## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 1[st] January 2024 Period start date To 31[st] December 2024 Period end date** ## **Charity name: Barrowby Pre-School** ## **Charity registration number: 1201193** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To provide high quality care and learning
experiences for children aged 2 years to
school age.| |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|Provision of childcare and education for
children age 2-5 years.
Fundraising to enhance the provision| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees have read the guidance
issued by the charity commission on public
benefit. The preschool benefits children by
giving them a high-quality early learning
experience. We aim to ensure that children
enjoy their time at preschool and are
confident and ready for the transition to
school. We also provide support to families
and work with other agencies to ensure
children’s individual needs are provided for.
The provision is open to any family with
pre-school age children. We advertise the
provision locally and online to ensure that
as many families as possible are aware of
the pre-school and can benefit from it. In all
decisions made by the committee
consideration is given to the benefit to
children and families.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|We are grateful to the volunteers and the
member volunteers for the hours they
spend behind the scenes, ensuring the pre-
school staff feel supported, ensuring we
are financially viable and utilising our skills
to provide the best for the children and
families.| |---|---|---| |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|We have been supporting village events, doing
craft activities at the Village fair and the children
built evacuee scarecrows for the Scarecrow
Trail over the May Bank holiday weekend. This
was welcomed by the local community who
were happy that the preschool wanted to play
an active part in the local community. We have
had positive feedback from current and past
parents as well as from families outside of our
catchment area.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |||| |---|---|---| |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The beginning of the year was difficult, with
the charity losing money, the second half of
the year improved due to staffing changing
hours, extending the provision times and
support from the Parish Council.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|In line with local authority guidelines
approximately 3 months operating costs is
kept as a contingency fund.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|£8K| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|| |**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**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|The majority of the pre-school income is
through Local Authority Early Years
Entitlement Nursery Education Funding and
fees for Childcare.| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|The main risk to the pre-school is the
possibility of reduced numbers of children
accessing the provision. The possibility of
another preschool opening in the village
could impact the number of children
attending the preschool in the future.| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution adopted| |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|Elected by members| ## **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|Committee members can access training
through the local authority & the Early
Years Alliance.| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|Members of the Early Years Alliance.
Early Years Alliance model constitution
adopted. Each family accessing the
childcare provision is considered to be a
member of the preschool and has voting
rights at general meetings. The committee
is elected at the AGM. The elected
committee selects from its members the
officers of the committee. Additional
committee members can be co-opted
according to the rules of the constitution. All
trustees give their time voluntarily and
receive no renumeration or other benefits.| |Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||Early Years Alliance model constitution
adopted. Child protection and safeguarding
policies in place in line with local authority
guidelines and EYFS requirements.| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Barrowby Pre-School| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1201193| Charity’s principal address Barrowby Sports Pavilion Low Fields. Low Road, Barrowby, Lincolnshire, NG32 1DJ ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Sarah Isaac|Chair||||| ||Susannah Louise
Ritchie|Treasurer||||| ||Kathryn Johnston|||||| ||Carol Freeman|||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| ||Corporate trustees–names of||the directors at the date the report was approved|||| ||**Director name**|||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| |||||||| Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity **Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year** ## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for 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**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**||| |||| ## **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** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Sarah Isacc|Susannah Louise Ritchie| ||
Chair|Treasurer| ||06/10/2025|| ||06/10/2025|| ||
**Charity Name**

**Barrowby Pre-School**|
**Charity Name**

**Barrowby Pre-School**|
**Charity Name**

**Barrowby Pre-School**|**No (if any)**
1201193|**No (if any)**
1201193|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|Period start date
01/01/2024|**To**|Period end date
31/12/2024||| |||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**26,274**
**65,444**
**1,574**
**141**
**1,856**
**829**
**-**
**-**
**96,118**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**96,118**
**65,480**
**13,204**
**796**
**4,002**
**119**
**280**
**1,509**
**909**
**86,299**
**379**
**-**
**379**
**86,678**
**9,440**
**-**
**12,065**
**21,505**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**26,274**
**65,444**
**1,574**
**141**
**1,856**
**829**
**-**
**-**
**96,118**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**96,118**
**65,480**
**13,204**
**796**
**4,002**
**119**
**280**
**1,509**
**909**
**-**
**86,299**
**379**
**-**
**379**
**86,678**

**9,440**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |FEES|**26,274**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**26,274**||**16,937**| |LCC EDUCATION GRANTS|**65,444**|||**65,444**||**41,798**| |FUNDRAISING EVENTS|**1,574**|||**1,574**||**683**| |MISCELLANEOUS|**141**|||**141**||**190**| |BPC SUSTAINABILITY GRANT|**1,856**|||**1,856**||**2,475**| |LCC HOUSEHOLD SUPPORT GRANT|**829**|||**829**||**567**| ||**-**|||**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**96,118**|||**96,118**||**62,650**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| ||**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**-**||| ||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||| ||||**-**|**96,118**||**62,650**| |||||||| |STAFF COSTS INCLUDING TRAINING
AND UNIFORM|**65,480**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**65,480**||**50,890**| |RENT|**13,204**|||**13,204**||**12,006**| |INSURANCE|**796**|||**796**||**760**| |PURCHASES|**4,002**|||**4,002**||**3,080**| |POSTAGE STATIONERY AND
ADVERTISING|**119**|||**119**||**177**| |REPAIRS|**280**|||**280**||**219**| |PROFESSIONAL FEES|**1,509**|||**1,509**||**1,417**| |MISCELLANEOUS|**909**|||**909**||**572**| |||||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**86,299**|||**86,299**||**69,121**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |**Laptop**|**379**||**-**
**-**
**-**|**379**||| ||**-**|||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**379**|||**379**||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| ||||**-**|**86,678**||**69,121**| |||||||| ||**9,440**|**-**|**-**|
**9,440**||**- 6,471**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**12,065**|**-**||**12,065**||**18,536**| ||**21,505**|**-**|**-**|**21,505**||**12,065**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 16/10/2025 1 ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
FEES DUE TO PRE-SCHOOL
BANK ACCOUNTS
CASH
**Details**
**Details**
B/FWD ASSETS HELD AT 01.01.2024
LAPTOP PURCHASED 11.06.2024
**Details**
PAYE DUE
PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**21,460**
**-**
**45**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,505**
**-**
OK
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**2,868**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
UNRESTRICTED
**6,331**
UNRESTRICTED
**379**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
UNRESTRICTED
**746**
UNRESTRICTED
**191**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
Susannah Louise Ritchie|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
**(optional)**| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||| ||||Date of
approval| |||Susannah Louise Ritchie|17/10/2025| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 16/10/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trusteesl members of Barrowby Pre-school On a¢Gounts for the year ended 31st December 2024 Charity no lif any) 1201193 Set out on pages 1 and 2 attached I report to the trustees on my examination ofthe accounts of the above charity I the Trust") for the year ended 31. December 2024. ResponsTbilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 ('Ihe Act ). I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in Garrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(51(bl of the Act. I have completed my examination. I confimi that no material matters have Gome to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect.. accounting records were not kept in accordan￿ with section 130 of the Act or the accounts do not accord with the accounting records Independent examinerfs statement I have no cOn￿rnS and have come across no other matters in connection wrth the examination lo which attention should be drawn in order lo enable proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. Signed: Date: 1711012025 Name: Mr R M Welsh Relevant professional qualification(s) or body lif any): FCA Address: Saul Fairholm Limited, Charted Accountants 12 Tentercroft Street Lincoln, LN5 7DB 12 TENTERCROFf STRCFI LINCOLN IN5 7DF Td 01522 53751 IER October 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER October 2018