## Trustees’ Annual Report 2023/2024 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 2023-2024** ## **In the year ending 31/7/2024 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. Progression with learning and education continue daily. The children in the setting love to be there. 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 coach and watched our school leavers graduate. We have done some fundraising this year through Mother’s Day gifts. Father’s Day gifts and sports day activities. 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 2024 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**| |**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**| **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |Clifton Village Nursery|1059397| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period|01/08/2023|31/07/2024| |To| |from| |a||| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Fees|33,177|-|33,177|22,788| |Funding|59,149|-|59,149|126,620| |Supplementary Invoices|2,229|-|2,229|184| |Discretionary Grants|-|-| |Gift Aid refund|-|672| |Fundraising & Donations|2,249|-|2,249|2,121| |Interest earned|655|-|655|277| |Sub total|[ 38,309 ]|59,149|-|97,458|152,662| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |etc.|-|-|-|-|-| |pe|Total receipts|38,309|59,149|- 97,458|152,662| |A3 Payments| |Premises, phone, internet| |4,621|9,381|-|14,002|13,331| |Wages and PAYE| |33,480|67,975|-|101,455|95,427| |Insurance| |290|589|-|879|-| |Snacks and other consumables| |968|1,965|-|2,932|2,985| |Administration| |831|1,687|-|2,518|5,098| |Subs, donations and charges| |-|-|-|-| |Training| |87|177|-|264|422| |Sundry items| |130|265|-|395|-| |Fundraising costs| |435|882|-|1,317|399| |Sub total|40,841|82,920|-|123,762|117,662| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases, etc.|-|-|-| |Total payments|40,841|82,920|-|123,762|117,662| |—| |Net of receipts/(payments)|- 2,532|- 23,771|- - 26,303|35,000| |A5 Transfers between funds| |-|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|68,116|35,303|103,418|68,418| |Cash funds this year end|65,584|11,532|- 77,115|103,418| |33322| **----- End of picture text -----**
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approval| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Clifton Village Nursery On accounts for the year ended 31 July 2024 Charity no {if any) 1059397 Set out on pages 1- 2 on form CC16a I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31 July 2024. Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, 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 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 I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examinerfs statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in. any material respect: the accounting records wer8 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 Ihe 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. Signed: Date: Name: JJ&AD Relevant professional qualification{s) or body (if any): Addross: S7&£ y