## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From Period start date: 1/09/24 to Period end date: 31/08/2025**
**Charity name:** Queenswood Parents Association
**Charity registration number:** 801650
## **Objectives and Activities**
||**SORP**
**reference**||
|---|---|---|
|**Summary of the purposes of the**
**charity as set out in its governing**
**document**|Para 1.17|The object of the Queenswood Parents Association
(QPA) is to support the furtherance of education of girls
attending the school.
In furtherance of this object the Association may:
• foster more extended relationships between the Staff
and parents; and
• engage in activities, including fundraising, which shall
support the school.|
|**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|• Second-hand uniform sales
• Sports Day Café
• Christmas Fair
• Fundraising (including online giving)
_The Summer Ball is now organised and funded by the school;_
_the fireworks display is held periodically._|
|**Statement confirming whether the**
**trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit**|Para 1.18|Trustees have had regard to all relevant guidance issued
by the Charity Commission on public benefit.|
|**Additional information (optional) – You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:**|||
|**Policy on grant making**|Para 1.38||
|**Policy on social investment including**
**programme related investment**|Para 1.38||
|**Contribution made by volunteers**|Para 1.38|Helping out at the events held, such as the Sports Day
café, Christmas Fair and second-hand uniform sales,
through running stalls and donations to fund them.|
|**Other**|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
||**SORP**
**reference**||
|---|---|---|
|**Summary of the main achievements of**
**the charity, identifying the difference**
**the charity’s work has made to the**
**circumstances of its beneficiaries and**
**any wider benefits to society as a**
**whole.**|Para 1.20|Bringing the school community together for social
events and to raise money to subsidise future events.
The school community as a whole benefits from the
social activities, bringing the girls, parents and school
staff together – building community. The charity
successfully held the Sports Day café and the Christmas
Fair and continued its second-hand uniform sales. These
created a space for informal, social and networking
occasions for everyone, boosting relationships between
the teachers, girls and parents.|
**Additional information (optional) – You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Achievements against objectives set** Para 1.41
**Performance of fundraising activities** Para 1.41 **against objectives set Investment performance against** Para 1.41 **objectives Other**
## **Financial Review**
||**SORP**
**reference**||
|---|---|---|
|**Review of the charity’s financial**
**position at the end of the period**|Para 1.21|Net movement in funds of £39,600 (a surplus). This
includes a donation of £34,607 received from the
Queenswood Fellowship 200 Club – a separate informal
parents’ fund, not part of the registered charity – whose
officials wound the club up during the year and gifted its
funds to the charity. Excluding this donation, the
operating surplus was £4,994.
See accounts at end of this report.|
|**Statement explaining the policy for**
**holding reserves stating why they are**
**held**|Para 1.22|If any funds are held, it is to use to fund future events, or
to build up a pot to use and invest in something for the
school.|
|**Amount of reserves held**|Para 1.22|£54,476|
|**Reasons for holding zero reserves**|Para 1.22|N/A|
|**Details of fund materially in deficit**|Para 1.24|None|
|**Explanation of any uncertainties about**
**the charity continuing as a going**
**concern**|Para 1.23|None|
**Additional information (optional) – You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:**
|**The charity’s principal sources of funds**
**(including any fundraising)**|Para 1.47|Fundraising and social events (second-hand uniform,
Sports Day café, Christmas Fair).|
|---|---|---|
|**Investment policy and objectives**
**including any social investment policy**
**adopted**|Para 1.46||
|**A description of the principal risks**
**facing the charity**|Para 1.46||
|**Other**|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
## **Description of charity’s trusts:**
||**SORP**
**reference**||
|---|---|---|
|**Type of governing document (trust**
**deed, royal charter)**|Para 1.25|Constitution (adopted 13 November 1988, as amended;
most recently amended 4 November 2024).|
|**How is the charity constituted? (e.g.**
**unincorporated association, CIO)**|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association|
|**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|Trustees are appointed in accordance with the charity’s
constitution.|
## **Additional information (optional) – You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:**
|**Policies and procedures adopted for**
**the induction and training of trustees**|Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|**The charity’s organisational structure**
**and any wider network with which the**
**charity works**|Para 1.51||
|**Relationship with any related parties**|Para 1.51||
|**Other**|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|**Charity name**|Queenswood Parents Association|
|---|---|
|**Other name the charity uses**||
|**Registered charity number**|801650|
|**Charity’s principal address**|Queenswood
Shepherd’s Way
Brookmans Park
Hatfield
Hertfordshire
AL9 6NS|
|**Names of the charity trustees who**
**manage the charity**|1 Stella Nicola
2 Lisa Sharp
3 Charlotte Gamble
4 Cheryl Addo (resigned 30 April 2025)
5 Olamide Sekinat Fafemi (Appointed 19 September 2025)
6
7
8|
|**Corporate trustees – names of the**
**directors at the date the report was**
**approved**|N/A|
|**Name of trustees holding title to**
**property belonging to the charity**|N/A|
_Trustees in office, with office held and dates acted (if not for the whole year):_
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Person/body entitled to**
**appoint**|
|---|---|---|---|
|Stella Nicola|Co -Chair|||
|Lisa Sharp|Co-Chair|||
|Charlotte Gamble|Trustee|Appointed 8 Nov 2024||
|Cheryl Addo|Treasurer|Resigned 30 April 2025||
|Olamide Sekinat Fafemi|Treasurer|Appointed 19 Sep 2025||
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|**Description of the assets held in this**
**capacity**|n/a|
|---|---|
|**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**
**Additional information (optional) Names and addresses of advisers (optional) Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional) Exemptions from disclosure – reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details Other optional information** None
## **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)**|**Olamide Sekinat Fafemi**|
|**Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)**|**Treasurer**|
|**Date**|**16th June 2026**|
## **Queenswood Parents Association – Accounts for the period ending 31 August 2025**
|**Statement of Income & Expenses**|||
|---|---|---|
||**2025 £**|**2024 £**|
|**Income**|||
|Second-hand uniform sales|1,817|3,227|
|Sports Day|2,238|3,033|
|Christmas Fair & fireworks|1,975|–|
|Summer Ball (QPA share)|675|20,324|
|Other fundraising & events|2,401|101|
|Bank interest|361|211|
|Donation – Queenswood Fellowship 200 Club (wound up
in year)|34,607|–|
|**Total income**|**44,074**|**26,896**|
|**Total expenditure**|**(4,474)**|**(21,401)**|
|**Net movement in funds for theyear**|**39,600**|**5,495**|
_The donation of £34,607 was received from the Queenswood Fellowship 200 Club, a separate informal parents’ fund wound up during the year (£24,729 and £9,808 on 12 Feb 2025 and a £69 residual on 13 May 2025). The club operated under the charity’s former registered name but was run by its own officials and was never part of the charity’s accounts._
## **Statement of Assets & Liabilities**
||**2025 £**|**2024 £**|
|---|---|---|
|Barclays (Premium & Community accounts)|54,476|26,996|
|**Cash at bank**|**54,476**|**26,996**|
|Debtors|–|–|
|**Current assets**|**54,476**|**26,996**|
|Creditors|–|(12,120)|
|**Net assets**|**54,476**|**14,876**|
|Reserves brought forward|14,876|9,381|
|Net movement in funds (incl. donation)|39,600|5,495|
|**Reserves carried forward**|**54,476**|**14,876**|
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Queenswood Parents Association – Year Ended 31 August 2025**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the annual accounts of Queenswood Parents Association (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 August 2025.
**Responsibilities and Basis of the Report.** The Charity Trustees of the Trust 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 Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act. 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 examiner’s statement.** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination that give 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; or (3) the accounts do 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).
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.
|**Signed**||
|---|---|
|**Name**|**Yen Tam**|
|**Qualification**|FCCA|
|**Address**|**84 Bellingham Road, London, SE62PT**|
|**Date**|**15 Jun 2026**|