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2024-03-31-accounts

’ - Trustee s Annual Report 2023 2024

Charity Name: Brereton Pre-school & Playgroup Address: School Lane, Brereton, Sandbach, Cheshire CW11 1RN Email Address: breretonpreschool@gmail.com Contact Number: 01477534304

Charity Registration Number: 1079328 Date of Report: 07/01/2024

The key purpose our charity is to provide affordable, quality early year’s education to all within the local community. Our committee is currently made up of our Chair: Laura Coles, Secretary: Elizabeth Bailey and Treasurer:Sue Phillips. We recruit our trustees from our cohort of parents as necessary each July as part of our AGM. Our aim is to provide support to our Pre-school manager Sharon Edwards and her staff. Committee meetings are held each half term and minutes are distributed accordingly. It is the Pre-school Manager’s role to undertake the day to day running of the Pre-school, deliver the EYFS based curriculum, manage safeguarding and carry out appraisals with staff every two years. The Manager’s appraisal is carried out by the Chair. Our welcome evening held in September provided parents with an opportunity to meet all the Pre-school staff as well as our committee members. A talk was given by The Preschool manager, explaining the Pre-school day, expectations of staff, children and parents, safeguarding and important dates for the year ahead. Information was also given about the committee, its role in supporting Pre-school and how parents can get involved. Feedback from parents was extremely positive.

This financial year 1st April 2023 – 30th March 2024 has been another successful year and seen a further increase in the number of families we serve.

We have due regard for and have carried out our purpose for public benefit in the community by providing affordable childcare and education and providing a smooth transition for our children from preschool to primary school. We now offer fully flexible childcare to the local community which provides a broader benefit to the children and parents we serve and we believe we are providing the best public benefit possible for our circumstance. We are situated on the site of Brereton C of E Primary School and have opening hours to complement the school hours, allowing those with older children at the school to drop off and pick up before school starts and finishes. This includes wraparound care both in the mornings from 0745 and in the evening to 1745. We currently employ 10 qualified members of staff whose hours vary.

Any excess funds at the end of our academic year are transferred into the charity savings account. This enables us to carry out any maintenance work as necessary, purchase resources for the children, maintain high levels of staff training and will hopefully, in the future allow us to replace our portable building without relying solely on fundraising.

Committee Treasurer

Brereton Preschool & Playgroup

Brereton Playgroup Brereton Playgroup Brereton Playgroup No. 1079328
Section A Receipts and payments
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Endowment
funds
Total funds
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
04/01/2023
31/03/2024
Receipts and payments accounts
Period start date
Period end date
To
For the period
from
ee
e
ee		 Last year
to the nearest £
CC16a
Fees 170,681 - - - - - - 170,681 136,647 136,647
Fundraising 745 - - - - - - 745 - -
Interest received 1,330 - - - - - - 1,330 - -
Donations - - - - - - - - 2,474 2,474
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 AR)
172,756		 - - - - - - 172,756 139,121 139,121
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Sub total -
-
-
-
-
Total receipts
172,756
-
-
172,756
139,121
A3 Payments
————~~——~~
Employment costs 113,834 - - - - - - 113,834 97,630 97,630
Premises costs 4,898 - - - - - - 4,898 4,884 4,884
Resources 8,773 - - - - - - 8,773 5,010 5,010
Equipment & Maintenance 415 - - - - - - 415 - -
Food & drink 3,043 - - - - - - 3,043 3,528 3,528
Fundraising expenses 486 - - - - - - 486 - -
Office expenses 2,007 - - - - - - 2,007 - -
Sundry expenses 5,579 - - - - - - 5,579 8,779 8,779
Training 1,349 - - - - - - 1,349 - -
**Sub total ** 140,384 - - - - - - 140,384 119,831 119,831
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
Office Equipment
1,260
-
-
1,260
-
-
-
-
-
Sub total 1,260
-
-
1,260
-
Total payments
141,644
-
-
141,644
119,831
Net of receipts/(payments)
31,112
-
- 31,112
19,290
A5 Transfers between funds
-
- -
-
-
A6 Cash funds last year end
128,551
- -
128,551
109,261
Cash funds this year end
159,663
-
- 159,663
128,551
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

07/01/2025

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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
Current account
Deposit acount
Cash
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Debtors
Details
Details
Building
Office Equipment
Details		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
106,970
-
52,638
-
55
-
159,663
-
OK
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
1,562
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
71,571
-
1,260
-
-
-
-
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 R2 accounts (SS)

07/01/2025

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/ Charity Name members of Brereton Playgroup

On accounts for the year 31 March 2024 ended Set out on pages 3 and 4

Charity no 1079328 (if any) (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/03/2024 .

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.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement 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:

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.

Signed: Date: ~~PO fe~~ Name: Keith Chisholm ~~Cs~~ Relevant professional ACA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 48 Sandington Drive Northwich, Cheshire CW8 2ZD

October 2018

1

IER

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 .

October 2018

2

IER