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2025-08-31-accounts

Charity Commission Report 2025

Springfield Playgroup

Charity Number: 1210916

Upminster Baptist Church Springfield Gardens Upminster RM14 3EH

Trustees: Chair: Rev Richard Shorter, Deborah Parlour, Susan Cummins, Helen Dunne (Treasurer)

The chair is the church minister and two Trustees are church members, the Treasurer is an ex-parent with an Accountancy qualification. The playgroup Manager and two parents also attend Trustee meetings but are not Trustees.

Springfield Playgroup is a preschool for children aged 2.5 - 4 years old. We are open 5 mornings and 3 afternoons, term time only and can accommodate a maximum of 26 children at each session from the local area.

We follow the Early Years foundation stage curriculum and are regularly inspected by Ofsted. Children leave us to go on to school and we have excellent relationships with the local primary schools.

This academic year we have introduced afternoon sessions, enabling children to be in our care from 9am – 3pm, which is helping working parents with their childcare arrangements. Children bring a healthy packed lunch with them.

We offer all the usual activities eg book corner, playdough, arts and crafts, construction toys, a role play area and small world play but also additional activities such as tending to our allotment, meeting with an elderly people’s lunch club and the Church’s Men’s Shed, visiting the Library, our local windmill and park.

Springfield Playgroup Springfield Playgroup 1210916
Receipts andpayments accounts CC16a
For the period
from		 01/09/2024 To 31/08/2025

Section A Receipts and payments

A1 Receipts Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest
£
67 306
15 054
3 569
849
2 735
1 072
- #
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90 585
-
-
-
90 585
75 851
5 459
3 391
2 437
1 018
120
780
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89 056
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-
89 056
1 529
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-
1 529		 Restricted
funds
to the nearest £
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-		 Endowment
funds
to the nearest £
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to the nearest £
67 306
15 054
3 569
849
2 735
1 072
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90 585
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-
90 585
75 851
5 459
3 391
2 437
1 018
120
780
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89 056
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89 056
1 529		 Total funds
to the nearest £
67 306
15 054
3 569
849
2 735
1 072
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90 585
-
-
-
90 585
75 851
5 459
3 391
2 437
1 018
120
780
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-
89 056
-
-
-
89 056
1 529		 Last year
to the nearest £
EarlyYears Funding 67 306 73 956
Fee income 15 054 9 534
Donations 3 569 2 827
Fundraising 849 1 123
Other Income 2 735 209
Bank Interest 1 072 1 191
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- -
Sub total(Gross income for
AR)		 90 585 88 840
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
-
- -
Sub total - -
Total receipts
A3 Payments
88 840
Wages 75 851 68 977
Rent andpremises charges 5 459 5 487
Materials and Groceries 3 391 3 310
Other operatingcosts 2 437 1 843
Insurance 1 018 761
Bank charges 120 111
Depreciation 780 1 106
Prioryear accountingadjustments - 6 086
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**Sub total ** 89 056 87 681
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)
-
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**Sub total ** - -
Total payments
Net of receipts/(payments)
A5 Transfers between funds
A6 Cash funds last year end
Cash funds this year end
87 681
1 529 - - 1 529 1 159
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1 529 - - 1 529 1 159

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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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
Details
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
Bank Account
Petty Cash
Details
Equipment
Details
Deposits for next year
Signature		 Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
44 165
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537
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44 702
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Agreement Error
OK
Unrestricted
funds
Restricted
funds
to nearest £
to nearest £
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Fund to which
asset belongs
Cost (optional)
4 179
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asset belongs
Cost (optional)
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liability relates
Amount due
(optional)
- 1 600
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Print Name		 Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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OK
Endowment
funds
to nearest £
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Current value
(optional)
799
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Current value
(optional)
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When due
(optional)
Date of
approval

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees/
members of
On accounts for the year
ended
Set out on pages
Responsibilities and
basis of report		 Charity Name
Springfield Playgroup		 Charity Name
Springfield Playgroup		 Charity Name
Springfield Playgroup
31 August 2025 Charity no
(if any)		 1210916
As per the attached accounts
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31stAugust 2025.
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 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

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.

Date: 27[th] June 2026

Signed: Name: Tim Steel Relevant professional FCMA, CGMA qualification(s) or body (if any): Address: 278 Goodwood Avenue, Hornchurch, Essex. RM12 6DH

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Oct 2018

IER

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material 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 .

None.

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Oct 2018

IER

SPRINGFIELD PLAYGROUP Year ending 31 August 2025

INCOME £
LBH Early Years Funding 67,306.14
Unfunded children fee income 13,374.00
Family Donations 3,569.14
Fundraising activites 849.00
Photography Commission 80.74
Other income - Bank interest 1,071.79
Other income - uniform sales 111.00
Other income - Grants 2,443.47
Unreturned deposits 100.00
Afternoon sessions / lunch income 1,680.00
Total Income 90,585.28
EXPENSES
Wages
Materials and Groceries
Training
Bank Charges
Equipment purchases
Presents
Rent + church charges
Building maintenance
Ofsted Registration
Insurance
Entertainment
DBS Check
Playgroup Outing
Depreciation
Sensory Garden
DAF funding spend		 -
75,851.44
3,391.00
72.00
119.97
138.07
542.01
5,459.15
690.00
85.00
1,018.00
300.00
152.00
24.30
780.23
373.91
59.25
Total Expenses 89,056.33
Net Income for 12 months to 31 August 2025 1,528.95
Fixed Assets
Cash at Bank
Petty Cash
Creditors - refundable parent deposits *		 -
798.75
44,164.73
536.82
(1,600.00)
Total assets less total liabilies as at 31 August 2025 43,900.30
Unrestricted funds brought forward
Movement for the year		 42,371.35
1,528.95
Total reserves 43,900.30

*Parent deposits are not recognised as income when received. They are held as a liability until refunded or, where forfeited in accordance with the charity's policy, recognised as income.

The above accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis.

22 June 2026

Helen Dunne Treasurer