## Annual Trustee Report 2022/23 

St Hilarys Nursery School                             Registration Number       1046371 

Maidstone Skills Centre 

Titchfield Road 

Maidstone 

Kent 

ME15 8FX 

## Trustees Names 

Marie Stephenson ( Chairperson) 

Danielle  Denton (Secretary) 

(Treasurer) Emma Paczensky 

Louise Franks Manager 

## Management and recruitment 

The Nursery was managed by Mrs Hasemore -Brown until March 2023 until she retired and Miss Louise Franks took over and operates on a termly basis only. The nursery offers 2 sessions daily and can offer up 32 spaces adhering to ratio. However will be trial 30hours from September 2023. 

Trustees are recruited by sending all parents an invitation to attend the nursery’s annual general meeting. Within this meeting they are informed of all requirements needed to run the nursery legally and are asked what they could offer in order to continue running the nursery successfully. 

Training from the successful charity via the education people is also offered. 

It is the put to a vote to recruit a new committee. 

We are an established Nursery and operate with 6 fully qualified members of staff. One qualified at level 3 and 4 

Our Main source of income is obtained from government funding which includes free for two funding. We also have a minority of Fee-paying parents. 

The majority of our nursery expenditure is spent on: 

- Staff salaries 

- Staff training 

- Utility bills 

- Nursery Resources 

- Apprenticeship fees 

We benefit the public by offering high quality childcare and provision to our local area.  We were inspected in January 2023 and are Ofsted rated GOOD and offer a high level of quality education. 



We do currently have some outstanding debt with KCC but are in the process of paying that off each month via instalments. 



St Hila
's ￿rse
st 2022-Ju
2023
KCC fvndiThJ
Uniform/f¢es
Fundw$iry
Milk r¢fvNI
Transfers from reser￿ 4¢cwnt
C4sh & Dep￿1 IA<xhi
Otkr
£93.893.91
£5942
£227
£103.60
£27.9TI
£820
£5184.75
Totol: £134.148.26
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Wo9es
£75.974.59
£33.683.17
£7483.25
£1278.73
£1680
£7458.98
£6045.73
£4.873.10
41RC
MBC
A TM tr¢ns
Cord pJr¢hoses
Dir¢¢t D¢ts'ts/0￿1ftt Trang
Tramfers to restrne ac¢•Jnt
1081.58
Fee refvThls
Total: £138.477.55
Balance of oJrr¢ht a¢¢￿￿1 t)n 3111 July 2023: £10.XJI.64
of rekne acC(￿nt rn 31" July 2023.. £5707.50

CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examinerfs report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trustoes
St Hilary's Nursery
On accounts for the year
31* JULY 2023
Charity no
lrfany)
1046371
Sot out on pag
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (Ihe Trust.) for the year end&a
Responslbllitle• and
basis of report
As the charTty's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordarKe with the requirements of the Chanties Act 2011
(Ihe A¢￿).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a￿UnIS carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination. I
have followed all the applicable D1recJio￿ given by the Charity Commis8ion
under secbon 14515)(b) of the Act.
Indepondent trhe tharity's gro88 incorrn exceeded £250,000 and l am qualffied to
examlnerfs Statement undertake the examination by being a qualffied member of linsert name i)f
applicable listed bc#Jy]]. Delete [ ] il not applicable.
I have comp￿ted my examination. I ￿nfirM that no material matters have
come to my attention in connection with the examTrnation (other than that
disdosed below "} which gives me cause to believe that in, any materi
respe￿..
the accounting records were not kept in ac£y)rdance with section 130
of the Charitses Act.. or
the actounts did not a￿Ord with the accwnting records., or
the a￿UnIS did not comply with Ihe applicable requirements
conceming the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
(Accounts and Reports) Regulats'ons 2008 other than any reqU1￿ment
that the accounts give a 'true and fairf wew which is not a matter
considered as part of an Indep￿dent examination.
I have no COn￿mS and have con* Kross no other matters in connection
with the examination to whith attention should be drawn in this report in
order to enable a proper ufKlerstanding of the aco)unts to be reached.
. Please delete the in the brn(*ets rfthey do nolwpply.
Slgned:
4° December 2023
Name..
De8na Cunltffe
Relevant professional
qualifKatlon(s) or body
Bookkeeper
IER
Oct 2018