SANDBROOK COMMUNITY PLAYGROUP LIMITED

Registered charity 278929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Educates children from 2 years 9 months to 5 as per curriculum. All staff and trustees are CRB checked.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE (I) BY PROVIDING SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS TAKE PART WHEN APPROPRIATE; (II) BY ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP SUCH CHILDREN.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a surplus of £56,265 and holds unrestricted reserves of £184,581, which exceeds its stated policy target of approximately £45,354. The trustees report that the charity is sustainable provided it maintains high occupancy levels, despite noting that funding from the Subsidised Childcare Programme has been reduced in recent years.

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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Brice
• Andrea Holguin Terreros
• Anna Maria Clough
• James Morris
• Meredith Dougherty
• Tamara Sykora

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

Operates in: Hackney

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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