LADYBIRDS PLAYGROUP (TICEHURST)

Registered charity 1040317 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LADYBIRDS PRE SCHOOL, TICEHURST COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP

Ladybirds aim is enhance the education of children below compulsory school age in the Parish of Ticehurst by providing safe and satisfying group play in which the parents have the right to take part and by encouraging other activities through which parents may help their children. This is accomplished by offering affordable quality childcare and education in conjunction with other professionals.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE IN TICEHURST PARISH BY (A) PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART. (B) ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN.

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 reported a net surplus of £223,992 for the year ended 31st August 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £381,920. The trustees consider that the level of unrestricted funds meets their policy objective of covering six months' normal income. The independent examiner confirmed the accounts were prepared in accordance with applicable standards without expressing an audit opinion.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: LADYBIRDS NURSERY AND PRESCHOOL LTD Companies House 08649442

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN JANE MARRchair
• ALISON BISSETT
• Alison Mary Grinham
• Charis Sawatzky
• Kate Warlow
• Michelle Payne
• Tracy Pecover

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANGSHOTT LADYBIRDS NURSERY.

• LANGSHOTT LADYBIRDS NURSERY income £170k
• LADYBIRDS PLAYGROUP income £126k
• LADYBIRD PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £684k
• LORDSWOOD COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP income £343k
• ST CUTHBERTS PLAYGROUP income £146k
• LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL NEWBURY income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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