HOPSCOTCH UNDER FIVES LIMITED

Registered charity 297542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Children's nursery & Drop In centre. Provide 36 childcare places for children aged between 2 & 5 years of age. Offer both full time and part time places.The Drop In runs as a mother & toddler centre providing various activities for under fives.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE HIGH STANDARDS OF CARE OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE IN THE QUEENS PARK, KILBURN AND BRONDESBURY WARDS OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT AND THEIR SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVIDING NURSERY AND PLAY GROUP FACILITIES AND BY OFFERING SUPPORT AND INFORMATION TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN. (B) TO ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN THE EDUCATION, CARE AND UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF BRENT AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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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Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £37,556 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £211,781. The trustees maintain designated reserves of £87,029 specifically to cover potential redundancy costs arising from the threat of lease loss. The charity is dependent on the lease renewal with Brent Council, which has been secured only until August 2028.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 01/04/2021 (received 14/02/2022, 13 days after the 01/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 01/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID FRANCIS HODGE
• Katherine Lawson
• Sam Cooke

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

Operates in: Brent

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPSCOTCH NURSERY.

• HOPSCOTCH NURSERY income £139k
• WORLDS END UNDER FIVES CENTRE income £251k
• HERSDEN UNDER FIVES PROJECT income £108k
• NEWCASTLE CHILDREN'S CENTRE income £78k
• OVINGHAM AND DISTRICT UNDER 5'S income £67k
• HIGHMORE HEDGEHOGS NURSERY LIMITED income £210k

Side by side with its peers

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