HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL

Registered charity 293559 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HAPPY HOURS PLAYGROUP

Pre-School

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Latest income

£140k

Latest spending

£145k

Registered

1986

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £5,042 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted cash funds from £248,873 to £243,831. The trustees' report indicates that the charity maintains sufficient monies to ensure general expenditure is not affected by fluctuations in income from the local authority. The document confirms that all funds were free funds with no restricted or endowed funds.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: enough monies to ensure that general expenditure is not affected by the fluctuations in the timing of our income (held: £244k)

“We maintain enough monies to ensure that general expenditure is not affected by the fluctuations in the timing of our income from EYNF via local authority.” — page 3

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Phillippa Claire Middletonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
Daria Timoshicheva
Elisabeth Croft
Elizabeth Rose May
Frank Collins
Katey Matttey
Katharine Pugh

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£140k	£145k
31/03/2024	£130k	£128k
31/03/2023	£144k	£116k
31/03/2022	£130k	£109k
31/03/2021	£113k	£101k

Common questions

Is HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £5,042 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its unrestricted cash funds from £248,873 to £243,831. The trustees' report indicates that the charity maintains sufficient monies to ensure general expenditure is not affected by fluctuations in income from the local authority. The document confirms that all funds were free funds with no restricted or endowed funds. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with St Joseph's Pre-School.

St Joseph's Pre-School income £130k
HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL CRAWLEY income £248k
CHURCHILL PRESCHOOL income £101k
Brightwell Pre-School income £144k
HATFIELD HEATH PRE-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £198k
CAPEL PRE-SCHOOL income £149k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL	£140k	—	above	—	no doubt
St Joseph's Pre-School FY2025	£130k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HAPPY HOURS PRESCHOOL CRAWLEY FY2025	£248k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHURCHILL PRESCHOOL FY2025	£101k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
Brightwell Pre-School FY2025	£144k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
HATFIELD HEATH PRE-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION FY2025	£198k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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