## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** ||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|Period end date|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| |**From **|**01 **|**09**|**2022**|**To**|**31 **|**08**|**2023**| ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Bollington Pre-School **Other names charity is known by** Bollington Methodist Pre-School **Registered charity number (if any)** 1022029 **Charity's principal address** Water Street Centre, Water Street, Bollington, Cheshire **Postcode SK10 5PB** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Pauline Snelson|Chairperson||| ||Amanda Murphy|Treasurer|01 09 22 – 11 07 23|| ||SandyMilsom|Secretary||| ||Natalie Corbett|Business Manager||| ||Jill Hasler|||| ||Margaret Park|||| ||Eryn Gair|||| ||Rebecca
Wainwright||From 01 02 23 onwards|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** **TAR** March **2012** 1 ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of adviser Name Address** ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) Unincorporated Charitable Trust How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed and elected by the charity’s members Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - 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. Bollington Pre-School is registered with OFSTED registration number EY452060 and is a member of the Early Years Alliance, the largest national Early Years education charity. Trustees are made up of parents and former parents of children attending the Pre-School, and members of the local community including retired teachers and a retired speech and language therapist. Trustees complete DBS checks in line with statutory requirements. Trustees meet once per term and visit the Pre-School regularly. They are in regular email contact and work collaboratively on all aspects of the role. Induction and training takes place as part of our regular meetings. Trustees have access to the Early Years Alliance ‘Educare’ online training courses. The Pre-School has an Early Years Manager and Early Years Business Manager, two Deputy Managers and a SENDCo. The Early Years Manager is our Designated Safeguarding Lead and one of our Deputy Managers is the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead. We have trustees and indemnity insurance to enable us to manage risk. Trustees conduct annual performance appraisals of the Pre-school managers. The designated safeguarding lead regularly reviews our policies and procedures and attends cluster meetings with other Safeguarding leads within the local area. Staff members are Paediatric First Aid trained. Basic Safeguarding training is updated regularly. The environment is checked daily for Health & Safety risk, and we use risk assessments in relation to trips, activities and equipment _._ Throughout 2022, a specific risk assessment was undertaken in relation to the impact of major renovation work on the roof of the Victorian building **TAR** March **2012** 2 by the Preschool managers with trustees, the landlord, a local resident, the architect and external contractor. The roof work was completed successfully in December 2022. Trustees’ visits over the year included: a Health & Safety review in January by Margaret Park; a Finance review in March by Amanda Murphy and SEN review in March 2023 by Jill Hasler. The Chairperson completed an external ‘Trustee Essentials’ 4-part training course (Crowe UK) and provided a summary for the Committee. We are aware of the need for diversity within the Committee and would like to recruit male parents and carers for example. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** Bollington Pre-School is a positive, safe, and inclusive environment where we can play, learn, and grow together. The Pre-School aims to: - provide a secure, safe, nurturing, and respectful environment that enables children to be safe and happy. - build positive relationships with adults and peers, explore, and learn and develop. - work in partnership with parents and carers, and other agencies, to ensure we are meeting children’s individual needs and enabling them to explore their full potential. - value each individual child, to know them - their likes, their interests and their own experiences so we can build and expand their curiosity and learning. - support our children to be kind, caring, respectful and to have a positive attitude. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** - encourage children to explore, to be curious and confident, helping them to develop a strong sense of self-esteem and self-worth, preparing them for the next stage in their learning journey. - meet the needs of all children, inspiring them by offering a wide and holistic learning environment with diverse learning opportunities where they can learn through exploration and play. - have a highly qualified and experienced team, who work together with a shared sense of purpose which will have a positive impact on the children’s learning and development. - explore opportunities and engage with the people and organizations that make up our local community, allowing children to have new learning chances and experiences. The charity works for the public benefit, in particular: - its status as a non-profit making organisation where any profits made are used to extend and develop the pre-school provision. - • its work with other schools and agencies to ensure that the education given by the pre-school links to the children’s future learning and supports all areas of their development. **TAR** March **2012** 3 The Pre-school is accommodated in a spacious building that provides a stimulating environment for the children. There are three rooms: The large room accommodates the 3-5-year-old children and has a construction area, reading corner, home corner, craft area and areas for role play and music. The second room accommodates the 2-3-year-old children and has a construction area, reading corner, home corner, craft area and areas for role play and music. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** The third room is a multi-sensory room which includes bubble tubes and **public benefit in relation to** podium, light ladders, fibre optic lights, bubble tubes, sound equipment **these objects (include within** and musical equipment. **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** There is a large and inviting secure outdoor play area which has a **had regard to the guidance** planting area, an area for reading and storytelling with sensory plants and **issued by the Charity** an area for riding and free play. There is also a large undercover area **Commission on public** which has sand play and some role play. **benefit)** The Pre-school employs 14 staff: 13 who work a mixture of full- and parttime hours with the children. We have one staff member who has qualified teacher status, 4 staff with a Level 3 childcare qualification, 1 staff member with a Level 5 qualification and 3 staff members with a Level 2 qualification and 5 staff unqualified. With the support of Pre-School, 3 members of staff started Level 3 training and 1 member of staff started Level 5 training. ## **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. ## Section D Achievements and performance **TAR** March **2012** 4 Section D Achievements and erformance p **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Background: 2022 – 2023 has continued to present challenges for the UK Preschool sector with rising operating costs and difficulties in retaining and recruiting staff across the Early Years sector. Many young children start Preschool with immature social and emotional development and delayed speech and language skills which requires skilled and responsive adult attention and nurture. Some external agencies have reduced face-toface support visits and continue to work remotely. Achievements: - Against this background. Bollington Pre-school staff have worked hard to prioritise the children’s wellbeing and speech and language development, with some staff attending ‘Attachment and Trauma’ training and ‘Language in the Outdoors’ training. - With the support of Pre-School, 3 members of staff started their Level 3 training and 1 member of staff started Level 5 training. Our Business Manager completed her Level 3 training. - Children with additional needs continued to be supported for applications for further SEN support. - We continued our partnership with parents and carers via parents’ evening/Tapestry. - Community activities such as joining in with the Bollington Carnival Parade with a stall on the recreation ground. May 2023. - July 2023 - Leavers’ Graduation with the Bollington Town Mayor; Leavers’ event held at Bollington Civic Hall for children and families. Open Day held. ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** We do not have a Reserves Policy at present but recognise the need to maintain adequate funds in our bank account/savings account to cover running costs including staff wages and redundancy costs. We are working on a formal Reserves Policy/Risk Register going forward. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** **Further financial review details (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 5 You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); The core income into the Pre-School is through Government funding for Early Years Free Entitlement. We receive additional fee income from families who pay for childcare directly. The bulk of the Pre-School income comes from the FEEE 2-year-old funding, the 15 hours universal funding and extended funding up to 30 hours for 3-4-year olds. Other government funding is the Early Years Pupil Premium which a small amount of children quality for. - how expenditure has Our main expenditure is staff costs _._ Staff costs rose sharply again in April - supported the key objectives 2023 with a 9.7 % increase in the National Living wage. - of the charity; - investment policy and Grants/Fundraising events: objectives including any ethical investment policy • October 2022: Local Pub Quiz/donations- £426.00 used to buy adopted. replace soft furnishings. - Xmas 2022 raffle - £325.00 – new tables and chairs purchased. - May 2023 Cake sale - £104.76 - June 2023: Bollington Beer Festival Grant applied for. ## **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)** Pauline Snelson **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairperson **etc) Date** 21 May 2024 **TAR** March **2012** 6 8thli119ton Pre-school 8o1lln￿0fi Pre-scknl Accounts Year End 31° AU￿*t 2023 202J 2022 In¢ome Fees Fundin8 Othtr Fundrais4ng & Donations £49.850 £130,983 £0 £1.244 £54,735 £119,066 E3,510 £760 É182.077 £178.071 Expendlture Employee Costs Statutory Sitk Pav flent InsurarKe Equlprnent & Art Supplles Food & Cleaning Flr5t Ald Resources Pflntln8, Statlonary & phot¢)topwn8 Training Gas & Electr1¢ Telephone & Internet Waste collectlon OFSTED Legal & Professional Water & Sewerage Maintenance Annual RenewalslLKe*)ses Office costs Other Deprectation Bank Charges & Inteiest Bad Debt £153.407 ES01 £134.333 £195 £7,5(KJ E860 £3,457 £5.121 £145 £799 £1,238 £3.8L)) £885 E4,061 £5.496 £127 £939 £2.121 £3.945 É983 £1.461 EO £87 É3.451 £l,Q)2 É1.591 £571 É767 £1.026 -£62 £0 £889 £35 £5.688 £346 £1.779 £553 £i.C61 £0 £14 £189,859 £169.290 Defldtlsurplus 7.782 E8.781 Trade Debt0￿ ilabilltles Assets Carried Forward- balance- 31IW2 E65.410 £1.326 £2,045 Assets Carried FO￿a￿￿- balan￿- 311(￿123 £57.745 E2.397 £1,038 EO 181 £68,781 E60,999 47.782 Signed on behalf ol Bolliwon Pre-sthool Pauline Sfielwn dits IAuLtNJi s￿ELSO￿) 2isk IUI 202 Chairperwn Date.. Independènt Examiners Report I certify that the accounts for the parènded 31-A￿-2013 are In accordarKe with books •r•J explanations presented to me. Independent Accountant f ￿￿￿￿ SotJ¢i PCA - Profvssional fi¢k.' Date.. 154L *204 Flied Debton U•blJrtles A55et5 Carried Fo￿ard. balarKe- 31108ll2 A55et5 Clrritd Forward- boknce- 3VIW23 65.410 EI.326 £2.CI45 £57,745 £2J97 EI.03B EO -£181 E68.781 Èf￿,999 47,782 Si8ned On behallof Oolliryton Pre-5ctrKwl Pauline Sftelson ChaIrpe￿On IAuLifvJC SN)ELSO 202 Date.. 21sk lfidependent Examiners Report I certify that the actounis for thtyearendtd 31.A4-2023 i(e In ￿￿an¢e with the books and explanation5 presented to me. IndependentAccountart f FCA . Professlonal fitle.. Date.. 154k