**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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Period start date Period end date
01 Sept 2024 31 August 2025
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Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Doddinghurst Community Pre-School
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1060260
**Charity's principal address** Doddinghurst Village Hall
Church Lane Doddinghurst, Essex **Postcode** CM15 0NJ
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled
Trustee name Office (if any)
year to appoint trustee (if any)
1 Phillip Sell Chairperson Aug 2023 to date
2 Charlotte Pether Secretary Feb 2023 to date
3 Kate Asling Treasurer July 2016 – to date
4 Amanda Capps Purchaser July 2020 – to date
5 Kay Parkinson Committee member Feb 2023 to date
8 Neil Jago Committee member Feb 2023 to date
9 Katie Pond Committee member Aug 2023 to Dec 2025
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Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
Name Dates acted if not for whole year
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
2011 PLSA Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Trustee How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees are elected by existing trustees and are approved at the Annual Trustee selection methods General Meeting (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Doddinghurst Community Pre-School (“The Pre-School”) is regulated by Ofsted and are members of the Pre-School Learning Alliance.
All trustee’s are DBS checked.
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The aim of the Pre-School is to enhance the development and education of children under statutory school age by aiming to encourage parents to understand and provide the needs for their children through the community groups. By offering appropriate play facilities and training courses together with the right of the parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children regardless of race, culture religion and means.
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The Pre-School is there to encourage and study the needs of such children and their families and is there to adhere to furthering the aim of the Pre-School learning alliance.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
The Pre-School provides a safe environment for children to learn and play. It is open everyday during the week offering a variety of sessions to all children over the age of 2. The Pre-School not only provides a valuable introduction to structure and routine but allows the children freeflow play sessions, arts and crafts and cooking activities as well as basic ICT skills.
The Pre-School also offers a lunch club for children to stay and have their lunch socially and also now offers four all day sessions to help the children prepare for the longer school day.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Volunteers and Committee members are on hand to assist the staff with our key events throughout the year as well as helping out with general daily tasks.
The Committee consists of community volunteers as well as parents volunteering in their free time to assist the Pre-School management team in the running and administration of the Pre-School as well as organising fundraising events. The Committee has a wide and varied skills set which is being put to good use in all aspects of the Pre-School.
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main** In the academic year 2024/25 we have welcomed organisations and local **achievements of the charity** businesses providing the children with interactive learning opportunities. **during the year** This includes visits from Zoolabs, giving children the opportunity to see a variety of animals and reptiles up close, yoga sessions and bi-weekly phonics sessions with Robot Reg. The Autumn Term ended with a Christmas Party and special entertainment organised by the staff. During the summer months the key event is the Sports Day. A huge amount of work goes into the organisation from the staff and they always do a fantastic job to make it such a success. Every child gets the opportunity to race and is rewarded with a personalised certificate, medal and much needed ice lolly. This is also one of the last opportunities for parents and children to socialise together before our 4 year olds depart for “big” school.
We also take on the responsibility of ensuring the transition to full time education for our 4 year olds is as smooth as possible working closely with our local infant school, mirroring their practices and readying the children for that next step.
We hold a leavers picnic and invite the parents of those children graduating to take part where we share a book of the progress their children have made. This then becomes a souvenir of their time with us charting their achievements and also providing an opportunity for parents to socialise with staff for the final time.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the** Reserve funds are held should the Pre-School ever need to close, so that **charity’s policy on reserves** we have enough funds to pay redundancies and any other liabilities. **Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- The Pre-School’s main source of funds comes from grant and fee
- additional information, where income, although fundraising is of key importance and every event we
- relevant about: hold has an element of fundraising.
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including As a charity we rely on fundraising for our equipment and supplies and any fundraising); this ensures we can continue to provide the children with interesting
- how expenditure has activities, including the latest technology, and to provide new and exciting toys and games which stimulate their imagination and enhance their
- supported the key objectives overall experience.
- of the charity;
- investment policy and We are firm believers that all children deserve equal treatment and objectives including any attention whatever background, age, or origin. The Pre-School is there to ethical investment policy help all children and to provide a safe, fun and caring environment for adopted. them to learn and play.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Phillip Sell **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 17/06/2026
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Doddinghurst Community Pre-School No (if any)
Receipts and payments accounts CC16a
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01-Sep-24 31-Aug-25
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
Government Grants 131,957 - - 131,957 81,598
Fees 31,205 - - 31,205 30,063
Uniform Sales 224 - - 224 223
Misc 189 - - 189 63
Interest Received (deposit account) 642 - - 642 740
- - - -
Sub total (Gross income for AR) [ 164,217 ] - - 164,217 112,687
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 164,217 - - 164,217 112,687
A3 Payments
Wages 124,459 - - 124,459 105,187
Tax / National Insurance 546 - - 546 155
Pension 1,672 - - 1,672 680
Administration / training 985 - - 985 5,087
Rent 16,510 - - 16,510 16,088
Misc 1,299 - - 1,299 1,013
Consumables 2,793 - - 2,793 2,535
Equipment / eq. hire - - - - -
Uniform 691 691 319
Special activities 6,475 6,475 4,921
Telephone & IT costs 3,495 - - 3,495 4,504
Sub total [ 158,924 ] - - 158,924 140,487
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
- - - - -
- - - - -
Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments 158,924 - - 158,924 140,487
Net of receipts/(payments) 5,292 - - 5,292 - 27,800
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 73,235 - - 73,235 101,035
Cash funds this year end 78,527 - - 78,527 73,235
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**|
Signature
**Details**
**Details**
2 x Laptop computer
Digital camera
2 x Ipad's
**Details**
**Details**
Natwest Current Account
Natwest Deposit Account
Petty Cash
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**26,476**
**-**
**52,051**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**78,527**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
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Unrestricted
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
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Print Name
Kate Asling|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**
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**Current value**
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**Current value**
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**When due**
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Date of
approval
20/05/2026|
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