BOTTESFORD AND DISTRICT PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1047896 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOTTESFORD PLAYGROUP

Provision of Childcare Services pre-school age

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: 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 unrestricted reserves increased to £144,607, exceeding the previous year's £121,228. The charity reports no restricted or endowment funds and holds no tangible fixed assets. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the review.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Francesa Dibleychair
• Claire Michelle Whitehouse
• Harley-Jane Taylor
• Tracy Smart

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

Operates in: Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• HOLBROOK AND DISTRICT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £159k
• BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA PLAYGROUP ASSOCIATION income £326k
• WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k
• THE CHESTERFORDS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL income £124k
• SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL CIO income £113k
• RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £190k

Side by side with its peers

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