SEE-SAW PRE-SCHOOL AT WINGHAM

Registered charity 1022489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINGHAM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

We provide high quality care & education to pre-school children aged 2-5 years in a safe, secure & stimulating environment within a framework that promotes equality and values diversity. We work in partnership with parents to help children learn and develop and aim to add to the life and well being of the local community.

Objects

The aims of the Pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:(a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;(b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 has transferred all its activities to Wingham Preschool CIO and is in the process of winding down. For the year ended 31 August 2025, the charity reported total income of £60,401 and total expenditure of £47,046, resulting in a surplus of £13,355. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with accounting records or the Charities Act.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joan Berry
• Lisa Lambourne
• Louise Beard
• Matthew Butterworth
• Natalie Brown

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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