## 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|
||pledged
collection
donation
fees
church rent
hall rent
ofce rent
house rent
interest
other
TOTAL RECEIPTS
**Payments**|||
||||21,051|
||||2,000
95
170
2,612
395
433
987
741
3,136
417
0
925
1,113
0
0
25
540
0|
||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)|||
||||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|
|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**|||
||||622|
|||||
||||0|
||||622
**2021**
**£**|
|||||
|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**|||
||||0|
|||||
||||0|
||||0
**2021**
**£**|
|||||
|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.
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