GREENSLADE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP TRUST

Registered charity 276676 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Learn through play

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE BY A) PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS TAKE PART WHE APPROPRIATE B) ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE NAILSEA

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

Causes: Education/training · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£146k

Latest spending

£143k

Registered

1978

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had an excess of income over expenditure of £2,577.81 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total closing bank balances of £86,010.10. The trustees report that the charity is effectively more dependent on local authority funding due to decreased attendance and limited fundraising engagement. Reserves are held in bank accounts to cover future unforeseen costs, including maintenance and potential redundancy costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: All reserves are held in bank accounts to cover future unforeseen costs, including maintenance to the building owned, and potential redundancies costs for current staff, should the preschool be forced to close. (held: £86k)

“All reserves are held in bank accounts to cover future unforeseen costs, including maintenance to the building owned, and potential redundancies costs for current staff, should the preschool be forced to close.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor

“This effectively makes us more dependant on local authority funding, where the rates are dictated to us.” — page 4

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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
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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Beverly Kelly
Margaret Wright

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

Operates in: North Somerset

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£146k	£143k
31/08/2024	£140k	£136k
31/08/2023	£122k	£126k
31/08/2022	£124k	£120k
31/08/2021	£121k	£115k

Common questions

Is GREENSLADE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had an excess of income over expenditure of £2,577.81 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total closing bank balances of £86,010.10. The trustees report that the charity is effectively more dependent on local authority funding due to decreased attendance and limited fundraising engagement. Reserves are held in bank accounts to cover future unforeseen costs, including maintenance and potential redundancy costs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/02/2014	£10k	Greenslade Play Space

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUNNESS AND BURRINGHAM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP.

GUNNESS AND BURRINGHAM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £97k
GREYSTONES PRIMARY SCHOOL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £26k
SCHORNE NURSERY PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £158k
FRIMLEY GREEN PLAYGROUP income £150k
EASTERN GREEN PLAYGROUP income £130k
PUDDLETOWN PLAYGROUP income £150k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GREENSLADE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP TRUST	£146k	—	unclear	—	noted
GUNNESS AND BURRINGHAM PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£97k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GREYSTONES PRIMARY SCHOOL HOME AND SCHOOL ASSOCIATION FY2025	£26k	—	above	—	no doubt
SCHORNE NURSERY PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP FY2025	£158k	—	unclear	—	noted
FRIMLEY GREEN PLAYGROUP FY2025	£150k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EASTERN GREEN PLAYGROUP FY2025	£130k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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