ST JOHN'S PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1045382 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST JOHN'S PRESCHOOL, STANGROUND COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP

We provide high quality childcare and Pre-school education in an environment that is warm, safe and stimulating. A place where learning takes place through play and everyone is valued and treated as an individual. Parents are encouraged to play a key role in the education and development of their children as primary educators.

Objects

The aims of the Pre-school are to enhance the development and education of children primarily under statutory school age by encouraging parents to understand and provide for the needs of their children through community groups and by:(a) offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, together with the right of parents to take responsibility for and to become involved in the activities of such groups, ensuring that such groups offer opportunities for all children whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;(b) encouraging the study of the needs of such children and their families and promoting public interest in and recognition of such needs in the local areas;(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE STANGROUND

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 surplus of £16,590 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total income of £188,483 and total expenditure of £171,893. Per the trustees' report, cash funds increased to £201,532, and reserves remained above the stated policy target of £69,432, indicating stable financial health despite rising wage costs.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 (20/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Hunnybunchair
• Crina Gavriliuc
• Emma Yeoman
• Holli Wright
• Jade Hill
• Maryam Coy
• Michelle Catt
• Natalie Skutela

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

Operates in: Peterborough City

Income and spending

Common questions

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• ST JOHNS CHURCH SCHOOL PLAYGROUP GOLCAR income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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