THE ACTIVITIES, CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1060208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ACE CHILDREN'S CENTRE, The ACE Centre

Provide facilities for daycare, recreation and education of children

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION (INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING) OF CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES THINK FIT, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING FACILITIES FOR THE DAILY CARE, RECREATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

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: West Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £125,850, achieving a net surplus of £15,118 after covering charitable expenditure. The trustees report that financial pressures from rising costs were managed effectively, with reserves aligning with their policy of maintaining six months' expenditure. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were identified in the filing.

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 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2023 (received 30/04/2024, 90 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03289942

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.

• PURSSELL, Sally Frances — director, appointed 01/09/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sally Purssellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adam Ryszard Kaznowski
• Alice Sara McGuire

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FAKENHAM CHILDREN'S DAYCARE CENTRE LIMITED.

• FAKENHAM CHILDREN'S DAYCARE CENTRE LIMITED income £512k
• THE WILLOWS DAYCARE LIMITED income £582k
• ST GREGORY'S PRE-SCHOOL LTD income £294k
• FIRVALE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £220k
• CHILDREN AND FAMILIES LIMITED income £2.9m
• CHILDREN CARE CENTRE income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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