STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1026316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Pre-School ,Open term times only.Friendly staff. New extension. Great outside space. Work in partnership with William Barnes Primary School doing sessions there in the term prior to starting school. Accept Funding from age 2 years.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £90,933 to £128,219, driven by a net income of £37,286 against charitable expenditure of £152,824. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £128,219 and has no disclosed reserves policy target. Cash at bank stands at £113,645, providing significant liquidity against current liabilities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• 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

• Ivanka Stefkova Kuspovachair
• Emma Chatfield
• Sophie Chatfield

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP (WELLS).

• STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP (WELLS) income £125k
• STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP income £148k
• NEW STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP income £223k
• STEPPING STONES NURSERY AND PRE-SCHOOL (CLAVERDON) CIO income £191k
• STEPPING STONES PRE-SCHOOL (HARROW) income £131k
• PARKSTONE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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