THE PETER PAN CENTRE

Registered charity 1136915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETER PAN NURSERY

To provide exceptional care, support and education to children from birth to age 5 with a range of special educational needs. We follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework, enabling children to make rapid progress in their development, with a focus on key life skills. Parent/carers benefit from respite, family support, training, social activities and community-based stay and play sessions.

Objects

TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE STAFFORDSHIRE

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

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

Registered contact address: Newcastle-under-Lyme, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state the charity achieved a surplus of £3,854 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with total income of £435,380 against total expenditure of £431,526. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves totalled £119,044, representing approximately 3.3 months of normal expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of six months. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has 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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Ofsted — Peter Pan Centre: Outstanding · Ofsted

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
• Investment
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Peter Pan Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah McDowellchair
• Andrew Mark Barrow
• COLIN IAN BARCROFT
• Christopher Paul Farrelly
• DIANE MCVEY
• Glen Manby
• KATRINA LOUISE Espley
• Michelle Louise OWEN
• Michelle Martin

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Shropshire · Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

Common questions

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).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PETER PAN PLAYGROUP.

• PETER PAN PLAYGROUP income £217k
• PETER PAN PRE-SCHOOL BATH income £135k
• PETER PAN PLAYSCHOOL (CIO) income £164k
• PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS income £96k
• PLAY PLANET FAMILY PROJECT income £200k
• STANTON PARENTS AND UNDER FIVES income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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