## **HONEYPOT PRE SCHOOL** C/O Charles Baines Community Primary School Gainsborough Lincolnshire DN21 1TE Tel: 01427 679693 E-mail: honeypotgainsborough@googlemail.com 22[nd] Sept 2024 ## TRUSTEE ANNUAL REPORT We are Honeypot Preschool and are main purpose and vision has been to provide early years childcare and education, and support for children and families in our local community. Over the past year we have provided a service delivering early years experiences for the children we currently have on role, 5 days a week from a leased room within our local Primary School. Our work has allowed local families the benefit of accessing their children’s Early Years Funding Entitlements on their doorstep giving them the best start in life. Our aims and objectives as described in our constitution and which we have been committed to delivering this year are as follows: Honeypot preschool has been committed to offering support and high-quality care and education for all our children regardless of race, religion, culture, gender, or ability. We have endeavoured to work with parents and carers to help nurture their child to reach their full potential by offering a safe and caring environment where learning and play can come together. We have supported all children to become independent learners by actively encouraging children to think for themselves and develop confidence and selfesteem and to become happy and active members of our community. We encourage parents to take an active part in all aspects of our provision, providing links for home learning activities and opportunities to explore becoming members of the Committee. Their thoughts and opinions matter and have been taken on board and have been valuable to reflective practice in our setting. We have worked over the last year with a a national charity to ensure the setting continues running in the future. We have taken notice from the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (Sept 2023) and our Local Children’s Safeguarding Partnership to ensure our standards for safeguarding children are robust and consistently met. In addition to this we have worked in collaboration with many other agencies such as [Type text] our main Feeder School, Early Years Childcare and Support, Local Children’s Centres, Social Workers, Early Help Workers, Domestic Abuse Services etc, and other local charities within our community which offer a range of support networks for our families. Staff have worked in partnership and networked with the local community and beyond and accessed various and numerous virtual and face to face training courses to better equip ourselves in supporting our families for receiving the best possible support for their children and themselves. We have used local businesses /organisations to offer enhanced learning experiences from our allocated deprivation funding for the children such as Lincolnshire Music Service and more recently the Kixx programme. Our Governance and Structure Honeypot Preschool re-registered with Ofsted on 6[th] April 2018 following notification on Fri 3[rd] November 2017 that our application to register onto ‘The register of Charities’ had been approved with the Charity number 1175559. We currently have 5 trustees listed with Rachel Connelly as Chairperson for our organisation. A current goal is to seek new interest and support for our trustees to strengthen the structure and to ensure its sustainability. Following Ofsted resuming their inspection cycle we were Ofsted inspected on 13[th] May 2021 receiving a GOOD grading under COVID restrictions. We have raised funds to provide resources and organised fund-raising events for Children in Need, Comic Relief etc and support for another local charity through providing some much-needed resources. As we are currently supporting the transition of new children and families into our setting, our mission going forward beyond covid restrictions is to re-establish and build on parent partnerships through our open door policy, open sessions and other ideas to welcome and engage families into our preschool community and become strong influences in their children’s home and setting learning and development. We have recently adopted the ’Tapestry’ online journal as a new methodology of assessment and communication which is giving parents real time observations and updates of their children’s progress with their learning and development. We continue to actively reflect on our provision and consider new opportunities and actions to update our priorities for improvement plan. In summary Honeypot Preschool continues to be a popular choice of Early Years Provision for our immediate community and beyond. We have had a challenging times in the past couple of years in respect of our new cohorts, which was our lockdown children who have had limited social interactions for long periods of time and our aim is to strengthen their skills and promote their future learning effectively. [Type text] At the end of the educational year the setting will move forward under new governance ensuring the setting continues to provide high quality childcare for the local community [Type text] **Honeypots Pre - School Income & Expenditure Account up until 31st August 2024** |**Income**
£
Total Fees Received
2,977.20
Lincs CC funding
104,116.96
Bank interest received
861.80
Total Receipts
At 1st September 2023
Current account
Business Money Manager account
Cash in Hand|**Expenditure**
£
£
Milk and Snacks
1,277.42
Toys and creativity
5,621.54
Wages and Pensions
74,676.40
Post, stationery & advertising
15.90
Room Hire
3,725.50
Professional and Compliance Fe
1,593.22
Insurance
1,313.30
Telephone
1,299.66
Repairs & renewals
334.05
Cleaning & sundries
639.82
Staff Expenses
360.00
Accountancy
930.00
End of Term Party
119.00
Food Vouchers
3,580.00
Website and Software
59.99
Bank Charges
60.00
YMCA
112,000.00
107,955.96
Total Payments
At 1st September 2024
55,465.19
Current account
52,950.64
Business Money Manager account
15.73
Cash in Hand
216,387.52|**Expenditure**
£
£
Milk and Snacks
1,277.42
Toys and creativity
5,621.54
Wages and Pensions
74,676.40
Post, stationery & advertising
15.90
Room Hire
3,725.50
Professional and Compliance Fe
1,593.22
Insurance
1,313.30
Telephone
1,299.66
Repairs & renewals
334.05
Cleaning & sundries
639.82
Staff Expenses
360.00
Accountancy
930.00
End of Term Party
119.00
Food Vouchers
3,580.00
Website and Software
59.99
Bank Charges
60.00
YMCA
112,000.00
107,955.96
Total Payments
At 1st September 2024
55,465.19
Current account
52,950.64
Business Money Manager account
15.73
Cash in Hand
216,387.52|£
207,605.80
8,769.00
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12.72| |---|---|---|---| ||||| ||||216,387.52| We have prepared the above Income & Expenditure Account from the relevant books, records and other accounting information. We certify that, in our belief, the account gives a true and fair view of the income and expenditure of the pre-school for the period ending 31st August 2024 according to the best of our information and to the explanations given and shown by the books of Honeypots Pre - School. **ABC Accounting Services Unit 1, Sandars Road Heapham Road Industrial Estate Gainsborough DN21 1RZ** CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees Charity èI8￿.e Honeypot Pre School On accounts for thg year ended 3110812024 Charity no (if any) 1175559 Set out on pages Iremembw to indude the page numbÈis of addilionAI shaetsl I report to the trustees on my eXaMinat￿n of the accounts of the above harity (Ihe Trust? for the year ended DD i lJllA I YYYY. Responsibilities and basis of report As Ihe charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance wth the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (Jhe Acf). I report in respect of my examination of the Trusvs accounts Ca￿led out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independont trhe tharity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l arn qualified to examinerfs statsment undertake the examInat￿n by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed b￿]]. Delete [ ] rfnot applicable. I have comp￿ted my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ") which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the aGcounting records V￿re not kept in accordance with section 130 of the CharitEs Act" or the accounts dKI not accord wtth the accounting records: or the accounts did not compfy with the applicable requirements conceming the fomi and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a Irue and fairf view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection wilh the examination to whica) attention should drawn in this report in order to enable a woper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Slgnad: Date: 301912024 Name: lan Burgess Relevant professional qualification{s) or body FMAAT A IER Oct 2018 {rf any): Address: clo ABC Accounting Services 1 Wlloughton Pla￿, INharton Close, Gainsborough. DN21 1ZA Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Goncem (see CC32. Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give hore brief details of any itoms that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018