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|Trustees'|Report including<br>Strategic Report|3-15|
|Statement|ofDirectors'<br>Responsibilities|16|
|Report of|the Auditors|17-19|
|Statement|offinancial<br>activities|20|
|Balance sheet||21|
|Statement|ofCash Flows|22|
|Notes to the financial<br>statements||23-33|





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|Key Risk|Key Risk||||||Potential Impact on Objectives|Potential Impact on Objectives|Risk Response|
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|Operational|||risk||||Pandemic<br>(eg COVID-19),||Contingency<br>plans for delivery of|
||||||||enforced school closure,||education<br>remotely;<br>data backup|
||||||||computer<br>failure; destruction|of|procedures<br>and precautions;|
||||||||property;<br>fraud resulting<br>in||disaster recovery<br>plan;|
||||||||financial<br>loss; data loss; damage||recruitment<br>ofsuitably<br>qualified|
||||||||to reputation.||staff; DBSclearance for all|
||||||||||students<br>and staff; appropriate|
||||||||||policies and staff training;<br>staff|
||||||||||wellbeing<br>resources available;|
||||||||||insurance<br>including<br>cyber|
||||||||||insurance,<br>financial<br>conttols<br>in|
||||||||||place; monitoring ofbudgets<br>and|
||||||||||financial<br>results,|
|Governance|||and management||||Lack ofclear plans and priorities;||Strategic plans reviewed|
|structure<br>and skills<br>insufficien<br>to meet the<br>Organisation's<br>objectives,<br>financial<br>resources<br>insufficient<br>meet the Organisation's<br>needs||||||to|poor value for money; poor<br>service delivery;<br>uncertainty<br>on<br>staff and board roles and<br>responsibilities;<br>loss ofkey staff;<br>competition<br>from other||annually;<br>monitoring ofbudgets<br>and financial<br>results; regular<br>Steering Committee<br>meetings;<br>clear understanding<br>ofroles and<br>responsibilities;<br>robust|
||||||||Montessori<br>training<br>centres and||recruitment<br>process;|
||||||||schools||documentation<br>ofsystems<br>and|
||||||||||procedures;<br>marketing<br>plan<br>in|
||||||||||place and monitoring of|
||||||||||competition.|
|Regulatory<br>compulsory||and legal changes,<br>closure ofschool|||||Lack ofcompliance<br>with<br>government<br>regulations<br>and||Key legal and regulatory<br>requirements<br>identified<br>and|
|and/or college, possible changes<br>to charity's<br>mandatory<br>business<br>rates relief, VAT changes.|||||||authorities,<br>including<br>Ofsted;<br>School Inspection<br>Seivice;<br>withdrawal<br>ofcollege status;<br>withdrawal<br>ofhighly<br>trusted||proposed<br>changes monitored;<br>membership<br>ofumbrella<br>bodies<br>eg ME(UK), ISBA; Health &<br>Safety reviews; fire safety|
||||||||sponsor status by the UKVI, <br>ofstudents<br>from Europe, risk|loss<br> to|reviews;<br>delegated<br>staff<br>responsible<br>for regulatory<br>areas;|
||||||||service deliveiy,<br>loss ofstudents||nionitoring ofchanges to visa|
||||||||and/or school children, cost of||requirements<br>and other|
||||||||living crisis,||international<br>student<br>issues,|
||||||||||introduction<br>ofUniversity|
||||||||||sponsored<br>Foundation<br>Degree,|
||||||||||remote learnin<br>lans<br>re ared.|





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|Five year summary<br>for|the year ended|31st August|||||
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|Income and Ex enditure|Account||||||
|8thousand||2022|2021|2020|2019|2018|
|Incomin<br>Resources||3 580|3 385|2965|2 840|2 661|
|Resources Ex ended||3415|3 151|2 875|2 811|2 822|
|Net Income/<br>Ex enditure||165|234|90||161|



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|8thousand|||2022|2021|2020|2019|2018|
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|Fixed Assets|||8 432|7 797|7 851|7 907|7 947|
|Current Assets less Liabilities|||277|193|95|241|310|
|Funds —Restricted||||||||
|Funds —Unrestricted|||8,153|7,985|7,754|7,664|7,635|
|umbers<br>ofstudents|and children|||||||
|No|||2022|2021|2020|2019|2018|
|Students 3-6 Course|||94|96|63|72|60|
|Students 0-3 Course|||19|31|31|31||
|Students 6-12 Course||||22|22|20|20|
|Assistants<br>Courses|||343|441|238|87||
|Other Courses and Worksho||s|476|772|356|365|431|
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|||Statement of|Statement of|Financial Activities|Financial Activities|||
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|||For|the year ended 31stAugust 2022|||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total|
|||||Funds|Funds|Funds|Funds|
|Income and Expenditure|||note|||2022<br>f|2021<br>f.|
|Income||||||||
|Income fiom charitable|activities:|||||||
|Course and other fees|receivable||2|3,553,796||3,553,796|3,375,226|
|Income from generated|funds:|||||||
|Donations<br>and legacies|||3/141|10,055|14,673|24,728|8,012|
|Interest receivable||||458||458|199|
|Other Income||||819||819|1,170|
|Total Income||||3,565,128|14,673|3,579,801|3,384,607|
|Expenditure||||||||
|Charitable<br>Activities||||3,397,121|18,041|3,415,162|3,151,011|
|Total Expenditure||||3,397,121|18,041|3,415,162|3,151,011|
|Net (Expenditure)/<br>Income before||transfers|6|168,007|(3,368)|164,639|233,596|
|Transfers<br>Between Funds|||14|(582)|582|||
|Net Movement<br>in Funds||||167,425|(2,786)|164,639|233,596|
|Balances brought<br>forward at||||||||
|Iu September 2021|||14|7,985,080|4,964|7,990,044|7,756,448|
|Balances carried fomvard at|||14|8,152,505|2,178|8,154,683|7,990,044|
|31"August 2022||||||||





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|||||||At 31stAugust 2022||||
|||||||2022|2022|2021|2021|
||||||no/e|f|f.|||
|Fixed Assets||||||||||
|Intangible|Assets||||8|||||
|Tangible assets|||||9|8,431,960||7,797,381||
||||||||8,431,960||7,797,381|
|Current<br>Assets||||||||||
|Debtors|||||/0|130,851||224,710||
|Cash at bank||and in hand||||927,929||1,358,782||
|||||||1,058,780||1,583,492||
|Creditors:|amounts||falling|due within|//|(1,198,581)||(1,180,921)||
|one year||||||||||
|Net Current||Assets /(Liabilities)|||||(139,801)||402,571|
|Total Assets||Less Current||Liabilities|||8,292,159||8,199,952|
|Creditors:|amounts||falling|due after||||||
|More than one year|||||/2||(137,476)||(209,908)|
|Total Net|Assets||||||8,154,683||7,990,044|
|Funds||||||||||
|Restricted|funds||||||2,178||4,964|
|Unrestricted||funds:||||||||
|General|||||||7,465,693||7,298,8 I8|
|Designated|||||||686,812||686,262|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|Cash Flows from|Operating|activities:|||281 340|460 333|
|Net cash provided|by (used|in) operating|activities|17|281,340|460,335|
|Cash Flows from|Investing|activities:|||||
|Interest|||||458|199|
|Purchase ofFixed|Assets||||(712,651)|(119,646)|
|Net Cash provided|by (used in) investing||activities||(712,193)|(119,447)|
|Change<br>in cash and cash equivalents<br>in the year|||||(430,853)|340,888|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at 1stSeptember 2021|||1,358,782|1,017,894|
|Cash and cash equivalents||at 31st August 2022||18|927 929|1 338 782|





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|2022||Total Funds|Total Funds|
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|School Fees:||||
|Gross Fees<br>Bursaries/Discounts<br>Government<br>Grants<br>Other School Income||2,513,913<br>(250,147)<br>156,699<br>~82|2,237,1 14<br>(279,892)<br>164,010<br>U 911|
|Course Fees:||2,452,288|2,137,143|
|Gross Fees<br>Bursaries/Discounts||1,168,398<br>{566890|1,315,789<br>~77 706|
|||1,101,508|1,238,083|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Costs||Administration|2022|
||||||Costs||
|Salaries and social security|||||||
|Course Salaries||||518,697|135,862|654,559|
|School salaries||||1,111,172|291,049|1,402,221|
|Catering|||132,391|42,821|21,048|196,260|
|Teaching aids, materials||and other direct|||||
|expenses|||107,473||7,981|115,455|
|Examination|costs||1,619||120|1,739|
|AMI fees|||58,796||4,367|63,163|
|Property costs|||809,362|13,093|60,107|882,563|
|Advertising|||58,068||4,312|62,380|
|Governance|Costs||20,976|15,846||36,822|
||||1,188,686|1,701,629|524,847|3,415,162|
|2021|||||||
||||Direct|Staff Costs|Allocation of|Total Funds|
||||Costs||Administration|2021|
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|Salaries and|social security||||||
|Course Salaries||||550,514|125,300|675,814|
|School salaries||||1,044,623|237,762|1,282,385|
|Catering|||94,720|42,821|15,621|153,162|
|Teaching aids, materials||and other ditvct|||||
|expenses|||56,399||3,498|59,897|
|Examination|costs||1,672||104|1,776|
|AMI fees|||59,829||3,711|63,540|
|Property<br>costs<br>Advertising|||768,767<br>60,921||47,680<br>3,778|816,447<br>64,699|
|Governance|Costs||17,445|15,846||33,291|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
|2022|Unrestricted|Restricted|Total Fuads|Total Funds|
||Funds|Funds|2022|2021|
|Salaries<br>Accountancy<br>and Payroll<br>Legal and Professional<br>Inspection<br>and accreditation<br>Montessori<br>Education (UK) Limited<br>Staff Life Assmunce<br>Travel and subsistence<br>Printing,<br>postage<br>and stationery<br>Telephone<br>Sundry<br>Archiving<br>and study centre costs<br>Bank charges<br>Subscription<br>to examining<br>body<br>Bad debt expense<br>Recruitment<br>Licenses<br>Depreciation<br>Amortisation|293,899<br>6,467<br>64,164<br>8,613<br>1,008<br>9,076<br>18,620<br>15,157<br>4,868<br>11,373<br>2,813<br>16,366<br>2,059<br>27,285<br>2,942<br>9,754<br>22,140|8,243|302,142<br>6,467<br>64,164<br>8,613<br>1,008<br>9,076<br>18,620<br>15,157<br>4,868<br>11,373<br>2,813<br>16,366<br>2,059<br>27,285<br>2,942<br>9,754<br>22,140|268,178<br>6,035<br>37,739<br>8,613<br>7,366<br>1,681<br>17,970<br>8,223<br>9,709<br>900<br>18,826<br>5,874<br>(1,445)<br>12,990<br>11,761<br>21,204<br>1,830|
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||Funds|Funds|2021|2020|
|Salaries<br>Accountancy<br>and Payroll<br>Legal and Professional<br>Inspection<br>and accreditation<br>Montessori<br>Education (UK) Limited|268,178<br>6,035<br>37,739<br>8,613||f.<br>268,178<br>6,035<br>37,739<br>8,613|300,641<br>7,998<br>20,930<br>14,217|
|Staff Life Assurance<br>Travel and subsistence<br>Printing,<br>postage<br>and stationery<br>Telephone<br>Sundry<br>Archiving<br>and study centre costs<br>Bank charges<br>Subscription<br>to examining<br>body<br>Bad debt expense<br>Recruitment<br>Licenses<br>Depreciation<br>Amortisation|7,366<br>1,681<br>17,970<br>8,223<br>9,709<br>900<br>18,826<br>5,874<br>(1,445)<br>12,990<br>11,761<br>21,204<br>1,830||7,366<br>1,681<br>17,970<br>8,223<br>9,709<br>900<br>18,826<br>5,874<br>(1,445)<br>12,990<br>11,761<br>21,204<br>1,830|8,342<br>32,302<br>15,810<br>13,810<br>7,951<br>3,375<br>17,470<br>2,577<br>31,649<br>6,343<br>4,627<br>15,876<br>2,440|
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|||The net nieve men/ infimds|is stater/|after charging.|||
|||Auditors'<br>remuneration.|||||
|||- current year|||19,500|16,500|
|||- (Over)/Under<br>provision|in prior year||1,326|944|
|||- ln respect ofother services|||6,646|7,494|
|||Depreciation —tangible<br>fixed assets|||74,783|75,372|
|||Amortisation<br>—intangible|assets|||1,830|
|||Loss/(Surplus)<br>on Disposal ofFixed Assets|||932|96,211|
|||Operating<br>Leases|||316,000|316,000|
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|||Staff costs during<br>the year|were as|follows.|||
|||Wages and salaries|||1,711,226|1,602,825|
|||Social security costs|||175,444|157,172|
|||Pension costs (defined contribution||scheme)|47,388|43,831|
|||Pension Costs (other)|||12,440|12,440|
|||Redundancy<br>and Reoiganisation<br>Costs|||||
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||||||IT||
||||||Development||
|Cost|||||||
|At Ia September 2021<br>Additions<br>in the Year|||||65,240||
|At 3 in August 2022|||||65,240||
|Amortisation|||||||
|At I" September 2021<br>Charge for the Year|||||65,240||
|At 31"August 2022|||||65,240||
|Net Book Value|||||||
|At 31"August 2022|||||||
|At 31a August 2021|||||||
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||Freehold|Building|Office and||Assets||
||Land and|Improvcm|Itttchcn|Computer|Under||
|Cost|Buildings|entsf|E4tutpmcnt|&IT<br>f|Construction<br>f|Total<br>f|
|At 1st September 2021<br>Additions<br>Transfers|6,603,789|1,283,656<br>774,684|206,003<br>12,792|46,949<br>5,808|80,633<br>694,051<br>(774,684)|8,221,030<br>712,651|
|Disposals||(4,221)|(15,044)|(8,923)||(28,188)|
|At 31st August 2022|6603789|2054119|203752|43833||8 905493|
|Depreciation|||||||
|At 1st September 2021<br>Charge for the year<br>On Disposals||234,732<br>52,643<br>(1,193)|163,758<br>13,604<br>(14,783)|25,159<br>8,536<br>(8,923)||423,649<br>74,783<br>(24,899)|
|At 31stAugust 2022||286 181|162579|24 772||473 533|
|Net Book Value|||||||
|At 31stAugust 2022|6603789|1767937|41173|39061||8 431960|
|At 31st August 2021|6 603 789|I 048 924|42 245|21 790|80 633|7 797 381|





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|||||2022|2021|
|Trade Debtors||||71,649|109,347|
|Provision for|bad and doubtful|debts||(39,704)|(13,909)|
|Prepayments|and accrued income|||65,299|116,522|
|Other debtom||||33,607|12,750|
|||||130,851|224,710|
|11<br>Creditors: amounts||falling due within|one year|||
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|Trade creditors||||58,998|58,871|
|Social security|and other taxes|||43,070|43,220|
|Accruals||||140,941|128,463|
|Deferred<br>income||||786,397|766,045|
|School deposits||||132,850|125,650|
|Other creditors||||36,325|58,672|
|||||1,198,581|1,180,921|



|Defen ed income relates to course|fees and school fees received|in respect ofthe following<br>year,|
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|Balance at I September 2021||859,352|
|Fees received<br>in advance||690,373|
|Released to statement offinancial|activities|(730,728)|
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|Lease Incentive|Provision|104,876|116,601|
|Deferred Income||32,600|93,307|
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|Fund balances as at 31a|||August 2022||||||
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|Tangible<br>and intangible<br>fixed assets<br>Net Current<br>assets/(liabilities)<br>Creditors<br>falling due ager more than|||||2,178|7,688,608<br>30,550|743,353<br>(172,528)<br>(137,477)|8,431,961<br>(139,800)<br>(137,477)|
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|Total Net|Assets||||2,178|7,719,158|433,348|8,154,684|
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|General<br>Designated|- assets|||7,298,8I8<br>656,262|3,564,578|(3,397,121)|(582)|7,465,693<br>656,262|
|Designated|-Bursaries|||30,000|550|||30,550|
|Restricted|Funds|||7,985,080|3,565,128|(3,397,121)|(582)|8,152,505|
|Playground<br>Project<br>Help The Children<br>Born Inside Project||Project||2,178<br>2,786|9,798<br>4,875|(9,798)<br>(8,243)|582|2,178|
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|Net income(expenditure)<br>for the reporting||period|164,639|233,596|
|Adjustments<br>for:|||||
|Depreciation<br>and amortisation<br>charges|||74,783|77,202|
|Proceeds from disposal ofFixed Assets|||3,289|96,211|
|Dividends,<br>interest|and rents from investments||(458)|(199)|
|(Increase)/decrease|in debtors||(93,859|(20,098)|
|Increase(decrease)|in creditors||(54,7724)|73,623|
|Net cash provided|by (used in), operating|activities|281,3402|460,335|





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|Cash in hand<br>Notice deposits|less than 3 months|476,455<br>451,474|657,697<br>701,085|
|Total Cash and|cash equivalents|927,929|1,358,782|



