Trustees Annual Return 2021-2022
Heavitree Community Preschool continues to strive for excellence and a very strong preschool. The setting is oversubscribed with a healthy waiting list.
Heavitree Community Preschool promotes active learning through play, whilst offering children the opportunity to excel across the seven areas of learning. Children are able to explore the setting fully inside and out with the correct balance of adult led group work.
We have continued to fully utilise the garden area, involving the children in all aspects, to teach them about growing and caring for the environment and life cycles of wildlife.
All planning and activities within the setting are a managed balance of Child-initiated and adult led. We use topic-based themes throughout the year, to focus our learning around whilst ensuring we are meeting the broad curriculum within the early years framework. We have a timetable for each day that we try to stick to, though often quite loosely. It helps the children to understand what to expect from the day, what comes next and when home time is etc. There is a visual picture timetable for the children to see and be shown if they are worried about anything to do with the routine. The room is set up to follow all areas of the EYFS. We try to adapt to the children’s needs by making activities available inside and out and tailoring the activities to the children we have in on the day. All children have a key person; this person should be the first point of contact for all parental queries.
Due to fundraising activities and a grant secured from Local Authority we have been able to replace some of our older outdoor equipment with more challenging and fun equipment for the children.
Lunch and snacks- We promote healthy eating in pre-school, we encourage parents to send the children with a balanced lunch and fruit or vegetable snacks.
We started the year with a high ratio of staff to children, to sustain that level has been challenging but we have successfully recruited against vacancies created by natural turnover. Keeping staffing ratio high has enabled us to continue with staff led activities like outside trips to the woodlands, the local park and shops without compromising the children’s care.
Despite the continuing impact of Covid 19 , we had another successful transition to schools this year with leavers enjoying a graduation party and picnic.
St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2022
St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report for the twelve months ending 31st December 2022
The Trust has seen increased rental income compared to the previous two years, which were affected by the covid pandemic. This is good news because much of our total income comes from these rentals.
We have been protected from increases in electricity and gas prices because we have a 3-year fixed-rate agreement, which began in August 2021. However, we have seen a significant increase in the cost of heating oil, used for the church.
The Trust has been able to cover all necessary expenditure and finished the year with no outstanding creditors or debtors, although it should perhaps be noted that our contribution to the Church of England Common Fund was kept at £2,000 rather than the £6,000 recommended.
The General Fund shows a year-end surplus of £483 and the fund value is still healthy at just over £18,000, even though we have spent some £6,500 on elective projects during the year.
Some changes have been made to accounts –
A Major Maintenance fund was set up with initial seeding of £14,000 and a plan to feed into this monthly, from the General Fund (we originally agreed £200 / month but later increased this to £400).
Money in the NSI savings bond is now treated as savings rather than investment (the capital is not at risk) and so is no longer shown in the Investment Fund. This capital has been transferred to the major maintenance fund. Interest from the savings bond will be paid into the general fund.
A new fund has been created to manage the grant from DDDC for the ‘Warm Spaces’ project. This is a restricted fund since the grant is given for a specific purpose. The grant was received late in the year and nothing was spent from this fund before the end of the year (the project launched in January 2023).
Glenn Hughes
Treasurer, St. John’s Church Charity
June 2023
St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2022
Financial Statement for the 12 months ending December 2022
| 1. General Fund (unrestricted) Receipts |
1. General Fund (unrestricted) Receipts |
2022 £ 40 843 625 472 4,574 11,197 2,580 4,989 114 1,214 26,648 2,000 121 166 3,041 895 474 859 1,953 2,098 370 0 585 2,653 91 2,000 0 30 2,298 6,533 0 26,165 483 |
2021 £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 240 824 750 116 2,006 5,499 1,980 5,029 10 4,598 |
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| pledged collection donation fees church rent hall rent ofce rent house rent interest other TOTAL RECEIPTS Payments |
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| 21,051 | |||
| 2,000 95 170 2,612 395 433 987 741 3,136 417 0 925 1,113 0 0 25 540 0 |
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| diocese gifts / charity services insurance church electricity hall electricity hall gas church oil church upkeep hall upkeep house upkeep grounds upkeep cleaning water major maintenance fund organist verger admin projects other TOTAL PAYMENTS EXCESS / (DEFICIT) |
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| 13,589 | |||
| 7,462 |
St. John’s Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2022
| 2. Investment Fund (unrestricted) Receipts |
2. Investment Fund (unrestricted) Receipts |
2022 £ 111 42 1,172 0 -186 -7,376 -6,237 15,324 15,324 - 21,562 2022 £ 16,000 0 0 316 16,316 0 16,316 2022 £ 860 0 |
2021 £ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 41 1,172 0 198 -792 |
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| income derived from NSI income derived from COIF income derived from BLK unrealised gain / loss NSI investment unrealised gain / loss COIF investment unrealised gain / loss BLK investment TOTAL RECEIPTS Payments transfer to other funds TOTAL PAYMENTS EXCESS / (DEFICIT) 3. Major Maintenance Fund (unrestricted) Receipts |
income derived from NSI income derived from COIF income derived from BLK unrealised gain / loss NSI investment unrealised gain / loss COIF investment unrealised gain / loss BLK investment TOTAL RECEIPTS Payments |
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| 622 | |||
| 0 | |||
| 622 2021 £ |
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| transfer from other funds donation interest other TOTAL RECEIPTS Payments TOTAL PAYMENTS EXCESS / (DEFICIT) 4. Warm Spaces Fund (restricted) Receipts |
transfer from other funds donation interest other TOTAL RECEIPTS Payments |
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| 0 | |||
| 0 | |||
| 0 2021 £ |
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| donation other |
st. John's Church Ashbourne Financial Report 2022 TOTAL RECEIPTS 860
sr. JOHN'S CHURCH CHARITY INDEPENDENT EXAMINEWS REPORT YEAR ENDING 31 DECEMBER 2022 CHARITY NAME- ST. JOHN'S CHURCH CHARtrY CHARrrY NUMBER- 515193 Independent Examlnerfs report to the trustees of SL John's Church Charlty Trust We report to the trustees on our examinatron of the accounts of the St. John's Church Charity Trust (the Trus11 for the year ended 31 December 2022. Respon$lbllltles and basls of report As the chartty trustees of the Trust. you are responslble for the preparation of the accounts In accordance with the requlrements of the Charities Act 2011 {'Ihe ACVI. We report in respect of our examination of the Trusvs accounts carried out under sertion 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out our examination we have followed all the applicable Directlons gfven by the Charlty Commission under sertion 145(Sllb) of the Art. Independent examlnerf5 Statement We have completed our examination. We confirni that no materlal matters have come to our attention in connectlon with the examlnation 8iving us cause to believe that in any material respect: accounting records We not kept in respect of the Trust as requfjd by sertion 130 of the Act; or 2. the accounts do not accord with those records. We have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attentlon should be drawn in thls report in order to enable a proper understandlng of the accounts to be reached. Name.. CoA7c-J ANP ft4RTh &rn17eo Relevant professional quaiFficatlon or membership of professional t*)dres: .. 11!7: JtallN.. ffirtK.1 AsF!fknthL 0613y&A iiÉ OE& l (f 2023