OVER PUDDLEDUCKS PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1027556 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST MARYS PLAYGROUP OVER

Provides pre-school activities.

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Latest income

£122k

Latest spending

£124k

Registered

1993

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a conscious loss to spend money on additional resources and improvements, resulting in a net payment of £2,427. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £29,779, which the trustees note is held as a contingency fund to cover three months of running costs. The charity's gross income was £121,541 against total payments of £123,968.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £30k)

“The preschool has a reserve fund as part of a contingency fund, this is to cover 3 months running cost should the preschool experience financial difficulties and is forced to close.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

Harriet Turtonchair
Erik Jan Bayens Mackie
Leah Dark
Lucy Cowley

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£122k	£124k
31/08/2024	£130k	£116k
31/08/2023	£102k	£95k
31/08/2022	£83k	£82k
31/08/2021	£63k	£63k

Common questions

Is OVER PUDDLEDUCKS PRE-SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity made a conscious loss to spend money on additional resources and improvements, resulting in a net payment of £2,427. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £29,779, which the trustees note is held as a contingency fund to cover three months of running costs. The charity's gross income was £121,541 against total payments of £123,968. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP.

PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP income £150k
PUDDLEDUCKS PRE-SCHOOL (WORKSOP) income £139k
PADDOCKS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £194k
CHARNOCK RICHARD PRE-SCHOOL income £165k
DICKORY DOCK NURSERY income £741k
HOLLAND PARK PRE-SCHOOL income £124k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
OVER PUDDLEDUCKS PRE-SCHOOL	£122k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP FY2025	£150k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PUDDLEDUCKS PRE-SCHOOL (WORKSOP) FY2025	£139k	—	above	—	no doubt
PADDOCKS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£194k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHARNOCK RICHARD PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£165k	—	below	—	no doubt
DICKORY DOCK NURSERY FY2025	£741k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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