WALTHAMSTOW TOY LIBRARY AND PLAY CENTRE

Registered charity 1178098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Walthamstow Toy Library and Play Centre provides safe, creative spaces for children, young people and their adults to play, learn and interact. We run daily play sessions and offer a variety of health and wellbeing support services. We have an extensive toy loaning service and provide a variety of volunteering opportunities for local students and residents.

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) creating a supportive community for 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 secured three years of funding from the National Lottery Reaching Communities fund, which supports its future growth. However, the trustees identify ensuring a sustainable future at their new site as a key priority, noting that the ongoing cost of living crisis has influenced discretionary spending and party hire numbers. The charity remains committed to expanding targeted support for families affected by poverty, subject to funding.

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 4 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Peelchair
• Amy Henderson
• Andrea Ramsay
• Caroline Keech
• Katie Fox
• Maria Mana
• Nathan Gabbidon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Musselle

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

Operates in: Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOY HOUSE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF TOWER HAMLETS.

• TOY HOUSE LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION OF TOWER HAMLETS income £248k
• Living with Equal Opportunities Ltd income £440k
• PLAY WALES/CHWARAE CYMRU income £607k
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• ISLINGTON PLAY ASSOCIATION income £1.4m
• THE SHADWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT income £117k

Side by side with its peers

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