STEPPING STONES-WEST WILTSHIRE OPPORTUNITY GROUP FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Registered charity 1012556 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STEPPING STONES

Stepping Stones, District Specialist Centre is an Opportunity group for children with special needs. Special Needs being the term we use for identifying children who will benefit from specific Therapy and support to help meet their potential. Children are encouraged to learn and develop through play. Children from birth to five, with varying levels of need attend our setting.

Objects

TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND STIMULATING PLAY ENVIRONMENT FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Area of benefit: WEST 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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £45,146 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £289,064. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £216,148 are slightly in excess of the policy target of six months' operating costs. The charity relies on a mixture of local government funding, grants, and public donations to supplement core funding.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Claire Gratton
• FIONA LADD
• Janet Elizabeth Ball
• TRACEY LEIGH MEADOWCROFT

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPPING STONES DS.

• STEPPING STONES DS income £180k
• STEPPING STONES NORTH WALES income £463k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL, LITTLEPORT income £221k
• STEPPING STONES OF CHESTER income £246k
• STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP (WELLS) income £125k
• STEPPING STONES LEARNING AND LEISURE income £80k

Side by side with its peers

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