## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
## **From Period start date 01/09/2023 To Period end date 31/08/2024**
## **Charity name: Hartwell Playgroup**
## **Charity registration number: 1029388**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Nursery and childcare provision for 6m**
**to 4 years**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Childcare**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**I can confirm that the trustees have read**
**the guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference|
|---|---|
||Para 1.38|
|Policy on grant making||
||Para 1.38|
|Policy on social investment||
including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
SORP reference Summary of the main achievements of the charity, identifying the difference the Para 1.20 charity’s work has made to the circumstances of its beneficiaries and any wider benefits to society as a whole.
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**This has been completed by an**
**independent examiner**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**Reserves are held for the purpose of**
**ensuring that unexpected**
**circumstances are covered i.e.**
**unplanned closure, the reserves are not**
**used for day to day running of the**
**setting.**
**12% of any funds raised will be**
**transferred to reserves**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£6703.58**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47||
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal|||
risks facing the charity
Para 1.46
Other
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:||**Volunteer trustees**|
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Unincorporated**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Annual General Meeting**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51||
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Hartwell Playgroup|
|---|---|
|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1029388|
|Charity’s principal address|Hartwell Community Centre
School Lane
Hartwell
Northampton
NN7 2HL|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Nam**
**e of**
**pers**
**on**
**(or**
**body**
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**entitl**
**ed to**
**appo**
**int**
**trust**
**ee (if**
**any)**|
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||Charlotte Wilson|Chair|||
||Laura Weston|Treasurer|||
||Edward Manning|Secretary|||
||Lynne Turnbull-
Phillips||||
||Carole Gunnell||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets None held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
||**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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||**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional**
**information)**|||
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
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Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s) Charlotte Wilson
Position (eg Chair
Secretary, Chair,
etc) a
Date
25/04/2024 [a]
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## **Balance b/f 31/08/2023**
|**Balance b/f 31/08/2023**||
|---|---|
|Current Account
Cash in Hand
Total
Reserve Account
**Total**
**Income**
Funding - WNC
Receipts from Parents / Natonal Savings
Fundraising
Grants
Bank Interest
**Total Income**
**Proft/Loss**
Total Income
Total Expenditure
Proft/Loss|£6,174.66
£40.00|
||£6,214.66|
||£6,703.58|
||£12,918.24|
||£71,975.59
£29,344.77
£919.91
£2,500.00
£199.18|
||£104,939.45|
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||£117,857.69|
||£104,939.45
£92,024.24|
||£12,915.21|
**Expenditure** Salaries HMRC Pension (NEST) Sationary/Office Exp Furniture/Equipment Mobile Phone Professional Fees Staff Training Uniform/Book Bags Fundraising Expenses Rent/Hire Food & Drink
£74,592.19 £8,383.61 £2,435.91 £151.98 £1,100.26 £237.72 £1,685.52 £75.00 £128.85 £256.75 £2,832.00 £144.45 £92,024.24
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustees
Hartwell Preschool
23
Charity no
(if any)
ended
202
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 3110312023.
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
Independent IThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to
examiner's Statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of linsert name of
applicable listed bodyl]. Delete I l if not applicable.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that
disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act., or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter
considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns 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 understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
2411012024
Name:
Victoria Jewell
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
Bsc (Hons), SAFC
IER
Oct 2018
(if any):
Address:
10 Silver Birch Road
Wootton
Northampton, NN4 6FZ
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brief detalls of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
None
IER
Oct 2018