CLAPHAM PRE-SCHOOL (BEDFORD)

Registered charity 1023729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLAPHAM PLAYGROUP

We are providing an educational enviroment for under 5's in a local village, in the Mid Bedfordshire county. We offer parents a fully flexible choice of full day care for thier children to help parents who want to return to work. We have been succesful in fundraising for a new building so we can expand the care & facilities we can offer to our children and parents, we moved in July 11.

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

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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Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £275,949, which the trustees consider to be at a level consistent with their policy of maintaining three to six months of expenditure. The trustees report satisfactory financial performance and confirm adequate resources for going concern, with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ashley Loxleychair
• Anna Ememe
• Hannah Zanna
• Minodora Gabor
• Petrena Notice
• ROWENA CROFT-HUGHES · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bedford

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DOWNSIDE PRE-SCHOOL.

• DOWNSIDE PRE-SCHOOL income £259k
• LAVENHAM PRESCHOOL income £188k
• BARROWBY PRE-SCHOOL income £84k
• BLEDLOW PRE-SCHOOL income £102k
• COBHAM COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £117k
• BUTTERCUPS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £171k

Side by side with its peers

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