## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 08 2024 **To** 31 07 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Broughton Pre School **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1031324
**Charity's principal address** Conker Lodge (Broughton Primary School) School Lane, Broughton Hampshire **Postcode SO20 8AN**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Early Years Learning Alliance Constitution Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution) Trustees/Committee How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Selection of repeat volunteers based upon voting by committee members Trustee selection methods and minuted in AGMs. (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
All new committee members are subject to a DBS check and must be registered prior to commencement of any charitable activity or responsibilities.
- policies and procedures In addition to the committee, the pre school has an appropriately qualified manager, deputy manager and 2 further staff members who are all kept up
- adopted for the induction and to date with relevant qualifications as required by Ofsted.
- training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational Following the end of the reporting period, the committee began the structure and any wider transition of Secretary responsibilities from Emily Pipe to Tara Hull. network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The objective of the charity is to provide high quality early years education and childcare for local children between the ages of 2 to 4 years old. Alongside the provision of childcare, the charity focuses on development of children to equip them with the physical, mental and emotional skills required to start their primary school education.
The preschool is run in a safe, clean and well resourced environment where children are given the opportunity to participate in a wide range of
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fun and educational activities which promote all areas of development and learning. Learning is encouraged through play and activities which are designed and planned around the children’s interests, aiming to support and extend their learning. Guidance on determining and planning these activities are taken from the relevant professional frameworks and are recorded using our online platform, Tapestry. Play and activities are designed to develop numeracy, literacy, social and motor skills as set out in the curriculum. Activities can take the form of baking, planting seeds, puzzles, stories and song time to watching development of caterpillars and tadpoles to one to one numeracy lessons and outdoor play on our varied equipment including balance bikes, a mud kitchen and climbing equipment. To compliment and leverage the benefit of our various activities, each **Summary of the main activities** child is assigned a key worker who is responsible for their care, mental, **undertaken for the public** health and development, which is recorded in our Tapestry portal. **benefit in relation to these** Tapestry is available to parents enabling them to be kept informed with the **objects (include within this** activities, behaviour and achievements of their child, alongside **section the statutory** assessments and an annual report. **declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance** The preschool has numerous policies and procedures in place that are **issued by the Charity** compliant with the Statutory Framework for The Early Years Foundation **Commission on public benefit)** Stage. Inductions on these policies and procedures are given to any new staff members when employment commences. Broughton preschool supports the local public by providing excellent quality ‘competitively priced’ childcare and education as it does not cap nor discriminate against the number of government funded children who attend, despite the financial implications of this. To enable the charity to operate as a going concern and keep fees low, several varied fundraising events are run by the committee and volunteers on an annual basis. To this extent, the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** As with many charities, the current economic climate and the continued **achievements of the charity** rise in the cost of living have placed significant financial pressure on the **during the year** Pre-School. Total income for the year was £118,000, while total expenditure was £110,000 leaving a positive balance of £8,000. Given the continued rise in costs and staff wages—without a corresponding uplift in the early years funding rate—this year's financial result still reflects a steady and positive outcome. It is a testament to the hard work of our fundraising team and the generosity of parents and the local community. Without their ongoing support and commitment, the Pre-School would not be able to continue operating as a going concern. This highlights our ongoing commitment to professional development and our contribution to the wider local community. Throughout the period, staff maintained a high standard of service, building strong relationships with new families. This quality of care is reflected in the increasing number of children attending, with the final term of the year reaching full capacity and a growing waiting list. Management and staff also remained diligent in keeping up with academic and legislative requirements, undertaking training in areas such as first aid and safeguarding. In summary, 2024–2025 has been a stable and productive year. The PreSchool has continued to operate to a high standard and remains financially stable, despite ongoing pressures and future challenges. We are proud to continue serving the local community with safe, reliable, and high-quality childcare, as evidenced by the sustained demand for places.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Sufficient funds are held to cover closure or unforeseen event costs such as redundancy or loss of income. Access to these funds is restricted and are held separately from the preschools working capital.
## **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
The charity’s principal sources of funds are from fees, government early years education funding, fundraising and donations.
Expenditure over £200 is pre-approved by the committee after a request is submitted by the pre school manager. This request will include a description and reason/justification of the expenditure, this is assessed giving consideration to the objectives of the charity alongside it’s current and future financial position.
Broughton Preschool is currently in a sound financial position and is able to continue operating as a going concern. The biggest risk facing the preschool is a significant drop in government funding or a drop in uptake of childcare positions. This risk is partly managed through the conscious maintenance of our strong reputation in the local community and advertising through local mediums.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
Katie Carpenter
Isabel Birrell
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
Treasurer
Chairperson
**Date**
15/05/2026|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
Katie Carpenter
Isabel Birrell
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
Treasurer
Chairperson
**Date**
15/05/2026|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
Katie Carpenter
Isabel Birrell
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,**
**etc)**
Treasurer
Chairperson
**Date**
15/05/2026|
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|**Broughton Pre School**|**Broughton Pre School**||**1031324**||
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|**Receipts and payments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For the period**
**from**|01/08/2024|**To**|31/07/2025||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**114,304**
**1,123**
**2,579**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,006**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,006**
**72,704**
**8,137**
**881**
**12,560**
**11,592**
**3,719**
**541**
**110,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**110,134**
**7,872**
**-**
**54,341**
**62,213**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**46,974**
**46,974**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**114,304**
**1,123**
**2,579**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,006**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,006**
**72,704**
**8,137**
**-**
**881**
**12,560**
**11,592**
**3,719**
**541**
**-**
**110,134**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**110,134**
**7,872**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Fees/Funding|**114,304**|||||**100,647**|
|Fundraising|**1,123**|||||**18,241**|
|Donations|**2,579**|||||**8,724**|
|Interest||||||**1,377**|
|Other|**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
||**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**118,006**|||||**128,988**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
|||||||**128,988**|
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Wages|**72,704**|||||**66,058**|
|Service Charges|**8,137**|||||**9,313**|
|Equipment||||||**2,206**|
|Trips/Activities|**881**|||||**922**|
|Other|**12,560**|||||**1,488**|
|Tax/NI|**11,592**|||||**9,958**|
|Pension|**3,719**|||||**3,524**|
|Admin/Insurance|**541**|||||**2,104**|
|Maintenance & Furniture||||||**157**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**110,134**|||||**95,731**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||
|**,**|**-**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
|||||||**95,731**|
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||**7,872**|**-**|**-**|
**7,872**||**33,257**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|
||**54,341**|**46,974**|**-**|**101,315**||**90,173**|
||**62,213**|**46,974**|**-**|**109,188**||**123,430**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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|**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**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Barclays Current Account
Manchester Building Society
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**62,213**
**-**
**-**
**48,449**
**-**
**-**
**62,213**
**48,449**
OK
Agreement Error
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Katie Carpenter
Emily Palmer|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
||||OK|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
|||Katie Carpenter|15.05.26|
|||Emily Palmer|**26.05.26**|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Broughton Pre School **On accounts for the year** 31[st] July 2025 **Charity no** 1031324 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-6 (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 **31/07/2023** .
- **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 (other than that disclosed below *) 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Date:** 26.05.26
**Signed: Name:** Emily Palmer **Relevant professional** BSC ACMA CGMA **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** River Cottage, Houghton, Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 6LY
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**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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** .
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