SIDEMOOR PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1042636 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIDEMOOR PRESCHOOL GROUP

Education of pre school children

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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Latest income

£153k

Latest spending

£151k

Registered

1994

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is a narrative report from a committee chair and does not contain financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserve figures. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from this document.

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

What the accounts disclose

Governance: HMRC investigation regarding minimum wage compliance

“Following on from our investigation with HMRC minimum wage team, the committee had to re do all the staff wage structure and rewrite contracts, this has now been completed, we did have to pay a fine to HMRC because staff were having to pay for their own uniform trousers and it came out on paper that this took them below minimum wage over the year.” — page 1

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 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.

Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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
Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

Caitlin Fogarty
Clare Almquest
KATIE BUCKLEY
Mary Thomas

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£153k	£151k
31/08/2024	£157k	£169k
31/08/2023	£148k	£132k
31/08/2022	£118k	£15k
31/08/2021	£114k	£109k

Common questions

Is SIDEMOOR PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided text is a narrative report from a committee chair and does not contain financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserve figures. Consequently, no assessment of financial health can be derived from this document.

Charities like this

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

BATTLE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £118k
MAWNAN PRE-SCHOOL income £150k
PENGE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £159k
St Nicholas and St Faith Pre-school income £117k
HARDWICK PRE-SCHOOL income £162k
NEW STUDIO PRE-SCHOOL income £212k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SIDEMOOR PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP	£153k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BATTLE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£118k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MAWNAN PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£150k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
PENGE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£159k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
St Nicholas and St Faith Pre-school FY2025	£117k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HARDWICK PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£162k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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