WESTVIEW PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1020794 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO PROVIDE SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION WITHIN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN AGED 2 - 4 1/2 YEARS

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity was successful in stabilising its finances during the 2024/25 period and secured two grants from the Kent Community Fund and Kent County Council. The setting maintained a Good Ofsted rating and continued to support staff professional development. No financial deficits, audit opinions, or material uncertainties are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Westview Playgroup (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ben Synanchair
• Charlotte Bennell
• Grace Clapp
• Kloe Synan
• Laura Nunn
• Michael O'Dwyer
• Sean Heatherly
• Tracey O'Dwyer
• Triin Kuttim

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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• THE WOODLEY PRE-SCHOOL (READING) income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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