STANDISH UNDER 5'S LIMITED

Registered charity 1179432 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. Provide a safe environment for children to play.2. Enable children to express their feelings.3. Provide opportunities for the children to make friends and to trust adults other than family members.4. Encourage children to share with others.5. Provide stimulating activities and play experiences which they may not have available at home which will enable them to develop physically.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS

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: Wigan, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at full capacity with 61 children on the register and generated a surplus of £11,046 for the year ended 31 August 2025. The trustees report that the charity maintains sufficient free reserves to meet staff costs and other obligations for a period of three months, ensuring financial stability. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11347439 · Financial health read from its filings

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MARSH, Adam James — director, appointed 03/03/2020on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Emily Sarah Atkinson — director, appointed 04/05/2018on trustee list
• WALLINGTON, Katie Rita — director, appointed 04/05/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EMILY SARAH ATKINSON ROBERTS
• KATIE RITA WALLINGTON
• Victoria Rimmington
• adam marsh
• davina perry

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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Side by side with its peers

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