BLAKENEY UNDER FIVES

Registered charity 1060878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Ofsted registered Pre-school, toddler, young people and parent group.

Objects

TO ENHANCE 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 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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Latest income
£110k
Latest spending
£104k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the financial year with a profit of £5,603.43, resulting in total reserves of £47,163.42. The trustees report that there are no uncertainties regarding the charity continuing as a going concern, noting that the organization is nearing capacity. However, the document highlights principal risks related to low government funding for childcare places and rising operational costs such as inflation and minimum wage increases.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two terms' funds (held: £47k)
“Our policy is to hold the equivalent of 2 term’s funds as a reserve. (There are 6 terms within our financial year.)”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£110k£104k
31/08/2024£101k£99k
31/08/2023£77k£94k
31/08/2022£87k£82k
31/08/2021£41k£49k

Common questions

Is BLAKENEY UNDER FIVES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity finished the financial year with a profit of £5,603.43, resulting in total reserves of £47,163.42. The trustees report that there are no uncertainties regarding the charity continuing as a going concern, noting that the organization is nearing capacity. However, the document highlights principal risks related to low government funding for childcare places and rising operational costs such as inflation and minimum wage increases.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund24/08/2005£5kroom to grow

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLUES PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BLAKENEY UNDER FIVES£110k—0unclear—no doubt
BLUES PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY FY2025£157k—0within—noted
CHARNOCK RICHARD PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£165k—0below—no doubt
BLACKDOWN PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£185k—0unclear—no doubt
ST ANNE'S CHILD CARE GROUP FY2025£141k—0unclear—no doubt
CHALDON PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£186k—0unclear—no doubt

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