ST ANDREWS PRESCHOOL CAVERSHAM

Registered charity 900218 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ANDREWS PLAYGROUP, ST ANDREWS PRE-SCHOOL (CAVERSHAM)

1. The provision of appropriate pre-school play activities. 2. Fundraising to support the objectives.

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS.

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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Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded an anticipated deficit of £2,082 for the year, covered by accumulated surplus funds. The trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern, with forecast deficits for the upcoming year expected to be covered by existing reserves. The charity holds £71,577 in reserve funds specifically for emergency closure scenarios.

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
• Investing charity funds 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nick Holmeschair
• Byron Lawless
• Emily Heath
• Jenny Everitt
• Katharine Conran-May
• Matthew Reynolds
• Roisin Raeburn-Ward

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST JAMES' PRESCHOOL (PETTS WOOD).

• ST JAMES' PRESCHOOL (PETTS WOOD) income £72k
• CHARMINSTER PRE-SCHOOL income £189k
• SOUTH WOODHAM PRE-SCHOOL income £211k
• CAVERSHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £29k
• THE CHESTERFORDS COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL income £124k
• CROSSHAYES PRE-SCHOOL income £157k

Side by side with its peers

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