## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From Adele Pember Period start date 15[th] September 2023 - 5[th] April 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name:Puddleducks Playgroup** ## **Charity registration number: 1195818** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To provide government funded and low**
**cost childcare provision in an area of**
**designated poverty. We operate a non**
**profit facility and a registered charity**
**providing education and care for the**
**local community for children aged 2-4**
**years. We endeavour to raise funds to**
**provide resources, equipment, food and**
**provisions to enhance children’s**
**experiences, learning and development**
**within the foundation phase welsh**
**curriculum.**| |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|**We provide a high quality service for**
**children aged 2-4 years in a community**
**which is classed as disadvantaged. We**
**provide flying start free childcare for 2**
**year olds and childcare offer funded**
**places for working parents funded by**
**welsh government also. For those in the**
**area not meeting the criteria for funded**
**places we offer private places for a fee I**
**we have any spaces left. We offer a**
**sound foundation for future learning**
**and development through a**
**developmentally appropriate welsh**
**curriculum which works in harmony**
**with the child’s needs and interests. Our**
**children learn through activities and**
**play and aims to put a child’s personal**
**and social development and well being**
**at the heart of learning.**| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**All trustees have signed the declaration**
**that they have read and understood the**
**guidance issued.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: SORP reference Para 1.38 Policy on grant making Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other ## **Achievements and Performance** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |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|**To provide quality childcare through**
**flying start, playgroup, wrap around care**
**and childcare offer places for children**
**aged 2-4 years in a deprived,**
**disadvantaged area. Giving the children**
**a good start in life. It enables parents**
**to seek employment/training while their**
**child is at the setting and also embark**
**on further education opportunities. As**
**well as enhancing the children’s early**
**year experiences and social skills.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**Ensures every child’s progress in all**
**areas through a series of targeted**
**outcomes for example the one page**
**profile and the new welsh curriculum**
**planning.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives|Para 1.41|| |set||| |---|---|---| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**We are in a better position this year as**
**we have not got any outstanding**
**payments as opposed to last year when**
**we had a loss.**
**An increase for fs and childcare offer**
**was given by welsh government.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**They are held for the purposes as in**
**1.21 above.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£1530**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**n/a**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**n/a**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**n/a**| **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|
**No fundraising activities held for this**
**period.**
**Principal funds are from welsh**
**government funded places and ccbc,**
**who fund our flying start and childcare**
**offer places and then we have some**
**private paying places also. We are a**
**non maintained setting. Not run by our**
**local authority.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**foundation constitution**| |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|**Letters sent out to parents and**
**professionals to accumulate interest in**
**becoming a trustee. A meeting held with**
**those interested with our management**
**team and trustees appointed from there.**| ## **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
charity works|Para 1.51|| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Puddleducks playgroup| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|n/a| |Registered charity number|1195818| |Charity’s principal address|Puddleducks playgroup
Plas y felin primary,
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Emma Jennings|||Committee| ||Lisa Hydes|||Committee| ||Jamie Pritchard|||Committee| ||Mark Jones|||Committee| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name n/a** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |---|---|---| |||| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets n/a held in this capacity Name and objects of the n/a charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for n/a 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**
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**Address**| |---|---|---| |**n/a**||| |||| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Adele Hall Isabel Easterbrook ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** I.Easterbrook **Signature(s)** A.Hall Isabel Easterbrook **Full name(s)** Adele Hall **Position (eg Secretary,** leader Responsible individual **Chair, etc) Date** 16/1/25 Ou)￿00¥￿06)- (D￿CtIo￿r0-￿j O{J)(￿0C0- OQ)O)u)COa¢St OOOthUJOfO CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trusteesl members of Puddleducks Playgroup On accounts for the year ended Aw512024 Chartty no (rfany) 1195818 Set ovt on pages l report to the trustees ￿ my examination of the accounts of the above charity {llhe Trusv) for the year ended Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Tnjst. you are responsible for the preparation basis of report ofthe accounts in acCwdaT￿e wtlh the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 fthe Acr). I report in resr£d of my examinat#)n of the Trusfs a¢￿Unts carried OLrt under seC￿n 145 of the 2011 Act and in cafrying out my examination. I have follow￿1 Directtons given by the Charty CoMmiss￿n under seclK)n 14515}(b) of the ACL I have ¢(Mnpleted rny examination. I confimi that no material matters have come to my attention (olher than that disclosed ￿k￿T ') in ￿nnectIon with the examination which gives me ￿￿se to believe that in, any material Independent examinefs statement accounting re(xYds y￿re not kept in w)rIJan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the &counts do axyd with the accounting records I have no concwns aTrJ have Come ￿ no other matterys in ￿nneCtion v4ith the examinath)n to which aitention should be drawn in order to enable proper understsnding ofthe axounts to reathed. . Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply. Signed: c?/ Name: C.P.Be￿h Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (rf any): ACCA Address: 2 Gelli'r Felin Caerphilly CF83 2LF IER October 2018 Onry IxxnpEte IT TfE examiner rE* to hh3hlJght matiers of ts)ncem (see CC32 examiners}. Glve here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018