## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 01/09/2024 (Period Start Date)
**To** 31/08/2025 (Period End Date)
**Charity name:** Ladybirds Pre-School Southampton Limited
## **Charity registration number:** 1139080
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governingdocument|Para 1.17|To provide the highest quality care and
education for children between the age 2 to 5
years.|
|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|The Trustees/Directors and Management Team
will;
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Provide flexible, quality preschool
education. - Maintain and report to users of
our preschool, accurate accounts ensuring the
preschool is financially viable year on year,
ensuring that accounting and administration of
finances are robust
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Employ quality, trained staff, vetted for
suitability to work with children with an
ongoing training program
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Provide student/volunteer/work
experience placements with suitable and
appropriate induction and vetting
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Liaise with professional colleagues, to
support children's education and transition to
schools|
||Para 1.18||
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policy on grant making|||
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|Policy on social investment|||
|including program related||Para 1.38|
|investment|||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
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|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|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|It was another busy year for the two Pre-
schools, there was continued engagement
with our service users with them coming into
the setting each day, stay and play sessions,
and via telephone, tapestry and a facebook
group for each setting, There were regular
Directors meetings. We held our AGM on 6th
March 2025. Our staff team have continued to
develop and have taken on many training
courses and ensured their practice has been
impacted and shown this development. We
had a fairly consistent year in regards to
staffing, and continue to work hard to align
both settings.|
## **Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Para 1.41
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## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21||
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|Charity reserves are currently held in a reserve
account. The reserves have been built up over
a period of time to ensure we have at least 3
months operating and redundancy costs and a
years rent for each setting.|
|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|Our principle source of Grant funding is from
Southampton City Council Early years. We do
have regular fee paying children. We partake in
small fundraising activities e.g. Christmas raffles
etc. We are registered with the City Council
lotteries.|
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|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:
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution|
|How is the charity
constituted?(e.g
unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Association|
|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|Trustee selection methods elected by Trustees|
## **Additional information (optional)**
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|Policies
and
procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Our organisational structure continues with a
group of Charity Trustees/Company Directors
this year. Our Trustees/ Company Directors are
7 in total.
We have continued with our Parent Forum so
that parents can have more of a say in day to
day activities, raise any concerns or praise and
help organise fundraising and outings.|
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Ladybirds Pre-School Southampton|
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|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charity number|1139080|
|Charity’s principal address|Festival Hall
Merryoak Road
Bitterne
Southampton
Hampshire
SO19 7QR|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(ifany)**|
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|Zoe Marler-Hausen|Chair|||
|Carmel Gardner|Secretary|||
|Theresa Quartermaine||Resigned 6/03/2025||
|Louise Reynolds|Treasurer|||
|Jade Parker||||
|Tara-Leigh McVey||||
|Becca Burnett||||
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|**Director name**|||
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|Zoe Marler-Hausen|||
|Carmel Gardner|||
|TheresaQuartermaine|Resigned 6/03/2025||
|Tara-Leigh McVey|||
|Louise Reynolds|||
|Jade Parker|||
|Becca Burnett|||
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Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets 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)**
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|**Name of**||**chief executive or names of senior staff members(Optional information)**||||||||
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## **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)**|**Signature(s)**|**Signature(s)**|
|Z.Marler-Hausen|Z.Marler-Hausen|||||||
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|**Full name(s)**|||**Mrs Zoe Sarah Marler-Hausen**
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|**Position (eg Secretary,**|||
||**Chair of Directors**|||||||
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|**Chair, etc)**||||||||||||
|**Date**|:||10/11/2025|||||||||
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Ladybirds Pre-School Southampton
**On accounts for the year** 31/08/2025 **Charity no** 1139080 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31/08/2021.
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** 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 the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have 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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 28/02/2026 ~~PO |~~ **Name:** Katie Swift ~~PO~~ **Relevant professional** MAAT **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** Katie Swift
26 Culford Avenue, Totton
Southampton SO40 9BY
**Section B Disclosure** ~~ee~~ Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**October 2018**
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**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
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**IER**