SAWSTON CHILDCARE LIMITED

Registered charity 1084213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAWSTON NURSERY

Operates Sawston Nursery to provide quality childcare for children from the age of 3 months until they are eligible to start school.

Objects

THE CARE, RECREATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE YEARS, RESIDING PRIMARILY IN THE PARISH OF SAWSTON BUT TO INCLUDE THE AREA OF SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ITS ADJOINING COUNTIES BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A NURSERY COMPRISING A DAY NURSERY AND NURSERY SCHOOL OR OTHER SIMILAR ORGANISATION.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF SAWSTON AND ELSEWHERE IN SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ADJOINING COUNTIES

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net unrestricted surplus of £7,144 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in accumulated unrestricted funds of £150,046. Per the trustees' report, free reserves (excluding fixed assets) were £122,580, which is below the stated policy target of holding at least £200,000. The charity operates at or near capacity but faces financial pressure from government funding rates that do not cover full costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Staffords Chartered Accountants. 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); Care Quality Commission. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tina — Head of Nursery (source)
• Shani — Deputy Head (source)
• Ferdousi — Finance Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Neil Adamschair
• ALISTAIR JAMES MONTGOMERY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Melissa Victoria Rachel Gammons
• Edward John Unwin Hunt
• Ka Kiu Amani Fong
• Katrina Jane Spencer
• Paul Edwin Whitmell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SILKSTONE PLAYGROUP.

• SILKSTONE PLAYGROUP income £160k
• BARTON PRE SCHOOL NURSERY income £275k
• Belbroughton Nursery income £132k
• SUNSHINE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £784k
• SPROWSTON NURSERY PLAYGROUP income £147k
• EAST HARPTREE NURSERY PRE-SCHOOL income £516k

Side by side with its peers

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