PLAY TORBAY

Registered charity 1137551 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Over 9,000 individual activities delivered to over 3,057 individual children and young people age 4-19 in one year.Resulting in over 22,000 individual play opportunities. 89.7% of these children are marginalised in some way: looked after, young carers, disabled, low income, families with complex needs.BUT when they're with us they're not wearing labels ? they just love to PLAY and have fun!

Objects

1. TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN OF TORBAY THROUGH PLAY.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN'S PLAY.

Area of benefit: TORBAY.

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

Causes: Education/training · Amateur Sport · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Torbay, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves fell to a deficit of £41,303, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees suspended the reserves policy in September 2025 due to depleted reserves but secured new funding to restore stability and confirmed the charity is 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.

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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2021 (received 06/05/2022, 6 days after the 30/04/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Gilroy
• Helen Stephenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karen Benjamin
• Steve Bowers
• Steven Chown

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

Operates in: Torbay

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LET'S PLAY PROJECT.

• LET'S PLAY PROJECT income £459k
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• PLAY AWAY (ESHTON GRANGE) income £293k
• PLAY RADNOR / RADNORSHIRE PLAY NETWORK income £81k
• PARKS FOR PLAY income £285k
• PLAY ADVENTURES & COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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