FAIRPLAY

Registered charity 1128629 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide the necessary facilities for the care recreation and education of children and young people with special needs and their carers and siblings.To develop mediation and advocacy services for such persons who are in need of them.To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Chesterfield and surrounding area the provision of facilities for the education and recreation or other leisure time

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £233,964 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,969,577 against total expenditure of £1,735,613. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £1,111,641, which is marginally below the stated policy target of £1,119,736, though unrestricted reserves stood at £2,592,448. The trustees and auditor confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MCABA Limited t/a Mitchells. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fairplay (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Heather Fawbert — Chief Executive (source)
• Angela Shepherd — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

CQC provider record: Fairplay — Registered, 2 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 24/01/2019. CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Fairplay - Home Based Support Service: Good (07/03/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA SHEPHERDchair
• AARON PAUK
• ANGELA CROSSLEY-HOLLAND
• Alison Lesley Gregory
• Andrew James Newton
• Dawn Hawkins
• Esther Leigh Edwards
• Helen Elizabeth Timmins
• Jean Shepherd
• Martin Goacher
• Mary Bond
• Sharon Davis

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FUN 4 KIDZ.

• FUN 4 KIDZ income £1.2m
• Chesterfield and District Society for People with a Disability income £2.4m
• SPACE income £256k
• VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £7.2m
• HAMPSTEAD COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED income £421k
• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k

Side by side with its peers

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