RAINBOWS PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1120323 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a pre-school playgroup offering children and their families a facility 4 mornings per week to children in the Eckington area who are specifically targeted. Fees are deliberately kept to the minimum possible in order to make the playgroup affordable to as many families as possible, with reductions and subsidies from social services where need is greatest.

Objects

TO PROVIDE PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY AND SUPERVISED PLAY FOR CHILDREN AGED 2 TO 5 YEARS.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, DEBYSHIRE.

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 reported a small operating profit of £793 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £1,943. The entity is exempt from audit under small company provisions and relies on an accountant's compilation report rather than an independent audit opinion.

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 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
• Financial reserves 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05871061

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HIBBERT, Yvonne — director, appointed 02/11/2018on trustee list
• FOX, Rebecca — secretary, appointed 21/07/2025

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IMELDA DAVIESchair
• Anne Wylds
• LISA WEST
• Yvonne Hibbert

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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