MARDEN PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1192893 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a Pre School which operates along side Marden Primary School in Hereford. The Pre-School serves the local area and beyond. Children attend a variety of sessions, with the Pre School opening 5 days a week during term time. Our opening hours are 08:00to 17:15 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 to 16:30 Friday. We also incorporate a Breakfast and Afterschool Club for older children to attend.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS

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 Marden Pre School reported a surplus of £118,066 for the year ending 5th April 2025, increasing total net assets to £273,019. Free reserves, represented by the net assets of £273,019, are significantly higher than the stated reserves policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity holds substantial unrestricted funds relative to its annual income of £387,045.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 (08/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RACHEL PAYNEchair
• Claire Williams
• Gill Smith
• Hayley Herbert
• PAULA BARRETT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Wendy Smith

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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