We are offering charity settings the opportunity to become part of the Early Explorers CIO.
You will never have to worry about recruiting committee members again and you will have the full support of Early Years Specialists as part of your charity management team. The Early Explorers trustees will support you every step of the way from taking the first step to transferring to the CIO, registering with Ofsted and beyond!
You are in safe hands.
Our trustees have a combined total of over 35 years of early years’ experience, currently managing an oversubscribed, outstanding setting and want to share this experience with other like-minded settings.
No, there is no fee for joining Early Explorers.
Yes – we will share with you our blanket policies and work with you to ensure they work for your setting. You will have access to all necessary paperwork which we will help tweak for your setting.
Early Explorers have a very experienced treasurer who will support with any financial responsibilities. Early Explorers will have one central bank account for all it’s pre-schools, however, your settings income will be earmarked for your setting only. As a charity, our finances are transparent, settings can find details of the finances on the charity commissions website once we become established.
Only if you want to. We do have a logo which all our settings will adopt but the name on the logo will be whatever you choose.
Only if they want to. We will provide children with a free t-shirt on registering. The t-shirt will bare your logo but you can choose the colour. Jumpers and additional t-shirts can be bought by parents if they wish.
Yes, staff will be expected to wear a navy-blue polo shirt and a hoody with your logo on.
Yes – If you can explain how your curriculum meets Ofsted’s requirements you can continue as you are. If you are in a rut regarding planning, we will support you with developing a curriculum that suits your setting.
There are lots of factors which effect the timescale, closing your charity and re-registering with Ofsted will be the main two. On average we estimate it will take 6-9 months.
Yes – you will loose your current Ofsted rating and will be inspected within thirty months of re-registering, but don't worry, we will support you every step of the way. We can even be with you for the inspection if you prefer.
The Early Explorers Trustees.
This will depend on the problem. Your first port of call will be Early Explorers trustees. If they cannot help solve the issue, they will be able to sign post you to the relevant agencies.
Early Explorers will look at your circumstances regarding the inadequate report. If it is felt we can work with you to improve the report in time for the next inspection will do just that. Managers and staff must be honest with Early Explorers and it is important they take on board advice given to continue to make improvements. Our aim is to keep and increase charity early years settings so we want to support all settings as much as we can.