POUND HILL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1027606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Pre school facilities

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 the charity reported a deficit of income over expenses of £5,196 for the year ended 31st July 2025, compared to a surplus in the previous year. Despite an increase in expenditure, particularly in wages, the balance sheet is described as healthy with net assets of £165,921.85.

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
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Bastin
• John Rivens
• ROBERTO BEJAR

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• PANGBOURNE VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL income £169k
• TYWARDREATH PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £113k
• NORTH COMMON PRE - SCHOOL income £103k
• PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP income £150k
• NEW STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP income £223k
• MARGARET LLOYD PLAYGROUP income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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