BENENDEN PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1183202 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Benenden Preschool supports the care and education of young people in Benenden and the surrounding villages. This is achieved by providing a high quality, welcoming, setting where child-centred activities enable children to learn,through play, to explore and engage with resources both inside and outdoors, to be involved and to thinkcreatively.

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) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.

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 achieved a net surplus of £12,243.44 for the year, with total income of £101,083.83 exceeding total expenditure of £88,840.39. The charity holds total funds of £90,293.53 at the period end, which the trustees note are ringfenced for the purpose of securing new premises in the next few years.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Benenden Pre School (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Iroegbu
• Gill Knox
• Harriet Champneys
• Janet Beattie
• Sarah Andrew

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BENENDEN SCHOOL (KENT) LIMITED.

• BENENDEN SCHOOL (KENT) LIMITED income £28.2m
• BEN RHYDDING PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £150k
• BEENHAM PRESCHOOL income £129k
• Friends of Benenden Hospital income £45.0m
• Beaminster Preschool Limited income £114k
• YOUTH CLUB PRE-SCHOOL income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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