2023-08-31-accounts

Guilden Sutton Pre-School Financial Statements

Year Ended 31 August 2023

Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Contents of the Financial Statements Year Ended 31 August 2023

Contents

	Page
Trustees’ Annual Report	1 - 2
Receipts and Payments Account	3
Statement of Assets and Liabilities	4
Independent Examiners Report	5

Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Trustees’ Annual Report Year Ended 31 August 2023

We report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2023 which are set out on page 3 and 4

Reference and Administrative Details

Charity Name	Guilden Sutton Pre-School
Charity Registration Number	1000924
Principal Address	Guilden Sutton Village Hall, Summerfield Road, Guilden Sutton, Chester
	CH3 7SW
Charity Trustees	Richard Dixon: Chair Person (appointed 19 September 2023)
	Rachel Keegan: Treasurer
	Lisa Fox-Pritchard: Committee member
	Faye Tucker: Committee member (appointed 19 September 2023)
	Elisabeth Dixon: Committee member (appointed 19 September 2023)
	Rebecca Conner: Chair Person (resigned 19 September 2023)
	Christine Merrick: Committee member (resigned 19 September 2023)

Objectives and Activities

Guilden Sutton Pre-School provides daily sessions for children between the ages of two and a half and four.

To advance the education of children below compulsory school age.

The trustees have had due regard to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, the above activities furthering the charity’s purpose in this area.

Achievements and Performance

The pre-school has had an active successful year offering ten sessions.

Close links have been maintained with the local church and school as well as the local toddler group.

Financial Review

Reserves

Reserves are held in a bank current account and bank deposit account. Reserves must, as a minimum, cover wind up costs. The remainder is held for the replacement of equipment and potential future expansion or relocation.

Review of Financial Position

The pre-school principal source of funding is fees, paid directly or through the nursery education grant. Some fundraising is also undertaken. The charity has a good level of reserves at the year end despite making a small deficit in the year.

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Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Trustees’ Annual Report Year Ended 31 August 2023

Structure, Governance and Management

The charity was registered on 14 November 1990. Its constitution was adopted on 18 September 1990 and amended on 10 October 1996 and 20 September 2006. The pre-school is registered with Ofsted and affiliated to the Pre-School Learning Alliance.

Overall management of the charity is provided by a committee of elected Trustees. Trustees are elected annually by the membership. All parents and guardians of children attending pre-school are members of the pre-school.

Approved on behalf of the board of Trustees by

Richard Dixon: Chair

22 January 2024

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Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Receipts and Payments Account Year Ended 31 August 2023

Receipts Donations Fees BACS/Childcare Vouchers Funding Fundraising Nusery Milk Scheme Bank Interest Received Total Receipts Payments Accountancy Fees Activities for Children Advertising & Marketing Art and Crafts Resources Donations First Aid General Expenses Insurance IT & Other Subscriptions Ofsted Fees Payroll Processing Fees Printing & Stationery Rent Resources and Equipment Snacks Staff Wages & Pension Costs Telephone & Internet Training Trips Uniform Asset Purchases Phone Total Payments (Deficit)/Surplus for the year Cash balances brought forward Cash balances carried forward	Total and Unrestricted Funds 2023 £ 33 12,062 46,794 876 - 38 59,803 175 839 161 234 35 112 611 714 513 58 373 311 7,288 1,402 554 46,271 79 192 (2) 76 59,996 - 59,996 (193) 49,559 49,366	Total and Unrestricted Funds 2022 £ 3 6,233 37,034 898 12 2
		44,180
		150 820 - 427 - 116 687 537 473 50 377 153 7,030 1,247 405 37,496 69 375 73 178
		50,662 100
		50,762
		(6,583) 56,142
		49,559

Approval of Accounts

On behalf of the Trustees I approve this Receipts and Payments Account and the Statement of Assets and Liabilities on the following page for the year ended 31 August 2023

Richard Dixon: Chair 22 January 2024

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Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Statement of Assets and Liabilities As at 31 August 2023

Cash funds Bank current account Bank deposit account Petty cash	31 August 2023 £ 32,426 16,862 78 49,366	31 August 2022 £ 32,609 16,824 125
		49,559

Assets retained for the charity's own use

The charity owns various play equipment, computer tablets a laptop and a phone.

Liabilities

The charity owed £272 of PAYE/NI and £130 of pension contributions at the year end. These were both paid in September 2023.

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Guilden Sutton Pre-School

Independent Examiners Report Year Ended 31 August 2023

Independent Examiner's Report to the Trustees of Guilden Sutton Pre-School

I report to the charity trustees on my examination of the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2023 which are set out on pages 1 to 4

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’).

I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the Act and in carrying out my examination I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Andrew Hopwood FCA

5 Hunters Croft, Higher Kinnerton, Chester, CH4 9PD

22 January 2024

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