**Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From** 1 August 2023 **To** 31 July 2024 ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** Newcastle Children’s Centre **Other names charity is known by** **Registered charity number (if any)** 1044352 ~~I~~ **Charity's principal address** Mill Road Mill Road Newcastle on Clun Craven Arms **Postcode SY7 8QN** ## **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|to 6/11/2024|| |2 Charlotte Morris|Secretary||| |3 Jack Hanson|Joint Treasurer|to 6/11/2024|| |4 Josh Davies|Joint Treasurer|to 6/11/2024|| |5 Rachel Wheeler|||| |6 PipOwen|Chair|6/11/2024 topresent|| |7 Emma Whately|Treasurer|6/11/2024 to 31/10/2025|| |8|||| |9|||| |10|||| |11|||| |12|||| |13|||| |14|||| |15|||| |16|||| |17|||| |18|||| |19
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~~————~~|~~————~~|~~————~~|~~————~~| March **2012** **TAR** 1 ## **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 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Body in membership How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Appointed by Trustee selection methods - (eg. trust, association, company) (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; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** The aims of the Pre-school are 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 through community groups March **2012** **TAR** 2 ## The objectives are achieved through: - offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability; - encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas; **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)** - instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance. **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. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance I wish to start by expressing my thanks to the staff team we have at **Summary of the main** nursery, with numbers at the setting being so strong we rely on our **achievements of the charity** wonderful staff who do a magnificent job in looking after the children to **during the year** the highest of standards which showed in the recent Ofsted report. From September they changed the staff to child ratios for 2-year-olds to 1:5 meaning hours were reduced for staff, this was trialled until half term. Harrie Price joined the team covering Mondays, she has a degree in early childhood studies and has been part of the team before so know the ropes. Over the Christmas period, the children joined Newcastle primary school for their Christmas performance. All the children were invited to the Christmas party, meeting Santa and playing games. From parents’ donations, we made 2 Christmas hampers which we sold raffle tickets for. From April, eligible working parents of 2-year-olds were able to access 15 hours funded childcare a week. We were looking low on numbers for September so advertised on Facebook and put posters up in the local area. This year we have introduced a new potty-training policy which was agreed by the committee. Seven of the committee members have completed the new safeguarding policy, this needs to be done for all new committee members. Unfortunately, due to bad weather the Green man festival had to be cancelled, which is one of our biggest fundraisers of the year. The committee decided to hold a bingo night at Newcastle village hall to raise money. June 2024 NCC had their Ofsted inspection gaining outstanding in all areas, which is amazing and well deserved, you should all be very proud of yourselves! Our aim is to have a thriving nursery but Financial challenges have been coming at as from all sides, rising living wage costs, running costs and maintaining competitive fees for parents is a fine balance, which we continue to deal with throughout the year. Numbers at the nursery have remained steady throughout the year and are looking good for the up coming year. With a committed committee and excellent staff, we are working to continue to offer an ‘outstanding’ level of care, attention to detail and dedication need to operate such a great nursery. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the** **charity’s policy on reserves** The charity has a reserve account specifically for unexpected expenses, income uncertainty and planned expenditure that is not in the normal day to day of the charity. **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; The main source of funds for the year were from fees paid by parents directly and the money received from local government for funded childcare. This was further enhanced by committee led fundraising events that were well supported by parents and the wider community. No funds were restricted and were all within the charity’s primary objectives. Salaries for staff allowed the charity to provide the excellent early years childcare that it is renowned for and ensured the right people were employed and retained. Other key expenditure included healthy snacks and making sure toys and equipment were replaced for both safety and also to enhance and develop the children's learning and skills. - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** On the financial report for the year ended 31 July 2024, the comparatives have been updated to account for the movement on the savings account that were not previously included, specifically bank interest received and transfers between the current and savings account. Additionally, the prior year has been amended to account for a receipt and payment that were missing from the report for year ended 31 July 2023. The trustees approving the financial report were not all in post for the year ended 31 July 2023. ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** > **Signature(s)** E Whately **Full name(s)** Emma Whately **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 16/10/25 March **2012** **TAR** 5 **Independent Examiner's Report** ## **Report to the Trustees of the Newcastle Children’s Centre** on the accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024 set out on pages 7 - 10 ## **Responsibilities and basis of report** I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Children Centre for the year ended 31 July 2024. As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination 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 concerning the form 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 concerns 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. ## **Emphasis of Matter – Restatement of Comparative Figures** I draw attention to Section F of the Trustees Annual Report which explains that the comparative figures for the year ended 31 July 2024 have been restated to include transactions and balances from a bank account that was omitted in the prior year. The corresponding opening and closing balances have been amended accordingly. My report is not modified in respect of this matter. A Idris A Idris FICB Bookkeeping, Accounting and Consultancy Services (T/A BAnC Services) Workspace House, Maxwell Road Peterborough. PE2 7JE Date: 20 October 2025 **Charity Name No (if any) Newcastle Children's Centre 1044352 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Aug-23 31-Jul-24 ~~ee a~~ **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year funds funds funds to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts** Fees from parents **36,570 - - 36,570 39,549** Holiday Club Fees **841 - - 841 1,110** Nursery Education Funding **23,391 - 23,391 11,487** Fundraising **585 - - 585 3,132** Donations **100** Other Income **2,651** Bank Interest **52 - - 52 17 - - - - -** _**Sub total** (Gross income for_ **61,439 58,046** _AR)_ **[ 61,439 ] A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table). - - - - - - - - -** _**Sub total**_ **-** _**Total receipts**_ **61,439 - - 61,439 58,046** ~~——————— ==Ls~~ **A3 Payments** Staff Wages **48,703 - 48,703 38,239** ~~a~~ |NI|**626**||**-**||**-**||**626**||**1,880**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |NEST|**1,463**||**-**||**-**||**1,463**||**1,327**| |Bank Staff|**83**||**-**||**-**||**83**||**448**| |Courses|**874**||**-**||**-**||**874**||**228**| |Rent|**655**||**-**||**-**||**655**||**800**| |Utilities|**2,243**||**-**||**-**||**2,243**||**3,569**| |Insurance|**1,200**||**-**||**-**||**1,200**||**1,144**| |Telephone & Internet|**1,171**||||||**1,171**||**1,138**| |Supplies|**4,106**||||||**4,106**||**4,688**| |Ofsted Registration|**50**||||||**50**||**50**| |Sundry|**-**||||||**-**||**74**| |Bank charges|**63**||||||**63**||**500**| |Other costs|**666**||||||**666**||| |Payroll costs|**120**||||||**120**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**62,023**||**-**||**-**||**62,023**||**54,086**| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**54,086**| ||||||||||| ||**- 584**||**-**||**-**||**- 584**||**3,960**| ||**-**|
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|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**10,174**||**-**||**-**||**10,174**||**6,214**| ||**9,590**||**-**||**-**||**9,590**||**10,174**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** ## **Categories** ## **B1 Cash funds** **B2 Other monetary assets** ## **B3 Investment assets** |**Details**
Cash at year end
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Details**
Cash at year end
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||**9,590**||||**-**| |||||||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**9,590**||**-**||**-**| |||||||OK| |||||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |||||**-**||**-**| |**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ## **B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use** |**-**||**-**| |---|---|---| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| |**-**||**-**| ## **B5 Liabilities** ## **Details** |**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**When due**
**(optional)**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||**-**||| |||**-**||| |||**-**||| |||**-**||| |||**-**||| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |
Signature
E Whately|Print Name
Emma Whately|Date of
approval| |---|---|---| ||Emma Whately|17/10/2025| ||||