HAYLANDS PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1066030 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAYLANDS PLAYGROUP

providing childcare for 2years 6 months - 5 years, raising funds for this purpose. Also providing wrap around care with breakfast club and afterschool club for children 3 - 11 yrs.

Objects

TO 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 AND BY:A) OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SUCH GROUPS, ENSURING THAT SUCH GROUPS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN, REGARDLESS OF RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION OR MEANSB) ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS IN THE LOCAL AREAS.

Area of benefit: PORTLAND, DORSET

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
£226k
Latest spending
£226k
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a trading deficit of £87.62, resulting in a closing current account balance of £25,388. However, the trustees report the charity is in a healthy financial position, supported by a reserve account balance of £60,000. This reserve level exceeds the stated policy target of maintaining £50,000 to cover liabilities and emergencies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £50,000 (held: £60k)
“our policy is to maintain £50,000 to cover preschool financial liabilities, redundancies and emergencies”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Hunters. 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£226k£226k
31/07/2024£223k£178k
31/07/2023£170k£151k
31/07/2022£148k£167k
31/07/2021£167k£172k

Common questions

Is HAYLANDS PRE-SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a trading deficit of £87.62, resulting in a closing current account balance of £25,388. However, the trustees report the charity is in a healthy financial position, supported by a reserve account balance of £60,000. This reserve level exceeds the stated policy target of maintaining £50,000 to cover liabilities and emergencies. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Hunters.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund18/07/2006£10knew home

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
St Andrews Chorleywood PCC1£5k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HAYLANDS PRE-SCHOOL£226k—0unclear—no doubt
YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£222kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
HEATHLANDS COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL AND OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB FY2025£265kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
HAYLING COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£231k—0unclear—no doubt
HILLSIDE PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£121k—0unclear—no doubt
HORFIELD WELLY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025£101k—0unclear—no doubt

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