Managers Annual Report for the July 2023 – December 2024. (Lindsay joined in October 2024)
Charity Name: The Greenwood Pre-school
Registered charity number: 1204101
Charity’s address: c/o
Winnersh Primary School Greenwood Grove Winnersh Berkshire RG41 5LH
Names of the charity trustees as at 18.9.25:
Karen Davies Atika Sharma Kathryn Owers Claire Cittern-Jones Lindsay Kemp Emilie Hurst
It has been lovely to join Greenwood in October 2024 and be part of the team.
I feel the pre-school really has a positive feel in the community, and this is something I wish to extend on, staff are rallying ideas together to promote us that bit more, with leaflets and new Facebook promotional page.
Staffing
I joined Greenwood in October 2024. In December staff member Kamla left her position here due to struggles with the time commitments.
I am fully flexible on staff wanting to further their professional development.
I have sent options for this via email as and when it becomes available.
Nicole Eckert returned to Greenwood 3 days a week from her maternity leave in October 2024. She is now restarting (continuing from where she left off) doing her Level 5 apprenticeship.
I have an open-door policy where staff can come and speak to me as and when they need to. We also carry out termly supervision with all staff.
Attendance
Attendance of children has been good by September 2024, some days being at capacity with numbers. The new starters settled in well and built friendships
Most of our children are hoping to move on to Winnersh Primary School and the rest on to Wheatfield Primary School and some other local schools.
All staff have continued to work extremely hard to ensure they have developed good relationships with their key children’s families. We have kept parents up to date by sending out regular emails as necessary. Tapestry has continued being a great communication allowing us to share the children’s activities and learning daily. On the shed is a notice board where parents can sign up to stay and plays, to have the opportunity to see how their children are developing during sessions and what they get up to.
Garden
The garden continues to be the main attraction at Greenwood. If I am right the new climbing frame was installed in January 2024. Many resources have also been sourced by staff or parents, building those valuable learning experiences.
Inside
The more natural and open-ended resources continue to be popular in the setting and giving the children more opportunities to use their imagination. We continue to improve the setup of the Pre-school, with the aim to make the setting open ended and homely. The children can access the resources they would like to use and if they can’t see or reach them, they know they can ask an adult to help them. There is the option to set up a quiet calming space for those children with any needs. With resources purchased, calmer lighting, black out tent, pillows.
Transition
We have been working closely with the Primary schools to ensure that the children are prepared to move up and we are giving the school staff as much information as possible to prepare them for the intake. We have also been working with parents to help them prepare the children for big school.
Provisions
We are continuing to ensure that we are meeting all the children’s needs. We have delivered speech and language support for those that need it as well as other provisions such as Attention Autism and Sensory Circuits. The biggest provision has been time – giving those children with anxiety, lots of adult attention whilst also developing their independence.
Trips and Experience
We have “Music with Heather” in to provide music sessions at the setting fortnightly, which the parents make a voluntary donation to cover the cost. This has been a huge success.
In November, we held a sponsored bounce and fun morning where the children learnt about firework safety and had a go at holding a real sparkler. This was also a fundraising opportunity for Greenwood.
We held our traditional Christmas Party in December. The staff did an amazing job organising games and “Music with Heather” came to do a movement session in line with theme. We were visited by Father Christmas who met all the children and gave them gifts of a Greenwood Teddy.
We had the photographer visit for Christmas; we made 10% of her total cost of sales.
Structure, governance and management
The committee has remained stable over the year. With 2 more members joining in Winter 2024, myself and Emily Hurst.
Type of governing document: Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) whose only voting members are its charity trustees.
Trustee selection methods: Manager and Committee
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:
KDavies
KAREN DAVIES 23/09/25
THE GREENWOOD PRESCHOOL Charity Number 1204101
| 1. Receipts and Payments Account Income Receipts Trading Activities WBC Fees Received Greenwood Fees Received Fundraising Gift Aid Milk Reimbursement Uniform Sales Other Income Investment Income Interest Earned TOTAL RECEIPTS Cost of Sales Uniform Purchased Expenditures Building Costs/Maintenance Cost to Fundraising events Supplies Electricity Rent/Rates Insurances Phone Costs Staff Wages and Employers Pension Other Wages Printing, Postage and Stationery Training Trips and Booked Activities Gifts/Staff Entertaining Other Expenditure Subscriptions Food/Milk TOTAL PAYMENTS Profit / Loss |
26July23- 31Dec24 214,064.42 23,652.25 4,154.82 265.26 467.99 560.00 120.00 887.39 £ 244,172.13 1,424.62 14,454.70 221.87 5,601.51 3,948.61 1,193.86 5,199.60 1,696.19 173,150.23 6,144.82 982.48 890.40 471.14 1,919.11 1,451.44 1,479.17 1,205.26 £ 221,435.01 22,737.12 £ |
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| 2. Statement of Assets and Liabilities at 31 December 2024 Monetary Assets Current Account as of 31Dec24 Savings Account as of 31Dec24 Petty Cash as of 31Dec24 Old Charity Account as of 31Dec24 Total Assets |
2024 9,377.40 60,031.64 47.11 966.26 70,422.41 £ |
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CHARITY co Ihe iegvl¢ilDI loi chaTilies In Engld¥id Jiid Wile, Independent examinerfs report to the trustses of The Greenwood Preschool, l N jACC)ftt&JIufel report on th8 a¢counts of The Greenwood Preschool for the year ended 31 December 2024, thich are sei oui on pages 1 10 2. Respe¢tlve responslbllitles of trustoe$ and examlner The charity's Iruslees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts. The charity's trustees consider that an audit is not requifftd for this year under section 144(2) of the Charities Act 2011 Ilhe 2011 Acll and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to- examine the aecount# under s8etton 145 of thè 2011 Aet., lo follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515)Ibl of the 2011 Act,. and to Llal¢ whether particular matters have eomè to my attention. Ba515 of independent examinerfs report My examlnaiion was carmed oui In accordance the general DireGlion5 given by the Charity Commission. An examination indudes a review of the a¢¢ounling records kept by the charity and comparison of the accounts presented wlh those records. 11 also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclO$UWS in the a¢uunis, and seeking explanations from you as irusiees concerning any such mallers. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a 'true and falr vlew, and Ihe repon Is Ilmlted lo Ihose maller5 Set Dut in the StatME11t below. Ind•p•nd•nt •xamln•rf$ $tat•m•nt In connection with my examination, no matter has come lo my attention.. 1. whith gives me rea$onabl¢ cause to b81ieve that in any matefial resp¢¢l the requirements.. lo keep accounting rerdS in ac¢ordance th section 130 of the 2011 Act., and to p pare accounts whleh accord Wih Ihe accountlng record5 and cornply vwilh thB accounting requirements of the 2011 Act have not been met,. or 2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order lo enable a proper understanding of the accounts to reached. NAmo'. i CQ LfrJ (¥CQFtr4fj5-uJ I £ rfL4fyJpffLDJ Qosc 2018 IL¢Jl£ Address: Date: