Hellesdon Community Preschool
Our Vision
“With the support of our families and our community, we aim to put children at the heart of everything we do, and to prepare all of our children to achieve positive outcomes and learn practical life skills through play and well-informed adult guidance.”
Report of the Trustees for the year ended 31[st] August 2024
The trustees present their report with financial statements of the charity for the year ending 31[st] August 2024.
The trustees are currently made up of staff, parents, and local school staff. Termly trustee meetings are held with the preschool manager to discuss a wide range of agenda items, including budgets, fundraising, safeguarding, staffing, and any other relevant agenda items.
The setting has adopted the Early Years alliance policies. We work closely with the Early Years Team and Norfolk County Council, and other professionals, to support each child’s individual needs. We have a close relationship with our main feeder school and have an excellent, well planned transition schedule.
Objectives and Aims
To provide a child-friendly environment that is safe, secure, caring and stimulating. To enhance the development and education of children through play.
We collaborate with parents and carers to offer an excellent quality service based on each child’s individual needs.
Public Benefit
The preschool is open to all children from 2 years to 9 months old. Without any catchment area, nationality, religious or other restrictions, until they can enter infant school. Early years funding is available from when the children start at the preschool, until they can enter infant school.
We are a large preschool located within Kinsale Infant School. We rent two classrooms from the school which have been knocked through to make one large room. We have a large outside area with a mud kitchen, under cover canopy and an area that provides children with elements of a forest school. We offer free flow play for most of the session.
Hellesdon Community Preschool is open Monday to Friday, term time only. We offer 2-year-old funded places, 3-4-year-old funded places and the 30-hour entitlement.
We offer flexibility to parents by being open from 8.30am to 4.00pm. Our current fees are £18.00 for a three-hour session. Children may join the preschool once they are 2 years and 6 months old.
We hold regular fundraising events throughout the year to raise money towards the running of the setting and purchasing added resources.
Achievement and Performance – Charitable activity
We have an Ofsted grading of “Good,” and the staff and trustees are working hard to ensure that we maintain our standards and provide high quality childcare.
We support children who are in receipt of Early Years Pupil Premium. We work closely with parents/carers to offer support in the home environment. We work hard to ensure that individual children make progress throughout the year.
The staff team access high quality training which is then cascaded back to the setting to enable all staff to make improvements. The setting currently has one member of staff with a Bachelor’s degree with Honours at level 6, in Early Childhood and Education, integrated working with families, and is currently working towards a Master’s degree in Psychology, One staff member is a level 4 in Early Years Childhood and Education, integrated working with families. Five staff members at level 3 Early Years Education, two staff members at level 2 Early Years Education, and one apprentice, who is currently working towards a level 3 in Early year Education.
We offer home visits to ensure that Early Years Educators gain knowledge regarding different family cultures, practices, and history, as we recognise and value that all families are different. A home visit is a lovely opportunity for the relationship to form between a child, parent, and their key person.
Our sensory room and literacy area are a great asset to our setting and is thoroughly enjoyed by the children.
Future plans
We are in the process of enquiring about having a new pathway and new wet pour for the outdoor area, we have been allocated some funds to support this.
We are continuing with the forest school approach and have adapted our mud garden to incorporate a vegetable patch which is flourishing, and providing a lot of enjoyment for the children.
We use ‘Tapestry’ to record children’s progress and share this with parents; this can be transferable to the receiving infant school provided parents agree.
We have a good relationship with Kinsale Infant School and are continuing to improve our transition process.
Fundraising
We have been able to replace some of our unreliable garden and small world resources. We have purchased a wooden farm shop to go alongside our vegetable garden. We have put up some sensory items inside and outside of the setting to create a calming environment for those children that need to regulate.
We have been able to replace the staff iPads as the previous ones were out of date, and we were unable to update them.
Our fundraising events have been highly successful. We have introduced a Christmas fair which has allowed us to spend time with new children and their families in readiness for our January intake.
We are incredibly grateful for our parent’s generosity. We thank the parent’s staff and the trustees for all their support.
Hellesdon Community Pre-school
Registered Charity Number 1036162
Fundraising Schedule
| Income Expenses Donations 2023/24 2023/24 2023/24 £ £ £ Event |
Profit |
|---|---|
| Wreaths & Raisins 66.68 5.00 Dress up Halloween 7.81 T-Towels 357.00 252.24 Cake Sale - October 46.65 Cookies/Film Day 32.00 Coulouring Competition Xmas Jumper Day 25.00 Xmas photos 361.00 21.36 Xmas Fayre 117.00 Xmas Shop 207.00 133.78 Easter Fayre 293.50 119.41 Easter Bags 129.00 19.98 Book Sale 6.00 Feb cake Sale 26.05 3.30 Sponsored Get Fit 80.00 Get Moving Challenge 72.03 Summer Fayre 276.50 46.44 World Book Day 23.00 Red Nose Day 15.00 Red nose Day Dress up 33.60 Cake Sale - March Mothers Day 165.00 71.66 Fathers Day 200.50 95.63 End of Year Activities 3.00 35.44 Graduation Photos 355.00 10.00 Amazon Core Sweepstake - Children In Need Summer Fayre Aug 22 Paw Patrol Tuck Shop 731.05 645.66 |
61.68 7.81 104.76 46.65 32.00 25.00 339.64 117.00 73.22 174.09 109.02 6.00 22.75 80.00 72.03 230.06 23.00 15.00 33.60 - 93.34 104.87 32.44 - 345.00 - - - - 85.39 |
| Total Fundraising |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examinerfs Report Report to the trustees On accounts for the year ended Charlty no {if any) Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above char7ty (Yhe TrusY} for the year ended Responsibilities and basÈs of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Acl 2011 {Yhe Act.). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried OLrt under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chartty Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Acl. Independent rrhe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualtfied to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualrfied member of [Insert name of applicable listed bodyl]. Delete I l if not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination {other than that disclosed below ") which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act" or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records", or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements con¢erning the fom and contenl of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reporis) Regulations 2008 other than any requirernent that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view 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 th&examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delet8 the words in the brackets rfth8y do not apply. Date: Signed: Name: 00 Relevanl professional qualrfication(s} or body IER Oct 2018
(if any}: Address: Section B Disclosure Qnly complete if the examiner needs to highlight material malters of cOnM (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidan for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examinerwishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018
Hellesdon Community Pre-school Registered Charity Number 1036162 Summary Income & Expenditure Report 1st September 2023 - 31st August 2024 1191234118124 2023124 1191224118123 2022122 Notes Incomg Funding & Fees Norfolk County Council Core Funding Parent Fees Collected Other Norfolk Countycouncil Funding 159,919.74 13,370.00 25,268.97 143.244.32 18,066.42 7,129.87 Other Income National Milk Reimbursement Income Parent Snacvconsummable Donation5 Donation & Parent Donations Clothing Sales Bank Interest Other Income Grant Received 1,856.50 96.60 555.00 0.00 2,337.68 5,033.00 863.50 0.00 Fundrai&ng Income 3rd Party Fundr8ising 3,616.37 33.60 3,329.05 Total Income 204.716.78 180.003.84 Expenditura Staff Costs Wages EYPPINCC Refund/SEN Hours Tax & National Insurance Nest Other Staff Costs 140,891.98 7,736.25 16,532.53 5.315.92 927.14 148,982.85 486.151 6.480.74 1,271.96 Professional fees Bookkeeping Memberships Insurance 1,427.60 850.02 1,448.01 2,918.73 602.39 1,380.87 Premises Costs Rent Maintenance Broadband / Telephone Cleanin& Hygiene 11,416.01 246.72 1,930.48 1,966.87 10,221.58 189.02 1,466,44 1,289.36 Educational costs Toys purchased I hired 2,123.93 Overheads stationery & Postagellaptop Consumables 3,496.97 988.88 2,145.83 1160.811
Other Costs Snacks Clothing for Sale EYPP Spend Committee Expenditure Other costs Professional Fees Grant/donations Petty Cash Capital Equipment Purchased Bank Charges 1.633.85 472.50 3,163.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.43 1.205.31 577.95 370.98 150.(K) 286.31 1,157.05 72.10 142.81 Fundraising Costs 3rd Party FundTrising 1,449.90 33.60 2,349.01 Total Expensgs 204,224.90 182,542.23 Excess of IncomeXp@nses 491.88 12.538.39} statement of Assets Asat 31st August 2023 31st August 2024 Cash Current Account DeposÉt Account Uncleared income Unpresentedpoyments £o.(J) £88,608.65 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £88.608.65 £0.00 £88,116.77 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £88,116.77 Closlng Book Balance £88,608.65 £88.116.77 Notes Accounts Independently Checked by.- Signature: Name.. /f fs /Y77I D3te-