HIGHMORE HEDGEHOGS NURSERY WESTFIELDS COMMUNITY HALL, HIGHMORE STREET, HEREFORD, HR4 9PG Ofsted Registration No: EY 464526
Accounts 1/9/2022 – 31/8/2023
Opening balance 38.553.02
Income: Fees 46,768. 60 Nursery Education Funding 116,951.79 Inclusion Funding 904.50 Apprenticeship Payment 500.00 _____ £165,124.89
Expenditure: Wages 145,623.48 Rent 9,280.00 Equipment 4,837.50 Expendables/Cleaning/PPE 1015.22 Subscriptions 704.73 Clinical Waste Disposal 271.40 Telephone/Broadband 716.54 Training 645.00 Insurance 567.84 DBS Checks 277.34 Music Sessions 65.00 MacMillan Donation 85.00 Website 354.02 ____ £164,443.07 Closing balance £39,234.84
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HIGHMORE HEDGEHOGS NURSERY
WESTFIELDS COMMUNITY HALL, HIGHMORE STREET, HEREFORD, HR4 9PG Ofsted Registration No: EY 464526
Trustees Annual Report 1/9/2022 - 31/8/2023
As always this has been an extremely busy year for Highmore Hedgehogs Nursery with 52 children on the register. At the end of August 2023, twenty of our children left to join three different primary schools within Herefordshire. From September 2023 we will have 46 children on the register with more to join us in January 2024 and April 2024. Approximately half of these children will be in receipt of Nursery Education Funding, many of them taking the thirty hours extended funding.
This year the main income was made up from Nursery Education Funding from the local Authority (£4.24 per hour), and Nursery fees of 4.20 per hours for 3- and 4-year-olds and £4.50 for younger children. We also received inclusion funding of £904.50 and £500 from the Apprenticeship Service.
The main expenditure was on Nursery Staff Wages and rent of the premises, along with cleaning equipment & PPE, training, DBS checks, insurance, Ofsted, telephone/Broadband and subscriptions to our online Learning Journal system and membership of NDNA.
This year has seen changes for the Nursery as Mrs Louise Merriman resigned as a Trustee, and we have appointed two new Trustees – Mr Michael Williams and Mrs Elaine Green.
We have also been inspected by Ofsted on June 9[th] 2023, and were pleased to receive a grading of ‘Good’. We were, however, disappointed to find that Ofsted published our report online before we were able to read it and we queried this with Ofsted. Apparently, after many emails back and forwards they apologised and admitted that they mistakenly sent the report to a previous address of Mrs Louise Merriman (who was no longer a trustee and therefore not on the Charity Commission list of trustees), instead of sending to Dawn Merriman.
The closing balance on the bank account at 31.8.23 was £39.234.84.
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