GIBBONSDOWN CHILDREN'S CENTRE LIMITED

Registered charity 1091185 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides subsidised childcare, family support and training to local people.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Get email alerts

Latest income
£327k
Latest spending
£329k
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,927 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £91,927 to £89,999. The trustees note a policy to build reserves to six months of operating costs, with available funds amounting to £59,356 after fixed assets are considered. The Centre remains heavily reliant on funding from Flying Start, which the trustees describe as crucial to sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months operating costs (held: £59k)
They have a policy to build up the level of reserves to equate to six months operating costs.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Howard Clive Hamilton is a trustee and member of the local authority who lease the building used by the Charity.
Howard Clive Hamilton is a trustee of Gibbonsdown Childrens Centre and member of the local authority who lease the building used by the Charity. — page 6
In addition to the premises used by the Charity, it uses the facilities provided by Gibbonsdown and Treharne Community Centre, a registered charity whose main activity is the maintenance and hiring of the Community Centre to outside agencies.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The charity uses facilities provided by Gibbonsdown and Treharne Community Centre, a registered charity.
Howard Clive Hamilton is a trustee of Gibbonsdown Childrens Centre and member of the local authority who lease the building used by the Charity. — page 6
In addition to the premises used by the Charity, it uses the facilities provided by Gibbonsdown and Treharne Community Centre, a registered charity whose main activity is the maintenance and hiring of the Community Centre to outside agencies.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£327k£329k
31/03/2024£329k£337k
31/03/2023£344k£316k
31/03/2022£327k£293k
31/03/2021£229k£248k

Common questions

Is GIBBONSDOWN CHILDREN'S CENTRE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,927 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £91,927 to £89,999. The trustees note a policy to build reserves to six months of operating costs, with available funds amounting to £59,356 after fixed assets are considered. The Centre remains heavily reliant on funding from Flying Start, which the trustees describe as crucial to sustainability. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/08/2012£4kImprovement and Refurbishment Project
The National Lottery Community Fund22/03/2005£5kUnspecified

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
THE BALLINGER CHARITABLE TRUST1£70k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Chiltern Nursery and Training College.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
GIBBONSDOWN CHILDREN'S CENTRE LIMITED£327k0unclearno doubt
Chiltern Nursery and Training College FY2025£2.8m£80,001 - £90,0001withinno doubt
LUDGVAN COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTRE LIMITED FY2024£1.0m0unclearno doubt
CHANGING FUTURES NORTH EAST FY2025£1.9munclearno doubt
ST JAMES' CENTRE (DERBY) FY2025£1.2m0unclearno doubt
YOUNG PERSONS CENTRE FY2025£497k0belowno doubt

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