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|Company|information||||||
|Directors'|report||||||
|Statement|of directors'|responsibilities|||||
|Independent<br>Examiners||Report|||||
|Statement|of Financial|Activities|(including|Income and Expenditure|account)||
|Balance sheet|||||||
|Cash flow|statement|||||10|
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|||||Illal y Sloa (CI lail pel soI I)|Illal y Sloa (CI lail pel soI I)|Illal y Sloa (CI lail pel soI I)|||
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|||||Sarah Belcher (Secretary)|||||
|||||Dawn Quennell|(Treasurer)||||
|Committee|Members|||Mark Normansell|||||
|||||Sarah Lord|||||
|||||Helen Pateman|||||
|||||Brian Munjanja|||||
|||||Dana Munjanja|||||
|||||Nicole Brack|||||
|Childcare|Manager|||Debbie Hasson|||||
|Deputy Childcare Manager||||Lorraine Morrissey|||||
|Business &Finance|||Manager|Alesha Lewis|||||
|Staff Representatives||||Donna Bland|||||
|Auditors||||Wilsons Accounting||Services Limited|||
|||||Cherry Lodge|||||
|||||West Haddon Road|||||
|||||Walford|||||
|||||Northants|||||
|||||NN6 7UN|||||
|Bankers||||Yorkshire Bank|||Lloyds|Bank|
|||||7 Gold Street|||2 George Row||
|||||Northampton|||Northampton||
|||||NN1 1EN|||NN1 1DJ||
|Registered|office|||Headlands<br>Primary||School|||
|||||Bushland<br>Road|||||
|||||Noithampton|||||
|||||NN3 2NS|||||
|Company|Registered||number|4321656|||||
|Charity Registered||Number||1090066|||||





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|Sunflower|room|3 months -2.5years||18|
|Bluebells room||2.5years to 4years||20|
|Evergreens|room|Early Years Foundation|Stage|27|
|OTHER|||||
|Before and|after school|4 to7years||30|
|Before and|after school|8 to 11 years||20|
|Playscheme||4 to 7years||30|
|Playscheme||8 to 11years||20|





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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||Funda|Funds|||
|||||6|6|6||
|Donations<br>and Legacies|||||18,048|18,048|25,746|
|Investment<br>income||||||442|141|
|Incoming Resources from|Charitable|Activities||||||
|Charitable<br>Actmties||||717,575|1,324|718,899|647,365|
|Other Incoming Resources||||4,692||4,692|3,117|
|Total income and endowments||||722,709|19,372|742,081|676,369|
|Expenditure<br>on:||||||||
|Chantable<br>Activities||||687,761|19,372|707,133|588,478|
|Other Costs||||89,660||89,660|81,130|
|Total Expenditure|||4i5|777,421|19,372|796,793|669,608|
|Nst Income/(expenditure)|before transfers|||(54,712)||(54,712)|6,761|
|Transfers<br>between<br>funds||||||||
|Net Movement<br>in Funds||||(54,712)||(54,712)|6,761|
|Balance at 1 Apri(2022||||174,583||174,583|167,822|
|Balance at 31 March 2023||||119,871||119,871|174,583|





|Acorn Chrldcare (Uttj<br>Balance Sheet|Acorn Chrldcare (Uttj<br>Balance Sheet|||Company|Regrstemd|d <br>|number<br> "<br>4321656||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|as at 31March 2023|||||||||
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|||Notes||2023||||6|
|Fixed assets<br>Tsngrbte assets||||11499|||10.804||
|Curren't assets|||||||||
|Debtors||9|9.877||14,009||||
|Cash at bank and in|hand||13244 r||184.295||||
||||142,322||198304||||
|Creditonn<br>amounts|falling due||||||||
|withe one year||10|(33.950)||(34,5251||||
|Net current assets||||108,372|||163.779||
|Total assets less current<br>liabibbes||||'I19,871|||r,rrr||
|Charity Funds<br>ttnresbicted<br>Funth||||119,871|||174|583|
|Total charity funds||||119.871|||174.583||






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|Acorn Childcare<br>(UK)<br>Cash Flow Statement<br>for the year ended 31 Ilarch 2023|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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||||6|6|
|Cash generated<br>from operations|||||
|Operating<br>(loss/profit|||(54,712)|6,761|
|Reconciliation<br>to cash generated<br>from operations:|||||
|Depreciation|||7,168|7,976|
|Loss on disposal offixed assets||||361|
|(Increase) /decrease<br>in debtors|||4,132|(4,189)|
|Increase /(decrease)<br>in creditors|||(575)|1,536|
|Net cash flow from operating<br>activities|||(43,987)|12,445|
|Cash from investing<br>activi1ies|||||
|Purchase of tangible fixed assets|||(7,863)<br>~7.863)|(9,885)<br> ~(B,SS5|
|Net (decrease)/increase<br>in cash|||(51,850)|2,560|
|Cash at bank and in hand less overdrafts|at|1 April|184,295|181,735|
|Cash at bank and in hand less overdrafts||at 31 March|132,445|184,295|
|Cash and cash equivalents<br>consists of:|||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||NCC - Higher|Needs Funding||(restricted)|||18,048|18,048|25,746|
||Fundraising|& Other income||||4,692||4,692|3,117|
|||||||4,692|18,048|22,740|28,863|
|3|Income from|Charitable|Activities|||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
|||||||||8|6|
||Fees - Headlands<br>(incl. Cedar|||Rd &|LEA)|717,575||717,575|646,747|
||Welfare<br>Milk|Reimbursement||(restdcted)|||1,324|1,324|618|
|||||||717,575|1,324|718,899|647,365|
|4|Expenditure|||||||||
|||||||Unrestricted|Restricted|2023|2022|
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||Staff Costs|||||616,288|18,048|634,336|525,166|
||Childcare<br>and Centre Facilities|||||71,473|1,324|72,797|63,312|
|||||||687,761|19,372|707,133|588,478|
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||Analysis ofSupport Costs incl. Governance|||||costs:||||
||Centre Running<br>Costs|||||80,062||80,062|70,222|
||Depreciation|||||7,168||7,168|7,978|
||Audit and Accountancy||(Governance||costs)|2,430<br>69,660||2,430<br>8,6|2,930|



|Total Resource|s Expended|||||||
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|||Fundraising||Activities|Other Costs|Total||
||||6|6||||
|Stsff Costs||||634,336|||634,336|
|Depreciation|||||7,168||7,168|
|Centre Running|Costs||||80,062||80,062|
|Other|||||2,430||75,227|
|2023Total||||707 133|89,660||796793|
|2022 Total||||588478|81,130||669608|





|Acorn Childcare<br>(UK)|Acorn Childcare<br>(UK)||Company|Registered|number|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Notes to the Accounts|||||4321656|
|for|the year ended 31 March 2023|||||
||||2023||2022|
||||f||6|
||Net income is stated after charging/(crediting):|||||
||Depreciation<br>ofowned fixed assets||7,168||7,978|
||Auditors<br>remuneration||||1,955|
||Accountancy,<br>taxation and other||2,430||975|
||||9,598||10,908|
|7|Staffcosts and employee|benefits|2023||2022|
||||6|||
||Wages and salaries<br>Social Security Costs||587,266<br>36,316||488,835<br>27,586|
||Pension costs||10,754||8,745|
||||634,336||525,166|



|The averag|e number ofemployees<br>and irust|ees<br>during the year was|as follows:|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||Total|FTE|Total|FTE|
|Employees <br>Governance|for charities activities<br>(Trustees)|34<br>3<br>37|25<br>0<br>25|32<br>3<br>35|21<br>0<br>21|





|S|Tangible fixed assets|Tangible fixed assets|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||Leasehold||||
||||Improve-||Fixtures S||
||||ments<br>6|Mobile<br>6|Fittings<br>6|Totalf|
||Cost||||||
||At 1 April 2022||30,685|78,000|85,692|194,377|
||Additions||||7,863|7,863|
||Disposals||||(5,033)|(5,033)|
||At 31 March 2023||30,685|78,000|88,522|197,207|
||Depreciation||||||
||At 1 April 2022||30,685|77,838|75,050|183,573|
||Charge for the year|||41|7 127|7 168|
||On disposais||||r5n33)|{5,033)|
||At 31 March 2023||30,685|77,879|77,144|185,708|
||Net book value||||||
||At 31 March 2023|||121|11,378|11,499|
||At 31 March 2022|||162|10,642|10,804|
|9|Debtors||||2023|2022|
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||Trade debtors||||7,642|10,343|
||Other debtors||||2,235|3,666|
||||||9,877|14,009|
|10|Creditors: amounts|falling due within one year|||2023|2022|
||||||6||
||Trade creditors||||1,969|2,735|
||Other taxes and social security costs||||8,984|6,640|
||Other creditors||||22,997|25,150|
||||||33,950|34,525|
|11|Analysis of Net Assets Between Funds||||||
|||||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|
|||||6|6|6|
||Tangible Fixed Assets|||11,499||11,499|
||Current Assets|||142,322||142,322|
||Current<br>Liabilities|||33,950||33,950)|
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||||1 April 2022<br>6|Resourcesf|Resources<br>6||31 March 2023|
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||Welfare<br>FoodffVlilk Reimbursement|||1,324|(1,324)|||
||Deprivation|||||||
||Higher Needs Funding|||18,048|18,048'I|||
|||||19,372|19,372|||
||Unrestricted:|||||||
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||Building reserve||30,000||||30,000|
||Critical wages cover||80,000||||80,000|
||General||64,583|722709|777,421||9,871|
||||174,583|722,709|777,421||119,871|
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|||2023|2022|
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|Incoming Resources||742,081|676,369|
|Resources Expended||||
|Childcare/Centre|Facilities|707,133|588,478|
|Centre Running<br>Gover -""-r"s'|and Maintenance|87,230<br>n AQn|78,200|
|Total Resources|Expended|796,793|669,608|
|Net Movement<br>in|Funds|(54,712|6,761|





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|Incoming Resources from Generated|||||Funds|||
|NCC- Higher Needs|Funding||(restricted)|||18,048|25,746|
|Income from Activities for||Generating||Funds: Fundraising||137|724|
|Investment<br>Income||||||442|141|
|Fees - Headlands<br>(incl. Cedar|||Rd &|LEA)||717,575|646,747|
|Welfare<br>Milk Reimbursement|||(restricted)|||1,324|618|
|Lher Income||||||4 555||
|||||||742,081|676,369|
|Cost ofCharitable|Activities|||||||
|Food and consumables||||||39,050|27,392|
|Trips, activities and playscheme||||costs||14,542|14,798|
|Toys, play equipment,<br>Postage||materials||||2,044<br>88|1,448<br>477|
|Empioyee costa<br>Wages and salaries||||||587,266|488,835|
|Pensions||||||10,754|8,745|
|Staff gifts<br>Employers<br>Nl<br>Subscriptions||||||1,240<br>36,316<br>4,396|2,578<br>27,586<br>5,338|
|Stationery<br>and printing||||||6,496|8,243|
|Telephone<br>and internet<br>Trainino costs||||||1,948<br>2.993|1,906<br>1.132|
|||||||707,133|588,478|
|Cleaning||||||16,793|14,507|
|Depreciation||||||7,168|7,978|
|Insurance||||||2,079|2,265|
|Light and heat||||||7,707|5,990|
|Repairs and maintenance||||||16,734|14,357|
|Rent||||||23,0nn|22,042|
|Rates||||||589|150|
|Motor and travel|expenses||||||23|
|Sundry expenses||||||8,047<br>82,117|6,112<br>73,785|
|Support Costs||||||||
|Professional<br>and|payroll bureau|||||2,594|2,389|
|Bank charges||||||1,362|1,336|
|Bad debts||||||1,157|690|
|||||||5,113|4,415|
|Governance<br>Costs||||||||
|Audit fees|||||||1,955|
|Accountancy fees||||||2,430|975|
|||||||2,430|2,930|



