# **Colchester Children's Charity Appeal A Charitable Incorporated Organisation** _**Charity Number 800485**_ **Unaudited Financial Statements Year Ended 05 April 2025**
**Colchester Children's Charity Appeal Independent Examiners Report**
**Year Ended 05 April 2025**
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Colchester Children's Charity Appeal**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Colchester Children's Charity Appeal (‘the charity’) for the year ended 05 April 2025 which comprise the summary of receipts and payments and the statement of assets and liabilities.
This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees, as a body, in accordance with section 145 of the Charities Act 2011. My work has been undertaken so that I might state to the charity’s trustees those matters I am required to state to them in this report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, I do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for my work, for this report, or for the opinions I have formed.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).
I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 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.
An independent examination does not involve gathering all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently does not cover all the matters that an auditor considers in giving their opinion on the accounts. The planning and conduct of an audit goes beyond the limited assurance that an independent examination can provide. Consequently I express no audit opinion on the accounts and my report is limited to those specific matters set out in the independent examiner’s statement.
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**Colchester Children's Charity Appeal Independent Examiners Report Year Ended 05 April 2025**
## **Independent examiner’s 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:
- accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of
- - the Act; or
- the accounts do not accord with those records.
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.
Simon Pinion FCA FCCA Independent examiner Scrutton Bland LLP 820 The Crescent, Colchester Business Park, Colchester, CO4 9YQ Date:
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## **Colchester Childrens Charity Appeal**
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**|**Restricted**||||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Endowment**|||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|
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**£**||**to the nearest**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Shop takings||||||**58,117**|**58,117**|**58,117**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**58,117**|**58,117**||**62,441**|
|Donations received||||||**1,731**|**1,731**|**1,731**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,731**|**1,731**||**3,509**|
|Rental income||||||**10,306**|**10,306**|**10,306**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**10,306**|**10,306**||**10,329**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_||_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|||_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**70,154**|**70,154**|**70,154**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**70,154**|**70,154**||**76,279**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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**_Sub total_ -**
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**_Total receipts_ 70,154**
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**70,154**
**76,279**
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|Van expenses||||||**1,660**|**1,660**|**1,660**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,660**|**1,660**||**2,580**|
|Repairs and decorations||||||**1,903**|**1,903**|**1,903**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,903**|**1,903**||**1,098**|
|Rates and water||||||**800**|**800**|**800**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**800**|**800**||**631**|
|Insurance||||||**2,258**|**2,258**|**2,258**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,258**|**2,258**||**2,078**|
|Light and heat||||||**2,577**|**2,577**|**2,577**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,577**|**2,577**||**2,641**|
|Telephone and advertising||||||**320**|**320**|**320**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**320**|**320**||**460**|
|Postage and stationery||||||**133**|**133**|**133**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**133**|**133**||**386**|
|Household and cleaning||||||**2,250**|**2,250**|**2,250**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**2,250**|**2,250**||**2,177**|
|Rent||||||**32,655**|**32,655**|**32,655**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**32,655**|**32,655**||**32,620**|
|Accountancy||||||**600**|**600**|**600**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**600**|**600**||**554**|
|Legal fees||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**20**|
|Bank charges||||||**737**|**737**|**737**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**737**|**737**||**694**|
|Donations to institutions||||||**35,502**|**35,502**|**35,502**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**35,502**|**35,502**||**33,645**|
|Sundries||||||**312**|**312**|**312**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**312**|**312**||**344**|
|Subscriptions||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**75**|
|Donations to individuals||||||**15,217**|**15,217**|**15,217**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**15,217**|**15,217**||**10,711**|
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||||**_Sub total_ **|||**96,924**|**96,924**|**96,924**|||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**96,924**|**96,924**||**90,714**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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**_Total payments_ 96,924**
**-**
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**96,924**
**90,714**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**||||||**- 26,770**|**- 26,770**||**- 26,770**|**- 26,770**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- - 26,770**|**- 14,435**|
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**A5 Transfers between funds**|||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**-**|**-**||**-**|
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**A6 Cash funds last year end**|||**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**174,522**|**174,522**||**174,522**|**174,522**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**|**- -**||**174,522**|||**188,957**|
|**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**_Cash funds this year end_**|||**147,752**|**147,752**||**147,752**|**147,752**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**- 147,752**|**- 147,752**|**- 147,752**|**- 147,752**|**- 147,752**|**- 147,752**|||**174,522**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Property
Van
Plant and fixtures
Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**147,752**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**147,752**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**70,000**
Unrestricted
**13,680**
Unrestricted
**2,430**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
R Kemp|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval
03/02/2026|