HARPOLE PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 1183475 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity works for the public benefit having as its objects the development and education of children and young people in particular byPromoting their care and safetyPromoting their education and promoting parental involvementPromoting their health and wellbeingProviding services to support them and their families and carers

Objects

THE CHARITY WORKS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT HAVING AS ITS OBJECTS THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR BY:PROMOTING THEIR CARE AND SAFETYPROMOTING THEIR EDUCATION AND PROMOTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENTPROMOTING THEIR HEALTH AND WELLBEINGPROVIDING SERVICES TO SUPPORT 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 returned a surplus of £16,603 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total funds carried forward increasing to £78,828. The trustees note that the sector faces serious underfunding and challenging financial times, but the charity has a business plan in place to strengthen finances. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sharon Matthewschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Chloe Cook
• Donna Tarry
• Jessica Clare
• Nicola Farmer · trustee of 2 other charities
• Polly Knight
• Richard Rossiter-Smith

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HADDENHAM PRE-SCHOOL.

• HADDENHAM PRE-SCHOOL income £134k
• BURPHAM PRESCHOOL income £112k
• HEAMOOR PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £444k
• THE COMBINED HARPOLE CHARITABLE TRUST income £175k
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• HELPSTON PLAYHOUSE AND UNDER FIVES PRE-SCHOOL income £206k

Side by side with its peers

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