## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 Septembe 2021 31 August 2022 r **To** **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Crawshawbooth Playgroup **Other names charity is known by** Crawshawbooth Preschool **Registered charity number (if any)** 1022561 **Charity's principal address** Crawshawbooth Preschool, Village Centre Adelaide Street Rossendale **Postcode BB4 8PW** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Jess Fox|Chair, Trustee|Sept 2021-Feb 2022|| ||Sam Owen|Chair, Trustee|Feb 2022-Present|| ||Suzanne Hollings|Treasurer, Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **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)**
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**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** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected & confirmed annually at the AGM 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; We work with the information & training options available from The Charity Commission & The Pre-School Learning Alliance. - • Trustees - • Management Committee - • Pre-School Management Team - • Pre-School Staff The trustees work closely with the trustees and management committee of the Community Association at The Village Centre, who provide our room and facilities. - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** Crawshawbooth Preschool is committed to providing quality care and education for children between the ages of 2-5 years. We aim to provide a safe and stimulating environment, ensuring quality of opportunity for all **Summary of the objects of the** the children from our local area. High staff rations mean that the children **charity set out in its** are well supported, and we work with the parents and carers to make the **governing document** children’s time with us informative and rewarding. Our staff endeavour to follow up on all available training opportunities, to keep relevant with the current educational thinking, policies, and safety. **TAR** March **2012** 2 Crawshawbooth Preschool first opened in 1968 in its present location, later moving to St Mary’s Church, then returning to the newly opened Youth and Community Centre in 1989. The Village Centre is owned by Lancashire County Council and was extended and refurbished in 2009. The Centre is now managed by Crawshawbooth Community Association and hosts many different groups, of all ages from the community. We are Ofsted Registered, being rated as “Good” in our last inspection in 2020. We are members of the Preschool Learning Alliance and this, partnered with our relationship with the Early Years teachers from the local primary school, ensures that we are constantly in gaining new ideas in relation to early years education and childcare. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** We work closely with the parents and carers of our children, to provide a safe and stimulating environment, ensuring inclusion and equal opportunity for all. Our aims are: - To enhance the development and education of children under statutory school age - To provide a safe, secure, and stimulating environment for the children and staff - To work within a framework which enables quality of opportunity for all children and families by utilising a curriculum based on the seven areas of learning. - To encourage fun and friendship with other children and adults whilst maintaining individual care and attention by having good staff/pupil ratios - To allow parents and carers to be directly involved in the activities of the group and in their child’s progress. As a registered charity, Crawshawbooth Preschool, it’s trustees and management committee fully undertake the charity commission’s guidance in regard to public benefit and take in to account the guidance during decision making. ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** **TAR** March **2012** 3 We recognise that the parents and carers are the first and most important educators I the lives of the children. Therefore, we aim to support all parents and carers to form a partnership of working together to provide the very best care and education to the children. Parents and carers are always welcomed into the group and encouraged to contribute. You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: Volunteers are essential to the preschool life and for the success and survival of the preschool. Our trustees and Management Committee are volunteers, made up of current and previous parents and carers. - 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** During the last year the team have worked hard to build a pupil base and increase levels of children following the Covid Pandemic which saw the preschool close for a significant period. The team took the opportunity to reassess the space available and to make the indoor and outdoor space more varied and improved, continuously ensuring that there is a turnover of play equipment for the children to keep their imaginations working and challenging their skills, whilst also making sure that everything is fit for purpose and able to be easily cleaned. Fundraising was able to start again, with a pub quiz at easter aimed at the local community and an adult audience, and child friendly activities for the preschool children to get involved in. **TAR** March **2012** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** The financial accounts for the year show income of £65211.87 with Expenditure of £66122.17. Whilst we have decreased in funds over the year, the purchases made should last for many future years and provide a good investment for the Preschool. We plan our finances on a termly basis & work hard as a team to control expenditure to allow stability in financial planning. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); Our Funding is primarily from Grant Funding via Lancashire County Council, Fee Payers & various fundraising events. We continually invest in new resources and equipment to help us keep up to date with all relevant statutory requirements and to make sure that the children have new environments to explore. - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - 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)** S.Owen **Full name(s)** Sam Owen **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair, Trustee **etc) Date** 02/09/2023 **TAR** March **2012** 6 ## **CRAWSHAWBOOTH PRE-SCHOOL ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31/08/2022** ## **INCOME EXPENDITURE** |**Grants**|||**Wages**|50080.01||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||50080.01| |LCC Funding|£54,838.77|||||| |||£54,838.77||||| ||||Rent|||3800.04| |**Fees**|||Accountant|||216.00| ||10342.1 .||Ofsted registration|||50.00| |||£10,342.10|Telephone|||501.18| ||||DBS|||55.00| ||||Pension|||882.97| ||||Bank Charges|||45.00| ||||Equipment & stationery|||3158.66| ||||Milk & refreshments|||1840.42| ||||Training|||240.00| ||||Customs|||3002.26| ||||Website|||513.15| ||||Insurance|||798.86| ||||Advertising|||42.00| ||||**Trips, parties and**|||| ||||**presents**|||| |**Miscellaneous**|||Childrens Presents|||150.00| |Donations|£31.00||Christmas Party|||150.00| ||||Leavers Party|||135.00| |||£31.00||||| ||||**Miscellaneous**||.|| ||||Petty cash|||350.00| ||||Uniforms|||29.12| ||||Fund Raising Licence|||40.00| ||||Refunded Fees|||42.50| |||**£65,211.87**||||**66122.17**| ||||Surplus|||**-910.30**| |**Balances as at 31/08/2021**|||**Balances as at 31/08/2022**|||| |Current account|£16,332.85||Current account|£15,422.65||| |Deposit account|£40,039.36||Deposit account|£40,039.26||| ||£56,372.21|||£55,461.91||| |Decrease in Funds|**-£910.30**|||||| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLANO ANO WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteegl members of EAbOSAAL%i&x)TH QE SCH(DL AuG148T 10 11 On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any 1011561 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chanty Ilhe Trust") for the year ended 31 08 2OIL Re3ponslbllltles and As Ihe charity trustees. you are responsible forthe preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 I'lhe Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusl's account5 carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Acl 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 Act. Independent trhe charty's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examineVs statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed t4)dylJ. Delete I l rf not applic8ble. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no rnaterial matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in conneclion with the examination whiGh gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect,: the accounting records were not kept in ac¢ordance with section 130 of the Act, or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the a¢¢ounts did not comply with the applicable requirements con￿mIng the fom and content of accounts sel oul in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is nol a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems 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 underslanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delele the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgned: Date". Name: Ihj 'o£fH Relevant professional qualification(sl or body (If any): AAT kn,cf 5 IER October 2018 Address: Scction B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highligm matters of concem (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidan￿ for examiners). Give here d•tails of any items that the examin•r wishas to disclose. IER October 2018