SWINGS & SMILES

Registered charity 1120598 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Most families take recreational play for granted. For families of children with special needs, this is impossible for some and extremely difficult for most. Swings & Smiles provides a fun and safe facility where children (SEND and their siblings) can enjoy play in a family setting appropriate to their needs and abilities. Outreach, online and sibling support services are also provided.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £51,339 for the year, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted reserves to £152,729. To maintain service continuity despite financial pressures, the trustees explicitly drew on these reserves rather than reducing support. The charity holds restricted funds of £475,000 designated for future building development or purchase.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Swings and Smiles (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

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 (95% 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: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeffrey Kenneth Iveschair
• Andrew Watts
• Derek John Hardman
• Lisa Joanne Danskin
• Michael Megan
• Pamela Cottrell
• Suzanne Adamantos
• Victor Hormuz Mistry
• Victoria Sandars

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Oxfordshire · Reading · West Berkshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY.

• SMILE FOR LIFE CHILDRENS CHARITY income £657k
• JOSEPH'S SMILE income £169k
• SPREAD A SMILE income £2.2m
• SMILEYARK KIDS income £245k
• CHIPS - Children's integrated playschemes income £387k
• SMILE THROUGH SPORT income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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