YOU AND ME PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1161960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity objects are the development and education of children; promoting their care and safety;promoting their education and promoting parental involvement;promoting their health and wellbeing: providing services to support them and their families and care: providing services to individuals holding membership of the CIO; and furthering the aims of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Objects

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:(1) PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETY;(2) PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT;(3) PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING;(4) PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS;(5) PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CIO; AND(6) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

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 finished the financial year with a creditable profit of £10,183 and unrestricted cash funds of £98,717. The trustees report that the charity aims to hold three months' worth of running costs in reserve, and the actual reserve account balance at year-end was £34,265, which meets this stated policy target. Staff costs constitute the largest part of expenditure at 80% of the cost base, driven by government minimum wage increases.

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.

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
• 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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SAMANTHA JARVISchair
• Chineweta Oladipo
• DONNA MAY CHUNN
• EMMA ENGWELL
• Holly Revell
• Jill Karen Burtenshaw
• Peter Gordon
• Sarah Bellringer

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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