## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**From**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 20 08 2023 **To** 19 08 2024
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Tring Stepping Stones Pre School
**Other names charity is known by**
||**Registered charity number (if any)** 1034714
**Charity's principal address** c/o Treasurer Tim Manning
**Postcode**
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**Charity's principal address** c/o Treasurer Tim Manning
**Postcode**
~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)** 1034714
**Charity's principal address** c/o Treasurer Tim Manning
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~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)** 1034714
**Charity's principal address** c/o Treasurer Tim Manning
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~~ee~~|**Registered charity number (if any)** 1034714
**Charity's principal address** c/o Treasurer Tim Manning
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||**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)**|
|1|Tim Manning|Treasurer||||
|2|Rebecca Masters|Chairperson||||
|3|Rachel Martinek|Secretary||||
|4|Natalie DeSouza|||||
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||**Name**|||**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Committee How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected at AGM Trustee selection methods
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Elected at AGM
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(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**
TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
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PRE-SCHOOL CONTINUES TO OFFER AN OUTSTANDING, SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL CHILDREN WHO ATTEND. THE STAFF HAVE HAD RANGE OF TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WHICH THEY EMBRACE WITH INTEREST. THE BENEFITS FROM THESE COURSES IS DEMONSTRATED IN THE VERY GOOD PRACTICE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
**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)**
**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
CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE AT A LOCAL CHURCH **Summary of the main** MESSY PLAY SESSIONS **achievements of the charity** STAND AT A NUMBER OF LOCAL EVENTS **during the year** ALL STAFF AT OR ABOVE LIVING WAGE CONTINUED PROVISION 2 YEAR-OLDS CONTRIBUTIONS TO A NUMBER OF TOWN CELEBRATIONS
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**Section E Financial review** ~~ee~~
**Brief statement of the**
**charity’s policy on reserves**
THE PRE-SCHOOL RESERVE POLICY IS TO ENSURE THAT THERE ARE SUFFICIENT FUNDS AVAILABLE TO COVER; ONE MONTHS SALARY, FOUR WEEKS HOLIDAY PAY AND 6 WEEKS PREMISES RENTAL.
**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.
## ~~ee~~ **Section F Other optional information**
**Section G Declaration** ~~ee~~ **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** ~~=]~~ **Full name(s)** Timothy John Manning **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc)** ~~ee ee~~ **Date** 30/5/2025 ~~|~~
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**Charity Name No (if any) Tring Stepping Stones Pre School 1034714 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 20/8/2022 19/8/2023 ~~ee ee ee~~ **Section A Receipts and payments**
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
|Fees|**30,823**||**-**||**-**||**30,823**||**21,484**|
|Funding|**50,639**||**-**||**-**||**50,639**||**32,313**|
|Fundraising|**1,287**||**-**||**-**||**1,287**||**851**|
|Other|**1,273**||**-**||**-**||**1,273**||**318**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**84,022**
_(Gross income for AR)_||**-**||**-**||**84,022**||**54,966**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 84,022**
**-**
**-**
**84,022**
**54,966**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
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|**A3 Payments**||||||||||
|Wages|**58,699**||**-**||**-**||**58,699**||**52,345**|
|Premises|**3,999**||**-**||**-**||**3,999**||**4,482**|
|Equipment|**2,101**||**-**||**-**||**2,101**||**987**|
|Other|**1,527**||**-**||**-**||**1,527**||**2,184**|
|HMR&C|**2,402**||**-**||**-**||**2,402**||**1,325**|
|Pensions|**4,442**||**-**||**-**||**4,442**||**4,047**|
|Insurance|**979**||**-**||**-**||**979**||**608**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**74,149**||**-**||**-**||**74,149**||**65,978**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 74,149**
**-**
**-**
**74,149**
**65,978**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|**9,873**
**-**
**-**
**9,873**
**- 11,011**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**11,479**
**-**
**-**
**11,479**
**22,490**
**21,352**
**-**
**-**
**21,352**
**11,479**
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**Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £**
**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ~~ee~~ **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Categories Details funds funds funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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**B1 Cash funds 21,352 - - - - - - - -** _**Total cash funds**_ **21,352 - -** ~~<_<~~ (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -** ~~===>~~ **Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B3 Investment assets - - - - - - - - - -** ~~===>~~ **Fund to which Current value Details asset belongs Cost (optional) (optional) B4 Assets retained for the - - charity’s own use - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -** ~~===>~~ **Fund to which Amount due When due Details liability relates (optional) (optional) B5 Liabilities - - - - -** Signed by one or two trustees on Date of behalf of all the trustees Signature Print Name approval Timothy Manning 13/06/25 ~~———~~ 2 06/13/2025
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Stepping Stone Pre School Tring
On accounts for the year
ended
19108124
Charity no
(if any)
1034714
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ('the Trust.) for the year ended
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.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
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:
Independent
examiner's statement
Signed:
Name:
Chris Wells
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
Address:
9 Elizabeth Close
Aylesbury Bucks HP219XX
IER
October 2018
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.
IER
October 2018