EAST HARPTREE NURSERY PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1029276 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST HARPTREE PRESCHOOL, EAST HARPTREE THEATRE PLAYGROUP

Provision of Nursery services for children aged 6months- 5years.

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 generated a surplus of £8,179 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £151,919. The trustees report that reserves are equivalent to 4.7 months of salary costs, which is above their stated policy target of maintaining a minimum of 3 months of staff salaries in reserve.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Martha Susanna Carterchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Gillian Hickling · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica Ruth Sheldon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sara Alison Readman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOME FARM CHILDREN'S NURSERY.

• HOME FARM CHILDREN'S NURSERY income £631k
• THE HEATHERS NURSERY income £194k
• HANBOROUGH PRE-SCHOOL income £204k
• MILLINGTON ROAD NURSERY SCHOOL TRUST income £312k
• HATFIELD HEATH PRE-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £198k
• SPROWSTON NURSERY PLAYGROUP income £147k

Side by side with its peers

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