BUMBLE BEES

Registered charity 1181671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUMBLE BEES PLAYGROUP

the objective of the charity is to enhance the development and educational needs of children in Wales, for the public benefit, by encouraging parents to understand and provide for their needs through high quality childcare provision

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN WALES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THEIR NEE DS THROUGH HIGH QUALITY CHILDCARE PROVISION.

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: Denbighshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is good, with unrestricted reserves of £2,000 held at the end of the period. The trustees note that this reserve level meets their policy target of keeping funds for at least one month of running costs, as advised by Early Years Wales.

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: Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 31/03/2022, 59 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

• Lesley Michelle Joneschair
• David Alan Roberts
• Donna Slater
• Lisa Main

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

Operates in: Denbighshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BUMBLEBEE CHILDREN'S CHARITY.

• THE BUMBLEBEE CHILDREN'S CHARITY income £103k
• BUSY BEES PRE-SCHOOL income £270k
• BUSY BEEHIVE income £82k
• BUSY BEES PLAYGROUP (BROCKWORTH) income £83k
• EARLY YEARS WALES 2018 income £1.1m
• TRELEWIS PLAYGROUP income £145k

Side by side with its peers

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