CANTERBURY AND DISTRICT EARLY YEARS PROJECT

Registered charity 1194003 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POETS CORNER

Established 32 years ago (1090139) becoming a CIO (1194003) in January 2022. The charity provides a range of services and resources to enhance the education, development, wellbeing and supports for children and their families. Some such activities include play sessions, parenting programmes, family support, language development and many needs led activities.

Objects

THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES AND HOME VISITING, TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY PROVIDING A RANGE OF SERVICES AND RESOURCES WHICH SUPPORT FAMILIES

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £193,426 to £160,740 due to a net movement in funds of £(32,686). The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £151,406, which the trustees report is consistent with their policy of holding three months of expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peta Boucherchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Danielle Nash
• Jo Law
• Keji Moses
• Sarah Todd
• Sharon Boyd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sonita Thompson Davies
• Zoe Ambrose

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANTERBURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST LIMITED.

• CANTERBURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST LIMITED income £2.7m
• THE CANTERBURY DAY NURSERY, HOLIDAY PLAYSCHEME AND AFTER SCHOOL CLUB income £825k
• CANTERBURY PROGRAMME income £3.0m
• CANTERBURY BAPTIST CHURCH income £261k
• CANTIACORUM FOUNDATION income £155k
• CANTERBURY VINEYARD CHURCH income £127k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.