Hanborough Meadows Preschool

Registered charity 289849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONG HANBOROUGH PLAYGROUP

SECURE PLAY AREA FOR 2 TO 5 YEAR OLDS

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE BY (A) PROVIDING SAFE AND STISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART; (B) ENCOURAGING OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN; (C) FURTHERING THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUPS ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 reported a headline loss of £26,461 for the year ending 31 August 2025, primarily due to a £20,308 investment in a new garden office. Excluding this capital expenditure, the charity recorded an operational loss of £6,153, driven by rising staffing costs that outpaced income from fees and government funding. Total capital reserves decreased significantly from £56,086 to £29,625, with unrestricted current funds falling to £13,684.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Megan Lucy SAYERSchair
• Kelly EVANS-BARRETT
• Medlan Porter
• chloe ricketts

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HANBOROUGH PRE-SCHOOL.

• HANBOROUGH PRE-SCHOOL income £204k
• WANSTEAD PARK PRESCHOOL income £140k
• THE MEADOWS DAY CARE CENTRE income £205k
• HARRIETSHAM PLAYGROUP ASSOCIATION income £122k
• MEADOWLANDS PRE-SCHOOL income £182k
• MARHAMCHURCH PLAYSCHOOL income £100k

Side by side with its peers

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