2026-04-05-accounts

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				Period start date					Period end date
				Day	Month	Year			Day	Month	Year
		From		06	04	2025		To	05	04	2026
Refere	nce and administration details
	Charity name Other names charity is known by Registered charity number Charity’s principal address		Wormit Playgroup
			None
			SC016310
			2 Riverside Gardens
			Wormit
			Fife				Postcode:DD6 8NQ

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Reference and administration details

Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report

Trustee name	Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person(or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
1	Hannah Shackleton	Chairperson	From Sep 2025
2	Melanie Hudson	Secretary	From Nov 2025
3	Tierney Lovell	Treasurer

Name	Name	Dates acted if not for whole year
Chiara Panareo		June 2024 – September 2025
Katie Lynn		June 2024 – November 2025
Structure,governance and management
Type of governing document Trustee recruitment and appointment	Constitution
	By AGM in June, in line with the guidance in the constitution. We elect our trustees from the parents of children who will be attending the setting. Due to the new requirements, our trustees are now elected at the AGM subject to receipt of a PVG with the previous trustees remaining in place until this is received.
Objectives and activities
Charitable purposes	Advancement of education, Community development, Advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, Advancement of environmental protection or improvement The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage Any other purpose that may reasonably regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects	Playgroup provides high quality pre-school childcare from 2yr 6mths for 5 days a week. The children are able to learn through play, and also are introduced to aspects of the community e.g. by visiting the local fire station, trip to the local library. Fundraisers are community events

Achievements and performance	Achievements and performance
Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period	Wormit playgroup provides a stimulating, fun learning environment to prepare children for entry to the school nursery. The committee is made up entirely of parent volunteers and thus provides an opportunity for parents to be involved in their child's learning experiences Last year was much quieter than we have been in recent years. However this is no cause for concern, as it was due to normal fluctuations of local eligible children, We also had a larger than normal number of younger children, not eligible for a funded place until the Summer term. As predicted last year this has led to a large reduction in income, of around £30,000. We were expecting this may result in a deficit, however we did make a reduced surplus. We are already looking extremely busy next year, currently oversubscribed. Therefore, in our current circumstances, we predict a similar surplus to the previous year. In light of this, we are not currently planning to increase our fees for younger non-funded children in the next year, so we can keep our fees for these children as low as possible and remain accessible and inclusive. We are continuing to benefit from higher interest rates and we experienced good community participation and support for our Winter Raffle and Christmas Fair which raised approx £1700 and £850 respectively. We also ran a couple of small fundraisers Santa letters (£31 net) and Storytelling night (£77 net). Next year we are continuing to look at ways to increase the number of fundraisers we hold that involve the whole community as we think that is an important part of our role.
Financial review
Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves	We aim to keep our total reserves above £66,000. This represents approximately 3 months running costs (£38,000) and our redundancy commitment (£28,000).
Details of any deficit	None
Donated facilities and services (if any)	None

Other optional information

Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signature(s) Full name(s) Position (e.g. Chair) Date	Hannah Shackleton	Tierney Lovell
	Hannah Shackleton	Tierney Lovell
	Chair (25-26)	Treasurer (25-26)
	15/05/26	15/05/26