## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 01.09.24 Period start date To 31.08.25 Period end date** **Charity name: Crofton Early Learners** **Charity registration number: 1119285** **Crofton Baptist Church 100 Crofton Lane Orpington Kent BR5 1HD** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**1) The advancement of the**
**education (including spiritual**
**development) of children below**
**compulsory school age.**
**2) The provision of facilities for**
**recreation for such children in**
**the interest of social welfare and**
**with the object of improving their**
**conditions of life by: providing**
**for any children without**
**discrimination a safe and**
**satisfying playgroup in a**
**Christian environment where**
**Christian beliefs and values are**
**promoted and upheld and**
**introducing the children and their**
**parents to church life where**
**appropriate.**| |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|**Crofton Early Learners seeks to provide**
**outstanding pre-school education to**
**children aged over 2 and a half years up**
**to compulsory school age, following the**
**requirements of the Early Years**
**Foundation Stage. It seeks to provide a**
**structured environment which enables**
**children to learn through play and meet**
**the guidelines issued by Ofsted for the**
**Early Years.**
**The setting is committed to**
**safeguarding and promoting the welfare**| |||**of all its children and expects all staff**
**and volunteers to share in this**
**commitment. It makes reasonable**
**adjustments to meet the needs of staff**
**and children who are disabled or who**
**have additional needs. In setting**
**objectives and planning activities the**
**trustees have given consideration to the**
**guidance provided by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**Yes**| ## **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|**During the period 01.09.24- 31.08.25 the**
**pre school operated five days per week**
**9.00 – 16.00 for 37 weeks of the year.**
**One member of staff started a level 5**
**NVQ qualification.**
**Money was raised for local charities**
**through sponsoring children in**
**undertaking certain activities.**|| |---|---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: **----- Start of picture text -----**
Achievements against Para 1.41
objectives set
Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives Para 1.41
set
Investment performance Para 1.41
against objectives
Other
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## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity’s financial position remains**
**good. Income and expenditure were**
**monitored throughout the year, and the**
**trustees are satisfied that the charity**
**has sufficient funds to continue its**
**activities and meet its obligations.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The trustees hold reserves to ensure the**
**charity can meet its financial obligations**
**and continue its charitable activities**
**during periods of reduced income or**
**unexpected expenditure. Reserves are**
**also maintained to cover potential**
**liabilities, including staff redundancy**
**costs, contractual commitments, and**
**other unforeseen costs.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |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|| |---|---|---| |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|**Trust Deed established in November**
**2006**| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**Trust**| |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|**Existing Trustees nominate additional**
**Trustees. Trustees must be able to sign**
**a statement of faith confirming they are**
**a practising Christian.**
**Trustees also need to obtain Ofsted**
**clearance.**| ## **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|| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Crofton Early Learners| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1119285| |Charity’s principal address|Crofton Baptist Church
100 Crofton Lane
Orpington
Kent
BR5 1HD| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Karen Dungate|Chair||| ||Stuart Davis|Treasurer||| ||Rachel Bailey|Secretary|Resigned 25.03.25|| ||Naomi Beak||Resigned 31.12.24|| ||Anne Shore||Resigned 04.08.25|| ||June Judd||Resigned 04.08.25|| ||Megan Watkins||Resigned 04.08.25|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name None** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |**None**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets None 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** **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** **Date** **Charity Name No (if any) Crofton Early Learners 1119285** ## **Receipts and payments accounts** ## **CC16a** **For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 9/1/2024 8/31/2025 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---| |**A1 Receipts**
Fees and Donations
**53,750**
**-**
Government Funding
**181,385**
Uniforms
**1,188**
Miscellaneous
**1,856**
Refunds
**-**
Bank Interest
**1,696**
**-**
**239,875**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 239,875**
**A3 Payments**
Staff Costs
**170,456**
Admin and runningexpenses
**1,402**
Rent
**16,000**
Miscellaneous
**6,459**
Training
**1,093**
Snacks
**1,413**
Uniforms
**1,763**
Insurance
**1,387**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 199,974**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 199,974**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 39,901**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**112,355**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 152,256**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
Maintenance Grant, SIPS & LBB funded
courses
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**|**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**53,750**
**0**
**181,385**
**1,188**
**1,856**
**0**
**1,696**
**0**
**239,875**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**239,875**
**170,456**
**1,402**
**16,000**
**6,459**
**1,093**
**1,413**
**1,763**
**1,387**
**-**
**199,974**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**199,974**
**39,901**
**-**
**112,355**
**152,256**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**53,750**|**72,892**| ||||**0**|**0**| ||||**181,385**|**138,133**| ||||**1,188**|**1,238**| ||||**1,856**|**1,774**| ||||**0**|**0**| ||||**1,696**|**1,267**| ||||**0**|**-**| ||||**239,875**|**215,304**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**239,875**|**215,304**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**170,456**|**164,938**| ||||**1,402**|**2,818**| ||||**16,000**|**16,000**| ||||**6,459**|**9,612**| ||||**1,093**|**1,369**| ||||**1,413**|**2,097**| ||||**1,763**|**1,085**| ||||**1,387**|**718**| ||||**-**|**-**| ||||**199,974**|**198,636**| |||||| |||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|**-**| |||||| |||**-**|**199,974**|**198,636**| |||||| ||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**39,901**|**16,668**| ||**-**||**-**|**-**| ||**-**||**112,355**|**-**| ||**-**||**152,256**|**112,355**| ## **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**
Cash at bank and in hand
Protected deposits
Premium Account
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**10,013**
**1,854**
**140,389**
**152,256**
OK
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**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**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||||**10,808**| |||||**1,827**| |||||**99,719**| |||||**112,355**| |||||Agreement Error| |||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| ||||**-**|| Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees |Signature|Print|Name|Date of
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