# **Tommy Thumbs Pre-School Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts Year ended 31[st] March 2022** Charity number 1022430
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## Contents
Page number
## **3 Trustees’ Annual Report**
## **7 Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the Pre-School**
## **8 Independent Examiners statement**
## **9 Receipts and Payments Account for General Funds**
## **11 Statement of Assets and Liabilities**
## **12 Notes to the accounts**
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Trustees’ Report
## **Reference and Administration details**
**Charity name** Tommy Thumbs Pre-School (Not known by any other name)
**Charity Number** 1022430
**Principal Address** Cledford Primary School George VI Avenue Middlewich CW10 0DD
## **Names of Trustees who manage the Charity**
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Trustee name Office (if Date of Name of body
any) appointment/resign entitled to appoint
ation if not for full trustee
year
Julie Cooper Chair Appointed January Trustees or
2017 members
Rebecca Bugg Secretary Appointed September Trustees or
2021 members
Amanda Taylor Treasurer Appointed March Trustees or
2019 members
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## **Advisors**
**Bankers** National Westminster Bank The Bullring Northwich Cheshire. CW9 5BN
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Charity’s governing document is the Pre-School Learning Alliance Model Pre-School Constitution 2011. This was adopted by Tommy Thumbs in April 2009, reviewed in April 2016 and most recently in January 2019. The Charity is constituted by Trust Deed. Trustees are selected by election from the current membership or appointed by the current trustees.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The objective of the Pre-school is to provide a safe, happy and nurturing environment for all pre-school children and their families, free from discrimination and prejudice. Children of school age are supported within our wraparound care provision before and after school and throughout the school holidays.
## **Public Benefit Accounting**
In setting our objectives and planning our activities the trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit. As a charity, the parents of our children have the assurance that all our income must be applied for the benefit of the children attending our setting.
## **Achievements and Performance**
Tommy Thumbs continues to operate from two rooms and can accommodate up to 60 children at any one time across the setting. In the Nursery room (3-4yrs) we offer 3hrs per morning session and 3hrs per afternoon session including a lunch session, five days a week, for 38 weeks per annum. In total 10 sessions per week are run. In the Little Learners room (2-3yrs) we offer a 3hr morning session including a lunch session and a 3hr afternoon session, currently five days a week, for 38 weeks per annum. In total 10 sessions per week are run. To support our families further we now operate a flexible start time of 8.30am.
As at 31 March 2022, the total number of children on the register was 43 in the Nursery room and 40 in the Toddler room.
We continue to offer the Universal Funding offer for all three & four year olds of 15 hours per week, the extended the 30 hours per week funding for eligible 3 and 4 year olds and the two year old funding for eligible children.
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## **Financial review**
## **Policy on reserves**
Reserves at 31 March 2022 were £185,830 _(2021: £187,849)._ The trustees have worked hard this year to increase the level of reserve. Examples of costs, which would require paying in this situation would be rent and staff redundancies. In addition, reserves are held to cover fluctuations in receipts and payments during the financial year. It should also be noted that there are no restricted or endowment funds held.
## **Annual surplus/deficit**
The annual defecit for the year to 31 March 2022 for the PreSchool was £2,019 _(2021: £3692.00)._
## **Current year financial results**
This year, Tommy Thumbs has invested a significant sum from Reserves to enhance the outdoor provision for our children, purchasing new resources, replacing equipment & expanding our gardening utensils.
Fundraising during the year to 31 March 2022 was £955, directly due to the continued impact of the National Lockdown & restrictions, and the subsequent impact on household spending. We raised £415 net of costs ( _2021; no funds raised_ ). Much thought is being given now on how to begin our fundraising efforts again. It is a vital part of the committee & staff role as it gives the pre-school the ability to continually improve on the standard of equipment and quality of care given to the children who attend. Through fundraising, items of equipment, which could not normally be afforded, can be purchased.
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## **Future years**
Tommy Thumbs at Cledford is now coming to the end of its tenth year of operation on the site of Cledford Primary School. Jointly, we are formulating a ten year aspiration to enhance the provision and performance of both our Pre-School and Fun Club operations.
## **Declaration**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:**
**Julie Cooper Date Chair**
## **Amanda Taylor Date Treasurer**
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## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of the Pre-School**
I report on the accounts of the Pre-School for the year ended 31 March 2022, which are set out on pages 9 to 12.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
As the charity’s trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 43(2) of the charities Act 1993 (the Act) does not apply. It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures specified in the general Directions given by the Charity Commissioners under section 43(7)(b) of the Act, whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Basis of independent examiner’s report**
My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. An examination includes a review of accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also included consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts.
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## **Independent Examiners statement**
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention:
- (1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
- to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
- to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Act
have not been met; or
- (2) to which in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Name:**
## **Signed:**
## **Relevant professional qualification or body:**
## **Address:**
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Date:
Tonxmy Thumbs pre sehool
Annual Atcounts
Year ÈndÈd 31 Mareh 2022
## **Receipts and Payments Account for General Funds**
|**Receipts**
Fees from parents
Fees from voucher agency
Total fees
Fundraising_(see note 1)_
Donations
Uniforms
Other receipts
Support Funding
Bank Interest to Reserve Account
**Total Receipts**|**Current**
**year to 31**
**March**
**2022**
**£**
**63,188**
**192,362**
255,550
**955**
**250**
71
**6,542**
**0**
**9**
**263,377**|Prior year
to 31 March
2021
£
32,210
163,202|
|---|---|---|
|||195,412
0
0
0
22,963
14,713
34|
|||233,122|
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## **Receipts and Payments Account for General Funds**
|**Payments**
Fundraising costs_(see note 1)_
Catering
Premises
Building work and maintenance
Other
Consumables
Equipment
Meeting Costs
Administration/ ofice
Payroll
**Total payments**
**Net (defcit)/surplus for the**
**year**|**Current**
**year to 31**
**March**
**2022**
**£**
**540**
**4,969**
**15,000**
**180**
**317**
**2,415**
**1,807**
**0**
**17,271**
**222,897**
**265,396**
**(2,019)**|Prior year
to 31
March
2021
£
0
2,929
15,000
7,265
6,374
0
4,049
0
7,993
185,819|
|---|---|---|
|||229,429|
|||3,692|
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## **Statement of assets and liabilities**
|**At 31**
**March**
**2022**
**£**
**Cash Funds**
Credit Card payment in advance
**0**
Current Bank account
**101,316**
Reserve Bank account
90,004
Petty cash balance
**100**
**Total cash funds**
(As per receipts and payments account on prior
page)
**191,320**
**Other monetary assets**
Outstanding fees from parents
**0**
**Liabilities**
Invoices not yet paid
**0**
Outstanding rent
**0**
**0**
**Signed as approved on behalf of the trustees**|At 31 March
2021
£
0
103,343
84,407
100|
|---|---|
||187,850
**0**|
||**0**
**0**|
||**0**|
|**Julie Cooper**|**Date**|
|---|---|
|**Chair**||
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## **Notes to the accounts**
|**1**
**Fundraising receipts and payments**
**Receipts**
Unrestricted fundraising
Restricted fundraising income
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
Unrestricted Fundraising
Activities
**Total payments**
**Net fundraising surplus for the**
**year**|**Current**
**year to 31**
**March**
**2022**
**£**
955
**0**
955
540
540
415|Previous
year to 31
March 2021
£
0
0|
|---|---|---|
|||0
0|
|||0|
|||0|
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