Ardoyne afterschool`s Club Trustee Report for 2025
Trustees Report
The trustees of Ardoyne Afterschool’s Club present the financial statements and report for the year ending 5[th] April 2025. 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:
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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
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To provide training and advance education of persons who are charged with supervising children
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To provide or secure the provision of information, advice and education for the support and development of local community organisations
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To promote dialogue and co-operation between different interest groups to achieve overall objectives
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To represent the interests of the community and the company’s members to the public and all statutory and voluntary organisations
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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
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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;
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Structured play sessions that include puzzles, lego, building blocks and board games to enhance their cognitive abilities and problem- solving skills;
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Practical activities such as cooking, team building, relationship building and bonding activities;
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Sports and physical play activities including soccer, rounders, dancing, hall games;
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Creative arts activities including painting, drawing, crafts and drama;
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Outdoor activities including visits to the local park;
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Storytelling and using your imagination activities; and
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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 on a daily basis and take place in Belfast in various locations with the aim of promoting health and wellbeing amongst those living in the most deprived areas of the country and those suffering worst from the cost-ofliving crisis.
Financial Review
The income for the financial year of 2024-2025 was £89,880
The total expenditure for the financial year of 2024-2025 was £111,725
There was therefore a deficit for the year of £21,845
Trustees Responsibilities for Financial Statements
The trustees (who are also directors of Ardoyne Afterschools Club for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).
Company law requires the trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under company law the trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the trustees are required to:
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select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently;
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observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP 2019 (FRS 102);
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make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent;
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state whether applicable UK Accounting Standards have been followed;
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prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is
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inappropriate to presume that the charitable company will continue in operation.
The trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
Signed and adopted by Trustee Jim Toal-
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