2025-08-31-accounts - Chasewell Nursery

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Chasewell Nursery (Playgroup)

Manager’s Report September 2024 – August 2025

Chasewell Nursery continues to operate as a term-time, sessional early years provision, providing high-quality care and education for children aged 2–5 years. As a registered charity, our core aim remains to provide an inclusive, nurturing environment where all children can grow, develop, and reach their full potential.

Leadership and Management

This year has been a period of significant change within leadership. Louise was on maternity leave for a large part of the academic year, during which time Jo Webber stepped into the role of Acting Manager , with Rachael Wilson supporting as Third in Charge .

Jo demonstrated strong leadership, resilience, and commitment throughout this time. She worked closely with the committee and staff team to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the setting, maintaining high standards of care and education despite the challenges presented by staffing changes and an evolving cohort of children.

Rachael provided valuable additional leadership support, helping to maintain consistency and stability within the team.

The committee have continued to play a vital role in supporting the leadership of the setting, particularly during this period of transition.

Staffing and Team Development

The year began with a number of changes to the staff team, alongside the change in leadership. As highlighted in previous years, building a strong and cohesive team takes time, particularly when faced with new staff and children with a range of needs.

Despite this, the team remained committed to ensuring that:

Children’s needs were consistently met
Positive relationships were formed
A safe and nurturing environment was maintained

Through regular staff meetings, support from leadership, and reflective practice, the team has grown in confidence and cohesion over the year. As seen in previous reports, ongoing

development through training, peer support, and reflective practice continues to be central to our approach.

Quality of Education

We continue to deliver our curriculum in line with the Early Years Foundation Stage, with a strong focus on:

Communication and language
Personal, social and emotional development
Learning through play and exploration

Children’s development is monitored through ongoing observation and assessment, allowing staff to plan effectively for individual needs. As in previous years, we remain committed to reflective practice, adapting our provision based on children’s interests and developmental stages.

The team have worked hard to ensure that, despite changes in staffing and leadership, the quality of interactions and learning opportunities remained consistent. Children have continued to thrive, demonstrating confidence, independence, and strong engagement in their learning.

Safeguarding and Welfare

Safeguarding remains at the forefront of everything we do. Robust procedures continue to be followed to ensure all children are safe and well cared for.

Staff have maintained a strong understanding of safeguarding responsibilities, supported through ongoing training and clear processes. As reflected in earlier reports, ensuring staff confidence in safeguarding procedures and early identification of needs continues to be a priority.

SEND and Inclusion

We remain committed to providing an inclusive environment where all children are supported to achieve their best outcomes.

This year has seen an increasing number of children with additional needs. Staff have worked closely with families and external professionals to ensure appropriate support is in place.

Early identification and intervention remain key priorities, with staff continuing to develop their confidence in supporting children through tailored strategies and planning.

Numbers and Capacity

This has been a particularly positive year in terms of occupancy. As noted in our AGM discussions, we reached capacity and applied to increase our registered numbers with Ofsted, moving from 32 to 38 children.

Increased government funding has also supported accessibility for families, enabling more children to attend and benefit from our provision.

At the beginning of the year we based our future on a previous figure of 22 on roll for each session in the morning, including lunch and 16 for the PM sessions would mean we would break even; the new treasurer has plans to do a proper forecast budget intime for next year.

Our actual intake was by Summer term

Day	Mon	Tues	Weds	Thurs	Fri
Morning	29	31	28	30	24
Lunch(12-1)	22	27	22	27	15
Afternoon(1-3)		25		25

Partnership with Parents and Community

Strong partnerships with parents remain a key strength of the setting. We continue to:

Communicate regularly with families
Share children’s progress
Encourage parental involvement

We also continue to explore opportunities to extend learning beyond the setting and into the local community, building on approaches outlined in previous years.

Challenges

This year has presented a number of challenges, including:

Leadership changes due to maternity leave
Staffing transitions
Increasing levels of SEND need
Building consistency within a changing team

Despite these challenges, the team remained focused on maintaining high standards, and most importantly, ensuring that children’s care and education were not impacted.

Looking Ahead

Looking forward to the next academic year, we aim to:

Continue strengthening the staff team and leadership structure
Further develop our curriculum with a focus on nurture, wellbeing, and inclusion
Explore changes to our charity structure to support more effective decision-making
Expand opportunities for children to engage with the wider community

With a strong staff team and continued support from the committee, we are well placed to build on the successes of this year.

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ CHASEWELL NURSERY members of On accounts for the year 31/08/2025 Charity no 1028284 ended (if any) Set out on pages 3

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2025.

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”).

I 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, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner's statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

accounting records were not kept 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 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.

Signed: Urszula Roszkowski Date: 26/05/2026 Name: URSZULA ROSZKOWSKI Relevant professional FCCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: Puretax Consulting Ltd 124 City Road, London England, EC1V 2NX

October 2018

IER

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 any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER

Chasewell Playgroup

Income and Expenditure for the period 1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025

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Income
OCC Funding 155,410.74 172,307.29
Fees 12,833.00
Parent Donation - Events, Activities and Trips 202.00
Parent Donation - Snack 1,832.00
Fundraising 67.00
Unrestricted Interest 332.35
Petty Cash Income 1,630.20
OCC Pupil Premium 693.73 7,430.53
Restricted Grants 6,736.80
Total Income 179,737.82 179,737.82
Expenditure
Payroll 112,557.20 117,527.94
Pension 3,178.52
HMRC 1,135.82
Payroll Services 656.40
HR Costs Accountancy services -
Training 907.58 1,947.52
DBS 74.58
Staff Development Events/Experiences 965.36
Overheads Rent 7,818.00 17,840.77
Telephone 1,273.98
Membership/insurance 1,085.33
Bank Charges - 155.11
Room Equipment/Materials 780.72
Hygeine and Cleaning materials 551.52
Office Equipment Materials 2,399.89
Garden upkeep and materials 2,679.10
Snack 741.54
Admin & advertising 285.80
External Provision 380.00
Equipment 288.49 1,618.49
Voucher Scheme 930.00
Supporting Pupil Premium External Provision 400.00
Fundraising Expenses Fundraising Expenses 12.99 12.99
Trips - 479.97
Events/Experiences for Children Events 479.97
Grant Expenditure Grant Expenditure - -
Total Expenditure 139,427.68 139,427.68
Profit/Loss 40,310.14 40,310.14
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October 2018

IER

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ CHASEWELL NURSERY members of On accounts for the year 31/08/2025 Charity no 1028284 ended (if any) Set out on pages 3

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2025.

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”).

Independent examiner's statement

accounting records were not kept 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 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.

Signed: Urszula Roszkowski Date: 26/05/2026 Name: URSZULA ROSZKOWSKI Relevant professional FCCA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: Puretax Consulting Ltd 124 City Road, London England, EC1V 2NX

October 2018

IER

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 any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

October 2018

IER

Chasewell Playgroup

Income and Expenditure for the period 1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025

October 2018

IER