## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date **1 September 2020 31 August 2021** **From** **To** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** NEXT STEPS PRE-SCHOOL GROUP **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1156391 **Charity's principal address** CHURCH ROAD DOVER KENT **Postcode** CT17 9LW ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** ||1
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**to appoint trustee (if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |||Cheryl Morris|Chairperson||| |||Virginia McCarthy|Administrator||| |||Alan Morris|Treasurer||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| |||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| |||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** TRUST DEED Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) TRUST How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) APPOINTED BY EXISTING TRUSTEES Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** TO ENCHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER THE STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY **Summary of the objects of the** ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR **charity set out in its** THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY **governing document** GROUPS. March **2012** **TAR** 2 OPERATION OF A REGISTERED PRE-SCHOOL GROUP. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** THE TRUSTEES HAVE DECIDED THAT A SUFFICIENT RESERVE FUND WILL BE MAINTAINED FOR THE FUTURE RUNNING OF THE PRE-SCHOOL. ## **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s)** Virginia McCarthy **Full name(s)** Cheryl Morris **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairperson **etc) Date** March **2012** **TAR** 5 Next Steps Pre-School Group Unaudited Financial Statements For the year ended 31 August 2021 K Williams & Co Incorporated Financial Accountants 47 Castle Street Dover Kent CT16 1PT Next Steps Pre-School Group Accountants’ Report ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for the year ending 31 August 2021 (under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011) and that an independent examination is needed. ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** We report to the trustees on our examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 August 2021. As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). We report in respect of our examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out our examination, we have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement** Our examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** We have completed our examination. We confirm that no material matters have come to our attention in connection with the examination which gives us cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. We 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. K Williams & Co Incorporated Financial Accountants 47 Castle Street Dover Kent CT16 1PT 2 Next Steps Pre-School Group Receipts and Payments Account For the year ended 31 August 2021 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ |||2021||2020| |---|---|---|---|---| ||£|£|£|£| |**Fees and grants**||167,486||133,346| |Interest received||30||67| |**Expenditure**||||| |Resources and equipment|13,264||7,629|| |Wages|131,657||131,858|| |Staff training and other costs|2,113||80|| |Rent|9,551||5,728|| |Telephone|2,459||2,347|| |Postage and stationery|34||-|| |Repairs and equipment running|-||2,536|| |Insurance and subscriptions|2,269||2,331|| |Accountancy|840||720|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |||162,187||153,228| |||---------------------||---------------------| |**Surplus / (deficit) for the year**||5,329||(19,815)| |||==========||==========| 3 Next Steps Pre-School Group Balance Sheet 31 August 2021 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ |||2021||2020| |---|---|---|---|---| ||£|£|£|£| |**CURRENT ASSETS**||||| |Debtors and prepayments|-||-|| |Cash at bank and in hand|33,226||28,557|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| ||33,226||28,557|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |**CURRENT LIABILITIES**||||| |Accruals|780||1,440|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |||32,446||27,117| |||---------------------||---------------------| |**NET ASSETS**||32,446||27,117| |||==========||==========| |**FINANCED BY:**||||| |**Reserve fund**||||| |Balance brought forward||27,117||46,932| |Total surplus / (deficit) for the year||5,329||(19,815)| |||---------------------||---------------------| |Balance carried forward||32,446||27,117| |||==========||==========| Client Approval Certificate ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ We approve the financial statements and confirm that we have made available all relevant records and information for their preparation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------C Morris V McCarthy Chairperson Administrator ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date Date 4 Next Steps Pre-School Group Unaudited Financial Statements For the year ended 31 August 2021 K Williams & Co Incorporated Financial Accountants 47 Castle Street Dover Kent CT16 1PT Next Steps Pre-School Group Accountants’ Report ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for the year ending 31 August 2021 (under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011) and that an independent examination is needed. ## **Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner** We report to the trustees on our examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 August 2021. As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). We report in respect of our examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out our examination, we have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. ## **Basis of independent examiner’s statement** Our examination was carried out in accordance with General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the accounts. ## **Independent examiner’s statement** We have completed our examination. We confirm that no material matters have come to our attention in connection with the examination which gives us cause to believe that in, any material respect: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. We 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. K Williams & Co Incorporated Financial Accountants 47 Castle Street Dover Kent CT16 1PT 2 Next Steps Pre-School Group Receipts and Payments Account For the year ended 31 August 2021 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ |||2021||2020| |---|---|---|---|---| ||£|£|£|£| |**Fees and grants**||167,486||133,346| |Interest received||30||67| |**Expenditure**||||| |Resources and equipment|13,264||7,629|| |Wages|131,657||131,858|| |Staff training and other costs|2,113||80|| |Rent|9,551||5,728|| |Telephone|2,459||2,347|| |Postage and stationery|34||-|| |Repairs and equipment running|-||2,536|| |Insurance and subscriptions|2,269||2,331|| |Accountancy|840||720|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |||162,187||153,228| |||---------------------||---------------------| |**Surplus / (deficit) for the year**||5,329||(19,815)| |||==========||==========| 3 Next Steps Pre-School Group Balance Sheet 31 August 2021 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ |||2021||2020| |---|---|---|---|---| ||£|£|£|£| |**CURRENT ASSETS**||||| |Debtors and prepayments|-||-|| |Cash at bank and in hand|33,226||28,557|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| ||33,226||28,557|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |**CURRENT LIABILITIES**||||| |Accruals|780||1,440|| ||---------------------||---------------------|| |||32,446||27,117| |||---------------------||---------------------| |**NET ASSETS**||32,446||27,117| |||==========||==========| |**FINANCED BY:**||||| |**Reserve fund**||||| |Balance brought forward||27,117||46,932| |Total surplus / (deficit) for the year||5,329||(19,815)| |||---------------------||---------------------| |Balance carried forward||32,446||27,117| |||==========||==========| Client Approval Certificate ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ We approve the financial statements and confirm that we have made available all relevant records and information for their preparation. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------C Morris V McCarthy Chairperson Administrator ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date Date 4