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31|07|2025| Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator** **Reference and administration details** **Charity name** Ladybird Club **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC022751 Charity’s principal address** Manse of Creich, Dornoch Road Bonar Bridge Sutherland **Postcode** IV24 3EB ## **Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report** |**1**
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**20**|**1. Trustee name**|**2. Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if**
**not for whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled to**
**appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||LucyWatt|Chair||| ||Hannah Macfarlane|Vice-Chair||| ||Lisa Mackenzie|Secretary||| ||Jan Maclean|||| |||Vice - Secretary||| |||||| ||Jenny Ross|Treasurer||| ||Jodie Manners|Vice - Treasurer||| ||Susan Rush|||| ||Sarah Paterson|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| 1 ## **Reference an administration details** ## **Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)** |**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| |n/a||| |||| |||| |||| |**Structure, governance and management**||| |**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**||| ||The Ladybird Club is an unincorporated association and the
purposes and administration arrangements are set out in our
constitution|| ||The Ladybird Club trustees are appointed or reappointed by the
members at our annual general meeting, which is held in June
each year.|| |||| |**Objectives and activities**||| |**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**||| ||To advance the education of pre-school children so that they
may take a constructive place in the community, and also the
education of their parents and other adults, children and
teenagers.|| ||The club continues to meet weekly during school term time and
aims to provide safe and satisfying group play in which parents
take part when appropriate; to encourage other charitable
activities through which parents may help the children. Each
session consists of structured play times and arts and crafts
activities. Each session also acts as a social interaction group for
parents.|| 2 ## **APPENDIX 1** ## **Achievements and performance** |**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the**
**charity during the**
**financial period**||The Ladybird Club committee is pleased to reflect on a year where it felt the club has really
cemented its position in the community, with a strong core of regular attendance and a good
variety of events and activities taking place for the children.
The playgroup continues to provide a weekly safe space for families to meet and for
preschool children to socialise and play together with a range of toys and equipment. As well
as free play, we also try to incorporate more focused sessions which feature arts and crafts,
baking, sensory and musical elements at key points during the year.
Attendance has been good and relatively consistent, generally attracting more than 10
children from the surrounding area - and beyond - on a weekly basis, and we now follow the
school term time calendar to allow some down time during holiday periods. Older siblings
continue to be made welcome at the group, to allow as many families as possible to attend.
Snack is provided to children attending, and includes a variety of fruit, yogurt and biscuits,
with tea and coffee available for adults.
While the majority of sessions take place at Ardgay Hall, we also made the most of the local
parks during the summer, meeting at Bonar Bridge Park and Ferrycroft some weeks. We
continued to link up with Bonar Bridge Library to hold Book Bug and play sessions
throughout the year which have been well attended and were delighted to treat the children to
a trip to Grannies Heilan Hame in Embo at the start of July 2025 before breaking for the
summer holidays.
Our outgoings totalled**£1182.78**from August 2024 to July 2025 with the main costs being the
hire of the hall, fruit for the snack, insurance and the summer outing. In addition to the
income from our regular fee, which has remained at £1 per child, we also ran a pop up cafe as
part of the local Christmas Craft Fayre which raised over £200 for playgroup funds. We have
not applied for any formal funding this year so our income was limited to**£442.50**, leaving
our funds totalling **£579.46**as of August 1st,2025.| |---|---|---| ## **Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** Reserves stand at £1319.74 which is unrestricted. Regular committee meeting’s ensures funds are readily available. The Committee consider the reserves held sufficient to allow us to continue activities. **Details of any deficit** There was a deficit of £741 – the committee are comfortable with this and fundraising takes place as and when needed. **Donated facilities and services (if any)** 3 ## **Other optional information** **Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** _Jenny Ross_ **Full name(s)** JENNY ROSS **Position (e.g. Chair)** TREASURER **Date** 23/04/2026 4 ## **Independent examiner’s report on the accounts** ||**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**|**Independent examiner’s report on the accounts**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Report to the**
**trustees/members of**
**Registered charity**
**number**
**On the accounts of the**
**charity for the period**
**Set out on pages**
**Respective**
**responsibilities of**
**trustees and examiner**
**Basis of independent**
**examiner’s statement**
**Independent examiner’s**
**statement**
**Signed:**
**Name:**
**Relevant professional**
**qualification(s) or body**
**(if any):**
**Address:**|Charity name
**Ladybird Club**|||||||||| |||**SC 022751**||||||||| |||Period start date|||||Period end date|||| |||Day|Month|Year|||Day||Month|Year| |||
01|08|24|**to**||
31||07|25| |||7-10|||||||(remember to include the page
numbers of additional sheets)|| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities
Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the
accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with
those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the
accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The
procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit
and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.||||||||| |||and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.||||||||| |||In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention||||||||| |||~~disclosed on the attached page*~~]||||||||| |||||||||||| |||Christ ine Ross||||**Date:**||`23 April 2026`||| |||`CHRISTINE ROSS`||||||||| |||||||||||| |||`c/o Lairg Community Centre`||||||||| |||`Main Street`||||||||| |||`Lairg`||||||||| |||`IV27 4DB`||||||||| *Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. If the words do apply, set out those matters which have come to your attention on the following page. ## **Disclosure section** Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems. **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** Enter SC No. below Enter charity name below **SC022751** ## **Ladybird Club** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** |||**For the period**
**from**|**For the period**
**from**||01
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2025|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|||||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**current period**||||||**Total funds last**
**period**|**Total funds last**|| |||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Donations||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||**-**|**-**| |Legacies||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||||**-**|**-**| |Grants||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||**1,000**||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||**44**|**443**|||||||||||||||**44**|**44**|**44**|**443**|||||| |Gross tradingreceipts||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||**7**|**735**|| |Income from investments other than||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |land and buildings||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Rents from land & buildings||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |activities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_**|**443**|**443**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**443**|**443**|**443**|**443**|||**1,735**||| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment sales**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 443**
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**443**|||**-**
**1,735**||| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Gross trading payments||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Investment management costs||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable|||||||||||||||||||||||||| |activities||**1,148**||||||||||||||||**1**|**1**|**1**|**1,148**|||**1,089**||| |Grants and donations||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Governance costs:||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Audit / independent examination|||**35**||||||||||||||||||**35**||||**35**|| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Legal costs||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |Other|Other|Other||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|||||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **||**1,183**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**1,183**|**1,183**|**1,183**|**1,183**|**1,183**||**1,124**||| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment movements**||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets
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Purchase of investments
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**_Total payments_ 1,183**
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**1,124**
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**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**741)**
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~~===~~||||||||||||| 7 **SC022751** ## **Ladybird Club** ## **Section B Statement of balances** |**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,320**
**741)**
**(**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Cash and bank balances at start of year|||||**1,320**|**709**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|||||**741)**
**(**|**611**| |||||||**-**|| |||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**580**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**580**|**1,320**| |||-|
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**Fund to which**|
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**to nearest £**|**Last year**
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**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**|**-**|
**-**| |||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which l**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| ||||||**iability relates**|**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which l**|**Total**
**iability relates**|**-**|**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Signature**|||**Print Name**|**Total**|**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Date of**
**approval**| ||_Jenny Ross_|||JENNY|ROSS||23 April 2026| ||||||||| 8 **Ladybird Club** **SC022751** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** |**C3a Trustee remuneration**
**C4a Trustee expenses**
**C6 Other information**
**C5 Transactions with trustees**
**and connected persons**
**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**
**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**
**C1 Nature and purpose of**
**funds**_(may be stated on_
_analysis of funds worksheets)_
**C2 Grants**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Type of activity or project supported**
n/a||**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|| ||||||**0**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||||**Total**|**-**
| ||||||| ||If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a
trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)||||**X**
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(otherwise complete section 4b)|||this box|**X**| |||**Nature of transaction**||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||
n/a
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**amount (£)**|**Balance**
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**o**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| 9 **Ladybird Club** **SC022751** ## **Additional analysis (1)** ## **Analysis of receipts and payments** ## **1 Donations** |**1 Donations**|**1 Donations**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |Individual Donation|||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**
Ardgay Community Council(Beinn Tharsuinn Fund)
CreichCommunity Council(Beinn Tharsuinn Fund)
**Total**
**3 Gross receipts from other charitable activities**
**2 Grants**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**||**-**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**|**-**|**-**
**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**||**500**| ||||||||**-**||**500**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**1,000**| |||**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
||**-**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**-**
**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**||**-**
**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| |||-||-|-|-|-||-| ## **4 Payments relating directly to charitable activities** |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Rent||**723**|


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|**680**| |Committee - Insurance etc||**244**|||||**244**||**189**| |Seasonal Activty||**60**|||||**60**||**70**| |Session Catering||**121**|||||**121**||**150**| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| ||||||||**-**||| |**Total**||**1,148**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**1,148**||**1,089**| |||-||-|-|-|-||-| 10