## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From** 1[st] September 2022 **To**
31[st] August 2023
**Charity name:** Beenham Pre-school
**Charity registration number:** 294376
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|To enhance the development and
education of children under statutory
school age by encouraging parents to
understand and provide for the needs of
their children through community groups
and by: (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, 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|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|The charity runs a pre-school within a small
village in a semi-rural location for children
from the age of 2 years to statutory school
age. The children have access to a range
of daily activities, indoors and outdoors.
There are structured activities within the
day as well as opportunities for the children
to select their own activities from the range
on offer. The preschool aims to provide
quality, individualised child care meeting
the standards set by Ofsted and within
statutory guidelines for the Early Years
Foundation Stage. The pre-school has
close links with the village primary school
as well as taking part in co-operative
fundraising events with other charities
within the community. The charity works
hard to ensure that young families feel part
of the pre-school and also to strengthen
bonds with the wider community. Family
members and other members of the|
|||community are welcome to volunteer within
the pre-school (subject to relevant
safeguards being put in place) and
throughout the year various events take
place which they are invited to attend.|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|The trustees are able to refer to the Charity
Commission Guidance document “The
essential trustee: what you need to know,
what you need to do”|
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements||where relevant about:|
||SORP reference||
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38||
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|This year has been another successful
year at Beenham Preschool with high
demand and a waiting list for places.
The charity continues its efforts to provide
high quality childcare as well as involving
the family within the community.
We took part in community events,
including the village Scarecrow competition
and the ‘Beenham in Bloom’ competition.
We also held events that involved the
children’s families such as the nativity and
the graduation/ family fun day.
Our latest innovation is that we were on the
first ever group of early years ELSA
(Emotional Literacy Support Assistant)
training for West Berks. We have always
had a passion for supporting emotional
well-being in early years and having a
trained ELSA on the team really helps us to
consolidate that.
Similarly, we were able to take part in the
“Through my Eyes” social communication
project, which enhanced our understanding
of communication as a way of forming and
sustaining relationships and how to support
those children who might be struggling at
times.|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|The preschool’s financial position remains
strong as we finish the year with a surplus.
We have managed to achieve this in spite
of increasing costs and the wider
macroeconomic climate.|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|The charity has considered the need to
maintain a reserve fund to provide
contingency against fluctuations in income
as a result of naturally occurring peaks and
troughs in the number of children attending
the setting|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£60,000**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|**Additional information (optional)**
You may choose to include further statements|where relevant about:|
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|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47||
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|Constitution adopted on the 18thMay 1983
and by order given by the Charity
Commission on 1stMay 2018 the charity
was authorised to adopt the Pre-School
Learning Alliance Model Pre-School
Constitution 2011|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|Unincorporated Charity|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Trustees are elected to post at the Annual
General Meeting by members of the charity
or are co-opted by existing trustees at
committee meetings of the charity|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51||
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charity name|Beenham Pre-School|
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|Other name the charity uses||
|Registered charity number|294376|
|Charity’s principal address|Community Room
Beenham Primary School
Picklepythe Lane
Beenham
Reading RG7 5NN|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
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||Carlie Norris|Chair|_From November 2022_||
||Jessica Baer|Committee member
Treasurer|_From November 2022_||
||Amy Thorne|Committee member
Secretary|_From November 2022_||
||CarlyMadders|Committee member|||
||Emily Watson
Stubbs|Chair|To November 2022||
||Sarah Harris|Treasurer|To November 2022||
||Beth Tayton|Secretary|To November 2022||
||Freddie Watson
Stubbs|Committee member|To November 2022||
||Matilda Jones|Committee member|To 15thJanuary2023||
||Eliza Lee|Committee member|_From November 2022_||
||Sophie Leigh-
Barclay|Committee member|_From November 2022_||
||Eleri Booth|Committee member|||
||Angela Golden|Committee member|_From November 2023_||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
|**Type of**|**Name**|**Address**|
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** Jessica Baer **Full name(s)** Jessica Baer **Position (eg Secretary,** Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 28/06/2023
|**BEENHAM PRE-SCHOOL**|**BEENHAM PRE-SCHOOL**|**BEENHAM PRE-SCHOOL**|**BEENHAM PRE-SCHOOL**|**BEENHAM PRE-SCHOOL**||||
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|**Income and expenditure account**||||||||
|**for the year ended 31 August 2023**||||||||
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|**INCOME**||||||||
||Funding|||72,004|||61,143|
||Prioryearadjustment|||-|||11,780|
||Fees|||29,701|||25,055|
||Fundraising|||-|||287|
||HMRC JobRetention|||-||385||
||Interest|||118|||7|
|||||101,823|||98,657|
|**EXPENDITURE**||||||||
||Salaries||71,283|||71,502||
||Bonuses||600|||700||
||Pensionpayments||4,972|||4,627||
||Rent||10,208|||8,740||
||Equipment andresources||8,801|||6,264||
||Adminstration||-|||571||
||Insurance||1,000|||971||
||Advertising||60|||85||
||Website/internet||167|||262||
||Training||1,090|||1,140||
||Fees payable (DBS, Ofsted etc)||-|||50||
|||||98,181|||94,912|
|**EXCESS OF EXPENDITUREOVER INCOME**||||**3,642**|||**3,745**|
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||**Funds brought forward**|||77,957|||74,212|
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|**FUNDS CARRIED FORWARD**||||**81,599**|||**77,957**|
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|**Represented by**||||||||
||Deposit account|||20,846|||20,729|
||Current account|||60,753|||57,228|
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|**TOTAL FUNDS**||||**81,599**|||**77,957**|
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|**APPROVAL**||||||||
||We approve these accounts and confirm that we have provided all the
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||Chair -CarlieNorris||||Date: 23/06/2024|||
||Treasurer -JessicaBaer|||||||
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|**ACCOUNTANT'S REPORT**||||||||
||I have prepared, without audit, this account for the year ended 31 August 2023 from the records and
informationsupplied tome.|||||||
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||Simon Witcomb|||||1 Anglesey Cottages||
||Date:|||||StalbridgeDorset||
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