## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From:** 1 Sep 2019 **Period start date To:** 31 Aug 2020 **Period end date** ## **Charity name: MULBERRY PRE-SCHOOL** ## **Charity registration number: 1062690** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**Provide early years education for**
**children aged 2 years to school age.**| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Early years education**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees keep themselves up to date**
**with all Charity Commission guidelines.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Enhanced the education and social**
**skills of children aged 2 years to school**
**age from a wide range of ethnic**
**backgrounds.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The profits made for this financial year**
**will be ploughed back into the setting.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We maintain reserves in order to pay**
**redundancies should the setting close,**
**to ensure funds are available to**
**maintain the up keep of the building and**
**pay staff until termly funding is**
**received.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£30,000**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**No increase in government funding for**
**our pupils despite increasing outgoings**
**for staff wages.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Early Years Alliance constitution**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Follow the Early Years Alliance**
**constitution**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Nominated or volunteered at an AGM,**
**voted on by members.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Mulberry Pre-School| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1062690| |Charity’s principal address|Mulberry Pre-School
Mulberry Road
Marchwood
Southampton
SO40 4WB| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Samantha Haskell|Chairperson||| ||WendyPrecious|Secretary||| ||Elizabeth Gauntlett|Treasurer||| ||Gemma Dewdney|||| ||Loren Cashmore|||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **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**||| |---|---|---| ||Wendy Precious|| ||

Secretary|| ||16 June 2021|| ||16 June 2021|| ## **FINANCIAL REPORT (Mulberry Pre-School) SEPTEMBER 2019 - AUGUST 2020** ## **INCOME** |**INCOME**|| |---|---| |Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (wages)|£3,706.92| |Disability Access Funding HCC|£1,230.00| |Donations|£21.37| |Early Years Pupil Premium HCC|£279.84| |Fees|£11,785.82| |Fundraising|£1,573.65| |Funding HCC - 2 year old|£8,927.94| |Funding HCC - 3/4 year old|£90,764.26| |Funding HCC - 3/4 year old - advance 2020.2021|£7,043.20| |IDAIC funding HCC|£134.60| |Nursery Milk refund|£129.40| |Uniform Sales|£189.00| |other|£210.00| |**TOTAL MONTHLY INCOME**|**£125,996.00**| ## **EXPENDITURE** Art Consumables |**TOTAL MONTHLY INCOME**
**EXPENDITURE**
|**£125,996.00**| |---|---| |Art Consumables|£139.24| |Childrens' parties (Xmas and graduation)/Presents|£118.85| |Disability Access Funding HCC|£1,230.90| |Early Years Pupil Premium HCC|£279.84| |Fundraising expenditure|£45.00| |Fundraising purchases|£1,573.65| |IDAIC funding|£134.60| |Insurance|£913.80| |kitchen & toilet consumables|£622.75| |Lease|£3,500.00| |Milk expenditure|£130.45| |Office equipment|£134.98| |Ofsted registration|£50.00| |PAT testing|£123.12| |Pensions|£355.80| |PLA (Early Years Alliance ) Membership|£108.00| |Postage|£3.16| |PPE Covid-19|£74.66| |Pre-school equipment|£322.84| |Printer (office) consumables|£243.57| |Property/equipment maintenance|£2,871.33| |SAGE payroll|£381.60| |Snacks|£201.70| |Stationery|£52.51| |Tapestry|£129.60| |Tax & NI (HMRC)|£4,174.00| |Teaching aids & resources|£370.23| |---|---| |Telephone (including internet)|£804.61| |Travel Claims|£13.50| |Training/course fees|£956.60| |Uniform expenditure|£357.37| |Utilities - electric|£580.37| |Utilities - gas|£799.12| |Wages|£105,089.86| |Other|£1,219.68| |**TOTAL EXPENDITURE**|**£128,107.29**| |Excess of expenditure over income (loss)|-£2,111.29| |plus funding advance|-£7,043.20| |Actual excess of expenditure over income (loss)|**-£9,154.49**| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Seetlon A Independent Examlnevs Report Report to the trusteesl members of MULBERRY PRE-SCHOOL On accounts for the year ended ST 31 AUGUST 2020 Charity no lif any) 1062690 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity {"the Trust.) for the year ended 3110812020 Responssbilities and basis of report As Ihe charity's Iruslees. you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 carying out my exarninalion, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5){b) of the Act. Independent I examiner's Itstement ap￿4￿. Delele M if nol applicable. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination {other than that disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respecl. 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 conceming the fomi and conlenl of accounls sel 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 cOn￿rnS and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which atlenlion should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: Date: r Tu*LQ aoai Name: rtk*s sofrJl￿ P￿rrI LL)6LLS Relevant Professional qualification(sl or body IMAAT Icx>W goq IER Oct 2018 (if any): Address: fi4 eÉ p114tMPsH I LÉ eo16 7&H Section 8 Disclosure Only complete il the exaw,Iner needs to highlight material mallers of con￿rn {see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the exarniner wishes lo disclose. IER Oct 2018