## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 01.09.2022 Period start date to 31.08.2023 Period end date**
**Charity name: Little Oaks Pre-school**
**Charity registration number: 1182119**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**_Currently_**
**_operating_**
**_as_**
**_1032642_**
**_Once_**
**_fully_**
**_incorporated we will endeavorto enhance the_**
**_development and education of children under_**
**_statutory_**
**_school_**
**_age_**
**_in_**
**_a_**
**_parent-involving_**
**_community-based group (age 2 to 5)_**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**_Currently_**
**_operating_**
**_as_**
**_1032642_**
**_Once_**
**_fully_**
**_incorporated we will endeavorto provide a safe,_**
**_secure and stimulating environment where the_**
**_children can develop through talking, observing,_**
**_planning,_**
**_questioning,_**
**_experimenting,_**
**_testing,_**
**_repeating, reflecting and responding to adults and to_**
**_each other._**
**_To work within a framework which ensures equality_**
**_of opportunity for all children and families_**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**_Currently operating as1032642 Once fully_**
**_incorporated we will endeavor_**
**_Trustees follow guidance issues by both Charity_**
**_Commission and Ofsted_**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
Other
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|**Achievements and Performance**|
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**_Currently operating as1032642_**|
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**_Currently operating as1032642_**|
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|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**_Currently operating as1032642_**|
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**_Currently operating as1032642_**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**_Currently operating as1032642_**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**_Currently operating as1032642 but once transferred_**
**_over we will receive Government funded 2-, 3- & 4-_**
**_year-old places, SEN funding and fees from parents, as_**
**_well as running smallfundraising events._**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25||
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**_CIO_**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the Para 1.51 charity works Relationship with any related parties Para 1.51 Other
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name Other name the charity uses Registered charity number Charity’s principal address
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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Name of person (or
Dates acted if not for whole
Trustee name Office (if any) body) entitled to
year
appoint trustee (if any)
1 Peter Smyth Chair
2 Sanket Phadke Treasurer
3 Elizabeth Melton Secretary
Hannah Kate
4
Atkinson
5 Jenna Hodges
6 Susan Homes
7 Francesca Pastore From 14/11/2021
8 Shreena Patel From 14/11/2021
9 John Wheeler
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
|**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**||
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|**Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of**|||
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|||
|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|||
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|||
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of adviser**|**Name**|**Address**|
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|**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**|||
|**_Debbie Albrighton – Business & Finance Manager_**|||
|**_Kirsty Johnson – Manager_**|||
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
**Accountants** AJR & Co Ltd The Barn 11a Queen Catherine Road Steeple Claydon Buckinghamshire MK18 2PZ
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
|**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||
|---|---|
||Peter Smyth|
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Trustee|
||16.09.2023|
||16.09.2023|