**Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
**To**
Period start date Period end date 16 09 2023 15 09 2024
**From**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
St. John’s Pre-school Macclesfield
**Other names charity is known by**
1157982 **Charity's principal address** Ivy Road Macclesfield Cheshire **Postcode SK11 8QN** ~~—~~
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1157982
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity Dates acted if not for whole Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Emma Cheetham Chair 2 Faye Martin Secretary 3 Nicola Billington Treasurer 4 James Cheetham IT support 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ~~Oe~~ **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
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**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by members 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**
The charity provides pre-school education for children in the local area aged between 24 months and school age.
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Our setting aims to:
- Provide high quality care and education for children below statutory school age;
- • Work in partnership with parents to help children to learn and develop;
- • Add to the life and well-being of the local community; and • Offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality
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and values diversity.
Members of the charity are the parents of children in our care and have full participatory rights. These include a right to be:
- valued and respected;
- kept informed;
- consulted;
- involved; and
- included at all levels.
We aim to ensure that each child:
- is in a safe and stimulating environment;
- is given generous care and attention, because of our ratio of qualified staff to children, as well as volunteer helpers;
- has the chance to join in with other children and adults to live, play, work and learn together;
- is helped to take forward her/his learning and development by being helped to build on what she/he already knows and can do;
- • has a personal key person who makes sure each child makes satisfying progress;
**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)**
- is in a setting that sees parents as partners in helping each child to learn and develop; and
- is in a setting in which parents help to shape the service it offers.
Our setting has a duty under the law to help safeguard children against suspected or actual ‘significant harm’. Our employment practices ensure children against the likelihood of abuse in our setting and we have a procedure for managing complaints or allegations against a member of staff.
Our way of working with children and their parents ensures that we are aware of any problems that may emerge and can offer support, including referral to appropriate agencies when necessary, to help families in difficulty.
The trustees declare that they have read and regard the guidance issued by the Charity Commission with respect to Public Benefit. The trustees have complied fully with their duty to have regard to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance when exercising their powers and duties.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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Volunteers such as parents of children in our care are encouraged to help at a particular session or sessions of the setting. Helping at the session enables parents to see what the day-to-day life of our setting is like and to join in helping the children to get the best out of their activities.
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
Joining the rota is not the only means of taking part in the life of the setting. Parents can offer to take part in a session by sharing their own interests and skills with the children. Parents have visited the setting to read stories to the children or talk about their job.
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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Section D Achievements and performance Provided pre-school education to 31 children aged 24 months to school **Summary of the main** age over 38 weeks of the year in sessional care. Morning sessions run **achievements of the charity** from 8:45 to 11:45 and afternoon sessions run from 12:30 to 15:30. A **during the year** lunch time session is also provided such that children can stay all day. A breakfast and afterschool club is also available. A total of 240 sessions are available per week and the charity provided an average of 210 sessions during this accounting period.
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## **Section E Financial review**
The charity has reserves of approximately £136,000 which is an **Brief statement of the** appropriate level. The charity trustees have decided that an appropriate **charity’s policy on reserves** level of reserves is in excess of this amount. The trustees need to hold reserves in order to account for any contingencies such as the requirement for equipment. A large proportion of the reserve is designated as being put aside in order to repair and renew the preschool building which is desperately required. There are very few grants available for the replacement of preschool buildings and as such we need to build up a large reserve in order to carry this work out which will begin in the summer of 2026. **Details of any funds materially** n/a **in deficit Further financial review details (Optional information)** The principal sources of funding for the charity are fees provided by the You **may choose** to include local authority and from parents. 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**
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**Section G Declaration** ~~Se~~
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)** Emma Cheetham ~~ee~~ **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 15-7-2025 ~~|~~
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|||**Charity Name**|||||**No (if any)**|**No (if any)**|||
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|||**St John's Preschool Macclesfield**|||||**1157982**||||
|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||**CC16a**|
||**For the period**
**from**
~~ee~~|||16/09/2023
Period start date
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~~ee ee~~|~~ee~~|15/09/2024
Period end date
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||**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||||
|||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**|
|||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|
||**A1 Receipts**||||||||||
||CEC Fees|**£113,374.70**||**-**||**-**||**113,375**||**103,367**|
||Parent Fees|**£21,419.36**||**-**||**-**||**21,419**||**15,618**|
||Fundraising|**£1,520.09**||**-**||**-**||**1,520**||**1,389**|
||Donation|**£350.00**||**-**||**-**||**350**||**-**|
||Interest|**£743.48**||**-**||**-**||**743**||**272**|
||Other|**1,087**||**-**||**-**||**1,087**||**892**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_|||||||||
||_AR)_|_AR)_**138,495**||**-**||**-**||**138,495**||**121,538**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
~~**_Sub total_**~~**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**138,495**
**-**
**-**
**138,495**
**121,538**
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||**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||Wages,HMRC,Pension|**126,581**||**-**||**-**||**126,581**||**106,007**|
||Utility bills (Phone, broadband, water, gas,||||||||||
||electricity)|**3,986**||||**-**||**3,986**||**3,252**|
||Buildingmaintenance|**167**||**-**||**-**||**167**||**745**|
||Consumables(inc PPE)|**1,343**||**-**||**-**||**1,343**||**2,596**|
||Equipment|**1,387**||**-**||**-**||**1,387**||**1,507**|
||Insurance|**1,994**||**-**||**-**||**1,994**||**1,174**|
||Training|**435**||**-**||**-**||**435**||**-**|
||Gifts andpettycash|**62**||**-**||**-**||**62**||**50**|
||Fundrasing,admin and other|**4,440**||**-**||**-**||**4,440**||**3,159**|
||**_Sub total_ **|**140,395**||**-**||**-**||**140,395**||**118,490**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**140,395**
**-**
**-**
**140,395**
**118,490**
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 1,900**
**-**
**- - 1,900**
**3,048**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**- 1,900**
**-**
**- - 1,900**
**3,048**
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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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|B1 Cash funds|Co-Op current account|87,296|-|-|
|Co-Op savings account|49,263|-|-|
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|Total cash funds|136,559|-|-|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on|Date of|
|behalf of all the trustees|Signature|Print Name|approval|
|Emma Cheetham|29/07/2023|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name St. John’s Pre-School Macclesfield **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 15/09/2024 **Charity no** 1157982 **ended (if any)**
**Set out on pages**
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
**Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in **responsibilities of** accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”). **trustees and examiner**
The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.
It is my responsibility to:
- examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act,
- to follow the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Act, and
- to state whether particular matters have come to my attention
**Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** 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 no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
- **Independent** In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my
- **examiner's statement** attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed:**
**Date:** 15-7-2024
**Name:** Dominic Schiller ~~Pe~~ **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
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**Address:**[Equipped 4 (IP) Limited, 47 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead, Merseyside, ] CH41 5AR
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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