Hardwick Pre-School Trustees Annual Report 2022 /2023
Charity name:
Hardwick Pre-School
Registered charity number:1059361
Principal address: Hardwick Pre-School Limes Road Hardwick Cambridge CB23 7RE Telephone: 01954 212823 Email: hardwick.preschool@yahoo.co.uk Website: www.hardwickpreschool.chessck.co.uk
Trustees:The Committee of Hardwick Pre-School:
Lucy Hill, Chair Mrs Bethan Hosking Jones, Treasurer Miss Beth Slater, Co Secretary Mrs Laura Jameson, Co Secretary Mr James Wakeling Mrs Susannah Thomson Mrs Sabrina Douglas Mrs Lucy Chima Mrs Lucy Davis Mrs Hazel Alexander Mrs Lynda Wilson, Pre-School Manager
Senior Staff member: Mrs Lynda Wilson, Hardwick Pre-School Manager
Governing document: Pre-School Learning Alliance constitution Adopted 14/3/1996
How the charity is constituted: Hardwick Pre-School is a trust.
Charity trustee selection methods:
The Officers and Committee members are elected for one year at the Annual General Meeting. Retiring Officers and Committee members are
eligible for re-election unless they have already served on the Committee in any capacity for ten consecutive years. Not less that 60 per cent of the Committee members, including co-opted members, shall at the time of election or co-option be Family Members. Family Members are parents or guardians of all children attending Hardwick Pre-School who wish to support the aims of the pre-school.
Summary of the objects of the charity:
To enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups.
Summary of main activities in relation to these objects:
Offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;
Encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas; Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Early Years Alliance.
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year:
We have provided high quality pre-school care and education for 40 children and their families from different ethnic backgrounds, and children with complex Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. We have supported children with Speech and Language difficulties, and an increasing cohort of children with English as an Additional Language. We have continued to develop our ways of working for the revised Early Years Foundation Stage including the introduction of our extra-curricular goals. We have purchased toys and equipment to enhance the learning environment for the children including large building blocks and planks, magnetic drawing boards and threading boards to develop childrens fine motor skills, improving hand control in preparation for mark making. In the garden we also extended a hard surface and installed artificial grass to an otherwise unusable space to ensure children can play outdoors in all weathers.
As our previous manager left our employ, we have supported staff to enhance their qualifications through training and forums as we all stepped into new roles. We have upgraded the hardware in the computer for the interactive whiteboard.
We have replaced and purchased toys and equipment such as books and an accessible storage unit to display and store them in, small world sets, and resources to support our expanding register of children with Special Educational Needs.
Policy on reserves:
Hardwick Pre-School maintains reserves in two deposit accounts. The first "staff account" is to pay for staff redundancies, should the need arise. The second "property account" is to fund costs relating to the pre-school building including maintenance costs. The surplus funds in the current account meet fluctuations in receipts and payments, primarily for the Autumn term (September to December) when numbers of children attending are lower. Any profits are used to support predicted losses for the following academic year including salaries for Child Support Assistants for children with Special Educational Needs (who receive no additional funding at the time they start preschool) and to further enhance the learning environment for the pre-school children.
The report was prepared by Mrs Lynda Wilson, Hardwick Pre-School Manager and trustee.
Signature: Date: 28[th] March 2024
Mrs Lynda Wilson
The report has been approved by the trustees and is signed on behalf of all the trustees by Mrs Lucy Hill, Hardwick Pre-School Chair.
Signature: March 2024 Mrs Lucy Hill
Date: 28[th]
Hardwick Pre~School Accounts September 2022 to Au9USt 2023 Inc Early Years Funding Fees AdhoclLate fee6 Fundraising Starter packs (optional) Milk Unifom GrfUDonation Deposrt alc interest Misc. Inc gotrji r•fvThJ. trfp p0yry¢1 90503.59 23571.58 657.25 5383.01 195.00 358.96 33.00 287.41 173.29 1885.43 123048.52 Total Incom• nditurn Wages inc Tax & National Insurance Fundraising Inventory ToyslEquipm8nt Activty Expenses Propety Expenses Office Expenses MilklRefreshments Cleaning Uniform Misc. EY m•mt•rnh¥¥, Ol¥t•d h•, thp pl)Ynl Training Total expendlture 90371.41 375.58 1035.23 758.42 9717.57 1317.68 307.72 1196.86 604.12 2791.55 1221.82 109697.96 Totsl Income Les8 expandlture Prollt 123048.52 109697.96 13350.56 at 3118r22 Current account Deposit account Stsff Deposit account Property 13839.87 33217.93 8747.22 55805.02 123048.52 123048.52 109697.96 13350.56 Add Income Less expediture OANNA WÉ66 (K4 Balances as at 311 Cheque not deposited Current account Deposit account Staff Deposit account Propety 255.58 26791.58 29467.38 12641.06 69166.58 $1110120
Indendent examlnor's roport to the trustee8 of Hardwlck Prnschool I report to the trustees on my examination of the a¢Unts of Hardwick Preschool (the Charity) for the year ended 31 August 2023. Respon8lbllltlo8 and ba818 of report As the charity trustees of the Charty. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('the Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Charity'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. Indepondant examlner's 8tstement I have completed my examination, I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination givlng me cause to believe that in any material respect: 1) accounting record8 were not kept in respect of the Chanty as required by Section 130 of the Act; or 2) the accounts do not accord with those records; or 3) the accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the fonn and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulatlons 2008 other than any requirement that the acunt8 give a true and fair view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems 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 understandin of the accounts to be reached. Slgned.. Name.. Joanna Webb Relevant professional qualrfication or membership of professional tx>dies {if any): Association of Accounting Technicians Address.. 20 Per8hore Road, Hardwid( Date: Si Oc¥ 2013