ST GABRIELS PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1036707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Gabriel's Playgroup offers day care for children between 2 and 4 years old five days a week.

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Latest income

£114k

Latest spending

£145k

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity lost £30,000 of its reserves during the year due to the loss of local authority funding following an inadequate Ofsted rating. Despite this financial loss, the charity achieved a 'Good' rating in October and maintained positive unrestricted reserves of £82,728.22 at the end of the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Governance: Ofsted outcome

“due to the inadequate Ofsted outcome last May, meant that we have lost all new West Sussex Early Years funding, until we get back to Good.” — page 1

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Gary Lavenderchair
Geraldine Todman
Linda Nicholl
Pauline Bone
Rhianna Lavender

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£114k	£145k
31/07/2024	£131k	£130k
31/07/2023	£151k	£112k
31/07/2022	£83k	£99k
31/07/2021	£124k	£93k

Common questions

Is ST GABRIELS PLAYGROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity lost £30,000 of its reserves during the year due to the loss of local authority funding following an inadequate Ofsted rating. Despite this financial loss, the charity achieved a 'Good' rating in October and maintained positive unrestricted reserves of £82,728.22 at the end of the period.

Charities like this

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

RAINBOW PLAYGROUP income £209k
ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £178k
ST MARY'S PLAYGROUP (BANBURY) income £154k
ST MICHAELS PLAYGROUP income £126k
SCALLYWAGS PLAYGROUP income £157k
WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ST GABRIELS PLAYGROUP	£114k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
RAINBOW PLAYGROUP FY2025	£209k	—	below	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£178k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S PLAYGROUP (BANBURY) FY2025	£154k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST MICHAELS PLAYGROUP FY2025	£126k	—	unclear	—	noted
SCALLYWAGS PLAYGROUP FY2025	£157k	—	below	—	noted

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