**Trustees' Annual Report for the period From** Period start date **T** Period end date 01 09 2024 **o** 31 08 2025 Section A Reference and administration details **Charity name** St Nicolas Pre-School and Playgroup **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 284755 **Charity's principal address** Boxhill Walk Abingdon **Postcode OX14 1HB**
Section A Reference and administration details
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution adopted 1[st] April 1982, Amended 19[th] October 2000 Type of governing document
(eg. trust deed, constitution) Unincorporated Association How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Trustees are elected at the AGM in October each year. The names for Trustee selection methods new Trustees are proposed, seconded and elected the next year. (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include The preschool formally closed in 2025, and the trustees’ final duties have additional information, where focused on fulfilling statutory obligations, including staff redundancies, relevant, about: asset disposal, and appropriate distribution of remaining funds
- policies and procedures
- adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational
- structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related
- parties;
- trustees’ consideration of
- major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
The aims of the Pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging **Summary of the objects of the** parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through **charity set out in its** community groups and by: **governing document** (a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups,
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ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability; (b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas; (c) instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance. Activities ceased in April 2025 with the closure of the Preschool. During the final year, the trustees ensured continuity of care until closure. The **Summary of the main** trustees confirm they have had due regard to the guidance on public **activities undertaken for the** benefit issued by the Charity Commission when making closure **public benefit in relation to** decisions, particularly in relation to the distribution of remaining funds. **these objects (include within this section the statutory** The adjoining school will open a nursery on the same site, which ensures **declaration that trustees have** provision for children below statutory school age continues in the **had regard to the guidance** community, with a more sustainable future. **issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about: ● policy on grantmaking; ● policy programme related investment; ● contribution made by volunteers.
## Section D Achievements and performance
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## **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
This academic year was marked by the decision to close the Preschool, primarily due to financial pressures and ongoing challenges in sustaining an active committee of parent volunteers.
Trustees and staff worked hard to maintain high-quality provision until closure. The trustees also managed redundancy processes for staff and the return of the building to the diocese, who in turn will allow St Nicolas Primary School to open a nursery provision in its place.
A restricted donation of remaining funds was approved by the Early Years Alliance and directed to the St Nicolas School Association, to continue supporting children under statutory school age in the local community.
## **Section E Financial review**
We have two accounts with reserve funds; one for short-to-medium term **Brief statement of the** costs and the other for longer term contingency funds. Funds from both **charity’s policy on reserves** accounts have been utilised in making redundancy payments on the closure of the Preschool, along with carrying out improvements necessary to ‘make good’ the building before handing it over to the adjoining school.
**Brief statement of the**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
● the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
● how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and
- objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
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## **Section F Other optional information**
St Nicolas Preschool and Playgroup has served the Abingdon community for over 40 years. The trustees would like to record their thanks to the staff, families, and volunteers whose contributions created a nurturing and supportive environment for generations of children.
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s) Full name(s)** Hannah Langley Paul Bramwell **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Chair Treasurer **Date** 02/10/2025
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**St Nicolas Pre-School and Playgroup 284755 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** 1/9/2024 31/8/2025 **To from**
|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**to the nearest £**
**72,531**
**11,121**
**342**
**83,994**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,994**
**82,573**
**3,472**
**26,177**
**8,623**
**523**
**150**
**270**
**783**
**772**
**23,726**
**1,064**
**604**
**1,660**
**1,661**
**315**
**141**
**1,356**
**657**
**126**
**154,653**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**154,653**
**- 70,659**
**74,946**
**4,287**|**Restricted**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**72,531**
**11,121**
**342**
**83,994**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**83,994**
**82,573**
**3,472**
**26,177**
**8,623**
**523**
**150**
**270**
**783**
**772**
**23,726**
**1,064**
**604**
**1,660**
**1,661**
**315**
**141**
**1,356**
**657**
**126**
**-**
**-**
**154,653**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**154,653**
**- 70,659**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|OCC AP|**72,531**|||||**-**|
|Fee income fromparents|**11,121**|||||**-**|
|Interest accrued on Reserve Account
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|~~**_Sub total_**~~~~_(Gross income for AR)_~~|**83,994**|||||**-**|
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Staff|**82,573**|||||**-**|
|Pensions|**3,472**||||||
|Redundancycosts|**26,177**||||||
|Agencycosts|**8,623**||||||
|Contractors|**523**||||||
|Rent|**150**||||||
|Insurance|**270**||||||
|Phone|**783**|||||**-**|
|Repairs|**772**||||||
|'Making good' repairs|**23,726**||||||
|Waste|**1,064**||||||
|Subsciptions|**604**||||||
|Consumables|**1,660**||||||
|Food Purchases|**1,661**||||||
|Voucher Purchases|**315**||||||
|Bank Charges|**141**||||||
|Training|**1,356**||||||
|Printing|**657**||||||
|Sundries|**126**||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**154,653**|||||**-**|
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**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**|RESERVE ACCOUNT
**Details**
MAIN ACCOUNT
**Details**
NO 2 ACCOUNT
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**to nearest £**
**1,493**
**2,285**
**509**
**4,287**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
**Details**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
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**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
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|**own use**|||||**-**||**-**|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all
the trustees|Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval|
||||HANNAH LANGLEY||||02/10/2025|
||||PAUL BRAMWELL||||02/10/2025|
CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Roport to the tw$tggsI
members of
Chanty N3mÈ
St Nicolas Pre-school & Playgroup
On accounts for the year
ended
31¥1 August 2025
Charlty no
{ff any}
284755
Set out on pagos
Iiemember to indude the page numbers of additional sh8etsl
I report to the twstees on my examination of the accounts of the above
Charity {"the Trust.) for the year ended 3110812025.
Responsibilities 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 th8 Charities Act
2011 (Yhe ACV).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trusvs accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination. I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charty Commission
under section 145(5Xb) of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come lo my attention in connection wilh the examination which gives me
Cause to believe that in, any material resped=
accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
Independent
examinèrfs statemont
I have no wn¢ems and have come across no other matters in nnectIon
with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to 8nabl8 a
proper understanding of th6 accounts to b6 reached.
Sign.
Date:
02414
Name:
Simon Baker
Relovant profossional
qualification(s) or body
{If any)..
FCCA
Addr•ss:
5 Wyndham Gardens, Wallingford, OX10 gAU
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32.
Sndependent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidan for
examiners).
Give here brief details of
any Items that the
examiner wishes to
dlsclose.
IER
October 2018