DOSTHILL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FII¥Af44CIAL ACCOLNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST.4LGLST ?02) IK)STHILL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FIliAliCIAL ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST AUGUST 202) P.4GE CONTENTS Annua] Report Aceountanys Report Receiprs and Payments Account General Fund Statement of Assets and Liabilities PAGE I DOSTHILL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ELYDED 31° AUCUST 2025 The Dosthill Park Pre-￿￿￿1 Play￿0Up is registered with the charity Commissioners (No. 1017243) And is wnstituted by the Pre-school Learning Alliance. Its principal address is The tk)rcas Centrq Blackworf Tamword4 Staff& B77 IJE. Th¢ Pre-school is administered by & m2nageTnent committK memb￿¥ of which are 2pwinted at the ¢hartty's annual gcnerdl meeting, and those serving during the yrarwere as follows: Mts Atnie Aldou5 Mrs Gemma Whecler Mrs Elizabeth Lightwood Mrs Stacey Repton MTS Kerry Mytton Mrs Rebecca Stevenson (chaI￿rgon) (Secretary) ITreasurer) R¥igned 20 June 2025 Resigned 18 October 2024. Resi￿ed 20 June 2025 Appointed ) tkc¢mb¢r 2024. Appointed 20 Jwie 2025 (Tr¢a5urer) (Secretary) The charity's objective is to provide pre-school play￿0Up facilities for children in the local communiry. The rnanagefflent committee aims to provide first class facilities for the children ai an affordable cost to parents. The charity employed 10 pre-school assistants and provided 8 sessions a m.eek during term time and overnll had approximately 48 children on averdge attending. The pre-school's primary income Ès LEA grants. and these increased again this year due to an incr¢ase in the number of ThinL? and children with special needs. There has been a decrvdse in direct fees charged as rnogt children qualified for funded placements. We also continue io raige additional income through fi￿dra]Sing activities such as raffles, Christmas and sutnEner fetes and sponsored eients. The Pre-school incurred a reduced oNerall surplus for the lear of £27,198 mainly due to higher wages costs. The surplus has again increL*d cash reser¥'es ai the J'ear-end 10 £77.80) a% shown in the balon¢e sheet on page 3. The pre-sch(K>l Mill conrinue io offer pre-school facilities of 30 hours per week for ¢hildren and with a continued restraint on expenses the Tnanagetnent committee is confident thai the chatiry will maintttin a suffi¢ient level of cash reserves and continue to proi'ide the pre-school facslities required by the local commtjnity. For and on behalf of the management committee E£my •0?6 PAGE ? STHILL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLAYCROUP INDEPENDEf4T EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF DOSTHILL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLA YGROUP I report on the accounts of the ChartTh" for the }"ear ended 31 August 2025 which are set out on pages 3 to 4. R¢spertive responsibilities of trustees and ¢Aaminer The charity's truste￿ are resp)n5ible for the preparation of the accounts. The cljarity's INstees consider that an audit 15 not required for this under seciion 14117) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 201 IAct} and that an independent exarniner is needed. Jt is my resw)nsibiliTh' to= Eiamine TF.e under 5ertion 145 of the 2011 Act; Follow" tr.e T￿edUr￿ laid doMTr in the generdl DIr￿tiOnS given by the Charity Commission under section 14sixMbioitrie"Oll Aci: and Swe pallicular matters have come to our aitenlion. Basis of iDdeptndeii etsminer's report M!. our in accordan￿ with the general Dirertions given by the Charity Commission. An e￿InatiOr.=_-.￿e￿ a.-ei iem" of the accounting records kepi by the charity and a ¢omparison of the accounts pre%mted 'ith thCv-,-*￿. [- li￿ includes consideraiion of any unusual iterns or di￿105UreS in the account4 and seeking tNpl8na[Ior￿ .-,r. mbiees concerning any such Tnatters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that in an a￿1[ and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the acwunts present a'true and fair 'ieH" YKYt is limi￿￿ TO those matters set oui in the statetnent below. IndepERdui euRi•er 5 Statement In corU￿aiW. yith eunination, no matter has come to my attention: V4knKh oiies MN reasonable cause to belteye that, in any material re5pecL the wuirements: 10 keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 ACL and io Nepare accoLmts which accord with the accowbting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act h*bt met. or T*hich in my Opinio￿ attention should be drawn in to enable aproper understanding of the a￿oUnts to be DOSTHELL PARK PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP Receipts and Payments Account Financi3J Year Ending 3 1st August 2025 PAGE 3 General Fund Iunrestricted) RECEtPTS 2025 2024 Donations I Fut2ds Raised Donations spon50r5hip ies and othLY similar ￿eI ts 1341 1.700 7,507 O ewing xtivities io fijrths charitK"'s Ob.￿*iV F£es Receil. Gmts Re(eiN'￿ - 18.097 184.180 18,772 176.433 Investm￿t incotne TB2iPtS Bank (ntLTesi 635 208,253 204.412 PAYMENTS Ch&iE2ble Pa%-. .Vi.L> Charitable ￿14.111￿ Siaff costs Rent UnifoETns Paini. Gluo IlattiLs Eic tnsurdnce 158.570 6.543 917 1.728 1,743 448 1.281 346 1.436 812 143,012 5,878 131 1,121 1.426 364 393 485 1,524 767 OFSTED PLA Littrkis & DBS'5 Eniertainmenis Presents & Prizzs Retshmentsi sn&k Sundri£s 173,825 155.101 ort costs Telephone. S:a;cw Postge Train￿nE an 1.497 571 1.078 152 68 1,672 915 872 7,334 116 1,739 5.037 10,977 110 474 2.063 1,307 2.173 181.035 167,858 27.218 50.587 36,553 Sc