## **Trustees Annual Report For Whitngton Under Fives**
## **For The Year To 31st March 2026**
**Charity Name** : Whittington Under Fives
## **Registered Charity Number** : 1017265
**Charity Address** : The Community Centre, Station Road, Whittington, Oswestry, Shropshire SY11 4DA
## **Whitngton Under Fives Current Ofcers** :
Name: Post Held: Anita Wear Chair Rachel Talbot Treasurer Alex Clarke Secretary
## **Senior Staff Members** :
Dawn Blackburn & Mandy Hughes
## **Structure, Governance & Management**
Type of governing document: Constitution, adopted 11 September 2012.
The overall management and control of Whittington Under Fives rests with the individual member of the management committee. Those persons making up the committee are also the Charity Trustees of Whittington Under Fives.
Trustee Selection Methods: Trustees are appointed or re-appointed annually at the Annual General Meeting.
## **Additonal Governance Issues**
There is a child protection policy in place. Criminal Records Bureau checks are carried out once new Trustees have been elected.
Whittington Under Fives is a member of the Pre-School Learning Alliance.
All Trustees give their time voluntarily and receive no remuneration or other benefits.
## **Objectves & Actvites**
Whittington Under Fives aims to:
- Provide high quality care and education from 2 years old until school age
- Work in partnership with parents to provide the opportunities for children to learn and develop
- Add to the life and well-being of its local community
- Offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality and values diversity
There is great value to the children as each child is:
- In a safe and stimulating environment
- Given care and attention and the chance to join in with other children and adults to play, work and learn together
- Helped to take forward their learning and development by building on what they already know and can do
- Allocated a personal key person who assesses their key children then plans opportunities for each child to progress
## **Achievements & Performance**
We had an Easter craft week, where the children made various Easter craft items to take home.
The local police officer visited in May, to talk to the children about road safety.
In June we had a stay and play session for prospective new families who may start in September, this was held over 2 afternoons.
Our leavers enjoyed a lunch at school as well as stay and play sessions. The reception teacher also visited us to meet the children and read them a story.
We held a coffee afternoon in July, where the children leaving and moving on to school preform a play Infront of parents/ families. This year the performance was Snow White and the colourful dwarfs.
During the Winter term the children took part in a number of Christmas activities including, a craft week, where the children could make various Christmas crafts to take home with them. For our annual Nativity Play we invited the local senior citizens from the village to attend the dress rehearsals of the nativity and treated them to tea/ coffee and mince pies. From feedback of this the senior citizens thanked us and said they had thoroughly enjoyed it. Parents and families attended the next day to see the children in the nativity.
Early in December the staff and children were invited to have a school Christmas lunch, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
A Christmas party was held for the children, with a party food lunch and entertainment by Diddi Dance.
Throughout the year we have had Shropshire music and Border Gymnastics come in to the setting to give a varied experience for the children
## **Financial Review**
## **Living wage increase. Impact on pension & NI**
The closing bank balance in the Everyday Account as at the end of the Financial Year (05/04/2026) was £51,214.00. The Savings Account balance stood at £125,212.00 (not showing the interest added).
These funds are held to maintain the day to day running of the setting and to meet any unforeseen expenses that may occur. A reserve for redundancies is held along with a reserve for one term’s costs. These monies are held in case of change to attendance which would have significant impact on income.
Working on approximately £160,000.00 expenditure for the year, we have calculated a figure of up to £53,000.00 that we will keep in reserve representing approximately one term’s costs.
The main income stream continues to come from the fees received. This is either from parents and/or carers and the majority from local council for funded hours and working family entitlement. Other smaller income includes fundraising events such as lucky bauble and coffee mornings.
A Christmas fair was held, with outside people booking a table to sell items. A variety of stalls were held including, Tattoos, tombola, surprise tombola, write a letter to Father Christmas and lucky dip. Father Christmas also visited, enabling the children to give him their letter.
Parents also contribute towards trips and purchase of pre-school uniform which makes up some more income for the setting.
The largest expense for the setting is staff costs which include wages, HMRC and pensions. Other expenditure includes rent, photocopier hire, insurance and telephone/internet charges. Annual professional fees for OFSTED and PLA registration fees, as well as staff training costs have been paid.
Funds have been spent on new equipment and resources for the children, these include e.g books, craft materials, paint, paper etc.
The level of children has been good this year, with a steady increase throughout the year.
## **Declaraton**
The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees report above.
## **Signed on behalf of the Charity Trustees**
|Signature
Positon|Full Name|
|---|---|
||Date|
|**Whi$ngton under Fives**|**Whi$ngton under Fives**|||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Year end 31 March 2026**||||||||||||||||||||||
|**Income and Expenditure Account**||||||||||||||||||||||
||||_UNRESTRICTED FUNDS_|||**UNRESTRICTED FUNDS**||||||**Movement**||||||||||
||||_YEAR ENDED_|||**YEAR ENDED**||||||||||||||||
||||_31-Mar-25_|||**31-Mar-26**||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Income_**||||||||||||||||||||||
||Parent fees||_£_
_13,378.45_|||**£**
**15,163.19**||||||1,784.74||||||||||
||Council funding||_£_
_154,951.51_|||**£**
**139,929.19**||||||(15,022.32)||||||||||
||Fundraisingevents||_£_
_815.50_|||**£**
**484.70**||||||(330.80)||||||||||
||Shropshire Council - Stayand Play||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||Trip||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||Party||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||T-shirts||_£_
_271.18_|||**£**
**159.50**||||||(111.68)||||||||||
||Commission||_£_
_22.00_|||**£**
**-**||||||(22.00)||||||||||
||PackagingtesIng||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||Interest||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||Food Vouchers funding||_£_
_945.00_|||**£**
**1,050.00**||||||105.00||||||||||
||Other(donaIons etc)||_£_
_4,865.37_|||**£**
**231.63**||||||(4,633.74)||||||||||
|||||_175,249.01_|||**157,018.21**||||||(18,230.80)|||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|**_Expenditure_**||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
||_Wages_||_£_
_105,515.92_|||**£**
**108,975.67**||||||3,459.75||||||||||
||_HMRC_||_£_
_7,730.62_|||**£**
**10,915.68**||||||3,185.06||||||||||
||_Pensions_||_£_
_3,279.19_|||**£**
**4,046.43**||||||767.24||||||||||
||_Rent_||_£_
_5,200.00_|||**£**
**5,460.00**||||||260.00||||||||||
||_Insurance_||_£_
_1,785.76_|||**£**
**1,134.08**||||||(651.68)||||||||||
||_Telephone and internet_||_£_
_769.17_|||**£**
**779.58**||||||10.41||||||||||
||_Photocopier_||_£_
_1,735.20_|||**£**
**1,735.20**||||||0.00||||||||||
||_AdverPsing_||_£_
_25.00_|||**£**
**25.00**||||||0.00||||||||||
||_Professional Fees_||_£_
_1,358.91_|||**£**
**2,235.91**||||||877.00||||||||||
||_Ofsted registraPon_||_£_
_50.00_|||**£**
**50.00**||||||0.00||||||||||
||_Periodicals_||_£_
_294.00_|||**£**
**315.00**||||||21.00||||||||||
||_Staf Uniform_||_£_
_171.07_|||**£**
**414.36**||||||243.29||||||||||
||_Staf training and compliance_||_£_
_447.00_|||**£**
**550.19**||||||103.19||||||||||
||_Children's sweatshirts_||_£_
_176.00_|||**£**
**650.00**||||||474.00||||||||||
||_Supplies : Food_||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**-**||||||0.00||||||||||
||_Resources Children_||_£_
_1,025.69_|||**£**
**735.68**||||||(290.01)||||||||||
||_Supplies Household_||_£_
_576.54_|||**£**
**605.17**||||||28.63||||||||||
||_Supplies Ofce_||_£_
_140.85_|||**£**
**252.71**||||||111.86||||||||||
||_Equipment Children_||_£_
_204.01_|||**£**
**1,331.15**||||||1,127.14||||||||||
||_Ofce Equipment_||_£_
_189.72_|||**£**
**221.12**||||||31.40||||||||||
||_Household Equipment_||_£_
_77.59_|||**£**
**38.95**||||||(38.64)||||||||||
||_DonaPons_||_£_
_2,391.77_|||**£**
**122.13**||||||(2,269.64)||||||||||
||_Trip_||_£_
_210.00_|||**£**
**-**||||||(210.00)||||||||||
||_Gi[s_||_£_
_139.00_|||**£**
**612.27**||||||473.27||||||||||
||_Bank charges_||_£_
_142.96_|||**£**
**250.27**||||||107.31||||||||||
||_Pe^y cash_||_£_
_1,600.00_|||**£**
**800.00**||||||(800.00)||||||||||
||_Savings transfer_||_£_
_-_|||**£**
**15,000.00**||||||15,000.00||||||||||
||_Other_||_£_
_163.05_|||**£**
**150.00**||||||(13.05)||||||||||
||_Food Vouchers_||_£_
_990.00_|||**£**
**1,365.00**||||||375.00||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||_136,389.02_|||**158,771.55**|||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Surplus/defecit_**||_38,859.99_|||**-**|**1,753.34**||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Savings transfer_**||_0.00_||||**15,000.00**||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Savings interest_**||4,487||||**4,450.59**||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||**_Actual surplus/defecit_**||_38,859.99_||||**17,697.25**||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
||**_bank balance as of year end 31/03/2026_**||||||||**_51,214.12_**|||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
||**_bank balance at start of fnancial year 01/04/2025_**||||||||**_52,967.46_**|||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
||**_savings transfers for year ending 31/03/2026_**||||||||**_15,000.00_**|||||||||||||
|||||||||||||||||||||||
||**_savings account balance as of year end 31/03/2026_**|||||||**_125,212.26_**||||||||||||||
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|**Whi$ngton under Fives**|**Whi$ngton under Fives**||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Bank current account reconciliaSon**|||||
|**Santander**|||||
|**For theperiod 01/04/24 to 31/03/25**|||||
||||||
|||**£**|||
||||||
|Openingbank balance||**14,107.47**|||
|Opening peOycash balance||**43.13**|||
||||||
|Surplus for theyear||**38,859.99**|||
||||||
||||||
|Closingbank balance||**52,967.46**|||
|Closing peOycash balance||**94.06**|||
||||||
|PeOycash allowance||**-50.93**|||
||||||
|||**-**|||
||||||
||||||
|Openingsavings balance||101,319.25|||
|Savings account interest foryear||4,442.42|||
|Closingsavings balance||105,761.67|||
||||||
|||0|||
||||||
|**Whi$ngton under Fives**|||||
|**Bank current account reconciliaSon**|||||
|**Santander**|||||
|**For theperiod 01/04/25 to 31/03/26**|||||
||||||
|||**£**|||
||||||
|Openingbank balance||**52,967.46**|||
|Opening peOycash balance||**94.06**|||
||||||
|Surplus for theyear||**-1,753.34**|||
||||||
||||||
|Closingbank balance||**51,214.12**|||
|Closing peOycash balance||**142.25**|||
||||||
|PeOycash allowance||**-48.19**|||
||||||
|||**-**|||
||||||
||||||
|Openingsavings balance||105,761.67|||
|Savings transfer||15,000|||
|Savings account interest foryear||4,450.59|||
|Closingsavings balance||125,212.26|||
1
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl Whittington Under Fives
members of
On accounts for the year
ended
31$1 March 2026
Charity no
{if any)
1017265
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 3110312024
Responslbilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in ac¢ordance with the requiremenls of the Charrties Act
2011 1 the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust'5 accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515}{b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have
come lo my attention
Independent
examiner's statement
in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe thal in,
any material respect.
accounting records were not kept in accordan with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns 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 brackets if Ihey do not apply
Signed:
Date:
0910612026
Name:
Richard Williams
Relevant professional
qualificationlsl or body
lif any):
Address:
56 Willow Street
Oswestry
SY11 1AD
IER
October 2018