SPEKE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

Registered charity 1193878 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPEKE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

Speke Children's Environment Committee provides Recreational, Educational and Positive diversionary opportunities and activities in order to maximise life chances of children and young people (especially those challenged through disadvantage or inequality caused by economic / financial circumstances, educational, social or health conditions or through disability) in the Speke area of Liverpool

Objects

1 THE OBJECTS OF SPEKE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE SHALL BE THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SPEKE AND ITS ENVIRONS, A) OF WHICH SUCH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE B) WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN BY PROMOTING THEIR EDUCATIONAL, PHYSICAL, CULTURAL AND MENTAL WELL-BEING C) THAT THEY MAY DEVELOP CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY, PROMOTE EQUALITY AND SHARED VALUES, APPRECIATE THE ENVIRONMENT AND BECOME GOOD CITIZENS.D) TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND EQUIP A PLAYGROUND, PLAYGROUNDS AFFORDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR FREEPLAY, ORGANISED ACTIVITIES, ADVENTURE AND ENTERPRISE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total incoming resources were £276,962 against total resources expended of £248,464, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £75,522, which the trustees note are below their ideal free reserve target of £120,000 required for financial stability.

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 5 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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 18/02/2023, 18 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paula Shawchair
• Ann Beattie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donna Shaw
• Linda Farrelly
• Mark Chambers
• Mark William Ord · trustee of 5 other charities
• Mary Rasmussen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Roberts

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SPEKE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED.

• SPEKE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CENTRE LIMITED income £389k
• SPECIAL NEEDS ADVISORY AND ACTIVITIES PROJECT income £422k
• SQUARE PEG ACTIVITIES LIMITED income £175k
• SPARKLE SHEFFIELD income £59k
• SPACE income £256k
• CHILDREN'S RESPITE TRUST income £403k

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