## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01/04/2023 Period start date To 31/03/2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: St Mary’s Toddler and Playgroup Tetbury** ## **Charity registration number: 1038904** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The main aim of the charity is to enhance the
development and education of children primarily
under statutory school age by encouraging
parents to understand and provide for the
needs of their children.| |Summary of the main activities
in relation to those purposes
for the public benefit, in
particular, the activities,
projects or services identified in
the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|Provision of childcare services to the local
community which offers opportunities for all
children and young people and allow their
parents to become involved in these.
Encouraging the study of the needs of children
and their families and promoting public interest
in them.| |Statement confirming whether
the trustees have had regard to
the guidance issued by the
Charity Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|Our trustees have regard for the guidance at all
relevant times to ensure that the public benefit
from the services that we provide.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP| |---|---| ||reference| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38| |Policy on social investment|Para 1.38| |including program related|| |investment|| |Contribution made by|Para 1.38| |volunteers|| |Other|| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to the
circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a whole.|Para 1.20|We were rated Outstanding by Ofsted this year
which is an amazing achievement. We continue
to provide quality childcare to children in our
local community, children are also given the
opportunity to experience our amazing forest
school sessions and go on trips.
Staff have received training to support children
with additional needs and a child with severe
medical needs. Including the implementation of
policies to support staff and parents to ensure
the highest quality of care for our children.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s financial
position at the end of the
period|Para 1.21|We faced a year of increased property costs,
staffing costs and rising bills. Unfortunately we
ran this year at a loss, we did this to continue to
provide a high quality of care for our children
and the weekly stay and play group for our
community.
Our Outstanding Ofsted rating towards the end
of the year has been a fantastic achievement
and reward and will help us advertise our
setting to the greater public for the future intake.
We are going into the next year proud and
positive.
We have changed providers where necessary
to lower our outgoings and we continue to
fundraise to support discretionary spend and to
raise awareness of the playgroup within the
local community.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the policy
for holding reserves stating
why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity committee continues to maintain the
‘ringfenced’ funds which are designed to be
sufficient to make statutory redundancy
payments should a need every arise to close
the playgroup. All other reserves are available
for the furtherance of the charities aims.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£11,383.64| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|N/A| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|N/A| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the charity
continuing as a going concern|Para 1.23|N/A| ## **Additional information (optional)** |**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**|**Additional information (optional)**| |---|---|---| |You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |The charity’s principal sources
of funds (including any
fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any social
investment policy adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution (2006) in accordance with PATA
Gloucestershire (amended 2019).| |How is the charity constituted?|Para 1.25|Unincorporated association of members| |(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)||| |---|---|---| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of any
person or body entitled to
appoint one or more trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees appointed by election at our annual
general meeting.| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:||| |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the charity
works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|St Mary’s Toddler and Playgroup Tetbury| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1038904| |Charity’s principal address|Christ Church Hall
The Chipping
Tetbury
GL8 8ET| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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14|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee (if**
**any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Claire Jossellyn|Chair|10/09/19 - 12/10/23|| ||Christopher Milton-
Clark||2018 - 12/10/23|| ||MollyWilliams||12/10/21 - 12/10/23|| ||Claire Boosey||20/10/22 - 12/10/23|| ||Josie Harrison||13/11/20 - 12/10/23|| ||Victoria Meacham||20/10/22 - to date|| ||Abigail Cooke||20/10/22 - 12/10/23|| ||Eleanor Britten||20/10/22 - 01/10/24|| ||Abigail Cooke|Chair|12/10/23 - 01/10/24|| ||Alison Gaffney||12/10/23 - 01/10/24|| ||Emma Burry||12/10/23 - to date|| ||Amelia Freeman||12/10/23 - 01/10/24|| ||Natalie Ball||12/10/23 - 01/10/24|| |||||| 15 – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ~~ee~~ **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Recoverable Signature X KOakley KOakley Signed by: 268b4e59-576b-475c-881e-1454aac65879 **Full name(s)** Katie Oakley **Position (eg Secretary,** Trustee **Chair, etc) Date** 17/01/25 **Charity name:** **Charity number:** St Mary's Toddler and Playgroup Tetbury 1038904 ~~ee~~ ## **Receipts and payments accounts for the period** |Period start date 01/04/2023||Period end date||31/03/2024|31/03/2024|31/03/2024| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS**
~~eee~~||||||| |||**Previous year**||||**Current year**| |**RECEIPTS**||**£p**||||**£p**| |Nursery Education Funding||77,819.63||||£64,321.56| |Children's fees||23,856.60||||£23,362.98| |Milk refund||-||||-| |||||||| |Grants (specify) ……………………………||-||||-| |Grant ………………………………………..||-||||-| |Grant ………………………………………..||-||||-| |Fundraising
Donations
Interest
Other receipts||2,489.86
10.00
3,003.69
-
~~— ~~||||£3,310.03
£2,250.00
-
£2,432.79
~~==~~| |Sub total||107,179.78||||95,677.36| |Income from the sale of equipment||-||||-| |**TOTAL RECEIPTS**|**(A)**|**£107,179.78**
~~EE ~~||||**£95,677.36**
~~Ee~~| |||**Previous year**||||**Current year**| |**PAYMENTS**||**£p**||||**£p**| |Employment costs (gross pay + employer's NIC)||75,277.61||||£92,922.96| |Training costs||333.00||||£2,613.00| |Premises (rent, heat etc)||6,941.50||||£7,757.70| |Subscriptions||3,024.36||||£3,149.32| |Insurance||520.38||||£827.47| |Administration||1,367.43||||£1,181.56| |Refreshments||-||||£21.00| |Consumables (paint, paper etc)||45.95||||£740.24| |Fundraising costs||800.19||||£1,401.12| |Other||2,558.93||||£3,872.56| |Sub total||90,869.35||||114,486.93| |Purchases of of equipment and other assets
**TOTAL PAYMENTS**
**(B)**||1,890.28
£5,137.03
**£92,759.63**
**£119,623.96**
~~es~~||||| |||~~-~~||||~~-~~| |**NET OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS**|**(A-B=C)**|**£14,420.15**||||**-£23,946.60**| |**Cash funds***incl. deposit a/c**last**year end|**(D)**|35,082.66||||49,502.81| |**Cash funds***incl. deposit a/c**this**year end|**(C+D)**|**£49,502.81**
~~EE~~||||**£25,556.21**
~~ee~~| |**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**||||||| |***Note: cash funds include reserve/contigency/deposit accounts.**||||||**Current value**| |||||||**£p**| |Cash funds(agree with the balance of the receipts and payments a/c)||||**(E)**||25,556.21| |Debtors (money owed to the charity on the period end date)||Debtors (money owed to the charity on the period end date)||**(F)**||0.00| |Value of buildings and equipment (current or depreciated value)||||**(G)**||5,561.12| |Liabilities (loans and any other money owed on the period end date)|Liabilities (loans and any other money owed on the period end date)|||**(H)**||0.00| |Net assets||**(E-F+G-H)**||||**£31,117.33**| ## Signed on behalf of the trustees (committee): Committee Chair Signed…………………………………..Name……………….…..……………………...Role……… Heidi Bailey Date……………………………………….. 22/10/2024 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any) (03810 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 31 0.3 2014 As the charitys trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the reqU1￿ments of the Charities Act 2011 (°the Act"). Responslbilltles and basis of report I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accL)unts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the app5icable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent tThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examinerfs statement undertake the examination by being a qualffied member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with th8 examination (olher than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements conceming the fotm and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no GOn￿rnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please de18t8 the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: 2oL Name: Beow)tsJ Relevant professional quallflcatlon{s) or body Fcc IER Oct 2018 (If any): Address: SKJ axJDL OUSE kJiLDifyJG ZA -D SI I I£RitLg) CilefvJciSEX QLTr 66A cnLC LT Section 8 Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn (see CC32. Independent examination of chanty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018