THE GROVE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1042976 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE GROVE TODDLER AND PLAYGROUP

As a Pre-School Playgroup we provide Education and Care to pre-school children within the local area. By means of appropriate play activities and a high level of adult input we offer each child at the playgroup the opportunity to work towards nationally approved Early Learning Goals as outlined in the curriculum guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the playgroup is thriving with a waiting list and budgets are managed to ensure future sustainability. The organization maintains a good working relationship with its landlords, Dorset County Hospital, and has secured a lease extension. Staff training is kept up to date, and the committee manages the entity on a not-for-profit basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• kit Elphinstone Davischair
• ANNABEL REAY
• Claire Bowen
• James Ian McDonald
• Kirsty Hill
• SAMUEL COURSE
• ZOE COURSE

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• NANT Y GROES PLAYGROUP income £121k
• VERNON PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £215k
• NANCLEDRA PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £444k
• MELBOURN PLAYGROUP AND OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB income £288k
• GREAT GRANSDEN PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £133k
• WOODBOROUGH PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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