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Registered charity 1160447 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting families with Children between the ages of 0 and 5 in the Bracknell Forest Area

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:A TO SAFEGUARD, PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GOOD HEALTH, BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL OF CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;B TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO OR MALTREATMENT OF CHILDREN;C TO RELIEVE SICKNESS, POVERTY AND NEED AMONGST CHILDREN AND PARENTS OF CHILDREN;D TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN BETTER STANDARDS OF CHILD CAREWITHIN THE AREA OF SOUTH EAST BERKSHIRE AND ITS ENVIRONS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £40,542 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £96,307. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level exceeds the stated policy target of £80,000, which is defined as 50% of total costs. The trustees consider the charity has sufficient funds to carry out its functions and the independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention.

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.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rosemary Gunnerchair
• Benjamin Philip Durbin
• Benjamin Wallace
• Emma Jane Tennant
• Hilary Delphine Mason
• James William Jerrold
• Magdalena Ziegler
• SHEILA MOONEY
• Teresa Ann Cartwright
• Youssef Tarek Ismail

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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