STANWICK PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1030868 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal purpose of Stanwick Pre-School is to provide affordable, quality care to enhance the development and education of children between the age of 2 years and 4 years 11 months. The pre-school is funded through government grants, fundraising and private fees. It operates from the new village hall in Stanwick, Northamptonshire.

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: 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 finished the year with a surplus of £10,051.98, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit. The trustees report that the organization is in a much stronger financial position, having reduced costs through management restructuring and actively securing grants. Reserves are held to cover unforeseen emergencies, with a stated policy to maintain reserves equal to at least 25% of annual expenditure.

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 4 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jennifer Hodgson
• Tracey Cairns

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Stanwix Community Pre-School.

• Stanwix Community Pre-School income £117k
• STANWAY PRE-SCHOOL income £376k
• SWANWICK PRE SCHOOL income £172k
• STANNINGTON VILLAGE PLAYGROUP income £143k
• STANTON PARENTS AND UNDER FIVES income £158k
• WINSLEY ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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