## **- Annual General Meeting May 2025 Manager/Chair Report** From our last AGM in May 2024, we had seen a rise in the take up of places however as you can see with the comparisons below in the preschool room, we seem over the last year seen a lower take up on spaces, however this may be the result of having to cap numbers to 28 instead of 32 due to recruitment struggles. Bumbles number have remained quite steady and with the funding beginning to be offered to the younger age groups numbers and numbers do continue to rise and we do still have a waiting list for spaces. Preschool in RED Bumbles in BLACK January 2023 |January 2023|January 2023||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Monday||Tuesday||Wednesday||Thursday||Friday|| |AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM| |31|29|28|30|32|30|31|29|31|28| |7|7|10|8|5|7|5|6|8|9| January 2024 |Monday
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5| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Monday||Tuesday||Wednesday||Thursday||Friday|| |AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM| |24|22|23|21|20|18|22|22|22|23| |6|6|6|4|8|7|7|6|7|6| September 2024 |September 2024|September 2024||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Monday||Tuesday||Wednesday||Thursday||Friday|| |AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM|AM|PM| |21|13|24|19|20|13|20|17|21|14| |8|5|9|7|10|9|7|5|8|7| So, what has happened over the last year from September 2023 – July 2023 ## **Autumn Term September 2023 – December 2023** **We welcome back children returning from the summer holidays and as every term lovely new children and families joining the Beaumont family.** **This term we had a high number of staff unfortunately leave Beaumont such as Chris, Emily, Rebecca, Sam, and Toomey which we were sad to see go to their new careers. However we welcomed Abbie back from maternity, Claire started in the preschool and Tori took on a new role as our SENDCO who would oversee and support all our children with additional needs.** **With our Ofsted action, we focused highly on developing our curriculum and environment, we decided to move from In the moment planning to a more structured format and created Aspirations for what we want our children to achieve by the time they move from Bumbles to Preschool and Preschool to Reception. Our Curriculum in a nutshell is the EYFS. We now use themes as well as children’s interests and experiences to provide activities and learning based around the 7 areas of learning, this supports the children in reaching their full potential and achieving the aspirations we have for them.** **With the curriculum change the children explored a wide variety of themes and activities surrounding our learning intentions for example the children explored Light/Dark, Harvest/Autumn and Winter/Arctic and Polar animals. We also incorporated regular events such as Christmas and family celebrations, Potions and Pumpkins, Remembrance Day as well as Fireworks/Bonfire Night. The children were also very excited to have a fire engine visit where they were able to explore the vehicle meet the fire people and even spray the fire hose.** **The festive season and end of the autumn term came fast, the children came in wearing lots of Christmas jumpers and had so much fun creating wonderful creations and doing lots of amazing activities. The term ended with staff and children visiting Princes Hall theatre to watch the Aladdin pantomime which was a magical experience.** **Spring Term January 2024 – March 2024** **This term the children explored various topics such as transport, people who help us and various occupations, Bumbles enjoyed taking their Thankyou letters/pictures to the police station and meeting the officers and their cars.** **The children had a whale of the time partying at the Valentine’s disco, during our topic of people who love us. They then became little scientists during our science theme exploring lots of different science experiments such as making rainbows and explosive volcanoes.** **The children as always love celebrating World Book Day, the children loved coming in dressed up as their favourite characters such as Stickman and the Gruffalo, they explored the topics of books, rhymes and poems taking trips to the library and sharing their favourite stories with each other. We then moved onto the topic of Spring where the children made cress pots to take home and enjoyed lots of Easter activities.** **In March, the children also celebrated the festival of Holi a Hindu Spring festival where coloured powders are thrown, they all loved getting messy and left looking like all the colours of the rainbow.** **This term we sadly said goodbye to our staff member Tori but also welcomed Cerys to our Bumbles team.** **- Summer Term April 2024 July 2024** **Over the years we have had many Easter Bonnet competitions and decided to do something a little bit different, instead we asked the children and families to create Easter gardens, it was amazing to see all the creations and effort that the children made creating them and the parents and children got to vote for the winners.** **The children went onto to learn about the Farm, Lifecycles and how we look after living things, so the children were very excited on the arrival of our Duck and Chick eggs and were fascinated as they watched them hatch and loved looking after them and giving them their names such as T-Rex, Big Bad Barry and Crackers.** **Tesco Community Aldershot Store kindly donated us Easter eggs for our Easter raffle as well as compost to help us continue with our garden projects.** **Once we said goodbye to our Ducks and Chicks the children continued to look at lifecycles of caterpillars and butterflies, and watched our real caterpillars from Insect lore begin to cocoon ready for them to turn into beautiful butterflies which they then released back to nature.** **The children also got a surprise police visit from the local police station, where they got the opportunity to try on police hats and vests and then got to ride in a real police car.** **We were happy to welcome Dani back into our team who took on the role of Inclusion Officer to help support the children in the setting that require a little extra support.** **On the 18[th] June we had our Ofsted inspection that we had all been eagerly awaiting, we had all been saddened when we received a Requires Improvement result back in July last year but we had all been working really hard to create our Curriculum and make many improvements to our overall environment, so this time round when we regained our Good grading we were all over the moon.** **As we neared onto towards the end of the summer term the school leavers were busy with getting ready for school and transition days at their new school for their next big adventures. The children had their Leaver’s photos done and all looked amazing in their graduation gowns.** **Then it came the time to once again say goodbye to our school leavers, it was sad to see another cohort of children leave our setting, but we knew they were ready to take the next step in their journey but they left with a reminder of Beaumont with their graduation books, which showed their time with us at Beaumont.** **And this year instead of our Leaver’s Prom we held our 1[st] Leaver’s festival, the staff worked really hard to transform the setting with festival vibes and we were very grateful to parents support us by donating and purchasing items from our Amazon wish list to make it into the incredible afternoon that it was. The children and staff had the best time.** **So what are our development plans?** **At Beaumont we consistently strive to develop all the time, we are continually improving our curriculum by looking at our cohorts and having regular meetings to discuss what’s worked and what hasn’t and redeveloping our curriculum to ensure it is ambitious and challenging for the children. Since our last AGM one of our developments was our outdoor area and we feel we really are achieving our goal with the improvements already made to the area although we still want to implement a lot more to the area. Currently one of our main development areas are strengthening parental partnership and we have begun to do this already by holding more events such as our play and stay sessions, valentines lunches and implementing home learning to support parents with their child’s learning at home. We have many plans for the coming year and we all look forward to these flourishing and making Beaumont more amazing.** Beaurnont Community Preschool & Childcare Group5 Annual Account 202312024 INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTS - ENDING AUGUST 2023 Openlng Balan¢e Income Nursery Fees Deposlt Reglstrailon Fees Unltorm Fundraislng Grants EYPP £46,351.91 bank opening balance £46,3SI.91 £171,649,25 £888.00 £305.00 £56.00 £386.91 £O.OD £1,447,08 £0.00 £8,237.66 £13.59 E182.983.49 bank closing balance £57,020.10 savin￿ Alc Othèrs B?nk Loyalty Reward Total endlture Wa8e5 HMRC Bank Charges Pension5 Citatlon Petty Cash Sage Telephone Rent E128,387.91 £7,846.54 £169.88 £4,792.77 £2,551.44 £0.00 El,782.48 £1.338,46 £6,516.00 £679.20 £949.19 £1.795,46 £2,122.46 £982.5Q £220.82 É2,679,78 £4,518.85 £1,244.59 £0.00 £3,130.97 £171,709.30 N?ppy Blns PH5/cleaning/PPÉ TeseolCon5umable5 MaterIalsl￿oUrCes Uniform Grants Admin Fundra15ing EYPP Saving5 Alc Other5 Total Closing Bal8nce as at 31 August 2024. $7,626.10 £11274.19 September October November December January February March April May June July August Total Income Nur5¢ry Fees Dep051t Re8i5tration Fees Uniform Fundraising Grants EYPP Savings Alc Others Bank Loyalty Reward E41.364.99 £6,606.65 £4,367.00 £5.314.01 £32.722.63 £6.168.69 £3.369.00 £8,484.89 £43,708,75 £1,686.50 £17,692.64 £156.00 £0.00 £O.(Y) £78.(N) £0. £291.00 £0.00 £117.00 £90. £o.(x) £0.00 £75.00 E25.00 £0.00 £so.00 £0.00 £25.(X) £25. £0.00 £50.00 £0. £0.00 £O.(M) £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £6.00 £6.00 £24.73 £6.00 £7.50 £6. £31.00 £7.50, £6.1x) £222.65. £0.00 £O.LN) £o.cL) £0.00 £0.00 £o.th) £0.00 £0.00 £637.98 £41.16 £0.00 £0.00 £478.02 £30.84 £0.00 £0.00 £259.08 £0.00 £o.tK) £0.00 £0. £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 ÉO.LKJ £0.00 £0. £o.tKJ £0.00 £o.c £o.tyJ £0.00 £630.00 £858.92 £1.684.40 £o.(x). £865.68 £1.372.68 £1,152.00 £432.00 £1,241.98 £0.76 £0.76 £1.44 EO.76 £3.70 £0.76 £0.76 £0.76 £1.61 £0.76 £0.76 £42,240.73 £6.654.57 £5.165.47 £6,301.42 £34,894.75 £6.$4B.79 £4.241.44 £10.031.33 £45,243.94 £2.125.26 £19.208.03 £163.50 £171,649.25 £156.00 E888.00 £o.c(J £305.00 £0.00 £56.00 £7.50 £386.91 £0.00 £O.C#) £0.00 £1,447.OB £o.oD £0. £O.IJ) £8237.66 £0.76 £13,59 £327.76 £182,983.49 £0.00 £0. £55.(XJ £56.00 £56.03 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 Expendlture Wages HWIRC £12.865.21 £12.730.56 £10,930.60 £9.127.76 £8,377.29 £10.809.91 £9.962.80 £9,880.01 £10,741.40 £10.771.36 £11,597.27 £10.593.74 £128.387.91 £0.00 £3,483.27 EO.(X) £O.CKI £2.671.09 £O.QK) £0. £0.00 £O.OD £0.00 £1.692.18 EO.00 £7,846.S4 £12.30 E12.30 £15.69 £12.30 £26_97 £12.30 £12.30 £12.30 £16.52 £12_30 £12.30 £12.30 £169.88 £419.30 £000 £785.98 £316.(K) £o.ox) £283.09 £283.09 £830.88 £O.LK) EI,IKJ5.22 £477.04 £392_17 £4.792.77 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212.62 £212_62 £212.62 £212.62 E212.62 £2,551.44 £0. £0.00 £o.c £0. £o.tH) £0.00 £0.00 EO.00 £O.LYI £o.(x), £0.00 EO.00 £0.00 £201.60 £201.60 £201.60 E215.40 £215.40 £215.40 £227.40 £25.56 £25.56 £25.56 £12.00 £1,782A8 E106.91 £118.19 E106.91 £106.91 £106_91 £106.91 £116.36 £115.36 £115.36 £115_36 £116.05 £1,338A6 £1.012.lJJ £506.00 £o.cM) £506.00 £0.00 £506.00 £1.518.IX) EO.00 EI.962.00 £0.00 £o.(xJ É6,516.00 £113.20 £56.60 £0.00 E56 60 ÉO.(NJ £56.60 E169.80 £o.rx) £169.80 £o.crf) £O.CM) £679.20 £174.43 E15_41 E80,84 £7.74 E125.21 £108.30 £72.10 £84.93 £37.28 £82.86 £160.09 £0.00 £949.19 £209.26 £177.44 £169.00 £95_60 £182.96 £123.88 £170.87 £122.11 £137.29 £263.95 £143.10 £0.00 £1.795.46 £530_92 £76.72 £14.47 £45.95 £255.12 £45 95 £106.70 £573.23 £342.51 £130.89 £000 £0.00 £2,122.46 £547.50 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £435.tJ) £0. £O.OG £0.00 £0. £o.cN) £0.00 £0.00 £982.50 EO. £0.00 £0.00 £o.&) £O.LMJ £o.(x) £0.00 £102.00 £118.82 £0.00 EO. £0.00 £220.82 £435.92 £164.62 £142.66 £303.93 £141.56 £6.99 £436.49 £182.57 £86.49 £708.62 £68.94 £0.99 £2,679.78 £4￿.58 £2.379.66 £9D.33 £o.chJ £46.79 £454.67 £52.88 £263.05 £404.45 £209.13 £217.31 £0. £4,518.85 £0.00 E350.00 £0.00 £11. EO.CKI £0. £600. £273.60 £0.00 £9.99 £o.oK) £0.00 £1,244.59 £0.00 £0.￿j £0. £o.c £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £O.(M) £0.L￿. £0.00 EO.00 £0.00 Eo. £38.99 £26.49 E142.Q3 £317.92 £882.69 £0.00 £0.00 £12.66 £1.312.09 £398.10 £0.00 EO.00 £3,130.97 £17.280.74 £20.511.48 £12.892.73 EII,336.05 £14,242.21 £12.380.02 £12.794.76 £14,581.52 £13,550.39 £16,077.76 E14,721.77 £11.339.87 £171,709.30 Bank (harEes Pension5 Citation Petty Cash Sage Telephone Rent Nappy Blns PHSlcleaninBIppE Tescolconsumables Materialslresources Unilorni Grants Admln Fundralsing Eypp Savin85 A/C Others £215.40 £107.23 £506. £56.60 ## **Treasurer Report 2023/2024** The financial year 2023/2024 saw Beaumont Preschool remain in a good financial position, with no debt and having available fundraising to use towards updating resources and developing our outdoor resources. As we started a new academic year in September 2023, we had an opening balance of £46,351.91 and at the end of August 2024 the closing balance was £57,626.10 which meant we made a profit of £15,203.64, as we are a registered charity any profit goes back into the preschool to enhance resources and learning opportunities for the children. Our Nursery fees income for the year came to a total of £171,649.25, this amount comes from Hampshire EYE Funding and parent fees. The total amount we received from EYE funding this year was £143,685.93. Within the funding amount we received £1447.08 in Early Years Pupil Premium, this is allocated to some children based on family circumstances, the EYPP money is used for these specific children’s needs, paying for the child to go on outings such as the pantomime, buy specific resources to support their development as well as our Noodle Now training package. The parent fees remained the same for the year as we did not feel at this time an increase was necessary however if costs continue to rise then we may have to relook at this. Our Fundraising amount for the year totalled £386.91, a small amount of this came from Rushmoor Lottery, alongside commission from children’s photos and mini me Christmas cards. All fundraising is spent on enhancing the provision or buying items needed. Our biggest purchases for fundraising this year went to equipment for the outdoor area, this has always been a development area for us and so we invested money in buying larger items such as a wooden train, tunnel and waterwall which totalled £1964.74. We also invested in a setting laptop for staff to complete training, print resources and attend virtual meetings at a cost of £149.00. We also use our fundraising towards every day or theme specific resources. Some of the fundraising was spent on school leavers gifts which came to £245.06. Our fundraising expenditure was more than our fundraising income due to us having money available from previous years. Fundraising is a financial area of development for the setting, we would like to look at new ways to fundraise as well as increasing our fundraising opportunities to ensure we can continue to enhance provision, renew and update resources and provide the children with experiences. The Disability Access Funding and SEN Inclusion Funding we received this year for to support children with additional needs if they meet the criteria cam to, the amount received was £5949.74. This was used to purchase a bubble wall and den for the preschool room at a cost of £751.73, outdoor balancing blocks for £1305.60. We are also looking at a mark making den, an outdoor cosy space and other sensory resources. Our rent increased again this year and will continue to increase over the next few years to bring us in line with other buildings owned by the Princes Hall. Other costs such as food and wages have also continued to rise due to cost of living and the national minimum wage. We are regularly reviewing our finances to ensure that we can meet demands and will also look at ways that costs can be reduced. At present Beaumont Preschool remains in a good financial position and we are hoping that the introduction of the new funding to the under 3’s will enable us to fill more spaces in the Bumbles room bringing in extra income.