| # ~ Footprints Pre-school Playgroup Independent Examiner’s Report 2024 , 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 Footprints Pre-sfthool Playgroup On accounts for the year ended 31st August 2024 Charity no (if any) 1091298 Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended 31108 12024. 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 1a5(5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention 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. Signed: Date: th 27 June 2025 Name: Scott Canning MAAT Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Association of Accounting Technicians Address: 10 Meadow Street, Avonmouth Bristol BS119AR IER October 2018 **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |ae?|FOR ENGLAND AND WALES| |Receipts|and|payments|accounts|CC16a| |For the period|Period|start|date|T|Period|end|date| |from|01/09/2023|°|31/08/2024| |Section|A|Receipts|and|payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment|Li| |funds|funds|funds|Total funds|ast year| |to the|poorest|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |Ai|Receipts| |Wificontribution[Feesfromparents,CTCi‘|(SCSC*‘( CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 27/06/2025 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unrestrlcted Restrf¢ted funds fund8 to neargst £ to nearest £ Endowment funds to nearost £ Categories Detslls 81 Cash funds Cash al Bank- Cum a¢xounl 33.625 Cash at Bank. Savings account 10.293 Total cash funds 43.918 18grtt tslanc18￿ rtt•lO$ End paynwrds OK OK Endowment funds to nearest £ Restrlcted fund8 lo nearest£ Details to neamt£ Fund to whlch •$￿t balon Curront value onal Detalls Cogt loptlonall B3 Inv•stment a88ets Fund to a$8et belon tyetails Various play equipm8nL and office eqLnFrnt retained by the pre-school. Cost (optlonall Cumnt valua lonal B4 Assets retalned for the charlty's own use Fund towhl¢h rolat88 Amount du• onal When due tjonal Detsils BS Llabllltles Signed by one or two truslees on behaff of all the trustees Slgnature PTlnl Name Date of roval Samantha Day 1710612025 CCXX R3 accwnts (SS) 2710612025 ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date ~~ay~~ **From** Day 1 Month Sept Year 2023 **To** Day 31 Month Aug Year 2024 Section A Reference and administration details ~~a~~ Footprints Pre-school Playgroup **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1091298 ~~[si‘i‘s*zCY~~ **Charity's principal address** The Mustard Tree Community Church Watsons Road Longwell Green **Postcode BS30 9DW** **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** **Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any)** ~~es~~ **year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Malcolm Gaywood Chair ~~ee en~~ 2 Samantha Da ~~a~~ y Treasurer ~~esGs~~ 3 Anita Morley Secretary ~~es~~ 4 L ~~a~~ ynne Hambury Member 5 Rachel Hambury Member ~~es~~ 6 Abbe ~~a~~ y Smart Member 7 Sam Crump Member ~~rs~~ 8 Julia Russell Admissions ~~ee~~ 9 Jennie Skelton Member ~~ee rsPs~~ 10 Katie Stewart Fundraising ~~es nn Sn~~ Policies and 11[Doug Campbell ] procedures ~~ee eeee~~ 12 Christina Gillard Member ~~es es~~ 13 ~~es~~ 14 ~~es re~~ 15 ~~rs~~ 16 ~~es re nn~~ 17 ~~rs~~ 18 ~~es re nn~~ 19 ~~rs~~ 20 ~~es rn nn~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** ||**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**| |---|---|---| ||Malcolm Gaywood|| March **2012** **TAR** 1 Samantha Day ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||| ||||| |**Section B**|**Structure,**|**governance and management**|| ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Committee-run How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) New committee members are elected by existing committee members Trustee selection methods during the Annual general Meeting held in September. (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Safeguarding policies and Whistle-blowing policies in place. You **may choose** to include Disclosure and Barring Services checks carried out on all prospective additional information, where committee members after completion of Ofsted’s EY2 form. relevant, about: Footprints Pre-school Playgroup is a member of the Preschool Learning Alliance. - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; All Committee members give their time voluntarily, receiving no remuneration or other benefits. - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider All essential policies and procedures are reviewed annually to ensure they network with which the charity are meeting the legal requirements and needs of the setting. Footprints works; other policies and procedures that reflect good practice are reviewed - • relationship with any related every two years. parties; - • trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|To enhance the development and education of children aged 3-5 years
by:
Encouraging families to understand and provide for their children’s needs
through community groups.
Offering play, education and care regardless of race, culture, religion,
means or ability.
Instigating and adhering to furthering the aims and objectives of the
Preschool Learning alliance.| |---|---| ||Footprints Preschool Playgroup Committee governs in accordance with
the charity commissions guidance on public benefit.
The focus of all activities is the well-being, care and education of the
children and supporting their families.
Children attending the preschool are encouraged to reach their full
potential in all areas of development including social, physical, emotional,
creative, language, numeracy and knowledge and understanding of their
immediate community and environment, as well as the wider world.
Families are supported in the care of education of their children by
involving them, giving information and signposting other support
agencies. The five-hour sessions also give parents/carers time to
undertake employment. We actively encourage family members to stay
and play to get a feel for how the sessions operate and to observe their
child’s interaction with the staff and their peers.
The SENCO works with the staff to identify and support children with
additional needs and liaises with external bodies for advice and, where
possible, additional funding to further support SEND children both in the
current setting and also going forward into Primary School.
The committee have been actively fundraising again this year holding
various fundraising events (see below for further information)| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. ## Section D Achievements and performance March **2012** **TAR** 4 Section D Achievements and performance Due to the amazing work the committee do to raise funds for Footprints, **Summary of the main** we have been able to continue to provide the children with new **achievements of the charity** experiences. We visited the local farm for our annual summer trip, **during the year** paying for entry and activities to complete whilst there. We walk to a local green space and observe the changes to the trees as the seasons change, and we go blackberry picking locally. We often enjoy a snack picnic whilst there and purchase the other ingredients to provide the children with the experience of cooking (Blackberry crumble). We have also baked ginger bread men, an extension activity, following on from reading the story and have the interactive story. We have built a relationship with the local care home for the elderly and visited them to sing songs and they have come to see our Nativity play and join in with some of our sessions. This is a lovely experience for the children and the residents of the care home. We have been able to purchase some new Tablets and other ICT equipment to allow children to develop skills in IT and to learn about how things work. We were able to purchase the resources needed to allow some of our fabulous committee members to build us a new sand pit. This allows more children to experience sand play and allows the staff to extend their learning using this. We are able to continue to provide the children with a wide range of new and popular food choices during snack. They are given the opportunity to try some unusual foods during different festivals e.g. lychee/fortune cookies during ‘Chinese new year’. We have been able to purchase the different resources needed to provide craft activities and sensory experiences. We have found that in recent years more children are sensory seeking and have invested in making a better ‘regulation zone’ for these children to ‘self regulate’ using sensory toys/ tools (including a tepee tent, gym ball, wobble cushions, weighted toys, textured toys etc). We have purchased the caterpillars to allow the children to observe the lifecycle of the butterfly. We have purchased plants and seeds to allow children the opportunity to understand growth and caring for living things. Staff have been able to access training courses to provide extra support to children with their different ways of learning. This is invaluable as children all learn and develop in different ways and we are able to use this training to try new strategies/ activities to suit a range of learning styles. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** The reserves held at the year end are kept in order to meet any **Brief statement of the** unforeseen expenditure e.g a large number of new admissions starting **charity’s policy on reserves** later in the year or redundancies, if needed. **Details of any funds materially** No funds are in deficit. **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** Footprints Pre-school Playgroups main source of funds is from the You **may choose** to include governments Free Entitlement and parents’ fees. additional information, where relevant about: - The committee also arrange several fundraising activities during the year: - • the charity’s principal a Christmas and summer fayre, raffle, virtual balloon race, an annual sources of funds (including party and clothes bag collections. any fundraising); - how expenditure has Most of the income is used to pay the running costs of the preschool. Extra is used to buy or renew resources for the children or held in order - supported the key objectives to meet unforeseen expenditure, as explained above. - of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** _S Day_ **Signature(s)** _M Gaywood_ Samantha Day **Full name(s)** Malcolm Gaywood **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair Treasurer **etc) Date** 17/06/2025 March **2012** **TAR** 6