FERNHEATH PLAY

Registered charity 1148263 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FERNHEATH

Fernheath Play is a play centre and playground, providing a range of indoor and outdoor play facilities including a sensory room and garden for children with additional needs. It offers after school childcare and an activity club during term time and inclusive holiday playschemes catering for children with disabilities alongside their non-disabled peers. Holiday childcare is also available.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS(“OBJECTS”)ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:- TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR AGE, HEALTH, DISABILITY, OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE BY:- A)PROVIDING A SAFE, SUPERVISED PLACE FOR UNSTRUCTURED, IMAGINATIVE PLAY, AS WELL AS CREATIVE, EDUCATIONAL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES. B)HELPING CHILDREN TO ADVANCE IN LIFE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, RESPONSIBLE AND COMPASSIONATE INDIVIDUALS. C)ADVANCING THEIR LEARNING.

Area of benefit: BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET AND THE SURROUNDING ARAA.

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

Causes: Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has ceased operations and is being wound up, with assets and liabilities transferred to another entity. Per the trustees' report, the charity ended the period with free unrestricted reserves of £30,268, which is below its stated policy target of two-thirds of annual expenditure. The independent examiner noted a material concern regarding the maintenance of adequate 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.

• 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
• 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/03/2024, 35 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 07968806

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.

• IGGULDEN, Paul — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• KELLY, Jane — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• SPEARPOINT, Leonora Gabrielle — director, appointed 12/03/2024on trustee list
• CLARK, Gemma-Louise — director, appointed 07/11/2016on trustee list
• WILLIAMSON, Patricia Susan — director, appointed 28/02/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/05/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Igguldenchair
• Gemma-Louise Clark
• Jane Kelly · trustee of 3 other charities
• Leonora Spearpoint
• PATRICIA WILLIAMSON

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Poole

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• PLAYHOUSE PLAYGROUP income £33k
• MOSS HALL PLAYCENTRE income £292k
• SPECIAL PLAY AND LEISURE AFTER SCHOOL HOURS income £163k
• PLAY AWAY (ESHTON GRANGE) income £293k
• THE PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION income £112k
• PITSHANGER COMMUNITY PLAY CENTRE income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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