## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 01 09 2024 31 08 2025
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** St James Cottage Nursery
**Other names charity is known by**
**Registered charity number (if any)** 1167643
**Charity's principal address**
> [C/O St James First School] Gaunts Common Wimborne, Dorset **Postcode** BH21 4JN
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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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) Section B Structure, governance and management Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Constitutional Incorporated Organisation How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) New committee members are selected by the existing committee members. Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
- You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: 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**
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## **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The purpose of the Charity is to enhance the development and education of children under school age in a parent involving community based group. To provide an out of school service for children aged 2 - 11 years old for the children and their families in the community The main activities of the Charity in relation to the purposes detailed above are met by offering the following: • Breakfast club Early bird drop off : Pre-school sessions Lunch club • After school club The Trustees of the Charity discuss how the aims of the Charity are met at the Trustee meetings.
**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)**
The Trustees of the Charity ensure that the guidance issued by the Charities Commission is met by ensuring the aims of the charity are achieved by undertaking the following:
`o` In order to enhance the education and development of children under school age and to provide an out of school service for children aged 2-11 the Charity is registered with OFSTED. `o` There is an identifiable benefit for all children involved as they are provided with a safe, nurturing environment where the OFSTEL framework is followed. `o` • The Charity provides the services to the community.
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
Section D Achievements and performance
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## Section D Achievements and performance
Following the merger with St James CE First School, the charity has **Summary of the main** been concerned with the process of winding down. There are no longer **achievements of the charity** any employees, and no active childcare has taken place directly under **during the year** the care of the charity itself, these functions having been transferred to the school.
## **Section E Financial review**
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## **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Our reserves policy stated funds up to £300,000 should be held in reserve in order to ensure that costs in relation to fixed expenditure, redundancies and potential total rebuild costs are capable of being met.
## **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);
Additional funds have not been sought over the past year as the charity is winding down and therefore the reserves policy is no longer relevant. Expenditure has continued to support the key objectives of the charity, now undertaken through the school.
- 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)** _Guy Reynolds_ **Full name(s)** Guy Reynolds **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chairman **etc) Date** 22/06/26
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**Charity Name St James Cottage Nursery**
**Charity Name No (if any) St James Cottage Nursery 1167643 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 01/09/2024 31/08/2025
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
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Unrestricted Restricted Endowment
Total funds Last year
funds funds funds
to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £ to the nearest £
A1 Receipts
Fees 2,611 - - 2,611 129,158
Grants - - - - -
Fundraising & Donations 245 - - 245 759
Other 2,636 - - 2,636 2,166
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Sub total (Gross income for
- - 5,492 132,083
AR) [ 5,492 ]
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
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Sub total - - - - -
Total receipts 5,492 - - 5,492 132,083
A3 Payments
Wages & NI 940 - - 940 126,807
Toys and Equipment 916 - - 916 6,057
Utilities & Insurance 529 - - 529 11,120
Maintenance & Cleaning 874 - - 874 19,431
Stationery, Printing & Copying 1,095 - - 1,095 4,810
Food Costs 1,139 - - 1,139 4,670
Payroll & Bank Charges 12,218 - - 12,218 12,424
Other 30 - - 30 1,535
Transfer on closure 172,834 - - 172,834 -
Sub total [ 190,575 ] - - 190,575 186,854
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A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
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Sub total [ - ] - - - -
Total payments [ 190,575 ] - - 190,575 186,854
Net of receipts/(payments) - 185,083 - - - 185,083 - 54,771
A5 Transfers between funds - - - -
A6 Cash funds last year end 185,083 - - 185,083 239,854
Cash funds this year end - - - - 185,083
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|**Section B Statement of**|**assets and liabilities at the end of the**|**assets and liabilities at the end of the**|**period**||
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|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
**Details**
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**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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Guy Reynolds||**Endowment**
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Date of
approval
23/06/26|