THE UNIVERSITY NURSERY PARENTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Registered charity 283949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as U N P A

To provide a caring environment where high quality play and education are used to stimulate and encourage the intellectual, physical and emotional development of the pre-school children of the officers, staff and students of Bristol University or of other persons.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £77,060 for the year ended 30 April 2025, with total income rising to £1,043,918. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £255,733, which exceeds the stated policy target of £240,000 required to cover three months of operating contingencies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01579720

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHEPHARD, Thomas — director, appointed 04/12/2025on trustee list
• MONTGOMERY, Stephen Hugh — director, appointed 10/09/2024on trustee list
• MOORE, Peter — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• DALMAIJER, Edwin Stefan — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• DENNING, Asphodel — director, appointed 12/02/2024on trustee list
• BURGER, Gozde — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Asphodel Denningchair
• Edwin Dalmaijer
• Gozde Burger
• Peter Moore · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Montgomery
• Thomas Shephard

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUTTON CENTRE UNDER 5S PLAYGROUP.

• SUTTON CENTRE UNDER 5S PLAYGROUP income £104k
• UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL STUDENTS' UNION income £7.7m
• ST MARYS PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP income £238k
• STANTON PARENTS AND UNDER FIVES income £158k
• RAINBOW COMMUNITY NURSERY income £807k
• FIRST STEPS NURSERY income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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