BERESFORD PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1034070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BERESFORD COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP

Sessional pre-school providing care for children between the ages of two and four years

Objects

THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL ARE TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND BY:(A) OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY, EDUCATION AND CARE FACILITIES, FAMILY LEARNING AND EXTENDED HOURS GROUPS, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SUCH GROUPS, ENSURING THAT SUCH GROUPS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN WHATEVER THEIR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, MEANS OR ABILITY;(B) ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS IN THE LOCAL AREAS;(C) INSTIGATING AND ADHERING TO AND FURTHERING THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

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 Beresford Pre-School held unrestricted reserves of £19,065.95 at the end of the period. The trustees' report indicates a policy to hold reserves sufficient to cover three months of expenditure for emergencies or redundancies. No material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern were disclosed.

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 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tuesday Dawn Rushchair
• Champagne Cocks
• Edit Laszlo
• Michelle Howie
• Shamima Hiah Hiah

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BOLEY PARK PRE SCHOOL income £101k
• THE CHESTERFORDS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL income £124k
• BODMIN PRE-SCHOOL income £138k
• HERMITAGE PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £113k
• CHARNOCK RICHARD PRE-SCHOOL income £165k
• YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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