## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 1[st] September 2022 To 31[st] August 2023** ## **Charity name: Noah’s Ark Nursery School** ## **Charity registration number: 1098007** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To deliver the Early Years Foundation
Stage, providing a framework for
learning, development, and care for
children from two to four plus years
old.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The Nursery’s role is to provide
nursery education to children from
the age of two. It is run for the beneft
of all members of the public and
subject to registered capacity (40 on
premises at any given time), it is
inclusive, that is, as far as the
facilities and expertise allows it, takes
all children.
The focus of the academic year was to
maintain excellence by:

Ensuring staf are well trained
and that they know about child
development and understand
the Foundation Stage
Curriculum.

Planning for each child’s
progress building on their
existing interests, abilities and
knowledge.

Improving our links with local
schools, families and the
appropriate local authority
organisations and agencies.

Maintaining our facilities to a
high standard.

Providing a social hub for both
children and their parents or
guardians.

Supporting and focusing on
children’s emotional health and
well-being.| |Statement confirming|Para 1.18|Noah’sArk Nurseryis a committee| whether the trustees have run, constitution-based charity had regard to the guidance registered with the Charity issued by the Charity Commission. The Trustees have the Commission on public responsibility for running the charity, benefit for its assets, finances and the employment of any staff and volunteers and to ensure compliance against the Charities Act 2011. ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|The Business
The number of children
has remained static.
Our Provision
We have continued to
ofer weekly Yoga, Magical Music and
Dance and Music with Simon which
we really feel has a huge beneft for
the children’s self-confdence and
attention and listening skills.
We have introduced Hugsy and Hoppy
home bags, these go home each
week with a diferent child and
parents can share what the toy has
done with the child. This has been
received well and the children enjoy
sharing this with their friends.
We have celebrated Chinese New
Year with a feast of noodles and rice
from a parent, Burns Nights with a
visit froma bagpipe player,| |Remembrance Day with a special| |---| |assembly at Wansdyke, Children in| |need where we dressed up and made| |cakes, World book day.| |We have had lots of special days| |nursery this year Clare from circus| |skills, Kris with his amazing creatures,| |Dave the Magician, The Fire Brigade,| |Sports Day, Hillworth park Picnic and| |hot chocolate visits, Drews pond| |walks.| |Our Staf
As in previous years our| |staf turnover has remained low. We| |continue to have two qualifed| |teachers. Training remains a priority| |with all staf having undergone some| |additional extracurricular training as| |well as core or mandatory skills in the| |year. With highlights being| |Safeguarding training in September| |and First Aid in February. Staf have| |then been independently training with| |Dingleys Promise & Five to Thrive| |training.| |Our Premises
This year the nursery| |replaced the outside surface with a| |new wet pour play surface.| |Our Equipment
Unserviceable| |equipment has been replaced as a| |matter of course. The nursery has| |purchased new resources which| |beneft the children, these include,| |weighing scales, water tables, sand| |timers and waterproofs.| |Our Parents and Carers
We have| |found our families to be very| |supportive throughout this year. We| |have welcomed parents onto our| |committee, and they have been| |infuential in fundraising for the| |setting, carrying out events such as| |wreath making, sponsored walk,| |Pamper and prosecco evening,| |photos, mother’s day fowers,| |infatable park, plant sale, rafe. We| |continue to use online emails and| |Facebook communication, this has| |proved particularly popular with our| |families. We have been using ‘survey| |monkey’ to gain feedback from our| |families, we have used this in our| |planning at the setting.| |Wehaveintroduced atermly stay and| |||play so that parents and carers can
share and join in with what the
children are doing at nursery.
The Community
The nursery
introduced a community library which
was funded mostly by a Tesco
community grant and has been a
huge success with the nursery
families and local residents, there is a
constant book exchange happening
which is lovely to facilitate.
The trustees would like to thank
members of our community who have
visited the setting providing
informative and entertaining talks and
advice given to the children. We
would also like to thank various
individuals and commercial
organisations whose donations of
consumables and rafe prizes for
nursery fundraising, they have been
greatly appreciated.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The nursery closed the year with total**
**cash funds of £64,592 resulting in a loss**
**of £7,198 which was due to the purchase**
**of the wet pour play surface.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The committee have decided that the**
**charity needs to hold reserves to cover**
**emergency situations such as urgent**
**property repairs and redundancies.**
**Money is now being ringfenced due to**
**the council’s notification that Nursery**
**building is to be replaced within the next**
**10 years.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£21,000 Property repairs and**
**redundancies**
**£20,000 New building**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**Nil**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Our source of funds this year has been**
**from Local Entitlement Grant Funding**
**£127,524 and Fees from our non-funded**
**children £33,494 Further amounts were**
**received through fundraising £5885**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Constitution adopted 2008**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Association consisting of 40 plus**
**members**| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Elected by member annually**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|
Para 1.51|
**Current policies are in place and**
**updated annually. DBS checks are**
**carried out on staff and committee**
**members prior to employment or**
**commencement of trusteeship.**
**Committee meetings have resumed to**
**face-to-face.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Noah’s Ark Nursery is a member of the**
**Early Years Alliance.**| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**All trustees and other committee**
**members give their time voluntarily and**
**receive no remuneration or other**
**benefits.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Noah’s Ark Nursery School| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1098007| |Charity’s principal address|Downlands Road, Devizes Wiltshire SN10 5EF| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Carrie Dolan|Chairperson||| ||Nick Paget|Vice Chairperson||| ||Zoe Stevenson|Treasurer||| ||Helen Pougher|Secretary||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved ## **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** H.Pougher **Signature(s)** Z.Stevenson Helen Pougher **Full name(s)** Zoe Stevenson **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer Secretary **Chair, etc)** **Date** 22/02/2024 **Charity Name No (if any) Noah' Ark Nursery School 1098007** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Sep-22 31-Aug-23 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** **Unrestricted Restricted Endowment funds funds funds** **Total funds Last year** **to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £** ## **A1 Receipts** |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |LOCAL AUTHORITY GRANTS|**127,524**||**-**||**-**||**127,524**||**85,323**|| |NON GRANT FUNDED CHILD FEES|**33,494**||**-**||**-**||**33,494**||**41,474**|| |FUNDRAISING|**5,885**||**-**||**-**||**5,885**||**5,188**|| |OTHER|**4,150**||**-**||**-**||**4,150**||**10,664**|| |INTEREST/CREDITS ON BANK A/CS|**328**||**-**||**-**||**328**||**7**|| |GRANTS|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**171,381**
||**-**||**-**||**171,381**||**142,656**|| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |LOCAL AUTHORITY GRANTS|**127,524**||**-**||**-**
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**-**|**127,524**||**85,323**| |NON GRANT FUNDED CHILD FEES|**33,494**||**-**|||**33,494**||**41,474**| |FUNDRAISING|**5,885**||**-**|||**5,885**||**5,188**| |OTHER|**4,150**||**-**|||**4,150**||**10,664**| |INTEREST/CREDITS ON BANK A/CS|**328**||**-**|||**328**||**7**| |GRANTS|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**171,381**
||**-**|||**171,381**||**142,656**| |**-**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 171,381**
**A3 Payments**
STAFF SALARIES
**118,436**
TAX & NAT. INSURANCE
**13,289**
ACTIVITIES & MATERIALS
**18,521**
PREMISES
**14,679**
ADMINISTRATION
**1,665**
BANK CHARGES
**60**
PENSION
**4,414**
BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTS
**2,021**
TRAINING
**1,133**
UNIFORM
**674**
OTHER
**3,687**
**_Sub total_ 178,579**
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**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 178,579**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 7,198**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**71,790**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 64,592**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||**-**
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**171,381**
**118,436**
**13,289**
**18,521**
**14,679**
**1,665**
**60**
**4,414**
**2,021**
**1,133**
**674**
**3,687**
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**178,579**
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**-**|**118,436**||**79,580**| |||||||**13,289**||**199**| |||||||**18,521**||**14,190**| |||||||**14,679**||**10,612**| |||||||**1,665**||**1,774**| |||||||**60**||**75**| |||||||**4,414**||**2,627**| |||||||**2,021**||**824**| |||||||**1,133**||**1,037**| |||||||**674**||**1,126**| |||||||**3,687**||**2,217**| |||||||**-**||**-**| |||||||**178,579**||**114,261**| |||||||||| ||||||**-**
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**-**|**- 7,198**||**28,395**| ||||**-**|||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**|||**71,790**||**43,396**| ||||**-**|||**64,592**||**71,790**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Community a/c
Business a/c
Cash book
Expenses a/c
**Details**
**Details**
IT depreciating @25%
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Canopy, fixtures & fitting depreciating
@10% pa
Playground structures depreciating @10%
pa|**to nearest £**
**23,019**
**41,526**
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**64,592**
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**to nearest £**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
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**Endowment**
**funds**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||OK| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**17,730**| |||||**1,802**| |||||**473**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
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behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name
**ZOE STEVENSON**
**HELEN POUGHER**|Date of
approval| |---|---|---|---| |||**ZOE STEVENSON**|**10/3/2023**| |||**HELEN POUGHER**|**10/3/2023**| CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to thè tru8te•s NOAH'S ARK NURSERY SCHOOL On accounts for thè y•ar endod 31 AUGUST 2023 Charlty no (If any) 1098007 Sèt out on pagès I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above harity (Ihe Trust") for the year erKJed 3110812023. Rosponsibilllles and basis of report As Ihe charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Acl 2011 {"the Acr). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's a¢￿Unts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent I have completed my 8xamination. I confirm that no material matters have examlnefs statement come to my attention in connection with the examination {other than that disclosed below ') which giv8s me cause to believe that in. any material respect: the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records,. or the accounts did not Comply with the applicable requirements Con￿rning the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts glv8 a 'tru8 and fair, view which is not a mattèr considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be re8¢hed. Signed: Date: 0211112023 Namo: RACHEL PROTO Relevant professional quaiification(s) or body (If any): ICAEW IER Oct 2018 Address: 7-7c Snuff Street Deviz8S Wiltshire, SN10 1DU Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of con￿rn (see CC32, Independent examination of charty accounts: directions and guidance for examiners). Giv? here brlef detalls of any items that the èxaminer wishas to disclose. IER Oct 2018