Georges Playgroup Trustees Annual Report for year ending 31[st] August 2022
The trustees present their report and the unaudited financial statements of the charity, for year ending 31[st] August 2022.
Registered Charity name: St Georges Playgroup
Charity registration number: 1061202
Principal Office:
Georges Playgroup Harewood Infant School, Harewood Close, Gloucestershire GL4 0SS
Trustees:
Carmine Maietta Alexandra Wallington Natasha Grange Laura Knight Lucja Furczon Hayley Watson
Objectives and Activities:
Georges Playgroup provides quality Early Years Education and personal development for children aged 2 years old to school age. We accept all children but our main feeders are families from the surrounding areas; Tuffley, Quedgeley, Kingsway. Georges Playgroup welcomes all socioeconomic backgrounds and have a diverse range of families.
The team at Georges Playgroup strive to achieve the main objective to support all children in their own personal development and ensures that each child’s individual developmental goals are met by use of their interests while challenging them to an appropriate stage. We offer guidance and support for all families and vulnerable children who join us in our setting.
The charity has continued to maintain an affordable and quality childcare for the community and although we are facing harder times, we are doing what we can to continue to keep all costs affordable for our children and their families. We support families who are eligible for government funding and offer support in any area we can for everyone.
The playgroup likes to work with the local community by a range of various different activities for children of the setting, their families and
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extended families as well as the local community to get involved. This demonstrates partnership working to the children and supports their development, learning and understanding.
Within the last financial year we have been focusing on providing activities that support the continuous provision of the children while using the EYFS to support our choices. Georges Playgroup strives to continue to offer the best environment for the children and offer an all round accessible experience.
Although COVID is still very much about, we are pleased to be returning to some form of pre covid normality. We are continually working with families and the community to ensure our partnership working supports the development of the children.
Our Purpose:
The purpose of Georges playgroup is to offer a stimulating and engaging environment that is safe for all children and adults. We believe that children develop best at their own pace and we support them in doing so ensuring we are helping them to meet their goals. Children of Georges Playgroup learn mostly through play, using senses to explore and question the world around them, expanding knowledge on familiar things and investigating unfamiliar things.
We are situated in the premises of Harewood Infant & Junior School, which allows us to provide school related opportunities when transitioning to school. We continue to build a positive partnership with the school and are beginning to make arrangements for visits with the children. Having a good partnership with the school helps up to support the children and their families when the transition period begins.
Achievements and performance:
Fundraising continues to be a big part our Georges Playgroup. We rely on the income to keep us afloat with the income from government funding and session fees too. We have managed to hold our usual fundraising events and are always looking at introducing new ideas some of which have proven popular and successful. We continue to source grants to help us with our financial stability and have received some successful applications.
Many of our fundraising events are open to the public and allow the local community to get involved, in return of involving the community we hope that word of mouth can continue to feed our setting of new children in their early education.
Staff at Georges Playgroup work hard to ensure their ‘CPD’ or continual professional development is kept up to date. We are still in receipt of
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some pupil premium, which always goes a way into helping support the children who are eligible. We use the pupil premium to reduce consumables donations for the children who receive it and also put some towards staff training where beneficial to the children.
The numbers on file continue to remain steady and we have a good number of file again over the last financial year, Georges Playgroup name is getting around and we are receiving requests from children and families outside of the surrounding areas. Friday’s full day session is still very popular and as in many of the session, starts quiet at the beginning of the year but we then get more and more requests for children to increase their sessions. Staffing the Friday session is still in ratio at present but with the number slowly increasing this may have to be reassessed in the future.
Our Future Plans:
Numbers are still starting low at the beginning of each year although, next September is looking like a pretty good start for preschool. Although numbers often start low, they do increase throughout the year. We are continuing to create a natural holistic environment but funds do still play a big part in achieving this on the large scale that is needed. There are still requests for longer sessions / more toddler sessions but staffing this is something that seems to be the challenge, it is still in consideration for future plans but needs to be suitable and cost affective to suit all needs. We continue to offer as much support as possible for children and their families in our setting.
Management and Committee:
Georges Playgroup is run by a committee of parents who have children in the setting, local community members and other professionals. The committee is elected at the AGM; Annual General Meeting, which is held in September and is governed by constitution, it is reviewed annually.
New committee members are being recruited, via application pack information, word of mouth, newsletters and leaflets – all of which provide information on what joining involves.
Financial Position:
Our accounts show, cash held at the end of the year was: £24472. This is broken down as follows:
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Fundraising account: £977.41
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Contingency account: £5739.00
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Main Account: £17,697.32
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George’s playgroup operates a reserve policy to ensure sufficient funds are available, to cover and wind-up costs and any requirements of this policy at any time.
Georges Playgroup are still following tighter financial controls to ensure only necessary spending. Session charge and consumables has remained the same in the last year however, this may have to be reassessed.
Conclusive Summary:
George’s playgroup continues to provide affordable childcare for the children and their families who attend our setting. We look at ways of improving our provisions and partnership working to benefit the children’s development. We continue to monitor George’s playgroup finances with the support of the committee, to ensure the security of the playgroup’s future.
Georges Committee are very supportive and continue to offer ideas and suggestions to support the function of the Playgroup.
Signed:
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