St Mary's Nursery & Preschool - Charlton Kings

Registered charity 1055267 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST MARYS PLAYGROUP CHARLTON KINGS

St Mary's Nursery and Pre School provides a preschool environment for children aged 2yr to 5yr olds. It follows Ofsted guidelines and is inspected by Ofsted and supported by PATA.

Objects

THE AIM OF THE GROUP IS TO EMBODY THE VISION OF PATA THROUGH THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT, CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE AND ALSO OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY (VOLUNTARY MANAGED) GROUPS AND BY: (A) OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES, 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 AND YOUNG PEOPLE, 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 AREA

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 total income increased to £113,397.63 while total outgoings decreased to £73,094.12, resulting in a surplus for the year. The charity ended the financial year with unrestricted reserves of £53,276.50, which the trustees note includes extra income from after-school club funding. The stated aim is to build reserves to cover running costs for at least a month.

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 risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Raymond Dowlingchair
• Charlotte Fisher
• PAULA Dinwoodie
• Richard Barnes
• Stefanie Roscoe

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP.

• ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £178k
• ST MARYS NURSERY, CAMBERLEY income £245k
• ST MARY'S UNDER FIVES, MARLBOROUGH income £130k
• THE ST MARY'S PRE-SCHOOL income £333k
• ST MARY'S CHURCH NURSERY GREAT DUNMOW income £108k
• COLLATON ST. MARY PRE-SCHOOL income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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