## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Period start date 1-Sep-20 To Period end date 31-Aug21** **Charity name: Little Sparks Preschool Charity registration number: 1079011** ## **Objectives and Activities** SORP reference Summary of the Para 1.17 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN purposes of the charity BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL IN NORWICH A) PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP as set out in its PLAY, INWHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO governing document TAKE PART B) ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN A) PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART B) ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN Summary of the main Para 1.17 and 1.19 activities in relation to those purposes for the public benefit, in particular, the activities, projects or services identified in the accounts. Statement confirming Para 1.18 whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference **N/A** 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 Para 1.20 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. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of
fundraising activities Para 1.41
against objectives set
Investment performance Para 1.41
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against objectives ## **Financial Review** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Review of the charity’s Para 1.21
financial position at the
end of the period
Statement explaining the Para 1.22
policy for holding
reserves stating why
they are held
Amount of reserves held Para 1.22 39,609
Reasons for holding zero Para 1.22 N/A
reserves
Details of fund materially Para 1.24 N/A
in deficit
Explanation of any Para 1.23
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a
going concern
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
The charity’s principal
sources of funds Para 1.47
(including any
fundraising)
Investment policy and
objectives including any Para 1.46
social investment policy
adopted
A description of the Para 1.46
principal risks facing the
charity
Other
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## **Structure, Governance and Management** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Description of charity’s
trusts:
Type of governing Para 1.25 Constitution of organisation
document
(trust deed, royal
charter)
How is the charity Para 1.25 Unincorporated
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)
Trustee selection Para 1.25
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
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## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction Para 1.51
and training of trustees
The charity’s
organisational structure Para 1.51
and any wider network
with which the charity
works
Relationship with any Para 1.51
related parties
Other
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## **Reference and Administrative details** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Charity name Little Sparks Preschool
Other name the charity Little Sparks Playgroup (Previous name)
uses
Registered charity 1079011
number
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Charity’s principal Knowland grove
address Norwich
Norfolk
NR5 8YB
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Name of person (or body)
Dates acted if not for
Trustee name Office (if any) entitled to appoint trustee
whole year
(if any)
1 Karen Rowley Chair 17 July 2018
2 Tara Macfarlane Trustee 6 November 2014
3 Emily Barker Trustee 6 November 2014
Jacqueline Trustee 26 April 2012
4
Walker
5 Karen Chapman Treasurer 20 April 2021
6 Michelle Heather Trustee 26 October 2013
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Corporate trustees – names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** **N/A** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **----- Start of picture text -----**
Trustee name Dates acted if not for
whole year
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**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser Auditor** Abacus The Willows, Ipswich Rd, Long Stratton, NR15 2TG Accountancy **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)** KMRowley **Full name(s)** Karen Rowley **Position (eg** Chair **Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** 14/06/2022 |**Little Sparks Preschool**|**Little Sparks Preschool**||**1079011**|| |---|---|---|---|---| |**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**| |**For the period**
**from**|01-Sep-20|**To**|31-Aug-21|| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |
Norfolk CountyCouncil Funding|**111,976**||**-**||**-**||**111,976**||**106,134**| |Fees and Lunch Money|**4,000**||**-**||**-**||**4,000**||**6,589**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**115,976**||**-**||**-**||**115,976**||**112,724**| ||||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**115,976**||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||||| ||||||||||**112,724**| ||||||||||| |
Payroll|**86,365**||**-**||**-**||**86,365**||**82,070**| |Rent|**20,100**||**-**||**-**||**20,100**||**20,100**| |Insurance|**1,082**||**-**||**-**||**1,082**||**-**| |Stationery|**1,127**||**-**||**-**||**1,127**||**331**| |Equipment|**1,263**||**-**||**-**||**1,263**||**3,681**| |Communications|**737**||**-**||**-**||**737**||**719**| |Refreshment/Kitchen|**316**||**-**||**-**||**316**||**469**| |Administration|**734**||**-**||**-**||**734**||**673**| |Consumables
Staff Training
TV Licence
DBS Checks & Registrations
Examination of Accounts
Travel
Write off
Sundry Expenses
**_Sub total_ **|**421**||||||**421**||**655**| ||**192**||||||**192**||**644**| ||**158**||||||**158**||**155**| ||**598**||||||**598**||**867**| ||**175**||||||**175**||**175**| ||||||||**-**||**109**| ||**5**||||||**5**||| ||**84**||||||**84**||**90**| ||**113,357**||**-**||**-**||**113,357**||**110,738**| ||**-**
**-**
**-**
**113,357**
**2,619**
**-**
**43,014**
**45,633**||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| ||**-**||||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||||| ||||||||||**110,738**| ||||||||||| ||**2,619**||**-**||||||**1,986**| ||**-**||**-**||||||**-**| ||**43,014**||**39,609**||||||**-**| ||**45,633**||**39,609**||||||**1,986**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 13/10/2022 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
Petty Cash
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**45,581**
**39,609**
**52**
**-**
**-**
**45,633**
**39,609**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 13/10/2022 1 ABACUS The Willows, Ipswich Road tA)ng Stratton, NRI 5 2TG Tel. 07851 600355 accountaOabcabacus.co.uk vw.abcabacus.co.uk • n•m• you c•unl •n AV¢ clwity number lo7￿)1 I for the period end￿ 31 August 2021 Respective responsibilities of tn￿te¢S and eI￿n￿Der The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (the Act). The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year und¢r section 144 of the Act 1993 and that an Trnde￿ndent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: examine the accounts under section 145 of the Aet" to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by th¢ Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. and to state whether particular matters have come to my attentio Ba$1$ of independent examiner's report My examination was carried oul in accordance with the general Ditections given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the a￿OUntIng records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accoun￿ and seeking explanations from you as trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the ¢vidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and fair view. and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below. Independent eiaminer's statement In connection with my ¢xamination, no matter b&8 come to my attention which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act" or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records: or tbe accounts did not comply with the applicable requirem¢nts ￿nCernIng the forni and content of a¢¢ounts 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 &s part of an illde￿t examinatio I have no material concerns, however the petty cash record keeping was inadequate, but have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to Nvhich attention should ￿ drawn in this report in order to enable a proper uThd￿￿g of the xcounts to be reached. Peter Bussey FFA FI 14th September 2022