## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From April 2024 Period start date To March 2025 Period end date**
**Charity name: St Matthew’s Playgroup**
## **Charity registration number: 1054908**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Our staff provide a safe and secure**
**setting for children age 2-4 to learn and**
**play through providing a variety of age**
**suitable activities. This provision is**
**accessible to children with a variety of**
**needs and abilities and supported by**
**staff that are qualified as set out by**
**government guidelines**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**We provide learning and development**
**through a varied range of physical,**
**creative and communicative activities.**
**We encourage healthy eating through**
**our snacks and identify where some**
**children need additional support and**
**where this support is best needed.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees have regard to the charity**
**commissions guidance.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**No policy is currently in place**|
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**N/A**|
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**None**|
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**We are growing in popularity within our**
**community and the wider community as**
**a safe and secure setting for our**
**children to learn and progress.**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41||
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We are just managing have sufficient**
**cash to take us through in to the next**
**financial year**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No policy**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22||
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**N/A**|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:|**Additional information (optional)**
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Government funding**|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**N/A**|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**Future lower intake of children will**
**impact the finances**|
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25||
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are all volunteers who are**
**elected to join during annual AGM**
**meetings**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**Local training is offered to all trustees**|
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**N/A**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|St Matthew’s playgroup|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|1054908|
|Charity’s principal address|St Matthew’s church Hall, Church Road, Stroud, Glos. GL5
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||Paula King|Chairperson|||
||Jade Gardiner|Secretary|||
||Amanda Catchpole|Treasurer|||
||Emma Boterill||||
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||Melissa Voyce||||
||MaiseySelway||||
||Lisa Cowley||||
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name N/A**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets N/A held in this capacity
Name and objects of the N/A charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects
Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of Name Address adviser**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** P.A.King
**Full name(s)** Paula Ann King
**Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)**
**Date**
12/12/2025
|**End of Year Accounts April 2023-**|**End of Year Accounts April 2023-**|Apr-23|Mar-24||
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|St Matthew's playgroup||||**Total**|
|Financial report|||||
|Income|Funding|||**###**|
||Fee's|||**###**|
||Transfer|||**###**|
||Trip|||**150.00**|
||**Total Income**|||**###**|
|Expenditure|||||
||Wages|||**###**|
||HMRC|||**###**|
||Rent|||**###**|
||PATA/Payroll|||**591.55**|
||Subscriptions|||**514.48**|
||OFSTED|||**220.00**|
||ICO|||**35.00**|
||Consumables|||**832.31**|
||Training|||**408.00**|
||Pension|||**###**|
||Insurance||||
||Uniform|||**95.97**|
||Trip||||
||DBS||||
||Transfer|||**###**|
||**Total Expenditure**|||**###**|
||**Total Proft/Loss**|||**###**|
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** St Matthew’s playgroup **On accounts for the year** 2024-2025 **Charity no** 1054908 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1,2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31/03/2023**
**Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’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** [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to **examiner's statement** undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:** B.Barrett **Date:** 18/09/2024 **Name:** Benjamin Barrett **Relevant professional** Accountant **qualification(s) or body**
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**
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## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**