Copythorne Pre-school
Parish hall
Pollards Moor Road
Copythorne
Hants.
SO40 2NZ
## **Annual report 2023-24**
## **Charity name:** Copythorne Preschool Playgroup
## **Charity number:** 1021957
**Trustees:** Matthew Stroud, Gemma Rogers, Gemma Wort, Tracey Denness, Kirsty Langrish
The Pre-school is a charity run by a volunteer committee. It recruits trustees from among active parents, grandparents and supporters of the pre-school. The pre-school employs a
manager who oversees the staff team, safeguarding, funding and adherence to rules and regulations.
**Charity’s mission** : To provide sessional pre-school education and care during term time to enhance the development of children under school age. Offer play facilities and learning in accordance with the pre-school learning alliance.
**Achievement and performance:** Over the period of this report the pre-school has looked after 30 children and achieved a surplus financially. It has improved its outside play area with new equipment, increased the range of play items available to children and seen an increase in the number of children supported. It plays an active role in the community beyond the children it looks after, taking part in several key local events such as carnivals and fetes.
The pre-school has raised a sum of under £500 in fundraising at its raffles and events at Christmas, Easter and the summer to invest in improvements for the children it looks after.
## **Financial**
No funds are held as a custodial trustee.
The financial position of the pre-school is as follows:
## **Copythorne Pre-School Playgroup**
**Year Ending 31st August 2024**
**Summer/ Year End**
## **Income and Expenditure Account**
|**Income**
Fees
NEG Funding
Fundraising
Donations
Deposits
Sundries
Interest- Santander
Total
**Expenditure**
Wages
PAYE & NIC
Rent
Equipment
Activities
Training Courses
Professional services
Advertising
Telephone/ Broadband
Covid Cleaning Costs
Stationery/Photocopying
Sundries
Total
(Defecit)/Surplus|**Accounts**
**Accounts**
**2024**
**2023**
14,262
13,018
74,653
46,625
344
440
120
20
330
210
90
136
141
82
89,940
60,530
50,394
43,636
1,129
501
8,639
8,531
2,849
43
438
666
668
267
860
855
160
99
-
-
8
-
340
600
1,880
1,354
67,365
56,552
22,575
3,978
£|
|---|---|
## **Copythorne Pre-School Playgroup**
## **Year Ending 31st August 2024**
## **Balance Sheet**
## **Current Assets As At 31.8.24**
|Santander Reserve Account
Nat West Bus Account
Garden Fund Balance
Total Funds
Less Current Liabilities
Debtors
Net Worth|51,955
1,348|13,591
53,303
66,894
534
**67,427**|
|---|---|---|
## **Reconciliation**
|**Current Assets As At 31.8.23**
Opening Balance Santander
Nat West Bus Account
Garden Fund Balance
Add Profit Per Accounts for the year ended 31.8.24
Less Creditor
Closing Balance|30,055
1,348|13,449
31,403
44,852
22,575
-
**67,427**|
|---|---|---|
INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF COPYTHORNE PRE-
SCHOOL PLAYGROUP (Registered charity number 1021957)
report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Copythorne Pre-school
Playgroup for the year ended 31 August 2024, which are attached.
Responsibilities and basis of report
As the trustees of the Charity 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 Trustee's accounts carried out under section 145
of the 2011 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 2011 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 Trust as required by section 130 of the
{2) the accounts do not accord with those records., or
(3) the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and
content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008
other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair view. which is not a
matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
Name: Chris Bidgood
Relevant professional qualification or body: Chartered Accountant
Address: Ingram House, Meridian Way, Norwich, NR7 OTA
Date:
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