THE SPRING PLAYGROUP CHARITY

Registered charity 1157755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SPRING PLAYGROUP

To advance the education of children under statutory school age, regardless of their financial circumstances, in a loving caring and respectful atmosphere based on Christian belief and practice, while encouraging other charitable activities through which parents and carers may help their children.

Objects

TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND PRACTICE IN KENILWORTH, IN PARTICULAR TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE REGARDLESS OF THEIR FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure of £132,786 exceeded total income of £124,679, resulting in a significant operating loss for the year. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £564 and restricted funds of £2,726, with trustees noting that the budget for the following year is set to broadly break even.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Antony Feltbowerchair
• FELICITY JANE HAWKE
• JACQUELINE MARGARET CROSS
• Lise Reeve

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• STEPPING STONES PLAYGROUP income £148k
• BREDON PLAYGROUP income £123k
• THE SPRINGFIELD PROJECT income £1.7m
• WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k
• SPETISBURY AND CHARLTON MARSHALL PLAYGROUP income £198k
• THE SPRING CHARITY income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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