LET US PLAY SCHEME

Registered charity 1070259 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

LUPS provides playschemes for children with profound physical and/or multiple learning difficulties. We are a parent group of children with varied & multiple disabilities. We provide a safe secure environment with continual one to one support to enable each child to access and achieve at thier own level.

Objects

A) TO PROVIDE, CAUSE TO BE PROVIDED OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH PROFOUND AND MULTIPLE LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS, PRINCIPALLY THOSE IN FAREHAM AND GOSPORT AREAS.B) IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF PLAY SCHEMES FOR SUCH CHILDREN DURING THE HOLIDAYS.

Area of benefit: FAREHAM AND GOSPORT AREAS.

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that reserves have depleted to £47,981, representing approximately two weeks of running costs, due to reduced grant funding and increasing expenses. The charity reported a net deficit of £7,162 for the year, with total expenditure exceeding incoming resources. Despite these financial pressures, the trustees remain satisfied that the charity will generate sufficient income to undertake future projects.

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 4 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — LUPS (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amy Pitt
• Charlotte Ashton
• Connor May
• Donna Blake
• MRS Juliet Cheriton-Gerard
• PETER IAN WILSON
• Patricia Whittingham
• Victoria Ashton
• Wendy Rees

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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