BUTTERCUPS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1194906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a small community pre-school based in the village of Balsham in Cambridgeshire. We operate from a mobile building located in the grounds of the Meadow Community Primary School. We provide care and education for pre-school children from the age of two up to four, when they start school.

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: South Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £103,298 at the end of the period, representing a net surplus of £36,322 against total receipts of £170,707. The trustees' report indicates a policy to hold sufficient funds to cover expenses in the event of closure, with no funds materially in deficit. Total expenditure was £134,385, primarily driven by staff costs of £134,385.

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

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Buttercups Community Pre-school: 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2022 (received 25/08/2023, 56 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Buttercups Community Pre-School (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Duncan Richard Henrychair
• Danielle Turnell
• Kelly Butler

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUTTERCUPS PRE-SCHOOL.

• BUTTERCUPS PRE-SCHOOL income £124k
• BUTTERCROSS PRE-SCHOOL income £180k
• BARROWBY PRE-SCHOOL income £84k
• MANSBRIDGE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £201k
• CLAPHAM PRE-SCHOOL (BEDFORD) income £360k
• BIDBURY PRE-SCHOOL (BEDHAMPTON) income £169k

Side by side with its peers

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