
## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** 


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Section A                        Reference and administration details 

> **Charity name SUN BEAMS DELAPRE PRE-SCHOOL Other names charity is known by** SUN BEAMS **Registered charity number (if any) 1106721 Charity's principal address** c/o Delapre Primary School 

Rothersthorpe Road Northampton **Postcode NN4 8JA** 

## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** 


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Dates acted if not for whole  Name of person (or body) entitled<br>Trustee name  Office (if any)<br>year to appoint trustee (if any)<br>1 Nichola Windle<br>2 Sharon Halford<br>3 Carol Halford<br>4 Michelle Leach<br>5<br>6<br>7<br>8<br>**----- End of picture text -----**<br>


## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** 


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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** 


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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** 

N/A 

## **Section B              Structure, governance and management** 

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## **Description of the charity’s trusts** 

- Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) 

How the charity is constituted 

**Constitution** 

**Trust** 

- (eg. trust, association, company) 

Trustee selection methods 

**Elected By Parents** 

- (eg. appointed by, elected by) 

## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 

- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; 

- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; 

- relationship with any related parties; 

**Relationship with related parties** 

Sun Beams was established in 2004. We operate within the grounds of Delapre Primary School. We have very close links with Delapre Primary school. 

**Risk Management** 

The major risks to the Pre-school have been reviewed, and systems established to manage those risks. 

- The adequacy of the systems is kept under review in the light of changing circumstances. 

To help mitigate risk, the Trustees take full responsibility for strategic planning, budgeting, and appropriate financial control for the Pre-school. 

- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. 

## **Section C                    Objectives and activities** 

To enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the **Summary of the objects of the** activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer **charity set out in its** opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, **governing document** means or ability; 

b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and the recognition of such needs in the local areas; 

c) instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-School learning Alliance 

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## **Charitable activities** 

Sun Beams offers full day care, incorporating pre-school, breakfast and after school clubs operating from a rented purpose built facility within the grounds of Delapre School. 

Our Breakfast Club and After School Club are valuable assets which are designed to help families to balance their work and family commitments, whilst knowing their children are safe and cared for on the school site. 

**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)** 

Encouraging Learning and Development for each individual child has been a high priority this year. The staff team have concentrated hard on individualising our planning to ensure that key workers produce individualised planning for their key children based on observations. We have continued to work hard on developing good relationships with parents and carers. We have maintained the termly Parent Chat Times to keep parents well-informed of their child's progress and allow them to view and contribute to their children's learning journeys. 

## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** 

## **Aims and objectives** 

- We would like to send more staff on continuing professional development through a number of different courses that interest the staff and improve the setting for families that use it. 

- We aim to provide 2 years old funding to ensure a good start to education for all. 

You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: 

- policy on grantmaking; 

- policy programme related investment; 

- contribution made by volunteers. 

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Section D                      Achievements and performance 

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## Section D                      Achievements and performance 

Sun Beams have 69 children on the books for the pre-school, 25 for the **Summary of the main** after school club and the breakfast club is a drop in service which takes **achievements of the charity** between 10-20 children per morning. **during the year** The Pre-School has an enthusiastic and committed staff, led by two Managers who are level 5 trained and two supervisors, both holding appropriate NVQ Level 4 qualifications. During the year they were supported by 11 other staff members, who all have wide experience in childcare and hold childcare qualifications at various levels. 2 staff on level 4, 6 staff on Level 3 ,1 staff on Level 2 and 1 apprentice. We have provided numerous placements for students from Northampton College who are studying for NVQs in Childcare. Placements are three months long and students are provided with a valuable opportunity for experience and support from Sun Beams staff. We have purchased new equipment and toys in order to improve the resources available to the children attending sessions. The Pre-School and After School Club have enjoyed many activities and parents were also invited which help to maintain good links with the practitioners. Sun Beams has also been involved in different fundraising activities. 

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## **Section E                    Financial review** 

## **Reserves policy** 

## **Brief statement of the** 

**charity’s policy on reserves** 

**Details of any funds materially in deficit** 

Financially this year Sun Beams made a deficit for the year ended 31 March 2023. 


## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** 

You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: 

The charity’s main source of funding continues to be Government Funding for 2, 3 and 4 year olds. 

- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); 

- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; 

- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. 

## **Section F                     Other optional information** 

N/A 

## **Section G                    Declaration** 

**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** 

**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** 

**Signature(s)** S.HALFORD 

**Full name(s)** SHARON HALFORD 

**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Trustee **etc)** 

**Date** 24/01/24 

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||**SUN BEAMS PRE-SCHOOL**|**SUN BEAMS PRE-SCHOOL**|**SUN BEAMS PRE-SCHOOL**|**SUN BEAMS PRE-SCHOOL**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**<br>**from**|1st April<br>2022|**To**|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|**A1 Receipts**<br>SESSION FEES<br>**59,982**<br>GOVERNMENT FUNDING<br>**184,187**<br>OTHER<br>**500**<br>BANK INTEREST<br>**244,670**<br>**_Sub total_**<br>**_Total receipts_                244,670**<br>**A3 Payments**<br>BANK CHARGES<br>**360**<br>INSURANCE<br>**697**<br>HMRC<br>**23,614**<br>OTHER EXPENSES<br>**3,136**<br>PHONE BILLS<br>**963**<br>RENT<br>**10,000**<br>TRAINING<br>**1,105**<br>TOYS<br>**1,165**<br>WAGES<br>**182,189**<br>CLEANING<br>**492**<br>BUISNESS RATES<br>**1,306**<br>COOLERAID<br>**609**<br>ESPO<br>**3,677**<br>FOOD<br>**2,617**<br>EQUIPMENT<br>**2,709**<br>LEGAL FEES<br>**-**<br>STATIONERY<br>**535**<br>PENSION<br>**9,459**<br>SUBSCRIPTIONS AND REGISTRATION<br>**2,006**<br>REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE<br>**2,038**<br>FEES REFUNDED<br>**403**<br>LOAN REPAYMENT<br>**5,476**<br>**_Sub total_                   254,553**<br>**_Sub total_**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**to the nearest      £**<br>**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_<br>**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**<br>**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**to the nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|**Total funds**<br>**to the nearest £**|**Last year**<br>**to the nearest £**|
|SESSION FEES|||**-**|**59,982**<br>**184,187**<br>**500**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**244,670**|**46,005**|
|GOVERNMENT FUNDING|||**-**||**169,821**|
|OTHER|||**-**||**1,500**|
|BANK INTEREST|||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**-**||**217,326**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**<br>**(see table).**||||||
|||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||
||||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_ **<br>**A3 Payments**||||||
|||**-**|**-**|**244,670**|**217,326**|
|||||||
|BANK CHARGES||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|**360**<br>**697**<br>**23,614**<br>**3,136**<br>**963**<br>**10,000**<br>**1,105**<br>**1,165**<br>**182,189**<br>**492**<br>**1,306**<br>**609**<br>**3,677**<br>**2,617**<br>**2,709**<br>**-**<br>**535**<br>**9,459**<br>**2,006**<br>**2,038**<br>**403**<br>**5,476**<br>**254,553**|**360**|
|INSURANCE|||**-**||**658**|
|HMRC|||**-**||**20,252**|
|OTHER EXPENSES|||**-**||**3,933**|
|PHONE BILLS|||**-**||**1,051**|
|RENT|||**-**||**10,000**|
|TRAINING|||**-**||**1,068**|
|TOYS|||**-**||**2,603**|
|WAGES|||||**169,419**|
|CLEANING|||||**674**|
|BUISNESS RATES|||||**333**|
|COOLERAID|||||**553**|
|ESPO|||||**3,164**|
|FOOD|||||**2,383**|
|EQUIPMENT|||||**3,162**|
|LEGAL FEES|||||**35**|
|STATIONERY|||||**1,020**|
|PENSION|||||**7,614**|
|SUBSCRIPTIONS AND REGISTRATION|||||**1,197**|
|REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE|||||**1,437**|
|FEES REFUNDED|||||**246**|
|LOAN REPAYMENT|||**-**||**4,188**|
|**_Sub total_ **|||**-**||**235,350**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**<br>**purchases, (see table)**||||||
|||**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**||
||||**-**|||
|**_Sub total_**|||**-**||**-**|



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|**_Total payments_**<br>**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**<br>**A5 Transfers between funds**<br>**A6 Cash funds last year end**<br>**_Cash funds this year end_**|**254,553**|**-**|**-**|**254,553**|**235,350**|
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||**-                 9,883**<br>**58,114**<br>  **48,231**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|**-                 9,883**<br>**58,114**<br>**48,231**|**-              18,024**|
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Categories**<br>**B1 Cash funds**<br>**B2 Other monetary assets**<br>**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**<br>Signed by one or two trustees on<br>behalf of all the trustees|**Details**<br>Cash at Bank<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>**Details**<br>Signature<br>**_Total cash funds_**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**to nearest £**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**to nearest £**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|||**48,231**|**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**|**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**48,231**||**-**|
|||OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||OK|
|||||**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**|
|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
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|||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|||||**-**<br>|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
|||||**-**|
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|||**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinèr's Report
Report to the trusteosl
members of
SUN BEAMS DELAPRE PRE-SCHOOL
On accounts for the year
ended
31st March 2023
Charity no
(if any}
1106721
Set out on pages
1106
I report to the trustees on my examination of the aco)unts of the above
charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended 3110312023.
Responsibilities and As the tharity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for th8 preparation
basls of report of th6 accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 (Ihe Acri.
I repori in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried OLrt
under section 145 of Ihe 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I
have folbwed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Cornmission
under section 14515Xb) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. l (x)nfirm that no material matters have
come to my atienlion (other than that disclosed below ') in connection with
th8 examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any malerial
spectr.
accx)unting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord the accounting re￿rdS
Independent
examiner's statement
I have no concems and hav8 (x)rne across TK) 0th8r mattgrs in connection
with Ihe examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enablè a
proper understanding of Ihe accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brack8ts if they do not apply.
Signed:
Dato:
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Nam&:
Relèvant professional
qualification{s) or body
(rf any):
ACCA - PA-2T L4
Address:
2S WEgfBuRY CLDSE
Nori Iwl
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October 2018