## **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.**| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |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
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**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** |**Report to the trustees/**
**members of**
**On accounts for the year**
**ended**
**Set out on pages**
**Responsibilities and**
**basis of 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 ended**31/12/2025**.
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 1 **Oct 2018** **IER** ## **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 2 **Oct 2018** **IER** |Income|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| 3 **Oct 2018** **IER**