BARHAM PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1057290 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARHAM PLAYGROUP

Provides facilities for early year children to the development and education of those children. Offering appropriate play, education and care facilities, family learning. Instigating and adhering to the furthering the aims and objects of the Pre School Alliance.

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: BARHAM

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a good financial position with unrestricted reserves growing to £91,403. The trustees report no significant financial strain and note an overall positive outlook for the next financial year. Operating surplus was generated from core activities, supported by increased fees from KCC and donations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• LAURA TERESA READSHAWchair
• Beverley Parker
• Ellie May Parker
• Georgia Batchelor
• Nicola Barnes
• Sally Crump · trustee of 3 other charities
• Sandra Soldano

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Lyminge Pre School.

• Lyminge Pre School income £273k
• Muskham Preschool income £118k
• BURHAM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £183k
• BRIARY PRE-SCHOOL income £262k
• BARBICAN PRE-SCHOOL income £121k
• COLLINGHAM AND DISTRICT PRE-SCHOOL income £208k

Side by side with its peers

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