**To** ## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date 1 january 2025 Period end date 31st December 2025 **From** ## Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1199736 Castleton Preschool and Nursery **Charity's principal address** Marshfield school Grounds Marshfield Road Castleton Cardiff **Postcode CF32UW** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Rhoswen Hailwood|Chair||| ||Ann Thomas|Trustee||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)** **Name Dates acted if not for whole year** March **2012** **TAR** 1 |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |**Accountant**|Phil Howells|| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **Section B Structure, governance and management** ## **Description of the charity’s trusts** Constitution Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by committee Trustee selection methods - (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** Trustees and committee members worked with the manager, deputy You **may choose** to include manager and other staff at the setting and attended regular bimonthly additional information, where committee meetings relevant, about: Trustees also liaised with Early Years Wales ,CSIW and the Local authority where appropriate - policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees; There was also liaison with the primary school in whose grounds the nursery was situated - the charity’s organisational nursery was situated structure and any wider network with which the charity Liability insurance was in place which included trustee indemnity works; Agreed financial reserves were also in place in the event of closure - • relationship with any related requiring redundancy payments - relationship with any related parties; - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** The nursery provided day care for a maximum of 28 children age 2 to 4 during term time It also provided “wrap around care” in the form of breakfast club and after **Summary of the objects of the** school club for children under the age of 7 **charity set out in its** The charity was set up to enable the nursery to function on a non profit **governing document** basis March **2012** **TAR** 2 **Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)** ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** There were no volunteers working at the nursery The nursery did not make grants and due to its having lost “educational status” during 2024 did not receive any grants Finances were kept in a business account and savings account with the same bank There were no investments You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: - policy on grantmaking; - policy programme related investment; - contribution made by volunteers. March **2012** **TAR** 3 Section D Achievements and performance **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year** Unfortunately there were difficulties in staffing evident from the start of 2025 This was due to both sickness and difficulties in recruitment In addition financial projections indicated that due to the absence of grant monies ,the increase in minimum wage and the increase in national insurance payments that the nursery may not have been viable without a substantial increase in fees for those parents not claiming funded childcare hours Due to sick leave and planned maternity leave ,particularly in view of insufficient managerial cover on the advice of Early Years Wales and CSIW the difficult decision was made to close the setting on March 13[th] Insufficient staff particularly qualified staff meant that the setting was unable to reopen A meeting was held with parents and other stakeholders explaining the reasons for closure and the intention to close the charity in due course Staff were made redundant in line with ACAS and government policy and the appropriate paid notice and redundancy payments were made All staff agreed with the redundancy payments and paid notice payments Equipment belonging to the setting was sold to raise additional funds and the setting cleared March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## **Section E Financial review** Reserves were in place to pay redundancy payments in line with **Brief statement of the** government and ACAS policies **charity’s policy on reserves** Stakeholders were made aware of the ;intention for of any monies held by the charity following payment of bills to be transferred to Early Years Wales to enable grants to be made to other charities managing preschool nurseries There was no objection to this proposal **Details of any funds materially in deficit** ## **Further financial review details (Optional information)** You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about: - the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising); - how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity; - investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted. ## **Section F Other optional information** Insurance has been obtained to continue trustee indemnity for 10 years following closure of the setting Documentation will be kept for appropriate periods of time as per government guidelines The Accounts accompanying this report are for the year end 2025 ie up to 31[st] December 2025 There are still some outstanding invoices to be paid therefore final accounts will be submitted when request to close the charity is made and any remaining monies will be transferred to Early Years Wales Following submission of this report and final accounts A submission will be made to close the charity in due course ## **Section G Declaration** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** ## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** **Signature(s) Full name(s)** Rhoswen Lynden Hailwood **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 16/1/26 March **2012** **TAR** 5 ||**Charity Name**
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|**No (if any)**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Receipts and payments accounts**||||| ||
**For the period from**|
Period start date|
**To**|
Period end date|| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**27,939**
**-**
**246**
**220**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,405**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**28,405**
**67,345**
**859**
**848**
**785**
**107**
**3,999**
**-**
**85**
**-**
**74,028**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**74,028**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the**
**nearest £**|**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the**
**nearest £**| |Fees and Early Years Funding||**-**|**-**|**27,939**|**119,254**| |Grants||**-**|**-**|**-**|**10,878**| |Fundraising||**-**|**-**|**246**|**24**| |Interest Income||**-**|**-**|**220**|**373**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**28,405**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|||**-**||**130,529**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**| |**_Sub total_**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**28,405**|**130,529**| ||||||| |
Wages & HMRC||**-**|**-**|**67,345**|**113,264**| |
Rent & Premises||**-**|**-**|**859**|**11,889**| |Equipment, Stationary, Books||**-**|**-**|**848**|**8,289**| |
Provisions||**-**|**-**|**785**|**3,848**| |Grant Expenditure||**-**|**-**|**107**|**-**| |
Other Expenses||**-**|**-**|**3,999**|**4,056**| |
Crafts||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| |Interest Paid||**-**|**-**|**85**|**-**| |||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**74,028**|**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|||**-**||**141,346**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**-**|| |||**-**
**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|||||| |||**-**|**-**|**74,028**|**141,346**| ||||||| ||**- 45,623**|**-**|
**-**|**- 45,623**|**- 10,817**| ||**50,338**
**4,715**|**- **|**-**||**-**| |||**-**|**-**|**50,338**|**61,155**| |||**-**|
**-**|**4,715**|**50,338**| ||||||| |**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the**||**end of the period**|||| |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**||**Unrestricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowme**
**nt funds**
**to nearest**
**£**| ||ACCOUNT 34123156||**490**|**-**|**-**| ||ACCOUNT 34123911||**4,225**|**-**|**-**| ||||**-**|**-**|**-**| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**4,715**|**-**|**-**| |---|---|---|---|---| |||OK
**Unrestricted funds**
**to nearest £**||OK| |||||**Endowme**
**nt funds**
**to nearest**
**£**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**-**||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current**
**value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Current**
**value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**When due**
**(optional)**| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||Date of
approval| |||||| |||||| To whom it may concern, I have ben asked by trustee of the Charity – Castleton Nursery 1199736 to assist in preparing the year end reports dated year end 31[st] December 2025. In March 2025 the Charity ceased trading and all PAYE & redundancy was paid according to HMRC rules. I can confirm that the Income & Expenditure Report submitted is a true reflection of the finances of the Nursery. During that year a good level of accountancy was achieved. Philip Howells Email: philipdhowells@gmail.com