2021-08-31-accounts - Puddleducks Nursery & Pre-School

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Puddleducks Nursery & Pre School

Chair’s annual report for:

Financial year September 2020-August 2021.

Numbers for the start of term 2021/22 were low (45% occupancy) due to the ongoing pandemic, public concern and Government restrictions at the time.

Staff agreed to reduce their working pattern to four days per week to help with the ongoing financial strain. We took advantage of the Government furlough scheme until the demise, in order to survive.

We continued to battle with the effects of Coronavirus Covid-19 and entered Lockdown 2 for the period January 2021 – May 2021. This time around, we had many more children attend during lockdown, many of which were funded or vulnerable children.

To protect staffing (our most valuable asset) all non-essential spending was tightly controlled.

Staff training and development took place for mandatory requirements only. These were:

First aid renewals = 6 staff

SEN development = 1 staff

DBS update checks = 3 staff

We received PPE payments over the year amounting to £6k

As a named charity, the Co-op community fund donated £3,785

Repairs and maintenance of the building amounted to £4k

In May, we recruited two apprentices to back-fill staffing gaps caused by the pandemic and in anticipation of a member of staff leaving at the end of the academic year.

Nineteen children moved up to primary school in the summer 2021. Through lots of hard work most were developmentally on target for this transition.

We said farewell to one member of staff, who relocated to Belgium.

This was another tough year and it is with thanks and gratitude to the hard work, effort and dedication of the staffing team.

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