AUDEN PLACE COMMUNITY NURSERY

Registered charity 1051093 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AUDEN PLACE NURSERY

To provide a safe, healthy, fun, stimulating, learning and socially diverse environment for children; offering affordable, high quality childcare for Camden families.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR AND TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY: (A)OFFERING APPROPRIATE TEACHING, GUIDANCE, SUPERVISION, CARE AND HEALTH FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF RACE, CULTURE, OR RELIGION; (B)ENCOURAGING PARENTS AND LOCAL RESIDENTS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMPANY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE, LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN

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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Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£763k
Latest spending
£729k
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £33,025 for the year ended 31 March 2025, marking a return to profitability after a small loss in the prior year. Total unrestricted funds increased to £286,320, providing a reserve position that the trustees consider adequate with no material uncertainties regarding going concern. The charity remains dependent on government funding and fee revenues to cover significant staffing costs, which constituted 68% of income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: unclear (reserves figure: £286k)
“maintaining reserves to support the nursery in the event of further future unforeseen events.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

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.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Government income: £145 — grants £145 (1); under 1% of the £682,333 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Government income: £1,087 — grants £1,087 (1); under 1% of the £738,499 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Auden Place Community Nursery (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£763k
Total spending
£729k
Cost of raising funds
£244
Reserves (reported)
£286k
Employees
26

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Camden

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£763k£729k
31/03/2024£682k£682k
31/03/2023£738k£723k
31/03/2022£750k£859k
31/03/2021£576k£575k

Common questions

Is AUDEN PLACE COMMUNITY NURSERY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £33,025 for the year ended 31 March 2025, marking a return to profitability after a small loss in the prior year. Total unrestricted funds increased to £286,320, providing a reserve position that the trustees consider adequate with no material uncertainties regarding going concern. The charity remains dependent on government funding and fee revenues to cover significant staffing costs, which constituted 68% of income. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
Moto Foundation1£150

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CAMDEN COMMUNITY NURSERIES LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AUDEN PLACE COMMUNITY NURSERY£763k—0unclear—no doubt
CAMDEN COMMUNITY NURSERIES LIMITED FY2025£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
BARKANTINE COMMUNITY NURSERY FY2025£1.0m—0unclear—no doubt
CHAPELTOWN COMMUNITY NURSERY FY2025£302k—0unclear—no doubt
NORTH LEEDS COMMUNITY NURSERY FY2025£448k—0unclear—no doubt
CHAPEL STREET NURSERY FY2025£103k—0unclear—no doubt

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