HIGHBURY COMMUNITY NURSERY

Registered charity 1020319 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

COMMUNITY NURSERY

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AGED UNDER FIVE YEARS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON BY THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY (2)TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF ISLINGTON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a deficit of £212,284 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased staffing costs and lower admissions capacity. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £383,822, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months' average operating expenses.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nordens Audit Limited. 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geir Freyssonchair
• Alison Slatter
• Anjli Raval
• Claudia Headon
• Edouard Carakehian
• Shahar Edgerton Avin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Alexander Beales Ferguson

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHAPELTOWN COMMUNITY NURSERY.

• CHAPELTOWN COMMUNITY NURSERY income £302k
• HIGHBURY income £115k
• THE HIGHBURY CENTRE income £803k
• THE HEATHERS NURSERY income £194k
• ST MICHAEL'S COMMUNITY NURSERY income £162k
• HEYSHAM YOUTH AND COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP income £306k

Side by side with its peers

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