JIG-SO CHILDREN'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1143768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Jigso offers support and a safe play environment for children, parents and carers. We enable inclusion within our community by providing access to events, support networks and organisations. We aim to promote the family unit via parenting courses. We raise awareness and participation and build self esteem via accredited and non accredited courses.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF DISTRESS WITHIN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS BY SUPPORTING CHILDREN, THEIR PARENTS/CARERS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS I.E. GRANDPARENTS, IN CARDIGAN, CARMARTHENSHIRE,CEREDIGION AND PEMBROKESHIRETHE PROVISION OF A RESOURCE AND ADVICE CENTRE AND BY THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN GOOD PARENTING SKILLS AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF CARDIGAN , CARMARTHENSHIRE,CEREDIGION AND PEMBROKESHIRE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ceredigion, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £201,260 while expenditure remained consistent at £175,382, resulting in a net incoming resource of £25,878. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £41,404, which is equivalent to just over three months' operating costs and is in line with the charity's reserves policy. The trustees are confident that the charity remains in a sound financial position with sustainable income streams.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/02/2025, 17 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 04/03/2024, 33 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03855779 · 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.

• HEAD, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 15/10/2026not on trustee list
• WARD, Amy Elizabeth Rhiannon — director, appointed 15/10/2026not on trustee list
• LARKIN, Kelly Marie — director, appointed 01/09/2026on trustee list
• LEWIS-BOWEN, James William Teilo — director, appointed 29/06/2026on trustee list
• WATSON, Nicola — secretary, appointed 29/06/2026
• WAKELAM, Catherine Ruth — secretary, appointed 15/04/2024

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AMY WARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Lewis-Bowen
• Kelly Marie Larkin
• Lisa Jane Head
• Ruth Wakelam

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire · Ceredigion · Pembrokeshire

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 JIGSAW SUPPORT SCHEME.

• JIGSAW SUPPORT SCHEME income £80k
• JIGSAW VISITORS CENTRE income £303k
• GIBBONSDOWN CHILDREN'S CENTRE LIMITED income £327k
• CHILDREN'S DOMESTIC ABUSE SUPPORT SERVICE (CIO) income £29k
• THE JIGSAW TRUST income £6.4m
• THE ACTIVITIES, CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED income £351k

Side by side with its peers

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