PLAY BRADFORD

Registered charity 1122592 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECCLESHILL ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

Play Bradford is the umbrella charity who aim is to provide sustainable community play opportunities across the Bradford District. Our work focuses on delivering quality play and playwork using the medium of adventure play. Our current programmes consist of; The Big Swing Adventure Playground, Mobile Adventurous Play, The Bradford Community Play Partnership, The PLATTER project.

Objects

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") AREA) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, DISABILITY OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: ECCLESHILL, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £9,232 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £193,521 to £184,289. The trustees acknowledge that current free reserves of £27,281 are insufficient to meet their stated policy target, noting that increasing reserves is a Board priority. While the charity faces funding uncertainties and relies heavily on grants, the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL WRAGGchair
• GEOFFREY PETER HOME
• JOHN MALCOLM CHARLES COLE
• Jack Andrew James
• NICKY LANNEN
• Sarah Goldsmith
• Steven George Duckworth

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

Operates in: Bradford City

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 BRADFORD GUILD OF HELP.

• BRADFORD GUILD OF HELP income £76k
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• BETTER COMMUNITIES BRADFORD income £435k
• PARKPLAY LTD income £467k
• CITIZENS ADVICE BRADFORD & AIREDALE AND BRADFORD LAW CENTRE income £2.5m
• BRADFORD DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £618k

Side by side with its peers

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