WOODCOTE AFTER SCHOOL CLUB

Registered charity 1162057 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We offer After School Care to children living in and around Woodcote. We are based at Woodcote primary but children do not have to attend that primary school to come. We are open from 3:15 - 6pm Monday to Friday during term time. The children have lots of toys to keep them busy as well as access to the school playground. They also have a light tea too.

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;(5) PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS HOLDING MEMBERSHIP OF THE CIO; AND(6) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

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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Registered contact address: South Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an overall loss of £1,660.71 in the financial year due to a considerable increase in costs, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £19,303.03. The trustees note that the charity's sustainability is reliant on attendance numbers and staff availability, with monitoring of the break-even point continuing.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 05/04/2025 (received 09/03/2026, 32 days after the 05/02/2026 due date); year ending 05/04/2022 (received 17/03/2023, 40 days after the 05/02/2023 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Lissenden
• Elizabeth Gupta
• Joanna Colley
• Pamela Lambley
• Simon James Townsend

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HIGHFIELD AFTER SCHOOL CLUB.

• HIGHFIELD AFTER SCHOOL CLUB income £127k
• SCHOOL'S OUT income £61k
• WOODCOTE PRE-SCHOOL GROUP CIO income £143k
• COTGRAVE KIDS CLUB income £187k
• ICKFORD PRE SCHOOL PLAYGROUP INCORPORATING AFTER SCHOOL CLUB income £232k
• Walker After School Club T/A Walker Children's Club income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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