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| TRUSTEES ANNUAL | REPORT AUGUST 2024 | |
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| Charity Name | Buttons and Bows Pre-School | |
| Address | c/o Sawtry Infants School | |
| Middlefield Road | ||
| Sawtry | ||
| Huntingdon | ||
| PE29 5SH | ||
| Charity Number | 1145956 | |
| Trustees | Mrs Julie Howells | |
| Mrs Rachel Twine | ||
| Mrs Joanne Chapman | ||
| Mrs Ruth Fox | ||
| Emily Wright | ||
| Clare Molyneux | ||
| Zach booth | ||
| Governance | The pre-school adopts the Pre-School Learning | |
| Alliance Constitution and follows the rules and | ||
| regulations prescribed by the PLA. | ||
| Trustees are appointed or re-appointed at the | ||
| Annual General Meeting in September. | ||
| All trustees with the exceptions of Mrs Julie | ||
| Howells and Mrs Ruth Fox, are volunteers and | ||
| receive no remuneration or other benefits. Mrs | ||
| Julie Howells is also the Manager of the setting | ||
| andreceivesanappropriatesalary. |
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Finance The main sources of income are a grant from using the facility.
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AGM TREASURERS NOTES TO SUPPORT REPORT 2024
- e Vicky Parkes said it has been a very successful year for our pre-school and we continue to work and plan with healthy bank balances. Annually we submit our accounts to the charities commission. Full details of our annual accounts are available for you to see
AGM MANAGERS REPORT 2024
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e It is great to see you all face to face and via zoom to support our wonderful pre-school, this evening we are live and multitasking! As we have celebrated our SEVENTH anniversary in this wonderful building, we often reflect on where we have come from and how we have evolved. So that you can share an understanding of our journey I thought I would give you a little insight into the background of Buttons and Bows.
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e Buttons and Bows, a charity, has come a long way in recent years. Established in 1993 it was originally located in the Old School Hall, a shared community building and was a pack away setting (resources and equipment set up each morning and packed away each afternoon). This was not a barrier to myself and my staff who worked tirelessly to receive our first OUSTANDING OFSTED rating in 2010, we have since received a further three OUTSTANDING ratings, the most recent being in February of 2020, just before the country went into lockdown. And what a couple of years it has been! Our whole lives disrupted and our children's routines and normality turned upside down. I am very proud that we, as a setting continued to open. Throughout the process, which included daily changes in guidance and legislation, and this hasn't changed! I ensured that we followed government guidance fully, adopting policies and creating in depth risk assessments.
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e COVID-19 has bought many challenges, not just to our personal lives but to our working lives and continues to do so. But with such a supportive team we are thriving and some good has come out of the pandemic for us in the setting. We initially split the setting in half, running out of the two play rooms, naming them Buttons room and Bows room and this has enhanced our practice a great deal. We continue to work this way, the children are thriving, and the staff are delighted with the new way of working, so this is now our new normal.
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e Currently we have 47 children on our register, made up of 25 boys and 22 girls. We have 3 children who we are supporting with additional needs, one who we have raised a EHA for and 2 we are gathering evidence for. We have 5 children with English as an additional language. We have 6 children due to start in January, and 6 due to start after Easter
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e There is a great deal of interest in 2 year old spaces, and we have had to limit these due to the adult/child ratio and our policy commitment to offer spaces in accordance with D.O.B. (Eldest prioritise).
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e We fundraise locally to provide new resources and equipment for our children, and with 47 children on our register, soon to be increasing to 59, we strive to provide purposeful and challenging learning experiences, which require updating and replenishing resources. We are looking for creative ideas to fundraise virtually, and at our first committee meeting, which will be within a month from today, we will discuss this at more length. Having said that our ‘live’ Christmas raffle last year was a huge success, and we will do this again this year.
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e In March, we resumed out stay and play Saturday morning session which was a huge success, and this is a morning that we will repeat as often as we can. In June we joined the Sawtry carnival.
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e Consultations will take place during November, face to face, or if more convenient via telephone at drop off or collection and we have started to talk to parent's to arrange this. This Christmas we are holding ‘room’ parties, as with the amount of children and parents/carers it would be
impossible to fit everyone into one playroom. Save the dates and invites for children and parents will be sent after half term.
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e This year we continue to see our demographic changing, along with the needs of children and families. As a setting we continue to work with our families to ensure support and the best early years outcome.
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e Last year we completed the ‘Millie's Mark award’ for paediatric and wellbeing excellence. This is accredited on an annual basis and I am proud to say that we have been accredited once again this year.
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e After half term we will be welcoming Natasha back to the team. Natasha moved away with family, and has now returned to Sawtry and we are absolutely delighted to have her back, this will enable us to release further spaces to meet the increasing demand.
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e I want to thank my staff... For all of us pulling together, supporting each other and trusting me to make the right decisions and choices, whilst keeping us all safe. We have an incredible team who are all very supportive, determined and motivated which makes us the success which we are today.
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e It's such a wonderful pre-school with a fantastic staffing team, lovely parents, brilliant children and I am very proud to manage this setting. Thank you for supporting me in the many changes implemented as we ‘grow’.
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e And all of you...Your continued support is invaluable in driving our preschool forward... Thank you...
e Resignations: Vicky Parkes and Katie Payne. e Committee Stand down/Election of 2024 committee | Role | Who | Nominated By Chair Person | Jo Chapman | Julie Howells | Ruth Fox BsO (Designated Safeguarding eeOfficer) pial
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Foy | CHARITY COMMISSION Independent examiner's A, FOR ENGLAND AND WALES report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner’s Report
Report to the trustees BUTTONS AND BOWS PLAYGROUP On accounts for the year Charity no | 1145956 | report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 08 / 2025. Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in basis of report accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). | 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, | have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent examiner's statement | 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. Name: LISA WATSON Relevant professional qualification(s) or body | IAB, AAT (if any): Address: 10 PARK ROAD, SAWTRY HUNTINGDON PE28 5TA
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).
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