Trustees’ Annual Report 2024/2025 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 2024-2025
In the year ending 31/7/2025 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. One of our committee members became our paid administrator, which is working well, but had to be removed from the committee. WE currently have four committee members and are seeking more.
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, sports day activities, graduation photos and Christmas photos.
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. We also joined the school where we rent our building from to learn from their safeguarding practice and enjoyed strengthening
our relationship with the staff there, as most of our children attend this school when it is time to do so.
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 2025 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 |
| Robyn Lancaster | Committee Member |
03/03/2025 | On going |
| Carol Cane | Treasurer | 19/05/2023 | On going |
Clffton lllll89• Nur80ry 1059J97 Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a Forth• period from 011D812024 31107fdD25 To Section A Receipts and payments Unro8trictad lund8 t• lh¢ ne•t£ Ro8trlcted fund• Endowmont nd¥ lotr n¢•f••t£ Total fund Lab¢ yMr tothe noar•Bt£ to tha n¥•rMtt Al R•¢•l 19,7SI 111,765 3J,177 Fundln 161M91 151.BY6 69,149 Supthmenlarylnvolcoe 1.219 2.229 DlscrebonaryGr4nts Gift Aid rerta Fundr¥llng & Int•r••i•4med i¢0 156 Sub tot•1 22,ZJ2 174.128 AZ A•••t •nd In¥Mkn•nt ••l••. Tot•1 rne•lpts 22.2J?. 181.600 174.128 A3 P•ym•nts PTernlU•, phone, irternet 1.418 12.) 14106 14,IJ02 PAYE I)• 11,737 10&20J t01.4U 179 Sn•ck4 and Jthv 2.631 3.028 1932 Adrnlnlbtr•Uon J21 2.2J2 Subs. don•bw•4nd th•rg•s 214 BUry J¢ 242 278 J96 Fundral*lnp ¢u ios 120 1,317 Sub total 16,060 109.342 125,392 123.762 A4 Au•t Bnd Inv•¥lrn•nt purchiaeB. etc. Totslpayments 1B,050 109,342 125,392 12S,762 Nfrt of rec•lpts/(payments) AS TranBfer8 betwoen funds 8,182 42.S54 48.738 26.303 A6 Cash fund• last y•ar ond C•sh funds th18 year •nd 65,584 11.532 Tl.116 103.410 71,766 54,086 125,851 77.115 CCXX R1 accounts ISS) D8105fd026
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unro8tri¢ted funds to neareBt E $trl¢ted funds to neAltE End¢xvrnent lund8 to n¢•rHt£ ¢atsgorl• Detsll• Bl Cash funds Bank Gurrentaccounl 34,853 Reserves and FundrairAnq Accoun15 31,073 Pettycash 39 Total ¢a¥h funds 71,766 64,Q86 OK Restricted funds to n••r•st£ OK Endowmont funds to nere•l E Unmtrl¢t lunds to n••r••t£ D•tsll• Fund tD whkh ••t b•lon Curv•nt ¥al Dgtall• Colt loptloNII Fund to whlch 4•••t bvlon ¢uvrwt v4lv• Ilon•l Datall• ¢oJl {oplhDIll B4 Assots retsln•d for th• charfty'8 own usa Fund to whlch r•lit• ountdue Wh•n dw on•1 Dvtslls B5 Llabllltl• Z400 Signed by we orlY4D tsustees on behav of al the Iruslee5 S*nature Print Name Date of roval CCXX R2 accounts ISSI 08105r2026
(HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGL4ND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustaes Clifton Village Nursery On accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 Charity no (if any) 1059397 Set out on pages 1-2 on form CC16a I report lo the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust") for the year ended 31 July 2025. R8sponslbllltl88 and basis of rgport As Ihe charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'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 carying out my examination, I have follow8d all the applicable Dir8Ctions given by the Charity Commission under section 145151(b} of the Act. Independent I have completed my exarnination. I confirm that no material matters have examlnerfs statement Come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me Cause lo 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 th8 form and conlenl of a¢counts set out in the Charllies (Accounts and R8POrtsl Regulations 2008 other than any requiremant that the accounts give a 'lrue 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 allenlion should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: Ills 702 Name: Tr)nJA 7Hh/U 5/c Ab Rolevant professional qualifi&IOn{s) or body Ilf any): FLCA Address: -(rHIM&. A
Clffton lllll89• Nur80ry 1059J97 Receipts and pa ments accounts CC16a Forth• period from 011D812024 31107fdD25 To Section A Receipts and payments Unro8trictad lund8 t• lh¢ ne•t£ Ro8trlcted fund• Endowmont nd¥ lotr n¢•f••t£ Total fund Lab¢ yMr tothe noar•Bt£ to tha n¥•rMtt Al R•¢•l 19,7SI 111,765 3J,177 Fundln 161M91 151.BY6 69,149 Supthmenlarylnvolcoe 1.219 2.229 DlscrebonaryGr4nts Gift Aid rerta Fundr¥llng & Int•r••i•4med i¢0 156 Sub tot•1 22,ZJ2 174.128 AZ A•••t •nd In¥Mkn•nt ••l••. Tot•1 rne•lpts 22.2J?. 181.600 174.128 A3 P•ym•nts PTernlU•, phone, irternet 1.418 12.) 14106 14,IJ02 PAYE I)• 11,737 10&20J t01.4U 179 Sn•ck4 and Jthv 2.631 3.028 1932 Adrnlnlbtr•Uon J21 2.2J2 Subs. don•bw•4nd th•rg•s 214 BUry J¢ 242 278 J96 Fundral*lnp ¢u ios 120 1,317 Sub total 16,060 109.342 125,392 123.762 A4 Au•t Bnd Inv•¥lrn•nt purchiaeB. etc. Totslpayments 1B,050 109,342 125,392 12S,762 Nfrt of rec•lpts/(payments) AS TranBfer8 betwoen funds 8,182 42.S54 48.738 26.303 A6 Cash fund• last y•ar ond C•sh funds th18 year •nd 65,584 11.532 Tl.116 103.410 71,766 54,086 125,851 77.115 CCXX R1 accounts ISS) D8105fd026
Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unro8tri¢ted funds to neareBt E $trl¢ted funds to neAltE End¢xvrnent lund8 to n¢•rHt£ ¢atsgorl• Detsll• Bl Cash funds Bank Gurrentaccounl 34,853 Reserves and FundrairAnq Accoun15 31,073 Pettycash 39 Total ¢a¥h funds 71,766 64,Q86 OK Restricted funds to n••r•st£ OK Endowmont funds to nere•l E Unmtrl¢t lunds to n••r••t£ D•tsll• Fund tD whkh ••t b•lon Curv•nt ¥al Dgtall• Colt loptloNII Fund to whlch 4•••t bvlon ¢uvrwt v4lv• Ilon•l Datall• ¢oJl {oplhDIll B4 Assots retsln•d for th• charfty'8 own usa Fund to whlch r•lit• ountdue Wh•n dw on•1 Dvtslls B5 Llabllltl• Z400 Signed by we orlY4D tsustees on behav of al the Iruslee5 S*nature Print Name Date of roval CCXX R2 accounts ISSI 08105r2026
(HARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGL4ND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustaes Clifton Village Nursery On accounts for the year ended 31 July 2025 Charity no (if any) 1059397 Set out on pages 1-2 on form CC16a I report lo the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust") for the year ended 31 July 2025. R8sponslbllltl88 and basis of rgport As Ihe charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 I'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 carying out my examination, I have follow8d all the applicable Dir8Ctions given by the Charity Commission under section 145151(b} of the Act. Independent I have completed my exarnination. I confirm that no material matters have examlnerfs statement Come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me Cause lo 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 th8 form and conlenl of a¢counts set out in the Charllies (Accounts and R8POrtsl Regulations 2008 other than any requiremant that the accounts give a 'lrue 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 allenlion should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: Ills 702 Name: Tr)nJA 7Hh/U 5/c Ab Rolevant professional qualifi&IOn{s) or body Ilf any): FLCA Address: -(rHIM&. A