## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 Sept 2023 31 August 2024
**From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Boscastle Pre-School Playgroup
**Other names charity is known by**
Boscastle Playschool
|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~|Registered charity number (if any)
1023541
HMRC Charity Number ZD00288
**Charity's principal address** Boscastle Playschool , Top School, Fore Street Boscastle
**Postcode**
**PL35 0AU**
~~ee~~||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||||||||
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**||**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**||
|1|Steve Coom|Chair||||||
|2|Lara Tucker|Committee||||||
|3|Lyn Lockyear|Committee||||||
|4|AmyWinn|Committee||||||
|5||||||||
|6|Louise Smith|Secretary||||||
|7|Sara Haden|School Liaison||||||
|8||Committee||||||
|9||Committee||||||
|10||||||||
|11||||||||
|12||||||||
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18 19 20 ~~SS~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **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
PPA Playgroup Constitution 1991
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Association How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by Committee 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;
Our policies and procedures are available at reception and on our website and we encourage our parents and carers to read them.
We have clear risk assessments for every situation that are upheld without fail, ensuring risk is managed and minimalised without inhibiting opportunities for the children.
- 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.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To provide high standards of care to 32 children aged 0-5 giving 3-5 year olds the funded entitlement (and some 2 year old entitlement where applicable) required by Ofsted.
**Summary of the objects of the** As a village pre-school our vision is to provide the warm, safe and caring **charity set out in its** atmosphere that young children need so that they can fully benefit from **governing document** the exploration of themselves and the world around them.
Our aim is to provide a warm, welcoming, safe, educational and fun - environment that promotes learning, self confidence, empathy and
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awareness for all our children, whilst supporting them and their families during their time with us and beyond with their transition to school.
- Providing a warm, comfortable and interesting environment
- Treating the children and each other with care and respect
- Listening to parents, encouraging their involvement and valuing their contributions
- Observing and assessing individual needs and abilities and providing for them
- Providing a wide range of activities and experiences involving exploration and experimentation
- Providing on-going opportunities for conversation, explanation, stories, poems, role-play and word play.
**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)**
- Maintaining a balance of constants to provide security
- Providing a variety to promote interest and adaptability
- Promoting creative thinking in all seven learning areas
- Valuing effort as much as success
- Valuing and contributing towards own health and well being
- Empowering by giving choices and enabling by giving support.
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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As a small charity we are very dependent on the goodwill of parents and interested members of our community.
Many work with us on a regular basis offering ideas, expertise, and contributions of equipment, time and fundraising.
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
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## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** We continue to provide full day care, sessional care, breakfast club, **achievements of the charity** afterschool club and holiday club, and opening for fifty weeks of the year **during the year** (excluding bank holidays). The year has been tough with low numbers but there has been an upturn and we have seen increasing numbers of children in Play School, Breakfast club and after school as well as good numbers in Holiday Club. Tapestry (EYFS software) has continued to improve our analysis and data collection to ensure the children achieve as much as they can in relation to their staring points, whilst still maintaining our personal approach of knowing our children.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Reserves are held for anticipated emergency repairs also for long term improvements.
**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);
- 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**
Boscastle Play School (Boscastle Preschool Play School as it was when we started) was first established in 1969 and has run continuously since. With thanks to family services and Boscastle CP school we were able to design our own setting using the old site of the church hall and moved in during October 2010. Our facilities are second to none as the setting was designed purposely for our children to learn through free flow play.
The outside area has several different levels, the lowest is a well-established wooded area in the Jordan Valley with a small stream, where our children have supervised access and have wonderful adventures learning about nature, animals and the seasons. On the next level we have a productive garden (created in conjunction with the Eden Project) with raised beds which have recently been refurbished (Feb 2017) for the children to plant, grow and ultimately eat their own produce. Directly outside our building is an enclosed area with purpose-built play houses, sandpit and various ride-ons. Also, we have 4 guinea pigs and 2 chickens which the children help to care for.
Inside we have a large open plan area for the children to play, learn and create. We also like to get out and about in the local community and if the weather doesn’t permit we go down to the community centre on a Wednesday morning to do some sports and exercise whilst the playschool itself is used for our baby and toddler group.
We are in a quiet residential area in very close proximity to the primary school, which we have strong links with. Our School Liaison is the reception Class Teacher. We utilise the school canteen which provide school dinners for our children who would like one and encourage them to make their own choices from the menu.
Our opening hours are 8am to 5.30pm; (breakfast club is available everyday) we are open 50 weeks of the year and only close for bank holidays and Christmas. We try to be flexible around child care needs and so provide full day care, sessions and just the odd few hours. We can provide for 20 children at any one time and we currently have 21 children on our register ranging from 2 to almost 5 years old. We offer 2,3 & 4 year old funding for those eligible and extended hours (30 hours) funding as part of the current initiative.
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Steve Coom **Full name(s)** Steven Coom **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 15th June 2025
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## **Bank Reconciliation for**
## **Boscastle Pla School y**
|**Boscastle Play School**||
|---|---|
|**BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE**|**£**|
|**Opening Balance**
Receipts Paid In
Payments Paid Out
**Closing Balance**||
||**28,650.88**
**£**|
|||
||92,893.42
£|
|||
||85,144.36
£|
|||
||**36,399.94**
**£**|
|||
|**BANK RECONCILIATION**|**£**|
|---|---|
|**_Current Account_**
**_Closing_**
**_Statement_**
**_Page:_**
21 **_Balance:_**
Unpresented Credits
Unpresented Debits
Unpresented Previous Year
**Closing Balance**
**_Deposit Account_**
**_Closing_**
**_Statement_**
**_Page:_**
**_Balance:_**
**Closing Funds**||
||24,445.16
£|
|||
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£|
||-
£|
||-
£|
||**24,445.16**
**£**|
|||
||11,954.78
£|
|||
||**36,399.94**
**£**|
|||
|**Unreconciled Amount:**|**-**
**£**|
|||
|**Agrees to Summary Sheet**|**Agrees to Summary Sheet**|
|---|---|
|**Opening Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
|**Closing Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
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|**Petty Cash Balances**||
|**Opening Balance as Summary**||
|**Closing Balance as Summary**||
## **Financial Year Endin : g**
## **31/08/2024**
|**31/08/2024**|**31/08/2024**||
|---|---|---|
|**OPENING BALANCES FOR YEAR**||
**£**|
|**_Current Account_**
**_Opening_**
**_Statement_**
**_Page:_**
**_Balance:_**
18,146.10
£
**_Deposit Account_**
**_Opening_**
**_Statement_**
**_Page:_**
**_Balance:_**
£10,504.78
**_Previous Year Cheques outstanding at Year End_**|||
|||18,146.10
£|
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|||£10,504.78|
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|**_Enter Details if applica_**|-
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|**Opening Balance**|**28,650.88**
**£**||
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|---|---|
|**Agrees to Summary by Fund Sheet**||
|**Opening Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
|**Closing Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
|||
|**Agrees to Summary by Month Sheet**||
|**Opening Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
|**Closing Balances Agree?**|**YES**|
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
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report on the accounts
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I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity {'Ihe Trusf) for the year ended
Responsibillties and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparatlon
basls of report of the accounts In accordance with the requirements of the Charlties Act
2011 ("the Act.).
l port in respect of my examlnation of the Trust's accounts carrled out
under section 145 of the 2011 Acl and in carying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Dlrectlons glven by the Charty Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confinn that no material matters have
come trj my attention (other than that dlsclosed below.) in connection with
the examination which gives me Gause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kepl in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with Ihe examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply.
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