CONWY PRE-SCHOOL SUPPORT SCHEME Charity number 1169889 **Trustees Report 2023-24**
Conwy Pre-School Support Scheme has experienced unprecedented demand from parents and pre-school providers for support for young children from the scheme within this financial period.
We have been grateful for funding received from Conwy Education Services, Families First and Flying Start which for most of the financial year enabled us to employ our Support Scheme Co-ordinator and to provide support to pre-school children with additional needs.
The needs of the children we supported ranged from significant speech delay, language and communication difficulties, mental health and well-being concerns, separation anxiety, behavioural difficulties, physical constraints and other issues arising from the Covid 19 lockdown period including social issues. Whilst many of the children were already under the care of Conwy Child Development Centre (CDC) or other health professionals, some children were identified as needing support by childcare providers and we were able to support the providers and parents to access relevant agencies.
With our core funding and additional grants we have enabled children who would otherwise be excluded from pre-school settings due to their additional needs to attend a setting of their choice alongside their peers. Our co-ordinator worked closely with CDC, childcare providers and parents to help meet individual children’s needs, providing support and guidance to parents and settings.
We have supported parents at the most difficult time for some; that is when they are just coming to terms with the realisation that their child may be in need of support, or they are having to put their trust in providers to look after their children away from themselves for the first time. We have also been able to signpost to other organisations which can provide further support and guidance to parents, carers and settings.
Unfortunately for us, at the start of 2024 our coordinator left our employment to take up a new position, and our grant support from Conwy County Borough Council, Families First and Flying Start was discontinued. The service we have been providing has been taken in-house by these bodies. May we take this opportunity to thank our coordinator for her dedication to the children, parents and childcare practitioners whom we have supported. Our Coordinator worked alone, with only a volunteer committee for support. She coordinated all the different strands of the Scheme, which placed demands on reporting and accountability for an increasing number of funding streams. She worked with an array of other agencies, whilst always keeping the child at the centre of things. The increasing demands from parents and settings for our services showed the degree of need and she has worked tirelessly to provide them with support and guidance. We wish her well in her future, as she continues to work with children and families in the Conwy area.
The withdrawal of our core funding has meant that we have not been able to replace our coordinator, and we are reviewing the future of the Scheme in its entirety. We need to consider whether we can continue providing a service to children with
additional needs in the Conwy area.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank our committee of volunteers for all their time and effort they have continued to provide throughout this particularly difficult and challenging year.
Trustees.
## **CPSSS**
## **Statement of Income and Expenditure**
## **for the year ended 31st March 2024**
|**Note**
**2024**
**£**
**Income**
Addysg/Education
14,400.00
Other Grants
1
0.00
Cymorth/Families First
7,500.00
Dechrau'n Deg/Flying Start
18,646.59
National Autism
7,500.00
CBC Wage Reimbursement
0.00
Lotto
182.00
Bank Int
145.54
Misc Income
2
115.85
CBC materials reimbursement
0.00
48,489.98
**Expenditure**
Wages & PAYE/NI
9,841.67
Pension
522.79
Grants paid out
31,556.80
Unspent grants
1,156.74
Wages Fee
300.00
Insurance
741.36
Fees
3
488.58
Training (Makaton)
0.00
Travelling
530.66
Telephone
80.00
Postage
7.60
DBS Check
13.00
Resources
0.00
Sundries
4
505.18
Refunds
0.00
Electricity
776.26
46,520.64
**Surplus Income over Expenditure**
1,969.34|**2023**
**£**
14,400.00
25,950.00
10,000.00
20,999.94
0.00
499.12
182.00
47.16
0.00
2,362.83
74,441.05
11,733.51
673.76
55,411.20
0.00
300.00
778.27
953.18
0.00
548.17
120.00
1.05
13.00
2,364.14
860.09
0.00
273.87
74,030.24
410.81|
|---|---|
## **CPSSS**
## **Balance Sheet and Notes**
## **for the year ended 31st March 2024**
|**Note**
**2024**
**£**
Community account b/fwd
5079.13
Business Premiumt account b/fwd
11837.75
add surplus for year
Community account c/fwd
3
7,902.93
Premium business Account c/fwd
10983.29
**Notes**
1 **Education**
**2024**
**£**
Outside scheme grant £5k
0.00
CBC Early Help extension £15.5k additional
0.00
CBC Family first Extension
0.00
Early Years Wales grant
0.00
0.00
2 **Miscellaneous Income**
**2024**
**£**
British Gas compensation
72.44
Amazon Core
13.41
Barclays Compensation
30.00
115.85|**£**
16,916.88
1,969.34
18,886.22
18,886.22
0.00
**2023**
**£**
0.00
15,500.00
10,000.00
450.00
25,950.00
**2023**
**£**
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00|
|---|---|
|3 **Fees**
Blwch Post/PO Box
ICO Data Protection
We fix PC/hosting fee
4 **Sundries**
Office supplies
Bookkeeper services
Purchase of mobile phone
Gifts|**2024**
**£**
396.00
35.00
57.58
488.58
**2024**
**£**
4.68
500.50
0.00
0.00
505.18|**2023**
**£**
378.00
35.00
540.18
953.18
**2023**
**£**
180.09
231.00
449.00
0.00
860.09|
|---|---|---|
## **CPSSS**
## **Balance Sheet and Notes**
## **for the year ended 31st March 2024**
## **3 Bank reconciliation**
|Balance per Community statement on 31/03/24
O/S flying start income
O/S CBC Wage reimbursement
Less
Cartridge refund
less
Refunded unspent grant|**£**
7,902.93
0.00
0.00
0.00|**£**
7,902.93
7,902.93|
|---|---|---|
## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of On accounts for the year Charity no ended (if any)** ~~3) Merk 2024) |~~ **Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets) I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **DD / MM / YYYY** .
**Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
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 all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner's statement**
[The charity’s gross income exceeded £250,000 and I am qualified to undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed body]]. _Delete_ [ ] _if not applicable._
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have 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,:
- the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act; or
- the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
- the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.
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.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date: Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**October 2018**
1
**IER**
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**October 2018**
2
**IER**