## Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
Report of the Trustees and Accounts
31[st] August 2024
Company registration number 07261971
Registered charity number 1136706
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## Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
Charity Information
|Trustees and directors||
|---|---|
||Kerri Clear- Company Chair|
||Hannah Abu-Ebid|
||Danny Goggin|
||Hayley Goggin|
||Gemma Hudson|
||Phillip Illing|
||David Martin|
||Amy McKinlay|
|Address|The Old Library|
||Bath Road|
||Cricklade|
||Swindon|
||SN6 6AT|
|Registered charity number|1136706|
|Company registration number|07261971|
|Independent examiner|Karon McDonald|
||Accountant|
|Bankers|Lloyds Bank plc|
||25 Gresham Street|
||London|
||EC2V 7HN|
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## **Report of the Trustees**
The trustees present their annual report for the year ended 31[st] August 2024
## **Structure, governance and management**
The charity is registered with eh Charity Commissioners under registration number 1136706. The charity was created by a Trust Deed dated 5[th] July 2010.
## **Objectives and activities**
The principal activity of the charity is to provide good quality, affordable education through play, following the early years criteria, to children aged from 2 years old to school age. The charity support children and their families through the early years until they are ready to start school.
## **Trustees’ responsibilities**
The Charities Acts and Companies Acts require the Board of Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charity as at the end of the financial year and of the surplus or deficit of the charity. In preparing those financial statements the Board is required to: -
- Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
- Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
- Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
- State whether applicable accounting standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements.
The trustees are responsible for maintaining adequate accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and which are sufficient to show and explain the charity’s transactions and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006 and comply with the regulations made under the Charities Act. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
The trustees are also responsible for the contents of the trustees’ report. The responsibility of the independent examiner in relation to the trustees’ report is limited to examining the report and ensuring that, on the face of the report, there are no inconsistencies with the figures disclosed in the financial statements.
On behalf of the trustees
Trustee:
Kerri Clear, Director
Dated:
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## Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
## **Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of Cricklade Pre School Playgroup**
I report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31[st] August 2024 which are set out on pages 4 to 8.
## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner**
The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparations of the accounts. The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 1345(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my attention which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
Karon McDonald Accountant Date: 19[th] May 2025
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## Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
## **Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31[st] August 2024**
|**Incoming reserves**
Funding
Parent’s Fees
Other Income
**Total Incoming Reserves**
**Resources Expended**
Cost if generating funds
Core activities
Governance costs
**Total Resources Expended**
Interest receivable
**Net Incoming Resources**
Total funds brought forward
**Total funds carried forward**|**Unrestricted**
**Total Funds**
2024
93280
101955
16200
4401
113881
116728
0
£-2847
134
-2713
25780
£23067|**Unrestricted**
**Total Funds**
2023
9602
3464
,
115021
111042
0
£3979
49
3998
21782
25780|
|---|---|---|
||£23067|25780|
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## Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
## **Balance Sheet As at 31[st] August 2024**
|**Notes**
**Current Assets**
Debtors
2
Cash at Bank and in hand
**Less: Creditors**
Amounts falling due within one year
3
**Net Assets**
**Reserves**
Unrestricted funds
4
**Charity Funds**|**2024**
25203
£25203
2136
£23067
£23067
£23067|**2023**
-
27593
£27593
1813
£25780
25780
£25780|
|---|---|---|
||£23067|£25780|
For the year ended 31[st] August 2024, the charitable company was entitled to exemption from an audit under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006.
The members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in questions in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.
The trustees/directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.
These accounts were approved by the trustees on:
Trustee:
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## **Notes to the Accounts For the year ended 31[st] August 2024**
## **1 Accounting Policies**
## **Accounting convention**
The accounts (financial statements) have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities published on 16/07/14, the Financial Reporting Standard for Smaller Entities (FRSSE), and the Charities Act 2011 and applicable regulations.
The accounts have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognised at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts.
## **Incoming resources**
Voluntary income including donations received are included in the accounts in the year or receipt unless entitlement is conditional in which case the income will be deferred to the period in which the conditions is to be met.
## **Resources expended**
Expenditure is recognised on an accruals basis as a liability is incurred. Expenditure includes any VAT which cannot be recovered and is reported as part of the expenditure to which it relates.
Charitable expenditure comprises of those costs incurred by the charity in the delivery of its activities and services for those costs on and indirect nature necessary to support the.
Governance cost include those costs associated with meeting the constitutional and statutory requirements of the charity and include costs associated with the management of the charity.
## **Fund accounting**
Unrestricted funds can be used in accordance with the charitable objectives t the discretion of the trustees’ activities.
There were no restricted funds held at the end of the current year.
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## **Notes to the Accounts**
**For the year ended 31st August 2024**
|2
Debtors
Prepayments and other Debtors
3
Creditors
Other Taxes and social security costs
Other Creditors and accruals
4
Unrestricted funds
At beginning of period
Net incoming resources
At period end|2024
1936
200
£2136
25780
-2713
£23067|2023
-
1613
200|
|---|---|---|
|||2528|
|||21782
3998|
||£23067|£25780|
||||
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## **Schedule to the Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31st August 2024**
|**Incoming resources**
Funding
Parent Fees
Grants Furlough
Fundraising
Donations and miscellaneous income
**Total incoming resources**
**Core Activities**
Wages and salaries
Staff training and welfare
Rent and Rates
Heat and Light
Telephone and internet
General consumables
Bank charges
insurance
Accountancy
Equipment expensed
Refreshments Expenses
Fundraising expenses
Repairs and maintenance
Build our future' project
Sundry expenses
**Governance costs**
**Total resources expended**
**Other operating income**
Interest Receivable
**Net incoming resources**|**Total**
**2024**
93280
16200
0
4300
101|
|---|---|
||£113881|
||101749
1482
989
2360
923
983
124
1279
200
2495
1193
493
1767
0
691|
||£116728|
|||
||-2847|
||134|
||-2713|
|||
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