THE PARADE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1093007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Community preschool in the local Hilsea area of Portsmouth

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

Latest income

£303k

Latest spending

£332k

Registered

2002

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a total deficit of £29,068.86. The trustees report that the preschool is in a very worrying financial position due to rising costs, the cost-of-living crisis, and a significant drop in funding and attendance. No additional support was received to mitigate these financial pressures.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“The preschool is in a very worrying financial position because of the added rising costs, the cost-of-living crisis and the changes to funding. Sadly, the setting has been given no additional support to help with the drop in funding and the cost-of-living crisis. This obviously continues to cause us a lot of concern.” — page 7

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Governance: All committee members resigned

“SHOCK: ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THEY ARE RESIGNING!”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 1 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Catherine Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Portsmouth City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£303k	£332k
31/08/2024	£312k	£316k
31/08/2023	£267k	£267k
31/08/2022	£324k	£324k
31/08/2021	£235k	£246k

Common questions

Is THE PARADE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a total deficit of £29,068.86. The trustees report that the preschool is in a very worrying financial position due to rising costs, the cost-of-living crisis, and a significant drop in funding and attendance. No additional support was received to mitigate these financial pressures.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/10/2009	£2k	ICT Delivered Through the Foundation Stage

Charities like this

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

YATELEY COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £227k
PHOENIX PRE-SCHOOL income £297k
HAYLING COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL income £231k
HARRIETSHAM PLAYGROUP ASSOCIATION income £122k
WHEELOCK PRE-SCHOOL income £108k
PARSON DROVE PRE-SCHOOL income £130k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PARADE COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL	£303k	—	—	unclear	—	noted
YATELEY COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£227k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PHOENIX PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£297k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HAYLING COMMUNITY PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£231k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HARRIETSHAM PLAYGROUP ASSOCIATION FY2025	£122k	—	0	above	—	noted
WHEELOCK PRE-SCHOOL FY2025	£108k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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