## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period** Period start date Period end date 1st September 2024 31 August 2025 **From To** ## Section A Reference and administration details COALWAY EARLY YEARS **Charity name** COALWAY EARLY YEARS **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 900365 **Charity's principal address** 63 COALWAY ROAD COALWAY COLEFORD GLOUCESTERSHIRE **Postcode GL16 7HL** ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Hannah Barnard|||| ||Jessica Heath|||| ||Kayleigh Hoskings|||| ||Abigail Williams|||| ||Jade Jones||02/2026|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ||**Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**|||| ||**Name**||**Dates acted if not for whole year**|| |||||| |||||| March **2012** **TAR** 1 **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 Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) Trust How the charity is constituted (eg. trust, association, company) Elected by Vote Trustee selection methods (eg. appointed by, elected by) ## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)** The charity is set up to support children and offer education spaces to You **may choose** to include children aged 2-5 years in the local community. We have strong links with additional information, where the Local Authority and other professionals. relevant, about: - 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; All trustees for the committee are voted in and once apart of the committee they have an induction with the manager and Chair. During the induction the following policies are issued and the trustee is asked to read and adhere to them, these being: - Safeguarding and child protection policy - Confidentiality policy - Fees policy - • Finance policy • Committee members responsibility policy - trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them. ## **Section C Objectives and activities** March **2012** **TAR** 2 |**Summary of the objects of the**
**charity set out in its**
**governing document**
**Summary of the main**
**activities undertaken for the**
**public benefit in relation to**
**these objects (include within**
**this section the statutory**
**declaration that trustees have**
**had regard to the guidance**
**issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public**
**benefit)**|The aim of the group is to embody the vision of PATA through the
enhancement of the development, care and education of children
primarily under statutory school age and also of children and young
people of school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide
for the needs of their children through community (voluntary managed)
groups and by: (a) offering appropriate play facilities and training
courses, 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 and young people, 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 area.| |---|---| ||During the year, the charity carried out a range of activities to further its
charitable objects of improving the lives, wellbeing, and opportunities of
children and young people. These activities were undertaken for the
public benefit and included the provision of support services, educational
and recreational programmes, family assistance initiatives, and
opportunities for personal development for children facing disadvantage
or vulnerability.
The charity worked directly with children and their families to provide
safe, inclusive, and accessible services designed to promote physical,
emotional, social, and educational wellbeing. Activities included the
delivery of workshops, mentoring, holiday programmes, community
events, and practical support tailored to the needs of beneficiaries. The
charity also collaborated with schools, community organisations, and
other partners to maximise its reach and impact.
The trustees have considered the Charity Commission's guidance on
public benefit, including the guidance on public benefit and fee-charging
where relevant, when planning and reviewing the charity's activities. The
trustees are satisfied that the charity's aims and activities continue to
provide clear public benefit in accordance with its charitable purposes
and for the benefit of children, young people, and their families within the
communities it serves.| ## **Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)** March **2012** **TAR** 3 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 March **2012** **TAR** 4 ## Section D Achievements and performance - **Summary of the main** • Offering high quality care and education to children aged 2-5 - **achievements of the charity** years. - **during the year** • Open day for new parents/children • Redesign of the logo and signage for the setting • New uniforms for all staff • Family fun day held with the local primary school for all parents and charity raising - • TSB volunteer days – we had 2 days where TSB sent volunteers into the setting to help us with any maintenance or needs. We used the resources to have the garden cleared and areas painted and refreshed for the children. - • We were successful in achieving a grant from the local council. This helped us to re develop the garden areas for the children, purchase new outdoor furniture for the garden - • We participated in a fun day for the local community held at a local Hotel and Country Club. - • Trips and outings in the community with the children. March **2012** **TAR** 5 ## **Section E Financial review** Currently under review **Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves** During this financial year the charity has faced lower charity donations **Details of any funds materially** and it has also been harder to access/secure grants for development for **in deficit** the setting. ## **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. ## **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)** H. Barnard **Full name(s)** Hannah Barnard **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc) Date** 19/06/2026 March **2012** **TAR** 6 ||**9**
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**Coalway Early Years**

**Charity Name**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|1 September 2024
Period start date|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**7,827**
**4,202**
**118**
**120,242**
**1,679**
**-**
**682**
**-**
**592**
**36**
**3,390**
**2,460**
**-**
**1,191**
**45**
**160**
**28**
**-**


**142,652**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**142,652**
**269**
**2,403**
**1,382**
**104**
**581**
**1,903**
**1,121**
**-**
**-**
**645**
**1,922**
**425**
**1,429**
**1,833**
**169**
**728**
**862**
**5,834**
**114,446**
**650**
**4,323**
**247**
**1,710**
**1,654**
**130**
**1,120**
**-**
**31**
**161**
**146,083**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
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**-**
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**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**7,827**
**4,202**
**118**
**120,242**
**1,679**
**-**
**682**
**-**
**592**
**36**
**3,390**
**2,460**
**-**
**1,191**
**45**
**160**
**28**
**-**
**142,652**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**142,652**
**269**
**2,403**
**1,382**
**104**
**581**
**1,903**
**1,121**
**-**
**-**
**645**
**1,922**
**425**
**1,429**
**1,833**
**169**
**728**
**862**
**5,834**
**114,446**
**650**
**4,323**
**247**
**1,710**
**1,654**
**130**
**1,120**
**-**
**31**
**161**
**146,083**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |Child Placements|**7,827**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**||**16,595**| |EYPP|**4,202**||||**2,364**| |Forest Lottery|**118**||||**136**| |GCC T.Funding (Gloucester County
Coucil)|**120,242**||||**101,663**| |GCC EHCP(Gloucester CountyCouncil)|**1,679**||||**5,054**| |GCC - DAF Payment|**-**||||**- 733**| |Fundraising|**682**||||**614**| |Grant from Monmouthshire|**-**||||**60**| |Donations|**592**||||**210**| |Raffle|**36**||||**84**| |GCC - Grants|**3,390**||||**1,540**| |Child Placement - Consumables|**2,460**||||**1,802**| |GCC Deprivation|**-**||||**4,828**| |Grants(other)|**1,191**||||**500**| |Late Pymt Fee|**45**||||**60**| |School trip|**160**||||**- 113**| |Other Revenue|**28**||||**61**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|

**142,652**||||**134,726**| ||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||| ||**-**||**-**
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**-**||| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**|||||| ||||**-**||**134,726**| ||||||| |Unused Funded Hours|**269**||**-**
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**-**||**-**| |Audit & Accountancyfees|**2,403**||||**4,375**| |Payroll services|**1,382**||||**855**| |Bank Fees|**104**||||**91**| |Cleaning|**581**||||**808**| |Waste Collection|**1,903**||||**1,692**| |Employment Services|**1,121**||||**-**| |Postage,Freight & Courier|**-**||||**13**| |Gifts|**-**||||**90**| |General Expenses|**645**||||**812**| |Insurance|**1,922**||||**1,841**| |Legal Expenses|**425**||||**300**| |Utilities|**1,429**||||**2,169**| |Printing& Stationery|**1,833**||||**485**| |IT Software and Consumables|**169**||||**374**| |Rates - FDDC|**728**||||**680**| |Repairs,Maintenance & Servicing|**862**||||**1,138**| |Premises costs|**5,834**||||**2,513**| |Wages and Salaries|**114,446**||||**110,000**| |Staff Training|**650**||||**386**| |Pension Cost|**4,323**||||**4,248**| |Health & Safety|**247**||||**80**| |Subscriptions / Licenses|**1,710**||||**2,109**| |Telephone & Internet|**1,654**||||**1,082**| |Travel - National|**130**||||**110**| |WeeklyShopping|**1,120**||||**1,505**| |Thrift|**-**||||**2,360**| |Educational Resouces|**31**||||**112**| |NurseryExpense/Resources|**161**||||**50**| |**_Sub total_ **|**146,083**||||**140,277**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 03/06/2026 1 |**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| ||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**||**-**| |||||||||||| |**_Total payments_**|**146,083**||**-**|||**-**||**146,083**||**140,277**| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**|**- 3,431**||**-**|||**-**||**- 3,431**||**- 5,551**| |**A5 Transfers between funds**|**-**||**-**||**-**|||**-**||**-**| |**A6 Cash funds last year end**|**73,893**||**-**||**-**|||**73,893**||**-**| |**_Cash funds this year end_**|**70,462**||**-**|||**-**||**70,462**||**- 5,551**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**|Signature
**Details**
Coalway Early Years
Petty Cash
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**70,280**
**182**
**-**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||||**-**
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**-**|**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||**70,462**|**-**|**-**| |||||OK| |||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**-**| |||||**When due**
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approval| |||||| |||||03/0| Date of approval 03/06/2026 CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts Section A Independent Examiner's Report Report to the trustees COALWAY EARLY YEARS On accounts for the year ended 31 AUGUST 2025 Charity no {if any) 900365 Set out on pages I report lo the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 3110812025. Responsibilities and basls of report As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in a¢Gordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 {"the Acl"). I report in respecl of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145{51{b} of the Act. Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement come lo my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect= the accounting records were not kept in ac¢ordanGe with section 130 of the Charities Act., or the accounts did not accord with the accounting records., or the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form 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 concerns 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. Signed: Date: 12 Name: lan Price Relevant professional qualificationls) or body (If any): lQhE Address: TH 4 Floor, Llanthony Warehouse The Docks, Gloucèstèr Gloucestershire, GL12EH IER Oct 2018 Section B Disclosure Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of Goncern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts.. directions and guidance for examiners). Give here brief detalls of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose. IER Oct 2018