SMART START WISTOW COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1022916 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMART START, SMART START WISTOW COMMUNITY PRE SCHOOL, WISTOW COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP, WISTOW SMART START PRE SCHOOL

Provision of Pre-school education and play in Wistow village serving Wistow and the local community.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward were £29,628, comprising £29,268 in unrestricted funds and £360 in restricted funds. The trustees report that reserves are maintained to ensure day-to-day activities can continue without financial pressure, and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters were identified during the examination.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 23/10/2023, 115 days after the 30/06/2023 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 11/04/2023, 285 days after the 30/06/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wistow Smart Start Pre-School (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Wrightchair
• Alisha Linton-James
• Hannah Smith
• JASON HARRADINE
• Lois Hillam
• Peter Blackley

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WIVENHOE PRE-SCHOOL.

• WIVENHOE PRE-SCHOOL income £117k
• WORSTEAD PRESCHOOL income £232k
• WHITTINGTON UNDER FIVES income £161k
• EASTON PRE-SCHOOL GROUP income £72k
• WALKINGTON PRE-SCHOOL income £90k
• BARROW HILL PRE-SCHOOL income £136k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.