2024/2025
## Annual Report
## Aims and Purposes
Tiggers is a pre-school charitable organization located in Turnditch, Derbyshire which provides development and education to children from age 2 to school age.
## Objectives and Activities
Tiggers offers appropriate play, education and care facilities for pre-school children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability. Tiggers staff and voluntary Committee encourages the study of the needs of such children needs in the local area.
## Achievements and Performance
Tiggers is a registered charity, member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance and registered with Ofsted to deliver Pre-school services. Tiggers has a Provider Agreement with Derbyshire County Council for the delivery of free entitlement for 2,3,4 year olds. Tiggers offers sessions Tuesday through Friday from 9am-3pm and these comprise of morning sessions (9am – midday) lunch club (midday – 1pm) and afternoon sessions (1pm-3pm). Parents are able to use their 30 hours funded childcare across any sessions and are not limited to how they utilise their hours.
Tiggers has 16 children registered with the Pre-school. The Pre-school Manager and Staff have worked hard to maintain the number of children registered.
## Financial review
Total receipts on unrestricted funds were £70,302 which were composed of fees from parents, fees from Early Years Funding (Derbyshire County Council) and fundraising. The total expenditure was £66,048 which includes staff wages, premises rent, training, equipment, administration, insurance, and running costs. The net result for the year was a profit of £4254.
## Reserves
Tiggers does not have a formal policy on Reserves, however at meeting discussion it was agreed that a balance of £20000 must be maintained on unrestricted funds which equates to at least 3 months unrestricted payments to cover emergency situations that may arise from time to time.
## Structure, governance and management
Tiggers consists of paid, NVQ trained staff who deliver the sessions, and a Voluntary Committee who have responsibility for managing the Pre-school. Tiggers employs 5 permanent staff and 1 relief staff.
The Tiggers Constitution states that 60% of the committee must be made up of parents
who have children attending Tiggers. The Committee has Chairperson, Secretary, Treasurer and general Committee Members. The Committee and staff meet quarterly to discuss any issues, policies, and general running of the pre-school and have responsibility to make decisions on all matters of general concern. Tiggers has an Annual General Meeting where the key Committee members are nominated and seconded to stand for the following year.
## Administrative Information
Tiggers is situated in Crompton Inglefield Village Hall, Ashbourne Road, Turnditch, Derbyshire DE56 2LL.
Tiggers is a charity registered with the Charities Commission – Charity number 1030238.
Chairperson – Laura Casbolt Secretary – Herni Packard Treasurer – Emma White
Approved by the Tiggers Committee at the meeting on 6[th] October 2025.
## **TURNDITCH & DISTRICT PLAYGROUP**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **FOR**
## **31 MARCH 2025**
**Charity Number 1030238**
## **TURNDITCH & DISTRICT PLAYGROUP**
## **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
## **YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025**
|**Contents**|**Page**|
|---|---|
|Independent Examiner’s Report|**3**|
|Receipts and Payments Account|**4**|
|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|**5**|
|Notes to the Accounts|**6**|
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Turnditch & District Playgroup**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 which are set out on pages 4 to 6.
## **Respective responsibilities of the trustees and examiner**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 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 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.
Mark Newey ACMA Date Derby Community Accountancy Service Babington Lodge 128 Green Lane Derby DE1 1RY
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## **TURNDITCH & DISTRICT PLAYGROUP**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **FOR YEAR ENDED MARCH 31[st] 2025**
|**2024**
**£**
**Charitable Income**
25130
Fees from parents
34314
Fees from Early Years Funding
note 1
1224
Fundraising and donations
50
Sundry income
0
Running Costs - Refunds
276
Interest
**60994**
**Charitable Expenditure**
54527
Salaries & Associated Costs
4290
Rent
309
Training
1724
Running costs
1591
Administration
894
Insurance
5450
Sundry costs
note 2
**68785**
**-7791**
Movement in funds for the year
0
Transfer between funds
**34745**
**Fund balance at start of period**
**26954**
**Fund balance at end of period**|**Unrestricted**
**Fund**
**Restricted**
**Funds**
**2025**
**£**
**£**
**£**
14200
0
14200
55245
0
55245
534
0
534
60
0
60
0
0
0
263
0
263|
|---|---|
||**70302**
**0**
**70302**|
||53132
0
53132
7527
0
7527
85
0
85
2482
0
2482
987
0
987
1834
0
1834
0
0
0|
||**66048**
**0**
**66048**|
|||
||**4254**
**0**
**4254**|
||0
0
0|
||**26954**
**0**
**26954**|
|||
||**31208**
**0**
**31208**|
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## **TURNDITCH & DISTRICT PLAYGROUP**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT MARCH 31[st] 2025**
|**2024**
**£**
26954
1044|**Monetary Assets**
Bank & Cash
Balances
Debtors
note 3
**Less**
Creditors & accruals
note 4
Net Assets
Chair
Treasurer||**2025**
**£**
31208
0|
|---|---|---|---|
|**27998**|||**31208**|
|163|||649|
|**163**|||**649**|
|||||
|**27835**|||**30559**|
|
||||
|||Date||
|||Date||
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## **TURNDITCH & DISTRICT PLAYGROUP**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
|**Note 1**
**Fees from Early Years Funding**
Derbyshire County Council
**Note 2**
**Sundry costs**
Playground refurbishment
Other costs
**Note 3**
**Debtors**
HM Revenue and Customs
**Note 4**
**Creditors**
HM Revenue and Customs
Pension payment|**2025**
2024
**£**
£|
|---|---|
||**55245**
34314|
||**2025**
2024
**£**
£
0
5450
0
0|
||**0**
**5450**|
||**2024**
2024
**£**
£|
||0
1044|
||**2025**
**2024**
**£**
**£**
500
0
149
163|
||**649**
**163**|
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## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT**
## **Independent Examiner's Report to the trustees of Turnditch & District Playgroup**
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 which are set out on pages 4 to 6.
## **Respective responsibilities of the trustees and examiner**
As the charity trustees of the Trust, 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 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 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.
Mark Newey ACMA Date Derby Community Accountancy Service Babington Lodge 128 Green Lane Derby DE1 1RY
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