ST OSMUNDS PRE SCHOOL

Registered charity 1140389 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Osmunds PreSchool in Salisbury offers sessional preschool education for 2 - 5 year olds. They also run Sunshine Clubs offering breakfast clubs, after school clubs and holiday clubs for 3 - 11 year olds.

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:- 3.1 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 ABILITY;3.2 ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS;3.3 INSTIGATING AND ADHERING TO AND FURTHERING THE AIMS AND OBJECTS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE WILTSHIRE.

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a positive financial position with a closing balance of £20,429.31 for the main account in 2024-25, following a period of careful budget management despite increased running costs. The trustees and manager report that resources are adequate to meet current obligations, with specific reserves held in a subsidiary account to cover potential redundancy costs as required by Charities Commission rules.

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: Care Quality Commission; 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 06665257

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.

• STOKES, Jessica Ruth — director, appointed 03/10/2024on trustee list
• SWANNELL, Polly — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• SIMKIN-PARK, Laura — director, appointed 13/10/2021not on trustee list
• EVANS, Helen Margaret — director, appointed 29/03/2018on trustee list
• SIMKIN-PARK, Laura — secretary, appointed 13/10/2021

Official officers record.

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

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beth Simkin-Parkchair
• Helen Evans
• Jessica Stokes
• Polly Swannell

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

Operates in: Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 ALL SAINTS PRE-SCHOOL.

• ALL SAINTS PRE-SCHOOL income £166k
• LITTLE SAINTS NURSERY income £168k
• OATLANDS PRE-SCHOOL income £210k
• OLDFIELD PARK PRE-SCHOOL income £193k
• ST CLARES PRE SCHOOL income £190k
• SUNSHINES PRE-SCHOOL income £83k

Side by side with its peers

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