Mitcheldean Early Learners Annual General Meeting
Thursday 13" November 2025 7.30pm at MEL building
Present: Laura Wintle, Gina Etter, Paula Taylor, Rachel Burrell, Sarah . Freeman, Tyler Villis (via Zoom), Megan Blewitt, Sarah Cartwright, Sam Lane, Alex Kirby-Lawrence, Laura Browen, Grace Hoult
Agenda
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Apologies - none
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Minutes of Previous AGM - agreed - proposed Alex KirbyLawrence, seconded Mrgan Blewitt
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Chairperson's Annual Report
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Business Manager/Treasurer's Annual Report
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Early Years Managers Annual Report
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Election of New Committee & Officers
Chairperson - Megan Blewitt- proposed Paula Taylor, seconded Gina Etter - agreed unanimously
Secretary (*) Sarah Cartwright - proposed Gina Etter, seconded Grace Hoult - agreed unanimously
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Treasurer (*) - Sam Lane - proposed Alex Kirby-Lawrence, seconded Megan Blerwitt- agreed unanimously
Other committee members - Grace Hoult, Laura Brown and Alexandra Kirby- Lawrence(staff representative) - proposed Gina Etter, seconded Laura Wintle- agreed unanimously
- Date of next meeting - to commence after AGM on 13** November 2025 | 9. End AGM at 8.10pm
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Chairpersonreport AGM 13.11.25
Wow, what a busy year once again, the hard work and dedication from all the staff has been amazing. This year there has been an amazing £14,000 profit.
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Sadly, during the year Tash left us but the position was re filled quickly with Tyler re-joining the team.
Even though the Christmas raffle donations were short the raffle still raised £168.00 and the other Xmas activities raised £179.00.
Once again an amazing Nativity with lots of happy and confident children, smiling from ear to ear, getting everyone in the Christmas spirit.
The Christmas party was once again a hit with a special visitor Santa and the collie reindeer!!(special thanks to Craig & Willow)
Sadly due to the financial pressures many of our families are facing we made the decision to withdraw the Easter raffle this year.
The Summer fayre was another hit with lots of fun and games and an amazing £430.00 raised.
Graduation came with some tear jerking comments from Giba & Paula.
During the year we have continued to develop the outside play area.
A speciat thank you to the amazing team, Laura, Gina, Paula, Rachel, Sarah, Tyler, Scarlett, Shirley, Alex, the committee and not forgetting Steve our very own IT man, for making this another successful year.
So here’s to next year — Thank you all.
Magan Blewitt
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Treasurer/Business Manager’s report 13.11.25
This year has been another very busy one.
Our income from grant funding has increased by £43,500 and our funds direct from parents has decreased by £30,000 (£13,500 net increase) mainly due to the
Government grant for working parents extending to cover 2 year olds. Between the 2 year funding for low income famities and the 2 year funding for working families most of our 2 year olds are receiving grant funding with only a few families having to pay for sessions.
Our overall income has increased by £15,223 which includes £1049 HMRC refund and a one off payment of £1041 from Glos County Council due to an underspend of Government funding.
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With the increase in minimum wage and the effect of the economy, expenditure has obviously increased - staff wages increased by £7770 and consumables increased by £393 as well as general increases in other operational costs. We have invested in upgrading and increasing the number of cameras in our CCTV system this year plus the increase in utility bills has been responsible for an increase of £5287 in our premises costs. Our insurance costs have risen by £300 and we have also invested £1500 in our Forest Fun area
Thankfully at the end of the academic year we showeda profit of £14,024.10 — another good year financially. This will be very helpful as we have now being in the building for nearly 15 years and we will need to invest some of this into upkeep and repairs on the building itself to ensure we are attracting new children to the setting.
Finally, | would like to thank the staff for all their hard work again this last year. Obviously with so many children attending it has meant all sessions are very busy and staff have to be on top form all the time.
Laura Wintle
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Charity Name
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Mitcheldean Early Learners
Receipts and payments accounts for the period
| Receipts and payments accounts for the period | Receipts and payments accounts for the period | Receipts and payments accounts for the period | Receipts and payments accounts for the period | ||
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| Period Start date......1.9.24......... ee Period end date..31.8.25 ee eles i oe anere ee ersANSPAYMENTS) |
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| ee Nursery Education Funding Freefor3&4 £90,664.55 £112,007.44 |
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| Nursery Education Funding Newfor2 | £0.00 | ||||
| Children's fees | £14,977.03 | £6,724.99 | |||
| Milk Refund | £134.25 | £72.85 | |||
| : | Othergrants (specify) deprivation fund | £0.00 | |||
| Grant... Ce p) e Fundraising Donations Interest Other Receipts |
£954.16 £70.00 £160.19 £1,282.35 |
£0.00 £0.00 £1,007.25 £150.00 £209.83 £3,292.64 |
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| Sub total | £108,242.53 | £123,465.00 | |||
| Incomefrom saleofequipment a TOTALRECEIPTS |
£0.00 £108,242.53 |
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| eseeeEe Oe ee ee eeee Emplyment costs (Gross payand employers NIC) £80,502.84 |
£88,272.73 | ||||
| + | Training costs | £492.62 | £357.48 | ||
| Premises costs (rent, heat etc) | £3,862.11 | £9,149.55 | |||
| Subscriptions Insurance |
£449.00 £675.64 |
£496.92 £986.43 |
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| Admin costs (post, tel etc) | £896.59 | £949.52 | |||
| Refreshments (inc milk) | £428.58 | £443.95 | |||
| Consumables (paint, paper etc) | £3,837.96 | » £4,231.87 | |||
| Fundraising costs (details overleaf) | £53.80 | £163.72 | |||
| Otherexpenditure (details overleaf) | £1,292.92 | = £2,702.97 |
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| Sub Totai | £92,492.06 | £107,755.14 | |||
| Equipment (toys, DoOkStC) soeewacewnewnrnguaweoes TOTALEXPENDITURE.«sissi si BY |
LL | £1,335.46 £93,827.52 |
£1,685.76 £109,440.90 |
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| NETOPRECEIPTSANDPAYMENTS (AB=C) = = |
s«£14,415.01 | £14,024.10 | |||
| Cash funds” incl.depositA/c LAST yearend (D) |
£13,538.74 | £27,953.75 | |||
| Cash funds’ incl.depositA/cTHIS yearend (C+D) |
£27,953.75 | £41,977.85 | |||
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| CURRENT VALU | |||||
| Cash funds (agree with balance of receipts and payments a/c) | E | £41,977.85 | |||
| Debtors (moneyowed to the charityon the period end date) | F | £800.00 | |||
| Value of buildings and equipment (current or deprechiated value) | G | £10,000.00 | |||
| Liabilities (loans and any other money owed on the period end date) | H | £0.00 | |||
| Netassets | (E-F+G-H) |
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Receipts Expenditure
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Cash at Bank: Cash at Bank:
Current Account 13,203.98 Current Account 23,413.81
Deposit Account 10,000.00 Deposit Account
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£23,413.81 £23,413.81
Net Profit for year £0.00
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I have examined the above Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet and find them to be in accordance with the books and records presented to me.
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Report to the trustees . Mitcheldean Early Learners On accounts for the year | 31.08.2025 . ended
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| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended ;
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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”).
| 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, | . have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
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Independent [The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and | am qualified to
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examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. Delete [ ] if not applicable.
| have completed my examination. | confirm 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 respect:
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e the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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e the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or e 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
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