ACORN PRE-SCHOOL CIO

Registered charity 1173988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACORN PRE-SCHOOL

To provide high quality care and education for children primarily below statutory school age, working in partnership with parents to help them learn and develop. To add to the life and well-being of our local community and offer children and their parents a service that promotes equality and values diversity.

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 ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £48,293, which is above its stated policy target of approximately £6,000. However, the trustees note that these funds are likely short of the significant requirement needed for ongoing portacabin repairs and maintenance, and the charity remains dependent on government funding for its continuance.

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
• 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
• 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 (02/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Belinda Elizabeth Needham
• Helen Rosalind Robson
• LISA HOLLIS
• Lucy Driver

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACORN2OAK PRESCHOOL.

• ACORN2OAK PRESCHOOL income £225k
• ACORN PRE-SCHOOL & THE MIGHTY OAKS income £309k
• ACORN PLAYGROUP AND PRE-SCHOOL income £177k
• WINSLEY ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL income £126k
• ACORNS NURSERY SCHOOL income £219k
• LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL (LEIGH-ON-SEA) income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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