PARC (ESSEX)

Registered charity 1065854 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARC (MID ESSEX), PLAY AND RESOURCE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN IN ESSEX BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, SUPERVISED RECREATION, PRE SCHOOL SERVICES, RESPITE AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND FOR THE PARENTS AND CARERS OF SUCH CHILDREN, SO THAT THE CONDITIONS OF SUCH CHILDREN MAY BE IMPROVED

Objects

THE RELIEF OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN BRAINTREE, CHELMSFORD MALDEN AND ELSEWHERE BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, SUPERVISED RECREATION, PRE SCHOOL SERVICES, RESPITE AND SUPPORT FOR SUCH CHILDREN AND FOR THE PARENTS AND CARERS OF SUCH CHILDREN, SO THAT THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH CHILDREN MAY BE IMPROVED.

Area of benefit: BRAINTREE, CHELMSFORD MALDON AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Braintree, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2025 (received 01/04/2026, 1 day after the 31/03/2026 due date); year ending 31/05/2024 (received 01/04/2026, 366 days after the 31/03/2025 due date); year ending 31/05/2023 (received 01/04/2026, 731 days after the 31/03/2024 due date); year ending 31/05/2022 (received 01/04/2026, 1097 days after the 31/03/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2020)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.2% of total income.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ASHLEY WEBB
• CHRISTOPHER JAMES MCCANN · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRISTOPHER JAMES MCCANN

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

Operates in: Essex · Suffolk

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