2025-08-31-accounts - Bevois Town Community Pre-School

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Community Preschool, Cedar Road, Southampton, SO14 6RU Tel.: 02380 331883 Email: bevoistownpre-school@hotmail.co.uk Website: www.bevoispre-school.org.uk Registered Charity No. 105392

Sept/October 25

This year has been a good year number wise. At the end of the summer term, we were oversubscribed. We had been working at full capacity with a long waiting list again. Unfortunately, when we returned, we had approximately 10 families move out of the area or change schools to be closer to their homes.

We have also had quite a few families that were on our waiting list for September that have not been entitled to public funding and have not been awarded preschool government funding. This has had quite an impact on our numbers and finances.

We have also found the governments new policies difficult financially with NI payments and pensions to be paid along with the increase in minimum wage.

Many of the children above will be entitled to funding in January 26 when they will have turned 3 years of age. This will help with upcoming finances.

We are still waiting to see if we have been awarded a grant to set up our baby room in October, which will hopefully boost income. The grant has been submitted to Wave 105 cash for Kids.

Staff have had lots of training, and we now have 5 SEN assistants and a SENCO who is a fully qualified. However, every child on our waiting list appears to have an additional need or requirement at present.

We still have a high percentage of children with EAL (approx 95%) and still pride ourselves as being multi-cultural. We will be looking at festivals again and are still able to visit the local Gurdwara this year. Eisha, a staff member has grandparents that help out at the Gurdwara, so we are welcomed there, yet again.

All staff continue to keep up to date with relevant training when available to maintain practise and excellence. This obviously costs money!

Training includes safeguarding, first aid, food hygiene as well as other courses to enhance delivering the EYFS.

I continue to keep up to date with meetings and conferences as well as the ever-changing national information on government policies.

We plan to do an Autumn trip to allow the children to experience the wider world. The local common is a great place for children to visit, explore and develop their gross motor skills on the equipment provided there. We visit the elderly at the Padwell centre around the corner from our preschool and visit the local catholic church on the avenue nearby. We received over £6000 of Christmas presents donated by Wave 105 ‘s Christmas appeal.

This year I have applied again and am waiting to hear if we have been accepted!

We have two staff members on maternity leave which affects staff numbers and finances. This is another reason to get the baby room up and running.

We also claim additional money from Southampton city council for children with additional needs.

We did not recruit a deputy manager last year in Clare’s absence and hoped to save some money with this decision.