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BOWS AND ARROWS

Registered charity 1129046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The nurseries provide education and care to children aged 0 - 8 years old across six premises in Ipswich.

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Latest income
£2.8m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £261,986 from operating activities for the year ended 31 August 2025. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £1,621,154, with £730,847 classified as free reserves, which is close to the stated target of £750,000. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Fundraising cost ratio: 0.5% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“In the year, fundraising represented 0.5% income.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: £750,000 (held: £731k)
“This is a total of £750,000.” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bows and Arrows Group (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

9 registered titles 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): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Total income
£0
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£20k
Reserves (reported)
£731k
Employees
114

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 84.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025£2.8m£2.5m
31/08/2024£2.3m£2.2m
31/08/2023£1.9m£2.1m
31/08/2022£1.9m£1.9m
31/08/2021£1.8m£1.7m

Common questions

Is BOWS AND ARROWS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity recorded a surplus of £261,986 from operating activities for the year ended 31 August 2025. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £1,621,154, with £730,847 classified as free reserves, which is close to the stated target of £750,000. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Larking Gowen LLP.

Who funds BOWS AND ARROWS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BOWS AND ARROWS as a grant recipient include THE MRS L D ROPE THIRD CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MRS L D ROPE THIRD CHARITABLE SETTLEMENTFY2024£14kA three-year grant to help provide essential support to families living in poverty across the most deprived areas of Ipswich.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund27/01/2016£8kDeveloping outcomes for Physical/outdoor learning
The National Lottery Community Fund26/05/2011£6kProject Healthy Choices

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOW BEARS PRE-SCHOOL CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BOWS AND ARROWS£2.8m—0unclear0.5%no doubt
BOW BEARS PRE-SCHOOL CIO FY2025£251k—0unclear—no doubt
BOVINGTON NURSERY FY2025£796k—0unclear—no doubt
ABC CHILDCARE (IPSWICH) LTD FY2025£253k—0within—no doubt
BOW ARTS TRUST FY2025£5.1m£100,001 - £110,000—unclear—no doubt
RAINBOW CHILDREN'S NURSERY LIMITED FY2025£432k—0above—no doubt

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