PEBBLES PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1090726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PENTLOW PRE-SCHOOL AND NURSERY

Early years childcare/education from ages 2-5 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: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Pebbles Pre School generated a surplus of £29,901.93 for the year ended 31st July 2025, with total receipts of £111,954.64 against payments of £82,052.71. Per the statement of assets and liabilities, unrestricted reserves (funds) increased to £112,589.83, held primarily in Lloyds Treasury and Savings accounts. The document does not disclose a reserves policy target or any material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2021 (received 08/06/2022, 8 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Littlechair
• Charlotte Theobald
• David Pearson
• Julie Smith
• Rachael Harrington
• Rebecca Fitzpatrick

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

Operates in: Essex · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• REEPHAM PRE SCHOOL income £102k
• PAWLETT PRE-SCHOOL income £57k
• BUTTSBURY PRE-SCHOOL income £328k
• BEACHES PRE-SCHOOL income £309k
• PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP income £150k
• TISBURY PRE-SCHOOL income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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