## **Stithians Preschool and B4 & L8 Club Annual Accounts** These are the Annual Accounts for **Stithians Preschool and B4 & L8 Club (Registered charity 1032443)** operating from registered address The Stithians Centre, Church Road, Stithians, Truro, Cornwall, TR3 7DH. This set of Annual Accounts relates to the financial reporting period of **1st September 2024 to 31st August 2025.** ## About Stithians Preschool and B4 & L8 Club The Stithians Preschool and B4 & L8 club offers Ofsted registered childcare for children between the ages of two and 11 from their setting within The Stithians Centre in the village of Stithians, Cornwall. The Preschool is a significant source of wrap-around care for children in attendance at Stithians CP School, located next door. The Preschool is open Monday to Friday during term-time between 7.30am until 6pm. In the 2024/25 financial year, the Preschool also offered a Holiday Club service for four weeks of the School Summer Holidays. ## Our aims The aims of the Preschool are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age. There is a strong ethos within the Preschool to provide inclusive support to parents, and their children, regardless of race, culture, religion, means or ability. This includes promoting the Preschool and its activities within the local community, in working closely with other local services and seeking to raise funds for the improvement of the facilities and opportunities made available to children and families using the Preschool. ## Our income The Preschool income is a mixture of both funded hours and fees from non-funded care. The Preschool’s highest source of income was for fees from the local authority for children who are eligible for childcare funding amounting to £69,572.27, closely followed by fees for non-funded care amounting to £65,459.05. Fees paid for non-funded care incorporates services such as: B4 and L8 Club attendance for children attending school; children who are not eligible for childcare funding; or for hours over and above those childcare funding will cover. ## Our expenditure The largest proportion of expenditure for the Preschool was represented in the staffing costs, particularly staff wages, which amounted to £97,710.50. Staffing costs including on costs amounted to £123,363.10. The next largest proportion of expenditure, outside of staffing costs, was relating to rental of the Preschool room at the Stithians Centre amounting to £6,300.00. The third highest expenditure related to the cost of equipment and resources for the Preschool. Overall income for 2024/25 was £138,118.46 and after expenditure of £142,388.81, the Preschool made a £4,270.35 deficit. ## Our Trustees The Trustees for the financial year of 2024/25 were: Josephine Fletcher - Chair Natalie Male - Secretary Kirsty Hickson - Treasurer Lucy Parr Linsey Alston Nichola Halstead. Kirsty Hickson Treasurer Josephine Fletcher Chair **STITHIANS PRESCHOOL INCOME AND EXENDITURE ACCOUNT TO 31ST AUGUST 2025** ## **2025 £ £** |**RECEIPTS**
Fees
Holiday Club
Fundraising
CC Funding
Grants
Bank Interest
Other
**PAYMENTS**
Wages
Professional Fees
Rent
Bank Charges
Insurance
Health and safety
Meals / Snacks
Equipment / resources
Repairs / Renewals
IT / Stationery Costs
Postage
Training (Costs)
Fundraising Costs
Other staff costs
Marketing
Contingency Fund|123363.
1
1300.05
6300
145.2
1042.64
1152.46
2035.09
3351.16
527.8
1897.91
0
679.4
0
594
0
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235.2
26.2
69572.27
47.13
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1| |||| ## **Surplus/Defecit for Year** **-4270.35** |Surplus brought forward as at 1st
September 2024
Add/Less:Surplus/Deficit For The Year
Surplus carried forward as at 31st August
2025
Represented By:
Current Account
C.O.I.F. Charities Deposit Fund
Cash In Hand
Total Monetary Assets As At 31st August
2025|28,991.52
-4270.35| |---|---| ||**24,721.17**| ||24679.82
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40| ||**24721.25**| Independent Examiner 2710512026 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A IT￿ePendent Exaniner's Report Report to thetruste members of stitlians PreschLW)I On accourrts for the year 31& Aug￿1 2025 Charity no Irf any) 1032443 Srt out pages 1and2 I rep)rt to the truslees ￿ my examlnatlon of the accwnls (Ithe aove Charty Dhe Trusl? forthe year en¢*d Responsibilities As the chaiity truslees of the Trust, you ￿e restx)nsitAe for ttrE preparati( basls of report of the acC￿nIS kn acc¢xdance wlththe rewlrements c(the Charlles Ad 2011 (Ihe Act). I rep)rt In resped of my exanlnatlM of Trust's accounts carrled out under sectKJn 145 of the 2011 Ad in carryiNJ out my examinaion, I have follo%%pd the applKable tjrections grven bythe Charity Commission under sect￿￿ 1445)(b) of Ad. I have completed my examination. I confThi thal no materia matters have come to my attertion in connection Y￿th ttrn exa￿1nat￿n wtrich gives me cause to bdleve that In. any materla respect: countng records were rnt ke# in acCOrda￿e sedlon 130 of Act t￿ accowrts th not xc(Yd with the accounting records Independent examiners statemert I have no concerrs and have come &ross no dher matters in connection with the examinaion to vthith attention slN)uld I￿ dravm in Lyder lo enable a proFer understarKling dthe accourts lo t* reached. 2P May 2026 Sign￿. C L Morgan Relevant professional qualifJcation(sl or b Irfan￿. FMAAT Address: Easl Lynne, Mithian DOY￿S, St Agnes TR5 OPY