## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date 1 January 2025 31 December 2025 **From To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 293559
Happy Hours Pre School
**Charity's principal address** Polehampton Infant School
Hermitage Drive Twyford, Berkshire **Postcode RG10 9HS**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
|1
2
3
4
5
6|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||Elizabeth May|Treasurer|||
||Frank Collins|Trustee|||
||Elisabeth Croft|Trustee|||
||KateyMattey|Trustee|||
||Daria Timoshicheva|Trustee|From 09/09/25||
||Phillippa Middleton|Chair|||
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## **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
Katharine Cromar - Manager
March **2012**
**TAR**
1
**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
- How the charity is constituted
Constitution 2011
Charitable Trust
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Elected by members Trustee selection methods
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
The pre school operates on a model suggested by the Early Years You **may choose** to include Alliance on which the constitution is provided and adopted. The manager additional information, where works alongside the trustees to manage through regular contact and relevant, about: committee meetings 6 times per annum.
- 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**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
Our pre school aims to provide high quality care and education for children aged 2.5 years up to school to prepare them for life’s journey in a safe, caring, inclusive environment.
March **2012**
**TAR**
2
We offer appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and flexible hours. With parent’s consent, we take full responsibility for, and become involved in activities in the setting ensuring that we offer **Summary of the main** opportunities for children of all race, culture, religion, means or ability **activities undertaken for the** within our setting. **public benefit in relation to** We encourage the study of the needs of individual children and their **these objects (include within** families promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the **this section the statutory** local area. **declaration that trustees have** We run the pre school in reference to the guidance and objectives set by **had regard to the guidance** the Early Years Alliance, Statutory Guidance and the EYFS and have **issued by the Charity** regards to the guidance issued by the Charities Commission on Public **Commission on public** Benefit. **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
Provision of educational services to children from the ages of 2.5 to 4. **Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
## **Section E Financial review**
We maintain enough monies to ensure that general expenditure is not **Brief statement of the** affected by the fluctuations in the timing of our income from EYNF via **charity’s policy on reserves** local authority. We maintain sufficient income to maintain and repair our current facility whilst continually fundraising for the eventual replacement of our old terrapin building. **Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
**Further financial review details (Optional information)**
March **2012**
**TAR**
3
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.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)**
E May
**Full name(s)** Mrs Elizabeth R May **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Treasurer **etc) Date** 20/01/2026
March **2012**
**TAR**
4
## **HAPPY HOURS PRE-SCHOOL - REGISTERED CHARITY 293559**
## **RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT**
## **for the Year Ended 31 March 2025**
|**A1 Receipts**
Fees
Special Needs funding
Donations
Fundraising
Bank Interest
Sundry
**Sub total**
**A2 Asset and investment sales etc**
**Total receipts**
**A3 Payments**
Employee Costs
Premises Costs
General administrative expenses
Fundraising
Legal and professional costs
Other finance charges
Other expenses
**Sub total**
**A3 Asset and investment purchases etc.**
Furniture, Fictures and Fittings
**Total payments**
**Net of receipts/(net of payments)**|**Unrestricted**
**£**
136,042
1,644
1,070
25
1,096
-
**139,877**
-
**139,877**
124,771
13,781
5,585
-
420
95
267
**144,919**
-
-
**144,919**
**(5,042)**|**Restricted**
**£**
-
-
-
-
-
-|
|---|---|---|
|||**-**
-|
|||**-**|
||||
|||**-**
-|
|||**-**|
||||
|||**-**|
## **A5 Transfers between funds** - -
**A6 Cash funds last year end** 248,873 **Cash funds this year end 243,831**
**CHECK**
**-**
|**£**
**-**
-
**-**
**-**
-
**-**
**-**
**Funds**
**Endowment**|**2025 Total**
**£**
**136,042**
**1,644**
**1,070**
**25**
**1,096**
**-**
**139,877**
**-**
**139,877**
**124,771**
**13,781**
**5,585**
**-**
**420**
**95**
**267**
**144,919**
**-**
**-**
**144,919**
**(5,042)**|**2024 Total**
**£**
128,188
-
900
1,391
-
6|
|---|---|---|
|||**130,485**
-|
|||**130,485**|
|||115,674
6,214
5,729
-
-
108
275|
|||**128,000**
-
-|
|||**128,000**|
||||
|||**2,485**|
**-**
-
**-**
|**-**|**248,873**
**243,831**|**246,387**|
|---|---|---|
|||**241,345**|
|||**(0.00)**|
## **HAPPY HOURS PRE-SCHOOL - REGISTERED CHARITY 293559**
## **STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES**
## **as at 31 March 2025**
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Unrestricted Restricted
£ £
B1 Cash Funds
Bank - No 1 - -
Bank - No 2 -
Bank - No 3 243,831
-
243,831
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**B2 Other monetary assets** HMRC overpayments Debtors **Funds to which asset belongs Cost B3 Investment assets** -
## **B4 Assets retained for charity's own use**
Premises Furniture, fixtures and fittings
## **B5 Liabilities**
Trade creditors Employee wages Employee expenses Deferred revenue
## Total liabilities
Happy Hours Pre-School operates under a model constitution recommended by the Pre-School Learning Alli Twyford & District. The committee considers a Receipts and Payments account to be the appropriate form of reviewed by an Independent Examiner.
All funds were free funds. There were no restricted or endowed funds.
I approve these accounts and confirm that I have made available all relevant records and information for thei
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Funds
Endowment 2024
£ £
-
-
248,873
-
248,873
-
Funds to which
Current value asset belongs
-
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ance to provide pre-school facilites in f report and the accounts should be
r preparation.
## **HAPPY HOURS PRE-SCHOOL - REGISTERED CHARITY 293559**
## **NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS**
## **for the Year Ended 31 March 2023**
|**1 Receipts & Payments Account analysis**
**Receipts**
Fees
Special Needs funding
Donations
Fundraising
Bank Interest
**Other receipts**
Milk
Training
Outings
Sundry
TOTAL IN
**Employee Payments**
Wages and salaries
Staff training
**Premises payments**
Rent
Rates
Maintenance and repairs
Supplies
**Asset Purchases**
Furniture, Fixtures and Fittings|**2025**
**£**
**136,042**
**1,644**
**1,070**
**25**
**1,096**|
|---|---|
||**139,877**|
|||
|||
|||
||**139,877**|
||**121,829**
**2,942**|
||**124,771**|
||**6,983**
**1,264**
**4,598**
**936**|
||**13,781**|
|||
|**General administrative expenses**
Phones
Materials and consumables
Information and publications
Subscriptions
Insurance
Equipment expensed
**Fundraising**
Fundraising
**Legal and professional payments**
Accountants fees
Other legal and professional
**Other finance payments**
Bank Charges
**Other payments**
Sundry
Milk
Groceries
Outings
Total PnL|1,768|
|---|---|
||2,326
83
833
575|
|||
||5,585|
|||
|||
||420|
||420|
|||
||95|
||169
97|
||267|
||(5,042)|
## **2024 £**
**128,188 - 900 1,391 - 130,479**
**6 6 130,485**
**115,674 -**
**115,674**
**1,879 983 2,631 721**
**6,214**
**-**
**-**
1,682 2,467 192 48 689 650
5,729
**-** - - -
108 - - - 275 275
CHARITY COMMISSION I Independent examiner's report on the
FOR EN(JLANO ANO WALES
accounts
. Ind•p•nd•nt Examln•rfs R•port
Report to th• truste•
member3 of
Happy Hour3 Pre-school
On accounts for the year
ended
31 March 2025
Charity no , 293559
(if any)
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above
chanty (Ihe Trust") for the year ended 31 March 2025
Responsibilities and
basls of report
As the charty's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the
accounts In accordance with the requirements of the Chanties Act 2011
("the Act").
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carned out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and In carying out my examination, I
have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission
under section 145(5)(b) of the Act
Independent
examinerfs statement I have completed my examination. I confim that no material matters have
come to my attention In connection with the examination (other than that
disclosed below ') which gives me cause to believe that in, any matenal
respect.
the accounting records were not kept in accordan with section 130
of the Charrties Act, or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records, or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements
conceming the fomi 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 concems 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.
Please delete the words in the brackets If they do not 8ppIy.
Signed:
Date:
1310112026
Name:
Gisela Sharpe FCCA
Relevant professional
qualification(s) or body
(if any):
ACCA
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