**East Sutherland Schools Sports Association Scottish Charity Number SC042898**
## **Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025**
## **Scottish Charity Number SC042898**
## **Current trustees**
Shelly Taylor Mairi Scott Sarah Evans Graham Still Jane Bains Lesley Morrison Pat Sutherland Elissa Stevenson
**Other trustees during the year** :- Kyle Eaglesfield, Dawn McKenzie, Murdoch Jamieson
## **Contact address**
Lairg Primary school, Main Street , Lairg, IV27 4DD
## **Recruitment and appointment of Trustees**
All Officers for the ensuing year are elected from the members of the Branch at the Annual General Meeting. All Officers retire from their elected position at the following AGM and are eligible for re-election.
## **Governing document**
The Association is a charitable unincorporated association and the purposes and administration arrangements are set out in our constitution. The Association became a charity on the 27 January 2012.
## **Charitable purposes**
To promote inclusion, participation and enjoyment of physical education, sport and health activities for children and young people in East Sutherland.
## **Activities and achievements**
Sports and extra-curricular activities have resumed.
Cross Country Events were held in Bonar and Dornoch. And a trip to Fairburn Activity Centre
## **Trustee remuneration and expenses**
The trustees did not receive any remuneration or expenses during the year.
## **Reserves**
There was a deficit of £1578. Frequent Trustee meetings ensures that reserves are always available and when necessary fundraising will take place.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by:-
## _Lesley Morrison_
LESLEY MORRISON Treasurer Date: 30/4/2026
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## **East Sutherland Schools Sports Association Scottish Charity Number SC042898**
Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of east Sutherland Schools Sports associationreport on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 July 2025 which are set out on pages 2 to 4.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. 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 examiner’s statement**
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 view given by the accounts.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention
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.
## Signature: _Christine Ross_
Date: 30/04/2026
Name: Christine Ross
Address: VGS, Lairg community Centre, Main Street, Lairg, IV27 4DB
Relevant Professional qualification/professional body if appropriate: n/a
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**East Sutherland Schools Sports Association Scottish Charity Number SC042898 Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 July 2025**
|**Receipts**
Grants
**Total Receipts**
**Payments**
Transport
Activities/External Coaches
Medals/Trophies
Donations
Independent Examination
**Total Payments**
**Surplus/(Deficit) for year**|**2025**
**2024**
3560|
|---|---|
||0
3560
951
480
215
423
537
169
50
60|
||1593
1292|
||**(1593)**
**2268**|
## **Statement of Balances as at 31 July 2025**
|**2025**
**Bank and cash in hand**
Opening balances
5866
Surplus/(deficit ) for year
(1593)
**Closing balances**
**4273**|**2024**
3598
2268
**5866**|
|---|---|
## Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf by:-
## _Lesley Morrison_
LESLEY MORRISON Treasurer Date: 30/4/2026
## **NOTES**
## **1. Reserves**
All funds are unrestricted
## **2. Trustee Remuneration and Expenses**
No trustees received any remuneration or reimbursement of expenses in the year.
## **3. Basis of Accounting**
These accounts have been prepared on the receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended)
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