At Noah’s we work hard to give all the children the best experiences in line with our ethos – enjoy, explore and engage. As well as following their interests we have also shown them Chinese new year by tasting food, burns night listening to bag pipes, Divali, making lanterns, euros having a football themed day, Kris the bug man, online storytelling from author Eileen Browne, Circus skills, music with Jean and Simon, Yoga with Max, Police, Dentist, Optician visit, Santa visit. We help the children to care and observe nature, growing vegetables and flowers, caring for the rabbits and guinea pig and watching tadpoles and butterflies grow.
We go on many visits to Drews pond, Hillworth park and local parks, the fruit bowl, library, Tonka bean. To Wansdyke for remembrance and the nativity. This year our termly stay and plays have been a great success, well attended and accessible to more families with the change of time and day. We have celebrated special days around Mother’s and Father’s day and we had a super sports day.
The community library continues to prove popular with new and old families of Noah’s,
Thank you to Carrie for her constant support as chair, Nick as vice chair and Zoe as treasurer, it is great to know that we have such wonderful Trustees looking out for us and helping us. Helen as secretary making sure that we are all correctly checked and paperwork sorted.
Thank you to our parents Claire, Chloe, Ellen and Kathie for input on policies, Ofsted prep and suggestions on ideas or feedback it is all greatly appreciated. To the fundraising team who have helped with various events throughout the year and have raised over £3000.
Thank you to the staff for their hard work, patience and faith in my ideas/projects/plans usually one a week! We have a great team and the dedication to the children's learning and development is brilliant.
In the summer we said farewell to 21 school leavers and two 2 year olds to other nurseries. Always sad to say goodbye but we were confident these children were ready for their next adventures.
With all our children we treat them uniquely where additional support is identified we work in partnership with the family hub, integrated front door, Portage, the opportunity group, health visitors, speech and language therapists, early years teachers and early years inclusion officers.
We support families that need extra help with clothing, food, lunches even on occasions extra sessions.
Staff training is key to continual support for children so we have all done Dingley’s promise this is a 5 module course to support all children but more inclusive to children with special educational needs.
This has changed some of the ways we interact with the children, how we communicate with parents, what resource is we have added and which activities we choose to offer.
This year we planned to continue developing our inclusive practise and have booked for all staff to refresh and enhance their Makaton training.
We have been preparing for Ofsted now for some time, but we will continue to do so to ensure we can showcase all the great things we offer our children and families.
No day is the same at Noah's and some days can be quite tricky but there are the most special moments which my team and I are able to share with the children which make it the most rewarding and worthwhile job.
**Charity Name No (if any) Noah's Ark Nursery School 1098007**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Sep-23 31-Aug-24
## **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||**137,804**||**-**||**-**||**137,804**||**127,524**||
|NON GRANT FUNDED CHILD FEES||**26,084**||**-**||**-**||**26,084**||**33,494**||
|FUNDRAISING||**4,474**||**-**||**-**||**4,474**||**5,885**||
|OTHER||**1,002**||**-**||**-**||**1,002**||**4,150**||
|INTEREST/CREDITS ON BANK A/CS||**810**||**-**||**-**||**810**||**328**||
|GRANTS||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**170,174**
||**-**||**-**||**170,174**||**171,381**||
|||||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **||**170,174**||**-**||**-**||**170,174**||**171,381**||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|STAFF SALARIES||**114,057**||**-**||**-**||**114,057**||**118,436**||
|TAX & NAT. INSURANCE||**782**||**-**||**-**||**782**||**13,289**||
|ACTIVITIES & MATERIALS||**12,415**||**-**||**-**||**12,415**||**18,521**||
|PREMISES||**13,232**||**-**||**-**||**13,232**||**14,679**||
|ADMINISTRATION||**4,555**||**-**||**-**||**4,555**||**1,665**||
|BANK CHARGES||**60**||**-**||**-**||**60**||**60**||
|PENSION||**4,207**||**-**||**-**||**4,207**||**4,414**||
|BOOKKEEPING & ACCOUNTS||**1,706**||**-**||**-**||**1,706**||**2,021**||
|TRAINING||**1,906**||**-**||**-**||**1,906**||**1,133**||
|UNIFORM||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**674**||
|OTHER||**1,336**||**-**||**-**||**1,336**||**3,687**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **||**154,256**||**-**||**-**||**154,256**||**178,579**||
|||||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**_Sub total_ **||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Total payments_ **||**154,256**||**-**||**-**||**154,256**||**178,579**||
|||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **||**15,918**||**-**||**-**||**15,918**||**- 7,198**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**64,592**||**-**||**-**||**64,592**||**71,790**||
|**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**80,510**||**-**||**-**||**80,510**||**64,592**||
## **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 £**
**38,081**
**42,336**
**93**
**80,510**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**|**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
||||||
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**15,958**|
|||||**1,622**|
|||||**1,789**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
||||**-**||
|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name
**ZOE STEVENSON**
**HELEN POUGHER**|Date of
approval|
|---|---|---|---|
|||**ZOE STEVENSON**|**10/1/2024**|
|||**HELEN POUGHER**|**10/1/2024**|
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees** Charity Name NOAH’S ARK NURSERY SCHOOL **On accounts for the year** 31 AUGUST 2024 **Charity no** 1098007 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1-2 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2024. **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** 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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
- **Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
- **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives 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 concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have no concerns 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 reached.
**Signed: Name:** RACHEL PROTO **Relevant professional** ICAEW **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Date:** 10/10/2024
**Oct 2018**
1
**IER**
**Address:** 7-7c Snuff Street Devizes Wiltshire, SN10 1DU
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**Oct 2018**
2
**IER**