2023-07-31-accounts - Clifton Village Nursery

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Trustees’ Annual Report 2022/2023 For Clifton Village Nursery (Charity No 1059397)

The charity’s usual activities:

Clifton Village Nursery provides full day care for children aged between 2 to 5 years old. The hours of operation are 9am to 3pm, Monday to Friday during term time only.

Public benefit statement

In setting our objectives and planning our activities the trustees of Clifton Village Nursery have given serious consideration to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit and to the enhancement of the development and education of children under statutory school age. The local children of Clifton and the surrounding areas benefit from the provision of high quality and affordable day care by a committed and highly qualified staff.

Achievements and progress during Academic Year 2022-2023

In the year ending 31/7/2023 the main highlights of the activities of the Clifton Village Nursery have been:

Our Nursery manager continues to progress the Nursery with great management of the staff and providing good training for them. The setting is fantastic and with constant changes in provision, the children who attend are always happy and excited to be there. She has great insight into what is new in the EYFS and implements these well. The staff are committed and working well together. As a team they are still progressing the Nursery after the outstanding Ofsted they had last year.

During the year the children have enjoyed visits from the police, fire service and an ice cream van, hammered pins into pumpkins, had visits from the oral health team, completed traffic surveys, collected Autumn things, celebrated Diwali, Bonfire Night and Chinese New Year, enjoyed the snow, had naughty elves visiting us for Christmas, experimented with paints, had jewel hunts, planted bulbs, made kites, ate pancakes, dressed up for World Book Day, had play and stay sessions with our parents/carers, visited the local phone box library, enjoyed Red Nose Day, had story time, had a visit from some little ducks, watched our caterpillars grow in beautiful butterflies which we let go, had football coaches, became sad that the Queen passed away, celebrated the King’s Coronation and watched our school leavers graduate.

We had a very successful Bake Sale for our fundraising, along with Mother’s Day gifts, Father’s Day gifts, Christmas Photos and Christmas raffles.

To improve our safeguarding, we reflected on our procedures in this area by undertaking the Calderdale Safeguarding audit and many improvements have been made. We are constantly reviewing our safeguarding and updated our practice.

As a Nursery we make sure that we offer the best to our parents, therefore we are offering the thirty hours funding for working parents.

As a Nursery we feel that we have a fantastic parent partnership, we have improved our use of Tapestry to keep parents involved in their children’s learning. The Nursery Facebook page is still working well and the staff are using it more for parents to see what their child is enjoying and learning within the setting. It is very engaging for parents to have this. We also provide a termly newsletter and we also share out termly planning specific to each child based on their interests.

For transition to school in 2023 we provided the children with a graduation ceremony and some opportunities to visit their new schools.

We continue to provide quality and affordable full day care to a maximum of 46 children from Clifton and surrounding areas.

Reserves policy

There is a Reserves Policy for Clifton Village Nursery. This defines the size of the reserve, how it will be held and the period over which the reserve amount will be built up.

List of trustees during the year and up to date:

Name of Trustee	Position	Date appointed/ co-opted	Date Resigned
Emily Wray	Chair	17/11/2016	On going
Laura Nicholson	Treasurer	17/11/2015	19/05/2023
Nina Prodywus	Committee Member	17/11/2015	19/05/2023
Katy Gray	Secretary	15/11/2017	19/05/2023
Stacey Lander	Committee Member	23/01/2020	On going
Harriet Clough	Committee Member	01/10/2020	On going
Carol Cane	Treasurer	19/05/2023	On going

Independent examinerfs report to the trustee5 of Clifton Vlllage Nursery I report on the accolsnts of Clifton Vlllage Nursery (Charity number 10593971 for the year ended 31 July 2023, which are set out on pages I to 2 on form CC16a. Respective respons5bllltles of trustees and examlner The charit(5 trustees are responslble for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit Is not required for this year under section 144121 of the Charities Act Ithe 2011 Act) and that an Independent examination is needed. It is my SponSIbility to.. examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the 2011 Act- and • to slate whether particular matters have come to my attention. 8asls of Independent examlner's report My examinatlon was carried out in accordance with general Dlrections glven by the Charity Commission. An examination Includes a review of the accountlng records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented wSth those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the account5, and seeking explanations from the trustees concernin8 any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair vieW and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent examlner's ststement In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention: 111 whlch 8lves me reasonable cause to belleve that in any material respect the requirements.. to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the 2011 Act,. and to prepare accounts which accord with the accountlng records and comply with the accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met,. or 121 to whlch, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Name: jonathan Stead on behalf of Slelgh & Story Ltd Relevant professional qualification or body.. FCCA Address: Sleigh & Story Ltd, Thornhill Brigg Mi115, Thornhill 8eck Lane, Brighouse, HD6 4AH. Date.. ZDz(

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