NW5 COMMUNITY PLAY PROJECT

Registered charity 1027125 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

This charity provides a wide range of services and facilities for all ages of young people up to 25years, and their families, in and around the Kentish Town area, London. These activities include after school club, holiday playschemes with lunch and other food provided, junior clubs, youth work, employment support, intensive support for families under stress, traineeships, and a playsite open 24/7

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UP TO 23 YEARS OF AGE RESIDENT OR RECEIVING FULL TIME EDUCATION WITHIN THE LONDON NW5 AND ADJACENT AREAS BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO FURTHER THE EDUCATIONAL, PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS SO THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE LONDON NORTH WEST AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £6,463 to £100,876, while restricted funds were fully expended, resulting in total net assets of £100,876. The trustees report that the charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, despite noting that fundraising remains a difficult area of activity.

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 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 04/02/2024, 4 days after the 31/01/2024 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

• Akbar Shaikh
• Charlotte Pelzer
• Emma Cheetham
• Karen Firth
• Katarzyna Uddin
• sarah denvir

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NO.5 YOUNG PEOPLE.

• NO.5 YOUNG PEOPLE income £581k
• FRIENDS - PLAY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN income £76k
• WCA income £499k
• NORTH WOOTTON PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k
• SCHOOL'S OUT income £61k
• ENFIELD TOWN FC COMMUNITY SPORTS DEVELOPMENT LTD income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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