TROJANS SCHEME

Registered charity 1108509 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KIDS' CITY, THE TROJANS SCHEME, The Play Professionals

The charity operates After School Clubs and Holiday Play Schemes for children. In addition we are committed to the training and development of our staff and volunteers and to the dissemination of good practice within the sector. We offer volunteering opportunities to local people and provide routes to further training and paid work.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL, PLAY AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT HELP DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND CREATIVE POTENTIAL SUCH THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE LAMBETH AND WANDSWORTH, LONDON.

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: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an operating surplus of £60,568 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £226,149. The trustees confirm that the charity is a going concern with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

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 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). 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
• 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
• 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)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 08/11/2023, 8 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS MASON OBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Rachel Penfold
• Jeremy Michael Sandell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Wilson
• SHARON TYNAN
• Saskia Perriard-Abdoh
• Susanna Magdalena David
• Yvonne Johnson

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

Operates in: Lambeth · Southwark · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCHOOL'S OUT.

• SCHOOL'S OUT income £61k
• ST JOHN'S PLAYGROUP income £188k
• TRELYA income £2.2m
• SPLASH FOR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES income £48k
• THORNS COMMUNITY TRUST income £203k
• PONSANOOTH PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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