WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 267157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO MANAGE AND RUN AN INCLUSIVE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND FOR ALL CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLETO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL INTERGRATION AND CREATIVE PLAY IN A SAFE SUPERVISED ENVIRONMENT TO PROVIDE WORKSHOPS IN AREAS OF ART/CRAFT AND SPORTS THAT ENCOURAGES HEALTHY GROWTH OF THE MIND AND BODIES FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS AND CULTURAL GROUPS

Objects

THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION FOR CHILDREN RESIDENT IN BETHNAL GREEN BEING FACILITES - (A) OF WHICH SUCH CHILDREN HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES; AND (B) WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR SUCH CHILDREN BY PROMOTING THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING.

Area of benefit: BETHNAL GREEN

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£84k
Latest spending
£80k
Registered
1974
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit of £2,398 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. However, total funds remain in a deficit position of £2,503, with unrestricted reserves at zero and restricted funds also negative. The trustees have adopted a strategy to build reserves through planned operating surpluses to mitigate risks to the organisation.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Reimbursement of project-related costs to trustees.
“During the year ended 31 March 2025, £3131.69 was reimbursed to trustees for project- related costs.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £37,253 — grants £37,253 (5); 44% of the £84,050 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 8
  • Government income: £32,473 — grants £32,473 (2); 41% of the £78,864 total gross income on the same return
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Government income: £37,725 — grants £37,725 (2); 43% of the £87,980 total gross income on the same return
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/02/2023, 3 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 14/03/2022, 42 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£84k£80k
31/03/2024£79k£77k
31/03/2023£88k£83k
31/03/2022£70k£83k
31/03/2021£68k£74k

Common questions

Is WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net profit of £2,398 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a deficit from the previous year. However, total funds remain in a deficit position of £2,503, with unrestricted reserves at zero and restricted funds also negative. The trustees have adopted a strategy to build reserves through planned operating surpluses to mitigate risks to the organisation. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION as a grant recipient include EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
EAST END COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONFY2026£5kSports clubs for young people

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund26/08/2026£20kWeavers Adventure Playground Playworker Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund25/08/2023£10kHoliday Fun
UK government09/10/2020£3kVSCE CMC Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund23/01/2020£10kSchool's Out, Time to Play
Greater London Authority26/08/2016£13kGrant to Weavers Adventure Playground
The National Lottery Community Fund16/07/2014£9kT.E.A.M at Weavers - Together Everyone Achieves More at Weavers
The National Lottery Community Fund27/03/2013£9kWeavers Awesome Summer Adventure
The National Lottery Community Fund07/11/2005£4kWaterproofing Castle
The National Lottery Community Fund11/01/2005£127kPlay-in-the-Community Proiect
The National Lottery Community Fund21/05/2004£5kOffice system upgrade

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WEAVERS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION£84k—0unclear—no doubt
WOODGATE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND FY2025£328k—0unclear—no doubt
THAMES VALLEY ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND CIO FY2025£536k£70,001 - £80,0001within—no doubt
EVESHAM ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION FY2026£288k—0unclear—no doubt
THE WEAVERS' COMPANY BENEVOLENT FUND FY2023£703k—0below—no doubt
WAVE ADVENTURE FY2025£129k—0unclear—no doubt

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