Fowey Preschool AGM Trustees Report
November 2024
Welcome everyone to this year’s AGM.
Stafng – We said goodbye to Stacey at the end of March 2024 and Lucy stepped into the role of Deputy manager. It was sad to see Stacey go as she was a true asset to preschool. We took no other staff on as we had enough staff to cover the ratios with the remaining team.
Charlie has almost completed her level 3 course but due to unforeseen circumstances with Charlie’s health and now Charlie’s lecturer’s health, Charlie is unable to have her course finalised until the New Year.
Fundraising – we made a fantastic profit of £735.60 from the sales of Christmas cards, Christmas portraits and from the Christmas fair. The Easter Fair also did well and made an impressive £456.56.
Other fundraising schemes we are running are still bringing in lots of money. The lottery made us £605.10’s and the ragbag made us £66.40.
We also received a Green Token Grant through Tesco of £1000’s which enabled us to renovate the sandpit area to make it safe to use.
Finances – We made an overall profit of £20,706.54 for the year ending 31.08.2024
Finances maybe be impacted in April 2025 due to the national minimum wage going up by 6.7% and also the increase of employers
NI contributions going up by 1.2%. Also, the threshold of earnings will be dropping to £5000’s (drop of £4100’s) to where we will have to pay employers NI for our employees. We will have to wait and see how this impacts us as we are due to have new children starting in April which will hopefully positively impact the settings finances and smooth out the percentage increases in outgoings.
From September 2024 we were able to accept children from 2 years of age with paid funded hours. The funding rates had increased for all of our children over some of the financial year. There is no foreseen increase in funding when the minimum wage increases in April 2025.
Commitee - Claire Varcoe, Jo Lister and Isobel Hughes have asked to step down from the committee. Claire has kindly said she will stay on the committee until more members have had their checks cleared. We thank all three of them for the service they have given preschool over the years, they have done a great job.
RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT For the year ending 31.08.24
| ACCOUNT | RECEIPTS | PAYMENTS | + BALANCE | - BALANCE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C.C. Funding: 2, 3 & 4 year | 85043.64 | 85043.64 | |||
| Disability | |||||
| Fees | 6279.74 | 6279.74 | |||
| Wages (net) | 55031.51 | 55031.51 | |||
| H.M. Revenue (PAYE) | 7073.72 | 7073.72 | |||
| Payroll costs | 352.51 | 352.51 | |||
| Pensions | 2262.12 | 2262.12 | |||
| Rent | 3800.00 | 3800.00 | |||
| Rates | 85.01 | ||||
| Equipment | 481.45 | 481.45 | |||
| Provisions/housekeeping | 700.08 | 700.08 | |||
| Phone | |||||
| Stamps & stationery | 309.42 | 309.42 | |||
| Training costs | 500.00 | 463.57 | 36.43 | ||
| Insurance | 999.27 | 999.27 | |||
| Printer Inks | 262.89 | 262.89 | |||
| Bottled Water | 232.08 | 232.08 | |||
| DBS Costs | 314.28 | 314.28 | |||
| Subscriptions: | 76.97 | 271.86 | |||
| E.Y. Alliance | |||||
| Ofsted | |||||
| I.C.O. | 35.00 | ||||
| Twinkle | 74.88 | ||||
| Fund Raising: Christmas fair | 495.10 | 186.50 | 308.60 | ||
| Amazon-prizes | 47.95 | 47.95 | |||
| Xmas Cards | 80.50 | 38.49 | 42.01 | ||
| Xmas Portraits | 160.00 | 97.32 | 62.68 | ||
| Easter Fair | 456.56 | 9.95 | 446.61 | ||
| Marathon | 67.67 | 67.67 | |||
| Green Token Grant (sand pit-garden) | 1000.00 | 599.35 | 400.65 | ||
| Lottery | 605.10 | 80.00 | 525.10 | ||
| Ragbag | 66.40 | 66.40 | |||
| Second hand t-shirt | 3.00 | 3.00 | |||
| Refund on portrait mounts | 24.95 | 24.95 | |||
| Donations | 130.00 | 130.00 | |||
| Website costs | 371.52 | 371.52 | |||
| Garden maintenance | 38.24 | 38.24 | |||
| PPE | 151.54 | 151.54 | |||
| T-shirts-children | 66.50 | 186.00 | 119.50 | ||
| Leavers gifts | |||||
| AGM costs | 1.99 | 1.99 | |||
| Leavers trip and t-shirts | 80.00 | 79.40 | 0.60 | ||
| Anti-virus x 2 laptops | 209.98 | 209.98 | |||
| Security | 27.89 | 27.89 | |||
| Misc. | 17.75 | 17.75 | |||
| CAF interest | 3.43 | 3.43 | |||
| Bank Interest (deposit account) | 402.58 | 402.58 | |||
| CAF fees | 60.00 | 60.00 | |||
| TOTALS | 95,465.17 | 74,758.63 | 93,844.09 | 73,137.55 | |
| Excess of income over expenditure | 20,706.54 | 20,706.54 |
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