ACORN UNDER FIVES (BIRSTALL)

Registered charity 1030959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Acorn Under Fives is a preschool and caters for children from the age of two until school age.

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 provided are minutes from an Annual General Meeting rather than statutory financial statements, so no audited financial data is available. The document notes that salary costs are projected to increase due to a national wage rise and that building repairs are planned. There is no explicit statement regarding the charity's reserves or financial health beyond general operational updates.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE McGREAL
• EMMA LOUISE PAGE
• REBECCA TACEY

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACORN PRE-SCHOOL & THE MIGHTY OAKS.

• ACORN PRE-SCHOOL & THE MIGHTY OAKS income £309k
• ACORNS CHILDCARE (MASHAM) income £106k
• ACORN PRE-SCHOOL CIO income £127k
• ACORNS NURSERY SCHOOL income £219k
• ACORN CHILDREN'S CLUB income £112k
• ACORN2OAK PRESCHOOL income £225k

Side by side with its peers

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