for the Period Ended 31 August 2024
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Directors' report period ended
The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 31 August 2024
Principal activities of the company
Directors
The director shown below has held office during the whole of the period from
1 September 2023
to
31 August 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
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The notes form part of these financial statements
This report was approved by the board of directors on
and signed on behalf of the board by:
Name:
Status: Director
The notes form part of these financial statements
for the Period Ended 31 August 2024
Basis of measurement and preparation
Turnover policy
Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy
Other accounting policies
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In line with our objectives for the last year we have been incredibly busy providing integrated childcare for 0–12-year olds as always. We support the quality of life for local families in Mid Essex. We have continued to create a welcoming, stimulating, and safe family centered community service to enhance childhood experiences for all local children. The club is driven by a set of core values in consultation with staff and parents, designed to meet real needs for 0-12 year olds. Our continued aim “to help every child flourish and reach their full potential through a holistic approach within our integrated childcare service for 0–12-year-olds”. To be an exemplar place of learning through play, the ‘go to place’ for childcare. We provide Ofsted regulated, nurturing, safe and accessible full day care from 7.15am - 6.30pm for parents of babies & children of 5 years old, 51 weeks of the year that complements our Kids Club for 3–12-year-old children. The two businesses enable a full package (holistic) of childcare provision; they share a common vision, set of values, overarching priorities, operating processes and procedures for 0 - 12 yr olds all from one integrated site. We continue to employ, develop and train different local people either as paid employees or volunteers towards becoming childcare professionals thereby adding to the economic well-being of the local community. All staff in this team continue to invest in playwork development and ensure they are allied to the best all round programmes appealing to the older age range. At full service inset days this team often leads the activity based parts of the day bringing energy and motivation into the room. By working with partners from the local schools, health and early years departments we ensure we provide engaging services which meet real needs. We have facilitated activities and programmes’ for the benefit of local children, families and community groups and have offered dedicated property and our resources to other organisations. We ensured that we supported other local groups by investing in their services in the holidays with off- site trips. These enhance our own programmes and raise the profile of other allied businesses. This is also complemented by establishing and reinforcing different relationships with a range of our parents for the supply of goods and services, e.g. gardening, plumbing, building and supply of equipment. Providing a sustainable child centred service for the future, making the most of financial and environmental factors. We have influenced and been an active community partner, engaging local and regional organisations in areas relating to family welfare and childcare.
Our children are consulted on a regular basis before and after activities and in the development of programmes that establish the themes for all our holiday clubs. Food featured highly this year with a large consultation between ourselves and our families on the quality and uptake of our menu. Children of this age require wholesome nutritionally balanced meals, but getting it right and appealing to this age range takes time and patience. The young people took ownership in designing the menu from guidelines offered. We worked with our partners in the Nutritional Alliance Food support programme to ensure the children had excellent choices to work from and now everyone is very happy, including the parents. At the end of the school year our children have started to be part of a graduating cohort ensuring the we celebrate their time with us. We continue to engage our parents to act as a steer and sounding board for the overall direction and needs of the club. We also fully utilised social media to keep our families abreast of activities and news on a weekly basis, we have also started to produce termly parental newsletters ‘the vibe’ which can be viewed at our website www.jesterskids.org . Throughout the pandemic we utlised Teams, hangouts, Zoom and other platforms to ensure everyone still had access to us for wellbeing and educational purposes.
There were no other transactions or arrangements in connection with the remuneration of directors, or compensation for director’s loss of office, which require to be disclosed.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
28 May 2025
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Alison Doherty
Status: Director