CANDOVER VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1038184 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANDOVER VALLEY PLAYGROUP

We provide sessional day care for children between the ages of 2 years until they start school. Our sessions last 3.0 hours and we look after up to 27 children in any one session. We are a member of the Preschool Learning Alliance and are Ofsted inspected.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE

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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Latest income

£142k

Latest spending

£154k

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the academic year on a loss of £12,456.45, driven by rising staffing costs and government funding revisions. While reserves were utilized to cover the deficit, the trustees note that this approach is not sustainable long-term and emphasize the need for increased fundraising and pupil numbers to remain financially viable.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: To ensure that we can provide a consistent level of service protecting against unforeseen losses to income or increases in expenses. To ensure that our liabilities can be met should our setting need to close. (held: £44k)

“The pre-school aims to 1. To ensure that we can provide a consistent level of service protecting against unforeseen losses to income or increases in expenses. 2. To ensure that our liabilities can be met should our setting need to close.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“We are fortunate to have reserves in place which we are utilising but using this year on year is not a sustainable solution. This is why fundraising, grant applications and raising pupil numbers is so important to ensure we remain financially viable.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CVP (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alexander Benjamin Melland Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
Andleeb Hussain Amin
Andrew Frederick John Ferguson
Huw John Morgan
Isobel Robinson
Marketa Feruga

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£142k	£154k
31/08/2024	£140k	£145k
31/08/2023	£102k	£119k
31/08/2022	£107k	£128k
31/08/2021	£116k	£95k

Common questions

Is CANDOVER VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the academic year on a loss of £12,456.45, driven by rising staffing costs and government funding revisions. While reserves were utilized to cover the deficit, the trustees note that this approach is not sustainable long-term and emphasize the need for increased fundraising and pupil numbers to remain financially viable. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL.

THE VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL income £113k
YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k
COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD PRESCHOOL income £123k
LUDWELL VALLEY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE income £175k
CHADDLEWOOD PRE-SCHOOL income £339k
LITTLE STEPS PRE-SCHOOL income £148k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CANDOVER VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL	£142k	—	above	—	noted
THE VALLEY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£113k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£222k	Under £60,000	unclear	—	no doubt
COLTISHALL & HORSTEAD PRESCHOOL FY2025	£123k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LUDWELL VALLEY EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE FY2025	£175k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHADDLEWOOD PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£339k	—	unclear	—	noted

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