CYGNETS EDUCATION AND CHILDCARE TRUST

Registered charity 1160913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CYGNETS EDUCATION & CHILDCARE TRUST

2 settings providing care and education; operating all year round 1 site for children from birth through toddlers, pre-school and out of school care, the 2nd site only toddlers, pre-school and OOSC.

Objects

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:(1) PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETY;(2) PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT;(3) PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEING;(4) PROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS

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 had a net income of £80,479 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £356,680. The trustees report that the charity is in a very healthy position regarding reserve funds and intends to invest these sums to retain value. No material uncertainties or serious incidents affecting financial stability were disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Adams Ltd. 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
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Linda Findon — Chair of the Trust (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• linda findonchair
• DOROTHY LEITCH
• JEAN ASHTON CROTON
• John Gibbons
• PIPPA EVANS
• SAM ALLISON
• Serena Mackjoo

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CYGNETS PRE-SCHOOL.

• CYGNETS PRE-SCHOOL income £346k
• CYGNETS (LANGFORD VILLAGE UNDER FIVES) income £150k
• CYGNETS PRE-SCHOOL income £109k
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• Cylch Meithrin y Gelli income £127k
• ST AIDAN'S DAY NURSERY TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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