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Rainbow Pre-school (Stansted)
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Rain￿ Prethsehwl IStsn8tedl
Directors, Report forthe Ywar EDded 31 August 2025
directo￿ prexM thrlrrtwrt￿d IhE knithEyeai endEd 31 August 2025.
Dirrrtan Dfthr cathPXDy
The directors held offKe duringtheyeuwereg&fo11ows'.
CY H￿Y ItttAsed 20 May 20251
OMPur8glove
JrsJenny Cl&ire R￿&In- Direcloyl8pw￿ted & July 20251
MsNiLolaFenwck- 20 ¥f&y20251
Mr5Ali5on Cullinwtth- DJr¢rtOTlappoinTcd 20 May2029 ￿nd¢eaSed 12 February20261
MsLoYrtine Hayes- Dire£torl&ppoint*lB July 20251
Prin￿￿1 art￿ltY
Th¢princip&l activity ofthe comp4Thy ￿ pr￿￿1¢dUC￿￿on
Small ¢ompRniey pro￿si￿n nwleinellt
h&s btett prepare41 ih xcordwt with the ipttial p[tsvis￿ relalJJ¥ to tothwits subjttt to the
s￿￿11 cornpani¢s wthin Part IS ofthecompanics Act 2006.
Apptoved4Thla￿￿￿riSed bythe Bo&rdon
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Chartered C¢rtifKd At¢ouDt*Thti' Report io the BDard of Director5 thE PrepAration
of the IlnRudit¢d Statutory Accounts ol
Rainbow Pre-S¢boDI IStsD$t*411
for tbt Year Ended 31 August 2025
In orderto aSSi5t you lo fulfil your d￿leS the Compthies Act 2QQ6. we havc PTqwrd Èppytsv
thr ofRwrtbtsw Pr￿sC￿L Isla￿ed) foF the y¢Ar ¢nd¢d.11 Ausust 2015 os set on pages 4 to I I
rtom the wmpany'g a¢￿￿￿tin8TtcDr￿ artd fr4m i￿[￿J￿￿￿tIon and explanations you haW¢gi￿￿ US.
A5 member firni ofthe ASS￿1￿11￿￿ orchart￿dCNIlr1t￿ At£ounLILlts.we aTesubJe￿tO its rthi
other prof¢s&ional rcqiiircmrnt5 whiih 4¢£de￿Ie￿ at
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This rep)rt is mEde solcly tt)th¢ Bo￿d0{D]rtttts￿ ofRaiMbow PrtrSCh￿R IStsn5trdl. body. In actoYd￿Qe
th the itrtjts of our ettgagement Icttcr. h85 bcEn urtdetljknll solely to prepare foryour apptovql Ihr
account5 of Rainbow PrpSEhtstsl Islthstedl slld stale Iho8e martets that w¢ h3vE sL4te to Ilie Board of
DircttDrS ofRaiMbow P￿$¢￿1 IS*Th51¢Jl. bTrdy, in this rtport In accordaThce with Ihe reqUi￿rryts of Iht
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r¢5ppn4ibLlily Its otherthaTh Rainbow Pr￿sCh￿l ISw51Edl And Its BDard of Direclot5a5 abpdy
forouy work or for1h￿ r¢port.
11 Is your duty lo ensur¢ thal R?inbow Prt-scknul {StsILisI￿l kn kepi adEqUatr xwunliTh¥ ie¢oYds And lo
prcpaic X¥kntOry *cQ4)unls that 8ive a tnic and faIr￿¢W Df thr w55¢rk liabilll1￿ rjra￿1)I ￿l5]tIon profit or
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dn iequircrncnl fortheye
I't havt nDI t¢en iMslruc*d ￿ catry wdilor & review ofthe ofRalnbpwP￿-sC￿ooI Islanstedl.
Forths re￿n. we nDI v¢nfied Iht 3ccur&cy orcow1￿C￿c38 ofth¢ lttounling Ketords or infotmalion and
plwwliortsyou hgYeEiven ¢ou5 do Th)t. thtrtftstt. expyess any opinionon ih¢5fdtutory
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R*illbDW Pre-SclLooI ISthDstedl
Profrt L(w Attouut forth¢ Y¢ar Ended 31 August 2025
2￿1
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ThE aknveresults werederwed tonttnuin¥ OpU￿10n
ThEcothp3ny hos rtorttwlstd I￿n50r10¥s￿ foilhE yEarotherrflln the resuifs4bDVe.
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R*lnbtyw Pr¢-S¢h(￿l (Stallsteill
StAtsment •fCoMprÈbttt￿¥t 1Th¢gm¢ forth¢ Y¢4r 31 Augus1 Z025
2025
2•24
TO1￿¢￿￿p￿ehenSlIe incomefortheyerr
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RalrLbDw Pye-sthool ISt4n¥trl
(RegiqtraliknD 051799711
B•l#Trre Sheet as at 31 Au¥ust 2025
2025
2024
Fiied a&￿ts
Tan&iblt ￿ets
Drknor5
ea5h at bankand in hind
240,494
203296
242.350
CrediloTS". knouTht8 &lliThgduew?thin one ￿r
119.690
Totsl*sBets ￿rIent Ilablll¢lt
2.715
tTedi¢or5.. Amunts falling duc alkrmor¢tkn ￿eye
riet *JJets
120236
Retsirtd tarnin
120236
Suwus
179.818
Fortht f1mllc1￿ >ear endin$ 31 Au¥ust 2025 the tOthPOrty ¢nttTlrl ¢￿mplIDn tTwn wdit uthr Sctyyn
477ofth¢ CompaThir5 Art 2fflO rclating ty 5mdl companies.
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1*corda¥￿ with Secth)￿476."
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lo rewrdSandth¢pT£p￿F4￿ of ac¢ount5.
T￿se financial ststememts have been prepared in acc￿￿Ce the ptOVi&iQll8 apFlicable lo
5ybjr¢¢ lo th¢ Small romppnir5 ￿81￿￿ FRS 102'Thc FinanFial R¢￿1n8 ApplLGthI¢ Tn lh¢ Lry(
Approved ￿nds￿h0￿Sed bythe Boardon.
dsigned on itsbeh3ifby.'
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Rainbow Pr&s¢b￿01 IStsDstt411
Statement olCba•geA Equity for tht Vtar Ettdtd 31 Augllit 2025
Retskned
At I Srp*mb¢T Z024
sU￿lUs fortheyear
120236
59.582
Al 31 August 2025
Rrl*ukd
Ai l SeptEmb¢r2023
Deficit forthe ye
124,036
At 31 Aus￿1 2Q24
The notesonp4ge5 8t0 11 fonn intC8ral pthofth¢5¢ fi¢¥n¢JAI stsiements.
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Rllinbow Pre-sebwl IStaDStedl
Note3 to thc Uuawdited Firyan¢ial Stst¢rne￿ts forth¢Ytar E4Ld¢d 31 A￿￿￿￿¢ 2025
The Èothwy IS & ()￿￿p*mY limited by $￿￿1et. IncoTPOY#ttd Wales. and coAs4uenlly does
not have 5har¢ rapilal. EArh orth¢ rn¢rni*TS is ]￿bIr to ¢ontributc ntrT rxeee4in¥ £Nil ts)Wlrl$ th¢
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Tht PhTht1p￿ act0￿11￿9 wlKies applied the preparat￿)tt of these r1n7thci￿ ￿￿tements are sel below.
These PDlicies hivE beenwn5151¢ntly ￿ppliCI ￿all th¢yws pir5cntcd. unlc&s 0￿r￿s¢
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sM&lltr cniilits The Firthllci&l RepDrtiiig Standard applicable ￿ the United KiTrBdom and REpublic of I[Elw￿.
and ih¢Cornpani¢5 AGI 20061w5 applirsblr In r￿MP￿l¢s 5ubJcEttothrJmLII ￿¥1￿￿1.
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Thtst finanu￿1 &i#lemtnts been prepared u8iw the historical ¢08t wThventw)n ex￿￿ éi5Flos¢d I
the accounting PDlicie8cemin il¢ms ¥￿sh￿ at f8irvalur.
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of service5 in the ordinary coursr Df th¢ 4¢￿￿tl¢s. 15 sknwn nri ofsaleslvalue gdded
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business f￿]ll 5upplict5. Accounts pa)￿bIr rlp55ifi¢d w cutrEnt Ii&hilJtlCS Lf tFL IxbM￿Y ttot tsve An
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afterthe rep)rtingd8tE. they ar¢pr￿c￿Ed ￿ Th)n-¢u¥r¢nt Ii?biliknc
rrdde ¢reditor5 ale ￿￿g￿lS¢￿ initiAlly ot th¢ $￿t substquthtly ME￿￿r￿A c051
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Ihr h&* lesal or£o￿tructive obligahon ￿ pa> fvrthrr¢onrrib￿luns evth ifik fvrtJ th4 htsi hold
sutYICieiit ￿Setst￿pa) all employtt51hc b¢n¢fits r¢￿1￿% to¢Thployr¢ ¥wvicc in tht turtenl and pnorperiods.
ContributkiThs ¢0 defind ￿￿tribU*L0Th pl&nS Art rttwistd t￿p￿Yee benefit expense wheTr ihey are dw. If
CDnlnbulitsn p&yMellts exceed the ¢(￿trib￿l0￿￿￿ foT$Etvi¢¢, th¢ Exr￿S15 trw8nis¢dAs&prtpaymtnt.
Stsff Thurnbers
The average llwnberofpEf50n5emplDy¢O by the [l￿1￿dIn& directors}during the￿r. WI￿ 1412024-
Prollllll￿ beforetsi
knived &ttfterchrwngl(crediting)
2015
2Q24
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Notes to the Unaudited Financial StatemeDts for the Year Ended 31 AUg￿5t 2025
Lgud and
Iwilibn%s
Fixtsires ind
fittin
Colt
Al I Sep￿￿be￿2o24
Addition5
7.280
72
At 31 Av¥u512025
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Ai I Septembey 1024
foiihr y¢41
5.959
5,959
lJ34
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6.290
7.493
AI 11 Aygu5t 21125
11035
990
At 31 Aw5t 2024
Included ￿1th1￿ th¢ iKM)k #f #nd buiklinss ab¢vt £12.035 12024- £NIll ui ttspecl oflong
I￿Sehold knd and b￿lIdIngS.
Debtor¥
2D2S
2024
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Prepa)Thents
627
1.8
7 CredltTrn
Cnth¢orJ.' *nltsUDts l*lLknE duE ￿thin on¢y¢4T
2025
2•24
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security
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(hher crediiors
lo.ggo
602
2.mo
12.809
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R*ittbow Prtaschool IStanst¢d)
N¢btes to the Unauditeil FiJb*Jheial StatemeDt5 for tb¢ Y¢4r K￿ded 31 Augus¢ 2025
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DU*gft*r0￿t yt*r
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37.473
72.897

Rainbow Pre-Sebo(pl ISt*Thste411
D¢tsil¢d Profit and LOVJ A¢eo¥Dt for tbe YearEttdtd 31 A￿gUSt 202S
2025
2024
Turnoverlanalysed btlDwl
242.593
Gro￿ Surp1￿(￿)
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(re￿eral idiiiinislriliwe exp2￿¢S1o￿￿yStd btlowl
{20.3821
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Dttsil¢d Profit L085 Acco￿tst for the YÈ•r End￿ 31 AMI￿5t 2025
2025
2•24
Turnover
r¢c¢iptsfrthn p￿tE￿IS- Sundry In¢{￿¢
Fundin6 rE¢¢￿ed
34.704
Emplo)Thent ¢w¢s
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slarr￿￿￿]mieTht and rrinin8
costi
Rent
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consum￿1¢5. renewals mainlenance
13'.3501
120J82
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114651
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14401
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4.305
pa¥t d(%5no¢fomi partoltht thufory fin￿¢181 ￿eTh¢￿ts.

## **Annual Treasurers/Administrators Report 2025** 

The accounts have been prepared by Mansell and Co and they confirm they are a true reflection of our income and expenditure over the past year.  As in previous years, they will be filing our corporation tax return with the Tax Office and the annual accounts with Companies House.  The accounts are no longer required to be formally audited as Rainbow is exempt as being a small company (Rainbow has a turnover of less than £6.5 million). 

Income increased substantially from 2023/2024 as we were more or less at full capacity and we had an increase in our hourly charges. 

Expenses increased slightly.  Salaries stayed at the same level. 

A substantial profit has been recorded this year, which made up for the losses of the previous year (this was due to having to pay legal expenses incurred not only for ourselves but for Essex County Council, in respect of the new lease for the additional part of the building). 

Rainbow’s utilities have been increased to £12,000.  The new lease part of the monthly payment covers the cost of gas and electricity. 

A successful year was had with fundraising activities, including the Christmas hamper raffle, Dress Up Days, a toy stall and Sponsored Sports and Graduation Day. Fundraising helps support the purchase of additional resources. 

I trust you will find the accounts self-explanatory but I am happy to answer any queries you may have. 

Our stalwart volunteers returned to assist us in September 2024, but Edna Baker decided due to health reasons to retire from volunteering in December.  Ann Conroy and Lisa Clark continue, we cannot thank them enough for their support. 

All staff have continued their professional development.  Each room has a SENCo plus Safeguarding deputies overseen by Alison, the Safeguarding Lead.  All staff renew their Level 2 safeguarding each September.  Alison and Nicki completed Trauma Perceptive Practice training.  Lucy passed the Governments COVID recovery training, for which Rainbow was awarded additional funds. 

Ash joined Rainbow and is undertaking her Level 3 training and Leah joined too, studying for her Level 2.  Joyce moved over to work-based learning for her Level 3.  Yasmine decided to leave in February 2025 for a career change. 



Looking to the future we continue to have waiting lists, although we will now have competition from a full day care setting coming to Stansted. 

We have now been running two classrooms for 3 years.  Even more parents are now waiting until their child’s funding comes in which means we have less privately funded children.  The way forward continues to be to offer breakfast and afterschool clubs plus a holiday club.  There is still no funding available to set this up for pre-school children as the government continue to concentrate on primary school children.  The first step along this path would be to send out a questionnaire to parents to gauge what the interest would be. 

This is my final report as I have decided to retire in September 2025.  It has been my pleasure to serve Rainbow as a volunteer and a paid member, and ultimately as Administration Manager over the last 35 years.  Much has changed in this time and Rainbow is being handed over to the very capable hands of Lorraine Hayes and Jenny Rapkin to take Rainbow forward. 

If you have any queries I will be happy to answer them. 

Gill Pursglove April 2025