## **Trustees’ annual report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: 1[st] August 2022 Period start date**
**To: 31[st] July 2023 Period end date**
**Charity name: Newcastle Children’s Centre**
**Charity registration number: 1044352**
## **Company number:**
## **Objectives and activities**
||SORP reference||
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide a high level of pre-school**
**education for the local community. To**
**continually assess and improve our**
**service. **|
|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|**We provide a service for the wider**
**community however; it is the smaller,**
**more local community that we mainly**
**serve. If we weren’t running as a charity,**
**many local families would have to travel**
**8+ miles to other childcare providers. We**
**assess our situation i.e. how many**
**children we have on role every half term**
**to make sure that we can remain viable,**
**while still complying with our duty to**
**have due regard to the commission’s**
**public benefit guidance. **|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18||
## **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||
Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other
## **Achievements and performance**
||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 continue to be one of the most local**
**childcare providers in the area with our**
**reputation gaining us more children and**
**parents returning with their second and**
**third children. Parents are booking**
**spaces before their children are even**
**born to secure a space. We continue**
**going from strength to strength, ever**
**improving our practice. Parents have**
**usually been recommended by current or**
**past parents.**|
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**We have achieved everything we wanted**
**to this year and continually add to our list**
**of things we want to achieve to ever**
**improve our practice.**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Our fundraising has been fantastic this**
**year, we have gained more money than**
**we hoped.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial review**
|**Financial review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We have made a sound profit this year**
**which is positive with the raising**
**overhead cost ever increasing. **|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The reserves are held in our savings**
**account. Another year where we haven’t**
**touched our savings account.**|
|Amount of reservesheld|Para 1.22|**£2487 **|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No uncertainties**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
**Fees from parents.** Para 1.47 The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising) Para 1.46 Investment policy and objectives including any social investment policy adopted Para 1.46 A description of the principal risks facing the charity Other
**Structure, governance and management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
unincorporated association,
CIO|Para 1.25||
|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|**Elections made at AGMs**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.51 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 Other
## **Reference and administrative details**
|Charity name|**Newcastle Children’s Centre**|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|**1044352 **|
|Charity’s principaladdress|**Mill Lane, Newcastle, Shropshire, SY78QN **|
## **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(if any)**
1 Hannah Morgan
Chair
2 CarlyHughes
Secretary
3 Sophie Jones
Treasurer
4 Joanne Larner
5 KelseyGardener
6 Charlotte Morris
7 Tanya Francis
8 BryonyWhittal
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Corporate trustees– names ofthe directors at the date thereportwas approved
**Director name**|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Hannah Morgan|Chair|||
||CarlyHughes|Secretary|||
||Sophie Jones|Treasurer|||
||Joanne Larner||||
||KelseyGardener||||
||Charlotte Morris||||
||Tanya Francis||||
||BryonyWhittal||||
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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)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**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**
## **Declarations**
**The company has taken advantage of the small companies’ exemption in preparing the report above.**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
K Corfield **Signature(s)** HMorgan Kayleigh Corfield **Full name(s)** Hannah Morgan **Position (for example** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc) Date** 30/5/23
## **NEWCASTLE CHILDRENS CENTRE INCOME AND EXPENDITURE YEAR ENDED 31ST JULY 2023**
|**Income**|**2023**|**2022**|
|---|---|---|
|Fees from parents|39184.13|25955.06|
|Holiday Club Fees|1109.9|909|
|Nursery Education Funding|11487.48|18029.71|
|Fundraising|3131.99|9336.7|
|Donations|100|0|
|Other incomes|2895.59|0|
|**Total Income**|**57909.09**|**54230.47**|
|**Expenditure**|||
|Staff wages|38238.95|43185.11|
|NI|1879.7|3477.54|
|NEST|1326.74|1475.13|
|Bank Staff|448.15|2091.29|
|Course|228|140|
|**Running Costs**|||
|Rent|800|480|
|Utilities|1947.39|2151.86|
|Insurance|1144.39|1111.5|
|Telephone & Internet|1138.29|1149.24|
|**All other costs**|||
|Supplies|4323.16|2988.5|
|Equipment|1622.46|5779.59|
|Ofsted Registration Fee|50|50|
|Sundry ( Miscellaneous)|500|205.56|
|Bank|74.46|73.52|
|Other|500.16|666.49|
|**Total expenditure**|**54221.85**|**65025.33**|
|**Net (deficit)/ surplus for the year**|**3687.24**|**10794.43**|
This income and expenditure sheet has been prepared by Sophie Jones, treasurer of Newcastle Children’s Centre.
Signed: Sophie Jones Date: 30/5/23
This income and expenditure sheet has been approved from the records provided by Newcastle Children’s Centre.
Signed: H Morgan Date: 30/5/23