Little Badgers AGM September 2020
Chair’s Report
First of all I would like to thank you all for your support in my second year as chair, once again another successful year at Little Badgers comes to a close. 2019/2020 has ensured a great preschool has once again helped local children enjoy early years education also 2020 has been a very strange time for everyone.
September 2019
We started the new school year in our temporary accommodation at Holmefields and everyone staff and children settled in well, getting use to the new routine of where to park, which door to arrive to and all the new times for starting and picking up, it was a challenging time but staff worked very hard and everyone was happy, with only a few spaces available at the start of the term but they filled up quickly. Also in September we did the most exciting thing of all we ordered our new preschool building which will be situated back at Badger Hill Primary School
October 2019
October also bought us some exciting news Emma (pre-school deputy) announced she was pregnant with her first child. This year again the school didn’t do a harvest festival which was sad as we have enjoyed go down the church with them the last few years. As we had just purchased a new building we decided not to buy any new toys this year, a lot of the toys where in storage due to us been at holmfields, so they would be like new toys to the children when we were in our new building. The children designed Christmas cards ready to be made into packs and mugs for parents to buy. We received £65.00 commission from this and again it has been a successful activity which we will repeat. Also in October we did our first big fundraiser, we hosted a quiz night, when was a massive success, we got 40 brilliant raffle prizes, we did stand up bingo all in all it was a pretty good night and hopefully one we can repeat we raised £2,396.50p.
November 2019
We welcomed back our photographer from Rose and Son, she did a fantastic job producing smiley photos of the children. We had a meeting regarding the building and Julia got to choose all the colours for the building. We had our annal AGM meeting, a couple of months later than normal due to everything else we had to sort which the new building and the fundraising etc, but no one apart from committee showed up. The groundworks for our new building started.
December 2019
This year we were able to hold a stall at the school’s Christmas fair, we had Christmas puddings and mince pies knitted and we put chocolate oranges and lindt in them and sold them, along with reindeer lollies, we made £390.00. We were lucky enough this year to have no one off work with illness. The children made Christmas decorations and enjoyed a Christmas party where they had a magic show, party games and most importantly a visit from Father Christmas and every child got a gift. We got a hamper donated and we raffled it off and we made £100.00 At the beginning of December we got a road closure from the council and yes OUR NEW BUILDING WAS DELIVERED it was a very exciting time, the building went in and then they started fitting it out and on Tuesday 24[th] December 2020 we received the keys to our brand new pre-school. We had a fence put round our area and new tarmac laid it was all starting to come together to start 2020 in our new building.
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January 2020
In September we decided we were going to start the spring term two days later than the school to make sure everything was ready, and over the Christmas holidays, staff, committee, staff partners and committee partners, worked hard to get everything ready, we had a trip to ikea to buy new storage and cupboards, we bought a shed for more outdoor storage, we had new boards put on the wall, we had everything come out of storage there was loads to do, but we all pulled together and we got the building ready for the children. We opened on the first day with the cutting of the ribbon and that’s it we were up and running again, all the children loved the new building and settled in well the new routines. January saw the start of PE for the school starters.
February 2020
We organised a coffee morning at Osbaldwick sports club, we advertised it at school and around Osbaldwick, people made cakes for us, we also did a bottle raffle which went down a storm and we ran out before everyone had arrived. We raised £377.00 at the coffee morning it was a great success and we are hoping to repeat it at Christmas or next February
March 2020
We started March with world book day, and sports relief, we said goodbye (for now) to Emma who went on maternity leave and said hello to Sarah who now works full time for Little Badgers and we welcomed Anna to the team, Laura got a promotion to deputy and has took to it well. Well that’s the beginning of March, towards the end of March a disease spread across the world COVID-19, Boris Johnson put the country into lockdown he announced on 18[th] March 2020 that school will close on Friday 20[th] March 2020 to everyone apart from them of keyworkers, staff and committee spend the night trying to figure out which children were them of keyworkers, when the keyworker list came out there were more on the list than we thought so had to recalculate, we sent emails out and letters, spoke with parents, and in the end there was one child who would need our care and it wasn’t everyday so we took the decision to closed Little Badgers until further notice. It was a very strange time, but committee kept in touch with staff to make sure they were all fine. We had to cancel the living eggs that we normally do but they are booked for next year.
April 2020
April came and we were still locked down, but April did some some good news Emma gave birth to a healthy baby girl who she called Daisy
May 2020
On Sunday 10[th] May 2020 Boris Johnson announced that some children can return to school from the 01[st] June 2020, so we starting preparing to go back to Little Badgers, we decided that only the school starters should come back and be in one bubble with three members of staff, we also decided that they would come two days a week, we rang around parents and we had six children to start with and three members of staff (Laura, Sarah and Anna) we but new procedures and risk assessments in place, and we opened a week after the school as we didn’t want to open when we wasn’t ready, we put cleaning rotas in place, we washed hands more often and only had certain activities out and spent a lot of time outside in the fresh air temperature checks were taken before anyone entered the building. We worked with the school and changed our opening hours a bit to help them we changed them to 9:30am to 12:30pm. As Julia and Jane were shielding we decided it
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would be best for them not to come back to work, also Bi worked in a nursing home as well so thought it was best she didn’t move between them. At the end of May we got more bad news Bi decided to hand her notice in with immediate effect, but on the plus we spoke with Sarah and Sarah agreed to take over yellow group, and we spoke with Margherita and she is going to cover the rest of Emma’s maternity leave with the possibility of job sharing once Emma returns, Margherita is level two trained and currently studying her level three and staff have agreed to continue supporting her with it. The canopy went up so the children could spend more times outside even if it was raining.
June 2020
Laura filmed the new one way system and put it on the facebook page ready for when the children came back, it was strange at first but numbers soon picked up once parents realised it was safe and we was doing everything we can, staff and children adjusted well and we had a very positive return for the children.
July 2020
July saw the end of term it was a very different end of term, we couldn’t have graduation or graduation photos staff didn’t get to say bye to all the children just the ones that came back, there was no summer party no cuddles with the children it was a very strange time for everyone. We said goodbye to Anna.
August 2020
Not a lot happened in August we had our first online committee meeting which was a great success and got some great ideas for fundraising which hopefully we will be able to get some done and raise some money to pay the building off and but some new equipment.
It is appropriate at this time to thank the staff on behalf of the committee and parents for all the hard work they do in making Little Badgers the wonderful, happy, caring and successful pre-school that it is.
Once again a thank you must go to Rachel (Bowling) our Treasurer and SP (Bowling) for all their hard work behind the scenes to keep the financial side of Little Badgers in order also this year they worked extra hard behind the scenes with the new build, in addition a thank you to our committee members who support and extra work they have done to keep the pre-school running.
I know that once again the coming year will see more excitement, fun, and learning and it will be another successful year thanks to all the hard work of the dedicated team of the committee and staff.
Kerrie Barrow
Chair of little badgers committee
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Little Badgers No (if any)
1145510
Receipts and payments accounts
For the period Period start date Period end date
To
from 01/09/2019 31/08/2020
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CC16a
Section A Receipts and payments
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Unrestricted Restricted Restricted
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
£
A1 Receipts
Fees Income 9,992 9,992 11,171
NEG Funding 47,259 47,259 46,403
Other Grants 7,456 7,456 8,740
Donations & Fundraising 330 11,073 11,403 33,228
Other fees 5 5 536
Bank Interest 67 67 148
Other Sundry Income 165 165 147
Admin Fees 150 150 110
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Sub total (Gross income for
65,424 - 11,073 76,497 100,481
AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 65,424 - 11,073 76,497 100,481
A3 Payments
Salaries & Wage Costs 45,449 45,449 50,071
Staff Training & Other Costs 132 132 396
Play Materials & Equipment 384 1 385 803
Activities & Outings 382 382 484
Refreshments (inc Milk) 740 740 1,195
Consumables 108 108 -
EYPP 376 376 661
Rent 2,740 2,740 2,667
Song Box / Stretch and grow 1,035 1,035 2,980
Insurance Costs 953 953 644
Affiliations & Subscriptions 150 150 182
Telephone Costs 309 309 129
Postage, Printing & Stationery 237 237 398
Fundraising Costs 106 106 205
New building costs - 3,082
General Equipment 108 108 -
Other Sundry Costs 29 29 163
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Sub total [ 53,237 ] 1 - 53,238 64,060
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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New building 40,948 - 40,930 81,878 -
Sub total [ 40,948 ] - 40,930 81,878.00 -
Total payments 94,185 1 40,930 135,116 64,060
Net of receipts/(payments) - 28,761 - 1 - 29,857 - 58,619 36,421
A5 Transfers between funds - - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 44,519 1 29,857 74,377 37,956
Cash funds this year end 15,758 - 0 15,758 74,377
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
| Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B1 Cash funds B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets |
Signature Tax and NI July and August Portakabin - balance of the building Details Building Details Cash book figure Details Details Total cash funds (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details |
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 15,758 - - - - - 15,758 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Unrestricted - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Unrestricted 201 Unrestricted 13,825 - - Print Name |
Restricted funds to nearest £ - - |
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| Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional) 22nd October 2020 31 December 2020 Date of approval |
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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 Little Badgers
On accounts for the year 31[st] August 2020 Charity no 1145510 ended (if any)
Set out on pages 1, 2 and 3
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
Respective The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. responsibilities of The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year trustees and examiner
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 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
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to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
Basis of independent My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given examiner’s statement by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
Independent In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *)
examiner's statement
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which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements:
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to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
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to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act
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have not been met; or
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to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
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Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
Signed: Date: 24/06/2021 Name: Adam Wood Relevant professional Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualification(s) or body
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Address: 3 Furrow Grange Middlesbrough TS5 8DP
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Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material problems.
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