## **Charity Commission**
## Charity Commission Annual Return 2025
## **NORTHERN PASTURES PRE-SCHOOL**
Charity registration number: 1079271
**Most of the information you give in this form will become publicly available on the Register of Charities. Any field that the Charity Commission will not display will be clearly marked. This document is a record of the information provided in the Annual Return 2025.**
**Financial period** ~~ee~~ **Financial period start date** 01/04/2024 Cn
**Financial period end date**
## 31/03/2025 Cn **Income and spending** ~~ee~~
**Income £** £84,897 Cn **Spending £** £97,695 ~~Ce~~
**Number of contracts from government** ~~ee~~
**How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
1
## **Value of contracts from government**
**What was the total value of the contracts received from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
£63,624
## **Number of grants from government**
**How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?**
0
## **Recipients of grants**
**Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas).Individuals**
£0
## **Other charities**
£0
## **Other organisations that are not charities**
£0
## **Trustee payments**
**Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?**
⊠ e. None of the trustees have been paid
**Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?**
No
## **Income from outside the UK**
**Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?**
No
## **Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom**
**Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?**
No
## **Spending outside of the United Kingdom**
**Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?**
No
## **Trading subsidiaries**
## **Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?**
No
## **Property**
**Were any of your charity's properties held by holding or custodian trustees on behalf of your charity (excluding the Official Custodian) during the financial period for this return?**
No
## **Employment contract types**
## **People were permanently employed by your charity**
4
## **People were on fixed-terms contracts with your charity**
0
## **Self-employed people were working for your charity**
0
## **Total overseas employees**
**How many of the people above work on behalf of your charity outside of the United Kingdom?**
0
## **Total employee payroll**
**What was the total amount spent on employee payroll during the financial period relating to this return?**
£71,362
## **Employees' salaries**
**Did any of your charity's employees receive total employment benefits of £60,000 or more in the financial period of this annual return?**
No
**Governance policies**
**Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Safeguarding policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Financial reserves policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Complaints policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Serious incident reporting policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Internal risk management policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Trustee expenses policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Investing charity funds policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures**
Not applicable
## **Bullying and harassment policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Social media policy and procedures**
Yes
## **Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures**
Not applicable
**Serious Incidents**
**Has your charity reported all Serious Incidents (including any historical incidents) that the charity became aware of during the financial period of this return?**
There were no incidents to report
## **External risk and impact**
## **Donations,**
Not applicable
## **Other income - grants**
Not applicable
## **Other income - contracts**
Negative
## **Other income - investment**
Not applicable
## **Expenditure on charitable activities**
Negative Negative
## **Expenditure on overheads**
## **Number of volunteers**
Not applicable
## **Number of employees**
Negative
## **Number of trustees**
Unknown
## **Fundraising activities**
Negative
## **Capacity to deliver services**
Negative
## **Total service demand**
Negative
## **Volunteers**
**Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?**
4
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## **Declaration**
|**Your role at the charity (select one):**|**Your role at the charity (select one):**|
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|⊠Trustee||
|**Given names**|Emma|
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|**Family name**|Cosford|
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|**Telephone**|07523328438|
|**number**||
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|**Email**|treasurer@nppsmanager.onmicrosoft.com|
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|**Date submitted**|21/01/2026|
**It is a criminal offence under section 60 of the Charities Act 2011 for anyone to knowingly or recklessly provide false or misleading information to the commission; this includes suppressing, concealing or destroying documents.**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
## **A1 Receipts**
Nursery Funding ~~PT~~ Fees ~~Pt~~ Cheques ~~pe~~ Interest Fundraising Miscellaneous
**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).**
**A3 Payments** ~~Ee~~ Salaries ~~Pe~~ Rent ~~ET~~ HMRC ~~pe~~ Training ~~ET~~ Mobile ~~pe~~ Internet Staff expenses Insurances
~~Pt~~ Council Fundraising
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Payment from deposit account
Miscellaneous
Consumables
Petty cash
Pension
A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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**A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
**B1 Cash funds**
**Categories**
## **B2 Other monetary assets**
## **B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use**
## **B5 Liabilities**
Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees
## **Northern Pastures Pre-School**
## **Receipts and payme**
**For the period from**
Period start date 1-Apr-24
## **Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
|**to the nearest £**
**63,624**
**110**
**3,756**
**67,490**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**67,490**
**71,362**
**13,300**
**4,322**
**1,233**
**14**
**110**|**to the nearest £**|
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|**71,362**|**-**|
|**13,300**|**-**|
|**4,322**|**-**|
|**1,233**|**-**|
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**2,000 543 1,408 616 4,652 99,560**
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## **Details**
Current Account Fundraising Account Savings Account Holding Account Petty Cash
## _**Total cash funds**_
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
Details
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Signature
**1079271**
## **ents accounts**
**To**
Period end date 31-Mar-25
## **Endowment funds**
## **Total funds**
## **to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
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|**-**||**13,300**|
|**-**||**4,322**|
|**-**||**1,233**|
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|**-**||**543**|
|**-**||**1,408**|
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## **Unrestricted funds**
## **Restricted funds**
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3,927
100
4,027
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
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## **Fund to which asset belongs**
## **Cost (optional)**
**-**
**Fund to which asset belongs**
## **Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**
**Amount due (optional)**
**-**
Print Name
Emma Cosford
## **CC16a**
## **Last year**
## **to the nearest £**
**79,740 9,011 1,081 146 4,761 - - 94,739**
**94,739**
**51,508 13,361 9,617 222 142 231 871 106 -**
**9,452 826 1,425 2,708 90,469**
**77,380 11,829 - 11,829**
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-** OK
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
## **Current value (optional)**
**-**
## **Current value (optional)**
**-**
**When due (optional)**
Date of approval 1/29/2026
CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trusteesl
members of
Chaiily Name
Northern Pastures Preschool
On accounts for the year
ended
March 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1079271
Set out on pages
Irpmember lo incliide the page numbers ol additional sheelsl
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust") for the year ended
Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report 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 carrying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 145{5)(b) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
come to my attention (other than that disclosed below ") in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect:
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection
with the examination to which attention should be drawn 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:
29.01.26
Name:
Emma Whittaker
Relevant professional
qualification{s} or body
(if any):
AAT
Address:
6 High Street
Stoke Goldington
MK16 8NR
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight 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.
IER
October 2018