## **3+ Leader’s Annual report AGM June 2022** 

## **Annual update** 

Our 3+ sessions are open four mornings per week Monday - Thursday (totalling 10 hours) for children age 3-4 accessing 3+ funding. Currently we have 12 children accessing the service through funding, with 1 payer. Priority places are always given to funded children but when we are in a position to accept children outside who access their full funding elsewhere, our fee is £4 per hour/£10 per session. 

## **Staff** 

Joanna Bridgeman and Tracey Price are Co-Leaders and Stephen Sullivan is the Assistant. Lesley Evans is on sick leave. 

## **Training** 

All staff are up to date with mandatory training – first aid, Advanced Child Protection, Domestic Violence and radicalisation training. 

## **Staff training** 

Within the last 12 months a number of training courses have been undertaken by staff these include:- 

Let’s Talk – delivered by SALT 

Write Dance 

Planning in the Moment 

Family and Community Engagement 

Croesi’r Bont 

Block Play 

Physical Literacy 

Communication Friendly Spaces 

## New Curriculum 

## **Major achievements in the past year:-** 

Purchase of new laptop. 

Major improvements to our outdoor area – sand pit, woodworking station, bike racks, large false grass area, water station including a water but. 

All children were invited to attend the ‘Dewi a Doti’ show held by Mudiad Meithrin which was shown virtually; 

The 3+ setting received the Early Years Pupil Deprivation Grant of £6000.00, which was to be spent on our outdoor area. 



## **Mudiad Meithrin** 

We continue to receive support from the programme ‘Croesi’r Bont’ to develop the setting’s Welsh language.   Our link support, Miriam, visits regularly offering ideas, resources and advice. This partnership is proving to be very successful and Miriam’s reports indicate that she is pleased with the progress of both staff and children. 

Olwen Jones is in regular contact via social media. 



## **’ – Flying Start Leader s Annual report AGM June 2022 Flying Start** 

## **Annual update** 

Our afternoon sessions are open five days per week (totalling 12.5 hours) for children accessing Flying Start funded places and children aged 2-3 who are not eligible if space is available.  Currently we have six children accessing the service – four eligible for Flying Start funding. Priority places are always given to Flying Start children but when we are in a position to accept children outside the Flying Start area, our fee is £4 per hour/£10 per session 

## **Staff** 

Emily Morgan joined us is September 2021 as Flying Start Leader along side Lesley Evans and Tracey Price as Flying Start Assistants. 

Lesley sadly had to leave us on temporary sick leave in April 2022 so we appointed Stephen Sullivan as a Flying start assistant on a temporary contract. 

Stephen left us at the end of October 2022. Tracey Price is now the Flying Start assistant and Joanna Bridgeman will cover any sessions Tracey is unavailable for. 

## **Training** 

All staff are up to date with mandatory training – first aid, Advanced Child Protection, Domestic Violence and radicalisation training. 

Emily Morgan has completed the new Flying Start planning and observation training this year along with SOGS, Advanced Safeguarding and Level 3 Child protection training and she is continuing to make good progress to be completed with her level 5 in December 2023. As a setting we are continuing the Adventures with Alice programme which everyone is really enjoying and feel it is giving us new ideas and enhancing the environment for the children’s learning and development. 

## **Resources** 

We purchased a new laptop for the setting. We updated the garden with money that was allocated to us through a 3+ setting grant. Adventures with Alice have also been giving us lots of new resources as part of their programme which is wonderful and the children are loving them. 

## **Mudiad Meithrin** 

We continue to receive support from the programme ‘Croesi’r Bont’ to develop the setting’s Welsh language.   Our link support, Miriam visits regularly offering ideas, resources, and advice.  This partnership is proving to be very successful, and Miriam’s reports indicate that she is pleased with the progress of both staff and children. 



**Independent examiner's report on the accounts** 


**Section A                        Independent Examiner’s Report** 

|**Report to the trustees/**<br>**members of**<br>**On accounts for the year**<br>**ended**<br>**Set out on pages**<br>**Responsibilities and**<br>**basis of report**<br>**Independent examiner's**<br>**statement**<br>**Signed:**<br>**Name:**<br>**Relevant professional**<br>**qualification(s) or body (if**<br>**any):**<br>**Address:**|Charity Name<br>Cylch Meithrin Llandrindod|Charity Name<br>Cylch Meithrin Llandrindod|Charity Name<br>Cylch Meithrin Llandrindod|
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||31 March 2022|**Charity no**<br>**(if any)**|1056540|
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||I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity<br>(“the Trust”) for the year ended**31/03/2022**<br>As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation of<br>the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011<br>(“the Act”).<br>I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out  under<br>section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed<br>the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section<br>145(5)(b) of the Act.<br>I have completed my examination.  I confirm that no material matters have<br>come to my attention~~(other than that disclosed below *)~~in connection with the<br>examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:<br><br>accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the<br>Act or<br><br>the accounts do not accord with the accounting records<br>I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with<br>the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper<br>understanding of the accounts to be reached.<br>*_Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._<br>**Date:**17/10/2023|||
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||Susan Davies|||
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## **SOFA** 

## **Charity No 1056540 Cylch Meithrin Llandrindod Wells** 

## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR 31 MARCH 2022** 

|**Receipts**<br>Child Payments<br>PCC<br>PCC  Early Years Pupil Deprivation Grant<br>Interest<br>HMRC JRS<br>Misc<br>**Total receipts:**<br>**Payments**<br>PAVO<br>Salaries & Oncosts<br>Petty Cash<br>Equipment/Materials<br>Staff Training & Travel Costs<br>Misc<br>**Total payments:**<br>Total surplus/deficit<br>Cash funds brought forward 1 April 2021<br>Cash funds carried forward 31 March 2022|**General Funds**<br>590<br>33,381<br>0<br>0<br>-<br>-<br>**33,971**<br>320<br>37,681<br>345<br>3,985<br>101<br>1,254<br>**43,686**<br>**(9,716)**<br>**18,420**<br>**8,704**|**Restricted**<br>**Funds**<br>-<br>-<br>12,283<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**12,283**<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>-<br>**-**<br>**12,283**<br>**-**<br>**12,283**|**Total 2022**<br>590<br>33,381<br>12,283<br>0<br>-<br>-<br>**46,253**<br>320<br>37,681<br>345<br>3,985<br>101<br>1,254<br>**43,686**<br>**2,567**<br>**18,420**<br>**20,987**|**2021**<br>230<br>45,371<br>0<br>4,883<br>471|
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|||||**50,955**<br>560<br>35,626<br>-<br>1,424<br>442<br>161|
|||||**38,213**|
|||||**12,742**<br>**5,678**|
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**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR THE PERIOD 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022** 

|**Cash Assets**<br>**Bank accounts**<br>Current Account 81008048<br>Deposit Account 61390929<br>**Liabilities**<br>PAVO Payroll Quarter 4<br>Independent Examiniation 2021<br>Independent Examiniation 2022|**31/03/2022**<br>**£**<br>20,819<br>168|
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||**20,987**|
||90<br>100<br>100|
||**290**|



The financial statements were approved by the trustees, and authorised for issue on 

Name 

Signature 

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