GAINSBOROUGH ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND CIO

Registered charity 1130827 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GAINSBOROUGH ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND LTD, GAPA

GAPA is a registered charity providing a range of children's services based on adventurous play, aimed at developing positive personal and social behaviour in children the aim isd to promote and deliver high quality adventurous play to children age 0-14 from Gainsborough and the surrounding area.

Objects

A. TO RELIEVE YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES RESIDENT IN GAINSBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE IN NEED, BY PROVIDING SERVICES OF FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.B. TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS OF GAINSBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR THE RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.C. TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY OF GAINSBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

Area of benefit: GAINSBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £65,972 against a stated reserves policy target of £5,000, indicating a surplus above the minimum requirement. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

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 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
• 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

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Elizabeth Farmerchair
• Cassie-Leanne Stafford
• David Farmer
• Joanne Marie McGrath
• Michelle Marie Madden
• Nicholas Coxon

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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