BUSY BEES CHILDCARE CENTRE

Registered charity 1062014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARVER BARRACKS CHILD CARE CENTRE

Child Care

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Latest income

£154k

Latest spending

£160k

Registered

1997

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £6,050.74 for the period ending 29.02.2025, with total expenses of £159,668.35 exceeding total income of £153,617.61. The filing confirms that the Income and Expenditure Account was correctly prepared from the books and records by an independent examiner.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Register events

Received assets from another charity (13/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Shanie Meadchair
Katie Harrison
Paul Purkhardt
Rebecca Browne

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
28/02/2025	£154k	£160k
29/02/2024	£200k	£151k
28/02/2023	£135k	£117k
28/02/2022	£99k	£80k
01/04/2021	£64k	£70k

Common questions

Is BUSY BEES CHILDCARE CENTRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £6,050.74 for the period ending 29.02.2025, with total expenses of £159,668.35 exceeding total income of £153,617.61. The filing confirms that the Income and Expenditure Account was correctly prepared from the books and records by an independent examiner. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUSY BEES.

BUSY BEES income £196k
BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL income £270k
BUSY BEES PLAYGROUP income £176k
BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL (BISHOPS SUTTON) income £103k
MR BEE'S FAMILY CENTRE (KING'S LYNN) income £1.0m
THE BEEHIVE CHILDCARE GROUP income £431k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BUSY BEES CHILDCARE CENTRE	£154k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
BUSY BEES FY2025	£196k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£270k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BUSY BEES PLAYGROUP FY2025	£176k	—	0	unclear	114.2%	no doubt
BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL (BISHOPS SUTTON) FY2024	£103k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MR BEE'S FAMILY CENTRE (KING'S LYNN) FY2024	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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