**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO Charity No. 1207226**
**TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
Dexter & Sharpe Chartered Certified Accountants The Old Vicarage Church Close Boston Lincolnshire PE21 6NA
**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
**TRUSTEES REPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
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## **INDEX**
|1|Charity Information|
|---|---|
|2|Annual Report of the Trustees|
|3|Independent Examiner’s Report|
|4-5|Receipts and Payments Account|
|6|Statement of Assets and Liabilities|
**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
**CHARITY INFORMATION FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
**___________________________________________________________________________________________________**
|**Trustees:**|Mrs Michelle Napier (Chairperson)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|---|---|---|
||Mr Steven Chadwick (Secretary)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
||Mr Ernest Napier (Treasurer)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
||Patricia Rennick|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
||Julie Appleyard|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|**Address:**|Little Robins Pre School||
||Robin Hood's Walk||
||Boston||
||Lincolnshire||
||PE21 6PL||
|**Charity No:**|1207226||
|**Independent Examiner:**|Nicola Lenton FCCA||
||Dexter & Sharpe||
||Chartered Certified Accountants||
||The Old Vicarage||
||Church Close||
||Boston||
||Lincolnshire||
||PE21 6NA||
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**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
## **ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
**_____________________________________________________________________________________________**
## **Objectives of the Charity**
The CIO was formed when the previous charity, Little Robins Pre-School (Charity No. 1034704) was converted to the CIO on 27 February 2024 and the CIO Constitution adopted. The CIO started to operate on 25 February 2025 when the Ofsted registration was transferred from the old charity to the new CIO. The CIO was set up to provide playgroup facilities for under 5s.
Little Robins Pre-School CIO is a registered charity (No. 1207226).
## **Activities and Achievements this Year**
During the period the main source of income continued to be from playgroup fees and early years grants. Some fundraising activities were held as detailed in the Receipts and Payments account.
## **Financial Position and Reserves**
The accounts show the financial position and reserves as at 30 June 2025.
Net receipts for the period were £62,824 leaving a bank balance of £62,794 and a cash balance of £30 as at 30 June 2025.
The trustees consider that the reserves are adequate to continue the charity's current level of activity during the next period, but will continue to review the situation.
## **Risk Management**
The trustees have undertaken a review of the major risks to which the charity is exposed, and systems to mitigate those risks have been considered and are adequate.
## **Trustees**
The trustees for the year were:
|Mrs Michelle Napier (Chairperson)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|---|---|
|Mr Steven Chadwick (Secretary)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|Mr Ernest Napier (Treasurer)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|Patricia Rennick (Trustee)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|Julie Appleyard (Trustee)|(appointed 27.2.2024)|
|Trustees are nominated and seconded by committee members and parents at the AGM.||
DBS checks are carried out on all committee members to ensure they are eligible to act on behalf of the charity. They also attend courses which are selected from the training directory provided to all pre-schools. Two of the trustees are also employed by the CIO to work in the pre-school, per the constitution of the CIO they do not have any voting rights in respect of salaries.
## **Volunteers**
Playgroups have to have a certain number of responsible adults per child. Volunteers cannot be counted when calculating this ratio. Therefore although volunteers occasionally help out, they are not relied upon to meet the objectives of the charity.
## **Future Plans**
Our future plans are to continue to provide pre-school facilities for under 5s.
## **For and on behalf of the Management Committee**
………………………………………………… Mr Ernest Napier **Treasurer**
**23 April 2026**
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**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
## **INDEPENDENT EXAMINER’S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
**_____________________________________________________________________________________________**
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the Little Robins Pre-School CIO for the period from 27 February 2024 to 30 June 2025.
## **Responsibilities and basis of report**
As the charity trustees of the Trust 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 145(5)(b) of the Act.
## **Independent examiner’s statement**
I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination giving me cause to believe that in any material respect:
1. accounting records were not kept in respect of the Trust as required by section 130 of the act; or
2. the accounts do not accord with those records.
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.
## **NICOLA LENTON FCCA**
Dexter & Sharpe Chartered Certified Accountants The Old Vicarage Church Close Boston Lincolnshire PE21 6NA
## **24 April 2026**
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## **LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
**_____________________________________________________________________________________________**
||**Restricted**|**General**|**Total**|
|---|---|---|---|
||**Funds**|**Funds**|**2025**|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**INCOME RECEIPTS**||||
|**Grants & Donations**|**699**|**38,164**|**38,863**|
||_______|_______|_______|
|**Trading Activities**||||
|Pre-school fees|-|**1,358**|**1,358**|
|Grants - Early Years|-|**63,069**|**63,069**|
|Grants – Apprentice|-|-|-|
|Grants – deprivation funding|**1,173**|-|**1,173**|
|Grants – Household support grants|**1,114**|-|**1,114**|
|Grants – EHCP|**3,502**|-|**3,502**|
|Breakfast Club Fees|-|**676**|**676**|
||**_______**|**_______**|**_______**|
||**5,789**|**65,103**|**70,892**|
|**Fundraising Activities**||||
|Party fees|-|**-**|**-**|
|Christmas jumper day|-|-|**-**
|
|Christmas Lunch|-|**-**|**-**|
|Forester’s Society donation|-|**-**|**-**|
|Wolds Wildlife Park trip donations|**-**|**-**|**-**|
|Save the Children donation||**-**|**-**|
||_______|_______|______|
||-|**-**|**-**|
|**Other Income**||||
|Photos|-|**-**|**-**|
||_______|_______|_______|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||_______|_______|_______|
|**Total Receipts C/fwd**|**6,488**|**103,267**|**109,755**|
||`══════`|`══════`|`══════`|
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**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT CONTINUED FOR THE PERIOD FROM 27 FEBRUARY 2024 TO 30 JUNE 2025**
|**Restricted**
**General**
**Funds**
**Funds**
**£**
**£**
**Total Receipts B/fwd`**
**6,488**
**103,267**
`══════` `══════`
**Direct Charitable Expenditure**
Wages
**5,044**
**19,135**
Trustee Wages
-
**16,141**
Pension
-
**-**
Rent and rates
-
**652**
Heat & light
**-**
**443**
Insurance
**-**
**-**
Toys, games and equipment
**-**
**307**
Party and excursions
**124**
**6**
Web Hosting – Charlotte Maddison
**-**
**-**
Postage, stationery and advertising
**-**
**544**
Repairs and renewals
**-**
**2,113**
Cleaning
-
**19**
Sundries
**-**
**599**
Subscriptions
**-**
**-**
Training
**-**
**10**
Telephone
-
**452**
Household support grants
**1,080**
**-**
**_______**
**_______**
**6,248**
**40,421**
**Other Expenditure**
Payroll fees
**-**
**262**
Independent examiner fee
**-**
**-**
_______
_______
**-**
**262**
_______
_______
**Total Payments**
**6,248**
**40,683**
`══════`
`══════`
Net receipts/ (payments) for the year
**240**
**62,584**
**`______`**
**`______`**
**Bank and cash balance at 30 June 2025**
**240**
**62,584**
|**Total**
**2025**
**£**
**109,755**
`══════`
**24,179**
**16,141**
**-**
**652**
**443**
**-**
**307**
**130**
**-**
**544**
**2,113**
**19**
**599**
**-**
**10**
**452**
**1,080**
**_______**
**46,669**
**262**
**-**
_______
**262**
_______
**46,931**
`══════`
**62,824**
**62,824**|
|---|---|
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**LITTLE ROBINS PRE-SCHOOL CIO**
**STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 30 JUNE 2025**
**_____________________________________________________________________________________________**
||**2025**|
|---|---|
||**£**|
|**Monetary Assets**||
|Bank balances|**62,794**|
|Cash balance|**30**|
||**`_______`**|
||**62,824**|
||`═══════`|
|**Assets Retained for the Charity's Own Use Gifted by Previous Charity**||
|Little Robins Portacabin and Accessories|**4,223**|
|Office chairs|**46**|
|Monitor|**38**|
|TV/DVD|**39**|
|Dishwasher|**209**|
|Logik Fridge-Freezer|**169**|
|Hotpoint washer dryer|**436**|
|Hoover|**123**|
||**`_______`**|
||**5,283**|
||`═══════`|
|**Debtors**||
|BBC – business rates paid in advance|**64**|
|BBC – Bins paid in advance|**918**
|
||**982**
|
|**Liabilities**||
|Accountancy|**540**|
|Wages|**1,358**|
|PAYE|**1,074**|
|Payroll preparation|**112**|
|Pension|**1,729**|
||**________**|
||**4,813**|
||`═══════`|
**Approved ……………………………………….**
Mr Ernest Napier **Treasurer**
**23 April 2026**
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