Friday 26th Sept 2014.

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HEAR FROM THE HEADS

SARAH HELM ANNA MARTIN ALEX WILKINSON

HEAD TEACHER INFANTS HEAD TEACHER INFANTS HEAD TEACHER JUNIORS

(CURRENTLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE)

TREASURER’S REPORT

SEPTEMBER 2013 TO AUGUST 2014

Welcome to the School Year

To kick start the year we introduced a Quiz Night.

This was our first event with alcohol.

From this we had a large expenditure, only making:

However, we did have a blast!

Our second Quiz is on the 10th October.

Cake Sale – September 2013 Our cake sales are held at both schools.

Due to afterschool clubs we find it difficult to always fit in, but a small dose of sugar helps raise vital funds.

Cakes are donated by families and sold for 20p to £2

Profits were:

Infants £158.27

Juniors £130.90

Total profit:

Christmas Wrap 2013 This very popular is always a hit, masses amount of work,

but helps empower our children.

The children love selecting surprise gifts for their grown-ups.

We will always need volunteers to help shop, support and wrap presents, join us in a mulled wine wrapping gifts.

The overall profit last year was:

Christmas 2013

•To support the Christmas wrap, we introduced Christmas Cards. •Both Schools took part in designing their own cards, the juniors completed in school time, the infants over the half term at home.•We are looking to do this again this year, so look out for your children's’ designs.•This is an admin intensive project, support always welcome!•This year, we are taking it one step further and introducing Children's Christmas treats.

•We raised £703.10 Profit

School Discos Nov 13, Feb 2014

The Discos were held at the Juniors and sell out QUICK!

It is really nice to have a social BYO as well as being able to purchase refreshments.

All the children have a great time at the disco, and the parents seem to enjoy it too!

Tickets are guaranteed IF you volunteer!

These events have made a total profit of:

£1537.88

Handmade & Vintage Fair March We focus this event on the community as well as the

schools.

We want to celebrate our talented Parents/Carers, so they have first shout on stalls, then to the local community.

We charged entry, had a raffle, sold sandwiches and cake, had sponsorship and a Friends craft stall.

Helping us double our profit:

£1535.11

Silent Auction

A brand spanking new event for us. We had over 40 lots donated by parents and local businesses, from camping to a meal cooked in your home.

A lot of work, but very much worthwhile. We will be doing it again this year, we have found an auction site and will be using that.

Can you help?

We raised:

£878.70

Summer Fair – June 2014 The original date had to be changed, it was predicted to

be one of the worst storms of the summer.

The day turned out to be glorious!

Stalls included refreshments, BBQ, Beer Tent, loads of fun games, tombola, raffle and crafts.

Old favourites returned, coconut shy, face paint, henna tattoos, uniform stall and book stall.

There will be a specific Summer Fair committee this year, to run the project, if you think you can help, fill out your form!

The summer fair raised a staggering: £3199.39

Smaller Fundraisers Clothes for a Cause-Twice a year we ask you to bring your old clothes in. We

raised £596.20.

You can help raise money just from your shopping online, www.easyfundraising.org.uk/focsdownend we raised £203.21,with just 50 supporters, do you shop online?

Shopping at Yellow Moon, SFR13009, recycling your CDs to music magpie, raised £42.28.

Easter Egg colouring competition, with prizes donated by Sainsburys, raised, £108.15.

Y2/Y6 Leavers Hoodies, a first for Y2 raised £219.10.

The Uniform shop, run by volunteers, donated £1000 to the Friends.

Summary – 2014

Total Profit £11661.62

Funds Raised

Quiz Night, reception welcome 39.92

Yellow moon & Music Magpie 42.28

Cake Sale September 292.37

Christmas Wrap 1549.91

Christmas Cards 703.10

Disco NOVEMBER 9-11-13 743.81

Disco FEBRUARY 8-2-14 794.07

Handmade & Vintage Fair 1535.11

Easyfundraising 203.21

Silent Auction 878.70

Sports Day- Juniors 67.55

Clothes for a cause 596.20

Summer Fair 3199.39

Easter Egg Colouring Competition 108.15

Uniform Shop/website 1000.00

300 Club -20.00

Leavers Hoodies 219.10

Gift Aid 0.00

Business Interest 0.51

Net total Raised by Friends 13/14 11953.38

Misc expenses 291.76

Overall Total Raised by Friends 13/14 11661.62

So where does all the money go?

All the money made is split 50:50 between the two schools, and held in a central fund.

Teachers can then request money for many varied things, the only stipulation is that it must benefit the children's education.

The Friends Committee then votes on whether the funds are granted.

This year, the money raised has been spent as follows:

Money Paid OutJuniors:

£500 Fully Subsidise whole school trip to see Sinbad (£2000 on previous year)

£1000 Robots- to support the new curriculum.

£142.50 Frames to support and display Children's inspirational artwork around the school.

£900 Subsidise Upper Band trip- Air Fleet Museum.

£900 Subsidise Lower Band trip- Cadbury World

£3442.50 Spent

Money Paid OutInfants:

£650 Whole school trip to Sikh Temple

£725 Wonder Week and art work (Friendship bench)

£300 Reading books

£200 Puppets for KS1 and Lego replenishment (EYFS)

£120 Top up Small world, so all classes have access to outdoor learning.

£83.40 Clipboards, outdoor learning.

£360 Theatre company, production of WW1, Christmas day.

£140 digital cameras

£260 100 counting squares, to support drive of maths in school.

£2938.40 Spent

Bank Account Summary

Start Balance

Money made (17 events)

Funds donated – Infants

Funds donated – Juniors

Miscellaneous expenses

End balance

£4705.04

£11953.38

£2938.40

£3442.50

£291.76

£9985.76

Infants Funds Summary

Start balance available

Money made

Funds donated

End balance available

£181.34

£5830.81

£2938.40

£3073.75

Juniors Funds SummaryStart balance available

Money made

Funds donated

End balance available

£4523.70

£5830.81

£3442.50

£6912.01

Where next, for us?We have worked hard this year to show transparency, mostly dueto our skills from our day jobs! We have introduced Dropbox, tocut down on our workload, launched our own website and emailaddress, started using MyDonate, Sign Up Genius and Facebook.We invested in a cash counter (my new best toy) to reduce timeafter events.

Next year will see the introduction of Gift Aid, hopefullyparents/carers work for companies who Match Fund so we willraise funds that way, online auction sites, pre-printed raffletickets and so much more!

Where next, for the Schools?Both schools are looking into using a vast amount of the

money raised for Forest School. This will require work on the land and training so is a long term project. Watch this

space!

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