CHILDCARE AND BUSINESS CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Registered charity 1083895 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WANDSWORTH PRIMARY PLAY ASSOCIATION, WPPA

CBCS acts as an umbrella organisation for voluntary run childcare. CBCS operates some childcare services direct - these include out of school care, playgroup provision and creche facilities - as well as a toy library service and payroll facilities for member childcare groups.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 11 YEARS IN AND AROUND THE LONDON BOROUGHS AND TO ADVANCE PARENTING SKILLS.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF WANDSWORTH.

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wandsworth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £210,732 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £2,482,681 against total expenditure of £2,271,949. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £671,726, which the directors consider an appropriate level given the established reserves policy. The organization remains financially stable despite recent service closures and financial strain from government wraparound programme changes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kirk Rice LLP. Discloses 6 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04060959
• Trading subsidiary: CHILDCARE ANSWERED LIMITED Companies House 06549518 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SELLEY, Peter Frederick — director, appointed 09/05/2025on trustee list
• PARKER, Robert John — director, appointed 01/03/2017on trustee list
• THURGOOD, Carol Jacqueline — director, appointed 29/08/2000on trustee list
• KHALID, Robina — secretary, appointed 19/03/2021

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAROL THURGOODchair
• Huw Jenkins
• Peter Frederick Selley
• Robert Parker

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham · Lambeth · Merton · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD DAYCARE LIMITED.

• BRISTOL ASSOCIATION FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD DAYCARE LIMITED income £468k
• RAINBOW COMMUNITY NURSERY income £807k
• OSBORNE HOUSE COMMUNITY NURSERY LTD income £549k
• ABC CHILDCARE (IPSWICH) LTD income £253k
• ST JOSEPH'S CHILD CARE GROUP income £748k
• SPETISBURY AND CHARLTON MARSHALL PLAYGROUP income £198k

Side by side with its peers

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