BLANDFORD OPPORTUNITY GROUP

Registered charity 1027771 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Blandford Opportunity Group is a pre-school playgroup for babies and children with special needs and disabilities. Regulated by Ofsted, we provide support for children from birth to 5 years, and for parents and carers. Sessions are held during term time in facilities which include a sensory room, playroom, family room and a wheelchair access disabled toilet.

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.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £25,095 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £238,772. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £233,723, which the trustees consider sufficient given the reserves policy target of 6 to 8 months of projected costs. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

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• Ofsted — Blandford Opportunity Group: Outstanding · Ofsted

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 23/09/2024, 85 days after the 30/06/2024 due date); year ending 31/08/2022 (received 19/03/2024, 263 days after the 30/06/2023 due date); year ending 31/08/2021 (received 21/07/2022, 21 days after the 30/06/2022 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN ROBERT STEVENSchair
• SHARON ELAINE CRIPPS
• STEPHEN HITCHINGS
• Sammii Ford

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WOODFORD PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £104k
• BEDFORDSHIRE OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEARNING DISABILITIES LTD income £599k
• LONGFORD PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £133k
• PEMBURY PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £321k
• BLAGDON UNDER FIVES COMMUNITY GROUP income £86k
• BROADBOTTOM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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