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|||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|||||||||
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||||SC016310|||||||||
||||2 Riverside Gardens|||||||||
||||Wormit|||||||||
||||Fife||||**Postcode:**DD6 8NQ|||||
OSC **r Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator**
## **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|