## **Snowy’s Nursery and Pre-school Trustees Annual Report for the year ending 31[st] July 2023**
The Trustees of Snowy’s Nursery and Pre-school present their annual report and audited accounts for the year ended 31[st] July 2023 and confirm they comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 and the charities Constitution.
## **Our Objectives**
Snowy’s provides a friendly, safe and nurturing environment where children can play, learn and grow supported by a strong team of highly experienced staff who are passionate about working with young children in an Early Years setting. Snowy’s encourages and supports every child to acquire skills and experiences to prepare them throughout their learning journey.
Our aim is to provide a happy and stimulating environment by working together with the families to achieve the very best outcomes for the children and to advance the education and early years development of nursery and pre-school children with the emphasis on learning through play.
We provide a wide range of developmental and age-appropriate learning resources and stimulating, high-quality toys and activities, with a strong focus on outdoor learning and play. We also ensure that children have a varied and healthy diet, fresh air, exercise, rest and play, contributing to their physical, emotional and educational development.
## **Learning Opportunities and Activities**
Snowy’s offers activities designed to enhance the learning, individual needs and stages of development for each child. Our highly qualified and dedicated staff ensure the curriculum is based on each child’s interests, needs and abilities that follows the framework of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). This year we covered topics including all about me, celebrations, people in our community, how do things grow, patterns and colours and the world around us.
Our home learning programme provides the opportunity for children and their families to learn together. We provide reading books for all children to take home, each child has the chance to look after the class teddy and we provide an overview of the learning topics for each half term so families can continue to support their child’s learning.
Our enclosed garden area creates experiences for children to discover the outside world every day in all weathers and seasons while benefiting from an abundance of fresh air. Learning opportunities are endless; growing vegetables in our sensory garden and using natural materials such as sand, mud and water to promote discovery and imaginative play in our mud kitchen area.
We offered extra-curricular activities including cooking, baking and gardening and also welcomed weekly visits from local organisations to carry out activities such as yoga, sports and music classes as part of our health and wellbeing programme. Along with a visit to the local church for a Nativity service in December and regular visits to Brundall Primary School in the summer term, we also organised a day trip to Thrigby Hall Zoo.
As a charity, we rely on fundraising to help raise money to buy additional resources and equipment. This year we were able to enrich their learning with new resources to support our wellbeing programme including gardening, dance, yoga and cooking resources.
## **Financial**
Snowy's reserves policy is to hold funds equivalent to two months' worth of operating expenditure to help the charity run effectively and ensure we can meet our obligations and cover unexpected expenses. An annual finance audit was carried out by the Treasurer and signed off in September 2023.
## **Future Plans**
The Trustees continue to review the quality of the learning, development, and safety of the children by supporting continuous personal development of all staff, maintenance of the premises and ensure that the curriculum meets the Early Years Foundation Stage statutory framework. The Trustees need to maintain a sound infrastructure and financial base that benefits the children today and in the future.
**Trustees Appointed** Gillian Eileen Buckley 31[st] May 2019 Luke Prest 20[th] November 2019 Sarah Gabillia 11[th] May 2021 Dr Katy-Anne Moseley 13[th] July 2021 Adrian Edward Richard Moseley 27[th] March 2022 Michaela Rowell 22[nd] May 2022 Michael Wyatt 23[rd] February 2023 Vicki Webb 1[st] May 2023
There are currently 8 Trustees who are elected by members at AGM or co-opted by trustees as necessary. The trustees are parents or carers of children attending Snowy’s and associate members from the wider community.
## **Contact Details**
Snowy’s Nursery and Pre-school 2 Braydeston Avenue, Brundall NR13 5JX www.snowys.org
Charity registration number: 1101658
Business Manager Sarah Harman Pre-school Manager Abigail Goodrum
|**Snowy's Nursery and Pre-school**||**1101658**||
|---|---|---|---|
|**Receipts and payments accounts**|||**CC16a**|
|01/08/2022
**For the period**
**from**|**To**|31/07/2023||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,512**
**139,798**
**376**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**148,686**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**148,686**
**8,888**
**23,437**
**102,379**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,704**
**13,982**
**-**
**9,054**
**23,036**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**8,512**
**139,798**
**376**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**148,686**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**148,686**
**8,888**
**23,437**
**102,379**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,704**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**134,704**
**13,982**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations and Grants|**8,512**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**4,556**|
|Funding|**139,798**||||**132,542**|
|Other Services|**376**||||**227**|
|Loans|**-**||||**6,000**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|
**148,686**||||**143,325**|
|||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||
||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|||
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||
||||**-**||**143,325**|
|||||||
|
UtilityCosts|**8,888**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**7,279**|
|Administration Costs|**23,437**||||**43,316**|
|Staff Costs|**102,379**||||**101,785**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**134,704**||||**152,380**|
|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**||||||
|**,**|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|||
||**-**|||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||
||||**-**||**152,380**|
|||||||
||**13,982**||
**-**||**- 9,055**|
||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**9,054**|**-**|
||**9,054**||||**-**|
||**23,036**||
**-**|**23,036**|**- 9,055**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
13/02/2024
1
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Cash in bank
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
K Moseley
Signature
G Buckley|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**23,036**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**23,036**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
G Buckley
K Moseley|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
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**(optional)**|
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**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
||G Buckley|G Buckley|25/09/2023|
||K Moseley|K Moseley|25/09/2023|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
13/02/2024
2
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Snowy’s Nursery and Pre-School **On accounts for the year** 31 July 2023 **Charity no** 1101658 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** 1 & 2 I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/07/2023. **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 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. 25
**Date:** 30 October 2023 **Signed: Name:** Grant Nurden **Relevant professional** Fellow of the Association of International Accountants **qualification(s) or body: Address:** 108 Lackford Close Brundall
## **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** None **any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .