LITTLE OAKS

Registered charity 1066952 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide for the development and education of children under statutory school age by offering playschool and preschool places to children in the local area

Objects

The aims of the Pre-school are 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, education and care facilities, family learning and extended hours groups, 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 whatever their race, culture, religion, means or ability;(b) 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;(c) Instigating and adhering to and furthering the aims and objects of the Pre-school Learning Alliance.

Area of benefit: NORTHAMPTONSHIRE

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £13,231 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £122,396. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, supported by cash holdings of £123,646 and a designated Crisis Reserve of £49,383. The trustees believe it is prudent to maintain reserves sufficient to cover essential costs in the event of an unexpected interruption to income.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Hart
• Andrew Lawrie
• Emily McGurk
• Kath Bell
• Maria Harriss
• Rebecca Rees · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• LITTLE OAKS PRE-SCHOOL income £249k
• LITTLE OAKS COMMUNITY NURSERY income £301k
• THE LITTLE SUTTON CLUB AND NURSERY SCHOOL income £692k
• LITTLE SAPLINGS PRESCHOOL income £126k
• LITTLE BERRIES PRE-SCHOOL income £424k
• OAKHILL EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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