BICESTER GARRISON (TIDDLYWINKS) PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1065023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Garrison Playgroup

Objects

ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY 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.

Causes: Education/training · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position relies on a balance between income from fees, grants, and donations against rising wage costs. The trustees note that financial prudence is essential and that they have taken steps to build up a fund to cover potential redundancies. The filing includes an independent examiner's report confirming the accounts reflect a true statement of income and expenditure.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lyndon Robinson Lt Col

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• ST DUNSTANS COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP income £110k
• TNB GARRISON EARLY YEARS AND PLAY income £3.5m
• BREDON PLAYGROUP income £123k
• ST MARY'S TODDLER AND PLAYGROUP, TETBURY income £120k
• HOLBROOK AND DISTRICT PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £159k
• DEGANWY PLAYGROUP income £152k

Side by side with its peers

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