THE DONKEY FIELD PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1035097 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURLEIGH ACORNS PLAYGROUP, THE DONKEY FIELD PRE-SCHOOL GROUP

Donkey Field pre-school is a pre school run for children aged 2 1/2 to school entry. Our fund-raising events include Summer and Christmas fairs, cake and book sales and sponsored activities. Children participate in varied activities inc painting, reading, drawing, planting flowers, play dough, role play and outside play to name just a few.

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 unrestricted funds increased from £155,305 to £177,320, reflecting a net income of £22,015 for the year. The charity holds no restricted funds and operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed pension deficit. Total resources expended were £179,444, largely driven by charitable activity costs of £177,841.

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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ceylan Mutluchair
• Sharon Martin

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COURT FIELDS PRE-SCHOOL CIO.

• COURT FIELDS PRE-SCHOOL CIO income £223k
• OLDFIELD PRE-SCHOOL income £152k
• GROVE ROAD PRE-SCHOOL income £179k
• WOOL PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £108k
• GREENFIELDS CHILDCARE income £422k
• MEADOWLANDS PRE-SCHOOL income £182k

Side by side with its peers

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