MOSTERTON PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1027102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MOSTERTON PLAYGROUP

A small Ofsted regulated local preschool, run by a voluntary committee. The preschool accommodates children ages 2 years old to 5 years old, providing early years education. The preschool relies on fundraised money to support it.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a profit of £7,656 and unrestricted reserves of approximately £9,600. This reserve level is below the trustees' stated policy target of holding sufficient funds to cover at least one month's core operating costs, which is approximately £10,000. The trustees noted challenges regarding funding pressures and staffing during the reporting year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carley Pearsonchair
• Charlotte Beale
• Esme Charlotte Wardle
• Hayley Jane Christy
• Katy Irvine
• Zoe Louise Rutland

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• MENSTON PRE SCHOOL income £192k
• STANTON PARENTS AND UNDER FIVES income £158k
• MALDON COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £162k
• ST PETER'S PRE-SCHOOL (STAFFORD) LTD income £400k
• LITTLE STEPS PRE-SCHOOL income £148k
• HERMITAGE PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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