THAMES VALLEY ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND CIO

Registered charity 1201368 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TVAP

The activities of the charity are the provision of facilities for adventure play to alleviate the needs of children and adults with special needs, and those of their relatives and carers.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO SHALL BE TO ALLEVIATE THE NEED OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, THEIR RELATIVES AND CARERS BY THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ADVENTURE PLAY AND OTHER APPROPRIATE LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION AND, WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:3.1.1 TO PROVIDE FUN AND FREEDOM IN A STIMULATING, CHALLENGING AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT, TO DEVELOP SELF-CONFIDENCE, INDEPENDENCE AND SENSORY AND MOTOR SKILLS;3.1.2 TO OFFER AND GIVE NECESSARY SUPPORT AND RESPITE TO PARENTS AND CARERS;3.1.3 TO PROMOTE THE PHILOSOPHY OF ADVENTURE PLAY AND THE NEED FOR ITS AVAILABILITY TO ALL PEOPLE.

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 · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a financial profit of £29,175 for the year ended 31 March 2025, increasing its free reserves to £389,444. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are held in line with the charity's policy, representing approximately 10 months of core annual expenditure. The charity remains dependent on voluntary income to cover its core funding requirement of over £450,000 per annum.

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 6 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
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Debbie Farnfield
• JEREMY PAUL MALKINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Robert Wilks
• Karen Elisabeth Roberts
• Reama Natalie Shearman

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · Windsor And Maidenhead

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EVESHAM ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION.

• EVESHAM ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION income £288k
• WOODGATE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND income £328k
• WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION income £84k
• SHIREMOOR ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND TRUST income £123k
• PITSMOOR ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND income £204k
• ADVENTURE HYNDBURN income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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