ASHFIELD PLAY FORUM

Registered charity 1037959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ashfield Play Forum aims to promote public appreciation of the value of play in improving the quality of life for children and young people in the district of Ashfield. To meet our aims we support and promote the provision of positive and creative play opportunities for children and young people within this area. We provide materials and play items to our members in line with funding criteria.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AN APPRECIATION AMONGST THE PUBLIC OF THE SHORT AND LONG TERM VALUES OF CHILDREN'S PLAY IN ASHFIELD TOWARDS IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: ASHFIELD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £81,874, which the trustees report is in line with their expectations. The charity faces financial risks including the potential loss of unrestricted income from room hire and a reduction in available grants. Despite these sector challenges, the trustees confirm that all restricted funded projects remained in line with budgets.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• George Powellchair
• DOREEN FOWLER
• JOANNE PARR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle squires
• Vicki Knight
• michelle chadwick · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ASHFIELD VOLUNTARY ACTION.

• ASHFIELD VOLUNTARY ACTION income £178k
• ASHBOURNE RECREATION GROUND SPORTS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £449k
• GOREFIELD PLAYING FIELD ASSOCIATION income £100k
• PLAY BRADFORD income £349k
• ISLINGTON PLAY ASSOCIATION income £1.4m
• SHAKESPEARE WALK ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND income £174k

Side by side with its peers

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