MARLOW OPPORTUNITY PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 1177581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Marlow Opportunity Playgroup is a pre-school setting for children with special needs. This CIO has been set up for the future use of the charity which is still operating as an unicorporated charity (number 1108650). We are waiting for a new Ofsted registration before we start operating as a CIO.

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITH SPECIAL NEEDS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF NURSERY AND PRE-SCHOOL CARE. (B)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS IN THE PROVISION OF SUCH NURSERY AND PRE-SCHOOL CARE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £29.7k for the year ended March 2025, bringing unrestricted reserves to £183k. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is £45k short of their stated policy target of nine months' operating costs (£228k). The charity notes that a significant funding source from Bucks Council ceased in September 2024, but has secured alternative grants to maintain viability.

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
• Investment
• 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

• PAUL RICHARD WILLIAM FINCHchair
• CATHERINE LOUISE AUSTIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Prout
• Sandra Jane Gibbons
• Susan Margaret Smith

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE YEOVIL OPPORTUNITY GROUP.

• THE YEOVIL OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £224k
• MARLDON PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £100k
• ST MARYS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £238k
• MAYFLOWER PLAYGROUP, HAYWARDS HEATH income £151k
• WHITECHAPEL PRESCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £132k
• WILDERN OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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