FRIENDS OF VALENCE SCHOOL

Registered charity 275686 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VALENCE SCHOOL PARENT STAFF ASSOCIATION

The purpose of The is to raise funds for, support and promote Valence School. Valence School is a Local Authority maintained Special Boarding and Day School for Children and Young People with Physical Disabilities Complex Medical Needs and Associated Learning Difficulties. The funds help provide for extra curricular activities, prizes and gifts for the students and capital projects for the school.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUPILS OF VALENCE SCHOOL BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AT THE SCHOOL (NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY).

Area of benefit: CATCHMENT AREA OF VALENCE SCHOOL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a net deficit of £10,018, a reversal from the previous year's surplus of £21,080. Despite this operational loss, the organization maintained positive net assets of £47,804 and reported available free funds of £31,403.13 after ringfencing. The filing confirms the accounts were compiled by an accountant rather than audited, with the company relying on statutory exemption.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debbie Beaney
• Elizabeth Wenham
• Kim Ayles
• Matt Strange
• Nicola Norris
• Zena Belton · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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