2025-12-31-accounts - Happy Days Pre-School

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 1.1.25 Period start date To 31.12.25 Period end date

Charity name: Happy Days Pre-school

Charity registration number: 1143906

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	Pre-school
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	Childcare and Early years education
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	Yes confirmed

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other

Achievements and Performance

SORP reference Summary of the main Para 1.20 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.

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
Other

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Reserves are held for terms/years with lower numbers of children and to offset the shortfall in funding offer by the government
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£20000
Reasons for holding zero reserves	Para 1.22	n/a
Details of fund materially in deficit	Para 1.24	n/a
Explanation of any uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern	Para 1.23	Government is not providing a sustainable level of funding to Early Years sector, not in line with the rise in national living wage and inflation.

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
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:		Community led Pre-school (Charity)
Type of governing document (trust deed, royal charter)	Para 1.25	Constitution (PSLA)
How is the charity constituted? (e.g unincorporated association, CIO)	Para 1.25	Unincorporated 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	Election to post agreed by rest of the committee.

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Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees	Para 1.51
The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works	Para 1.51
Relationship with any related parties	Para 1.51
Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Happy Days Pre-school
Other name the charity uses
Registered charitynumber	1143906
Charity’s principal address	Lagley Meadow Youth Centre Douglas Gardens Berkhamsted HP4 3PE

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee(if any)
	Fiona Richardson	Chair
	Sasha Blake	Treasurer
	Sharon Scanlon
	Frankie Boot
	Samantha Phillips
	Zoe Taylor
	Katie Hansard

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name

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 Cash in bank 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 Designated person to manage bank accounts – overseen by safe custody and Pre-school manager segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets

Additional information (optional)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of Name Address adviser

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

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) Full name(s) Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc) Date	Sasha Blake
	Sasha Blake
	Treasurer
	13.7.2026
	13.7.2026

Happy Days Treasurers Report 2025

Happy Days made a profit this year of around £2k.

The council have given notice for a huge rent increase of 80% which has forced us to look for alternative premises.

We have an offer of a lovely nursery building at St Thomas More School for a more favourable rent. The building will allow us to increase our numbers and also hours.

We increased all staff wages to allow for increase in national living wage.

Next year we will be transitioning to the new building and applying for funding for storage equipment, carpet and Ofsted required changes.

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Charity Name Happy Days Pre-school	Charity Name Happy Days Pre-school	Charity Name Happy Days Pre-school

2025	Charity no (if any)	1143906

3 (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 ended31/12/2025. As the charity's trustees, 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 by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination ~~(other than that disclosed below *)~~ 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 no concerns and 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.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Date: 08/07/2026

Signed: Name: Caroline Robinson FCA Relevant professional Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 43 Tresco Road, Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 3LA

Oct 2018

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Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Figures per annual return

Bank Cash Total

Oct 2018

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Fees	106,150.98		106,150.98
Fundraising	1,058.00		1,058.00
Interest	290.35		290.35
Other	35.26		35.26
	107,534.59	0.00	107,534.59

Expenditure
	Wages	86,731.71		86,731.71
	PSLA Insurance/training/books/Ofsted fees	2,431.24		2,431.24
	Rent	12,000.00		12,000.00
	Purchases Equipment and sundries	3,464.55		3,464.55
	Other	0.00		0.00

		104,627.50	0.00	104,627.50

Net profit/loss		2,907.09	0.00	2,907.09

Oct 2018

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