Company Registration Number: 07279320

Charity Number: 1137609

(Limited by guarantee)

For The Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres

(Limited by guarantee)

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For the year ended 31 March 2025

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres

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Legal and Administration Information

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Registered office

Company Registration Number: 07279320

Charity Number: 1137609

Outreach addresses

Poplar Place

Shaw Newbury

Berkshire

RG141NA

All Saints School

Norrey's Avenue

Wokingham

Berkshire

RG401UX

Northumberland Road

Southampton

SO14 0EL

Coney Hill Road

Gloucester

GL4 4NA

Moore Avenue

West Hove

Bournemouth

BH11 8AU

Lewis Road

Cheltenham

GL51 0HZ

WANDS Children's Centre

21 Farmers Way

Droitwich

WR9 9EQ

Bluebell Wood Childen's Centre

St Albans Close

Worcester

WR5 1PP

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Independent Auditor

R+ Building

2 Blagrave Street

Reading

Berkshire

RG1 1AZ

Bankers

Kings Hill

West Malling

Kent

ME19 4JQ

National Westminster Bank

Chatham Rcsc

Western Avenue

Waterside Court

Chatham Maritime

Chatham

Kent

ME4 4RT

Aldermore Bank Plc

Floor 1, Block B,

Western House

Lynch Wood

Peterborough

PE2 6FZ

Shawbrook Bank Limited

Lutea House

Warley Business Park

The Drive

Great Warley

Brentwood

Essex

CM13 3BE

Insurance Broker

Stanmore Insurance Brokers Limited

30 High Street

Little Lever

Bolton

Lancashire

BL3 1NB

Lawyers

Blandy and Blandy, One Friar Street, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1DA

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres

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Trustees' Annual Report

For The Year Ended 31^st March 2025

The Trustee Board presents its report, together with the financial statements, for the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

Reference and administrative details of the charity, and its Trustee Directors

Dingley's Promise is a registered charity, number 1137609 and is a charitable company limited by guarantee, number 07279320.

Present Trustees (also being Directors of the charitable company - hereafter referred to as trustees) are noted below.

Trustee Board

The members of the Trustee Board during the period were as follows:

We currently have no parent representatives at any of our centres,

Structure, governance, and management

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres is both a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is governed by Articles of Association, which were approved and adopted in August 2010 (upon registration as a charitable company), and reviewed in 2022 to reflect the full scope of the impact we aim to have on children with SEND and their families across the country

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In May 2016, the company formally adopted Dingley's Promise as the new brand name, retaining Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres as its registered company name. The term Dingley's Promise (or Dingley) will be used throughout the remaining narrative sections of this document where appropriate.

As we seek volunteers with new skills and experience and as, inevitably, we must replace volunteers who can no longer work with us for various reasons, the charity will have to “induct” new Trustees on a reasonably regular basis. To provide a consistency and thoroughness of introduction that will maximise the new Trustee contribution as quickly as possible, we follow an induction process which is both simple and yet sufficiently flexible to take account of individual needs and availability. The process is described in the Trustee Induction document dated April 2023, and includes:

Upon appointment as a Trustee, the Chief Operating Officer will inform Companies House and the Charity Commission of that appointment, and the new Trustee will complete the Ofsted EY2 on-line registration process.

When appointing key management, and when reviewing their remuneration packages, external benchmarking is undertaken against directly compatible roles, wherever possible. The Trustee Board is responsible for setting and agreeing the remuneration package of the CEO. The CEO reviews and recommends changes to the remuneration packages of his/her direct reports (see below), which must be agreed by the Trustee Board who will bear in mind the agreed expenditure budget for the relevant period.

We are aware of the Charity Governance Code and we believe our own main principles and processes by which we govern adhere very closely to the seven principles of good governance contained within the code. As we develop our Trustee Board and ways of working, we will consciously and constantly check our progress against these principles and their underlying directional guidance.

Organisational structure and decision-making process

The Trustee Board delegates day to day management of the operations of the charity to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Catherine Mole MBE (previously McLeod), who was appointed in March 2015. The CEO has five direct reports:

Chief Operating Officer - Lee Friend

Head of Fundraising - Hannah Kate Martin

Head of Communications and Public Affairs - Joanne Evans

Head of Finance - Theresa Bowers

Training Programme Manager - Rachel Thompson & Tanya Flello

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The following additional Key Management Personal report to the company COO:

Head of Quality - Megan Fisher

Operations Manager - Louise White

Regional Operations Manager - Megan Harper

Regional Operations Manager - Theresa Birch

Reading Centre Manager - Hannah Goddard

Bournemouth Centre Manager - Amy Treglown

Gloucester Centre Manager - Alexandra Burton

Wokingham Centre Manager - Lucy Stavley & Jennifer Heath

West Berkshire Centre Manager - Zoe Cox

Worcester Centre Manager - Lisa Peters

Southampton Centre Manager - Manjort Kaur

Droitwich Center Manager - Sophie Harrison

Cheltenham Center Manager - Kayleigh De Brunner

Family Support Manager - Tanya Spires

During the 2024/25 financial year, Trustee meetings were held once every two months, either via Teams or in person. In between meetings, decisions were made in consultation with the Chair, Treasurer and other Trustees as required. If necessary, a special meeting of the Board was convened.

In 2016, we created an Advisory Board, and this currently comprises the following individuals:

Laxmi Patel (SEND Law)

Liz Pemberton (Anti racist practice)

Chris Burnell (Buildings Management)

Lorna Fairbairn (Human Resources))

Charlie Tate (Information Technology)

Objectives and activities

Within this overall framework, our main objectives are:

Reach as many children as possible.

Ensure every child transitions to the best educational option for them when they leave us.

Be active in networking and signposting to ensure all the child's needs are met.

Ensure parents are always given choices and their voices are heard.

We also took the opportunity as part of the strategy review to bring to the fore our core values:

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The charity continues to open new centres and shift from a local to a National organisation, with centres currently organised into three regions, each led by a Regional Operations & Quality Manager, as follows:

Midlands Region: centres in Gloucester, Worcester, Cheltenham and Droitwich.

South Region: Centres in Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire and Southampton.

South Coast region: Centre in Bournemouth.

We continue to work with existing and new Local Authorities to evaluate opportunities to open further new centres.

Volunteers play a very important role within the charity, assisting with fundraising, undertaking administration to take the pressure off teams, supporting children in the Centres, and helping with mealtimes. Dingley's Promise was awarded the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service (the MBE for charities) in June 2011.

Risk Management Statement

A formal Risk Policy has been implemented since February 2015 and is under annual review.

The policy states that:

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Trustees' Annual Report

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Going concern

Our performance in recent years, even those years which resulted in an operating deficit, has always left us at the end of the year with a good cash base, a Reserves Fund to cover a managed wind-down in the event of collapse in funding (or other event resulting in forced closure), sufficient funding in all other restricted funds to cover asset values and liabilities (e.g., unspent grants) and additional unrestricted funds to develop the organisation and its services. We are aware of, and adhere to, the Charity Commission's guidance on 'Managing a charity's finances: planning, managing difficulties and insolvency (CC12)'. We firmly believe that our strong governance and management make a compelling case for Dingley's Promise to be considered a Going Concern.

Achievements and performance

The charity sets and tracks a detailed set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) routinely. These include:

A “KPI Pack” is updated every month and distributed to all Board Members prior to each Board meeting, and any questions or observations are covered at the meetings.

This has been another year of strong growth and development at Dingley's Promise. The key focus areas remain unchanged: directly impacting children and their families through existing and new Centres; positively influencing the EY SEND agenda locally and nationally; indirectly impacting large numbers of children by implementing early years educator training across the country. Significant strides have been taken within all of these strategic priorities.

Priority 1: Centres

Specialist early years centres continue to be the core of the Dingley operation. During the year, three new centres were opened. Opening new centres is the most effective method of extending the Dingley impact to more children and families, and opening these three new sites, fully funded by local authorities, has been a clear demonstration of the charity's strategy in action. The number of children supported during the year across all centres was up 36% on the previous year. Additionally, 55% of all children transitioning from Dingley Centres did so into a mainstream environment. This is a lower percentage than in previous years, but within our cohort of children 38% had high needs, a considerably higher number than the previous year.

Priority 2: Influencing EY SEND Agenda

Our lobbying this year has seen increased activity linking with the new Government and new MPs across the country. We are focusing on building a group of backbench MPs who will raise early years SEND in parliament and running parent roundtables in partnership with Luke Murphy MP to further raise the voice of parents. We have provided guidance through membership of expert groups and boards to the Department for Education, and we became a steering group member of the Early Education and Childcare Coalition in order to ensure SEND remains central to early years lobbying.

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Priority 3: Early Years Educator Training

Our training initiative continues to be central to our overall strategy, as it provides a way of capturing the deep expertise built in centres over several decades and putting this to work through large numbers of early years educators in mainstream settings across the country. Over 10000 practitioners accessed Dingley training during the year, 7312 of which have already completed their courses, and the impact of the training led to the creation of 34702 new places in mainstream settings for children with SEND.

Key Events Impacting performance

During this year, the key events that have most impacted our performance have been the opening of three new centres. This represented a 33% increase in our organisational footprint so carried considerable risk. The risk was mitigated by three critical factors: firstly, ensuring that contracts with Local Authorities are in place to fund new centres; secondly, we organised our centres into three regions, each led by a Regional Operations and Quality Manager, reporting to the COO to provide the necessary support to the increased number of centres; finally, meticulous planning of the opening of new centres. We are delighted that these activities have allowed us to open the new centres smoothly and without any negative impact on the organisation. We will continue to deploy this proven approach as we open further new centres in the future.

Fundraising

Income is generated from four revenue streams -

We do have third party fundraising partners which include JustGiving, The Good Exchange and challenge providers such as the London Marathon, Ultra Challenge and other event organisers. We monitor the income on these platforms and then match it with the income received in our bank on a regular basis.

We take part in a range of voluntary fundraising schemes, including partnering on community events, online fundraising through various platforms and challenge fundraising where individuals take on challenges and raise money for us. We do not engage in cash collections on the street, although we sometimes do this in partner business premises such as supermarkets, entertainment venues etc.

Any complaints related to fundraising can be raised through our standard complaints procedure, which is found on our website. This year we have had no fundraising complaints.

We consider four main aspects when fundraising fairly - respect, fairness, responsiveness and accountability. We actively consider whether a donor has the capacity to donate or whether they are vulnerable. We do not ever pressure donors, and are particularly careful about asking our service users for support, as we know they may feel obliged to donate. We are clear that any donations have no effect on the services they receive.

As the organisation grows, expanding its footprint and impacting significantly more children, it is absolutely critical that the internal operations team develops to be able to deliver this growth agenda. This continues to be a key focus area and the charity has successfully recruited a new Head of Fundraising, Head of Training and a new Grant Writer, all of whom will underpin the success of the charity in achieving its 2025/26 performance targets. The CEO and the Board of Trustees report bi-monthly on central overhead levels to ensure that the expenditure on these areas remains at the targeted % of total expenditure.

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Trustees' Annual Report

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Finally, 2024/25 has also seen a continued strengthening of the Board of Trustees. The strong team has been further supplemented by the appointment of Marwa Farouq, a specialist in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Marwa has made a quick impact on the charity by running a series of ED&I working sessions at the Board Meetings, and by working closely with the COO to review broader ED&I policy and approach. Additionally, Sarah Clarke, an existing Trustee with extensive SEND experience, has stepped into the Vice Chair role, providing support to the Chair on key activities, and cover in the event of the Chair's unavailability.

Financial Review

Financial performance continues to mirror the growth and development of the charity's activities. Compared to the prior year, total income increased by 61% to reach £2,535,330 and total expenditure increased by 47% to reach £2,367,792.

Local Authority payments almost doubled to £1,144,990 reflecting the opening of new centres in Bournemouth, Droitwich, Cheltenham and Worcester and the move towards a fully funded operating model for existing centres.

Income from Nursery Education Grants and Other Additional Statutory Funding also increased significantly, up 59% to £455,349, again reflecting the growth of the Charities footprint and the number of Children being reached.

Gifts and Grants combined totalled £500,410, a 10% increase compared to the prior year, lower than the charity had hoped and reflecting a tougher fundraising environment and key vacancies in the fundraising team in the earlier part of the financial year.

Earnings from Consultancy are £101,230 which is materially in line with prior year. However, Training income is down 31% to £75,802, reflecting a slow-down in the second half of this year but this is expected to pick up again this year, with the addition of new staff in this area.

The Increase in total expenditure is primarily driven by increased staff costs and Operating expenses arising from the opening of new centres during the current financial year.

At the end of 2024/25 the charity is reporting a net surplus of £167,538 and the Trustees remain satisfied that the charity comfortably meets its' going concern criteria. The balance sheet remains strong with net assets of £385,910 and cash available of £315,298.

Dingley's Promise expects to open several more centres later in 2025/26 so both income and expenditure are expected to continue to grow significantly over the coming year.

Reserves policy

Dingley's Promise recognises the vulnerability of the children and families who rely on its services. The Board of Trustees has therefore agreed a Reserves Policy that requires us to hold sufficient Reserves to continue our Learning Through Play sessions, and associated family support, for a period of four months, were there to be any unforeseen collapse in our funding.

At the start of each financial year the Board of Trustees will determine the level of reserves needed to meet this four-month wind down period, also taking account of staff redundancy costs and any other financial commitments. These costs will be offset against any long-term funding that can be guaranteed to continue during any such wind down period. The level of reserves thus determined will be published in the accounts for the previous financial year.

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The Board of Trustees may at times designate additional funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.

The directors have reviewed and renewed the reserves policy. The new total requirement for 4 months of net operating costs, redundancy and other costs would be £32,588 (2024 - £155,787).

This would be covered by:

At the year end, free reserves, as defined by the Charity Commission were £36,982.

Plans for future periods

We continue to be ambitious about transforming the early years for children with SEND and their families, and this is reflected in our five-year strategy that begun in 2023 and is regularly reviewed at key meetings including the Trustee Board meetings. Our five-year strategy has four core focus areas:

The organisation is both ambitious about what can be achieved over the coming years and has the support of teams and stakeholders to achieve this. Two years into the five year strategy, the results already achieved give great confidence in this ambition.

PROVISION OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS

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Trustees’ Annual Report

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AUDITORS

In accordance with Section 485 of the Companies Act 2006, a resolution proposing the reappointment of Crowe U.K. LLP as auditors to the Company will be put to the Annual General Meeting.

This Annual Report, prepared under the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006, was approved by the Directors on and is signed as authorised on its behalf by:

James Laidlaw

Trustee

Date: 21/8/2025

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Statement of Trustees' Responsibilities

For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

Independent Auditor's report

to the Directors of Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centre

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres for the year ended 31 March 2025 which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet, Cashflow statement and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the charitable company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC's Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other matters

Without qualifying our opinion in this respect, we draw your attention to the fact that the 2024 comparative figures did not have an audit performed on them.

Independent Auditor's report (continued)

to the Directors of Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centre

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Other information

The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor's report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Opinions on other matters prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

Independent Auditor's report (continued)

to the Directors of Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centre

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Responsibilities of trustees

Independent Auditor's report (continued)

to the Directors of Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centre

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

Use of our report

Senior Statutory Auditor

For and on behalf of

Crowe U.K. LLP

Statutory Auditor

Date: 1 September 2025

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Statement of Financial Activities

For the Year Ended 31st March 2025

The notes on pages 21 to 34 form part of these financial statements

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Company Registration number: 07279320

Balance Sheet

For the Year Ended 31 March 2025

These financial statements were approved by the Trustee Director Board and authorised for issue on and were signed on their behalf by:

…………………………

Mr James Laidlaw

Trustee

Date: 21/8/2025

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Statement of Cash Flows

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

The notes on pages 21 to 34 form part of these financial statements

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

1.     Accounting policies

General information

Dingley Family and Specialist Early Years Centres is a registered charity, registered in England and Wales, number 1137609, and a charitable company limited by guarantee, number 07279320, incorporated in England and Wales. The address of its registered office is Kennet Walk Community Centre, Kenavon Drive, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 3GD.

Basis of accounting

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention with items recognized at cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant note(s) to these accounts. The financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) (effective 1 January 2019) - (Charities SORP(FRS102)), the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102) and the Companies Act 2006.

The charity meets the definition of a public benefit entity under FRS 102. Assets and liabilities are initially recognized at historical cost or transaction value unless otherwise stated in the relevant accounting policy note(s).

Going concern

Funds

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

1.     Accounting policies (continued)

Income

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

1.     Accounting policies (continued)

Depreciation

Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost fess estimated residual value of fixed assets over their estimated useful lives.

Operating leases

Financial instruments

Pensions

Significant judgements and estimates

2.     Donations and Legacies

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3.     Grants

4.     Charitable Activities

5.     Other Trading Activities

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Notes to the Financial Statements

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6.     Total Expenditure

7.     Analysis of Support and Governance Costs

The charity contracts to external supplier its finance, IT and Human Resources functions.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

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8.     Net income/(expenditure)

9.     Staff costs

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Notes to the Financial Statements

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10.     Tangible fixed assets

11.     Debtors

12.     Creditors - Amounts falling due within one year

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Notes to the Financial Statements

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12.     Creditors - Amounts falling due within one year (continued)

Income received during the year that has been deferred as it does not meet the recognition criteria as set out in the accounting policies is as follows:

13.     Analysis of net assets between funds

Comparative for the year ended 31 March 2024

Aim and use of restricted funds:

The restricted funds represent grants, donations, statutory funding and the sale of our online courses received for detailed specific purposes. Where these have not been fully expended during the financial year they are carried forward for the following financial year. These funds have been received for specific centres and projects. There are therefore many different funds and for the purposes of the statutory accounts, these have been grouped accordingly to the different centres they relate to.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

14.     Restricted Funds 2025

Comparative year ended 31 March 2024

Expendable Endowment

Details of the material restricted funds are as follows:

The Edward Gostling Fund - 5 year capital endowment designated for the purpose of funding core services.

Service Level Agreements - All centres are currently engaged with local authorities in Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire, Bournemouth, Gloucester and Southampton with a contract for the provision of assessment and outreach provision for children with SEND.

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14.     Restricted Funds 2025 (continued)

Comic Relief - 60-month grant totalling £545,789 dedicated to transforming early education for children with SEND by building inclusion. The funding cover 4 independent streams of work as below:

Council For Disabled Children - Early Years Disadvantage VCS Grant 2024-25 was awarded to support Priority 2, Early Years Special Educational Need and Disabilities. The EYSEND Partnership with CDC aims to increase access and inclusion in early years for children with SEN and Disabilities. By collaboratively working with National Children's Bureau, partners, and the Department for Education to support early years overarching strategic aims over the funding period (August 2024 - March 2025). Provision on flexible policy implementation support, as needed wider sectoral and parental engagement about key issues that impact our target audiences (LAs, early years sector and disadvantaged families), Stakeholder management, communications, policy messaging, dissemination, signposting, advice, and info (including enabling end users to engage) in the delivery of improved outcomes for disadvantaged families, Learning events and peer support.

Department For Education & Coram Hempsalls - Funding to support providing an opportunity to bring together the concerns about sufficiency in local areas and the strategic approach of central Government in the SEND and AP Plan with a opportunity to create an early years system that is more equitable for children with SEND that enables them to access their early years entitlements and builds inclusion from the earliest stages, and supports legal compliance as the new entitlements are developed.

15.     Transfer of funds

For the year ending 31^st March 25, transfers have been made to the value of £38,283 from general unrestricted funds comprising of revenue from undesignated donations, grants, consultancy and training course sales to cover deficits on operational centre funds. These deficits are a result of underfunding of the Wokingham & West Berkshire centres and the charity implements a policy of supplementing the core cost of running these two centres out of unrestricted charitable funds to ensure the continuation of these key centres.

16.     Commitments under operating leases

At 31 March 2025 the company had future minimum lease payments under non- cancellable operating leases as set out below:

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

17.     Pensions

The charitable company runs a defined contribution scheme. The costs for the year represent the charitable company's contributions to the scheme of £27,831 (2024 - £22,955). At the year-end £6,852 (2024 - £4,329) was accrued in respect of contributions to this scheme.

18.     Taxation

19.     Reconciliation of income/(expenditure) in funds to net cash flow from Operating activities

20.     Analysis of changes in net funds

21.     Related party transactions

During the period to 31^st March 2025 there were no related party transactions.

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Notes to the Financial Statements

For the Year Ended 31^st March 2025

22.     Statement of Financial Activities

For the Year Ended 31st March 2024