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St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley

Trustees Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year end 31st August 2024

Chair: Manager: Revd Andrew Knowles Mrs Sue Gauntlett

Independent Examiner: Radford and Sergeant Ltd

Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024 for St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley

Table of contents:

Administrative Information………………………………………………………………………………………………….……2 Trustees: Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer & Trustees Nursery Leadership Team Consultants at the Nursery Nursery Structure, Management and Governance………………………………………………………………….…3 Trustees and Teams Operations Team People Team, Building Team, Finance Team Leadership Team St Mary’s as an employer Objectives, Mission, Vision, Ethos……………………….……………………….……………………………………………5 As defined by Ofsted and The Early Years Statutory Framework Achievements and Performance………………………………………………………………………………….……….……6 Leadership Safeguarding Training Supporting our families Independent Examiner’s report of St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley for the year ended 31[st] August 2024……………………………………………………………………………..…………11 Independent Examiner’s Statement

Statement of Financial Activities: 1[st] September 2023 to 31[st] August 2024……………….…………..…12

Balance Sheet at 31[st] August 2024………………………………………………………………………………………..…13 Notes to the Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024

  1. Accounting Policies

  2. Legal status of the Trust

  3. Income

  4. Restricted Funds

  5. Analysis of Resources expended

  6. Tangible Fixed Assets

  7. Debtors

  8. Creditors

  9. Independent Examiner’s Fee

  10. Related Parties

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Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31[st] August 2024 for St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley

Administrative Information

St Mary’s Nursery is registered with Ofsted, registered number EY556342 and is a member of the Early Years Alliance.

Correspondence address:

St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley, The Pavillion, Watchetts Recreation Ground, Park Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 2SR.

St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation with the Charity Commission, Charity Number 1168824.

All trustees give their time voluntarily and do not receive any remuneration or benefits. The trustees meet on bi-monthly the finance officer and the senior leadership team attend the meetings.

The Trustee members at the time of this report are:

Chairperson:

Reverend Andrew Knowles

Vice chairperson: Mr Paul Amphlett Treasurer: Vacant Trustees: Mrs Sue Dunn Miss Jo Atkinson

Mr Paul Amphlett

Reverend Sue Duplock

Nursery Leadership Team members:

Nursery Manager:

Mrs Sue Gauntlett

(Designated Safeguarding Lead & SENCO)

Deputy Manager:

Mrs Penny Fairminer

(Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead)

Lead Practitioner:

Miss Paula Fosh

(Lead Practitioner, DDSL, SEW Lead)

Consultants at the Nursery:

Mrs Karen Liddington (HR Consultant)

Mr John Bradstreet (Health and Safety Consultant)

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Nursery Structure, Management and Governance

The Trustees of St Mary’s Nursery includes: The Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer and three other members.

The Nursery Leadership Team includes: The Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager and Lead Practitioner.

The Trustees are responsible for making decisions on all matters of general concern and importance to the Nursery including deciding on how the excess funds are to be spent. New members receive initial training and induction.

The Trustees and Leadership Team meet termly, the Leadership Team present a report at the meetings.

Operations Team

The Nursery Operations Team carries out the work of the Trustees between meetings.

People’s Team

Overseeing the resources of people, those employed by St Mary's Nursery or volunteering for St Mary's Nursery, to ensure that we support them and fulfil our legal obligations.

Building Team

Overseeing the resources of our building to ensure it is appropriately cared for and safe to deliver the provision of St Mary's Nursery.

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Finance Team

Overseeing the resources of our finances to ensure they are appropriately managed and support the provision of St Mary's Nursery.

Nursery Leadership Team

The Nursery Leadership Team oversees the provision at St Mary's Nursery, and it is accountable to the Trustees.

The Nursery Leadership Team oversees St Mary's Nursery and offers leadership and support.

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St Mary’s Nursery as an employer:

Nursery Manager, DSL & SENCO: Mrs Sue Gauntlett (40 hours per week) Deputy Manager, DSL: Mrs Penny Fairminer (40 hours per week) Lead Practitioner, DDSL: Miss Paula Fosh (32.5 hours per week) Deputy SENCO: Mrs Julie Gatenby (32.5 hours per week) Office Administrator: Mrs Jo Halls (20 hours per week)

Finance Administrator: Mrs Esther Westwood (5 hours per week) Ealy Years Practitioners: (Various hours per week)

The Nursery values its staff and is dedicated to investing in continuous personal development. The Nursery is grateful to the commitment of its staff and its trustees. This year has been the most successful for the staff team when we received an Outstanding from Ofsted. We are thankful for their commitment to St Mary’s and we are indebted for their dedication.

The Nursery oversees those who volunteer.

Like most charities, St Mary’s Nursery has seen a change in its volunteering, some have stepped down, and some are re-engaging. We are grateful for all who have given their time, and work for the benefit of us all.

Objectives

Our Vision (Impact) is for children to leave us ready for their journey into school, having reached their full potential to take them into the wider world.

Our Mission (Intent) is to inspire children to grow, flourish and live life in all its fullness.

Our Ethos (Implementation) we provide an enabling environment by creating opportunities to explore, problem solve, risk take and become deeply engaged in play. We follow children’s interests and extend their learning using open-ended questions and resources in the moment.

Our Guidelines: we follow the guidance of the Early Years Statutory Framework and Ofsted Requirements.

Our Curriculum is based on the EYFS learning and development requirements. Our current Curriculum Focus since the pandemic and due to our high number of EAL children is PSED particularly children’s Wellbeing and C&L, we have introduced the Thrive Approach and Early Talk Boost programme to support this.

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We have also adopted a specialist pedagogical approach, The Curiosity Approach, which is based on child-led learning.

It is our INTENT to create children who are thinkers and doers who make their own choices, building confidence, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

How we implement our curriculum

Our environment covers all 7 areas of learning, with open ended natural resources, we allow children to be the leaders of their own learning. Our practitioners use their in-depth knowledge of their key children, with the 3 I’s at the forefront of their minds when setting up invitations to play focusing on what children need to know next.

Using open-ended questions and teachable moments, practitioners extend children’s learning ‘in the moment’.

How do we know the impact of our curriculum?

Before children join the setting, we gather information from the parents which gives us a holistic view of the child before they start.

Through consistent progress and development updates with parents, we can understand what children ‘know and can do’, ensuring they reach their own individual full potential for the next stage in their learning journey.

Achievements and Performance

Review of 2023/2024

At every Trustee meeting, the following three papers are presented:

October 2023

General

We redesigned and delivered a brand new website.

We installed outdoor wooden structures providing both shade from the sun and protection from the rain. We have scheduled a further structure for the construction area to be completed in November over a weekend. These are funded by the ring-fenced restricted funds from last year.

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Andrew and Paul visited to celebrate Harvest with the children. Andrew shared a lovely story ‘Handa’s Surprise’ and talked to the children about the growing cycle of a sunflower. We enjoyed some harvest action songs too!

Following feedback from the parent questionnaire carried out before the summer, we have changed the structure on our communication with parents on their child’s development. We have moved away from formal observations to open weekly communication with parents about their learning at nursery and their learning at home. This is proving successful; parents are having more involvement in their child’s development and have a better understanding of their development.

Our new starters have settled well, we have a high level of children with English as an additional language. We welcomed families from the Afghan relocation scheme run by Surrey Heath Borough Council.

We invited the Early Years Effectiveness team to visit to ensure we offer all we can to support children with English as an Additional Language (EAL) and children from the Afghan relocation scheme. They were very positive about our approach, and we are awaiting a visit report.

The 27 children who left for school before the summer, 5 of whom have Education Health Care Plans in place, made a smooth transition. Julie Deputy SENCO supported the SEND children and their families when attending stay and play sessions at their new school.

Safeguarding

Early years completed the Section 11 of The Children’s Act safeguarding audits, for early years settings. This is currently carried out in schools only. We have ours booked on 13[th] October.

Training

Penny, Paula & Shannon are on schedule to finish their Level 3 Diploma in the Autumn term.

Paula has completed the first module of the Designated Safeguarding Lead training, the second module is booked for January, this is as a backup measure in case Penny, or I are absent. It ensures we always have a DSL onsite.

All the team have updated their mandatory training as part of our best practice approach.

Julie and Kelsey are booked on Paediatric First Aid on 11[th] October.

Remaining Trustees to complete the WTSC course.

Supporting our children and their families

We will be providing the government food vouchers for the half term break at £15 per child for our most vulnerable and disadvantaged families.

The Early Talk Boost programme is proving successful this term, we will be posting the results on our website once the 9-week programme is complete. This supports children with social and communication and language skills.

We have received very generous harvest donations for the Besom food bank. We will be taking this to the church centre at the end of the week of 2[nd] October.

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March 2024

General

Our focus now is being Ofsted ready! We have again updated our policies and procedures as there has been new legislation from the DfE on Working Together to Safeguard Children, Keeping Children Safe in Education, Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework, Ofsted’s Early Years Inspection Framework, Early Years Qualification Requirements and Standards. Lots of reading!!

This Easter break we will receive a ton of gravel for the new construction area, the riverbed and bridge will be completed.

We secured £500 ward councillor community fund grant to purchase the resources needed for the new construction area. Once it is complete, Surrey Heath would like to take photos for the Heathscene publication.

We also secured £150 gift card from the Co-operative to provide healthy snacks for the children through the next term to take the pressure off parents to make donations during the cost-of-living crisis. We will be collecting this on 7[th] March from the Co-operative Funeral Care in Camberley. They would like photos too!

Sue Dunn has been visiting the nursery weekly to read stories to the children, they have taken a shine to Sue and look forward to spending time with her.

We asked Sue, as parent liaison to meet parents on our return from half term to ask them about their child’s progress and if they had any improvements they felt was needed, this is something Ofsted will do. The outcome was extremely positive.

The nursery AGM report for the Church and the nursery AGM has been submitted.

We have been liaising with Charlie Crossley with regards to drone footage of the inside nursery environment for our website. It is nearly there just a few tweaks left.

During the Christmas and half term break some of the team made changes to the inside of the nursery as part of our reflective practice. We noticed that some areas were not being accessed by

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the children. After the changes the children now can engage in all the areas much more easily. These reflections are evidenced for Ofsted.

Safeguarding

Early years completed the Section 11 of The Children’s Act safeguarding audit, for early years settings. We passed all the criteria! The new annual 2023 Safeguarding and Welfare Audit was completed.

Training

Penny and Paula completed their Level 3 Diploma, and we are awaiting their certificates. Shannon is still awaiting IQ completion.

Paula has completed the Designated Safeguarding Lead training and is now a DDSL. This is as a backup measure in case Penny, or I are absent. It ensures we always have a DSL onsite. Sue and Penny completed DSL Refresher Training.

All the team have updated their mandatory training as part of our best practice approach. Jaime has completed the Early Talk Boost training to support Paula to deliver this beneficial training.

Julie and Kelsey completed Paediatric First Aid on 11[th] October.

All Trustees have completed the WTSC course.

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We are continuing to provide the government food vouchers for our most vulnerable and disadvantaged families.

The Early Talk Boost programme is proving successful this term, we will

be posting the results on our website once the 9-week programme is complete. This supports children with social and communication and language skills.

June

General

We were awarded an OUTSTANDING outcome by Ofsted.

We cannot express how extremely excited and thrilled we are! Penny and I will talk you through the experience.

We have had wonderful comments from parents and Early Years.

Due to the introduction of the new two-year-old funding from the DfE on 1[st] April, we have been inundated with enquiries. We normal take 8 2year olds per session we have now increased this to 12 from September to meet demand. The following year 2025/2026 we currently do not have any morning places available, only afternoons.

We have been recommended by early years to other setting to visit to view our practice, environment and how we support SEND children.

Having spoken with the Early Years Commissioning Team, there is possible DfE funding to expand our provision for two’s by introducing a second building in our outdoor space. Obviously, to apply for this we would need to submit a business plan.

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We have been trailing wearing non-uniform. The staff approached me to consider this move. They felt that as we have been recognised by Ofsted and having The Curiosity Approach truly embedded in our practice, we should follow that ‘home from home’ approach and wear our own clothes.

I asked the team to let me know individually how that would look and why they wanted the change. They commented that it should of course be practical, appropriate and professional. I made no guidelines on what was acceptable or unacceptable I wanted to see what they would choose. I am happy to say I have not had to ask anyone to change!

The feedback we have received from parents has been very positive and children have made lovely comments. We therefore would like to make this change permanent.

Safeguarding

Ofsted found – The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

There is an open and positive culture around safeguarding that puts children’s interests first.

Training

Ofsted found – Managers and staff enjoy exceptional training opportunities.

We have two staff members renewing their first aid next month.

Jaime, our only unqualified member of staff has enrolled on the Level 3 Diploma which starts in September for 18 months.

Jo and I are undergoing training for the new Surrey Funding Portal being launched in September.

We have been invited to take part in another pilot scheme by early years. This is an emotional coaching course that runs for the academic year. It will enable practitioners to support children’s emotional wellbeing and make a positive impact. Parents can opt put if they wish.

We have been awarded early intervention funding to book Freemantle’s School (specialist provision for SEND children) to deliver bespoke training to us in a twilight session. This will enable all staff to support children with additional needs to regulate their emotions, avoiding huge meltdowns that can sometimes last for 20 minutes.

Penny and I attend the manager’s network run by early years, this updates us with any changes and a great opportunity to talk to other managers. We were congratulated on our outstanding outcome ☺

~~a~~ Supporting our children and their families

We are continuing to provide the government food vouchers for our most vulnerable and disadvantaged families.

The Early Talk Boost programme is proving successful this term, we will be posting the results on our website once the 9-week programme is complete. This supports children with social and communication and language skills.

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of St Mary’s Nursery, Camberley

(Registered Charity no. 1168824)

I report on the accounts of St Mary’s Nursery for the year ended 31 August 2024 which are set out on the attached pages in respect of an examination carried out under section 145 of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

Respective responsibilities of the Trustees and the examiner

The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 (2) of the Act and that an independent examination is needed.

It is my responsibility to:

Basis of independent examiner’s statement

My examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners. 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 concerting any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently we do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner’s statement

I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:

  1. Accounting records were not kept in respect of the charity as required by section 130 of the Act; or

  2. The accounts do not accord with those records; or

  3. The accounts do not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Kim Swain MA (Oxon) FCA Date:

Radford & Sergeant Limited Building 3 Watchmoor Park Camberley Surrey GU15 3YL

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St Mary’s Nursery Camberley

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (INCLUDING INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT) FOR THE PERIOD FROM

1 SEPTEMBER 2023 TO 31 AUGUST 2024

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St Mary’s Nursery Camberley

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 AUGUST 2024

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St Mary’s Nursery Camberley

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1 Accounting Policies

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) - (Charities SORP (FRS 102) and the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102). St Mary’s Nursery Camberley meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognised at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

b) Preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis The accounts are prepared on a Going Concern basis.

c) Income

Income is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the item(s) of income have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably.

Income from government and other grants, whether ‘capital’ grants or ‘revenue’ grants, is recognised when the charity has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions attached to the grants have been met, it is probable that the income will be received and the amount can be measured reliably and is not deferred.

d) Tangible fixed assets

Tangible fixed assets are stated at their historic cost price less accumulated depreciation. Historical cost includes expenditure that is directly attributable to bringing the asset to the location and condition necessary for use. The assets’ residual values, useful lives and depreciation methods are reviewed if there is an indication of significant change since the last reporting date. Depreciation is provided at the following annual rates in order to write off each asset over its estimated useful life:

Office equipment - 33% straight line

e) Fund accounting

Unrestricted funds are available to spend on activities that further any of the purposes of the charity. Restricted funds are donations which the donor has specified are to be solely used for particular areas of the Trust’s work or for specific research projects being undertaken by the Trust. As at 31 August 2024 the Trust’s funds consisted of £111,598 of unrestricted funds (22/23: £111,349) and £23,120 of restricted funds (22/23: £19,901).

f) Expenditure and irrecoverable VAT

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably. Expenditure is classified under the following activity headings:

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g) Cash at bank and in hand

Cash at bank and cash in hand includes cash and short term highly liquid investments with a short maturity of three months or less from the date of acquisition or opening of the deposit or similar account. Cash in transit is included.

h) Costs relating to the activities

All costs relate to the single charitable activity of children’s nursery services.

2 Legal status of the Trust

The Trust is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and has no share capital.

3 Income

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4 Restricted Funds

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5 Analysis of resources expended

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6 Tangible fixed assets

7 Debtors

8 Creditors

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9 Independent examiner’s fee

10 Related Parties

There were no related party transactions in the year.

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