Springboard Chippenham

Registered charity 1010231 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPRINGBOARD, SPRINGBOARD NORTH WILTSHIRE OPPORTUNITY GROUP FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, SPRINGBOARD-NORTH WILTS OPPORTUNITY PLAYGROUP FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN

Springboard provides playgroup sessions for pre-school children from birth to 5 years old with special needs, and a support and information service for parents and carers.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SAFE AND STIMULATING GROUP PLAY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE IN NORTH WILTSHIRE AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE PARENTS, CARERS AND FAMILIES BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND INFORMATION.

Area of benefit: NORTH WILTSHIRE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity came close to breaking even with a modest shortfall of £431 for the year ended 31 March 2025. The trustees have strengthened reserves to approximately four months of operating costs to safeguard against rising operational costs and funding delays. The charity remains financially stable with unrestricted funds of £254,947 and a going concern basis confirmed by the trustees.

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02698820

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Springboard Chippenham (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WOODWARD, Emma Laura Mary — director, appointed 26/03/2026on trustee list
• MONTGOMERY, Gerard — director, appointed 26/03/2026on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Yasmin Louise Hanley — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• HAWKINS, Kit Robert — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
• EVERETT, Angela — director, appointed 16/11/2023on trustee list
• STEWART, Elaine Susan — director, appointed 23/01/2019on trustee list
• FARRELL, Anne Marie — secretary, appointed 01/09/2012

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Everett
• Charlotte Marie Forrest
• Elaine Susan Stewart
• Emma Laura Mary Woodward
• Gerard Montgomery
• Kit Robert Hawkins
• Paul George Sweet
• Yasmin Anderson

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPRINGBOARD OPPORTUNITY GROUP.

• SPRINGBOARD OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £771k
• SPRINGBOARD PROJECT income £469k
• SPRINGFIELDS PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £538k
• BROADLANDS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £155k
• BROADBOTTOM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £101k
• RIPPONDEN PRE-SCHOOL income £290k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.