## **Trustee’s Annual Report for the period: 1 April 2024 until 31 March 2025**
## **Administration details**
|**Administration details**||
|---|---|
|Charity name|**Brewood Educational Charity**|
|Charity registration number|**518038**|
|Charity principal address|**2 Staffordshire Place, Tipping Street,**
**Stafford, ST16 2DH**|
## **Objective**
|Governing document|**Title Deed registered with Charity Commission on**
**7 July 1986 as varied by Scheme dated 30**
**September 1992.**|
|---|---|
|Objective of the Charity|**To provide such special benefits of any kind not**
**normally provided by the Local Education**
**Authority for any secondary school (excepting the**
**Brewood Middle School) serving in the area of**
**parishes of Brewood, Stretton, Featherstone,**
**Shareshill and Codsall as may from time to time**
**be agreed between the School Governors and the**
**Trustees.**
**Also to promote the education of persons under**
**the age of 25 who are in need of financial**
**assistance and who have not for less than 2 years**
**at any time either attended any secondary middle**
**school (except Brewood Middle School) which**
**serves or has served the said area.**|
## **Structure, governance and management**
|Registered Trustee|Staffordshire County Council|
|---|---|
|||
|Managing Trustees|Managing Trustees are Teachers, Governors
or representatives appointed from time to time
to represent each school.
Criminal Records Bureau checks were carried
out prior to commencement of their
involvement.|
Schools represented were:
Wolgarston High School Codsall Community High School Cheslyn Hay Community High School Blessed William Howard Catholic High School
## **Financial details**
To achieve the objectives of the charity, the Managing Trustees met twice a year to consider requests and allocate the discretionary awards and grants.
The financial statements were supplied and analysed by the Managing Trustees minimum twice a year.
During the 2024/25 financial year, total income received from permanent and temporary investments was £79,253.64 and total expenditure of £27,956.20 was allocated as discretionary grants towards the costs of items such as transport support, trips, student awards and pastoral/mental health support.
## Investments
|Investments|||
|---|---|---|
|Name of Investment|Number of Units|Market Value as at
31 March 2025
£|
|COIF Accumulation Shares Fund|147.33|37,121|
|COIF Investment Fund|138,647.35|2,700,934|
|Total Market Value||**2,738,055**|
## Other information
|The Brewood Education Charity includes two additional funds on temporary
investment with Staffordshire County Council called the Major and Minor Farm
Reserve Funds.
The cash value of the funds as at 31 March 2025 is as follows:|The Brewood Education Charity includes two additional funds on temporary
investment with Staffordshire County Council called the Major and Minor Farm
Reserve Funds.
The cash value of the funds as at 31 March 2025 is as follows:|
|---|---|
||£|
|Major Repair Farm Reserve Fund|3,052.42|
|Minor Repair Farm Reserve Fund|887.34|
## **Independent Examination**
The financial accounts of the charity for the financial year 2024/25 were checked and approved by an independent examiner from the Staffordshire Internal Audit Service.
Signed on behalf of the Charity Trustees
Full name: Melanie A. Stokes
Position: Assistant Director for Treasury and Pensions Date: 14.10.25
## **- BREWOOD EDUCATIONAL Charity TA0093**
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Statement of Income & Expenditure for the period 1 April 2024 - 31 March 2025
£ £
Balance on temporary investment b/fwd 34,750.36
Income
Interest on permanent investments 77,046.32
Interest on temporary investments 2,207.32
79,253.64
Expenditure
Clerking fees (255.00)
Discretionary Grants to Schools (27,701.20)
(27,956.20)
Surplus income on temporary investment
with Staffordshire County Council at 31 March 2025 86,047.80
Committed Expenditure
(Please see attached breakdown for full details) (45,590.44)
(45,590.44)
Total available for expenditure at 31 March 2025 40,457.36
Farm Reserve Funds
Major Repair Fund on temporary Investment with Staffordshire County Council at 31 March 2025 3,052.42
Minor Repair Fund on temporary Investment with Staffordshire County Council at 31 March 2025 887.34
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|**Summary of Investments**||||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Purchase**
**Nominal**
**Unit**
**Price**
**Value**
**Value**|**Market**|**Forecast**|**Due**|
||**Value**|**Annual**||
|**Permanent Investment Type**
**Units**||**Income**||
|**£**
COIF Investment Fund Accumulation Shares
203
147
25,196
COIF Investment Fund Income Shares
1,245,369
138,647
1,948
**Total Market Value as at**
**31 March 2025**|**£**
37,121
2,700,934
**2,738,055**|**£**
0.00
79,407.45
**79,407**|r
r|
Independent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of
Brewood Educational Charity- 518038
I report to the Trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Brewood
Educational Charity Trust ('the Trust,) for the year ended 31 March 2025.
Responsibilities and Basis of Report
As the charity trustees of the Trust you are responsible for the preparation of the
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 I have followed all the
applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of
the Act.
Independent Examinerfs Statement
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to
my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any
material respect:
1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by
section 130 of the Act" or
2. The accounts do not accord with those records
I have no concems and have come across no 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.
Lee Taylor
Audit Assistant
Internal Audit Services
Staffordshire Place 1
Tipping Street
Stafford
Staffordshire
ST16 2DH
3 October 2025