## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1 September 2023 to 31 August 2024** **Charity name: Oatlands Pre School** **Charity registration number: 1031129** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The aim of the pre-school 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 and by offering appropriate play facilities
and training courses.| |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|Operation of a charity run Pre-School from 9am
to 1pm, five mornings a week, for 2-4 year-olds.| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|| **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
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|At Oatlands Pre-School we are proud to have
continued to deliver a very high standard of
early years education to our children, providing
a safe and engaging learning environment, and
helping to prepare them for their formal
educational journey at infant school. This has
been recognised through our granting of a
Good Ofsted rating again in July 2024.
We are pleased to have continued to retain and
develop our highly experienced staff. This
allows us to provide a level of care and
commitment for our children which we believe
is not achievable within many commercially run
settings.| **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|The pre-school remains financially viable,
making a (small) profit in the financial year.
This is despite increasing pressure from funding
requirements and increasing costs.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Reserves are held to enable the charity to meet
its financial obligations through holding working
capital as well as to provide a period of financial
stability in the event that an excess of
expenditure over income arises. The trustees
consider this good governance in regard to the
charity’s responsibility to the parents and
children it provides services to.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£40,330.24 (NatWest Business Reserve
Account only)
-£3,610.54 (NatWest Current Account)
£57,057.00 (Santander Account)
**£93,776.68 Combined Total as at 31 August**
**2024**| |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|**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|Fees, funding, fundraising through clubs
and events / initiatives supported by
parents and local community| |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|Rising costs of operations being unable to
be offset by government funding / rates
charged
Pressure from government requirements of
offering funded places
Competition from other local pre-school
settings| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Association| |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|Elected by parents of pre-school children, no
more than 40% of whom can be non-parents of
current pre-school children.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures Para 1.51 adopted for the induction and training of trustees The charity’s organisational Para 1.51 structure and any wider network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Oatlands Pre School| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1031129| |Charity’s principal address|Oatlands Village Hall
8 St Mary’s Road
Weybridge
Surrey KT13 9PT| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person**
**(or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Mrs Selena Gardiner|Chair||| ||Mrs CarlyWalton|Co-Treasurer||| ||Mrs Katie Metcalf|Co-Treasurer||| ||Mrs Laura Rust|Secretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |**Independent**
**Examiner**
**and**
**Accountant**|FJ Wilde FCCA
MBA DChA PgDip|4 Marigold Drive, Bisley, Surrey, GU24 9SF| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Lois Patrick - Manager ## **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) Full name(s)** Selena Gardiner Laura Rust ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair Secretary ~~PT~~ **Date** 24 March 2025 ~~ee~~ ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts** **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report** **Report to the trustees/** Oatlands Preschool **members of** 31/08/2024 **Charity no** 1031129 **On accounts for the year (if any) ended Set out on pages** 1 and 2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/08/2022** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** 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. **Signed: Date:** 27 March 2025 ~~esta 7~~ **Name:** FJ Wilde ~~Ce~~ **Relevant professional** FCCA DChA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 4 Marigold Drive Bisley Surrey GU24 9SF **October 2018** 1 **IER** **Charity Name No (if any) Oatlands Preschool 1031129 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/09/2023 31/08/2024 ~~ee ee ee~~ **Section A Receipts and payments** ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |Fees|**180,247**||**-**||**-**||**180,247**||**138,414**| |Other income|**16,587**||**-**||**-**||**16,587**||**32,394**| |Fundraising|**2,313**||**-**||**-**||**2,313**||**3,021**| |Interest income|**628**||**-**||**-**||**628**||**309**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|||||||||| |_AR)_|**199,775**||**-**||**-**||**199,775**||**174,138**| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 199,775**
**-**
**-**
**199,775**
**174,138**
~~SS555~~|||||||||| |**A3 Payments**|||||||||| |Wages|**143,584**||**-**||**-**||**143,584**||**126,528**| |Pension costs|**4,179**||**-**||**-**||**4,179**||**3,827**| |Training|**1,165**||**-**||**-**||**1,165**||**852**| |Uniforms|**121**||**-**||**-**||**121**||**511**| |Consumables|**1,078**||**-**||**-**||**1,078**||**2,615**| |Activity|**5,643**||**-**||**-**||**5,643**||**667**| |Proffessional and legal fees|**323**||**-**||**-**||**323**||**1,417**| |PlayEquipment|**3,565**||**-**||**-**||**3,565**||**602**| |Premises costs|**15,883**||||||**15,883**||**15,862**| |Office expenses (Inc IT & software,|||||||||| |postage, printing,telephone & internet)|**10,494**||||||**10,494**||**5,620**| |Payroll and accountancy|**3,655**||||||**3,655**||**6,359**| |Fundraising|**-**||||||**-**||**-**| |Other(Inc Bank Fees)|**6,764**||||||**6,764**||**14,623**| |Insurance|**1,209**||**-**||**-**||**1,209**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**197,663**||**-**||**-**||**197,663**||**179,483**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**197,663**
**-**
**-**
**197,663**
**179,483**
~~—_——————~~| |---| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**2,112**
**-**
**- 2,112**
**- 5,345**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**91,832**
**- -**
**91,832**
**97,177**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**93,944**
**-**
**- 93,944**
**91,832**
~~=SSS~~| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 24/03/2025 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |**Categories**|**Details**|**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| |||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B1 Cash funds**|**- 3,611**
**-**
**-**
**40,330**
**-**
**-**
**57,057**
**168**
**-**
**-**
**93,944**
**-**
**-**
**_Total cash funds_**
Nat West Current
Nat West Reserve
Petty Cash
Santander
~~rs~~||||| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments|(agree balances with receipts and payments|||| ||account(s))|OK|OK||OK| |||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**||**Endowment**| |||**funds**|**funds**||**funds**| ||**Details**|**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~—===~~||||| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~nee~~||||| ||**Details**|**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**151**
**-**
**799**
**-**
**143**
**-**
**75**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Office equipment (2021)
Laptop (2021)
Office furniture (2021)
IT equipment (2023)
~~mie~~||||| |||**Fund to which**|**Amount due**||**When due**| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**|**liability relates**
**(optional)**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Date of
approval
24/03/2025
24/03/2025
**Details**
Print Name
Selena Gardiner
Katie Metcalf
Signature
~~——~~||||| |CCXX R2 accounts (SS)|2||||24/03/2025| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees CCXX R2 accounts (SS)