SPETISBURY AND CHARLTON MARSHALL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1023882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCAMPS

The charity operate a preschool and offer wrap around care in the form of a breakfast and afterschool club for children aged up to 11 years. The charity is run by a committee of volunteer members, mainly parents of children attending the preschool. There is an appointed preschool manager responsible for the staff and daily running of the group.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY OFFERING AGE APPROPRIATE PLAY AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN A HAPPY, SAFE AND NURTURING ENVIRONMENT AND BY PROVIDING STIMULATING OUTDOOR EDUCATIONAL AND PLAY FACILITIES AND BY IDENTIFYING AND CATERING FOR CHILDREN'S INDIVIDUAL NEEDS, REGARDLESS OF RACE, RELIGION, CULTURE, MEANS OR ABILITY.

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 ended the financial year with a net surplus of £13,785, bringing total cash funds to £155,432. The trustees have amended their reserves policy to aim for three months of running costs, which are held in a savings account at Lloyds Bank. The charity reports no grants made and relies on fees, government grants, and fundraising to cover its operational costs.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Chester
• Katie Adams
• Lesley Bahawan
• RIA ELLIOTT
• Rebecca Box
• Samantha Hinchley

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP.

• WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k
• CHARLBURY PRESCHOOL income £156k
• PONSANOOTH PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £126k
• YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k
• ST MARYS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £238k
• GREAT CHART AND SINGLETON PLAYGROUP income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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