DIGBY VILLAGE PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1032999 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIGBY VILLAGE PRESCHOOL

Digby Village Preschool provides early years education and child care for 2 to 4 year olds in a friendly and stimulating environment, offering government funded places from the age of 2, operating from within Digby Church of England Primary School. A not-for-profit organisation it is managed by a volunteer committee but employs experienced child care professionals to undertake the daily running.

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 generated a surplus of £25,838.00 for the year ended 31st August 2025, with total income of £92,985.76 exceeding total expenditure of £67,147.76. Free reserves increased from £20,525.30 to £53,427.34 over the period. The filing does not disclose any reserves policy, material uncertainties, or risks to continuing operations.

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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lisa Leechair
• Donna Cottrell
• Owen Jones
• Tom Ironmonger

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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