**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 01 09 2024 31 08 2025 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** The Croft Playgroup **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1179719 **Charity's principal address** Aston Family Centre Larch Avenue, Higher Shotton Flintshire **Postcode CH5 1NF** The Croft Playgroup ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Catherine Morris||04/04/25 – to date|Steven Smailes| ||Carla Gambino||04/04/25 – to date|Steven Smailes| ||Steven Smailes||01/09/23 – 04/04/2025|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Type of governing document Constitution - (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted - (eg. trust, association, company) New trustees can be nominated and appointed by current trustees or are Trustee selection methods able to put themselves forward. (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about: - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; - the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works; - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** To provide high quality daycare in the local community. **Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document** March **2012** **TAR** 2 To provide a safe and simulating environment for pre-school children to learn and develop through play activities. In our work we (the trustees) have regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit. **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** We have provided a full daycare service for parents who are both working or in the process of looking for employment. We continue to provide this service which allows parents to be funded through the childcare offer scheme as well as those children funded through flying start. We are also able to provide our services for children that could have additional learning needs. March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** At 31 August 2025 cash at bank and in hand was £16,597. Funds are held to fund the objectives and activities of the Charity. All funds are unrestricted. The Charity aims to hold in reserve three months of expenditure. This has been achieved at 31 August 2025. **Details of any funds materially** No fund materially in deficit **in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** ## **Signature(s)** **Full name(s)** Catherine Morris **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)** **Date** 29/06/2026 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ||**The Croft Playgroup**|**The Croft Playgroup**|**The Croft Playgroup**|**1179719**
**No (if any)**|**1179719**
**No (if any)**|**1179719**
**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|01/09/2024|**To**||31/08/2025||| ||||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**38,300**
**13,892**
**2,006**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,198**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,198**
**44,641**
**3,840**
**1,746**
**586**
**446**
**140**
**810**
**111**
**-**
**109**
**243**
**127**
**54**
**209**
**94**
**-**
**53,155**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,155**
**1,043**
**-**
**15,554**
**16,597**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**38,300**
**13,892**
**2,006**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,198**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**54,198**
**44,641**
**3,840**
**1,746**
**586**
**446**
**140**
**810**
**111**
**-**
**-**
**109**
**243**
**127**
**54**
**209**
**-**
**94**
**-**
**53,155**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,155**

**1,043**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Countycouncil receipts|**38,300**||||||**45,899**| |Government funding|**13,892**||||||**5,403**| |Fees|**2,006**||||||**4,424**| |Donations|**-**||||||**22**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**54,198**||||||**55,748**| ||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||| ||**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||||| ||||||||**55,748**| ||||||||| |
Staff salaries &pensions|**44,641**||||||**56,825**| |Rent|**3,840**||||||**3,760**| |Payroll bureau|**1,746**||||||**2,181**| |Food & refreshments|**586**||||||**729**| |Learningtoys & equipment|**446**||||||**621**| |Telephone, post & stationary|**140**||||||**159**| |Insurance|**810**||||||**773**| |Hygiene costs|**111**||||||**101**| |Repairs & renewals|||||||**348**| |Staff uniforms|**-**||||||**-**| |Arts & crafts for children|**109**||||||**111**| |Parties & fundraisingfor children|**243**||||||**187**| |Professional fees|**127**||||||**228**| |Registration & DBS fees|**54**||||||**35**| |Trainingcourses|**209**||||||**20**| |Office equipment|||||||**214**| |Misc|**94**||||||**105**| ||**-**||||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**53,155**||||||**66,398**| ||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases (see table)**|||||||| |**,**|**-**||||||| ||**-**||||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||||| ||||||||**66,398**| ||||||||| ||**1,043**|**-**|**-**||
**1,043**||**- 10,650**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**15,554**|**-**|**-**||**15,554**||**26,204**| ||**16,597**|**-**|**-**||**16,597**||**15,554**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 30/06/2026 1 |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|| |---|---|---|---| |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
_CMorris_
Childrens learning books
Office laptop, printer, mobile phone
PAYE
Bank current account
Cash in hand
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Tables, filing cabinets, computer desks
Childrens buggies, scooters, bicycles,
~~tricycles climbing frame~~
Childrens learning toys|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**16,597**
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**-**
**16,597**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
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**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
**-**
unrestricted
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**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
unrestricted
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Print Name
Catherine Morris|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||_CMorris_|Catherine Morris|29/06/2026| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 30/06/2026 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of The Croft Playgroup On accounts for the year 8nded 31 August 2025 Charlty no (If ary) 1179719 Sot out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above chanty Dhe Trust") for the year ended Responslblllues arKI As the chanty trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance Iwth the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 (Ihe Acr). I report in r8spe(* of my examination of the Tru8f8 ac￿Unts carrled out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable ￿'re(￿S given by the Charity Commis8ion under section 145{5)(b) of the Act. I have completed my examinats'on. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention (other than that disdosed below ') in connection with the examinatlon vthich gives me cause to believe that in, any material Independent xaminerfs Statement accounts'ng records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the a¢cwnts do not axord with the ac¢J)unting records I have no Conce￿ and have come across no other matters in connection th the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable oper understandiNJ of the accounts to be reached. . Hease delet8 the worfs in th8 brnL*ets rf they do not apply. Slgned: Dats: 30106r2026 Alex Wyatt Relevant profesglonal qualificatlonls) or body (If any): ACCA Addrem: Adlink House. 86 Tr Highway. Hawarden, CH5 3DJ IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete rf the examiner needs to highlight matters of concem {see CC32, Independent examination of tharity accounts.. direth'ons and guidan￿ for èxaminers). Glve hère brief detsils of any Items that th• oxaminer wlshos to disclose. IER October 2018