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2025-04-05-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report Trustees' Annual Report Trustees' Annual Report Trustees' Annual Report Trustees' Annual Report for theperiod for theperiod for theperiod
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Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Collaton St Mary Pre-School Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any) 1164816 Charity's principal address The Parish Rooms Blagdon Road, Collaton St Mary Paignton, Devon Postcode TQ3 3YA

Collaton St Mary Pre-School

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20		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Helen Seaman Chair
Susan Smith Treasurer
Philippa Pratt

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

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Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

PLA Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Our Trustees comprises 3 trustees and we adopt the Early Years Alliance How the charity is constituted (Preschool Learning Alliance) constitution. (eg. trust, association, company) Our AGM is held each year at the beginning of the Summer Term Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

We have safeguarding and recruitment policies in place which are You may choose to include reviewed and amended annually. Prior to employment or to a trustee additional information, where taking up their role, Disclosure and Barring checks and carried out. relevant, about: • policies and procedures Collaton St Mary Pre-School is a member of the Early Years Alliance adopted for the induction and previously Pre-School Learning Alliance. We have close links with Torbay training of trustees; Early Years Childcare and Advisory Service. • the charity’s organisational We have close links with several local schools who our children feed into, structure and any wider in particular Collaton St Mary C of E Primary School, Roselands Primary , network with which the charity White Rock Primary, Marldon C of E Primary School and Berry Pomeroy works; Parochial C E Primary School. • relationship with any related parties; Policies and general practice is reviewed by the Trustees at meetings. All • trustees’ consideration of Trustees give their time on a voluntary basis. major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

The aims of the Pre-School are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging Summary of the objects of the parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through charity set out in its community groups. governing document We provide appropriate play in a stimulating environment with more targeted activities for those children who may require extra support.

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We offer high quality sessional and full day care which is available for up to thirty children per session. The children can start at the beginning of the term after they will be two years old and stay with us until they leave for school. We follow the guidelines of the Early Years Foundation Stage and aim through play to offer each child the opportunity to expand their experiences of the world, gain knowledge and skills by broadening their horizons and ensuring that they are equipped with the necessary skills to cope with moving on to school. We provide extra targeted activities around Speech and Language Summary of the main through the BLAST programme, small group activities and individual 1:1 activities undertaken for the reading sessions to help and encourage those children who may need a public benefit in relation to little more support. these objects (include within We have continued to remain in contact with the residents of a local this section the statutory residential via cards and gifts at Christmas and Easter which was greatly declaration that trustees have appreciated and hope to resume visits soon. had regard to the guidance It is our intention to make our Pre-School genuinely accessible to children issued by the Charity and families from all sections of the local community. Commission on public We now also run a Babies and Toddler Group on a Thursday morning benefit) which has proved popular with parents, grandparents and childminders.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

We always have great support from our parents and their extended families. We have a good attendance for our end of term events and our Picnic and Sports afternoon. Parents purchase raffle tickets and make donations towards the refreshments that we offer. Money raised this year has enabled us to purchase items to enhance our outside play area. We have also been able to extend our growing activities by purchasing more gardening utensils and seeds. We were delighted to receive our Level 4 RHS School Gardening Award. Many of our parents and extended family have signed up to our Easy Fundraising account and the amount raised since we first signed up to it is now over £1000 this enables us each year to buy each child a book at Christmas time.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

This year the Pre-School has continued it’s normal levels of attendance with all sessions full. As always, the number of children increases from September through to July and we had 38 children attending during the summer term with 19 children leaving to move onto Primary School. We had lots of new starters and the Autumn term started with 30 children. Staff continue to attend training throughout the year both via Teams or at face to face meetings. Key staff continue attending Managers, Safeguarding and SEND Forums. Our book library has continued to grow in popularity. BLAST sessions have continued as did our small group reading or activity sessions. We are continuing to notice an increase in confidence in the children taking part in these activities and so are extending these.

We continued to use our outside play area including our wildlife area. Our greenhouse has again been in constant use in the early spring with lots of seeds being sown. The children are always very keen to take part in any of the growing activities, including the daily watering and repotting of the plants. We were delighted to achieve our level 4 RHS Schools Gardening Award. This year we were able to sell our surplus plants on our Sports afternoon to raise funds in order to buy some new seeds. Fundraising events: Our fundraising events have mainly been at the end of term when parents are invited in to join us for a play with singing and stay for refreshments afterwards. As previously mentioned, we have now signed up to Easy Fundraising which has doubled our fundraising income this year. This year we were able to sell our surplus plants on our Sports afternoon to raise funds to buy some new seeds.

Section E Financial review

Brief statement of the
charity’s policy on reserves
Details of any funds materially
in deficit		 The Pre-School holds funds in case of forced redundancy; this has been
calculated using the HM Revenue calculator.
None

Further financial review details (Optional information)

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You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Our funding is mainly through fees for the children’s sessional times. This is made up of local authority funding for up to the statutory 15 hours of entitlement for children over 3, up to 30 hour entitlement for those children whose parents qualify, and also those children eligible to receive 2 year old funding. We also receive fees paid by parents for hours attended above this or for children not receiving entitlement funding. For those children who have extra needs we are also able to apply for Alfi funding to pay for extra resources including more staff support.

Our expenditure is mainly on staff wages and purchasing consumables such as paper, paint etc and replacing other equipment. Fundraising money is used to by extra items that enable us to extend our learning environment and particularly support speech and language activities.

Section F Other optional information

Our aim is to continue to provide high quality care and education for children from 2 – 5 years. And through our Toddler group to provide a warm welcoming space for parents, carers and their children to meet.

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Helen Seaman Full name(s) Helen Seaman Position (eg Secretary, Chair ( Since 2021) Chair, etc) Date 26/01/2025

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Collaton St Mary Pre-School Collaton St Mary Pre-School Collaton St Mary Pre-School No (if any) No (if any) No (if any) CC16a
For the period
from		 Period start date
06/04/2024		 To Period end date
05/04/2025
Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
113,702
13,923
3,636
862
774
132,897
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132,897
98,726
4,595
5,550
2,169
35
2,397
2,889
465
135
249
122
847
447
33
48
229
118,938
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118,938
13,959
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71,354
85,313		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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funds
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to the nearest £
113,702
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3,636
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132,897
98,726
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#VALUE!

#VALUE!		 Last year
to the nearest £
Government funding 113,702 -
Parents feepayments 13,923 -
Deprivation funding 3,636 -
Alfeyfunding -
Fundraising 862 -
Bank repayment -
Grant -
Toddler Group 774 -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 132,897 -
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Total receipts
A3 Payments
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Salaries/PAYE		 98,726 -
Pension 4,595 -
Rent 5,550 -
Phone/IT/Stationery/Website 2,169 -
Insurance/Ofsted/ICO 35 -
Consumables 2,397 -
Equipment/Maintenance 2,889 -
Extra Curricular Activities 465
Miscellaneous 135
Clear Books 249
Bank Charges 122
DBS/Training 847 -
Leaversgifts 447
Grantpurchases 33
Plusnet/text magic/Zoom 48
Video Licence 229 -
**Sub total ** 118,938 -
A4 Asset and investment
purchases (see table)
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**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
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#VALUE!		 -
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71,354 - - 71,354 -
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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 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period
Categories
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
B5 Liabilities
B3 Investment assets
B2 Other monetary assets
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use
B1 Cash funds		 Details
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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Office equipent
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Stationery
Equipment including toys
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Susan Smith		 Unrestricted
funds
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to nearest £
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Susan Smith		 Endowment
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Date of
approval
Susan Smith Susan Smith 26/01/2025

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/ Collaton St Mary Pre-School members of On accounts for the year 5[th] April 2025 Charity no 1164816 ended (if any) Set out on pages 1,2,3

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05 / 04 / 2025.

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Signed: Steven Drake Date: 25/01/2026 Name: Steven Drake Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 49 Little Clannon Way Paignton TQ4 7AT

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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 .

N/A

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