# **Guilden Sutton Pre-School Financial Statements**
**Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **Guilden Sutton Pre-School**
## **Contents of the Financial Statements Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **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 2025**
We report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025 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 Faye Tucker: Treasurer Elisabeth Dixon: Committee member Cora Thorne: Committee member Susie Harrington: Committee member (appointed 7 November 2024) Bethany Coffey: Committee member (appointed 7 November 2024) Charlotte Roberts: Committee member (appointed 7 November 2024) Lisa Fox-Pritchard: Committee member (resigned 7 November 2024) Rachel Keegan: Treasurer (resigned 7 November 2024)
## **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 per week. 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.
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## **Guilden Sutton Pre-School**
## **Trustees’ Annual Report Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **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 and made a small surplus in the year.
## **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
5 February 2026
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## **Guilden Sutton Pre-School**
## **Receipts and Payments Account Year Ended 31 August 2025**
|**Receipts**
Donations
Fees BACS/Childcare Vouchers
Funding
Fundraising
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
**Total Payments**
**Surplus for the year**
**Cash balances brought forward**
**Cash balances carried forward**|**Total and**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
-
11,096
65,899
717
178
**77,890**
195
900
229
277
-
72
1,964
967
499
50
393
291
7,883
3,986
412
51,984
262
1,314
-
391
**72,068**
**5,822**
**51,734**
**57,556**|**Total and**
**Unrestricted**
**Funds**
**2024**
**£**
518
11,916
48,891
1,149
158|
|---|---|---|
|||**62,632**|
|||185
900
142
157
-
-
334
790
538
50
373
171
7,490
2,281
581
45,676
153
264
59
120|
|||**60,264**|
|||**2,368**
**49,366**|
|||**51,734**|
## **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 2025
Richard Dixon: Chair
5 February 2026
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## **Guilden Sutton Pre-School**
## **Statement of Assets and Liabilities As at 31 August 2025**
|**Cash funds**
Bank current account
Bank deposit account
Petty cash|**31 August**
**2025**
**£**
40,346
17,198
12
**57,556**|**31 August**
**2024**
**£**
34,710
17,020
3|
|---|---|---|
|||**51,734**|
## **Assets retained for the charity's own use**
The charity owns various play equipment, computer tablets a laptop and a phone.
## **Liabilities**
The charity had no liabilities at 31 August 2025
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## **Guilden Sutton Pre-School**
## **Independent Examiners Report Year Ended 31 August 2025**
## **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 2025 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**
## **5 February 2026**
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