SOWOOD PRE-SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1166047 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide quality Early Years Education and childcare for 2 to 5 year olds

Objects

THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. TO FURTHER OR BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF CALDERDALE, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID RESIDENTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE RESIDENTS.2. TO DEVELOP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:• 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 CARERS;• PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CIO; AND• 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 free reserves at the year end were £73,930, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of 3-6 months' running costs (£35k-£52k). The net receipts for the year were £6,071, resulting in a total fund balance carried forward of £96,692.

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
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Malcolm Graham Jameschair
• Amanda Deborah Jackson
• Elizabeth Whyte · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm John Moat Gardner
• Michael Frank Greaves

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

Operates in: Calderdale

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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