## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/08/2024 Period start date To 31/7/2025 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Friends of Valley** ## **Charity registration number: 509323** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The objects of the Associaton are specifcally for
the beneft of Valley School, Whitehaven Road,
Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 1NL. Its purposes are to
advance the educaton of the pupils of the
school by providing and assistng in the provision
of facilites for the school that are not normally
provided by the Local Educaton Authority
(L.E.A.). Additonally, the Associaton aims to
foster more extended relatonships between the
staf, parents, and others associated with the
school, and to engage in actvites which support
the school and advance the educaton of the
children atending it. The Associaton strictly
operates as a non-politcal body.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|To achieve its inner purposes for the public
beneft, the Associaton coordinates actvites
that foster relatonships between staf, parents,
and the local community, while actvely
supportng the school environment. Members
focus on identfying and helping to provide
school facilites and educatonal tools that fall
outside normal L.E.A. funding. All members are
bound to ensure that any funds raised are
utlised directly for the beneft of the school and
its pupils.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public|Para 1.18|The trustees have had careful regard to the
guidance issued by the Charity Commission on
public beneft when planning and overseeing the
charity's actvites for the year, ensuring all
eforts directly advance the educaton and
welfare of thepupils at ValleySchool.| benefit ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference Throughout the reporting period, the Association maintained its organizational structure to successfully support Valley School. The committee met at the school to safely plan, govern, and deploy resources. Through these Summary of the main efforts, the Association successfully fostered achievements of the charity, stronger relationships between parents and identifying the difference the Para 1.20 school staff and ensured all raised funds were charity’s work has made to responsibly allocated toward advancing the the circumstances of its education of the children. beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole. ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity’s financial position is strong,**
**with a healthy cash reserve and**
**significant**
**restricted funds for future projects.**
**● The majority of income was driven by a**| |---|---|---| |||**legacy donation, with additional support**
**from fundraising and grants.**
**● Expenditure focused on direct**
**charitable activities, with prudent**
**management of**
**fundraising and administrative costs.**
**● Restricted funds are well-managed and**
**dedicated to specific projects, ensuring**
**transparency and accountability.**| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**N/A No formal reserves policy.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**-**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**Charity operates on a small scale with**
**limited unrestricted funds, and all**
**available income is applied directly to**
**ongoing charitable activities and**
**essential operating costs.**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Associaton / Parent Teacher
Associaton (PTA).| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|All members of the Associaton are eligible for
electon to any ofce within the Commitee. The
commitee structure formally consists of the
Head of the School (serving as President), a
Chairman, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and general
Commitee Members. Casual vacancies
throughout the year can be flled by co-opton. If
a staf member holding an ofce resigns or
departs from the school, the remaining school
staf are consttutonally enttled to appoint a
successor. Parents without children currently at
the school can contnue as members but are
restricted from holding a commitee ofce.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Friends of Valley Association| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|Friends of Valley Association PTA/PTFA| |Registered charity number|509323| |Charity’s principal address|Valley School
Whitehaven Road
Bramhall
Stockport
SK7 1EN| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Laura Spindlove|Co Treasurer||| ||Nicola Rawcliffe|Co Treasurer||| ||Stella Parkin|Chair||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity Trustee name Dat85 acted if not for who18 year ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** **----- Start of picture text -----**
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## **Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** **CC16a** **For the period** 1 August 2024 31 July 2025 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds** |**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
Voluntaryreceipts
**21,336**
Activities forgeneratingfunds
**2,827**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**24,163**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 24,163**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|**to the nearest £**
**4,908**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,908**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,908**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to the nearest £**
**26,244**
**2,827**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,071**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**29,071**|**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**4,155**| |||||**1,610**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**5,765**| |||||| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| ||**4,908**|**-**|**29,071**|**5,765**| |**A3 Payments**
Costs of charitable activities
**2,933**
Fundraisingcosts
**162**
Costs ofgeneratingvoluntaryreceipts
**149**
**-**|**A3 Payments**
Costs of charitable activities
**2,933**
Fundraisingcosts
**162**
Costs ofgeneratingvoluntaryreceipts
**149**
**-**|**1,500**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**4,433**
**162**
**149**
**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |
Costs of charitable activities|**2,933**|**1,500**|**-**|**4,433**|**2,769**| |Fundraisingcosts|**162**|**-**|**-**|**162**|**258**| |Costs ofgeneratingvoluntaryreceipts|**149**|**-**|**-**|**149**|**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| 05/28/2026 1 ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**3,244**||**1,500**||**-**||**4,744**||**3,027**| |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||||||||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**3,244**||||**1,500**|||||**-**||||**4,744**||||**3,027**|| |||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**20,919**||||**3,408**||||**-**|||||**24,327**||||**2,738**|| |**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**-**|| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|||||**-**||||**6,338**|| |**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**20,919**||||**3,408**||||**-**|||||**24,327**||||**9,076**|| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
Cash
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**28,256**
**-**
**-**
**28,256**
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**5,147**
**-**
**-**
**5,147**
Agreement Error
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**| 05/28/2026 2 ## **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**Details**
**Details**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Current value**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**| 05/28/2026 3 ## **B5 Liabilities** Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |**Details**
Signature
Laura Spindlove|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Laura Spindlove
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||Date of
approval| ||Laura Spindlove|| |||| 05/28/2026 4 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees ryF ￿4￿L￿- On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) 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 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 ('Ihe 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 examinerfs trhe charty's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable. 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 fairf 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. ase delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: Name: IER Oct 2018 Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: Iy AfKxC_[4 Cic Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn (see CC32, Independent examination of charty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018