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|Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|Section A Reference and administration details|
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|**Charity name**
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|
Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup||
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||Birdlip and Brimpsfield Playgroup||
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||1064812||
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||Birdlip Village Hall||
||Birdlip||
||Gloucestershire||
||**Postcode**|**GL4 8JH**|
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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12|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||Lauren Pawley|Chair|||
|||Rachel Russell|Secretary|||
|||Melanie Durrant|Treasurer|||
|||Hazel Porteous||||
|||Laura-Jayne Bell||||
|||Victoria Hollands||||
|||JennyWilson-Copp||||
|||Katherine Peake||||
|||Anna Campbell||||
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|||**Names of the**
**trustees for the**
**charity, if any, (for**
**example, any**
**custodian**
**trustees)**||||
|||**Name**||||
|||N/A||||
|||||**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
**Type of adviser Name Address** N/A
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Babs Hannis (Playgroup Manager)
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution) Association
How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Self-nomination and then appointed by existing committee members Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
A welcome email is sent to all new trustees with information such as:
1. A copy of the constitution 2. Links to the local policies on the playgroup website
3. Links to useful government documents such as:
- Early years and childcare registration handbook
- Statutory framework for the EYFS
- Early years inspection
- Early years outcomes document
The organisational structure is as follows:
1. Senior management team (committee members)
2. Playgroup manager
3. Administrator, Play Leader and Playgroup Assistant
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
As per the Constitution, the Aim of Birdlip and Brimpsfield Playgroup is to enhance the development, care and education of children, primarily under statutory school age, and also of children and young people of school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the need of their children through community (voluntary managed) groups and by:
- a) Offering appropriate play facilities and training courses, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children and young people, whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;
- b) Encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local area; and
- c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the Aim of PATA.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
We provide a community playgroup facility in a rural environment, at an **Summary of the main** affordable cost (which otherwise may not be available to those with **activities undertaken for the** limited funds or access). **public benefit in relation to these objects (include within** The committee members have complied with their duty to have due **this section the statutory** regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance. **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)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Birdlip and Brimpsfield Playgroup is a small community playgroup offering three morning sessions a week for children aged 2 to 5 years.. In addition, the staff run Breakfast Club in association with Birdlip School.
The main achievements for the last year were:
1. Continuing to provide a safe and friendly learning environment throughout the year. All staff are DBS checked and have relevant up-to-date first aid training.
2. Continuing to improve the financial position of the playgroup 3. Continuing to improve the outdoor play and learning space. Playgroup uses the local school’s playground for the outdoor space and continues to ensure that toys are maintained and the area safe and fun to use.
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
**Section E Financial review** We are looking to build up a reserve, to be set at the equivalent of a **Brief statement of the** terms running costs (approx. £12,000). To achieve this, we are aiming to **charity’s policy on reserves** set aside £500 each term (£1,500 pa) into our deposit account to build our reserves again. **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit** ~~—~~
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Further financial review details (Optional information)
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
- **Section F Other optional information** Going forward into 2024-25, our aims will mirror those above, ensuring that the children have a safe and stimulating environment in which to play and develop. **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)** Lauren Pawley **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
Date
19 December 2024
TAR
March 2012
|||**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~|**Charity Name**
**No (if any)**
**Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup**
**1064812**
**Receipts andpayments accounts**
Period start date
**To**
Period end date
4/1/2023
3/31/2024
**For the period**
**from**
~~ee ee ee~~||~~a~~|**CC16a**
~~a~~|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||||||
||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**|||**Last year**|
||||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|||**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||
|Fees|||**37,383**||**-**||**-**||**37,383**|||**42,897**|
|Fundraising|||**375**||**-**||**-**||**375**|||**521**|
|Other Receipts|||**275**||**-**||**-**||**275**|||**252**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
|**Sub total**(Gross income for AR)||(Gross income for AR)|**38,033**||**-**||**-**||**38,033**|||**43,670**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**|||||||||||||
|**(see table).**|||||||||||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||**Sub total**|**Sub total**|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||||||||||||
||**Total receipts 38,033**||||**-**||**-**||**38,033**|||**43,670**|
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||
|Wages, Salaries and NI Costs|||**40,490**||**-**||**-**||**40,490**|||**36,892**|
|Rent/Room Hire|||**375**||**-**||**-**||**375**|||**45**|
|Subscriptions/Registrations|||**864**||**-**||**-**||**864**|||**912**|
|Refreshments|||**768**||**-**||**-**||**768**|||**910**|
|Small Equipment Items|||**1,902**||**-**||**-**||**1,902**|||**538**|
|Sundries and Other Payments|||**1,406**||**-**||**-**||**1,406**|||**1,528**|
|TrainingCosts|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**269**|
|Admin Costs|||**538**||**-**||**-**||**538**|||**639**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||**Sub total 46,343**||||**-**||**-**||**46,343**|||**41,733**|
||||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**|||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
||**Sub total -**||||**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**|
||||||||||||||
||**Total payments 46,343**||||**-**||**-**||**46,343**|||**41,733**|
||||||||||||||
|**Net of receipts/(payments) - 8,310**
**-**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**15,926**
**-**
**Cash funds this year end 7,616**
**-**
~~==~~|||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 8,310**
**-**
**15,926**
**7,616**
~~—~~||||**1,937**
**-**
**13,989**
**15,926**|
**No (if any) 1064812 CC16a** Period end date 3/31/2024 ~~a~~
|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Cash in Bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
#VALUE!
**Total cash funds**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**7,616**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,616**
**-**
OK
OK
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**to nearest £**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
**-**
Print Name
Lauren Pawley
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
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**funds**|
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||||Date of
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||#VALUE!|Lauren Pawley|19-Dec-24|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trustees
Brimpsfield and Birdlip Playgroup
On accounts for the year
ended
31 st March 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1064812
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trusf) for the year ended 31 st March 2024
Responsibilities and
basis of report
As the charity's trustees, 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 Trusys 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
examiner's statement
I have completed my examination. I 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:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130
of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord wth the accounting records,. or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
concerning the fomi 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.
Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
2810112025
Name:
Hannah Oldfield
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
ACA
IER
Oct 2018
(if any):
Address:
8 Anson Avenue
Upavon
SN9 6BW
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.
NIA
IER
Oct 2018