## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** 

## **From  1 September 2022  To 31 August 2023                       date 26/11/24** 

## **Charity name: Little Birch Pre-School Address: Birch Avenue, Blandford St Mary, Dorset, DT11 9QD** 

## **Charity registration number: 1083986** 

**Aims and objectives:** To Provide term time only sessional early years education for children aged 2-4 years, complying with the early years foundation stage framework and meeting Ofsted regulatory requirements. 

**Public benefit:** Advancing the education of children who attend in line with the EYFS framework and Ofsted requirements. The Trustees confirm the have complied with the guidance issued by the Charity commission on public benefit. 

**Financial Review:** Closing balance 39,336.20. However, this figure includes 

funding payments intending to cover next term **.** 

## **The charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising)** 

Parent Fees £23,561.50 

DCC Funding £ 127,933.25 * 

Fundraising £ 1204.79 

*includes payments intended for next academic year 

**Reserves policy** : Hold equivalent to 3 months salary with all other income reinvested into the pre-schools resources. 

## **No funds held as a custodian trustee.** 

**Recruitment for trustees:** based on a quorum of committee members and service users ie parents and carers 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity:** 

Anna Valentine: Chair 

Alex Fulton 

Rhea Miller: Secretary, Treasurer 

Susan Flavell 



## **Declarations** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

|**Signature(s)**<br>**Full name(s)**<br>**Position (eg Secretary,**<br>**Chair, etc)**<br>**Date**|Rhea Miller||
|---|---|---|
||Rhea Lilla Joel Miller||
||<br>Secretary||
||26/11/2024||
||26/11/2024||





**Little Birch Pre-School** 

## **Statement of receipts and payments for period** 

## **01 September 2022 to 31 August 2023** 

||**Receipts**||||**Payments**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||Amazon|88.64|||Accounting costs|164.40|
||DCC|127,933.25|||Clothing|2,078.58|
||Deposit|13.50|||Consumables|834.60|
||Donations|270.15|||Equipment|2,014.42|
||Fees|14,159.00|||Food|1,484.77|
||National Savings|9,402.50|||Gifts|195.78|
||Uniform purchases|125.50|||Insurance|838.89|
||Unknown|707.00|||Pension|5,248.23|
||||||Premises Costs (inc rent)|6,355.18|
||||||Resources|3,564.49|
||||||Stationary/Postage/Photocopy|339.86|
||||||Telephone/Website|194.85|
||||||Training|1,608.39|
||||||Unknown transactions|1,690.39|
||||||Wages & HMRC|111,824.89|
||**Total**|**152,699.54**|||**Total**|**138,437.72**|



## **Balance Sheet** 

Opening Bank Balance 25,074.38 Payments 138,437.72 



|Receipts|152,699.54|Closing Bank Balance|39,336.20|
|---|---|---|---|
||**177,773.92**||**177,773.92**|



I have examined the receipts and payments provided with the bank statements and I certify that, in my belief, the receipts and payments statements give a true and fair view of the receipts and payments for the year ending 31 August 2023. 

Signed Name Date