## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** Charity number 1164792 **Annual Report and Financial Statements for the** **year ending 31 March 2022** ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** **Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ending 31 March 2022** |**Contents**|**Page**| |---|---| |Trustees' report|2 to 6| |Examiner's report|7| |Receipts and payments account|8| |Statement of assets and liabilities|9| |Notes to the accounts|10, 11| |**Prepared by the Greater Merseyside**|**Community Accountancy**| |**Service** **Trustees' report**|| The Trustees during the year were: |**Name**|**Position**|**Dates**| |---|---|---| |Charlotte Wilson|Chairman|| |Emma Quinn (was Woodside)||| |Karen Blundell|Manager & treasurer|| |Kim Smith||| |Cynthia Aurelia Orphee Dotte||| |John Ilupeju||| |Matthew Wagg||| |Rhiannon Mulchrone||Till 13th July 2021| |Kirsten Brownlow||Till 13th July 2021| The Nursery Manager of the charity during the year was Karen Blundell ## **Method of appointment** Election annually by AGM, or interim appointment by trustees until next AGM. ## **Principal address** 18 Clarence Street Runcorn Cheshire WA7 1HG ## **Bankers** Lloyds Bank plc 13/15 Hardshaw Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 ## **Governing document** CiO Registered 10th December 2015 1 ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## **Objects of the organisation** The Charity works for the public benefit having as its objects the development and education of children and young people in particular by: Promoting their care and safety Promoting their education and promoting parental involvement Promoting their health and wellbeing Providing services to support them and their families and carers Providing services to individuals holding membership of the CIO; and Furthering the aims of the pre-school learning alliance ## **Independent** **examiner** on behalf of: ## **Greater Merseyside Community Accountancy Service** St Marie's Lugsdale Road Widnes 2 ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## **WA8 6DB Trustees' report continued** ## **Treasurer’s Statement** I can report the Treasury accounts are reconciled and balance to that of the Annual Report and Financial statement, bank statements and Monthly recs. Under the board of trustees, we have managed to maintain our finances, which are stable. This years accounts do have a deficit. We feel the impact of covid and lower numbers in our intake have contributed to this. But we do hope to continue and maintain our current financial situation. We are passionate with continually supporting the children with new equipment’s, stationary, resources and trips to improve the experiences for the children and families in our local area and setting. We have also been able to set aside funds into a separate account so the Pre-school always has a financial reserve. Karen Blundell Treasurer 3 **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** **Trustees' report continued** ## **Review of progress and achievements** ## **Key Person AGM report** As a key person we take responsibly for a group of children. We are here to help the children feel safe and secure. This has been especially important during COVID 19. We have supported children, parent’s and each others wellbeing. And moving forward with ‘living with Covid’ we still maintain a high standard of hygiene and cleaning routines within the setting. We feel we adapted well to support our children and families during this challenging time. We made well-being calls to our families weekly and have supported them with EYPP funding. We continue to do this as good practice. We respond to the children’s needs and help them settle into the setting. We plan for all children’s individual developmental and emotional needs and input into our planning, based on their interests. Supporting progressing them further. We collect evidence of children’s progress though observing them, taking photos, written observations and children’s work. We can also use evidence sent in from families though our electronic online journal, Tapestry. This has been welcoming, as working with our parents/cares is important for the children’s outcomes, supporting parent partnership. This was a very useful tool during Covid We create a happy, safe place to enable the children to be who they want to be and create opportunities for real life experiences. The EYFS is used as a guide to make a best fit judgment about whether a child is showing typical development for their age. Summative assessments support this information. We collect three times a year (February June and November) from doing this we can then share our information with colleagues, specialist support, and other settings if need be. Also with parents at regular parents’ days to discuss their child, working with our parents is paramount to good relations and supporting them and their children. Emma Quinn Deputy Manager 4 **Trustees' report continued** ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## **Review of progress and achievements** ## **Managers’ Statement** ## **What have we been doing?** We introduced the 30 hours in January 2022. This was to help and support our working families and improve our business. This is currently working well. Themes have been around ‘growth and life cycles’. Physical Development with a greater focus on Gross & Fine Motor skills. Generally improving outcomes for all children and offering them experiences. The children particularly enjoyed our theme of ‘life cycle of a butterfly’. Watching the egg turn into a caterpillar, then the caterpillar cocooning itself and then emerging into a beautiful butterfly. This lead on to the ‘Hungry caterpillar’ story and what the caterpillar ate. The children tried different foods from the ‘Hungry caterpillar story’ The children enjoyed tasting these foods and gaining an understanding of what is healthy food and not healthy food. We continue to support our children and their families. ## **What have we achieved?** - This year we continue to work and train closely with Speech and Language Therapist and ALL staff have now been trained with Well COMM. This is designed to help early years settings identify children who might be experiencing delays with speech and language. It can then help us/staff to put immediate interventions into place, while waiting for a more formal assessment. - Our team can also offer a variety of health information and support to improve the health for our local children and their families. We received out HHEYS (Halton & Healthy Early Years Status) certificate again this year - We have maintained our GOOD Food Hygiene RATING. - We have achieved a GOOD rating on the ITERS (Infant, Toddler Environment Rating Scale) Which is an assessment too carried out by our Local Authority. This is designed to measure the quality of the group’s programmes for children 2 years of age. This has also been reflected upon only last month and adjustments continue to be made to our environment, supporting the changing of children’s interest.This was done on 29[th] June 2022 - We have achieved a GOOD rating on the ECERS (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale) Which is an assessment tool carried out by our Local Authority. This is designed to measure the quality of group programmes for children from 3- 5years of age - MANAGER/SENCo and ALL staff attend ALL relevant trainings to support Continued Professional Development. Keeping up to date with latest requirements and teachings. For best practice. Which can only benefit our children more. Enhancing their learning experiences. Manager’s has also achieved her level 5 in Management and Leadership. 5 **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** **Trustees' report continued** ## **Review of progress and achievements** - MANAGER attends regular SENCo cluster meetings & Educational Psychologist meeting to support action plans and ways forward. Even during COVID, we have maintained these meetings. There have been many challenges with children’s development, supporting families. We feel we have worked well with outside agencies to support with all the challenges that Covid presented and the impact on our children/families. - Manager attends regular EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) meetings and Managers meeting. Keeping up with best practise and Regulations. - Also we in Halton have a Buddy up system. Where managers support each other and offer advice or can point in the right direction. ALL Staff are paediatric First Aid Trained and have had enhanced or basic SAFEGUARDING Training. Which is a requirement. - ALL Children make good progress from their starting points. - Support for individual children with SEN has been identified by the Local Authority as a strong point - Support for parents is also a strong point This support has included free resources, signposting materials and training for staff. Again, for more information, please contact us. A list of local contacts is also available to download: All this has helped us as a setting to sign post parents, and give supporting advice. ## **Demographics Objectives and Activities** We aim in the coming year to maintain current standards and achieve a good grade from OFSTED. The aim of the group is to enhance the development, care and education and experiences of children primarily under statutory school age and of young people of school age (under 5) in a friendly, safe and caring environment. One which is play based learning, carefully differentiating to the age, needs and developmental stage of each child. We also provide opportunities for parents/careers to share in this. We use the Developmental Matters Document to include 7 areas of the EYFS in our planning. ## **Currently we have 27 registered children** EAL – 8 = 30% SEN – 8 = 30% EYPP – 6 = 22% BOYS – 16 = 59% Girls – 11 = 41% Summer Births – 9 = 33% Funded 2 yr olds – 10 = 37% Funded 3 & 4 yr olds – 14 = 52% None funded 2 yr olds-3=12% 6 **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** **Trustees' report continued** ## **Review of progress and achievements** Presently Halton have been given some government funding and we are involved with a, TALK HALTON. Working with Chatterbugs Speech and Language. Where staff throughout Halton use a screening tool ‘WELLCOMM’ to support where children should be at for expressive and receptive langue. Its hoped that if ALL of Haltons preschools, child minders and childcare use this scheme that information we have to send off to be analysed to see if our children may reach expected Good Levels of Development, will be consistent and identify any early interventions that may be needed to put into place to support closing any gaps. All staffs would like to thank you for your continued support with the setting. Without you and your children, we would not be here. All staff also thank our trustees for their commitment and support. Karen Blundell Manager ## **Financial Review-Treasurers Report** We can report the Treasury accounts are reconciled and balance to that of the Annual Report and Financial statement, bank statements and Monthly recs. Under the board of trustees we have managed to maintain the finances, which are stable. We have enabled to continuously support the children and our families with, wellbeing experiences, trips, resources, equipment and improve outcomes. We have also been able to set aside funds into a separate account so the Pre-school always has a financial reserve ## **Policy on Reserves** Sufficient reserves are retained to cover the costs of an orderly closedown should the funding not continue, principally staff redundancy costs, with a margin to cover short-term fluctuations in cashflow and unforeseen expenditure. 7 ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts of All Saints Pre School Runcorn for the year ending 31 March 2022** I report on the accounts of the charity set out on pages 8 to 11 ## **Respective responsibilities of the Management Committee and the examiner** As the charity's trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts; you consider that the audit requirement of section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) does not apply 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 procedures laid down in the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioner under section 145(5) - (b) of the Charities Act: and ❑ 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 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 you as 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 examiner's statement** In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: - 1) which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in, any material respect, the requirements: ❑ to keep accounting records in accordance with section 130 of the Act; and ❑ 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 accounts to be reached. ## _Jane Williams_ Jane Williams MAAT ## **Greater Merseyside Community Accountancy Service** St Marie's 8 ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** Lugsdale Road Widnes WA8 6DB 25th May 2022 ## **Statement of Financial Activities for** ## **the year ending 31 March 2022** **----- Start of picture text -----**
Notes
2022 2022 2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
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|**Receipts**
Nursery Fees
(2)
Halton Borough Council: EYPP
Other Income
Bank interest
**Total receipts**
**Payments**
Salaries and NICs
(3)
Payroll Costs
Staf Travel & Training
Premises Costs
Repairs & Renewals
Fees & Licences
DBS Checks
Insurance
Uniforms
Nursery Resources
Trips & Events
Accountancy
Printing, postage & stationery
**Total payments**
**Net receipts / (payments)**
**Cash fund balances brought forward**
**Cash fund balances carried forward**|9
funds
funds
£
£
2,556
-
62,884
-
251
-
2
-
65,693
-
68,954
-
343
-
838
-
6,687
-
5,281
-
75
-
26
-
602
-
120
-
7,043
-
450
-
225
-
949
-
91,594
-
(25,900)
-
95,703
69,803
-
-|funds
£
2,556
62,884
251
2
65,693
68,954
343
838
6,687
5,281
75
26
602
120
7,043
450
225
949
91,594
(25,900)
95,703
69,803|funds
£
42
4
88,56
5
2,34
8| |---|---|---|---| ||||4
91,34
1
82,60
0
48
4
11
0
4,04
8
-
7
5
6
4
59
6
3
9
5,10
7
-
22
5
2,31| ||||
0
95,65
8
(4,317)
100,020
95,703| ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## **Balance sheet as at 31** ## **March 2022** |2022
Unrestricted
**Fixed Assets**
£
Tangible Assets
(5)
-
**Total fxed assets**
**Current Assets**
-
Debtors and prepayments
(6)
-
Cash at bank and in hand
(7)
69,803
**Total current assets**
**Current liabilities:**
**amounts falling due within one year**
69,803
Creditors and accruals
(8)
-
**Total current liabilities**
-
-
**Net current assets / (liabilities)**
**Total assets less current liabilities**
**Creditors: amounts falling due after one year**
**Net assets**
**Funds**
Restricted Funds
Unrestricted funds
69,803
**Total Funds**
69,803
The fnancial statements were approved at a meeting of
the trustees held on 25th May 2022 and signed on its
behalf by:
69,803
69,803
-
69,803|2022
Restricted
£
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-||2022
Total
£
-
-
-
69,803
69,803
-
-
69,803
69,803
69,803
69,803
69,803||2021
Total
£
-
-
95,703
95,703
-
-
95,703
95,703
-
95,703
95,703
95,703| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| 10 ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn** ## _Charlotte Wilson_ Charlotte Wilson Chair ## **Notes to the accounts for the year** ## **ending 31 March 2022** ## **1 Accounting Policies** ## **a Basis of accounting** The Trustees have taken advantage of section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 and have prepared the accounts on a receipts and payments basis. ## **b Taxation** As a registered charity the organisation benefits from rates relief and is generally exempt from income tax and capital gains tax but not from VAT. Irrecoverable VAT is included in the cost of those items to which it relates. ## **c Fund accounting** Funds held by the charity are either: ## **Unrestricted general funds** These are funds which can be used in accordance with the charitable objects at the discretion of the trustees. ## **Restricted funds** These are funds that can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. ## **Designated funds** These are funds set aside by the trustees out of unrestricted general funds for specific future purposes or projects. 11 Further explanation of the nature and purpose of each fund is included in the notes to the accounts. ## **All Saints Pre School Runcorn Notes to the accounts continued for the year ending 31 March 2022** |**Grants and Donations**|2022|2022|2022|2021| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Unrestricted|Restricted|Total|Total| ||funds|funds|funds|funds| ||£|£|£|£| |Donations|-|-
|-|-| ||-|-
|-|-| |**Staf costs and numbers**|||2022|2021| ||||£|£| |Gross salaries|||67,195|| |||||82,093| |Support Staf|||593|-| |||||1,802| |Employer's Pension|||1,167|| |||||1,417| |Employer's NI|||-|| |||||892| ||||68,954|| |||||82,600| The average number of employees during the year was 3 (2019: 3) ## **Cash at Bank and in hand** |Current account
Business Reserve
Petty cash||||£
£
46,546
77,912
23,202
17,756
54
36
69,803
95,703| |---|---|---|---|---| ## **5 Trustee remuneration and expenses** During the period no trustees received any remuneration or expenses ## **6 Related party transactions** There were no related party transactions to report during the accounting period. 12