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 2025
The trustees present their report with financial statements of the charity for the year ending 31[st] August 2025.
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 reception class at the 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 9 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. Six staff members at level 3 Early Years Education, one with a Degree in Healthcare and Play Specialism and two staff members at level 2 Early Years 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 still in the process of enquiring about having a new pathway and new wet pour for the outdoor area, we may be able to source some funds for this once we have got some quotes, which we are in the process of doing. We have been lucky enough to fundraise for some woodchip for our larger garden area and have had some donated
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 been able to purchase some mats for our sensory room and for our quiet area in line with the safer sleep requirements. The children have appeared to enjoy the new sensory mirrors, dolls, small world animals and insects that we have been able to purchase. The garden is now enhanced with a new larger sandpit for the children to explore, with added resources for digging and pouring. New water play resources have been added to our sensory water tray. The vegetable garden is flourishing with new soil in the vegetable patch along with seeds and vegetable plants. 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 administration laptop as the old one was not able to update.
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 Summary Income & Expenditure Report 1st September 2024 - 31st August 2025
| Notes Income Funding & Fees Norfolk County Council Core Funding Parent Fees Collected Other Norfolk County Council Funding Other Income Natonal Milk Reimbursement Income Parent Snack/Consummable Donatons Donaton & Parent Donatons Clothing Sales Bank Interest Other Income Grant Received Fundraising Income 3rd Party Fundraising Total Income Expenditure Staff Costs Wages EYPP/NCC Refund/SEN Hours Tax & Natonal Insurance Nest Other Staf Costs Professional fees Bookkeeping Memberships Insurance Premises Costs Rent Maintenance Broadband / Telephone Cleaning, Hygiene Educational costs Toys purchased / hired Overheads Statonery & Postage/laptop Consumables Other Costs Snacks Clothing for resale 2 EYPP/SEN Spend Commitee Expenditure Other costs Professional Fees Grant/donatons Pety Cash Capital Equipment Purchased Bank Charges Fundraising Costs 3rd Party Fundraising 1 Total Expenses Excess of Income/Expenses |
1/9/24-31/8/25 2024/25 £ 133,556.94 9,331.80 44,268.58 0.00 1,628.60 25.00 583.08 0.00 90.00 0.00 2,640.65 36.00 192,160.65 135,374.01 3,130.05 16,175.93 5,644.26 1,313.18 1,618.00 865.48 1,630.38 159.16 450.25 1,792.39 1,380.55 1,540.17 3,823.01 744.76 1,514.22 533.33 6,210.25 246.00 1,410.22 70.08 1,060.11 36.00 186,721.79 5,438.86 |
1/9/23-31/8/24 Notes for 24/25 2023/24 £ 159,919.74 Core Funding for 3yr olds from the beginning of the term following their third birthday went upto £5.28 from April 25. 13,370.00 Unfunded children and hours not funded charged at £6.00 per hour 25,268.97 £31,078.62 2 years, £2,922.72 EYPP, £9,313.94 SEN, £953.30 DEP 0.00 1,856.50 £1107.24, snack, £521.36 consumables - Voluntary donatons from parents 96.60 Donatons made by parents 555.00 0.00 0.00 £90.00 parent bought our old printer 0.00 3,616.37 Per atached 33.60 204,716.78 140,891.98 7,736.25 16,532.53 Includes £10,000 NIC Employment Allowance 5,315.92 3% employer contributon, with the employee making a 5% contributon 927.14 Training, DBS checks, Staf wellness etc 1,427.60 850.02 1,448.01 Pre school Learning Alliance 11,416.01 Rent & Secure Storage Rent not paid as waitng for Invoice -Approx £12,400.00 246.72 1,930.48 Mobile phone, Broadband and Zoom 1,966.87 Includes purchases such as wipes, sanitsers etc /Accident Books/Water cooler/nappy bin. 2,123.93 Lots of diferent toys and books etc were bought from the fundraising and EYPP/SEN funds 3,496.97 988.88 Includes bateries/paints & craf supplies, this is taken from the consummables donatons 1,633.85 472.50 3,163.21 0.00 0.00 0.00 100.43 0.00 72.10 1,449.90 33.60 204,224.90 491.88 Deprivaton Payment depending on postcode as to whether the child is eligible is at £0.21 per hour per child Staf wages to allow staf to carry out 1 to 1 support with children that are in receipt of EYPP & SEN so these hours are paid for from EYPP and SEN Includes payroll sofware licence as required under HMRC RTI rules, credit card annual fee, Scholastc Ltd, Tapestry, Ofstead, Lotery Licence, PRS for Music, M A Educaton, Twinkl annual membership, ICO and Nursery World and Prime Includes Mayday hire of printer, Mcafee subscripton, postage, Microsof Ofce 365, Birthday Cards, Files and all statonery items This was from the eypp & SEN fund for EYPP children to pay for 1 to 1 sessions, toys bought for EYPP children etc |
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£5,438.86
-£17,400.00 RENT
sen/eypp/f/r b/f
£13,920.00 Should get 80% back of rent
£1,958.86
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Statement of Assets
| Cash Current Account Deposit Account Uncleared income Unpresented payments Closing Book Balance |
As at £0.00 £94,047.51 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 £94,047.51 £94,047.51 31st August 2025 |
As at £0.00 £88,608.65 £0.00 £0.00 £0.00 31st August 2024 |
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1758.31
11.76
2478.9
9603.17
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Notes
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£5,438.86
-£17,400.00 RENT
£13,920.00 Should get 80% back of rent
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£1,958.86 Profit
Hellesdon Community Pre-school Registered Charity Number 1036162 Fundraising Schedule
| Income Expenses Donations 2024/25 2024/25 2024/25 £ £ £ Event |
Profit | Profit | |
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| 2024/25 | 2023/24 | ||
| £ | £ | ||
| 34.43 14.00 141.00 25.00 11.00 19.00 178.02 100.82 151.75 157.43 - - 35.50 - - 155.05 7.50 10.50 - 97.38 54.09 - 127.50 104.00 45.07 25.00 86.50 1,580.54 |
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| Wreaths & Raisins 34.43 Dress up Halloween 14.00 T-Towels 309.00 168.00 Cake Sale - October 25.00 Cookies/Film Day 11.00 Xmas Jumper Day 19.00 Xmas photos 196.00 17.98 Xmas Fayre 297.16 196.34 Xmas Shop 184.00 32.25 Easter Fayre 388.75 231.32 Easter Bags Book Sale Feb cake Sale 35.50 Sponsored Get Fit Get Moving Challenge Summer Fayre 362.24 207.19 World Book Day 7.50 Red Nose Day 29.00 8.50 10.00 Red nose Day Dress up Mothers Day 205.00 107.62 Fathers Day 145.00 90.91 End of Year Actvites Graduaton Photos 127.50 Sponsored Sing 104.00 Children In Need 45.07 Paw Patrol 51.00 26.00 Tuck Shop 86.50 |
34.43 14.00 141.00 25.00 11.00 19.00 178.02 100.82 151.75 157.43 - - 35.50 - - 155.05 7.50 10.50 - 97.38 54.09 - 127.50 104.00 45.07 25.00 86.50 |
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 |
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| Total Fundraising 2,676.65 1,060.11 36.00 |
2,169.47 |
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees F? . >hoOI . On accounts for the year ended Charity no {if any) Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity ("the Trust") for the year ended Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees. you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. Independent tThe charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed bodyll. Delete I l if not applicable. I have Gompleted my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection wtth 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 concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement 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 the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Date: Slgned: Name: Relevant professional qualificationls) or body IER Oct 2018
CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examinerfs report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees Pr. >hoOI . On accounts for the year ended Charity no (if any Set out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (Yhe Trust") for the year ended Responsibilities and basis of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ("the Act"). I report 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 Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)(b) of the Act. Independent he charity's gross income exceeded £250,000 and l am qualified to examiner's statement undertake the examination by being a qualified member of [insert name of applicable listed bodyll. Delete I l if not applicable. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examinalion (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 Conrning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charilies (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a 'true and fair, view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Date: Signed: Name: Relevant professional qualification{s} or body IER Oct 2018
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