ST ANDREW'S PLAYGROUP (HALIFAX)

Registered charity 1045454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides pre-school care + education for up to 25 2-4 yr olds.

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 charity held free reserves of £61,587 at year end, which exceeds the stated policy target of £41,839. The net receipts for the year were £52,246, resulting in a surplus that increased the fund balances carried forward to £159,590.

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 4 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
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michelle Dooleychair
• Ann Booth
• Carla Shepherd
• Jessica Lois Sugden-Garnett
• Kate Lumb
• Lucy Greensides
• Thomas Owens

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

Operates in: Calderdale

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST ANDREWS WITH ST PETERS PRE-SCHOOL.

• ST ANDREWS WITH ST PETERS PRE-SCHOOL income £120k
• ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH PLAYGROUP income £150k
• ST ANDREWS PRE-SCHOOL income £172k
• ST ANDREWS METHODIST CHURCH PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £100k
• ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £178k
• HOLBROOK AND DISTRICT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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