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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Sparrows Playgroup

Registered charity number (if any) | 1026963

Charity's principal address | 17 Garden Farm

Colchester, Essex

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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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

How the charity is constituted

Trustee selection methods

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

e policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
e the charity's organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
e relationship with any related parties;
e trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C

Objectives and activities

To promote an atmosphere in which children under statutory school age can develop their learning and social skills. Encouraging the parents to Summary of the objects of the become involved in the activities of the group. Ensuring the opportunities charity set out in its provided are for all children no matter their race culture, religion, means governing document or ability.

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Children develop their learning through playing, painting, reading and craft activities.

Children learn and develop social skills at snack and lunch times also at parties, outings and sports day.

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)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

The playgroup received a donation from a variety of local community groups which was put towards Sign and Sign sessions for the children to help develop their language and communication skills which also allowed 2 children who with significant additional needs in this area of development to communicate with their peers and their teachers.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

e policy on grantmaking;
e policy programme related investment;
e contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance Summaryachievements of theof main the charity pasarpoli rrte: the year on 5"th September 2024;: one member during tke year Ofsted inspected Sparrows as we started back in September resulting in a disappointing “requires improvement” grade. The children started to learn their colours, listening to the Colour Monster story and talked about their feelings. They made rainbow pictures and enjoyed mixing and experimenting with different colours. Harvest festival was celebrated, parents and children donated to the Church’s Porch Pantry, they also learnt about where food comes from, how they are grown and sampled new tastes and textures. The children and staff made a Farm Yard out of cereal boxes; the children used their imagination and their knowledge about the animals to play and create stories with the play animals. The children who were starting school were invited to visit Mersea Island School with their parents and Sparrows welcomed back one member of staff from maternity leave. Leading up to Christmas the children celebrated Halloween and Bonfire Night learning about safety around fireworks and fire. Sparrows held an open day on 16" November and welcomed prospective parents and their children. Activities were available for the children to experience and staff were available to speak with parents and answer any questions. Sparrows achieved 2™ place at the Christmas Tree Festival with “That’s not my snowman” and the children worked on a variety of Christmas themed activities and crafts. The children were invited to Mersea Island school to watch the Early Years Nativity Play and visited the elderly residents of Hall Barn to deliver gifts, cards and sing Christmas songs together. The Christmas party was held on 17° December with Timmy the Elf and Bernard the Snowman to entertain the children. Father Christmas came to deliver presents which were donated by Micro Scooters (local family run company) which were drinks bottles and bottle holder and some stickers. Spring Term started on 6"" January 2025 continuing the theme of colours and introducing shapes.

Chinese New Year was celebrated, the year of the Snake, where the children made snakes and looked at the numbers 1 to 5 in Chinese. The Manager and Deputy Manager retired from Sparrows on the 14" February 2025 and a new Manager was in place ready for rest of the Spring Term from 24" February 2025. A current member of staff was promoted to Deputy Manager and Sparrows continued to run as normal. In March the Deputy Manager resigned for personal reasons, and a new Deputy Manager was taken on. Both the new Manager and Deputy Manager completed their Safeguarding Levels 2 and 3 (DSL) together with First Aid where needed.

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section D

Achievements and performance

Sparrows also started to offer Wednesday’s from April after many comments at how having the full week would be beneficial to parents and their children.

Ofsted returned to Sparrows on 6" June and Sparrows were graded as GOOD overall and, in every area, they were happy that the key actions that were raised in the previous Inspection were now met.

Staff supervision meetings took place to ensure staff were feeling supported and additional CPD was put in place to ensure all staff were up to date with their understanding of the EYFS and children’s development.

To round of the year the children had a trip to” Wellies on” Farm, where the children and their families had hands on experience with different animals and the working life on a farm.

As the summer term came to an end 9 children were preparing to leave for primary school and 4 additional children left as the parents required longer hours which Sparrows were unable to provide.

As Sparrows closed for the summer there wasa total of 6 children on role for September 2025 and 4 members of staff.

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Section E Financial review
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Reserves to cover costs of staff redundancies and any other costs if Brief statement of the playgroup was to close for any other reason. charity’s policy on reserves Details of any funds materially in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information) You may choose to :include Sparrows ran a quiz ; night and raffle to help raisepe much needed funds to additional information, where replace outdoor equipment. Successfully raising £600. relevant about:

e the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
e how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
e 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.

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A

Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ membersof | SPARROWS PLAYGROUP On accounts for the year Charity no ended] SIST AuGusT Joges (ifany)| |/60269 42

| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended .

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

| report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission : under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other-tharrthat-diselesed-below-*) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

Independent examiner's statement

accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the 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 if they do not apply.

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Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):

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Section B Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
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2025-08-31-accounts

Charity name

Sparrows Playgroup

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Section B

Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Section C

Objectives and activities

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Achievements and performance

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A

Independent Examiner’s Report

Independent examiner's statement

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