GOSLINGS PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1031887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Goslings Playgroup provides good quality care and early years education for children aged 2 years to four years. We are Ofsted registered and provide flexible places between the hours of 8.45am and 3.00pm. We are based in a mobile building in the grounds of Whitehill Junior school in Hitchin which has its own fenced outdoor play area.

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 achieved an overall surplus of £10.9k for the year, driven by one-off grants and successful fundraising activities. The trustees report that staffing levels were carefully matched to demand, and the organization maintained a positive financial position without indicating any risks to its continuity.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kirsty Isabelle Fellschair
• Catherine Lydia Leal-Bennett
• Charlotte Alice Sweeney
• Hannah Louise Morris
• Philip William Byford · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

• GISLINGHAM PLAYGROUP income £126k
• NANT Y GROES PLAYGROUP income £121k
• WATERBEACH COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP income £115k
• GRESFORD GOVERNORS' CLUBS AND PLAYGROUP income £486k
• GREAT GRANSDEN PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £133k
• LITTLE RASCALS PLAYGROUP income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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