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|Statement<br>ofTrustee's||Responsibilities||12|
|Independent<br>Examiner's||Report||13|
|Statement<br>of Financial||Activities||14|
|Balance Sheet||||15|
|Cash Flow Statement||||16|
|Notes to the Financial|Statements||17|to 30|





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|Reference and Administr|ative<br>Details|||||
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|Trustee|Chard Independent<br>School|||||
|Directors of Chard Independent|Mrs S M Dare|||||
||Mr N Mayfield<br>(resigned 9 February 2024)|||||
||Mrs E Sherman<br>(resigned<br>12July 2023)|||||
||Mr T Moran|||||
||Mrs A Lightfoot (resigned<br>11 January 2024)|||||
||Mrs A<br>L Poole (appointed<br>24 November|2022|and|resigned|12|
||July 2023)|||||
||Mrs G L Buckley (appointed<br>11January 2024)|||||
||Mr M A Buckley (appointed<br>11January 2024)|||||
||Mrs A M Dugdale<br>(appointed<br>1 March 2024)|||||
||Mr S Hull (appointed<br>21 September 2023)|||||
||Ms Z Prien (appointed<br>23 January 2024)|||||
||Mr J M Salt (appointed<br>11 January 2024)|||||
||Mr M D Sitch (appointed<br>8 February 2024)|||||
||Mr TWootten (appointed<br>11January 2024)|||||
||Rev.<br>D<br>Perreau<br>(appointed<br>10 August|2023|and|resigned|8|
||February 2024)|||||
||Mrs A Dugdale<br>(appointed<br>1 March 2024)|||||
||Mr PJ Higgs (appointed<br>12March 2024)|||||
|Headteacher|Mrs K Hill NPQH BAEd (Hons)|||||





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|Fixed assets|||||||
|Tangible assets||||10|49,384|51,783|
|Investments||||11|1,203|1,319|
||||||50,587|53,102|
|Current assets|||||||
|Debtors||||12|142,681|131,885|
|Cash at bank|and|in hand||13|201,665|255,943|
||||||344,346|387,828|
|Creditors: Amounts|||falling due within one year||42,468)|41,522|
|Net current assets|||||301,878|346,306|
|Total assets|less|current liabilities|||352,465|399,408|
|Creditors: Amounts|||falling due after more than one year|15|(34,104)|(39,978)|
|Deferred income||||16|165,902|172,508)|
|Net assets|||||152,459|186,922|
|Funds ofthe charity:|||||||
|Endowment|||||3,035|8,111|
|Unrestricted|income||funds||||
|Unrestricted|||||149,424|178,811|
|Total funds||||20|152,459|186,922|





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|Cash flows from operating<br>activities|||||||
|Net cash (expenditure)/income|||||(34,463)|28,433|
|Adjustments<br>to cash flows from non-cash|||items||||
|Depreciation|||||2,988|2,951|
|Investment<br>income|||||(36)|(14)|
|Revaluation<br>of investments|||||116|300|
||||||(31,395)|31,670|
|Working<br>capital adjustments|||||||
|Decrease<br>in stocks||||||906|
|(Increase)/decrease<br>in debtors||||12|(10,796)|24,614|
|Increase<br>in creditors||||14|946|5,532|
|(Decrease)/increase<br>in deferred||income||15|(6,606)|19,104|
|Net cash flows from operating||activities|||(47,851)|81,826|
|Cash flows from investing<br>activities|||||||
|Interest receivable<br>and similar||income||4|36|14|
|Purchase<br>oftangible<br>fixed assets||||10|(589)||
|Net cash flows from investing|activities||||(553)|14|
|Cash flows from financing<br>activities|||||||
|Repayment<br>of loans during<br>the||period|||(5,874)|(2,324)|
|Net (decrease)/increase<br>in cash and cash equivalents|||||(54,278)|79,516|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>at||1 September|||255,943|176,427|
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|Small|business||grant fund|||5,845|
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||Preparatory|school|||fees|||353,361|353,361|349,932|
||Pre-preparatory|||school fees||||161,420|161,420|104,349|
||Other educational||||charitable||activities|16,567|16,567|20,462|
|||||||||531,348|531,348|474,743|
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|Business<br>interruption|||||insurance||claim|||100,000|
|Rental income||||||||17,685|17,685|16,015|
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||||||General|2023f|2022|
|Independent|examiner||fees|||||
|Examination|ofthe financial|||statements|4,232|4,232|3,163|
|Teachers pension||review|||760|760|594|
|Legal and professional|||fees||1,276|1,276|1,595|
|Other governance||costs|||7,659|7,659|5,182|
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|Wages and salaries|391,821|366,376|
|Social security costs|32,740|27,946|
|Pension costs|68,058|64,194|
|Other staff costs|998|521|
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|At 1 September 2022|115,843|7,719|123,562|
|Additions||589|589|
|At 31 August 2023|115,843|8,308|124,151|
|Depreciation||||
|At 1 September<br>2022|65,826|5,953|71,779|
|Charge for the year|1,696|1,292|2,988|
|At 31 August 2023|67,522|7,245|74,767|
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|At 31 August 2023|48,321|1,063|49,384|
|At 31 August 2022|50,017|1,766|51,783|





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|At 1 September 2022|1,319|1,319|
|Revaluation|(116)|(116)|
|At 31 August 2023|1,203|1,203|
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|At 31 August 2023|1,203|1,203|
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|Other debtors|9,815|9,553|
|Prepayments|10,156|11,513|
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|Cash|at|bank|201,221|255,642|
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|Otherloans|||||6,031|6,031|
|Other taxation|and|social security|||7,262||
|Other creditors|||||18,102|17,127|
|Accruals|||||7,525|11,995|
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|Other loans|||||34,104|39,978|
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|Deferred income at 1 September||||2022|172,508|153,404|
|Resources deferred||in the period|||165,902|172,508|
|Amounts<br>released||from|previous|periods|(172,508)|(153,404)|
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|General||178,811|552,992|(582,263)|(116)|149,424|
|Endowment|funds||||||
|Permanent||8,111||(5,076)||3,035|
|Total funds||186,922|552,992|(587,339)|(116)|152,459|
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|Tangible|fixed assets|49,384||49,384|
|Fixed asset investments||1,203||1,203|
|Current|assets|341,311|3,035|344,346|
|Current|liabilities|(42,468)||(42,468)|
|Non-current<br>liabilities||(34,104)||(34,104)|
|Deferred|income|(165,902)||(165,902)|
|Total net assets||149,424|3,035|152,459|



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|Tangible|fixed assets|51,783||51,783|
|Fixed asset investments||1,319||1,319|
|Current|assets|379,717|8,111|387,828|
|Current|liabilities|(41,522)||(41,522)|
|Non-current<br>liabilties||(39,978)||(39,978)|
|Deferred|income|(172,508)||(172,508)|
|Total net assets||178,811|8,111|186,922|



