HARDWICK AND ARDEN PRE-SCHOOL

Registered charity 293654 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARDWICK AND ARDEN PLAYGROUP

Pre-school Education

Objects

(A) TO PROVIDE SAFE AND SATISFYING GROUP PLAY, IN WHICH PARENTS HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE PART. (B) TO ENCOURAGE OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES THROUGH WHICH PARENTS MAY HELP THE CHILDREN. (C) TO FURTHER THE AIMS OF THE PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUPS ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: HARDWICK AND ARDEN

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 closed its pre-school in December 2024 because funding received was insufficient to cover outgoings. For the year ended 31 March 2025, total receipts were £104,915 against total payments of £126,852, resulting in a net deficit. The charity holds unrestricted cash funds of £6,012 at the end of the period.

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 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tracey Brainchair
• Arlette Wyatt
• Nicole Webb

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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