UNDER FIVES ROUNDABOUT

Registered charity 1027240 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Roundabout runs a daily term-time pre-school and toddler groups for parents/carers and their children on two mornings a week. We are inspected by Ofsted and received a grade of 'Good' in 2022. The focus of our preschool is on providing excellent free early years care and education for as many local families as possible.

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: IN PRACTICE CAMBRIDGE

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 charity reported a surplus of £43,892 for the year ended 31 August 2025, increasing total funds to £294,742. Unrestricted reserves stood at £254,660, which exceeds the stated policy target of six months of ongoing costs. The accounts confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified.

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 5 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• 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

• Amy Leigh Joubertchair
• Akira Wilson
• Alexandra Annett
• Dorothy Spencer
• Gyuzel Zarieva
• Helen Frances Wade
• Joanne Louise Burke
• Olivia Keys
• Rohanne Price
• Sophie Pearson

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• DEBENHAM ROUNDABOUT PRE-SCHOOL income £129k
• ROUNDABOUT (WEST MIDLANDS) LIMITED income £290k
• ROUNDABOUT AFTER SCHOOL CLUB income £244k
• ROUNDABOUT LIMITED income £9.4m
• MERRY-GO-ROUND UNDER 5'S income £130k
• MERRY GO ROUND PRE SCHOOL SANDWICH income £128k

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