2025-08-31-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 2023 To 31 August 2024

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

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
Bevalee Marshall	Chairperson		Trustee Resolution
Naomi Sokeyo	Treasurer		Trustee Resolution
Rachel Kelly	Secretary		Trustee Resolution
Sarah Horlock			Trustee Resolution
















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)

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;

The charity is a member of the Early Years Alliance (previously the Pre School Learning AIliance) as an umbrella body their membership provides insurance, advice, legal advice and a model constitution which we have adopted (2011). The charities activities are overseen and key decisions are made by a Committee, mostly made up of Parents and grandparents of children within the playgroup. The operational and day to day management of the playgroup is delivered by a staff team including a Manager and Deputy Manager.

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

The charity continues to meet the educational requirements for preschool Summary of the main learning as prescribed by OFSTED and the Early Years Alliance. achievements of the charity during the year

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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. £40,000. Details of any funds materially N/A in deficit

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. 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)

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Date 2910612026 TAR Maich 2012

CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustsesl I members of .' Hunton and Linton Under Fives Playgrowj On accounts for the year ended 31 August 2025 Charity no (If any) 1035846 Set out on pages 3&4 I report to the tN8tees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {Ihe Trust.) for the year ended 3110812024. R•sponsibllltles and As the chanty tnjstees of Ihe Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the aoxunts in accordance with the requirements of the Charitias Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in respect of my examinatlon of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 ofthe 2011 Act and in ¢arying out my examination, I have lollowed Ihe applicable Directions glven by the Charity Comrnission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examinabon. I confimi that no material matter8 have come lo my attention in connection with the examination which gives m& cause to believé that in, any matenal respect". 8¢counting records were not kept in a¢¢ordancè with section 130 of the or the aountS th) not accord with the a(wunting records Independent examinerfs statement I have concems WKI have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whith attenlion should te drawn In ordor to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. ' Please delete the wortls in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Dats: IG.aG IG. Name: Relevant professlonal qualificatlon(sl or body Ilf any): Chartefed Accountant Addrnss: 11 Barton Roaj Maidstone Kent ME15 7BU Section B Disclosure Only (xjmplete rf the exanNner needs to hghlight matters of nCeM (see CC32, Independent exarrmnats'on tharity wx(xmls: direth'ons afvj guidance for examiners). IER October 2018

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CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGIANLI AND WALÉS Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a Fot p•riod from To Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted fund Restricted Ertd¢wtnent fund• fund• lh• £ tr•lh•irn¢£ kn thn•Jmt£ to th• n•Awt£ T¢)tsl fund• L•st y•ar toth• n••rMt£ A1 R•e•l KCC Voueh¢r8 115.0•3 16.323 2,572 115,093 18.323 2.572 S69 97,743 28.959 4935 454 Fund RaTh9 8ank Inttte•t tot ross Income AR) lJ4547 lJ4547 132.091 s•t an nv••tm•nt • Total t¥c•lpts 134,547 134.S47 132,091 A3P• Sloff Co¥ts ljl Rwt. lNUrC• 8 TdWon• Toy• & £w1kynt Othei 121.J98 7.124 121.3 7.120 6.282 109.102 8.497 4.370 1.9 1.895 Sub total 1J6.703 1M.703 12J.865 A4 A•••t •nd inv••tm•nt Sub total 138,703 130.703 123,885 Néi of r•c•lpts/(p•Nm•nts) A5 Tranfern be•h fund¥ A6 Cash fund¥ last ymr end C4$h lun¢ts this ye•r end 2.1S6 8,228 51.46 51,465 53.621 CCXX R1 accounls ISSI

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestricted fvnd Re$tri¢ted funds End¢)wment fithnds to n¢4rest£ to nearest£ B1 Cash funds Petyra Total cash funds 61A65 WJ>YJqI Endovlment fund¥ fund8 funds Fund Curr•nt v•lu• Fur tothkh s•t ¢urr•ntvql 84 A810ts r¢tslMd for Ihè ¢harfty'• own u Fund iohthlch ArTrountdu• WTrd B5 Uablllli ned byone of two trust888 on behamof1thè truste09 &on8tu Prinl N• Date of roval CCXX P2 accourts ISSI 28ffjer2

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