2025-04-05-accounts - Nesbit Nippers Pre-School

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NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL TURNING PAGES COMMUNITY CENTRE

6 NESBIT ROAD ELTHAM, LONDON SE9 6HS

CHARITY NUMBER 1164453

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

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NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

TRUSTEES: Marley Austin Aaron Feagan Leah Roke SECRETARY: Leah Roke CHARITY NUMBER: 1164453 BANKERS: HSBC 111 Eltham High Street London SE9 1TD INDEPENDENT EXAMINERS THE ROCK - FMC LTD 201A EQUITABLE HOUSE 10 WOOLWIC NEW ROAD LONDON SE18 6AB

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

CONTENT:

Trustees' Report
Independent Examiner's Report
Statement of Financial Activities
Balance Sheet
Notes to the Accounts

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

TRUSTEES REPORT

The Trustees have pleasure in submitting their annual report, and financial statements for the year ended 5th April 2025. The report of the trustees has been prepared in accordance with the accounting policies set out on page 5,and comply with the Statement of Recommended Practice and Reporting by Charities and applicable law.

Structure, Governance and Management

The charity is organised so that Trustees are responsible for its overall governance within the terms of the charity’s Trust Deed, working in conjunction with the setting manager and staff, with the day to day management delegated to the setting manager, following policies and procedures agreed by the Trustees.

The Trustees and staff regularly review major risks to ensure proper procedures are in place to mitigate them. Safeguarding procedures are in place to ensure the safety of the children. DBS checks are carried out on staff, Trustees and volunteers and repeated every 3 years in line with policy. Policies and proceedures are reviewed annually.

Finance procedures and controls are in place to reduce the risk of misappropriation of the group’s assets. The pre-school is an active member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance, and through this receives support and training for trustees in their roles and responsibilities as well as continuing support for ensuring the service provision complies with Early Years Foundation Stage requirements (EYFS).

Constitution, objective of the charity, principal activities and organisation of our work

The charity is constituted under an unincorporated association dated 20th January 1994 and is a registered charity number 1164453. Trustees are appointed or re-elected at the annual general meeting.

The objectives of the charity as set out in the constitution are:

The aims of the Pre-school 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 their children through community groups and by:

(a) Offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;
(b) Encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;
(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning

Development, activities and achievements in the year

Trustees planned activities and service development mindful of the public benefit requirement and in line with the pre-school’s objectives. The pre-school is based in an area of high

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

deprivation, with above average levels of domestic violence, alcohol and drug misuse. It has a significant crime rate with gang involvement.

Our provision offer placements to 2 year olds, under the free entitlement programme, building on relationships with local children’s centres to identify and support early help for families. We engaged with other agencies including the SEN teams to provide relevant support to children and their families to meet their individual needs. This enabled the children to have a positive outcome from attending the group.

Parents were supported to attend Team Around the Child meetings, engaging with support services. We worked with Social Care to support families with Child Protection Plans, attending Child Protection conferences, working with families and other agencies to safeguard children.

We continue to encourage parental involvement in the children’s learning and experience in the group regularly meeting with parents to review their child’s progress, giving encouragement and positive reinforcements to support parenting. We provide ideas for affordable play activities parents can provide at home, and role model positive behaviour management.

We also continue our lending library to encourage sharing books at home and the ‘WOW’ board, where parents can communicate their child’s achievements and interests at home and in the group and also to be put in their child's personal learning journeys. The children also take home extra work in the form of maths activities which the parents can help them with at home, and play cards which help the parents to understand what their child learns from play activities, these cards also give the parents ideas of activities which they can share with their child in the home environment to encourage the parents understand the learning process.

Again, parents and carers are encouraged to be involved in the setting at whatever level they feel comfortable. This can range from being on the committee, to producing a newsletter, or reading with the children and helping the children cook cultural foods for celebrating festivals.

Achievements and Performance

We continued our relationship with the local children's centre, following the local authority's commissioning of the children’s centre services to external providers.

We provided support to parents and children with additional needs, including providing 1:1 support to enable a child to attend the setting, accessing quality play provision and involvement by outside agencies.

We continue to refer children to external agencies enabling them to receive assessment and support as required from speech and language therapists, special educational needs cordinators. The inclusion service provided us with an extra worker for 1 day a week so we could assess a child in our setting who had complex additional needs.

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

Again, we liased with local schools with regards to children who left to reception, we invited the new teachers in to the setting to meet the child in our environment and attended transition meetings at our local childrens centre. This encourages a good professional working relationship with the local schools.

We continued to celebrate end of the school year with a party where parents and children participated by bringing in food from all cultures and we played various games. The party was a wild west theme, children and staff dressed as cowboys and cowgirls.

Review of the financial position

The Pre-school aims to maintain 6 months running costs in reserves to allow for fluctuations in the numbers of children attending the pre-school. The pre-schools main source of income is from the free entitlement funding for 2, 3 and 4 year olds. The net incoming resources for the year amounted to a surplus of £35,376 (2024 year end was a surplus of £19,949) all of which was attributable to general reserves.

Board of Trustees

The members of the board of trustees during the year were

Marley Austin Aaron Feagan Leah Roke

Approval

This report was approved by the trustees and signed on its behalf by

Leah Roke

Dated:

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL

I have examined the Financial Statements of the charity for the year ended 5th April 2025 which have been prepared under the accounting policies set out below.

RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES AND EXAMINERS

The charity's Trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 (2) of the Charities Act 2011 (the 2011 Act) and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

i) examine the accounts under section 145 of the 2011 Act; ii) to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and

iii) to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

BASIS OF INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commission. An examination includes review of the accounting records kept by the project 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 you as 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 view given by the accounts present a true and fair view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S STATEMENTS

In connection with the examination, no matter has come to our attention:

1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements
(i) to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; and
(ii) to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting requirements of the Charities Act have not been met; or
2) to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the account to be reached.

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Dated

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

Notes Incoming Resources Grants Receivable Other Receivables Total Incoming Resources 2 Resources Expended Charitable Activities 3 Total resources expended Net movement in funds Reconciliation of funds Total funds brought forward Total funds carried forward	2025 £ 125,364 3,320 128,683 93,307 93,307 35376 36,528 71,904 Unrestricted	2025 £ 125,364 3,320 128,683 93,307 93,307 35376 36,528 71,904 Unrestricted	2024 £ 85,085 10,325
			95,410
			75,461
			75,461
			19949 16,579
			36,528

There were no recognised gains or losses for the period other than those included in the Statement of Financial Activities

The notes on pages 7 to 9 form part of these accounts.

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL BALANCE SHEET AS AT 5TH APRIL 2025

Notes FIXED ASSETS Tangible Fixed Assets CURRENT ASSETS Cash in hand & Bank LESS CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year 6 NET CURRENT ASSETS TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENTS LIABILITIES NET ASSETS MEMBERS ACCUMULATED FUNDS Unrestricted Funds 7 Approved by the Board of Trustees and signed on its behalf by	2025 £ 72,554 72,554 (650) 71,904 71,904 71,904 71,904 71,904	2024 £ 37,828	2024
		37,828 (1,300)
		36,528
		36,528
		36,528
		36,528
		36,528

Trustee Dated

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

1. Accounting Policies

1.1 Basis of preparation of accounts

The accounts are prepared under the historical cost convention and include the results of the charity's operations which are described in the Trustees' Report and all of which are continuing.

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the Statement of Recommended Practice for Charity Accounts.

The Charity has taken advantage of the exemption in Financial Reporting Standard No. 1 from the requirement to produce a cashflow statement on the grounds that it qualifies as a small charity.

1.2 Grants receivable

Grants receivable are recorded on the cash basis

2. Grants receivable

User Fees Free Entitlement Funding	Unrestric Total Total Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ 3,320 3,320 10,325 125,364 125,364 85,085	Total	Total
			2024
	128683 128683 85,085

NESBIT NIPPERS PRE-SCHOOL NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 05 APRIL 2025

3. Charitable Activities Rent & Rates Consumables Administration Resources Insurance and Membership Salaries Training and Development Accountancy fee 5. Trustee Remuneration	Unrestric Total Total Funds 2025 2024 £ £ £ 20,016 20,016 12,250 947 947 366 981 981 1,038 1,881 1,881 1,679 0 0 318 68,233 68,233 58,118 0 0 1,042 1,250 1,250 650	Total	Total
			2024
	93,307 93,307 75,461

No trustee has received remuneration in the year. No trustee has had expenses reimbursed in the year. There were no employees whose emoluments exceeded £60,000

6. Creditors: Amount falling due within one year Accruals 7. Analysis of Net Assets between funds		2025 £ 650 650	2024 £ 1,300	2024
			1,300

Unrestricted Funds:	Total 2025 £ £ 71,904 71,904 Net Current Assets Less Liabilities	Total	Total
			2025