TIPTREE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1026184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TIPTREE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP AND PRAM CLUB

Educating under 5 year olds

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: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £90,109 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £320,299. The accounts state that no material matters came to the examiner's attention regarding the preparation of the accounts or compliance with regulations. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed deficit.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 27/07/2026, 27 days after the 30/06/2026 due date); year ending 31/08/2024 (received 28/08/2025, 59 days after the 30/06/2025 due date); year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/09/2024, 63 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Churchchair
• Andrea Buffey
• Annabel Wood
• JANICE SOUTH
• Jade Oakes
• PHYLLIS WOODIWISS

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• TISBURY PRE-SCHOOL income £100k
• 3-2-5 PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £142k
• WINFRITH PLAYGROUP income £58k
• LITTLE PIPPINS PRE-SCHOOL income £248k
• BUTTINGTON/TREWERN PLAYGROUP income £57k
• RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £190k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.