## **Georges Playgroup** ## **Trustees annual report for the year ending 31[st] August 2021** The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity, for the year ended 31[st] August 2021. **Registered charity name:** St Georges Playgroup ## **Charity registration number:** 1061202 ## **Principal Office:** Georges Playgroup, Harewood Infant School, Harewood Close, Tuffley, Gloucestershire, GL4 0SS ## **Trustees:** Carmine Maietta Alexandra Wallington Natasha Grange Lucja Furczon Sarah Robins ## **Objectives and Activities:** Georges Playgroup provides quality Early Years Education and personal development for children aged 2 years to school age, for the Tuffley, Kingsway and Quedgeley area. The playgroup caters for all socioeconomic backgrounds and helps a diverse range of families. As a team our main object is to aid the development of the unique child and ensure each child develops through their interest in a challenging environment. Furthermore, we help signpost support for families and vulnerable children in our care. The charity has been focusing to provide affordable and quality childcare for the local community. We have ensured our fee structure has been accessible to all families and helped families in need of support, to gain funding. We have pushed to promote the Playgroup and brought in local community businesses to aid in the children’s understanding and development of the area around them, such as the fire brigade, dentists etc. This financial year our activities have focused on the new EYFS and developing our continuous provision for the children. We want to make sure we are providing the best environment and experience for children that is accessible to all children in our care. We have had to adapt during COVID to new health and safety pressures, plus the emotional impact on both parents and children. We want to allow families the chance to reengage with us as a setting and work in partnership with them in the development of their children. ## **Our Purpose:** The purpose of the charity is to provide a safe and stimulating environment for children, to allow them to learn and play at their own independent rate. Our key purpose is to aid children to learn through play and by interacting with the world around them. Our strategy to aid the local community as a whole, is to improve the outcomes of the children in our care and help them become valued citizens. We are very lucky to be situated on the ground of the local primary school and this allows us to provide the easiest transition for the children in our care. By working closely with the Primary school, each child is well prepared for their next step into school. We work with children and parents to enable them to be confident and secure in their movement to a different setting, where ever this may be. ## **Achievements and Performance:** During this financial year, we have increased our fundraising but it is still lower due to pandemic guidelines. This has meant we have focused more on grants and other sources of income than usual. There has also been a focus on making sure the playgroup can remain financially stable to keep us open during this uncertain time and bring in further children to secure the future of the sessions. We have managed to focus on planning and making sure all staff are continually developing and progressing. The playgroup has been able to fund extra training through Pupil Premium and Deprivation to allow for training such as Makaton. We have a higher number of children with EAL and SEN and there for have focused on interactions and environment as our area of development. ## **Our plans for the future:** Our main focus for the next academic year, is to keep expanding the number of children coming to the setting and our reach in the community. Furthermore, we want to focus on making the playgroup a more natural holistic environment, to encourage calm and creativity. We hope to be able to purchase new resources that are open ended and neutral. We have now got an extended Friday session; this has allowed more parents with work demands to access our setting as their child can stay for longer. The extended session has allowed the children to experience having lunch with us and prolonged learning and development. We have been able to extend these sessions with the current staffing but may need additional staff progressing ahead. We always need to adapt to the needs of the community and these extended sessions was one way to adapt. The committee was all in agreement that it would aid parents with childcare needs and support children in their progress to school. ## **Management Committee:** Our committee is made up of parents of children within our care, local community members and professionals. The committee is elected at an AGM held in September and is governed by constitution, which is reviewed annually. New committee members are recruited by coffee mornings with the current committee, newsletters and discussions with parents. ## **Financial Position:** Our accounts show cash funds at the end of the financial year of £24,594, with an income of £57,370 and an expenditure of £62,523 for the year. Our focus next year will be decreasing expenditure to balance our financial position. Georges playgroup operates a reserves policy to ensure sufficient funds are available, to cover any wind up costs and any requirements of this policy at any time. We are still implemented tighter financial controls to ensure only necessary spending for the playgroup. Furthermore, we have looked at increasing the session charge and snack donations which may need to be implemented next year. ## **Conclusive Summary:** Georges playgroup is continually developing our provision for children and still believes we are offering affordable child care for children in our care. We are working with local families to provide what is needed during this challenging time. We continue to monitor our finances strictly to ensure the future of Georges. We have a very supportive committee that has helped us through this challenging time and has guided us through this financial period. The trustees confirm they have due regard to guidance produced by the charity commission’s benefit requirement statutory guidance. Signed: Carmine Maietta (Chairperson) CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiners Report Report to the trusteesl members of GEo£GEg WgJC4ECLI p Ci LJfrf--LF_JO On accounts for the year ended Charlty no Ilf any) 31 PtffjL)gr aD21 jQ(oiao2 Sgt out on pages I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above ¢harily la4￿￿6¥) for the year ended Respon5ibilitlg8 and As the charity twstees of Ihe Trusl, you ale responsible for the preparation ba813 of roport of the accounts in accordance with the iequirements of Ihe Cheritles Act 2011 (Ihe A¢ri. I report in respect of my examinatlon of Ihe Trust's accounts carried oul under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carylng out my examSnalion, I h8ve followed the applicable Directions"gNen by the Charity Commisslon under sectlon 14515)Ib} of the Act. I have compl￿ed my examination. I connm Ihal no m81erio1 matteryJ have come to my allenlion ') In connection with the examlnation wh￿h gives me cause.to belleve thal in, any malerf81 r68pect.' accounting records were not kept in accordance wtth section 130 of the Act or the accoun18 do not aCC￿d with Ihe accounting records Independent examlner's statsment I have no concerns and have Come across no other matters in connection th the examlnatlon to whiGh allenlion should be drawn In order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words In the brackels if Ihey dc not apply. Dats: Slgned: Name: Pi Relevant profosslonal quallficatlonlsl or body (If any) -ficccL)n I IFIC4 C L¥-) Address: TL?COD Ctfy CLJ7 IER October 2018 Section B . Oisclosure Onl5. complete if the exaffiiner needs lo highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for exarniners). Giva here brief deta118 of any Items that the exarniner wishes to dlsclose. IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMSSSION FOR ENGLAND ANV IIALE9 Getsw (Tullleyl Recei ts and payments accounts CC16a F•1 the perto To SI￿Er2021 Sectlon A Receipts and pa ments lunds lunils Ivn Tot•1 fund Las1 year A1 Recoi Fee3 RéfufA1 5.70B CCC. 3J.55 tÉo 1.012 IM62 CCC 3.719 1.00• 3.769 I￿5$ I).ODO JRS In￿10￿l b tothl{Gmss inc(m6 AR) 67MTO •Y.J70 84,* A2 A880t and In¥wbwt•*lM, Sub tot•1 S7J70 57J70 14.99$ A3Pa S•Fw*5 NI & PAYI entty Slbff ents 349 424 2.6S9 FMY Fqiilwi*IIfftL￿￿F.IC c￿14 .71J 713 1.6 903 90) 720 ODJ Itsciy¥m & CL￿r￿ 844 ij 172 82 314 Sub total I>￿23 ei523 57,514 A4 ￿￿8•t ind InvHimgnt rehaso8, ae8 tAblo Vacuum Sub tolal 62.S23 58373 N¢tdrK¢V￿pa￿ments) . A5 Tranjfors furnls AO Cash fvnts yBaroThl Cash fuThts th1$ yw•nd &15 25,747 24,$ 29.747 33.02$ 29.T4r C¢XX Rl &etsrt{ss) 2W7r2022 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiners Report Report to the trusteesl members of GEo£GEg WgJC4ECLI p Ci LJfrf--LF_JO On accounts for the year ended Charlty no Ilf any) 31 PtffjL)gr aD21 jQ(oiao2 Sgt out on pages I report to the Irustees on my examination of the accounts of Ihe above ¢harily la4￿￿6¥) for the year ended Respon5ibilitlg8 and As the charity twstees of Ihe Trusl, you ale responsible for the preparation ba813 of roport of the accounts in accordance with the iequirements of Ihe Cheritles Act 2011 (Ihe A¢ri. I report in respect of my examinatlon of Ihe Trust's accounts carried oul under seclion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carylng out my examSnalion, I h8ve followed the applicable Directions"gNen by the Charity Commisslon under sectlon 14515)Ib} of the Act. I have compl￿ed my examination. I connm Ihal no m81erio1 matteryJ have come to my allenlion ') In connection with the examlnation wh￿h gives me cause.to belleve thal in, any malerf81 r68pect.' accounting records were not kept in accordance wtth section 130 of the Act or the accoun18 do not aCC￿d with Ihe accounting records Independent examlner's statsment I have no concerns and have Come across no other matters in connection th the examlnatlon to whiGh allenlion should be drawn In order to enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words In the brackels if Ihey dc not apply. Dats: Slgned: Name: Pi Relevant profosslonal quallficatlonlsl or body (If any) -ficccL)n I IFIC4 C L¥-) Address: TL?COD Ctfy CLJ7 IER October 2018 Section B . Oisclosure Onl5. complete if the exaffiiner needs lo highlight matters of concern {see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for exarniners). Giva here brief deta118 of any Items that the exarniner wishes to dlsclose. IER October 2018 CHARITY COMMSSSION FOR ENGLAND ANV IIALE9 Getsw (Tullleyl Recei ts and payments accounts CC16a F•1 the perto To SI￿Er2021 Sectlon A Receipts and pa ments lunds lunils Ivn Tot•1 fund Las1 year A1 Recoi Fee3 RéfufA1 5.70B CCC. 3J.55 tÉo 1.012 IM62 CCC 3.719 1.00• 3.769 I￿5$ I).ODO JRS In￿10￿l b tothl{Gmss inc(m6 AR) 67MTO •Y.J70 84,* A2 A880t and In¥wbwt•*lM, Sub tot•1 S7J70 57J70 14.99$ A3Pa S•Fw*5 NI & PAYI entty Slbff ents 349 424 2.6S9 FMY Fqiilwi*IIfftL￿￿F.IC c￿14 .71J 713 1.6 903 90) 720 ODJ Itsciy¥m & CL￿r￿ 844 ij 172 82 314 Sub total I>￿23 ei523 57,514 A4 ￿￿8•t ind InvHimgnt rehaso8, ae8 tAblo Vacuum Sub tolal 62.S23 58373 N¢tdrK¢V￿pa￿ments) . A5 Tranjfors furnls AO Cash fvnts yBaroThl Cash fuThts th1$ yw•nd &15 25,747 24,$ 29.747 33.02$ 29.T4r C¢XX Rl &etsrt{ss) 2W7r2022