Helmdon Acorns Pre-School

Registered charity 1035898 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELMDON PLAYGROUP

We are an Early Years Pre-school open to children aged 2-4 yrs. Based in the village of Helmdon, also serving the surrounding villages and Brackley. We are a Committee led charity and actively run fundraisers during the year to raise funds to provide educational recourses for the children in our care. We have strong ties within the local community and local Primary School.

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 reported a surplus for the year, increasing total funds from £16,030 to £26,558. The charity changed its legal form to a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) during the reporting period. The trustees confirmed that all relevant records and information were made available for the preparation of the accounts.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Helmdon Acorns Preschool (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Saunders
• Jessica Lauren Jill Baseley
• Karla Meaton
• Rachel Hurcombe
• Simon Allott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).