## **Trustee Report for St. Nicolas Playgroup (Taplow)**
## **for Year-End 31[st] August, 2025**
|**Charity Name:**|St. Nicolas Playgroup (Taplow)|
|---|---|
|**Address:**|The Reading Rooms,
Taplow Village Centre,
Taplow,
SL6 0EX|
|**Charity Registraton**
**No.**|1155996|
|**Trustee Names:**|Stuart Hampton-Roach – Chair
Angela Farrell – Treasurer
Ella Jones - Trustee|
## **Charity Structure**
St. Nicolas Playgroup (Taplow) is a member of the Early Year Learning Alliance (EYLA) and is governed by the Pre-school Learning Alliance Model Pre-school Constitution 2011. It is managed and controlled by a committee of trustees, elected at Annual General Meetings in September/October by majority vote. The minimum number of Committee members is five and comprises of a minimum of
60% Family Members. All Committee members are DBS checked and cleared and sign up to St. Nicolas Playgroup’s Trustee Code of Conduct which is modelled on that of the PLA.
A sub-committee, known as the Fundraising Committee, is formed by some Committee members to organise fund raising events to support the running of Playgroup. A formal process and policy are in place for the recording and handover to the Treasurer of funds raised by the fundraising committee.
## **Activities and Objectives**
The aims of the pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:
- offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;
- encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;
- instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.
## **Achievements and Performance**
2024-25 has been an excellent year for St. Nicolas Playgroup (Taplow), where the benefits of previous efforts to ensure our long-term viability have resulted in a strong financial performance. The Committee maintained a close partnership with the Early Years team at Buckinghamshire Council to ensure we maintain and build upon the financial health of our preschool and plan for the expansion of our playgroup to the neighbouring Dorney village.
The committee are delighted that there have been no changes to the management team and both the Manager and Deputy Manager continue to be instrumental to the success of the setting. We are also pleased to report that staff turnover remains low with only 1 staff member choosing to leave the charity between Aug 2024 and Aug 2025. The dedication and hard work of all our staff are truly the backbone of our preschool, and we are immensely grateful for their contributions.
Overall, 2024-25 has been another year of strong performance and growth and as such we have been developing our plans to expand to a new setting and grow off the back of the Playgroup’s solid foundation and success in Taplow.
## **Financial Review**
This financial period has resulted in a surplus of £40,698 (2023-2024 surplus of £22,817). Details of all income and expenditure are outlined in the attached financial statements. Sufficient financial reserves are held to sustain Playgroup in the event that income falls below expected levels. The
intention would be to continue functioning as a Playgroup for up to 3 months and cover the payment of staff redundancies, in the unlikely event that the Playgroup had to close, the amount of £30,321 is held for this purpose within the account balance of £90,647 in the Barclays community business account.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees: _xx_ Angela Farrell Management Committee Treasurer
Date:
||**St Nicolas Playgroup Taplow**
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**1**|**155996**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|9/1/2024||**To**|8/31/2025||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||
|**A1 Receipts**
Funding
**176,231**
Fees
**29,947**
Fundraising
**359**
Grants
**-**
**206,536**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 206,536**
**A3 Payments**
Staff Costs
**140,072**
Other Staff Related Costs
**3,142**
BuildingCosts
**11,071**
Insurance
**957**
Audit & Accountancyfees
**836**
IT Costs
**2,528**
Childrens resources/services
**3,228**
Consumables
**2,903**
Other
**644**
**_Sub total_ 165,380**
Computer Equipment
**-**
PlaygroupEquipment
**458**
**_Sub total_ 458**
**_Total payments_ 165,838**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ 40,698**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**49,944**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 90,642**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Restricted**
**funds**||**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**176,231**
**29,947**
**359**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**206,536**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**206,536**
**140,072**
**3,142**
**11,071**
**957**
**836**
**2,528**
**3,228**
**2,903**
**644**
**165,380**
**-**
**458**
**458**
**165,838**
**40,698**
**-**
**49,944**
**90,642**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**176,231**|**108,390**|
||||||**29,947**|**21,783**|
||||||**359**|**8,375**|
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||||||**-**|**-**|
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||||||**206,536**|**138,547**|
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**-**
**-**|**-**||
||||||**-**|**-**|
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|||||**-**|**206,536**|**138,547**|
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|||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**140,072**|**90,790**|
||||||**3,142**|**3,316**|
||||||**11,071**|**12,826**|
||||||**957**|**1,087**|
||||||**836**|**782**|
||||||**2,528**|**2,695**|
||||||**3,228**|**1,462**|
||||||**2,903**|**1,425**|
||||||**644**|**346**|
||||||**165,380**|**114,730**|
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|||||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**956**|
||||||**458**|**34**|
||||||**458**|**990**|
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|||||**-**|**165,838**|**115,720**|
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|||**-**||**-**|**40,698**|**22,827**|
|||**-**||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|
|||**-**|||**49,944**|**27,117**|
|||**-**||**-**|**90,642**|**49,944**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|**Details**
Total Cash at the end of the period
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**90,642**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90,642**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**-**
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**Cost (optional)**
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**Cost (optional)**
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Print Name
Angela Farrell
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
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||||Date of
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|||Angela Farrell||
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CHARITY (OMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES
Independent examiner's report on the
accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report to the trustees
St Nicolas Playgroup (Taplow)
On accounts for the year
ended
31 August 2025
Charity no
(if any)
1155996
Sot out on pages
1&2
I report to the truslees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity ("the Trust.) for the year ended 3110812025.
Responslbilities and
basls of report
As the charrty's trustees, you are SponSible for the preparation of the
accounts in accordan with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011
I'the Act.).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carned 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{5llbl of the Act.
Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm thal no material matters have
examinerfs statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me
cause lo believe that in, any material respect..
the accounting re¢ord$ were not kept in accordance wTrth section 130
of the Charrties Act, or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records,. or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
¢oncerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities
IAc¢ounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement
that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is nol 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 woper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
. Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.
l .T). RoZgJ
Signed:
Date:
17/7
Z6
Name:
Mark Price BSC, FCA
Relovant professional
qualiflcatlon{sl or b¢xly
lif any):
The Instrtule of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales {ICAEW)
Address:
One, St Petets Road. Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 7QU
IER
Oct 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete If the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern
(see CC32, Independent examinalion of ¢harity a¢counts.' directions and
guidance for examiners).
Glve here brlef dotalls of
any items that the
examlner wish88 to
disclose.
NIA
IER
Oct 2018