BRIGHT SPARKS NURSERY (ST. PETER'S CHURCH, IPSWICH)

Registered charity 1192890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bright Sparks Nursery provides early years childcare sessions for two- to four-year olds. The nursery operates from St Peter's Church in Stoke Park in Ipswich. The children spend their time both indoors and in a variety of attractive outside spaces. Children's places are paid for by early years grant funding or fees payable by parents.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND BY: (A) OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SUCH GROUPS, ENSURING THAT SUCH GROUPS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN WHATEVER THEIR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, MEANS OR ABILITY(B) ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS IN THE LOCAL AREAS(C) INSTIGATING AND ADHERING TO AND FURTHERING THE AIM 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 for the year ended 4 April 2025 have been subject to an independent examination by Ensors. The examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the keeping of accounting records or the accuracy of the accounts relative to those records.

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What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jemma Mulley-Ng
• Natasia Scott-Opukah
• Rachel Steel
• William Holledge · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRIGHT SPARKS KINDERGARTEN LTD.

• BRIGHT SPARKS KINDERGARTEN LTD income £210k
• BRIGHT SPARKS PRE SCHOOL income £267k
• LITTLE SPARKS PRESCHOOL income £168k
• BOWS AND ARROWS income £2.8m
• BRIGHTSPARKS ARTS IN MENTAL HEALTH CIO income £126k
• ST. PETER'S PRE-SCHOOL income £105k

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