SNAP (SPECIAL NEEDS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND) LTD

Registered charity 1059988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SNAP

SNAP provides indoor and outdoor play facilities for children with special needs and disabilities. We cater for children of all ages and disabilities from the most challenging to those with profound and multiple mental & physical disabilities.

Objects

TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF AN ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a healthy financial position with unrestricted free reserves of £61,415, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £15,000 (covering three months of expenditure). The charity reported a net surplus for the year, supported by successful funding bids and increased customer numbers, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operating.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03259275

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Children In Need — “SNAP has 2 playworkers Sarah and Julie, who are funded by Children In Need.” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GIMBERT, Tim — director, appointed 06/07/2011on trustee list
• HEIGHWAY, Robert — director, appointed 17/10/1999on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROBERT HEIGHWAYchair
• Joanne Spoors
• Kim Punter
• Tim Gimbert

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).