## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 Sept 2024 31 Aug 2025 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Church of Ascension Pre-School Playgroup
**Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1164991
**Charity's principal address** Chatterton Hall, 93b School Road Hall Green Birmingham **Postcode B28 0TU**
**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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Nominated Person|01-12-2015 to current||
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||Naomi McTernan||01-01-2017 to current||
||Emilie Fleming||08-05-2020 to current||
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**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Mrs A Ford - Manager
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
CIO FOUNDATION Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Charitable Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected at AGM, DBS checked and Ofsted approved via EY2 Trustee selection methods
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
Ofsted Registered EY499138
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
To keep children safe in an open, honest and caring environment by ensuring safeguarding is at the forefront of everything we do To provide experiences that enable children to learn through play **Summary of the objects of the** To enable children to build secure relationships whilst developing independence and **charity set out in its** social skills **governing document** To work closely with families to ensure that children have the best possible start on
To work closely with families to ensure that children have the best possible start on their educational journey and that families feel supported during their time with us
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At the start of Sept 2024 we had no children on roll.
**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)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
Manager’s Report **Summary of the main achievements of the charity** 2 member of staff remained on payroll until end of Dec 2024 to wind up **during the year** the playgroup, sell of any equipment and clear the setting. The equipment was advertised to local schools and settings and sold.
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
The reserves are to be used to pay staff redundancies by the end of the financial year
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
Treasurers Report 2023-24
The 2 remaining staff were paid until Dec 2024, and were then issued with redundancy. All liabilities were met and the balance of the account is to be donated to a likeminded charity with similar purpose. Proposed charity is the Hall Green Child Contact Centre. After payments made, bank account is to be closed and charity commission informed of closure.
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- 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)**
**Full name(s)** Lisa Janes **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 25/11/2025
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Church of Ascension Pre-School Playgroup
## **Charity Number 1164991 Income / Expenditure for the year ending 31st August 2025**
|**Income**||**2025**||**2024**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Nursery Grant inc ISEY**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**46,088.62**
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|**Fees**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**12,222.79**
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|**Fundraising**|**£**|**805.18**
|**£**|**1,390.00**
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|**DFE Funding for Qualifcations**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**200.01**
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|**Donations inc Gift Aid**|**£**|**150.18**
|**£**|**1,368.91**
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|Garden Project Grants and Donations|£|-
|£|-
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|COVID 19 Grants|£|-
|£|-
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|**EYPP/DAF**|**£**|**-**
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|**Total**|**£**|**955.36**
|**£**|**61,270.33**
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## **Expenditure**
|**Expenditure**|||||
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|**Salaries**|**£**|**25,456.75**
|**£**|**60,360.97**
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|**Rent**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**10,524.50**
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|**Insurance & Subscriptions**|**£**|**77.85**
|**£**|**253.94**
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|**Consumables**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**915.98**
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|**Equipment**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**274.83**
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|**Fundraising Costs**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
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|**Garden Project**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
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|**EYPP/DAF**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
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|**Total**|**£**|**25,534.60**
|**£**|**72,330.22**
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|**Net Profit / Loss**|**-£**|**24,579.24**
|**-£**|**11,059.89**
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|**Balance Sheet as at 31st August 2023**|||||
|**Cash in Hand**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**1,321.92**
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|**Cash at NatWest**|**£**|**460.02**
|**£**|**24,758.82**
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|**Total Assets**|**£**|**460.02**
|**£**|**24,758.82**
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|**Current Liabilities**||**0**||**0**|
|**Total Assets less Liabilities**|**£**|**460.02**
|**£**|**24,758.82**
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Church of Ascension Pre-School Playgroup
## **Profit and Loss Account**
**Between 01/09/23 and 31/08/24**
|**Income**||**2025**||**2024**||**2023**||**2022**||**2021**||**2020**||**2019**|
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|**Nursery Grant inc ISEY**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**46,088.62**
|**£**|**42,697.35**
|**£**|**34,612.46**
||**£50,939.34**||**£57,790.31**||**£39,095.32**|
|**Fees**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**12,222.79**
|**£**|**20,772.83**
|**£**|**12,497.50**
||**£8,994.03**||**£6,136.00**||**£ 19,512.02**|
|**Fundraising**|**£**|**805.18**
|**£**|**1,390.00**
|**£**|**1,009.27**
|**£**|**1,049.00**
||**£205.45**||**£587.28**||**£2,102.52**|
|**Donations inc Gift Aid**|**£**|**150.18**
|**£**|**1,368.91**
|**£**|**120.00**
|**£**|**140.49**
||**£77.20**||**£55.01**|**£**|**-**
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|**2019/20 Grant received in advance**|**£**|**-**
||**0**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
||**£ 9,517.56**|
|**Garden Project Grants and Donations**|**£**|**-**
||**0**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**2,253.55**
||**£949.44**||**£9,400.00**||**£ 5,041.00**|
|**COVID 19 Grants**|**£**|**-**
||**0**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
||**£1,050.15**|**£**|**8,143.60**
|**£**|**-**
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|**EYPP/DAF**|**£**|**-**
||**0**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**2,000.00**
||**£876.15**|**£**|**1,200.00**
|**£**|**-**
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|**DFE Grants**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**200.01**
|**£**|**1,386.69**
|**£**|**3,000.00**
||**£1,000.00**|**£**|**-**
|**£**|**-**
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||**£**|**955.36**
|**£**|**61,270.33**
||**£ 65,986.14**||**£ 55,553.00**||**£ 64,091.76**||**£ 83,312.20**||**£ 75,268.42**|
|**Expenses**|||||||||||||||
|Salaries inc. Cover|£|25,456.75
||£ 60,360.97||£ 59,694.27||£ 48,110.65||£50,701.83||£52,312.25||£ 46,287.78|
|Rent|£|-
||£ 10,524.50||£ 9,366.50||£ 9,450.51||£9,862.00||£8,276.00||£10,029.00|
|Insurance & Subscriptions/Training|£|-
||£ 253.94||£ 1,992.53||£ 1,017.75||£1,658.93||£1,141.32||£ 1,677.04|
|Consumables|£|77.85
||£ 915.98||£ 735.93||£ 479.93||£667.94||£646.97||£ 1,195.52|
|Equipment|£|-
||£ 274.83||£ 1,730.33||£ 734.14||£1,533.56||£1,113.75||£ 2,469.96|
|Fundraising Costs|£|-
||||£ 60.50||£ 15.00||£46.79||£70.97||£ 214.77|
|Garden Project|£|-
||||£ 0.00|£|-
|£|-
||£11,712.84|£|-
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|EYPP/DAF|£|-
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|£|876.15
||£1,188.00|£|-
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|||**£ 25,534.60**||**£ 72,330.22**||**£ 73,580.06**||**£ 59,807.98**||**£ 65,347.20**||**£ 76,462.10**||**£ 61,874.07**|
|**Net Profit(Loss)**|**(£24,579.24)**||**(£11,059.89)**|||**(£7,593.92)**||**(£4,254.98)**||**(£1,255.44)**||**£6,850.10**||**£13,394.35**|
## **Balance Sheet**
## **as at 31 August 2025**
**2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 Current Assets** Cash in hand £ 0.00 £ 1,321.92 £ 1,542.44 £ 797.44 £ 14.44 £ 1,283.78 £1,260.92 Cash at Bank £ 460.02 £ 24,758.82 £ 35,598.19 £ 43,937.11 £ 48,975.09 £ 48,961.19 £ 41,968.18 **Current Liabilities £ 0.00 £ 0.00 £ 0.00 £ 0.00 £ 0.00 £ 0.00 £ 0.00 Total Assets Less Current Liabilities £ 460.02 £ 26,080.74 £ 37,140.63 £ 44,734.55 £ 48,989.53 £ 50,244.97 £ 43,229.10 Accumulated Fund** Brought forward from previous August £ 26,080.74 £ 37,140.63 £ 44,734.55 £ 48,989.53 £ 50,244.97 £ 43,229.10 £ 39,834.75 Profit/Loss for the year -24,579.24 -1,105.90 -£ 7,593.92 -£ 4,254.98 -£1,255.44 £7,015.87 £13,394.35 **£ 1,501.50 £ 26,080.74 £ 37,140.63 £ 44,734.55 £ 48,989.53 £ 50,244.97 £ 53,229.10**