CHERRY TREE PLAYGROUP (RAWTENSTALL)

Registered charity 1040941 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHERRY TREE PRE-SCHOOL

Cherry Tree Pre- School offers pre-school education to children aged between 2 and 5 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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Registered contact address: Rossendale, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £522.60 for the financial year ending 31/01/2025, with total income of £79,877.09 against expenditure of £79,354.49. The trustees report notes that intake has been down for four years due to low birth rates, but the charity remains viable through funded sessions and efficient utilization of areas. The bank balance stood at £17,043.62 at year-end, supported by petty cash of £117.74.

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 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JUDITH WINSTANLEYchair
• Angela Trow
• CAROLINE ANN JAYCOCK
• SUSAN DOHERTY

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• CHERRY TREE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £44k
• THE LEARNING TREE PRE- SCHOOL income £500k
• CHERRY TREE (CHERITON) PLAYGROUP income £110k
• SHOLING COMMUNITY CENTRE PRESCHOOL income £165k
• WOODFORD PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £104k
• STREATLEY HILL PRE-SCHOOL income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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