Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
Report of the Trustees and Accounts
31[st] August 2025
Company registration number 07261971
Registered charity number 1136706
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Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
| Charity Informaton | |
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| Trustees and directors | |
| Emma Jones - Company Chair | |
| Hannah Abu-Ebid | |
| Rebecca Jeremy | |
| David Martn | |
| Amy McKinlay | |
| Amber-Rose McNeil | |
| Address | The Old Library |
| Bath Road | |
| Cricklade | |
| Swindon | |
| SN6 6AT | |
| Registered charity number | 1136706 |
| Company registraton number | 07261971 |
| Independent examiner | Karon McDonald |
| Accountant | |
| Bankers | Lloyds Bank plc |
| 25 Gresham Street | |
| London | |
| EC2V 7HN |
Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
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Report of the Trustees
The trustees present their annual report for the year ended 31[st] August 2025
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: -
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Select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;
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Make judgements and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and
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Prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the charity will continue in business.
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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:
Emma Jones, Director Dated: 29[th] May 2026
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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:
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examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
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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
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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:
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the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
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the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
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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: 25[th] May 2026
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Statement of Financial Activities For the year ended 31[st] August 2025
| Incoming reserves Funding Parent’s Fees Other Income Total Incoming Reserves Resources Expended Cost if generatng funds Core actvites Governance costs Total Resources Expended Interest receivable Net Incoming Resources Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward |
Unrestricted Total Funds 2025 100067 15386 3944 113881 115717 0 £3680 99 3779 23067 £26846 |
Unrestricted Total Funds 2024 93280 16200 4401 , 113881 116728 0 £-2847 134 -2713 25780 23067 |
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| 113881 | ||
| 116728 0 -2713 25780 |
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| £26846 | 23067 |
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Cricklade Pre School Playgroup
Balance Sheet As at 31[st] August 2025
| 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 |
2025 28989 £28989 2143 £28989 £26846 £26846 |
2024 - 25203 £25203 2136 £23067 23067 £23067 |
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| £26846 | £23067 |
For the year ended 31[st] August 2025
, 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: 29[th] May 2026
Trustee: E Jones
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Notes to the Accounts
For the year ended 31[st] August 2025
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 2025
| 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 |
2025 2143 200 £2136 23067 3779 £26846 |
2024 - 1936 200 |
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| 2136 | ||
| 25780 -2713 |
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| £26846 | £23067 | |
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Schedule to the Statement of Financial Activities for the year ended 31st August 2025
| sources Funding Parent Fees Grants Furlough Fundraising Donatons and miscellaneous income Total incoming resources |
Total 2025 100067 15386 1426 2280 238 |
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| £119397 |
Incoming resources
Core Activities
| Wages and salaries | 101134 |
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| Staf training and welfare | 1125 |
| Rent and Rates | 1286 |
| Heat and Light | 1771 |
| Telephone and internet | 1081 |
| General consumables | 901 |
| Bank charges | 128 |
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| insurance Accountancy Equipment expensed Refreshments Expenses Fundraising expenses Repairs and maintenance Sundry expenses Governance costs Total resources expended Other operatng income Interest Receivable Net incoming resources |
1272 200 3692 900 223 1450 554 |
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| £115717 | |
| 3680 | |
| 99 | |
| 3779 | |
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