FIRST STEP PRE SCHOOL LIMITED

Registered charity 1142554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST STEP PRE SCHOOL LTD

First Step Pre-school Ltd is based in Thornbury, near Bristol, and we run pre-school sessions for children from age 2 up to 5 years. We are based the site of a local primary school Crossways Infant School. Our staff are well-qualified, dedicated and enthusiastic, and we have a fantastic range of facilities.

Objects

To enhance the development and education of children aged 2 years to 4 years 11 months

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £4,004 for the year ended 31 July 2025, with total income of £229,308 and expenditure of £225,304. The trustees confirm that the charity had sufficient liquid funds to cover its liabilities and are confident in its ability to continue achieving its objectives. Unrestricted funds stood at £126,089, which the trustees consider prudent to maintain at a level covering 2 to 3 months of administration and support costs.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amber Traynor
• Helen Stevens
• Isabel Adeyemo
• Jane Spence
• Joanna Dinham
• Joanna Tolan
• Katie Boustead

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

Operates in: South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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