2020-08-31-accounts - Mere Green 0-5

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date 01 09 2019 31 08 2020 From To

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Mere Green 0-5 Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1019905 Charity's principal address Mere Green Library & Community Centre 30A Mere Green Road Sutton Coldfield Postcode B75 5BT

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Duncan Gore Chair Family members of Mere
2 Tony Sutera Treasurer Green 0-5 (parents/carers
who attend Mere Green 0-
3 Vicky Moran Secretary 5 Pre-School and/or Mere
Melanie Green 0-5 Stay & Play
4
Panayiotou group) elect the
Management Committee
Laura Nov 19 - date
5 members (trustees).at the
Vaakanainen
AGM by majority vote.
Catherine
6
Thomas
Up to 3 further co-opted
7
committee members can
8 be join the management
9 committee part way
through the year. They
10
are accepted onto the
11 committee by a
committee member vote
12
at a regular committee
13 meeting.
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15
16
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Dates acted if not for whole year

Name

TAR

Nov 2020

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Melanie Panayiotou (Pre-School Manager)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Constitution dated August 2016

(eg. trust deed, constitution)

How the charity is constituted Association

(eg. trust, association, company)

Trustee selection methods Trustees elected by members vote at AGM or up to 3 co-opted (eg. appointed by, elected by) members voted in by current trustees.

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include We follow the Pre-School Learning Alliance Constitution and tend additional information, where to follow their policies and procedures for recruitment and relevant, about: training

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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.

The pre-school is managed by the management committee which is made up of parents and carers of children who use or have used the charities services, who volunteer to this role. The management committee employ paid qualified staff to run the pre-school and stay & play group.

We are registered with OFSTED and are regularly inspected. We were rated good at an inspection in Octobe 2019.

Systems, policies and procedures are reviewed and updated as required.

Risk assessments are carried out for all eventualities. Decisions and policies are made and cascaded to all staff and parents/carers.

Section C Objectives and activities

TAR

Nov 2020

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The aim of Mere Green 0-5 is to enhance the development and education of pre-school age children, by providing a safe environment in which to learn and play.

Mere Green 0-5 runs a preschool playgroup open to children from the age of 2 to 5. This operates every morning, Monday to Friday, with additional sessions on Wednesday and Friday afternoons for children in the pre-school year.

We also run a Stay & Play group with sessions open to children from 0-3 and their parents/carers.

Mere Green 0-5 promotes early education in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage profile and has been rated as good by Summary of the main OFSTED. activities undertaken for the public benefit in In setting our objectives and planning our activities our trustees relation to these objects have given careful consideration to the charity commissions (include within this general guidance on public benefit. 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)

TAR

Nov 2020

We are successfully operating with an elected committee of volunteer members.

Government Early Education Entitlement Funding enables us to employ staff who work closely with the committee to provide an OFSTED good rated community pre-school.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;

Volunteers work closely with staff to provide a safe stimulating environment for all children and adults. Together, volunteers and staff, continually evaluate and grow to ensure the setting provides the very best care for the children, their families and the community.

contribution made by volunteers.

TAR

Nov 2020

Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Fundraising events during the year raised: £1729

Our preschool is very popular. We are proud of the wide range of play and learning activities provided at our preschool. We plan activities based upon the Early Years Foundation Stage Profile and the individual needs and interests of our children. We operate from a room within a community centre. As we don't have exclusive use of the room, we need to reinvent the space every day, which gives us an excellent opportunity to vary the activities we offer. We are fortunate to have a fantastic outdoor play area, provided from fundraising activity in past years. Our children have a wide range of activities they can undertake outside.

Behaviour at our sessions is generally excellent, which is testament to the structure of the sessions and our excellent staff. Our view, and that of their parents, is that when the children leave 0-5 to start school they are school ready, thanks to their experiences at Mere Green 0-5.

There have been no serious incidents to report during this period.

Due to the COVID pandemic the Preschool was shut from March 2020 until July 2020. During this time the staff kept in touch with the children through zoom and regularly posting videos and activities on our facebook page.

TAR

Nov 2020

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

We endeavour to maintain a reserve fund (cash funds) of 3 – 6 months average operating costs to protect Mere Green 0-5 against unforeseen expenses; fluctuations in demand for places; changes in government policy on early years funding and future projects. This also covers the costs that would be incurred should we cease to operate. At the end of this period our reserve account held funds of £22000. These funds are held in a separate reserve account.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Our main source of funding is fees and charges for our services. This is supplemented by fundraising activity led by the management committee. This year we have held various fundraising activities including cake sales and nearly new sales.

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Our main expenditure is staff costs and rent.
how expenditure has Our income for the year was £60,280, which makes us eligible supported the key for independent examination. This has been undertaken by objectives of the charity; Kathy 0 Donnell (BA HONS) FCCA MAAT DIFR and her report is attached below.
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)

Full name(s) Duncan Gore Tony Sutera Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)[Chair] Treasurer

TAR

Nov 2020

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MERE GREEN 04 REGISTERED CHARtrf NO 1019905 Statoment of Changes in Equlty for thg year ended 31 August 2020 Shar• Shar• ¢opltsl w•mlwn ¥8luatlon and ioss r¢5ervo arxounl T¢)tsl At 1 Sept•mb•r 2018 46.734 46.734 Loss lor the finanaal year 15.5461 15.5461 Tolal ccmprehgnsive irfome trthe rinancaal year DN*tsds Shares k8sued Shares redeemed At 31 August 2019 Cwethn of prior year errors Effect of retro¥pectiv• drvJes acwJnUng Oides At 31 Au9u$I 2019 as rnslated 41.188 41,188 41.188 41.188 At 1 September 2019 41.188 41.188 Loss the fin0Th year 652 Total ctsnwehengv¢ IOMe for finand81 yp¥r Dlwdends Shares issued Shares redeem•(I At 31 August 2020 41.840 41,840

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MERE GREEN 0-5 REGISTERED CHARITY NO 1019905 Accountant$, Report A9tantS. r•port ¢0 th8 dlrectors of MERE GREEN 0.5 REGISTERED CHARrrY NO 1019905 You conser that ihe company i¥ ex8mpl Irom an audit lor the year ended 31 Augvst 2020. You h8v8 aCknedged, on the balance shaat, your responsibilities lor ¢omplwng wlth the requirem8nts of the Cornpaniès Act 2(x)6 with respecl to accountsng recor¢Js and thè preparation ol accoun¢s. Th¢$• responslbllltie8 indud8 preparing accounts that giv8 a truè and fair vi&w of Ihe $tal8 ol affairs of the company al the end of the flnancial ar and of its profit or loss lor th• fina181 ar. In accordance your instructlons. w8 have preparad the accounts whlch comwisg the Profil and Loss Account. tha Balance She¢l, tha Statement of Changes In Equily and Ihe related nolas from the aceounllng Cold$ ol the company and on the basis of information and explanaltons YYJU have glven to U5. We have not carriéd out an a11{ or any other roview. and ¢on5èquenlly we do not èxp$ any op¥nion on these aoUnt9. KATHY O DONNELL FCCA MAAT Chartered Certified Accountants 3S HILL LANE BASsEs POLE SUThON COLDFIELO W MIDLANDS 875 6LE 31 October 2020

MERE GREEN 04 REGISTERED CHARrrY NO 1019905 Regi$tèr8d number.. 1019905 Tr•asurern' R•port ielatod Tr)t•s. l acknow9# my reSpwll lor the a(wunts. kndwJlThJ tho 8pproprfaten88s of Iho accounUn9 ba5 as sol ou¢ 1, for pro¥hJiThJ al th• thfomwtion and eyplanattom nece¥¥ary forthelr compillallon. LISA O HALLOFL4N TREASURER

MERE GREEN 04 REGISTERED CHARrrY NO 1019905 Company Inforniation ountants KATHY O DONNELL FCCA MA4T 35 HILL LANE BASSEfTS POLE SLrrTON COLDFIELD W MIDLANDS B75 6LE 1019905

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