Little Snoring Pre-school Trustee Annual General Meeting 4[th] November 2024
Chair’s Report
Thank you to all staff and trustees for the work that they have carried out over the past year and to the families for their continuing support.
Pre-school re-opened in September with 18 children on role. We have had a couple of enquiries but these have not resulted in bookings. We have 3 children on our waiting list for January and another 1 later in the year. We do need to start advertising and raising the profile of Little Snoring Pre-school to attract more interest.
Fees / Funding
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Fees are currently £6.00 an hour. Our ‘optional’ Consumable Charge is £15.00 per month for families accessing up to 15 hours a week, and £20.00 per month for families accessing up to 30 hours a week.
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April 24 sees the start of the phased introduction of the government’s plan for funded childcare, for children of eligible working parents, from the age of 9 months old. It will start with eligible 2 years old being able to have up to 15 hours a week and eventually by Sept 25 eligible children from 9 months old will be able to have up to 30 hours a week.
Fundraising
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Bags 2 School collection has been booked 7th November 2024.
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We held a nursery photo session in May which was quite well supported. We raised £51.26. Rebecca is happy to come in May again and we need to arrange a date.
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We continue to raise funds from selling second hand uniform, toys and small raffles.
Staffing
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The number of staff is now four. Unfortunately we lost have lost our SENCO who was offered a full-time role at a school. We did advertise but only had two enquiries and we were not able to fill the post. The manager has taken over SENCO role.
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All current staff hours have been kept in place due to the high level of additional need. This will be kept under review.
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We have a student from Fakenham Academy College coming in for a work placement two days a week.
Training
- All staff completed first aid training in September, Manager needs to update Food Hygiene and update their SENCO training. Several staff members are due to update Child Protection and Designated Safeguarding Lead Practitioner this year.
Tapestry
- We have just signed up for a trial of Tapestry which is an online learning journal. It should make recording observations and tracking easier and less time consuming for staff. The trial is due to end in December.
Future Ideas
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Staff are currently designing and putting together story / learning sacks which will be loaned out to parents this is still ongoing.
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Organising story cafes, stay and play sessions to invite parents into the setting. The plan is to offer a session this term.
Little Snoring Pre-School CIO Receipts & Payments Account 4 July 2023 to 3 July 2024
| this year's amount to | last year's amount to | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Receipts | the nearest £ | the nearest £ | |
| A1a | donations | 180 | 0 |
| fund-raising | 285 | 567 | |
| A1b | operating activities to further charity's objects: | ||
| Fees from parents/carers | 14,655 | 13,482 | |
| vouchers from NCC | 55,544 | 55,538 | |
| EYPP from NCC | 2,083 | 1,298 | |
| SENIF from NCC | 3,401 | 638 | |
| EYPDP from NCC | 640 | 80 | |
| admin fee | 10 | 50 | |
| conts. to snack etc | 925 | 785 | |
| grants | 0 | 0 | |
| A1c | investment income: | ||
| bank interest | 1,054 | 134 | |
| sub-total (A1a+A1b+A1c) | 78,778 | 72,572 | |
| A1d | milk refund | 98 | 164 |
| other receipts | 219 | 0 | |
| A1 | Total receipts | £79,095 | £72,736 |
| this year's amount to | last year's amount to | ||
| Payments | the nearest £ | the nearest £ | |
| A2a | fund-raising costs | 0 | 203 |
| A2b | charitable payments: | ||
| salaries | 62567 | 62182 | |
| rent, rates, insurance | 3491 | 3192 | |
| premises costs | 1983 | 7263 | |
| milk | 126 | 159 | |
| snack | 274 | 291 | |
| consumables and equipment | 1838 | 1738 | |
| EYPP /SENIFF | 2167 | 705 | |
| office costs | 809 | 1045 | |
| sub-total (A2a+A2b) | 73,255 | 76,778 | |
| A2c | other payments | ||
| travel expenses | 5 | 84 | |
| training | 462 | 624 | |
| other payments | 0 | 600 | |
| A2 | Total payments | 73,723 | 78,086 |
| Net of receipts/ (payments) (A1-A2)* | 5,372 | -5,350 | |
| Cash funds last year end (A3) | 79,976 | 85,326 | |
| Cash funds this year end (A1-A2+A3) | 85,348 | 79,976 | |
| BANK RECONCILIATION | |||
| Scottish Widows (savings account) | 12,718 | 12,118 | |
| Lloyds current account | 247 | 247 | |
| Lloyds current account | 26,324 | 27,605 | |
| Lloyds savings account | 35,528 | 30,138 | |
| Lloyds fixed bond | 20,534 | 20,000 | |
| COIF deposit account | 5,268 | 5,000 | |
| 100,618 | 95,108 | ||
| Less: unpresented cheques | |||
| Add: any unbanked cash | |||
| A3 | Net balances | 100,618 | 95,108 |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ANO WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to tho trustoes Little Snoring Pre-school On accounts for the yaar •nded 3 Juty 2024 Charlty no (if any) 1192130 Set out on pagos I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charty (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended Rospon8lbillllo• and bas1• of r•port As th8 charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charrties Act 2011 {'the Act"). I rèport in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Oirections grven by the Charty Commission under 8ection 145(5){b) of the Act. Independent IThe chanty's gross income exceeded £25Q.000 and l am qualified to examlnorfs 8tatomont undertake the examination ty being a qualified member of linsert n8me of applicable Ir6ted tKKlyll. Delete l ] rfnot applK8ble. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below ") which gtves me cause to believe that in, any material the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charth'e$ A¢t.' or the accounts did not accord wth the a¢untIng record8: or the accounts did not comply with the appli¢able requirements concerning the fomi and content of accounls set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts grrf8 a 'true and fair. vwi which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to whth attention should be drawn in this port in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. . Please d818t8 the words in th8 brnckets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Dat•: 5/5 Nama: IER Oct 2018
Rolevant professlonal qu41ifi¢ation(•) or body (if any): Address: I Ik OakL(xTr4 L, OT Section B Disclosure Only complete tl the examiner nee(Is to highlght malenal matters ot ¢on¢em (see CC32, Independent examinatson of charity accounts.. dire¢bons and guidance for examiners). Give here brief dotail• of any Ilem8 that tho oxamlnor wl8ho• to dl8cloM. IER Oct 2018