## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From Period start date 01/09/2024 To Period end date 31/08/2025** ## **Charity name: Hartwell Playgroup** ## **Charity registration number: 1029388** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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 |||| |---|---|---| |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|**£12,636.94**| |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: |
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: |
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| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Nam**
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**ee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Laura Weston|Chair||| ||Kat King|Treasurer||| ||Carole Gunnell|Secretary||| ||Lynne Turnbull-
Phillips|||| ||Tara Temple|||| ||Debbie Molloy|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – 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**|**Name**|**Address**| |---|---|---| |**adviser**||| **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **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.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** L. Weston **Full name(s)** Laura Weston **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 01/09/24 ## **Balance b/f 31/08/2024** |**Balance b/f 31/08/2024**|| |---|---| |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|£11,219.13
£50.00| ||£11,269.13| ||£6,703.58| ||£17,972.71| ||£102,172.48
£43,041.13
£776.20
£0.00
£166.92| ||£146,156.73| ||| ||£164,129.44| ||£146,156.73
£132,611.01| ||£13,545.72| |**Expenditure**
Salaries
HMRC
Pension (NEST)
Ofce/Administratve
Computer Costs
Mobile Phone
Professional Fees
Staf Training
Uniform/Book Bags
Fundraising Expenses
Rent/Hire
Food & Drink
Account Fee|£92,449.72
£8,870.56
£4,274.94
£5,860.54
£61.87
£116.44
£7,771.56
£1,073.29
£377.26
£597.07
£9,504.00
£1,076.14
£577.62| |---|---| ||£132,611.01| ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** ## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees** Charity Name Hartwell Nursery and Preschool **On accounts for the year** 31/08/2025 **Charity no** 1029388 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) 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's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _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._ **Date:** 15/09/2025 **Signed: Name:** Victoria Jewekk **Relevant professional** BSc (Hons), SAFC 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **qualification(s) or body (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). **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **Oct 2018** **IER**