## **APPENDIX 3** ## **Independent examiner’s report on the accounts** **V2** **Report to the trustees/members of** SLOVO Russian Education and Support Centre **----- Start of picture text -----**
|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Registered charity|SC041702| |number| |On the accounts of the|Period start date|Period end date| |charity for the period|Day|Month|Year|Day|Month|Year| |01|September|2024|to|31|August|2025| |Set out on pages|1-7|(remember to include the page| |numbers of additional sheets)| |Respective| |The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance| |responsibilities of| |with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the| |trustees and examiner| |Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees| |consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations| |does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section| |44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.| |Basis of independent|My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts| |examiner’s statement|Regulations. 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 view given by the accounts.| |Independent examiner’s| |In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention| |statement| |1.|which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the| |requirements:| |•|to keep accounting records in accordance with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and| |Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and| |•|to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with| |Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations| |have not been met, or| |2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper| |understanding of the accounts to be reached.| |Signed:|FE|Date:|02/12/2025| |Name:|ee| |Relevant professional| |qualification(s) or body|n/a| |(if any):| |Address:| **----- End of picture text -----**
*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. ## APPENDIX 3 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 **SC041702** Enter charity name below **SLOVO Russian Education and Support Centre** |||||**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**For the period**
**from**|||01
Day|Period start date
09
2024
Month
Year||||||**to**|Day
31||Period end date
Month
Year
08
**2025**||||||| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**|||**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**| |||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Donations|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Legacies|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Grants|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Gross tradingreceipts||**25,016**|||||||||||||||**2**|**2**|**25,016**||**17,974**| |Income from investments other than|||||||||||||||||||||| |land and buildings|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Rents from land & buildings|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Gross receipts from other charitable|||||||||||||||||||||| |activities|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_**|**25,016**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**25,016**|**25,016**|**25,016**||**17,974**| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**|||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment sales**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
**-**
Proceeds from sale of investments
**-**
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 25,016**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**25,016**
**17,974**
~~—_—————~~|||||||||||||||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Gross trading payments|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Investment management costs|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable||||||||||||||||||||| |activities||**28,632 **|||||||||||||||**2**|**2**|**28,632 **||**15,519**| |Grants and donations|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Governance costs:|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Audit / independent examination|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Preparation of annual accounts|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Legal costs|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Other|Other|Other|||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |**_A3 Sub total_ **||**28,632**|||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**28,632**|**28,632**|**28,632**||**15,519**| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**|||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment movements**|||||||||||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets|||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |Purchase of investments|||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||| |**_A4 Sub total_ **||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Total payments_ **||**28,632**|||||||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**28,632**|**28,632**|**28,632**||**15,519**| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**3,616)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,616)**
**(**
**2,455**
**-**
**3,616)**
**(**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**3,616)**
**(**
**2,455**
~~S55>=~~||||||||||||||||||||| APPENDIX 2 **SLOVO Russian Education and Support Centre** **SC041702** |**Section B Statement of balances**|**Section B Statement of balances**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Investments**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**|**Details**|**Unres**
**fun**
**to nea**|**tricted**
**ds**
**rest £**|**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||**49,959**||||**49,959**|**47,504**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account||**3,616)**
**(**||||**3,616)**
**(**|**2,455**| ||||||||**-**|| ||||||||**-**|| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
(Agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**||**46,343**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**46,343**|**49,959**| |||-|0|-|
-|
-|
- 0|1| ||||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**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**| |||||||||**02 November 2025**| |||||||||| |||||||||**02 November 2025**| Slovo Report 2024-2025 Receipts and payments accounts_ (002) / Statement of balances 2 December 2007 APPENDIX 2 **SC041702** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** |**C3a Trustee remuneration**
**C4a Trustee expenses**
**C2 Grants**
**C1 Nature and purpose of**
**funds**_(may be stated on_
_analysis of funds worksheets)_
**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**
**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**
**C6 Other information**
**C5 Transactions with trustees**
**and connected persons**|All funds are unrestricted and used for the purposes of the charity.|All funds are unrestricted and used for the purposes of the charity.|All funds are unrestricted and used for the purposes of the charity.|All funds are unrestricted and used for the purposes of the charity.||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Type of activity or project supported**|||**Individual /**
**institution**|**Number of grants**
**made**
**£**|| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||||||**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)|||||| ||**which paid**|||||**£**| |||||||| |||||||**1,342**| |||||||**2,641**| |||||||**2,000**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross
(otherwise complete section 4b)||||this box|**x**| |||**Nature of transaction**|||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||**Nature of relationship**
||||**Transaction**
**amount (£)**|**Balance**
**outstanding at**
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Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator ## Reference and administration details Charity name SLOVO Russian Education & Support Centre by Registered charity number $C041702 Charity’s principal address 11 Lochter Drive ## Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report Name of person Listes 7 Dates acted if (or body) entitled to as fibeS ou not for whole year appoint trustee (if any) 1 Director 2 Headofteaching | 3 Administrator ee ee ‘ Member/Teacher | 5 Member/Parent | 7 Member/Teacher | 8 Member/Teacher | 9 MemberfTeacher | 10 ee ee a cr a a co a A a rr 1 APPENDIX 1 ## Reference and administration details Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period) =[ate][ acted][if][nt][ for][ whole][ year] Name |Structure, governance and management|Structure, governance and management| |---|---| |Type ofgoverning document|Constitution ofan unincorporated association.| |Trustee recruitment and appointment|Trustees are elected atAnnual General Meeting and appointed at other| ||times. Over halfofthe Management Committee do not hold paid positions| ||within the school.| |Objectives and activities|| |Charitable purposes|To provide education, promote citizenship and community development,| ||future equality and diversity facilitating the integration of Russian speaking| ||to the Scottish society.| |Summary ofthe main activities|Main activity is the operation ofthe Saturday School. Subjects: Russian| |in relation to these objects|language, literature, maths, biology, physics music, dancing, painting. Our| ||new classes, starting from September 2024, are designed to help students| ||prepareeffectivelyfortheirNational5andHigherexams.| 2 APPENDIX 1 Summary of the main achievements of | All classes were conducted at the Rosemount Community Centre the charity during the financial period | jn Aberdeen. During the 2024—2025 academic year, the programme continued to develop and expand. The main focus was on improving teaching quality, updating the curriculum, and introducing new subjects to better prepare students for National 5 and Higher examinations. Two new subjects, Biology and Physics, were added to the curriculum. These classes were introduced to strengthen students’ understanding of science and improve exam readiness. Collaboration with Lomonosov School was also initiated to provide additional support for students preparing for the Russian language examination. The teaching team worked to make lessons more interactive and engaging, and to encourage children to continue their learning journey beyond the classroom. Preschool classes remained in high demand among parents and continued to attract new participants. The programme focused on early literacy and communication development through the phonics method for alphabet study, and the learning of poetry with movement to support correct pronunciation, memory, and imagination.Fine motor skills were developed through art and craft activities, including colouring with play dough and small pieces of coloured paper, and using scissors and paper for cutting and shaping. In the Russian language classes, students improved their pronunciation through targeted speech exercises and studied writing and grammar. Russian fairy tales were introduced using puppet theatre and illustrated books, which supported comprehension and engagement. Children were also introduced to Russian literature, including Brief statement of the charity’s policy _ All unrestricted funds held at bank constitute the reserves of the charity. on reserves There wasa deficit for the 2024-202 year. Deficit of (£3616.00) — a Donated facilities and services (if any) 3 ## APPENDIX 1 ## Other optional information Overall, the 2024-2025 academic year was marked by programme development, curriculum enhancement, and strengthened collaboration with partner institutions. The introduction of new subjects and continued improvement in teaching methods contributed to higher student engagement and better exam preparation outcomes. ## Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Full name(s) eea Position (e.g. Chair) |Treasury accountant Teacher Date | 02/11/2025 02/11/2025 4