## **Jack and Jill Community Pre-School Report of the Trustees For the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The charity’s objects 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 the children through community groups and by:
- offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended learning groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that the groups offer opportunities for all children, whatever their race, culture, religion or means of ability;
- encouraging the study of the needs of all children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of their needs in the local areas; and
- instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the pre-school learning alliance.
## **Significant activities**
The charity runs as a preschool, delivering care to children aged 2-4 years of age in the local community, during term time.
## **Achievements and performance**
Within this year, the team at Jack and Jill Community Preschool has continued to learn and develop their skills, in order to facilitate your children’s journey in joy and curiosity of this world.
Last year the team started with an Ofsted visit – something which all providers anticipate as it can be a disruptive influence on an otherwise settled group of learners. This time last year had an extra frisson of being towards the start of the new inspection framework – which meant that Ofsted had changed how it was operating and what they were looking for. I recently read a post only which summed it up well. They said;
I would like to congratulate the team – again – on their Outstanding rating. The last section is precisely what I have seen happening in our Preschool. Confident, consistent leadership from the leadership team. Evidence in action, not on paper. Staff who understand the Why.
Amongst other things, we added weekly Sound Journeys to our curriculum. Mia has been creating nothing short of pure magic during her sessions, often drawing on the environment and the children’s current interests to make the journeys extra engaging.
Our children have been fascinated by the gongs and singing bowls and are loving getting to experiment with sounds at the end of each session.
Further, we have introduced Connection Evenings to run alongside our general Parent Information Evenings throughout the year. These have been a wonderful way to support the wider community and talk all things parenthood and children!
As a team, we have embarked on many learning journeys, with the Voice of Early Childhood Conference being one of our highlights this year. Having access to the champions and pioneers of the sector has been in equal measure inspiring for our practice, and a reflective tool to fine-tune what we were already doing.
In turn, our cohort of children got deeply involved in their play experiences. Those who left us to move on to Primary School left confident and resting in themselves, and those who stayed returned from their summer break joyous and ready to lead our new cohort.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. The trustees consider that they have acted in the public benefit.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial position**
At 31 August 2025 the charity had total funds of £61,731.
## **RESERVES POLICY**
The Trustees aim to retain unrestricted reserves of £15,000 for the maintenance of the property and equipment, and £22,800 for redundancy and maternity pay for staff. At 31 August 2025 the charity held free cash reserves of £61,731 which is in excess of our policy.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered 8 March 2015 and amended on 10 July 2017.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
New trustees are appointed by existing trustees in accordance with our constitution.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Registered Charity number**
1162056
## **Principal address**
Jack & Jill Pre School St. Edmunds RC Primary School Duncan Street Calne SN11 9BX
## **Trustees**
Anne Mary Vodicka - resigned Megan Davis Laura Gummow Rosanna Mastrandrea-Dean Rebecca Wheeler - appointed 16 October 2024
Julie Bowden – appointed 16 October 2024
**Independent examiner** James Gare FCA DChA Monahans Chartered Accountants Hermes House Fire Fly Avenue Swindon SN2 2GA
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
…………….. Trustee: ……………… Date
**Charity Name No (if any) Jack and Jill Community Pre-School 1162056 Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
**For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 1-Sep-24 31-Aug-25
## **Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ A1 Receipts**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A1 Receipts**
Grants andplaygroupfees
112,335
Fundraising
1,665
Bank interest
1,165
**115,165**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 115,165**
**A3 Payments**
Staff costs
98,446
Premises costs
7,221
Playgroupconsumables
5,897
Outingcosts
286
Sundryexpenses
7,069
**_Sub total_ 118,919**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 118,919**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ - 3,754**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**65,485**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 61,731**
**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 £**
**112,335**
**1,665**
**1,165**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**115,165**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**115,165**
**98,446**
**7,221**
**5,897**
**286**
**7,069**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,919**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**118,919**
**- 3,754**
**-**
**65,485**
**61,731**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**112,335**|**125,779**|
||||**1,665**|**1,139**|
||||**1,165**|**1,057**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**115,165**|**127,975**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**115,165**|**127,975**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**98,446**|**94,199**|
||||**7,221**|**5,034**|
||||**5,897**|**5,942**|
||||**286**|**657**|
||||**7,069**|**6,214**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**118,919**|**112,046**|
||||||
|||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||**-**|**-**|
||||||
|||**-**|**118,919**|**112,046**|
||||||
||**-**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**- 3,754**|**15,929**|
||**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**65,485**|**49,556**|
||**-**||**61,731**|**65,485**|
## **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**
CAF Cash account
CAF Gold account
Cash in hand
**Details**
Fees outstanding
**Details**
**Details**
Buildings
Garden
Office equipment
Kitchen Equipment
**Details**
Aged Creditors
HMRC
Signature
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Computer equipment (cost less grant
money received)|**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**9,359**
**-**
**52,267**
**-**
**106**
**-**
**61,731**
**-**
OK
OK
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**1,077**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
589
**-**
1733
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
**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**
**(optional)**|**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
|||||
||||Date of
approval|
|||||
|||||
## **Jack and Jill Community Pre-School Report of the Trustees For the Year Ended 31 August 2025**
The trustees present their report with the financial statements of the charity for the year ended 31 August 2025. The trustees have adopted the provisions of Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) (effective 1 January 2019).
## **OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES**
## **Objectives and aims**
The charity’s objects 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 the children through community groups and by:
- offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended learning groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that the groups offer opportunities for all children, whatever their race, culture, religion or means of ability;
- encouraging the study of the needs of all children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of their needs in the local areas; and
- instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the pre-school learning alliance.
## **Significant activities**
The charity runs as a preschool, delivering care to children aged 2-4 years of age in the local community, during term time.
## **Achievements and performance**
Within this year, the team at Jack and Jill Community Preschool has continued to learn and develop their skills, in order to facilitate your children’s journey in joy and curiosity of this world.
Last year the team started with an Ofsted visit – something which all providers anticipate as it can be a disruptive influence on an otherwise settled group of learners. This time last year had an extra frisson of being towards the start of the new inspection framework – which meant that Ofsted had changed how it was operating and what they were looking for. I recently read a post only which summed it up well. They said;
I would like to congratulate the team – again – on their Outstanding rating. The last section is precisely what I have seen happening in our Preschool. Confident, consistent leadership from the leadership team. Evidence in action, not on paper. Staff who understand the Why.
Amongst other things, we added weekly Sound Journeys to our curriculum. Mia has been creating nothing short of pure magic during her sessions, often drawing on the environment and the children’s current interests to make the journeys extra engaging.
Our children have been fascinated by the gongs and singing bowls and are loving getting to experiment with sounds at the end of each session.
Further, we have introduced Connection Evenings to run alongside our general Parent Information Evenings throughout the year. These have been a wonderful way to support the wider community and talk all things parenthood and children!
As a team, we have embarked on many learning journeys, with the Voice of Early Childhood Conference being one of our highlights this year. Having access to the champions and pioneers of the sector has been in equal measure inspiring for our practice, and a reflective tool to fine-tune what we were already doing.
In turn, our cohort of children got deeply involved in their play experiences. Those who left us to move on to Primary School left confident and resting in themselves, and those who stayed returned from their summer break joyous and ready to lead our new cohort.
## **Public benefit**
The trustees have paid due regard to the Charity Commission's guidance on public benefit in deciding what activities the charity should undertake. The trustees consider that they have acted in the public benefit.
## **FINANCIAL REVIEW**
## **Financial position**
At 31 August 2025 the charity had total funds of £61,731.
## **RESERVES POLICY**
The Trustees aim to retain unrestricted reserves of £15,000 for the maintenance of the property and equipment, and £22,800 for redundancy and maternity pay for staff. At 31 August 2025 the charity held free cash reserves of £61,731 which is in excess of our policy.
## **STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT Governing document**
The charity is controlled by its governing document, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) registered 8 March 2015 and amended on 10 July 2017.
## **Recruitment and appointment of new trustees**
New trustees are appointed by existing trustees in accordance with our constitution.
## **REFERENCE AND ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS**
## **Registered Charity number**
1162056
## **Principal address**
Jack & Jill Pre School St. Edmunds RC Primary School Duncan Street Calne SN11 9BX
## **Trustees**
Anne Mary Vodicka - resigned Megan Davis Laura Gummow Rosanna Mastrandrea-Dean Rebecca Wheeler - appointed 16 October 2024
Julie Bowden – appointed 16 October 2024
**Independent examiner** James Gare FCA DChA Monahans Chartered Accountants Hermes House Fire Fly Avenue Swindon SN2 2GA
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
…………….. Trustee: ……………… Date