# **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date
Period end date
**From** 1st July 2023
**To** 30[th] June 2024
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Northleach Playgroup **Other names charity is known by** n/a **Registered charity number (if any)** 1015852 **Charity's principal address** School House, Mill End Northleach Cheltenham **Postcode GL54 3HJ** ~~—~~
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1015852
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|
|1 Fiona Nevins|Chair|||
|2 Krupa Harman|Secretary|||
|3 Rachel Eastwood|Treasurer|January2024 -present||
|4 Rebecca Nicholson|4 Rebecca Nicholson|||
|5 Michaela Davies||January2024 –present||
|6 Natasha Smith||January2024 -present||
|7||||
|8||||
|9||||
|10||||
|11||||
|12||||
|13||||
|14||||
|15||||
|16||||
|17||||
|18||||
|19||||
|20
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Group Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) The officers are elected by the Ordinary members at the AGM. The Trustee selection methods committee consists of 3 officers (Chair, Secretary and Treasurer). We also (eg. appointed by, elected by) have general members who attending committee meetings and assist with fundraising efforts. **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS checks) are undertaken for all You **may choose** to include committee members and employees. additional information, where relevant, about:
Playgroup is subject to Ofstead inspections and compliance.
- policies and procedures We are members of PATA – Playgroup and Toddler Association.
- adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
We liaise with Early Years advisors from GCC.
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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Our main priority is providing a Playgroup for local children. (Education and training of pre-school age children in line with the Early Years Foundation stage).
Our premises is within the local primary school grounds, so we have close links with the school for children transitioning to begin their primary school journey.
This does encompass liaising with our local community especially with regard to fundraising and events in the area.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
We are proud to be a local childcare provider, providing a service to our community and employing local people. The committee and staff’s knowledge ensure we all support each other, that we follow our legal requirements, train staff regularly, follow our policies and procedures and make Playgroup a happy and safe place to work and for the children who attend.
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## **Section E Financial review**
We aim to hold sufficient financial reserves to sustain the running of **Brief statement of the** Playgroup if income falls below expected levels, to meet redundancy **charity’s policy on reserves** obligations if required, and future planning towards alternative premises/rental costs.
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
The main source of income is Nursery Education Funding from You **may choose** to include Gloucestershire County Council. In addition, we have fees to additional information, where parents/caregivers for those not in receipt of funding. We also rely heavily relevant about: on fundraising and donations.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Rachel Eastwood (electronic) **Full name(s)** Rachel Eastwood **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 28/04/2025
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|||**NORTHLEACH PLAYGROUP**|**NORTHLEACH PLAYGROUP**|**NORTHLEACH PLAYGROUP**||||**No 1015852**|**No 1015852**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**
1stJuly 2023
30th June 2024
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||||||||**CC16a**||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Fees - GCC||**61,653**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**61,653**||**29,209**||
|Fees - Parents||**10,163**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**10,163**||**7,240**||
|Fundraising||**2,686**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,686**||**3,340**||
|Schools Meals||**685**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**685**||**267**||
|Donations & Other||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**20**||
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_||_(Gross income for_
_AR)_
**75,187**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**75,187**||**40,076**||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
Bank Interest
**119**
**-**
**-**
**119**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 119**
**-**
**-**
**119**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**75,306**
**-**
**-**
**75,306**
**40,076**
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Employment costs||**69,199**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**69,199**||**45,372**||
|TrainingCosts||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**878**||
|Premises,Subs & Insurance||**3,330**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**3,330**||**4,779**||
|Administration||**3,898**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**3,898**||**1,711**||
|Consumables||**2,081**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,081**||**851**||
|Fundraising||**1,234**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**1,234**||**850**||
|Other||**2,374**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**2,374**||**1,939**||
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**82,116**||**-**|**-**||**-**||**82,116**||**56,380**||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**82,116**
**-**
**-**
**82,116**
**56,380**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 6,810**
**-**
**-**
**- 6,810**
**- 16,304**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**34,079**
**- -**
**34,079**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**27,269**
**-**
**- 27,269**
**- 16,304**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
28/04/2025
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Current Account
Savings / Rerve Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
Rachel Eastwood(electronic)|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**16,109**
**-**
**11,160**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,269**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Rachel Eastwood|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**20,038**|
||||**14,041**|
||||**-**|
||||**34,079**|
||||Agreement Error|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||Rachel Eastwood(electronic)|Rachel Eastwood|28/04/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
28/04/2025
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
NORTHLEACH PLAYGROUP
On accounts for the year
ended
30Th JUNE 2024
Charlty no
(If any)
1015852
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (h8 Trusf) for the year ended 3010612024.
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Tru8t, you a responsible for the preparation
hAo!s rt! mnnrt rf th•> ae.r.ni Into in wilh th• rpni iir•m•nts n! thsth f.haritiAo Act
2011 (he Acr).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5){b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Indepondent
examiner's statement
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brack8ts rf they do not apply.
Slgned:
Date:
2510412025
Name:
A4RON BEECHEY- AJB ACCOUNTANCY & TAX LTD
Relevant professlonal
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
ASSOCIATION OF ACCOUNTING TECHINICAINS
Address:
100 WADARDS MEADOW, WITNEY,
OXFORDSHIRE
OX28 3YX
IER
October 2018
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
examiners).
Givv ti¥1¥ bii¥i U¥idii• fji
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018