2025-07-31-accounts - Playmates Playgroup

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period From Period start date To Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 August 2024 31 July 2025	Trustees' Annual Report for the period From Period start date To Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 August 2024 31 July 2025
Section A Reference and administration details
Charity name	PLAYMATES PRE-SCHOOL
Other names charity is known by	PLAYMATES PLAYGROUP
Registered charity number (if any)	1028557
Charity’s principal address	THE BUNGALOW, WINDMILL PRIMARY SCHOOL, WINDMILL LANE, RAUNDS, NORTHANTS.
	POSTCODE NN9 6LA

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity.

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Trustee name Office (if Dates acted if not Name of person (or body) entitled
any) for whole year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Donna Randall Chairperson Member of Playmates Pre-school
2 Gail Gilbert Treasurer Member of Playmates Pre-school
3 Carla Harmsworth Secretary Member of Playmates Pre-school
4 Swetlana Dewar Member of Playmates Pre-school
5 Kate Mepstead Member of Playmates Pre-school
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

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Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Type of advisor Name Address
Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (optional information)
Gail Gilbert – Pre-school Manager
Marrilynn Hazeldine – Pre-school Leader
Kellie Mayes – Pre-school Deputy Leader
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Section B

Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

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Type of governing Constitution
document
(eg trust deed,
constitution).
How the charity is Company
constituted
(eg trust, association,
company).
Trustee selection methods Election by members
(eg appointed by, elected
by).
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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;  Relationship with any related parties;  Trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.	Special educational needs now at 50% of occupancy. Staff are struggling to teach and deal with a number of needs, including challenging behaviour. We have continued contracting speech and language therapists as the waiting list is currently 12+ months. Also, extra dedicated staff to cope with the diversity of the children’s needs across the Setting through higher needs funding. Lease issue is currently on-going despite correspondence with landlords. An agreement in principle, which is manageable considering we thought we would be facing a much higher monthly rent rate. However, we were informed it would be a 12-month lease only. This is not feasible for us moving forward with planning improvements, seeking grants, fundraising goals or the security of jobs for our staff.
	Section C	Objectives and activities
	Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document	The aim of Playmates is to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups. The objectives are;  offering appropriate play facilities and training courses, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups offering opportunities for all children, regardless of race, culture, religion or means.  encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims of the Early Years Alliance.

Summary of the main Preparing our attending children for primary school. We support the

activities undertaken for the children to reach their full potential and with high levels of confidence public benefit in relation to to ensure they know what to expect when starting school and these objects (include within understand what to expect. 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)

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You may choose to include
further statements, where
relevant, about:
 Policy on grant-
making;
 Policy programme
related investment;
 Contribution made
by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main Our plan to invest in dedicated special needs’ staff to raise children’s
achievement of the charity lack of communication and language and PSE is paying off. .
during the year
Due to the low number of childcare practitioners we have chosen to
invest in two apprenticeships with older teens in the hope that we can
help them to be the best practitioners and form an integral part of our
team.
An efficient procedure for identifying SEN children at the earliest
opportunity and robust support in place has seen all children in our
setting achieving well.
Yet another hefty living wage increase and an increase in employer’s
national insurance contributions saw our running costs increase greatly.
We managed to give our staff a fair rise despite the funding rate
supplied by the LA not reflecting our extra costs.
In April we were instructed we were no longer able to charge
registration/administration fees
Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the Our reserves are prioritised for covering redundancies and notice of
charity’s policy on reserves rent, if we choose to close for any reason.
Any funds outside of this are used to improve the Setting for the
children by updating our provision with new resources, projects and
equipment.
Details of any funds None
materially in deficit
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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

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustee’s report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

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Signature(s)
Full name(s) Donna Marie Randall Gail Frances Gilbert
Position (eg Secretary, Chairperson Treasurer
Chair, etc)
Date 10/09/2025 14/09/2025
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