2025-03-31-accounts

Sherwood Play Group (Registered charity, number 1156146) Financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025

Page	Contents
2 - 3	Trustees’ annual report
4	Independent examiner’s report
5	Receipts & payments account
6	Statement of assets & liabilities
7	Notes to the accounts

Sherwood Play Group Trustees’ annual report for the year ended 31 March 2025

Full name Sherwood Play Group

Organisation type Charitable incorporated organisation

Registered charity number 1156146

Principal address

Woodthorpe House, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, NG5 3FN

Trustees

Thulani Molife, Chair Heidi Alvey Sarah Kozlowska

Independent examiner

Eva Stevens, employee of Community Accounting Plus, Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GL

Governance and management

The charity is a CIO Association and operates under its constitution adopted 12/03/14.

Trustees are voted in at a committee meeting and agree to serve and adopt all Playgroup policies.

Objectives and activities

The charity objects are the development and education of children and young people in particular by:

1. Promoting their care and safety;

2. Promoting their education and promoting parental involvement;

3. Promoting their health and wellbeing;

4. Providing services to support them and their families and carers;

5. Providing services to individuals holding membership of the CIO; and

6. Furthering the aims of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Main activities

We are a not for profit fully inclusive pre-school which serves a wide area in the local community we have a number of disadvantaged families who are able to access childcare through the local authorities funding for 2 year olds and also we provide the nursery education funding for three and four year olds. Some families pay for our childcare service, fees charged are at a reasonable competitive rate. Children benefit from learning in their early years through planned and educational play both indoors and outdoors. Children can access three hours of childcare or as we offer a lunch club three times a week they can access a full day, giving parents the flexibility to work if they need to.

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Sherwood Play Group

Public benefit statement

The Trustees confirm that they have complied with the duty in section 17 of the Charities Act 2011 to have due regard to the Charity Commission's general guidance on public benefit, 'Charities and Public Benefit'.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit

Allows parents to return to work or give them a break whilst their child is cared for in a stimulating environment.

Summary of the main achievements during the period

We continue to be as flexible as we can offering a variety of hours for children which fits in nicely with working Parents or Parents who just need time to themselves during the day. We have had outdoor Forest school which has been provided by an external Forest school teacher, this was paid for by obtaining additional grant money to benefit the children and their learning.

Financial review

The trustees are satisfied with the financial position this year.

The charity’s policy on reserves

We try to keep 3 month wage reserve in a separate account, however we have had to use a small amount of money to cover staff wages if there are not sufficient funds in the current account at the end of the month.

Financial Risks

Rising staffing costs, running costs, not being able to sustain funds to keep running.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:

Signed ______ Date _ Thulani Molife, Trustee

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Independent examiner’s report to the trustees of Sherwood Play Group for the year ended 31 March 2025

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of Sherwood Play Group (the charity) for the year ended 31 March 2025.

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the trustees of the charity you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (‘the Act’). I report in respect of my examination of the charity’s accounts carried 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(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

2. the accounts do not accord with those records.

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 proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed ____ Date _______ Eva Stevens BSc, CPFA Employee of Community Accounting Plus

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Sherwood Play Group Receipts & payments account for the year ended 31 March 2025

2024 £ Note Receipts 90 Bank interest 69598 Grants & donations 2 9752 Playgroup & lunch club fee 79440 Total receipts Payments 219 Bank charges - IT cost 1678 Dues & subscriptions 733 Groceries & milk 1039 Insurance expense 430 Office stationery & supplies 4687 Professional fees - Purchases 3078 Rent & rates - Repairs & maintenance 950 Telephone 100 Training 71062 Wages, NI & pensions - Membership fee 83976 Total payments (4536) Net receipts/(payments) 20711 Cash funds at start of this period 16175 Cash funds at end of this period	2025 £ 183 102698 7724
	110605
	215 965 1684 705 1052 720 4530 1105 3010 70 1030 120 76903 96
	92205
	18400 16175
	34575

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Sherwood Play Group Statement of assets and liabilities at 31 March 2025

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2024 2025
£ Cash assets Note £
16175 Bank accounts 34575
16175 34575
Other monetary assets
519 Prepayment 3 550
519 550
Assets retained for the charity’s own use
General equipment.
Liabilities
(918) Creditors 4 (948)
(918) (948)
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These financial statements are accepted on behalf of the charity by:

Signed _____ Date _____ Sarah Kozlowska, Trustee

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Sherwood Play Group Notes to the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025

1. Receipts & payments accounts

Receipts and payments accounts contain a summary of money received and money spent during the period and a list of assets and liabilities at the end of the period. Usually, cash received and cash spent will include transactions through bank accounts and cash in hand.

2. Grants & donations

Holland Legacy Derbyshire Best Practise Net Nottingham City Council Future Flying High Trust Masonic Charitable CO-OP Food General Donations	£ 10000 2000 5250 76530 2000 3762 500 2656
	102698

3. Debtors

Debtors
	£
NoodlesNow	24
Insurance	526 550

4. Creditors

Creditors
Independent examination fee HMRC	£ 834 114
	948

5. Trustees’ remuneration

Trustees received no expenses, remuneration or benefits in this period.

6. Related party transactions

There were no related party transactions during the period.

7. Glossary of terms

Creditors: These are amounts owed by the charity, but not paid during the accounting period.

Prepayments: These are services that the charity has paid for in advance, but not used during the accounting period.

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