2023-08-31-accounts - Hunton And Linton Under Fives Playgroup

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 Sept 2022 To 31 August 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Hunton & Linton Under Fives Playgroup Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1035846 Charity's principal address Hunton Village Hall

West Street, Hunton Maidstone, Kent Postcode ME15 0RS

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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1 Bevalee Marshall Chairperson Trustee Resolution
2 Naomi Sokeyo Treasurer Trustee Resolution
3 Rachel Kelly Secretary Trustee Resolution
4 Sarah Horlock Trustee Resolution
5 Natalie Priestley Trustee Resolution
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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

Constitution (Pre-School Learning Alliance 2011) Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) By resolution at AGM and EGM and co-opted at meetings after. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

The charity is a member of the Early Years Alliance (previously the Pre You may choose to include School Learning AIliance) as an umbrella body their membership provides additional information, where insurance, advice, legal advice and a model constitution which we have relevant, about: adopted (2011). The charities activities are overseen and key decisions  policies and procedures are made by a Committee, mostly made up of Parents and grandparents adopted for the induction and of children within the playgroup. The operational and day to day training of trustees; management of the playgroup is delivered by a staff team including a Manager and Deputy Manager.

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

The object of the charity is to deliver the EYFS to children of pre-school age.

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

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The charity operates 5 days a week, term time only (sessional).

Our sessions are as follows:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - 9.15am to 2.45pm Friday - 9.15am to 1.15pm

The pre-school is open 26 hours per week.

The pre-school runs out of Hunton Village Hall and employs an average of 8 part time staff to supervise an average roll of 50 children. 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

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

The charity continues to meet the educational requirements for preschool learning as prescribed by OFSTED and the Early Years Alliance.

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Section E Financial review

The trustees are required to hold sufficient funds to meet staff Brief statement of the redundancy costs and the costs for hall hire for one school term following charity’s policy on reserves the curtailment of operations which we keep in the reserve account. This money is saved specifically for unforeseen circumstances, for example, a falling number of children attending, loss of premises, reduction in income, redundancies and to meet our statutory obligations if we should cease operation. The trustee’s estimate this cost to be approx. £50,000.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

The charities principal source of funding is fees provided by Kent County You may choose to include Council as the administrator of the government free childcare scheme. additional information, where Additionally we receive private fees from non eligible families and we do relevant about: a lot of fundraising in order to raise money to purchase new equipment the charity’s principal etc.

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.

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

N. Sokeyo Signature(s) B. Marshall Naomi Sokeyo Full name(s) Bevalee Marshall Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chairperson Treasurer etc) Date 29/06/2024

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees On accounts for th• year •ndod 31 Awl 2023 Charfty no (If any) 1035846 3&4 I T9pt to ts tnAte88 my ex70t the accounts of the above Re8pon8lbllltl•8 and ba8ls of r•port {IheW. I report in res of my examination of the TNst'8 ac¢ounts carried out under S•#K 145 of the 2011 A( and in caThying out my examination, I have fdlryed all aKable DtieccTh &Yven by tho Charity Commi88ion under ¥ecIK 145(5)(b) of the A •xamln•rf8 Statement come to my attents'on in connection with th8 examination which gives m8 of the Chantss A(#" or concemiThJ the forni arKI content of accounts set out in the Charities {A¢¢<nts arKI Rep(¥ts) Rowlth 2CM)8 clher trwn any requirement with examin*ion to vthith attenti should be dra in this report in Slgn•d: Relevant wofesthl qualificalion(s) or body (If any): Addre86: 11 Barton Road. Maidth. Kent, ME15 7BU IER Oct 2018

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