LITTLE ACORNS PLAYGROUP (EVERSHOT)

Registered charity 1099880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To give all children an excellent start to their education, in a safe and caring environment. Little Acorns provides indoor and outdoor play, in all weathers, with a range of open ended resources and child led activities.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN FROM AGE 2 TO 12 YEARS IN EVERSHOT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

Area of benefit: EVERSHOT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £2,414.13, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £119,006.19. The trustees report a good financial position, supported by a new childcare expansion grant from Dorset Council, which enables the charity to proceed with a new building project to ensure its future longevity.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abigail Warnechair
• Abigail Mills
• Jeremy Piggott
• Patricia Wood

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL (LEIGH-ON-SEA).

• LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL (LEIGH-ON-SEA) income £233k
• LITTLE ACORNS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP (INGHAM) income £113k
• LITTLE ACORNS, SHIREOAKS income £188k
• LITTLE ACORNS PLAYGROUP PEMBROKESHIRE income £165k
• ACORNS NURSERY SCHOOL income £219k
• ACORNS CHILDCARE (MASHAM) income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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