HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL

Registered charity 293559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAPPY HOURS PLAYGROUP

Pre-School

Objects

The aims of the Pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:(a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;(b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Area of benefit: TWYFORD AND RUSCOMBE

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 reported a net deficit of £5,042 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted cash funds from £248,873 to £243,831. The trustees' report indicates that the charity maintains sufficient monies to ensure general expenditure is not affected by fluctuations in income from the local authority. The document confirms that all funds were free funds with no restricted or endowed funds.

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
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phillippa Claire Middletonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daria Timoshicheva
• Elisabeth Croft
• Elizabeth Rose May
• Frank Collins
• Katey Matttey
• Katharine Pugh

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

Common questions

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• St Joseph's Pre-School income £130k
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• St Richard's CE Preschool income £113k
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Side by side with its peers

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