Bilingual Family Bilingual Family Report and financial statements for the period ended 31 March 2025 (unaudited) Scottish Charity Number SC053564
Trustees Report
The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025
Trustees
The trustees for the period ended 31 March 2025 were as follows:
Additional trustee at the time of signing the Trustees' Annual Report 2024-2025
Constitution and Trustee recruitment
The Charity's governing document is its Constitution. The Trustees ensure that the Charity complies with its Constitution. The Trustees are recruited among the members of the Charity. No external organisations have the right to appoint Trustees.
Objectives
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Help children acquire, develop, and maintain all their languages, independent of which languages they speak and in which country in the world they live.
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Provide accurate, research-based information and advice on best practices on how to raise bilingual children at home and in educational settings, delivered by trained Bilingual Family Specialists.
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Advance the understanding of the benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism for children and young people.
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Promote language equality and diversity to give every child the chance to learn and use their heritage language(s) alongside the main language(s) of the community they live in, as stated in UN's Convention of the Rights of the Child, article 30.
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Advice policymakers on how to achieve language equality and diversity on a local, national, and international level.
Mission
The purpose of Bilingual Family is to offer guidance for bilingual families and professionals working with them by providing advice and practical tips on how to support, maintain and develop a child’s languages and cultures.
We raise awareness of the benefits of bilingualism and share research-based information on multiple platforms, including in-person events and collaborative partnerships. The organisation’s core values are inclusion, transparency, and empowerment.
Report of period ended 31 March 2025
The Charity was founded 08.08.2024 by former Project Partners and Ambassadors of the Erasmus+ project PEaCH.
The Charity acquired the rights to publish and further develop and translate the free materials created during PEaCH, as these materials were at risk of no longer being accessible to the general public.
The Charity has established its team structure which consists of the following teams: HR & Operations, Legal & Finance, Product, and Marketing, each with their own reponsibilities.
The Charity's most important aim during this period was to create a website to upload all existing materials to make sure they stay freely available to the public. These materials are: How to Raise a Bilingual Child (guide for parents), How to Support Multilingual Children (guide for educators), videos, printable materials, and Spotify playlists of children's songs in different languages. The Charity's website was launched on the 21.02.2025.
The Charity has actively shared the free materials on its social media platforms. The Charity has created and published on its website new informative articles on the topic of raising bilingual children.
Our members, called Ambassadors have spread the word about our free materials for parents and professionals.
Vision
Our vision is a world where every child can thrive in a multilingual environment, embracing and valuing their diverse linguistic heritage. Our aim is to be a global, trusted source of information for bilingual families and professionals working with them.
Future Plans
Create presentations for parents raising children to speak the family languages. We will create a pilot project and run it in Scotland for parents in families where e.g. Scots, Gaelic, Ukranian, Polish, Chinese, Arabic or any other language is spoken, and advise parents on the correct strategies to use for their children to learn the family language(s). Create an accreditation program for Bilingual Family Specialist who will be able to give presentations on behalf of Bilingual Family.
Translate our guides and other materials to further languages.
The report was approved by the trustees on 24th December 2025
Signed on behalf of the Charity
Chair
Bilingual Family, SC053564
Profit And Loss Account
For the year period ended 31 March 2025
| Income Total Income Expenses Net Proft / (Defcit) Donatons Refunds Bank Interest Bank Charges Website costs |
153 23 |
2025 £ |
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| 1 25 638 |
176 1 |
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| 177 663 |
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| - 487 |
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| - 487 |
Bilingual Family• SC053564 Balance Sheet As at 31 March 2025 2025 Bank Accounts Current account 513 513 Net assets 513 Beneficiaries Opening Balance, Unrestricted funds Loan Defi'cit l-l / Surplus for the year iooo 487 513 Made Up of: Restricted funds Unrestricted Funds 513 Total funds Total Closing Balance 513 We confirm the above statements and confirm that we have made available all the information and explanations necessary for their preparation. Chair Treasurer 24th December 2025
Independent Examlne¢5 report on the unaudlted financial statementsof Bilingual Family I report ontheaccounts ofthecharityfortheperiod ertded 31 March 2025 which areset out on pages4 and 5. Respective responsibilities of trustees and examlner The charity'strustees arereponsibleforthe preparation of theaccounts in accordancewith theterms of thecharities and Trust& Investment15cotland) Ad 2005 and thecharities Accounts (Scotlandl Regulations 2006. Thecharitiestrust*s consider that an audit requirement of Regulation 10 (l) Idl of theAccounts Regulationsdoes not apply. It is my reSpOnbIlItYto examinetheaccounts as rvITed under section 44(1) oftheAct and to statewhether particular mattws havecometo Myatttion. is on independent examiner'55tatement My examination is carried out in accordancewlth Regulation 11 oftheCharltiesAccounts {Scotland} Re8ulatlons 2006. An examination includesa reviewoftheatcounting record5 kept by thecharity and a comparison of theaccounts presented with those iecords. It also include5 consideration of unusual ItnS or disclosures in theaccounts and seeks explanationsfrom the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provideall the evidencethat would berequired i n an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinlon on theview given bytheaccounts. Independent Examiner'sstatement In thecourse of myexamination, no matter hascometo my attention whlch gives me reasonable cau5eto believethat In any material re5pttherequ1rernents. to keep accounting records in accordancewith Section 4411) la> of the2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and to prepare accountswhieh accord with the accountlng recordsand complywlth Regulation 9 of the 2006 kcounts Regulation5 have not been met. Independent Examiner Dated. 24 Decefflber 2025 Pa8e3