Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 3

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 7

ASHFIELD PLAY FORUM

Ashfield Play Forum aims to promote public appreciation of the value of play in improving the quality of life for children and young people in the district of Ashfield. To meet our aims we support and promote the provision of positive and creative play opportunities for children and young people within this area. We provide materials and play items to our members in line with funding criteria.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/23	*	£157	£125	£32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	12
31/03/22		£105	£113	£-8	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/21		£117	£67	£50	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	11
31/03/20		£108	£99	£9	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/03/19		£103	£86	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/03/18		£88	£84	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£120	£115	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16	*	£187	£171	£16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£78	£91	£-14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14		£82	£97	£-15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£83	£99	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£132	£113	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11	*	£151	£156	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£101	£87	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09	*	£95	£93	£3	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08?		£81	£104	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	*	£73	£81	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05		£178	£183	£-5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04		£96	£78	£18	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 30 years

info@ashfieldplayforum.co.uk

01623 441168

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Amateur Sport
Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Economic/Community Development/Employment
Education/Training
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

GiG Classification

Child day-care services

How it operates

Acts as an umbrella or resource body
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Provides human resources
Provides services

Where it operates

Nottinghamshire,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
12 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Time to Play and Learn
£375,860	28/01/2021 59	The group will use its funding over a period of five years in order to continue to run its play-based activities accredited training sessions workshops and toy loan service. The funding will allow ....more The group will use its funding over a period of five years in order to continue to run its play-based activities accredited training sessions workshops and toy loan service. The funding will allow the group to continue to provide positive and creative play opportunities for children and young people. It will run three funded activities over the next five years; a ‘Training Project’ ‘Play Days Project’ and an ‘Environmental Play Project’ in response to the feedback they have received from members of previous activity groups.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Ashfield Play Forum
£58,840	28/02/2019 36	This project will provide a mobile toy library service for children living in an area of deprivation. It aims to support positive family relationships, improve communication and learning skills and ....more This project will provide a mobile toy library service for children living in an area of deprivation. It aims to support positive family relationships, improve communication and learning skills and increase independence.
National Lottery Community Fund - Play Matters
£428,666	12/08/2015 60	A project to provide free accredited training, skills workshops, and childrenâ€™s play days to local community and voluntary groups who work with children and young people . The scheme will ....more A project to provide free accredited training, skills workshops, and childrenâ€™s play days to local community and voluntary groups who work with children and young people . The scheme will offer accredited training courses with Pre-School Learning Alliance around play activities such as safeguarding children, paediatric first aid and food hygiene along with play based education training such as crafting, games and sport.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DOREEN FOWLER

GEORGE POWELL Appointed: 2023

HELEN MARRIOTT (Chair) Appointed: 2023

VICKY GUNN Appointed: 2012

ROBERT WYATT Appointed: 2014, Other trusteeships: MANSFIELD MECHANICS INSTITUTE LIMITED, THE KINGSWAY HALL MANAGEMENT TRUST, MANSFIELD WOODHOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP, Kingsway Hall Management Trust CIO,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/05/1994, number: 1037959

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
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

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR23: 63 days late, AR16: 2 days late, AR11: 120 days late, AR09: 19 days late, AR06: 462 days late,

Main office

MORVEN AVENUE
SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
NG17 1AN

Objectives

TO PROMOTE AN APPRECIATION AMONGST THE PUBLIC OF THE SHORT AND LONG TERM VALUES OF CHILDREN'S PLAY IN ASHFIELD TOWARDS IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

ASHFIELD

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