||**Trustees Annual Report**|**Trustees Annual Report**|**Trustees Annual Report**||||**Page 1**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||||||||| ||~~Period start~~
~~date~~||1 April 2020||Period end date||31 March 2021|||| |||||||||||| |**charity name**|**BODIAM PRE-SCHOOL**||||**registered charity No:1136100**|||||| |||||||||||| |**Address**|**Parish Rooms, Sandhurst Road, Bodiam, Robertsbridge TN33 5UJ**|||||||||| |||||||||||| |**names of the charity trustees**|**who manage the**||**charity**|||||||| |**Trustee name**|**office**||**dates acted if not**
**whole period**||**Entity entitled to**
**appoint if any**|||||| |Rebecca McCormick|Chair|||||||||| |Laura Capener|Secretary|||||||||| |Ben Capener|Treasurer|||||||||| |Katie Farmer||||||||||| |Amy Hammond||||||||||| |Katie Hodgson-Martin||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |Mel Porter|Co-ordinator|||||||||| |||||||||||| |**Structure Governance & management**||||||||||| |**Type of Governing Document**
|ution adopted 28 May 2010|||||||||| |**charity constitution**|Association consisting of an elected committee of parents and teachers|||||||||| |**trustee selection method**|Trustees are appointed or reappointed annually at the annual general meeting held in May|||||||||| |**objects of the charity**|To provide a safe nurturing educational environment pre-school nursery children aged 2 to 5 years|||||||||| |**Main Activities for public benefit**|The pre-school provides high quality childcare for families in the local area of Bodiam and surrounding villages|||||||||| ||which enable working parents to pursue employment and full-time carers to ensure that their children acquire|||||||||| ||social skills and pre-school education essential to their development in a safe environment|||||||||| ||The pre-school recognises the right of parents to take responsibility for and become involved with the activities of|||||||||| ||the group, whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability.|||||||||| |**Main achievements in the period**||||||||||| ||The global pand|e|mic of course ha|d|a major effect on|t|he usual running|of the presch|ool and|| g p j ## g p ||g
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~~nt home~~|| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |||||||||||| |**Policy on reserves**|We hold a Salary|Reserve of £ 12,000 to provide one term's salaries for staff and premises rental in accordance with||||||||| ||with the trustees reserve fund policy. The HEPA grant is held in a restrictive fund to be used for well-being education.|||||||||| ||The University Bursary is held in a restrictive fund to be released to assist staff members in their qualifications|||||||||| |||||||||||| |**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees report above**||||||||||| |**Signed behalf of all the trustees**|Signature||||Print Name||Date of approval|||| |||||Rebecca McCormick|||22 January 2022|||| |||||||||||| |**BODIAM PRE SCHOOL NURSERY**
**registered charity No:1136100**|**BODIAM PRE SCHOOL NURSERY**
**registered charity No:1136100**|**BODIAM PRE SCHOOL NURSERY**
**registered charity No:1136100**|||Page 2| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| |**Receipts and payments accounts**|||||| ||For the period from|1 April 2020|To|31 March 2021|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| ||Unrestricted funds|Restricted funds|Endowment funds|Total funds|Last year| ||to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |A1 Receipts|||||| ||||||| |NurseryIncome|17,476|0|0|17,476|13,100| |Grants|39,004|0|0|39,004|35,577| |Donations|160||0|160|0| |Fund-raising|285||0|285|0| |Gross Income|56,926|0|0|56,926|48,677| ||||||| |A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table)
.|||||| ||||||| ||0|0|0|0|0| |Sub total|0|0|0|0|0| ||||||| |Total receipts|56,926|0|0|56,926|48,677| ||||||| |A3 Payments|||||| |Fund-raising costs|160||0|160|0| |Activity Costs|2,665|0|0|2,665|3,186| |Staff Remuneration|34,841|0|0|34,841|39,016| |Staff training & costs|2,963|0||2,963|4,871| |Insurance|438|0|0|438|483| |Premises Costs|855|0|0|855|1,868| |Office and Administration|2,596
44,517|0
0|0|2,596|2,524| |Sub total|||0|44,517|51,947| ||||||| |A4 Asset and investment purchases,|||||| |Awning|0|0|0|0|0| |Computer|0|0|0|0|0| |Sub total|0|0|0|0|0| ||||||| |Total payments|44,517|0|0|44,517|51,947| ||||||| |Net of receipts/(payments)|12,409|0|0|12,409|(3,271)| |A5 Transfers between funds|0|0|0|0|0| |A6 Cash funds last year end|(12,080)|20,342|0|9,112|12,383| |Cash funds this year end|329|20,342|0|21,521|9,112| ||||||| ||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**||||||Page 3|| |Categories|Details|||Unrestricted funds|Restricted funds|Endowment funds|| ||Total 31.3.2021|||to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £|| |B1 Cash funds|unrestricted
0|||0|0|0|| |Cash at bank|unrestricted
329|||329|0|0|| ||Restricted Funds
8,342|||0|8,342||| ||Term Cost Fund
12,000||||12,000|0|| |Cash at bank|Total cash funds||20,671|329|20,342|0|| ||||||||| |||||Unrestricted funds|Restricted funds|Endowment funds|| ||Details|||to nearest £|to nearest £|to nearest £|| |B2 Other monetary assets||||0|0|0|| |||||0|0|0|| ||||||||| ||Details|||Fund to which
asset belongs|Cost|Current value|| |B3 Investment assets|||||0||| ||||||0||| ||||||||| ||Details|||Fund to which
asset belongs|Cost|Current value|| |B4 Assets retained for the charity's own
use|Laptop Computer|||General|1,378|1|| ||||||0||| ||||||||| ||Details|||Fund to which
liability relates|Amount due|When due|| |B5 Liabilities|||||0||| ||||||0||| ||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of
all the trustees|Signature|||Print Name||Date of approval|| |||||**Rebecca McCormick**|
2|4 January 2022|| Report to the trustees of **BODIAM PRE-SCHOOL** ## On accounts for the year ended ## **31 March 2021** Set out on pages 2 - 3 ## **Respective Responsibilities of Trustees and Examiner** As the Trustees of the Charity you are responsible for the preparation of the 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 to me by the Charity commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act ## **Independent Examiner's Statement** In the course of my examination, no material matter has come to my attention in connection with my examination which gives me cause to believe that in any material respect - accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or ## or - the accounts do not accord with the accounting records I have no concerns and come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached 24 January 2022 ## **VICTORIA M. WOOD** _Independent Examiner_ Rosecourt, London Road, Battle East Sussex TN33 OLP