2021-08-31-accounts

Cuckfield Preschool Playgroup

Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) 1178733 Village Hall, London Lane, Cuckfield, West Sussex, RH17 5BD

Trustees’ Annual Report 1/9/2020 to 31/8/2021

Objective and activities

Our objective is the development and education of children and young people, by promoting their care, safety, education, health and wellbeing, promoting parental involvement, and providing services to support them, their families, and carers’. We are a charity operated preschool who aim to provide children with a stimulating, happy, caring and safe environment to help them develop their full potential in all areas through playing and learning together. We deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. From September we will be implementing the 2021 Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.

Public Benefit

As a charitable preschool our values are openness and inclusion for all: we have been offering 27 hours Funded attendance without restriction. We offer a high-quality early years’ education regardless of additional or specialist needs from the age of two and a half years upwards. We also take children from the age of two where specific qualification criteria are met.

Achievements and Performance this year

This year we’ve provided a full academic year of high quality, carefully planned and well-resourced play-based learning whilst also being inevitably impacted by the Covid19 pandemic. Thanks are due to all our staff who have adapated what we do and how we do it in countless ways.

The children have benefited from themed sessions each week, small group work, and a lot more time outdoors than in previous years due to covid. Our children have continued to benefit from a staff team with great experience. The children get lots of adult interaction and benefit from an excellent staff:child ratio.

There have been a small number of staffing changes over the year. We have welcomed our new Deputy Manager, Ana Micu, who brings with her a wealth of experience. In addition we welcome Sarah Raison as Book Keeper who has been Chair of the Management Committee in the past. Sadly we have said goodbye to Emma Barker and Lisa Kingsford and wish them well in their new career moves.

Due to Covid, in both Preschool and the community, our fund raising events have been curtailed and we look forward to resuming these later this year. However we have received donations from ISOC and the Cuckfield Society for which we are very grateful.

Financial Review

Financial Position at the end of the period.

The CIO was in a stable financial position at the end of the period. The result was a small surplus of £6k (rounded) on an income of £114k (rounded). We benefited from a small grant towards the additional costs of corona virus eg cleaning, but did not close / furlough staff. Fees income recovered from 2020 as we were not closed for lengthy lockdown periods. The trustees kept the hourly charge and donation for snacks and activities under review, adjusting these to avoid any loss.

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Income 114 £87k Funding, £24k Fees, £3k Fundraising
Expenditure 108 £ 90k Wages, £11k Hall Hire, £7k Resources, training etc
Result 6
Net current assets 41
Prudent reserves 32
Unallocated 9
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Reserves Policy

The trustees have decided upon a reserves policy which recognises the risks we may face and the amounts that are considered necessary are set out in the accounts. The available funds at year end of £9,000 represent working capital required for the day to day running of preschool.

Structure Governance and Management

The charity’s governing document is a Pre-school Learning Alliance Model CIO Constitution for Childcare Providers 2013, dated 6 June 2018 and registered with the Charity Commission on 11 June 2018. The affairs of the CIO are managed by the trustees.

Trustees who manage the charity:

Name of Trustee		Office	Date of Appointment		Date of Retirement
Moss, Sarah Anne	Chair		21/08/2018, 24/10/2019, 23/05/2022	-
Lynch, Jane			19/11/2018, 23/05/2022	-
Crouch, Mary			17/03/2019, 23/05/2022	-

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature ……………………….………… Full name Sarah Anne Moss Position Chair of Trustees Date 23 May 2022

cuckflold Preschool Playgroup, Charmy numb•r 1178733 Accounts forthe p8rloO from 1st Sapttmber 2020 to 31st Augusl 2021 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE 20ZQ 2.011 ItrICOME Funding I Coronavlrus Giant Fee 77,266 86.612 18.972 98.687 23,962 11¥47Z Olher inwme.. FundTaisiTrJ N8t 2 Donations Inte￿1 on savir¥J8 accoLFnl 3.2W) 1.329 157Z 4,704 2.fj01 Total Ir)C￿le 103,391 114.Q73 EXPENDITURE 3 Wages Hall hire & Insurance EquipmenVre50urces S Expendable$ Adverknsfng 6 Misc. 7 fralning 87,074 12,964 866 1,554 112 1.3D7 IL313 1.659 1.19Z Total expenditure 104.263 IOB,302 Net surplus Idefkitl forye8r -872 5.7n BALANCE SHEÉT Assets ¢w8ankCurrgMkn¢uni C(wp8ankSa¥lngsAccw Toi asseis 26,2 25,094 51,384 31031 25,124 57.155 LIabIll￿o8 WSCC Funding Pa￿ Inadv Net Current Assets 12.232 39.152 15,820 Reprosonted by 13,1 13.fts) I monlh'swages Nffkne Nuired tylandlord Fundrdlsng Rtsg l￿10¢a￿d Tundg 3l(hJD 7.152 32,¢JJO 9.335 41,335 Total lundg i The charity was given 8 Cor¢na￿[US tosts grani for addilK)nal ¢osts such a5 deaning. 2 The chaNty benefrted trom don8tlons trom the Cuckfield Swety and parents. 3 Wage5 indudes pay, pension, BACS fees and unrfom) pawnern$. 4 Equipmentlresource$ indudes ￿ptOp purchaE8. Expendabl8s include snaGks. 6 Misc. indude5 Hoslingef website and etnail, Microsoft. sub5cnplions. arxount examlnation, PIusnetteleFthone and TvJerLlly recxuftmeni ree 7 Trainlng Includ88 flrst ad payment me in a(J¥ance of Iiaining In Sept 2021

prism group atcountancy. lax. buslness stiaiegy Cuckfield Preschool Playgroup Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) (Charity Number 1178733) Independent Examinerfs Report to the Trustees of Cu¢kfleld Preschool Playgroup CIO For the period I September 2020 to 31 August 2021 I report to the trLtstees on my examination of the accounts of Cuckfield Preschool Playgroup (the Charity) for the I September 2020 to 31 August 2021, which are set out on the attached page. Responslbllltles and basis of report As the charity trustees you are responsible for the preparation of the account5 in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 20111'the Act'l. I report in respett of my examination of the Charity'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 145151 Ibl of the Act. Independent examinerfs 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 re5pect- 11 accounting records were not kept in respett of the Charity as required by section 130 of the Act,. or 21 the accounts do not accord with those records. I have no concerns and have come across no other matter5 in connertion with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Sally Gardner FCA Chartered Accountant Prism Grou Limlted 9June2022 A memberfim) of the Instytute of CharteredAtcount8nts Eng18nd and Wales Registered Offite". 4 Heath Squ3re. Miro Road, Haybyards HeatfL RH16 IB, t [phone] e [e-mail] uk wyly4.￿lsm9vOYfv¢￿￿k Regiglered in England no 05264251 VAT 850 2107 0