ACTIVITY CLUB FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (BERKSHIRE)

Registered charity 1104007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE THUMBS UP CLUB · filing overdue (register status)

We provide a Holiday Club environment during Easter and Summer school holidays for children with additional needs and disabilities between the ages of 3 and 19.We also provide an After School Club at Addington School, Woodley, Monday through Friday during Term Time.

Objects

(I) TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY FACILITIES FOR THE DAILY CARE, RECREATION AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND THEIR SIBLINGS; AND (II) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE PERSONS IN THE PROVISION OF SUCH CARE, EDUCATION AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE BERKSHIRE.

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

Causes: Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position worsened in 2024 due to increased staff costs and the cancellation of the summer holiday club. Reserves of £51,718 are held to offset potential deficits, but the trustees warn the charity is in danger of ceasing operations if future fundraising or local authority supplements are insufficient.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Thumbs Up Club (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Melian Hulley
• Ian Perkins
• Kirsty Lauren Sidorowicz
• Peter Moody
• Reama Shearman

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Reading · Slough · West Berkshire · Windsor And Maidenhead · Wokingham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 SCHOOL'S OUT.

• SCHOOL'S OUT income £61k
• ELVINGTON OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB income £32k
• PEAR TREE HOLIDAY CLUB (KIRKHAM) LTD income £53k
• NETHERTHONG PRE-SCHOOL AND OUT OF SCHOOL CLUB income £221k
• WOODCOTE AFTER SCHOOL CLUB income £49k
• HANSLOPE 326 CLUB income £114k

Side by side with its peers

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