HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1019979 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HILLSIDE PLAYGROUP

To supply Early Years Education to 3 to 5 year old children .

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE THE CATCHMENT AREA OF THE PLAYGROUP

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £5,239.77 for the year, primarily due to essential tarmac replacement works. However, the trustees report that the charity operates on a sound financial basis with unrestricted reserves (cash at bank) of £84,666.52, which exceeds their stated policy target of £45,000.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Hillside Pre-School: Good · Ofsted

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dave Kingchair
• Amy Gooding
• Fran Vigliucci - Bamford

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL (CHORLEYWOOD) LTD.

• HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL (CHORLEYWOOD) LTD income £82k
• HILLSIDE EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £213k
• HAYLANDS PRE-SCHOOL income £226k
• HARLINGTON VILLAGE PRE-SCHOOL income £224k
• HALLFIELD SCHOOL TRUST income £7.8m
• ELDENE PRE-SCHOOL income £526k

Side by side with its peers

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