2025-03-31-accounts - Strensall Station Playgroup

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

From

Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 1 April 2017 To 31 March 2018

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name

Stepping Stones Pre School Playgroup

Other names charity is known by Stepping Stones

Registered charity number (if any) 1061711 Charity's principal address Community Centre 1 Border Road Strensall, Nr York Postcode YO32 5SR ~~ee~~ Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any) 1 XXXX 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~ao~~ 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	Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Type of adviser Name Address	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

Pre School Learning Alliance Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution)

Pre School Learning Alliance Constitution How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

Management Committee elected by Parent group at AGM Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include Stepping Stones Pre School Playgroup is a stand alone charitable group additional information, where that is a member of the National body the Pre School Learning Alliance. relevant, about: • Stepping Stones is a military sponsored group in that operates out of a policies and procedures adopted for the induction and military community centre and primarily supports the children of the training of trustees; service community from the York Garrison area. However, children from the local community are permitted to access the group on a fill up basis. • the charity’s organisational structure and any wider The main cause for concern/risk, is that the group mush have sufficient network with which the charity reserves to meet its staff redundancy liabilities should the group close. works; The group has therefore had a long standing commitment to ensure that • relationship with any related sufficient reserves are always in place to meet this cost. parties;

trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

To provide an Early Years setting for the dependants of Service personnel and local civilian families, offering a stimulating and nurturing environment for which the Early Years Foundation State framework Summary of the objects of the provide policy learning guidelines. charity set out in its governing document

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Stepping Stones Pre School Playgroup exists to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children aged 2 to 4 to develop. These children are the beneficiaries of the Charity and enrol in the Pre School on a voluntary basis from the Service and local Communities in the Strensall area of York.

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)

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

N/A

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

policy on grantmaking;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

Stepping Stones Pre School Playgroup is thriving with a constant flow of applications from Parents to enrol their child/children in the group. The group is multi cultural with the children of Gurkha families and other Foreign & Commonwealth personnel enrolled.

The group continues to excel at the OFSTED inspection.

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Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves

Stepping Stones Pre School Playgroup management committee ensures that the amount held in reserves will cover the cost of staff redundancies should the group close.

Details of any funds materially in deficit

N/A

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

The prime source of funding is from LEA funding and parental fees.

A small sum of money will be raised through fundraising.
the charity’s principal sources of funds (including The key cost to the charity are staff wages and PAYE/NIC contributions any fundraising); to HMRC. This cost is in line with the key objectives of the charity as the
• how expenditure has employment of quality staff is pivotal to the existence of the group. supported the key objectives The group is non profit making with every penny put back into the running
of the charity; costs of the group. The group has approx. £XXXX reserve, in the event
• investment policy and the group should close and redundancy payments made. objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

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) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	Signed on original	Signed on original
	David Kirkbride	Jackie Mortimer
	Chair of Management Committee	Supervisor
	7 January 2018
	7 January 2018

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Charity Name No (if any) Stepping Stones Pre School 1061711 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period To from 01/04/2024 31/03/2025 = ~~eee~~ Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total funds Last year to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ A1 Receipts Fees, Childcare Vouchers and Grants 281,172 281,172 191,075 Fundraising 187 187 - Interest Received 602 602 482 Visits/Trips - Other 800 800 250 - - - 282,761 - - 282,761 191,808 ~~—=====~~ Sub total (Gross income for AR) A2 Asset and investment sales, - - - - - - - - - ~~Sub total~~ - - ~~——————~~ Total receipts 282,761 - - 282,761 191,808 A3 Payments Pre School Expenditure 35,803 35,803 27,213 Wages 161,712 161,712 118,364 PAYE/NIC 22,427 22,427 20,012 Admin expenses 28,704 28,704 6,440 Insurance 906 906 - Premises Expenses 3,960 3,960 2,582 Training 1,043 1,043 2,237 Bank charges - Sub total [ 254,555 ] - - 254,555 176,848 ~~===>=>=~~ A4 Asset and investment - - - - - - - - Sub total [ - ] - - -[ - ] ~~—~~ Total payments ~~=~~ 254,555 - - 254,555 176,848 Net of receipts/(payments) 28,206 - - 28,206 14,960 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 74,972 74,972 60,012 Cash funds this year end ~~=====~~ 103,178 - - 103,178 74,972 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Categories Details Unrestricted Restricted Endowment to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B1 Cash funds Deposit Account 41,157 - HSBC - Barclays 62,021 - Total cash funds 103,178 - - ~~===>~~ (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) OK OK OK Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds Details to nearest £ to nearest £ to nearest £ B2 Other monetary assets - - - - - - - - - - - - ~~— SSE~~

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/	Stepping Stones Pre School
members of

On accounts for the year	31stMarch 2025	Charity no	1061711
ended		(if any)

Set out on pages	1 and 2

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024.

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report 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 examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to 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 the form and content of accounts set out in the 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: Signed copy held on file Date: 26/01/26 Name: Mrs Sharon Jackson Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 1 Cundall Close Strensall York, YO32 5ZW

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

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