1) Chairpersons report 2021/2022
It has been my great pleasure to be chairperson of Amber Pre-School for the past 9 years. It has been an interesting year with a lot going on for both the committee and the staff.
We are now doing a Monday and a Friday morning as our Forest School/Amber Ant Club Day – Fees for these sessions are separate from the Amber fees.
We have been inundated with new children and we are having to put them on a waiting list especially for our Forest Schools I am very pleased to say we now have 35 children with 9 leavers.
The staff have all worked hard to ensure that parents and the children receive professional and high quality care. We are very fortunate at Amber to have a good staff team, who all do a magnificent job.
Our Ofsted Inspection will now be due in 2022/23 and we hope to continue with a ‘Good’.
We are delighted to have our Sports Day and Father’s morning; and we can go ahead with our Leaver’s Ceremony.
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We have and we did a children’s tombola at Sports Day and at Christmas we did an outdoor fair which we raised over £400.00 to purchase outdoor equipment.
Financially, as will be shown in the financial report, the year has been slowly getting back to normal after COVID-19 and we hope this will continue and Amber will thrive again! Thank you committee members for all of your hard work and efforts throughout the year.
We have a good and positive liaison with the Scouts regarding the premises for our future fundraising events.
We are hope to continue to receive enquiries through our face book and website pages. Word and mouth recommendations too have improved we have good numbers for September, fingers crossed gaining more interest!
Those who attend Amber are very positive about the service/ care and we have a 2022/23 waiting list.
I have enjoyed my time as Chair for Amber; I hope you will let me stand again as Chair to ensure I can continue to make it a success. The most important thing is you as parents who know about Amber and are happy for us to look after your children. If it wasn’t for you Amber would not be here, so I thank you for your trust and support.
And Last but not least, I thank all, previous and current committee members, staff, for all your support and trust over the past 16 and a half years while I have been involved with Amber, for new parents to realise that Amber as a charity committee led pre-school needs you as it cannot run without the support from parents in taking on the extremely important, vital roles of the committee members
I wish everyone well in their future ventures whether they be at Amber or pastures new.
Thank you
| Date: 20-6-2022 Amber Pre-School Time: 16.15pm Profit and Loss From: Month 1 April 201 To: 15thMarch 2022 Chart of Accounts Amber Pre-School Income Period Fees from Parents Fees from WSCC Vouchers FUNDRAISING BALANCE Cheques Paid in TOTAL Expenditure Wages Rent Mobile & IPad Ofsted Forest School DBS Checks Play/Equipment/ink/paper/print Cleaning and Hygiene Fundraising Xmas Staff Uniform Insurance – PLA Staff Online Training Costs Refreshments Staff Gifts and Thank You’s Milk Moneysoft LTD (wage calculator) TOTAL: COMMUNITY SAVINGS ACCOUNT Redundancy £13,565.21 Astro Turf/Maintenance £10,000.00 |
Page: 1 Year to Date £7,521.72 £28,603.59 £1,053.58 £533.50 £692.00 £38,404.42 £37,641.59 £6,639.75 £264.00 £50.00 £780.00 £0.00 £639.23 £39.96 £96.00 £15.00 £646.86 £100.00 £10.65 £128.00 £7.80 £86.40 £47,145.24 |
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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Amber Pre-school
I report on the accounts of the Trust for the year ended 31[st] April 2022.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year (under section 43 (2) of the Charities Act 1993 (the Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
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examine the accounts (under section 43 of the Act),
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To follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 43 (7) (b) of the Act), and
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To state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent examiner’s report
My examination was carried out in accordance with the general Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It is also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent examiner’s statement
In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention,
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Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
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To keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the Act; and
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To prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 1993 Act have not been met; or
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To which, in my opinion attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Alice Kenworthy 16 Ashurst Close Horsham West Sussex RH124JN 5[th] June 2022