MONTACUTE PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1024088 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MONTACUTE PLAYGROUP

Montacute Pre-School provides high quality care and education through play to children aged from 2 years to school age.The Pre-School follows the early years/foundation stage curriculum as stipulated by Ofsted and accepts children in receipt of Early Years Entitlement.

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Latest income

£110k

Latest spending

£123k

Registered

1993

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income for the financial year, resulting in funds being withdrawn from the deposit account to cover the deficit. The charity holds £22,000 in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees note is held to manage late government payments and fluctuating enrollment numbers.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient reserves to allow for late payment of government funding and fluctuating numbers of children, and to fund redundancy payments (held: £22k)

“The aim is to hold sufficient reserves to allow for late payment of government funding and fluctuating numbers of children. Reserves will also meet the requirement to fund redundancy payments should the need arise.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (14/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Harriet Raeburnchair
Harriet Blackburn
Josephine Bollen
Laura Worboys
Lorraine Johnson
Melanie Wilkins

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£110k	£123k
31/08/2024	£113k	£96k
31/08/2023	£93k	£90k
31/08/2022	£88k	£85k
31/08/2021	£82k	£89k

Common questions

Is MONTACUTE PRE-SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income for the financial year, resulting in funds being withdrawn from the deposit account to cover the deficit. The charity holds £22,000 in unrestricted reserves, which the trustees note is held to manage late government payments and fluctuating enrollment numbers.

Charities like this

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

BODMIN PRE-SCHOOL income £138k
HERMITAGE PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £113k
MOULTON PRE-SCHOOL income £115k
YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k
LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL (LEIGH-ON-SEA) income £233k
ACORNS CHILDCARE (MASHAM) income £106k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
MONTACUTE PRE-SCHOOL	£110k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BODMIN PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£138k	—	below	—	no doubt
HERMITAGE PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£113k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MOULTON PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£115k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£222k	Under £60,000	unclear	—	no doubt
LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL (LEIGH-ON-SEA) FY2025	£233k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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