## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 

Period start date Period end date Day 01 Month 09 Year 2019 Day 31 Month 08 Year 2020 

**From** 

**To** 

## Section A                        Reference and administration details 

**Charity name Other names charity is known by** 

West Wycombe Preschool Playgroup 

**Registered charity number (if any)** 1033562 

**Charity's principal address** School House Church Lane West Wycombe BUCKS **Postcode HP143AH** 

**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 

|1<br>2<br>3<br>4<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>9<br>10<br>11<br>12<br>13<br>14<br>15<br>16<br>17<br>18<br>19<br>20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**<br>**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**<br>**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
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||Susan Chester|Chair|||
||Ellen Carter|Treasurer|||
||Helen Porter-<br>Durran|Secretary|||
||Stephanie Dow|Fundraiser|||
||Natasha Rever|Fundraiser|||
||Gemma Gilles|Safe Guarding<br>Officer|||
||Karen House|Fire SafetyOfficer|||
||Kerrie Thorose||||
||Toni Jade Gill||||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 

**Name Dates acted if not for whole year** 

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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** 

Constituation Adopted 17/9/91 Amended 16/1/2007, 2/2013, 12/2016 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

Voluntary Management Committee How the charity is constituted 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Appointed by Existing Trustees Trustee selection methods 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

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

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider 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** 

To provide care and education for children between the ages of 2 and 5 years old. We follow guidelines set out by Ofsted and the Early Years Foundation Stage to ensure children achieve their full potential in Preparation for school. We offer a safe, fun, and  stimulating preschool for children of all backgrounds, regardless of race, religion, culture or disabilities 

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**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)** 

All sessions are planned in accordance with guideline set by Ofsted to ensure all areas of EYFS curriculum are covered. All activities we offer are available to all children in our setting. Each child is allocated a keyworker whom alongside the children parent/carer ensure they are achieving their full potential. Staff meet regularly to evaluate sessions and plan activities based on the needs and interests of children attending. Key workers will visit other settings of children that attend other settings. As part of the EYFS guide we also do 2-year home visits and complete a folder for each child who attends. We also liase with future reception schools to work with them for the benefit of each child. All staff are encouraged to attend training courses such as food hygiene, first aid and foundation in early years. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

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

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** 

This year is our third year at School House. We joined the committee with our finance very low with outstanding bills. We have managed to implement new rules and procedures and get our finances back on track. 

Fundraising 

Autumn Term we raised over £2500 by fundraising. From Halloween Disco, Cake Sales, Jumble Sale, Book Sales, Bottle Tombolo and our successful Winter Raffle. 

Spring Term we had cake sales and Family Photo Shoot sessions. We had organised a Joules Second Sale but due to Covid this has been postponed until 2021. 

Summer Term, despite Covid we have managed to raise some money from doing a Sponsored Walk and Bags 2 School Collection. 

## Grants 

Our treasurer has applied for numerous of grants which have helped our preschool both financial and also to fund projects to improve School House and buy new equipment for Preschool 

## Covid – 19 

Our amazing staff team went above and beyond in this time, to ensure that Children at home, had activities to do, from downloading work sheets, to our Toilet Roll Challenge Video, as well Story time for the children. We remained open for Key Children throughout. When we open our doors to all our families again in June, the staff worked incredibly hard to ensure Preschool was a safe and welcoming place for our children to return to. 

## School House 

We have worked with our landlord to improve our lovely Preschool, with a brand new picket fence on the drive enabling our closed drive to be used as a scooter and bike area, we received a grant for a new patio area. We have some talented staff who have upcycled furniture and created lovely items for our Preschool. We had a new mud kitchen donated which the children love. 

## Working with the community 

This year we have been involved lots with our community. our walks around the village to post our letters home, to visits to butchers, muddy walks in West Wycombe Park, visits to the Church for Christmas Carols. George & Dragon pub chose us as their charity of the year and donated funds to the preschool, also their award winning Chef came and taught the children how to make Pancakes on shrove Tuesday. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** 

Preschool's contingency fund is held in a separate savings account. These funds are the amount required for redundancy of staff and one terms expenditure of rent should or income drop or drastically reduce. Any excess income will continually go into contingency to top up reserves to ensure we are still within policy and ensure the village and community has a preschool for many years to come. 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

n/a 

## **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. 

Our principle source of income is through local council funding of 15 and 30 hours free childcare for 2,3,4 year olds. We also receive income from those families who go beyond their government entitlement. 

Our expenditure has provided the children with an outstanding setting and excellent learning opportunities by using fun equipment and having highly trained and enthusiastic staff. Staff go above and beyond with their planning to keep children engaged and show a real passion to capture children's imagination and to ensure they are learning and enjoy their time at preschool. We continue to pride ourselves on providing staff training when possible to keep them engaged with their professions and up to date with any new developments in early years education. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

As in previous years, the level of responsibility that parents as volunteer committees are required to assume can be onerous, especially as often there is an entirely new committee each year as children move onto different schools. We have been lucky to have some members that continue to dedicate their time and therefore provide a solid base when recruiting new members. There is a plan in place for the summer months to ensure that incoming members are well informed and ready to hit the ground come September to best support the preschool, the supervisor and staff. 

## **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)** Susan Chester **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 1/09/2020 

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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report lo the Irusleesl
members of
WEST WYCOMBE PRESCHCX)L PLAYGROUP
On accounls for the year
ended
3110812020
Charity no
(if any)
1033562
Set oul on pages
I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
chartty ￿he Trust) for the year ended 3110W2020.
Responsibilities and As Ihe charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance va￿th the requirements ol the Charities Act
2011 (Yhe Acr).
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}Ibl of the Act.
I have completed my exarninalion. I confiitn that no Tnalerial mallers have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with
the examinatbon which gives me cause to believe that in. any material
Independent
examiner's statement
accounting records were not kept in accordance wlh section 130 of
the Act or
the a(Eounts do not acc(Kd with the accounting r￿rdS
I have no COn￿mS and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
pr(per understanding of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in ffte brackets rf fftey do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
JEFFREY DAVID GUY
Relevant professional
qualification{sl or l)ody
(if any):
dress:
6 PORTWAY DRIVE
HIGH WYCOMBE
BUCKS, HP12 4AU
IER
October 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner ne￿IS lo highlight mallers ol concern (see CC32,
Inde￿ndent examination of chartty a￿ounts. directions and guidanGe for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any ilems that Ihe
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018

(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGWID AND WA
WEST WYCC4IBE PRESCHts)I PLAYGR¢)lJP
Receipis and payments accounts
CC16a
For tho pwfod
from
911IX)19
To
811Z020
Section A Receipts and payments
Endowmgnt
fund5
nds
nts
Tolal funds
Last year
A1 Reeel ts
Government F￿nd￿9
Fees FFOM Patettts
19267
1936T
19.3TT
6fja
FU￿ra￿l
Grarts rece￿
Sir¢Al￿r￿￿ed
rEcl ￿eT￿rth
|nipE5t Fleceryed
Generaltra￿l
4.066
28ts62
224
16
10.(*))
224
16
4.DUD
lola
ross for
AR)
137￿4
la￿2
15fjN56
12S.793
Asset and Investm￿t $*$,
tablè
Sub 10181
Tolalrewpt$
137591
18,162
156,456
125.793
A3 Payments
9925¥
4.049
14.253
745
23.962
692
Food and D￿￿k
Eipprn@rta￿
￿￿eaThj Adrn
Fundra￿1
2.76T
4.121
1.063
1￿58
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fo.123
16
10.Y24
141J47
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t25.162
1312
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puYche5e5: (see tablel
10181
125.1tr
16.9BS
131208
let0lreceiptsfpayn￿ts)
A5 Transfws b•tween funds
A6 Cash funds last JTarend
Cash lunds Ihis ￿EaTend
14.
5.415
24520
951
520
39.428
24,520
CCXX Rl a￿OLY￿ ISSI

Section B Statement of assets and liabililies at the end of the period
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funds
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tD n•w•stÈ
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29/&
29I2W21

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report lo the Irusleesl
members of
WEST WYCOMBE PRESCHCX)L PLAYGROUP
On accounls for the year
ended
3110812020
Charity no
(if any)
1033562
Set oul on pages
I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
chartty ￿he Trust) for the year ended 3110W2020.
Responsibilities and As Ihe charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance va￿th the requirements ol the Charities Act
2011 (Yhe Acr).
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}Ibl of the Act.
I have completed my exarninalion. I confiitn that no Tnalerial mallers have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with
the examinatbon which gives me cause to believe that in. any material
Independent
examiner's statement
accounting records were not kept in accordance wlh section 130 of
the Act or
the a(Eounts do not acc(Kd with the accounting r￿rdS
I have no COn￿mS and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examinalion to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a
pr(per understanding of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in ffte brackets rf fftey do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
Name:
JEFFREY DAVID GUY
Relevant professional
qualification{sl or l)ody
(if any):
dress:
6 PORTWAY DRIVE
HIGH WYCOMBE
BUCKS, HP12 4AU
IER
October 2018

Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner ne￿IS lo highlight mallers ol concern (see CC32,
Inde￿ndent examination of chartty a￿ounts. directions and guidanGe for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any ilems that Ihe
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018

(HARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGWID AND WA
WEST WYCC4IBE PRESCHts)I PLAYGR¢)lJP
Receipis and payments accounts
CC16a
For tho pwfod
from
911IX)19
To
811Z020
Section A Receipts and payments
Endowmgnt
fund5
nds
nts
Tolal funds
Last year
A1 Reeel ts
Government F￿nd￿9
Fees FFOM Patettts
19267
1936T
19.3TT
6fja
FU￿ra￿l
Grarts rece￿
Sir¢Al￿r￿￿ed
rEcl ￿eT￿rth
|nipE5t Fleceryed
Generaltra￿l
4.066
28ts62
224
16
10.(*))
224
16
4.DUD
lola
ross for
AR)
137￿4
la￿2
15fjN56
12S.793
Asset and Investm￿t $*$,
tablè
Sub 10181
Tolalrewpt$
137591
18,162
156,456
125.793
A3 Payments
9925¥
4.049
14.253
745
23.962
692
Food and D￿￿k
Eipprn@rta￿
￿￿eaThj Adrn
Fundra￿1
2.76T
4.121
1.063
1￿58
Eryloyee
Gfa
Erdi
fo.123
16
10.Y24
141J47
Sub tolal
t25.162
1312
M Asset and investment
puYche5e5: (see tablel
10181
125.1tr
16.9BS
131208
let0lreceiptsfpayn￿ts)
A5 Transfws b•tween funds
A6 Cash funds last JTarend
Cash lunds Ihis ￿EaTend
14.
5.415
24520
951
520
39.428
24,520
CCXX Rl a￿OLY￿ ISSI

Section B Statement of assets and liabililies at the end of the period
UnrestrTCted
funds
Restrieled
Yunds
r*8E5t£
Endowrnent
funds
tD n•w•stÈ
B1 Cash IurKIs
CurrtrtAc¢xpJm
19
2,477
12.433
27
1LYJ
Tot41 cash funds
9&951
1477
Endowment
nd$
fund$
lunds
B2 ot￿r wK>n*ryassets
1.663
CU[rent￿￿
Costftsrt¥JM
¢uFWt v4lue
on
Gharity'5 1)vm use
F¥ndto*th￿h
JMuThtd
Wn•n
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IY2
ty5
Syna￿re
Prini Name
D*e¢l
roval
E L-71
29/&
29I2W21