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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Little Acorns Pre-School (Huntingdon) **Other names charity is known by** Little Acorns Pre-School **Registered charity number (if any)** 1125456 **Charity's principal address** Community Room, c/o Stukeley Meadows Primary School, Wertheim Way Huntingdon, Cambs. **Postcode PE29 6UH**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Lisa Lacey|Treasurer|||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**TAR**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Pre-School Learning Alliance Model Pre-School Constitution 2011 How the charity is constituted
(eg. trust, association, company)
Trustees (Officers and Committee Members) are elected for one year at Trustee selection methods the Annual General Meeting (held in October), Retiring officers and (eg. appointed by, elected by) Committee members are eligible for re-election.
## **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;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The aims of the Pre-school are 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 activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability; (b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the
**TAR**
March **2012**
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local areas;
(c) instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
During the supervised 3 or 6 hour pre-school sessions for the academic year 2021-2022, pre-school children had opportunities to paint, play with sand/water/playdough/soil/bark/clay/pasta/cornflakes/lentils, complete jigsaws, play with a wide variety of toys and games, role-play and dressup, use a vast selection of craft materials, cycle & scooter, climb & slide, **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the** develop ball skills, sing, listen to stories, learn Jolly Phonics action songs with YouTube videos, do some baking, eat and make healthy snacks, **public benefit in relation to** taste foods from different religions and countries, … to name but a few! **these objects (include within** All of these activities (and many others) ensured that the pre-school **this section the statutory declaration that trustees have** children were working towards the learning and development requirements of the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation **had regard to the guidance** Stage. **issued by the Charity** The trustees and staff of the pre-school have paid due regard to the **Commission on public** public benefit of the charity in that all activities undertaken work towards **benefit)** the ‘advancement of education’ of the pre-school children and their parents/carers in the area local to the charity’s premises.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and erformance p
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
For the academic year 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022, the preschool offered up to 30 hours of pre-school sessions (funded for those in the term after their third birthday) per child.
## **Section E Financial review**
**TAR**
March **2012**
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**Brief statement of the**
The pre-school management committee has built enough reserves to have a 5-month contingency fund.
**charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- 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**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Lisa Lacey **Full name(s)** Nicola Benge **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairperson Treasurer **etc) Date** 23/03/2023
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|**Little**|**Acorns Pre-School (Huntingdon)**|**Acorns Pre-School (Huntingdon)**||**1125456**||
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||**CC16a**|
|**For**|**the period**
**from**|01/09/2021|**To**|31/08/2022||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**-**
**42**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**247**
**-**
**-**
**289**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**289**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**973**
**4,252**
**426**
**-**
**-**
**5,651**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**5,651**
**- 5,362**
**-**
**-**
**- 5,362**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**84,703**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**100**
**-**
**84,803**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**84,803**
**6,840**
**364**
**-**
**85**
**563**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**63,880**
**-**
**-**
**71,732**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**71,732**
**13,071**
**-**
**-**
**13,071**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**84,703**
**42**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**247**
**100**
**-**
**85,092**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**85,092**
**6,840**
**364**
**-**
**85**
**563**
**973**
**4,252**
**426**
**-**
**63,880**
**-**
**-**
**77,383**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**77,383**
**7,709**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Fees|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**84,703**||**2,633**|
|Fundraising|**42**|||**42**||**1,044**|
|Grants|**-**|||**-**||**68,038**|
|Bank Interest|**-**|||**-**||**3**|
|Snack Money|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Other|**247**|||**247**||**-**|
|Donations|**-**|||**100**||**35**|
|Milk|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**289**|||**85,092**||**71,753**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||
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**-**
**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||
||||**-**|**85,092**||**71,753**|
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|Rent,Insurance & Repairs|**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**6,840**||**6,945**|
|Legal,Professional & Admin Fees|**-**|||**364**||**339**|
|FundraisingCosts|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Governance Costs|**-**|||**85**||**177**|
|Telephone,Postage & Stationery|**-**|||**563**||**410**|
|Ink, photos|**973**|||**973**||**1,073**|
|Housekeeping|**4,252**|||**4,252**||**4,933**|
|Catering& Sundryexpenses|**426**|||**426**||**47**|
|Website & Advertising|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|Staff training,wages,tax & NI||||**63,880**||**59,109**|
|Children's activities||||**-**||**-**|
|Charitable donation|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**5,651**|||**77,383**||**73,033**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||||
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**-**
**-**|**-**|||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||**-**||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||
||||**-**|**77,383**||**73,033**|
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||**- 5,362**|**13,071**|**-**|
**7,709**||**- 1,280**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**|
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||**- 5,362**|**13,071**|**-**|**7,709**||**- 1,280**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
23/03/2023
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## **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**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
Contingency
Fundraising
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**25,087**
**-**
**2,367**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**27,454**
Agreement Error
Agreement Error
**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
Lisa Lacey|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
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||||OK|
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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||||**-**|
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||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
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||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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approval|
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|||Lisa Lacey|23/03/2023|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
23/03/2023
2
Docu&w Envdope ID.. 86o83ET8FT474F-9E3[6F8EE0SF1808
urrLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL
ACCOUFtrs YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022
INCOME ATEmEh
2022
2021
Income
Fees
Fundraising
Grants
Donations
Bank Interest
Other
84,703
42
2,633
68,038
35
247
Total Income
85.092
71.753
Expenditure
Rent and Insurance
Repairs and Maintenance
Total Premises
Legal and Professional Fees
Administration Fees
Fundraising Costs
Governance Costs
Advertising
Ink and Photo's
Telephone, Postage, Stationary
Sundry
Total Administration
Housekeeping
Catering
Total Operating
Staff Training
Wages and Salaries
Total Staff
6,945
6,945
364
339
85
177
973
1,073
410
563
140
2.125
1,999
4,252
286
4.933
47
4.538
4,980
1.249
62.631
595
58.514
63.879
59.109
Total Expenditure
77.383
73,033
ProfiVILossl ForThe Year
7.709
11,2801
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LTrrLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL
ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31 AUGusf 2022
BALANCE SHE
2022
2021
Balan I September 2021
Cash
Bank
Fundraising Account
Interest Account
53.589
2.367
25,087
48.462
1,949
25.084
81.042
75,495
Income
85.092
71.753
Expenditure
77.383
73.033
Balance 31 August 2022
88,752
74.215
Bank account per statement
Plus Matemity Paid
Less Pension for August
50.450
42.740
4.316
294
Bank Account per Accounts
50,450
46.762
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LIME ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL
ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31 AUGUST 2022
Report on the a¢¢ounts of the Pr&5th)I for the year ended 315t August 2022
Although not a charity the accounts in the current year. as in previous years are complèted
to the standards set by the charities act 1993.on a profit and loss basis, not cash basi5.
Respective respon5ibilitiesof trustees and examiner
As the charity's trustees you would be responsible forthe preparation of these accounts,
you consider thatthe audit requirements of sectiorb 43121 of the Charities act 19931 the act I
does not apply.
It is my responsibility to state, on the basis of procedures spectfied in the general directions
given by the charity commissioners under section 43{7) of the act whether partiojlar
matters have come to my attention.
Ba515 of independent examiners report
My ex3min3tion was carried out in accordan with the general directions give by the
charity commissioner5. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by
the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes
consideration of any LFnusu81 ttems or disclosu5 in the accounts, and seeking explanations
from you as trustees of such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the
evidence that would be required of an audit and Consequent i do not exp$$ an audit
opinion on the view given by the accounts
Independent examiners ststement
In connection with my examination. no matter has come to myattention.
Which give5 me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respectthe requirements
to keep accounting records in accordance with section 41 of the act= and
To prepare the accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the
accounting requirements of the att.
Have not been met,. or
To which in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper
understanding of the accounts to be reached.
2023
F14926E08CC748E.
Andrew Springthorpe FCCA
AIS Accountants Ltd
Gibson House
Ermine Business Park
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
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