OUT OF THE BOX PARTNERSHIPS

Registered charity 1170079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OUT OF THE BOX

Working with children, communities, resident associations, architecture students and small scale businesses Out of The Box?aims to build adventure?playgrounds, art walls, permaculture gardens and multipurpose children?s centres in?urban?and challenging environments: inclusive of all ages, genders and abilities.

Objects

‘THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN DEVELOPINGCOUNTRIES THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND PROVISION OF INCLUSIVE EARLY YEARS AND CHILDHOOD PLAY,LEARNING, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:• RAISING AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF INCLUSIVE EARLY YEARS AND CHILDHOOD PLAY ANDLEARNING IN URBAN AND CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS, IN PARTICULAR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.• PROVIDING INFORMATION AND BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN LOCAL COMMUNITIES, LOCALARCHITECTS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT FACILITIES TO ADVANCE INCLUSIVEEARLY YEARS AND CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, HEALTH AND IMPROVE THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT.• PROVIDING MATERIALS AND EXPERTISE TO CREATE AND CONSTRUCT FACILITIES FOR INCLUSIVE EARLYYEARS AND CHILDHOOD LEARNING, PLAY, COMMUNITY ACTIVITY, SPORTS AND LEISURE.• PROVIDING ADVICE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MAINTENANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OF FACILITIES FORINCLUSIVE EARLY YEARS AND CHILDHOOD PLAY AND LEARNING, PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELYTHOSE CREATED BY OUT OF THE BOX.FOR THIS CLAUSE BY “INCLUSIVE EARLY YEARS AND CHILDHOOD PLAY, LEARNING, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING”WE MEAN WE SEEK TO ENSURE ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE THAT WE SERVE HAVE ACCESS TOPLAY AND LEARNING FACILITIES, PARTICULARLY GIRLS, CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, CHILDREN WITH SERIOUSILLNESSES OR THOSE THAT MAY BE EXCLUDED FOR ETHNIC, RELIGIOUS, ECONOMIC OR OTHER REASONS.’

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/04/2025, 76 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 03/12/2024, 307 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 01/04/2023, 60 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/04/2022, 60 days after the 31/01/2022 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

• KATRINA CRONINchair
• ELIZABETH GRAHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL FLETCHER
• SARAH BEECHING

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Throughout England

Income and spending