WILLOW CHILDCARE

Registered charity 1183332 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the education of children below compulsory school age, in particular by providing or assisting in the provision of Nursery facilities by providing safe and satisfying group play and nursery education of a high standard and the provision of care, recreational and educational facilities for all children outside of normal school hours.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF NURSERY FACILITIES BY PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY AND NURSERY EDUCATION OF A HIGH STANDARD; AND2) THE PROVISION OF CARE, RECREATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN OUTSIDE NORMAL SCHOOL HOURS

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 reported a net unrestricted surplus of £46,425 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a prior year deficit. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,252,495, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain activities for 12 to 18 months of expenditure. The charity holds £400,000 in current asset investments and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mary Andrew — Head of Centre (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hannah Holdgate
• Karen Hussey
• Kate Emily Hefford
• Michael Nally

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

Operates in: Plymouth City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WILLOWS PRE-SCHOOL, NORTH BRADLEY.

• THE WILLOWS PRE-SCHOOL, NORTH BRADLEY income £165k
• HIGH WYCH PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY income £224k
• WILLOW FOUNDATION income £3.9m
• WILLOW BANK PRE-SCHOOL income £198k
• HIGH LEGH PRE-SCHOOL NURSERY income £333k
• Brightwell Pre-School income £144k

Side by side with its peers

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