ST MARY'S CHURCH NURSERY GREAT DUNMOW

Registered charity 1120280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Mary's Church Nursery is a pre-school nursery for 2-5 year olds in Great Dunmow in Essex. Please see our website for further details at www.stmarysnurserydunmow.co.uk

Objects

1)TO PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AGED 2 TO 5 YEARS OF AGE WHOSE PARENTS/GUARDIANS LIVE OR WORK WITHIN THE UTTLESFORD DISTRICT COUNCIL AREA.2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES , AND TO DO SO WITH RESPECT FOR OTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

Area of benefit: UTTLESFORD

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 achieved a surplus of £21,287.72 for the year ending 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £131,847.56. This figure significantly exceeds the stated contingency reserve policy target of £20,000, indicating strong financial stability.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Philip James Cobbchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Richard Anthony Beecroft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Holly Louise Hammond
• Rev Thomas Zane Warmington · trustee of 2 other charities
• WENDY BOWLER

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with St Mary's Nursery & Preschool - Charlton Kings.

• St Mary's Nursery & Preschool - Charlton Kings income £113k
• ST MARYS NURSERY, CAMBERLEY income £245k
• ST MARY'S UNDER FIVES, MARLBOROUGH income £130k
• MALDWYN NURSERY AND FAMILY CENTRE income £630k
• ST MICHAEL'S COMMUNITY NURSERY income £162k
• BRANKSOME ALL SAINTS MOTHERS UNION NURSERY income £218k

Side by side with its peers

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