WHITCHURCH UNDER FIVES

Registered charity 1024445 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objective of the group is to provide educational facilities for pre-school children, offering them a safe and happy environment where they can learn through play.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit for the year, with payments exceeding receipts and resulting in a closing balance of £14,718.18. The trustees resolved to transfer the charity's undertaking and assets to Futura Learning Partnership, after which the charity will wholly discontinue its activities and wind up.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Tuckwellchair
• Jennifer Inman
• Kelly Crew
• Lucy Hardy
• Rosie Noonan Rosie
• Stacey Holt

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

Common questions

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• WESTVIEW PLAYGROUP income £127k
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• WHITCHURCH OUT OF SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £199k
• Muskham Preschool income £118k
• RUSPER PLAYGROUP income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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