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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG CHILDREN, IN PARTICULAR IN THE BOROUGH OF IPSWICH, SUFFOLK, AND IN SO DOING(A) OFFER APPROPRIATE LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND PLAY FACILITIES(B) ENSURE THE NURSERY OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN WHATEVER THEIR RACE, CULTURE, MEANS OR ABILITY(C) ENCOURAGE PARENTS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE NURSERY(D) SIGNPOST FAMILIES TO ADDITIONAL SUPPORT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF CHILDREN ATTENDING THE SETTING.

Area of benefit: IPSWICH, SUFFOLK

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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Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen LLP. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06784276 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anne Denny — Chief Executive (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.

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.

• DARVILL, Francesca Alix — director, appointed 19/09/2024on trustee list
• WILSON, Lynsey Jane — director, appointed 23/02/2023on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Kelly-Marie — director, appointed 22/09/2021on trustee list
• ATKINS, Caroline Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/06/2017on trustee list
• GREENACRE, Stuart Clive — director, appointed 09/05/2016on trustee list

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)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kelly-Marie Taylorchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Becky Levi Linda Grimwood
• Caroline Elizabeth Atkins
• Francesca Darvill
• Lynsey Wilson
• Stuart Clive Greenacre

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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Side by side with its peers

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