AGM REPORT Reflertin on the ear-Se tember 2024-Au ust 2025 In September 2024, Gwenfo Nursery closed their morning session and opened afternoon session only, due to what we were told was a low birth rate. This enabled Playgroup to offer the morning session and support the wrap across to the afternoon session at nursery. This had an impact on our afternoon care and we conrinued with one chlld all day in hope sessions would pick up. We eventually had two children in our care all day late Autumn, until one went to nursery for the afternoon of Jan 2025. It was a difficult year and we had to dip into our coffers to support both afternoon sessions. By April more children joined us as afternoons opened slowly at the nursery, however. we lost money yet again I In September we started pick up from Early Risers breakfast club. Only 2 children required this setvice. One child made use of an 08:303m start in Playgroup which proved costly, as staff came in at 08..15am to offer thi5. As we have to have two staff on site at all times with Paediatric First Aid, this was cancelled in July 2025. Successful fundraising event5 were held throughout the year of 24-25, with the Spectacular Summer Bounce being the m05t successful. In-house Christmas and Easter Concerts were well supported by families and extended families. The group were successful in March 2025. with a grant from the Early Years Childcare Capital Grant, to uplift the children's bathroom sinks for health and safetv. For April 2025, the Welsh Government recognised the need to raise fees for those receiving 30 Hour Childcare Offer. Thi5 wa5 most welcome and much needed after a three-year review. Feedback w35 given suggesting smaller annual Increase, due to the impact it had on the huge price rise for all. In April 2025, NAIWEST started char8ing for all transactions as our income had exceeded £IOO.(JJO It wa5 decided not to change banks again, as in the previous 3 chan8es, the banks introduce charge5. We had to pay for our waste removal moving forward from Sept 2024. Estimated costs £120 a year. We have many volunteers in the community who support the group and would like to thank them all, especially Darren for keeping our website up to date. Movlng forward: We will contlnue to fundraise in-house and conrinue to assess our fees on a need basts, to ensure they reftert daily operational cost5, rather than relying on fundraising. Fees will be going up in 2026. We also hope that our number of committee members will rise. by encouraging more families to join u5. Moving forward, we MUST charge fees suitable for our sustainability, without the need to rely on fundraising. We need to reflett constantly on our operation, to ensure Playgroup continues to operate in the future, supportrng all those in and around ourcommunity- Numbers are Still low for the afternoon sessions. so these need to be monitored moving forward. It is mainly due to nursery controlling am or pm sessions and we have io fit in. We understand they have a budget to manaEe,' however, it 15 rsot helping us. We originally had 10 to 12 children on our waiting list for April 2026.1 However, we have an average of 4 staying with us from Ipm. We have continuing children for September 2026, however,- need to seriously consider the extended hours from Ipm until 3=15pm to become financially viable moving forward.
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