WHITESHILL PLAYGROUP

Registered charity 900321 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WHITESHILL PRE-SCHOOL PLAYGROUP

To advance the education of children below compulsary school age by (a) providing safe and satisfying 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 or the pre-schools playgroups association.Area benefit Whiteshill & Ruscombe

Objects

TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT, CARE AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE AND ALSO OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE OF SCHOOL AGE BY ENCOURAGING PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE FOR THE NEEDS OF THEIR CHILDREN THROUGH COMMUNITY (VOLUNTARY MANAGED) GROUPS AND BY; (A) OFFERING APPROPRIATE PLAY FACILITIES AND TRAINING COURSES, TOGETHER WITH THE RIGHT OF PARENTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR AND TO BECOME INVOLVED IN THE ACTIVITIES OF SUCH GROUPS, ENSURING THAT SUCH GROUPS OFFER OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL CHILDREN WHATEVER THEIR RACE, CULTURE, RELIGION, MEANS OR ABILITY;(B) ENCOURAGING THE STUDY OF SUCH NEEDS OF SUCH CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC INTEREST IN AND RECOGNITION OF SUCH NEEDS IN THE LOCAL AREA;(C) INSTIGATING AND ADHERING TO AND FURTHERING THE AIM OF PATA.

Area of benefit: WHITESHILL AND RUSCOMBE

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 returned a significant profit of £8,554 for the year ended 31 August 2025, reversing a previous deficit. The trustees consider reserves of £32,110 to be adequate for the foreseeable future, noting a policy to maintain at least a term's-worth of costs. However, the report highlights challenges including staff illness, reliance on expensive agency staff, and a shortage of trustees below the constitutional requirement.

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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Whiteshill Playgroup (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Charles Irwinchair
• Caroline Susan Drummond
• Chloe Ruth Parnell
• Clare Lucas
• Freya Ashley Cosstick
• Rebecca Hilary Swanwick
• Robert Graham Clayburn
• Sarah Elizabeth Clutterbuck

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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