## **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**
**- # **
**-**
**90 585**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90 585**
**75 851**
**5 459**
**3 391**
**2 437**
**1 018**
**120**
**780**
**-**
**-**
**89 056**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**89 056**
**1 529**
**-**
**-**
**1 529**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**67 306**
**15 054**
**3 569**
**849**
**2 735**
**1 072**
**-**
**-**
**90 585**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90 585**
**75 851**
**5 459**
**3 391**
**2 437**
**1 018**
**120**
**780**
**-**
**-**
**89 056**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**89 056**
**1 529**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**67 306**
**15 054**
**3 569**
**849**
**2 735**
**1 072**
**-**
**-**
**90 585**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**90 585**
**75 851**
**5 459**
**3 391**
**2 437**
**1 018**
**120**
**780**
**-**
**-**
**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**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_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**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**89 056**|||||**87 681**| |||||||| |**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_**||||||| |||||||**87 681**| |||||||| ||**1 529**|**-**|**-**|**1 529**||**1 159**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**1 529**|**-**|**-**|**1 529**||**1 159**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 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**
**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**
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**Restricted**
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**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**44 165**
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**537**
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**-**
**44 702**
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Agreement Error
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**Cost (optional)**
**4 179**
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**Amount due**
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**- 1 600**
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Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||OK| ||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**799**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**-**| ||||**When due**
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approval| ||||| ||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 ## **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: - the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or - the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or - the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination. 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 1 **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. 2 **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