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2023-12-31-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 01 2023 To 31 12 2023

Section A Reference and administration details ~~ee~~

Charity name Other names charity is known by

Ide Hill Pre School

Registered charity number (if any) 1031381 ~~CT~~ Charity's principal address Ide Hill Village Hall Ide Hill Kent Postcode TN14 6JG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name
Office (if any)
Dates acted if not for whole year
Name of person (or
body) entitled to
appoint trustee (ifany)
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Brenda Bates
Chair
Elected 5thSeptember 22
Re-elected as chair July 23
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Jennifer Smith
Treasurer
1stJanuary – re-elected Oct 23
3
Elizabeth Money
Manager
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Annabel Cordon-
Bates
Secretary
Elected Oct 2023
5
Stephanie Freed
Elected Oct 2023
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Cat Melvin
Elected Oct 2023
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Sarah Bracewell-
Milne
Elected Oct 2023
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Rachael Sedgwick
Elected Oct 2023
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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)

Pre School Manager – Elizabeth Money

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

Type of governing document

Pre School Learning Alliance 2011 Constitution

How the charity is constituted

Unincorporated Association

Trustees are appointed or repointed annually at the Annual General Meeting Trustee selection methods held in October (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

Ide Hill Pre School is open to local children aged from 2 years until they go to school at the age of 4 years old.

We very much welcome all children, including those who need extra help and support with development milestones.

The Manager of the pre school Mrs Money manages the day-to-day running of the preschool which includes managing a team of 5 staff members. Our trustees oversee the running of the pre school.

The pre school employees an Administrator, Jennifer Smith, who is approved to look after the banking for the pre school since January 2024. She oversees that the committee meet its obligations with DBS and Ofsted checks and put together the accounts for the pre school. Jennifer is not a trustee.

All trustees are required to abide by our confidentiality policy and are all required to read our safeguarding policy.

All trustees give of their time freely and no remuneration is paid.

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Section C Objectives and activities

Our objectives for 2023-2024:The early years environment is continuously evolving, here at Ide Hill Pre-school we aim to continue our Outstanding status throughout this year - with continued CPD, skilful planning and teaching to the highest standard. CPD We have SEN children who have a diagnosis of selective mutism and verbal apraxia. Targeted training for SENCo/Staff has been provided which has included understanding what Selective Mutism and Verbal apraxia mean for a child and understanding the principles of intervention. Walking in the Shoes of Giants Summary of the objectives of the charity. With the introduction of 2 year olds into the pre-school from September 2024 - we have attended some CPD during the Autumn term specifically designed for 2 year olds. This training has given us an in depth understanding of both the physical and psychological environment which is needed for younger children to thrive/learn. Two-year-olds develop at an astonishing rate, however there is a significant differential in the range of developmental milestones between 2/3 and 3/4 year-olds. Provision of enabling environments with age appropriate/interests/resources/suitable materials needs to be accessible to them both indoors/outdoors learning/play areas which has been incorporated into the pre-school environment. All members of staff have now gained their paediatric first aid qualification. Manager will attend Designated safeguarding course in Autumn term.

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Overview

Our numbers have improved this academic year, with the introduction of 2 year olds into the setting. September2024 – we have 27 children, October - we have 29 children and 30 children in January 2025. A waiting list of 4 at present. Staff/Leadership The staff team remains stable with 6 members of staff including the manager. May 2023

We celebrated not just the Coronation of our King and Queen, but the diversity of our pre-school community and all the commonwealth countries our children come from within - Making Royal food/snacks, ancient castles made out re-cycling boxes and a wonderful array or crowns were on display. July 2023

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

We finished the Summer Term with a visit from Animalia Encounters who provided a wonderful engaging interac�ve workshop for the children. We learnt about differences and similari�es, needs such as food, shelter, water and space and kindness and compassion. Teaching children kindness and compassion to all living things is a valuable life lesson. Children were naturally drawn to the animals. Everyone was so excited throughout, boos�ng their self esteem by overcoming fears of the li�le creatures. We had so much fun through such a unique discovery experience. New School Year September – 2023 As we came back together for the Autumn term, our new starters were quick to settle into pre-school life. November 2023 In November the staff and children joined in the ‘BBC Children in Need Appeal’; this was a great opportunity for the children to have fun but also to think about those children in the UK who may be less fortunate than themselves. Using the face of Pudsey Bear/Teddy Bears - the children joined in the spirit of charity fund raising by having a sensory tea party/crea�ng their own tea flavours using citrus fruits. We raised £63 from parents/carers. December 2023 December 2023 saw the produc�on of “the Sleepy Shepherd” for our Christmas Na�vity. The month of December days were filled with singing/performance prac�ce. The en�re pre-school community literally rejoiced in the return of our Na�vity; with the village hall full to maximum capacity with parents/carers. Funds were raised for the pre-school through Christmas Raffle Hampers and beverages. June – Teddy Bears Picnic 2024 Once again we held a ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ in the pre-school The children had the opportunity to bring in their favourite bears and we ate our lunch outside and finished off with some singing and dancing with our favourite bears. July The reception teacher, Mrs Daniels, came into pre-school during June, to read a story to the children who were moving onto Ide Hill School in September.

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– Sports Day July

We were very lucky with the weather once again and we held our sports day in the pre-school car park. The playground was a hive of energetic Yellow, Green, Red and Blue teams. Each child was presented with a certificate and named coloured pencils and a pencil case.

The Team

I would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all of my staff team, who work so incredibly hard and always go that "extra mile". I am looking forward to continuing and maintaining our “Outstanding” status throughout the coming year.

Committee

Finally, I would like to thank Jennifer Smith, our Finance Administrator, for her enormous contribution to the pre-school since taking over from Laura Piper in 2024. Also, a huge thank you to Brenda our ex Chairperson, who has worked incredibly hard fundraising for the pre-school. I am looking forward to working with our new Chairperson Camilla Foy in the forthcoming months.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Brenda Bates

- Chairperson from April 2023 July 2024

I took over from Claire Scott at the start of the Summer Term 2023. During my time as chair, our focus as a committee was to provide as many opportunities as we could for families of Ide Hill Pre School, to come together to socialise and rebuild the strong school community the school once had before the covid years. As well as, to raise as much as we could for our amazing school.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

Summer Term 2023

During the summer term we had a coffee morning for parent to get together and we introduced a new fundraising event: The Family Fun Day. This was a great success, and it was a wonderful time for all of us families to get together to enjoy a picnic at school, as well as provide an opportunity to raise some funds for the school.

We also raised funds by having a stall at the Ide Hill Village Fair, this year we had a toy lucky dip, and we sold sweety cones. Our sports day was another good fundraising event, as we sold refreshments and ice creams. To top off the terms fundraising the school was given a generous leaving gift from the parents of the children leaving for big school in September. In total we raised £924.90, which went towards buying some new indoor gym equipment.

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Autumn Term 2023

The Autumn term was another successful term in having social events and raising funds for the school. We held coffee mornings and organised a Christmas get together for the parents at a local pub.

The first fundraising event we held was a Christmas wreath making workshop. Not only was this a fun event to attend, but it also helped the Pre School make links with Ide Hill Junior School, as we ran the event together. This was well attended across two evenings and was a lovely social occasion for parents.

We also had the annual Christmas Hamper raffle and sold refreshments at the Christmas Nativity. After the nativity, the children and parents enjoyed having a Christmas party and Father Christmas even came to visit!

Another fundraising idea we did, was for the children to take part in a making a wonderful Christmas picture that was then turned into cards and other gifts the parents could buy from a company called Xmas4Schools.

In total this term we raised £980, which was used to buy new toys and resources for the children to use at school.

Spring Term 2024

Spring term was a quieter one on the fundraising front, we raised £438 by having an Easter Basket Raffle and by selling refreshments at the Easter Songs Concert.

We also had another coffee morning for parents to attend.

Summer Term 2024

This Summer Term we held all the same events as last year. We had a stall at the Ide Hill Fair, ran our family day again and sold refreshments at our sports day.

The children had fun taking part in a new event: The coin trail. The used all the spare change that they collect over the term to make a coin trail around the playground. They even had enough coins to spell the letters Ide Hill.

In total this term, with another generous leaving gift from the parents, we raised an amazing £1052.39! This money was used by the teachers to revamp the reading corner.

Over the year we have had committee meetings and through the different coffee mornings have managed to recruit some new parents onto the school committee. The school now has a lovely group of parents on the committee going forward into the new academic year, and I wish them all the success in raising as much as they can for our wonderful Pre School.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Verve Training/Interaction Course

Following the detrimental impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic on young children’s speech and language development mainly attributed to children having much fewer opportunities to develop these skills at home together with wide closure of educational provision.

The setting has now in turn seen a sharp increase in the need for practitioners to take responsibility to provide additional targeted support for the children.

We have in respect addressed this ongoing concern over 2024 by providing ‘Verve’ Child Interaction Training initially to our Senco/Senior Pre-School teacher.

Over a course of one hour sessions for a 6 week period - delivered by a previous parent, children’s author/illustrator Kate Yeo and trained Speech and Language therapist - then in parts cascaded to all staff members.

The Verve Child Interaction training uses videos to place professional selfreflection and collaboration at the centre of learning process, whilst providing clear visual evidence of each child’s developing skills.

The focus has been on underpinning the adult in observing/facilitating the emerging skills of the individual child. We have been able to evidence how important responding and being consistent is to helping each child resource and use their own skills throughout play/learning. The practitioners described this training as ‘transformational’.

The launch of our visual tour via our website in 2023, provided another excellent marke�ng tool that allowed parents to see the structure/visual layout and ethos/learning environment that our ‘Outstanding’ pre-school offers.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

From 1[st] January 2023 to 31[st] December 2023 we made a profit of £11,426.16 which is higher than the profit made in 2022, which included rising costs of rent, pay increases for staff and increased costs of materials and consumables. As of the 31/12/2023 we had £23,152.82 cash in our operating account in unrestricted funds. We also keep a reserve account which had a balance of £45,853.48 as of 31/12/2023. This includes a transfer of £15,000 from our operating account to our reserve account in October 2023. This money is kept aside to cover unexpected operational costs for a few months in the event of loss of income, any redundancy costs should the situation arise or any other unforeseen expenditure.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Not applicable

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Our main sources of income are from the fees we charge for our services as well as the nursery government funding which we can only claim for children over 3 years old.

We raised a total of £1,450.28 through our fundraising efforts for the preschool and received £437.00 in donations.

Section F Other optional information

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Section G Declaration ~~Se~~

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s)
Full name(s) Brenda Bates Sarah Bracewell-Milnes
Position (eg Secretary, Chair,
etc)		 Position (eg Secretary, Chair,
Chair		 Trustee
Date 16/10/2024

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/
members of		 Charity Name
Ide Hill Pre School
On accounts for the year Charity no
ended 31 December 2023
(if any)
1031381
Set out on pages N/A
(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 ended31 December 2023
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:

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.

Signed:

Date: 04 October 2024

Name: Richard Jepson

Relevant professional FCCA / ACCA qualification(s) or body

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IER

(if any):

Address:

54 Queens Drive Sevenoaks Kent TN14 5DD

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 .

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IER