Chairman’s Report for The Friends of Frank Wise School, 36[th] Annual General Mee@ng. To be held at 6.30 pm on Wednesday, the 15[th] of October, 2025.
Seymour Hall, Frank Wise Community Special School.
First of all I would like to thank my fellow Trustees and CommiMee Members for their advice and support throughout the year. We con@nue to comply with the regulatory obliga@ons of the Charity Commission in the frequency of our mee@ngs and the format of those mee@ngs.
During the year there has con@nued to be an incredible amount of physical and financial support from the community, as you will observe in the Treasurer’s report, also some generous dona@ons.
Fund raising ac@vi@es from the community, staff, parents, guardians families and friends have once again raised amazing amounts of monies for our school.
If elected as Chairperson for the coming year, as well as carrying out my du@es I intend to focus on the following:
- a) Con@nue to raise the profile of the Friends to achieve maximum income.
- b) Encourage recruitment to the Friends as commiMee members or to enlist on a register of names that we can call on to help at specific events.
## **Friends of Frank Wise School**
**Report for 36th Annual General Meeting Wednesday 15th October 2025 6.30p.m. Frank Wise School**
- c) Making it a priority to safeguard monies for relevant residen@al ac@vi@es.
## **Friends of Frank Wise School**
- d) Raising funds for a third replacement minibus.
In conclusion, thank you to all of the Trustees, CommiMee Members, Parents, Guardians, Pupils, School Staff and the wider community for all of their ongoing support.
**Hornbeam Close, Banbury. OXON OX16 9RL**
Hopefully, I will see many of you at our AGM.
Regards, Douglas Seymour MBE.
**Registered Charity No. 800362**
## **AGENDA**
1. Apologies
2. Conflict of Interest
3. Matters arising from last AGM
## **Accounts for Year Ending 31st March 2025**
4. Approval & signature of previous minutes
5. Treasurer’s report
6. Chairperson’s report
7. Head Teacher’s report
8. Election of New Committee 2025/2026
9. The way forward
## **RECEIPTS**
**£** Donations, Collections and fundraising 27.303 Interest Received 2,583 100 Club receipts 1,792
10. A.O.B
**Total Receipts 31,678**
## **PAYMENTS**
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## **THE FRIENDS OF FRANK WISE SCHOOL Registered Charity No. 800362**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st MARCH 2025**
|Residential trips 11,528|
|---|
|Banbury Town Mayor’s Sunday 30|
|Transfer to school: contribution to trip 85|
|MIP Equipment
1,002|
|Minibuses purchase 112,130|
|100 Club prize money 684|
|Cherwell DC– Lottery Registration 20|
|Fundraising websites registration 216|
**£**
**Total Payments 125,695**
Building Society Investment Accounts 26,646
**Surplus of receipts over payments -94,017**
Accumulated surplus of Income over Expenditure
Surplus as at 4th March 2024 120,663 Add : deficit/surplus for the year -94,017
Surplus as at 31st March 2025 26,646
## **THE FRIENDS OF FRANK WISE SCHOOL Registered Charity No. 800362**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025**
|Building Society Investment Accounts
Accumulated surplus of Income over Expenditure
Surplus as at 31 March 2024
Add : deficit/surplus for the year
Surplus as at 31 March 2025|**2025**
**£**
26,646.04
120,663.40
-94,017.36
26,646.04|**2024**
**£**|
|---|---|---|
|||120,663.40|
|||99,168.95
21,494.45|
|||120,663.40|
## **THE FRIENDS OF FRANK WISE SCHOOL Registered Charity No. 800362**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2025**
|**RECEIPTS**
Donations, Collections and Fundraising Activities
Interest Received
100 Club receipts
**TOTAL RECEIPTS**
**PAYMENTS**
Residential trips
Banbury Town Mayor's Sunday
Transfer to school for contribution to trip
MIP Equipment
Minibus purchase
100 Club prize money
Cherwell DC - Lottery Registration
Fundraising websites
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**
**DEFICIT/SURPLUS OF RECEIPTS OVER PAYMENTS**|**2025**
**£**
27,302.36
2,583.16
1,792.00
31,677.52
11,528.23
30.00
84.65
1,002.00
112,130.00
684.00
20.00
216.00
125,694.88
**-£94,017.36**|**2024**
**£**
26,221.32
4,002.22
1,896.00|
|---|---|---|
|||32,119.54|
|||8,500.29
35.00
0.00
1,000.00
0.00
741.00
20.00
328.80|
|||10,625.09|
||||
|||**£21,494.45**|
**THE FRIENDS OF FRANK WISE SCHOOL**
## **SUMMARY OF BANK ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31 MARCH 2025**
|Opening Balance as at 1 April 2024
Receipts
Payments
Per passbooks/bank statement
Plus after date receipt
Less after date payment
Closing Balance|**COMMITTED**
**GENERAL**
**NATWEST**
**060928031**
**060928058**
**£**
**£**
102,763.04
15,590.65
2,309.71
16,827.51
12,183.22
12,750.79
106,130.00
17,563.23
11,833.65
13,460.55
10,210.64
3,226.85
750.00
1,002.00
13,460.55
10,960.64
2,224.85|**TOTAL**
120,663.40
41,761.52
135,526.88|
|---|---|---|
|||26,898.04
750.00
1,002.00
26,646.04|
|**Coventry Committed 060928031**||13,460.55|
|---|---|---|
|Not yet allocated|**0.00**||
|Analysis out as follows:-|||
|Minibus|960.55||
|Residential fund (unspent not c/fwd)|11,500.00||
|Motor impaired equipment|1,000.00||
**13,460.55**
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## CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts
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## independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees/ members of he Friends of Frank Wise School
| On accounts for the year | 31st March 2025 Charity no 800362 ended | (if any) Set out on pages | 1 to 3 | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31st March 2025 Responsibilities and Ass the charity trustees of the the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- Responsibilities and Ass the charity trustees of the the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the the Charities Act 2011 (“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 matenal respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
- 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
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- | have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached
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Signed: Y/ fle Tr, 2025
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qualification(s) or body | Chartered Association of Certified Accountants
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