ST PETERS UNDER FIVES PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1058925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PETERS PLAYGROUP, ST PETERS UNDER 5'S PLAYGROUP

We offer sessional day care as a playgroup to children aged between 2yrs 6 months up to their entry to school. We also offer Breakfast Club to children who attend St Peter's Catholic Primary School, this year we hope to extend this to offer after school club and holiday club.

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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Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is secure with sufficient cash reserves to cover routine expenditure. Per the Statement of Financial Activities, unrestricted funds increased from £23,093 to £34,955, reflecting a net income of £11,862 against total incoming resources of £284,475. The charity is administered by a board of four trustees and has received a positive independent examiner's report with no material matters of concern.

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
• 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

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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2025 (received 17/08/2026, 48 days after the 30/06/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Clare Desando
• Amy Charlotte Caldwell
• Nicola Farrelly
• Victoria Louise Martin

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEMPSTED PLAYGROUP.

• HEMPSTED PLAYGROUP income £131k
• ST PETER'S PLAYGROUP income £121k
• ST ANDREWS WITH ST PETERS PRE-SCHOOL income £117k
• SAUNDERSFOOT PLAYGROUP AND DAYCARE income £80k
• KESTREL UNDER FIVES PLAYGROUP income £254k
• SOUTH CERNEY PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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