BUTTERCUPS PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1169880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Buttercups provides pre-schooling for children from the age of 2 to school age. It operates term time only for 29 hours per week from the Village Meeting Place in North Runcton.

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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Registered contact address: King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a profit of £19,251 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income of £124,051 and expenditure of £104,800. The trustees report that accounting records were kept in accordance with the Charities Act 2011 and the accounts accord with those records. No material uncertainties or governance failures are disclosed in the filing.

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.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

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• Ofsted — Buttercups Pre-School Cio: Good · Ofsted

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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

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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 10/07/2024, 10 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 28/03/2024, 272 days after the 30/06/2023 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 10/07/2023, 375 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Gadsbychair
• Nicola Gipp
• Rachael Victoria Gadsby
• Robert Mileham

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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• BUTTERCROSS PRE-SCHOOL income £180k
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• BROUGHTON PRE-SCHOOL income £118k
• SOUTH BRETTON PRE-SCHOOL income £151k
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Side by side with its peers

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