## **’ - Trustee s Annual Report 2024 2025** 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: 26/11/2025 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: Tom Challinor, Secretary: Louise Wooltorton and Treasurer: Sharon Edwards and Gillian Jerman. 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 Pre-school 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 2024 – 30th March 2025, 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 circumstances. 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 **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Brereton Playgroup|No. 1079328| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period|Period start date|Period end date| |To| |e|from|e|04/01/2024|eee|31/03/2025| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts| |Fees|179,170|-|-|179,170|170,681| |Fundraising|1,665|-|-|1,665|745| |Interest received|553|-|-|553|1,330| |Donations|-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|(Gross income for| |181,388|-|-|181,388|172,756| |AR)| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |-|-|-|-| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total receipts|181,388|-|-|181,388|172,756| |————|——| |A3 Payments| |Employment costs|145,873|-|-|145,873|113,834| |Premises costs|7,580|-|-|7,580|4,898| |Resources|6,059|-|-|6,059|8,773| |Equipment & Maintenance|841|-|-|841|415| |Food & drink|2,495|-|-|2,495|3,043| |Fundraising expenses|229|-|-|229|486| |Office expenses| |2,110|-|-|2,110|2,007| |Sundry expenses|3,493|-|-|3,493|5,579| |Training|871|-|-|871|1,349| |Sub total|[ 169,552 ]|-|-|169,552|140,384| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases, (see table)| |Office Equipment|-|-|-|-|1,260| |-|-|-|-| |Sub total|[ - ]|-|-|-|1,260| |————|Total payments|169,552|-|-|——|169,552|141,644| |Net of receipts/(payments)|11,836|-|- 11,836|31,112| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|- -|-|-| |A6 Cash funds last year end|159,663|- -|159,663|128,551| |Cash funds this year end|===|171,499|-|==|- 171,499|==>|159,663| **----- End of picture text -----**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 18/11/2025 3 ## **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 £**
**103,252**
**-**
**68,192**
**-**
**55**
**-**
**171,499**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**8,648**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**71,571**
**-**
**1,260**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
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**Current value**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**When due**
**(optional)**
Date of
approval| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 18/11/2025 4 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Brereton Playgroup On accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025 Charity no (if any} 1079328 Set out on pages 3&4 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'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 1"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 Direclion5 given by the Charity Commission under section 145{5}Ibl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come lo my attention in conneclion with the examination which gives me cause to believe Ihat 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 lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: Name: Keith Chisholm Relevant professional qualification{s) or body {if any): ACA Address: 48 Sandington Drive Northwich, Cheshire CW8 2ZD 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). IER October 2018 Glve here brief details of any item8 that the examiner wishes to dlscloso. IER October 2018