2023-08-31-accounts - Bradford Abbas Pre-School

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	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	Trustees' Annual Report	for theperiod	for theperiod	for theperiod
	From	Period start date			To	Period end date
		Day 01	Month 09	Year 2022		Day 31	Month 08	Year 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Bradford Abbas Preschool

Other names charity is known by

Registered charity number (if any) 1034670

Charity's principal address Bradford Abbas Preschool Bradford Abbas village hall Church road, Bradford Abbas, Dorset Postcode DT9 6RF

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year
Sara Goodchild	Chair	Till 17/10/22
Charlotte Harrison	Treasurer
KimberlyFeltham	Secretary
Coleen Lisa Truett		1/09/2021 – 08/09/2022
Alison Powell
Mathew McCormack		Joined 31/10/22
Ben Hewison	Chair
Emilytucker		Joined 17/10/22










Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name		Dates acted if not for whole year

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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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 Alliance Constitution 2011 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Community charity How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected from membership Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include  Risk management additional information, where  Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
relevant, about:  policies and procedures  Complaints handling adopted for the induction and  Confidentiality
training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational Committee members who join the board of Trustees are encouraged to undertake training to support them in their role. Either through Dorset CC
structure and any wider or the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related The pre-school works with a number of partners including the local
parties; authority, local schools and community groups, the Village Hall
trustees’ consideration of Committee, Children Centres and other relevant professionals to further major risks and the system the pre-school aims and objectives. and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

To enhance the development and education of children under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups.

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Provide education to 2-4 year olds

Bradford Abbas preschool provides education for children aged between 2-4 years of age. Children government funded and fee payers attend. We ensure children are ready for the next stage in their educational journey, giving them the best start in their early years.

Provides free advice to benefices

We support the children and their families with all aspects of childcare, and development. We offer free parenting advice and support for the whole family.

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)

Support families in deprivation

We accept two year old funding, which enables children who are classed as deprived to access early years education and have their development monitored. We also sign post families to other services which may be beneficial.

Community fundraisers

Our fundraiser events are organised to involve all members of the local community, and support local businesses.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Volunteers play an integral role in the pre-school either through their commitment as trustees, support with fundraising or involvement in the day to day running of the setting.

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

The pre-school increased its hours from 21 hours to 24 hours by extending the Thursday Session to finish at 3pm. This took effect from 6[th] September 2021. From April 2023 preschool increased again to 26 hours per week extending the Wednesday session to 1pm.

The pre-school provided care and education to a total of 24 children throughout the year.

We have focused on bringing in more of the outside in to encourage knowledge on the environment and using different materials for sensory play.

Also we started to visit Bradford Abbas primary school and use their outdoor play facilities to give the children a another environment to play in.

The committee held events such as Bingos, quizzes, raffles as well as a big breakfast which raised a total of £5,644.75.

At the end of the year, we had 24 children attending.20 of which were in receipt of the early education grant from Dorset CC.

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Section E Financial review

The committee are currently formalising a financial policy.

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

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);

The pre-schools principal source of funding comes from the Early Education Grant (EEG) for two and three year olds and a few children who are fee payers.

Committee members, staff and parents work hard to raise funds through grants and other local fundraising activities.

how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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) C A HARRISON Full name(s) Charlotte Harrison Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Treasurer etc) Date 04/05/2024

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			2023		2022
lncome	ConsumableContributions	3,315		2,097
	Donations	2,259		557
	Early EducationGrant	AE )81		38,562
	Fees	12,298		8,974
	Fundraising	5,645		2,076
	Hotfood	834		0
	lnterestreceivable	L5		0
	online charity donations	163		0
	uniform	208		802
			70,104		53,008
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	Cleaning	-140		-79
	DBS	-98		-62
	Entertaining	-50		0
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	Postage	-5		-29
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	Software	-129		-10
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	Stationeryandprinting	-106		64
	Subscriptions	-165		-90
	Telephoneandfax	-72		-84
	Uniform	-585		-467
	VolunteersReimbursemen	-10		0
	Wages and salaries	-48,905		-50,729
	Writebacks/discounts	0		13
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			-60,550		-59,342
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