Nanstallon Pre-School Chairperson’s Report
September 2024 - August 2025
Nanstallon Pre-School is situated at the heart of the community, working in partnership with parents and community groups to provide high quality care in the very best facilities, in a small village setting.
We are fortunate to have a purpose built, eco-building offering a bright and spacious area in which we aim to give each child the best start in life by laying solid foundations for future learning; where children can explore the world around them, establish friendships, develop imagination, share, co-operate with others, gain confidence to initiate and try out new ideas, seek new challenges, make new discoveries, and most of all have great fun and develop a love of learning.
We are registered with OFSTED and currently hold a ‘Good’ outcome from our last inspection in January 2023. We provide sessional day care, welcoming children the term after they turn two years to five years. We have qualified, experienced, friendly staff who provide a fun, caring environment for the children to learn through play and adult led activities. Our Early Years Manager, Vicky Lafford, has Early Years Teacher Status.
Over the year we do our best to accommodate as many children as possible without compromising our policy of small group numbers and trying to offer parents the sessions they require. We continue to provide taster sessions for new starters where parents with children that are due to start with us are invited into Pre-School for a couple of sessions. They offer children the opportunity to play within the Pre-School whilst the parents can meet the staff, to ask any questions and can see their child enjoying themselves in the setting. These relaxed and informal sessions enable children to feel more confident when they first start with us, allowing them to settle much more quickly. They also provide parents/carers with the opportunity to meet other parents, offering them the chance to make friends and build a support network.
This year we have continued to host fundraising activities and have had some very successful events. Some of our staff and parents took part in the annual Ten Tors sponsored walk, plus we have raised money for other charities including Children In Need. The funds raised this year have allowed us to improve the main room, buy more sensory toys and replace popular equipment such as an outdoor water play area and a den. Our outdoor facilities aim to provide a safe and stimulating environment, whatever the weather, which not only supports outdoor learning and encourages creative play but offers the opportunity to get muddy and wet, where children can let off steam and exercise while having fun. We continue to run weekly football sessions with a local football coach who visits the PreSchool and we also offer our children an end of year Pre-School day trip where parents have the opportunity to get together with the children before the older children head off to Primary School.
Despite the ongoing challenges facing the childcare sector, Nanstallon Pre-School continues to be a thriving charity, which is supported by the local community and many local families, both from the village and surrounding areas. The majority of our children feed into Nanstallon Primary School, conveniently located next to the Pre-School site, allowing the transition from Pre-School to Primary to be as smooth as possible. We had 19 children leave us for ‘big school’ at the end of July 2025.
We pride ourselves on our small village feel and on running a professional and friendly Pre-School.
Bianca Dowding Nanstallon Pre-School Chairperson
Nanstallon Pre-School Nanstallon Cornwall PL30 5JZ 01208 832 230
NANSTALLON PRE-SCHOOL STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 31 AUGUST 2025
NANSTALLON PRE-SCHOOL INDEX TO THE ACCOUNTS Balance Sheel Income and Expendlture Accovnt
NANSTALLON PRE-SCHOOL BALANCE SHEET as al 31 AUGUST 2025 2025 2024 FIXED ASSETS New Build Expenditure Less: Grants Received Equipment Iwritten-down value) Solar Panels 192,264 1189 1181 192,264 3.146 12,040 12,040 22,746 22,746 CURRENT ASSETS Cash at Bank CURRENT LIABILillES Accruals PAYE Creditor Pension Control Trade Creditors 570 570 343 506 958 RECONCILIATION Balance at beginning of Year Surplus for Year 98.324 61,307 ACCOUNTANTS. REPORT The above Balance Sheet and the attached Income and Expendilure Account for the yeor ended 31 August 2025 have been prepared by us without carrying out an audil from the records of and from information supplied by Nanstallon Pre-school and we certify that they are in accordance therewilh. As with other enterprise5 of Ihis nalure. we hove been unable to confirm that all income arising has been passed to the Treasurer and is therefore reported above. 2 April 2026 Callywith Accountants Limited Chartered Cerlified Accountants 70 Castle Slreet Bodmin Cornwall PL312DY
NANSTALLON PRE-SCHOOL INCOME and EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT for Ihe year ended 31 AUGUST 2025 2025 2024 INCOME Fees Received Fund Raising (Nefl Solar Ponel Income Bank Inlerest Sundry Income 170.058 2,399 1,395 501 1 ,035 175,615 1,296 1.485 175,388 179.496 LESS EXPENDITURE Rates Light and Heal Waste Removal Repairs and Maintenance Salaries and Courses Refreshments. Consumables. Toys. Paper, Paint Materials Insurance Telephone Accountoncy other Payments (Note I I Deprecialion INote 21 789 ,076 745 12.038 141.448 725 735 4,448 123.642 7,522 2,153 439 570 6,046 6.778 I,5 443 330 3.743 172826 142479 Surplus for Ihe YEAR NOTES other Payments Advertising and Website Gifts, Leaving Presenls, etc Entertainers Prinl, Post & stationery Clolhes INell Fees Trips (Netl 109 498 1,348 225 932 1,275 575 81 2,184 999 1,153 410 Depreclatlon Please note that no charge for depreciation of equipment has been included this year. It is not an actual expense of the pre-school and was a provision to reflect the effective reduction in the value o* equipment. As all new equipment is written off in fhe Income and Expenditure Account when it is incurred, the writlen down value of the equipmenl detailed on the Balance Sheet of £12,040 is carried foward lo represent the value of all equipmenl held by the pre-school al 31 August 2025.
Nanslallon Pre-school INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT Independenl examlner's report to the trustees ol Nanstallon Pre-school Charfly No. 1037223 I report to the truslees on my examination of Ihe occounts of the obove charity I'the Trusl'l lor the year ended 31 August 2025 whlch are set out on the altached pages. Respon$lbllllle$ and basls ol report As Ihe charity trustees tsl the TnJsl, you are responsible lor Ihe preparation of the accounls In accordance wilh the requiremenls of the Charilies Act 2011 I'lhe Acl"). I report in respect of my examination ol the Tru51's accounts corried oul under section l 45 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directlons given by the Charity Commission under 5eclion 145151 Ibl of the Acl. Independent exomln•r'$ itatemènt. I have completed my exomlnation. I confirm fhat no malerial molters have come lo my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe thal in, any material respect: accounting records were nol kepl in accordance wilh section 130 of Ihe Acl or the accounls do not accord wth the accounling records. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in conneclion with the examination to which otlenlion should be drawn in thi5 report in order to enable o proper underslanding of the occounts lo be reached. Slgned: I Nome.. Mallhow Jackson Dole:2 Aprll 2026 Relevant Prolesslonal quallflcatlon or body.. .C,C.A Fellow of the Assoclcthon Chartered Certlfi8d Accountants. Address.. 70 Ca$Me Streot Bodmln Cornwall PL312DY