Ardoyne afterschool`s Club Trustee Report for 2024 

## **Trustees Report** 

The trustees of Ardoyne Afterschool’s Club presented the financial statements and report for the year ending 5[th] April 2024. Trustee meetings are held at the end of each quarter to review how the organisation had performed during their selected financial period. 

## **Aims and Objectives of Ardoyne Afterschool`s Club** 

Established in 1997, Ardoyne Afterschool’s Club provides, maintains and promotes access to facilities and activities of a social, educational, recreational and spiritual nature with the object of improving the lives of young people and children. 

Our primary objectives are: 

- To deliver targeted provision out of school hours and during school holidays to promote care, education and recreation for children aged 8-11 within the Ardoyne area and wider area 

- To provide training and advance education of persons who are charged with supervising children. 

- To provide or secure the provision of information, advice and education for the support and development of local community organisations 

- To promote dialogue and co-operation between different interest groups to achieve overall objectives 

- To represent the interests of the community and the company’s embers to the public and all statutory and voluntary organisations 

- To provide insurance, maintain and equip or assist in the provision of maintenance and equipment of premises and facilities designed to carry out company objectives 

- To relieve poverty, sickness and assist the aged, disabled and disadvantaged, without distinction of age, sex, race, political, religion and to support and develop work of community based groups in any charitable activity that seeks to relieve poverty, advance education and improve quality of life for inhabitants of the Ardoyne area. 



We currently provide afterschool support 5 days per week from 3:30pm-6:00pm, to 35 children aged 5-11. The purpose of our work is to work with children in a more relaxed and informal setting and provide child led, appropriate academic support, mentoring, personal and social development opportunities through interactive play, arts, sports and recreation. Specific activities include; 

• Educational activities including homework support, test preparation, literacy and numeracy support, enhancing communication skills i.e. pronunciation, speech and language and active listening; 

- Structured play sessions that include puzzles, lego, building blocks and board games to enhance their cognitive abilities and problem- solving skills; 

- Practical activities such as cooking; Team building, relationship building and bonding activities; 

- Sports and physical play activities including soccer, rounders, dancing, hall games; 

- Creative arts activities including painting, drawing, crafts and drama and, 

- Outdoor activities including visits to the local park; 

- Storytelling and using your imagination activities; 

- IT activities to enhance computer literacy skills 

## **List of Trustees** 

The trustees of the charity for the purposes of charity law and throughout this report are collectively referred as to as the members. 

The list of trustees that have served from the start of the 2023 and that are still serving for the upcoming financial year are as follows: 

Mr Jim Toal 

Ms Beth Murray 

## **Risk Management** 

The trustees have assessed the major risks to which the organisation is exposed, those related to the operations and finances of the charity and are satisfied that operations procedures are in place to remove the exposure to major risks, 



## **Achievements and Performance** 

The programmes being delivered by the Charity are all done daily and take place all over across Belfast in various locations with the aim of promoting health and wellbeing among those living in the most areas of the country and suffering worst from the cost-of-living crisis. 

## **Financial Review** 

Trustees were each issued copies of our independently examined accounts and asked if any financial issues needed explained further. 

The income for the financial year of 2023-2024 was confirmed as £87,335.00 

The expenditure for the financial year of 2023-2024 was confirmed as £70,792.00 

This left us with a surplus of £16,543.00 

## **Trustees Responsibilities for Financial Statements** 

The trustees are responsible for preparing the annual report and the financial statements. The trustees are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Charity and enables them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the necessary legislation. 

Signed and adopted by Trustee Jim Toal- 29/01/2025