to give monthly donations to the charity, and the charity of the charity; has received some one-off donations. These donations combined exceed • investment policy and £6,500. objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ~~__~~ Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration ~~___~~ The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)

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Full name(s)	Sonya Wittenburg	Jackie Haigh

Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)	Chair	Trustee

Date	09/03/2026

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Friends of Richmond Park Academy No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 08/01/2024 7/31/2025 ip)cemnsowis ~~|~~ - 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 Fundraising 40,200 40,200 48,296 Interest received 277 276.51 242 0 Sub total (Gross income for AR) 40,476 40,476 48,539 SS ~~S.~~ A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - Sub total - Total receipts 40,476 48,539 —=—= ~~——~~ A3 Payments Fundraising costs 20,230 20,230 18,065 Contributions to RPA 33,026 33025.82 21,444 Banking and other services charges 298 297.71 - Sub total [ 53,554 ] 53,554 39,509 ~~SSeS~~ A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table) Sub total - ————— Total payments 53,554 ~~-~~ — 39,509 Net of receipts/(payments) -13,077 9,030 A5 Transfers between funds - A6 Cash funds last year end 30,804 21,775 Cash funds this year end 17,727 30,805 ===>=> Section B Statement of assets and Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds Bank account Santander 11,894 - - Bank account HSBC 5,832 - - - - Total cash funds 17,726 - - = SSS (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ GoCardless receivable 4,032 - -

B2 Other monetary assets

- = = Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B3 Investment assets - - - - - - - - - - = Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained for the - - charity’s own use - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ==== Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) B5 Liabilities - - - - - = Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name Date of approval Marianne Scholes 11/01/2026 David Brewer 18/01/2026

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CHARITY COMMISSION | Independent examiner'sner" report on the FOR ENGLAND AND WALES accounts

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Independent Examiner’s Report

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Set out on pages | 2425 _CC16a summary

| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended :

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

| 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, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have
examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
e 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.

| 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.

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Relevant professional |FCMA qualification(s) or body body

or body body | (if any): Address: | 3 Shottfield Avenue, SW14 8EA