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Trustees' Annual Report for the period Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year From 01 04 2024 To 31 03 2025 Section A Reference and administration details Charity name Maiden Newton Childcare Provision ~~—<—<——~~ Other names charity is known by MNCP Registered charity number (if any) 1158085 ~~——~~ Charity's principal address The Children's Centre, Chilfrome Lane, Maiden Newton, Dorchester, Dorset Postcode DT2 0AX ~~——~~ 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) As per Charity 1 Commission Website 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
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Section B Structure, governance and management
Description of the charity’s trusts
Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Election Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
Additional governance issues (Optional information)
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policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
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the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
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relationship with any related parties;
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trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
Section C Objectives and activities
Provide high quality childcare.
Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document
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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)
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policy on grantmaking;
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policy programme related investment;
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contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year
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Section E Financial review
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves
MNCP continues to fundraise to further enhance the experience we are able to offer the children who attend MNCP.
Details of any funds materially in deficit
Further financial review details (Optional information)
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the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
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how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
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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) K J Coombes
Full name(s) Kate Coombes
Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Financial Administrator etc)
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Treasurer's Report- 2611112025 Firstly, I would like to thank everyone for their continued support over the last year. The staff, the committee, the children and parents for all being so supportive and flexible, enabling us to provide childcare for those who need it. Our accounts run from April 2024 to March 2025. You will see that we have made a profit this year of £5,094.02, this follow5 a small profit last year of £175.41 and a substantial profit the year before of £25,436.18, so this is good to see that we continue to make a profit to ensure MNCP continues to run. As a charity we should really be breaking even and not making a huge profit. We do have a healthy bank account, built up from previous year5, which enables us to pay our Staff, bills and purchase item5 for the children. We now have a savings account and as advised by the auditor, this has been left out of the main accounts but shown on her final Balance Sheet. £80,000.LK) was put into the savings account in July 2024 and at the end of March 2025, the balance was £81,990.67, so the interest made during that time was £1,990.67. So, if you include this with the profit from the accounts, we have made an overall profit of £7,084.69. l am aware that we now look at ourselves as one organisation, Maiden Newton Childcare Provision and this is how I have presented the figures to yourselves by just giving you one set of figures, however for my own interest and as advised by the lady that audits the accounts, I have broken this down between Pre and After School. It is obviously diff icult to break some of the figures down, but any costs that relate to the building or the setting as a whole (electric, water, wages, insurance, Ofsted registration), or any items of equipment that will be used by both settings and also the profits from donations and fund raising events, I have divided in half. It has shown this year that if they were classed as stand-alone organisations, Pre-school would have made a profit and After School a loss, this was also the case over the last few years. Figures for income during 2024/25 show a slight increase for fees and quite an increase in grant income, meaning we had more funded children and more children paying for sessions during this year. The grant income we receive is a substantial amount. We did not hold any fundraising events this year, but we did attend Greenford School Christmas Fair, receive some photo commission money and we did manage to have a couple Rag Bag collections. Thank you to everyone for their donations and to those who sort and send it off. We have also raised a small amount from the sale of uniform and received some compensation from Natwest Bank due to unhelpful advice from them. Expenditure headings during 2024125 have risen slightly compared to last year, but this is to be expected with prices on the increase. Wages have increased and staff did receive a pay rise in April 2024 to ensure we were paying above the new national minimum wage. Consumables, Equipment, Phone, Stationary and Insurance / Ofsted have risen slightly as expected due to rising costs; however, Utility bills are slightly down. Training has increased due to staff attending more training and Mileage has increased due to some courses now being in person. Sundries are much higher due to spending nearly £5,(KK) on the new fencing around the building. Numbers at Pre-school are low in comparison to previous years, with a few new children due to join in January and numbers at Beanz are looking much better, which is good to see, with Fridays now being one of our busier days. We are still taking occasional bookings although there does not seem to be much up take on this at present, but the option is there for parents. I would just like to take this Opportunity to thank all the staff and committee for their support, especially our Manager, Jackie, always there for me at the end of an email. Jackie has also ensured Beanz has continued to run when our Beanz Manager resigned in May. She was 5UPPOrted by Rachel and Hannah also came back to the setting to help and for this we are very grateful to them all, as without them we would not have been able to continue running Beanz. Finally, I would like to thank Natasha Pidgeon very much for auditing the accounts for us. It is appreciated and l tyave purchased a small gift as a token of our appreciation. If you have any questions, please ask and I will try to answer them.