## **SkatePal SCIO** **Scottish Charity Number SC044815** **Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025** 1 ## **SkatePal SCIO** ## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 2025** The Trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025. ## **Reference and administrative information** ## _Principal address_ ## **Structure, governance and management** ## _Governing Document_ SkatePal was registered as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation on 23 April 2014 and is governed by Constitution. ## _Recruitment and appointment of Trustees_ Trustees are appointed or reappointed by the members at our AGM which is held in August each year. ## **Objectives and activities** ## _Charitable Purposes_ Our purposes are the advancement of public participation in sport (skateboarding) for Palestinians living on the West Bank, and the provision of free recreational facilities primarily in areas where sporting facilities are not readily available to young people, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. 2 ## _**Activities and achievements**_ ## _Continuation of Partnership with Skateboarding.PS and Gaza Skate Team_ We had already been supporting Skateboarding.PS (SB.PS) and Gaza Skate Team (GST) before this year but we began regular monthly stipends to both organisations in 2024 to help them grow and have more independence. These two organisations carry out all the skateboard sessions / classes that happen in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip. who founded GST, and who founded dentifying and applying apacity build- We stay in regular contact with bot (SB.PS) and help them in terms of str ing, and equipment and hardware sourcing. We also have regular weekly calls wit programs in the West Bank, as well as SB.PS to manage and assess all our his organisation. ## _Workshops at our ofAice in Ramallah_ SB.PS has run sessions in our of]ice in Ramallah, both in woodworking and general boot camps where the local skaters come together to discuss how they can grow the skate scene in various ways. We have also managed to successfully ship directly to our of]ice in Ramallah although not all shipments arrive. ## _New Skatepark site in Ramallah_ We have ]inally secured land to build our ]lagship skatepark in Istiqlal park, Al-Bireh / Ramallah. We have been working with the Istiqlal park board over the past 6 months to agree on the scope and location of this skatepark, which will also include a basketball court, green space, and a container for a cafe / skate shop. SB.PS has started skateboard sessions in the park, preparing the young people for the opening of what will be our biggest skatepark yet. ## _Focus on shop income_ We were unable to have any international volunteers head to Palestine this year for our programs and so we were not able to raise any funds through our usual volunteer fundraising again this year. We have continued to focus on our online shop, taking on an ex-volunteer, Tom Bird, as our creative director in April 2024. He made the Sahten Cookbook and has been working on designs and collaborations for new products in our shop. This has allowed us to make up a signi]icant part of our budget without having to search out and apply for further grants. ## **Financial Review** We are pleased to report that our ]inances have remained steady again this year thanks to our shop sales. We were not able to have volunteers out in Palestine for most of the year so the volunteer fundraising has decreased this year but we have made up for it with an increase in merchandise sales. 3 We are also grateful to those who have awarded us grants this year, which has made up 18% of our overall income. Our major grant givers were: the Berfred Foundation, and Betong Skateparks. ## _**Reserves**_ SkatePal held unrestricted funds of £9,467.75 at the year end. SkatePal holds reserves primarily for the following reasons: 1) Unforeseen emergencies both in Palestine and in UK 2) If the funding budget for the year is not able to be met e.g. having to cancel the international volunteer program which would lead to a loss of fundraising for the charity. Approved by the trustees on (16/12/25 ) and signed on their behalf by: _Date 07/12/25_ 4 APPENDIX 3 OSCR Scottish Chanty Regulator Independent examiner's report on the accounts Report to the Charity name trusteeslmembers of SkatePAL {SCIO) Registered charity SC044815 number On the accounts of the charity for the period Period start date Period end date Month MARCH Year 2024 Year APRIL fo 31 25 Set out on pages twto inthde th p4e addNK)nal Respective The charty's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the a counts in accordance responsibilities of with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Inve tment (Scotland} 2005 Act and the trustees and examiner Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulati ns 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees consider that the audit requirem nt of Regulation 10(11 (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It i 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 Regulatio 11 of the 2006 Accounts examiner's statement Regulations. An examination includes a review of he accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented wth those records. It also includes consideration of ny unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do nol provide all the evidence that would be require in an audit and, consequently, I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the ac ounts. Independent examiner's In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention [other th n that statement disdosed on the attached page"] which gtves me reasonable cause to believe that in any malerial resp ct the requirements: to keep accounting records in accordan￿ with section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulat ons, and to prepare accounts which accord wtth 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 unts to be reached. Date: Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body lif any}: 13 December 2025 CHARTERED blENBER OF THE INSTITtnlE OF IIITERNAL AUDITORS (CMIIA) Address: 'Please delete the words n the t(ackets if they do not If the words do appty, sel out th058 matters vthich have C£￿ to ywr attent￿ on the folk)wr¥J pa￿. APPENDIX 3 Disclosure section Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material problems. Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose I have revie ed Skate AL, accoun s and atc ed income a d x enditu e o a samp e o receipts a d invo ces. No iss es d ntfied nd l am hap y t sign off the accounts. ## **Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 March 2025** ||General
Fund
Restricted
Fund
Total
funds
Total
funds
**2025**
**2024**
£
£| |---|---| ||| |**Receipts**
Note|| ||| |Donations
Fundraising activities
Merchandise sales
Grants
Gift Aid|23 812
23 812
37 872
5 325
5 325
11 754
203 589
203 589
86 846
8 567
1 366
9 933
31 244
3 736
3 736
1 251
4 780
4 780
4 677
0
13 531
13 531
0
30 000
30 000
0| |Reimbursements|| |Of]ice Sublet
Fundraising for Gaza
Loans|| ||| |Total Receipts
**Payments**
Fundraising expenses
Salaries and contractor fees
Pension Contributions
National Insurance
Staff expenses
ATM withdraws
Equipment, tools and materials
Project Engineering Services
Volunteers expenses
Volunteer housing
Merchandise Printing|293 340
1 366
294 706
173 644
**2025**
**2024**
3 813
3 813
4 045
88 454
88 454
70 996
1 714
1 714
1 714
6 644
6 644
6 871
6 000
6 000
7 913
120
120
662
1 501
1 501
3 661
0
0
2 831
0
0
1 292
0
0
6 606
94 820
94 820
32 349| 6 |Printing
Postage and Packaging
Customs
Of]ice Equipment
Administration expenses
Of]ice rent
Card / ATM transaction fees
Petty cash
Reimbursements
Loan Repayments
Gifts
Gaza Donations
Other Dontions
Olympic trip
Visa expenses|100
43 206
250
712
3 699
18 789
26
0
1 776
19 996
555
19 701
0
0
0|100
43 206
250
712
3 699
18 789
26
0
1 776
19 996
555
19 701
0
0
0|130
14 177
0
1 428
3 072
8 182
59
0
328
0
406
0
678
950
0| |---|---|---|---| ||||| |Total payments
**Surplus (DeRicit) for the year**
**Funds brought forward at 1 April 2024**
**Funds carried forward at 31**
**March 2025**|311 876
0|311 876|168 350| ||||| |||17167|16118| |||26635
9 468|| ||||| 7 ## **Statement of Balances as at 31 March 2025** ||Total funds
Total funds
2025
2024
£
£| |---|---| |Note|| ||| |Bank and cash in hand
Bank
Cash|| ||9 468
26 635
0
0| ||9 468
26 635| ||| |Other assets
Debtors|| ||-| ||| |Liabilities
Creditors|| ||| All funds are unrestricted. The notes on page 7 are an integral part of these accounts. Approved by the trustees on 16/12/25 and signed on their behalf by: _ate 16_ /12/25 8