St Joseph’s Primary School PTA NIC 104229 

## **Trustees Annual Report September 2022-2023** 

St Joseph’s Primary School PTA 

4 Ballynahinch Road 

Crossgar 

Co Down BT30 9HS 

## **Charity Registration Number – NIC104229** 

## **Governing Document** 

Constitution, an approved governing document issued by PTAUK, with no changes to clauses. 

## **Trustees (and committee members)** 

Siobhan McArdle (principal) 

Dawn Dougan (Treasurer) 

Maria Lyons (Chair) 

Michelle Currie (Secretary) 

Claire Di Brita 

Kerrylouise Curran 

Sarah Curran 

Emma Killen 

Lynn Colhoun 

Gemma Michalak 

## **Bank** 

Ulster Bank 

Ballynahinch BT24 8AP 



St Joseph’s Primary School PTA NIC 104229 

## Purposes of the Association 

## – Purpose 1 

Advancement of Education of the pupils in the school. 

Our PTA have worked very hard over the last year to raise much needed funds for the school to improve their overall education and maintain good links with the parents. St Joseph’s Primary School is a small rural school with 130 children. The pupils in the school make good progress which is greatly enhanced through them having access to resources, activities and events which cannot be funded by the school budget in the current financial constraints. The principal activity for achieving this objective is by holding fundraising activities throughout the year. The main areas for fundraising was to contribute towards purchasing ICT equipment for the children and supporting their health and wellbeing across the school, and to keep strong communication links with parents and community. 

The main fundraising activities held during 2022/2023 were as follows: - 

Sponsored Walk, Cycle or Scoot to school 

Fancy Dress Halloween & Children’s Bingo 

Easter Event – Easter Egg Hunt 

Summer Fair, Recycling school uniforms and book sale 

Not only did these events provide a social occasion for staff, pupils and parents in the school, but also raised funds to further enhance pupils’ learning across the school from the money raised and improve the overall health and wellbeing of the children. 

Money raised and donated to the school was used to help fund the following: - 

Purchasing Interactive Whiteboard Touch Panel for the school – P3 

Contributing towards P7 leavers’ hoodies 

St Joseph’s PTA ‘s finances at the end of the year had a balance of £1580.17 

## Safeguarding 

We are satisfied that effective safeguarding is in place. 

Statement on Public Benefit 



St Joseph’s Primary School PTA NIC 104229 

All of our trustees have paid due regard to the commissions’ public benefit requirement statutory guidance and agree and can verify the above public benefits. 

We verify the information is correct to the best of our knowledge. It has been shared with all trustees and we have permission to sign on behalf of St Joseph’s PTA. 

NIC 104229 

On behalf of the St Joseph’s PTA Trustees 

Siobhan McArdle                                                     Maria McCarthy 

Principal                                                                   Chair of PTA Date:     21/9/2023                                                  Date:   21/9/2023