LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL SOUTHAMPTON

Registered charity 1139080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a sessional pre-school providing education and care of children from aged 2 - 5 years of age. Operating within the Woolston area of Southampton and dedicated to supporting families locally. We are a limited company with a charitable status run by a Committee of parent volunteers and a Management team. We have two Pre-School settings.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND BY:4.1 OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY, EDUCATION AND CARE FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SUCH GROUPS, ENSURING THAT SUCH GROUPS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN WHATEVER THEIR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, MEANS OR ABILITY4.2 ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS;4.3 INSTIGATING AND ADHERING TO AND FURTHERING THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE SOUTHAMPTON.

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains reserves equivalent to at least three months of operating and redundancy costs plus one year's rent for each setting. The primary source of funding is identified as Southampton City Council Early years grants, supplemented by fee-paying children and small fundraising activities. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07381763 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• MURRAY, Sally Jane — director, appointed 27/06/2024on trustee list
• PARKER, Jade — director, appointed 05/05/2021on trustee list
• MCVEY, Tara-Leigh — director, appointed 20/06/2020not on trustee list
• REYNOLDS, Louise Rose — director, appointed 11/11/2015on trustee list
• MARLER-HAUSEN, Zoe — director, appointed 24/11/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ZOE MARLER-HAUSENchair
• Jade Parker
• Louise Rose Reynolds
• REBECCA BURNETT
• Sally Murray
• TaraLeigh McVey
• carmel gardner

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

Operates in: Southampton City

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LADYBIRD PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED.

• LADYBIRD PRE-SCHOOL LIMITED income £684k
• COURTNEY LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL income £154k
• LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL NEWBURY income £184k
• LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL KEELBY income £106k
• ST. OSWALD'S LADYBIRDS PRE-SCHOOL income £140k
• LADY BAY PRE-SCHOOL income £116k

Side by side with its peers

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