Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 14 ?

MERIDEN ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION

Aims and objectives: ?To provide, maintain and develop facilities at Meriden Adventure Playground for children, young people and families resident in Chelmsley Wood and its? surrounding areas, through the provision of safe and stimulating play opportunities so as to develop their physical, social and mental skills.?
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • 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 £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/24£346£350£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/23£316£353£-37n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/22£395£280£114n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/21£246£145£101n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/20?£189£175£13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
03/04/18£74£54£20n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 8 years

meridenadventureplayground.com

meridenadventureplayground@gmail.com

07912674136

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Birmingham City, Solihull,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£374,890
Henry Smith Charity£150,000
Tudor Trust£102,000
BBC Children in Need£80,500
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£69,528
Heart Of England Community Foundation£22,000
Masonic Trust£15,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£500 20/10/2022
0
‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
National Lottery Community Fund - Meriden Adventure Play
£374,890 24/03/2022
The funding will be used to deliver support to children young people and families in across the Chelmsley Wood and Smiths Wood area of North Solihull- through children’s play and community hub activities. MAPA offers open access youth provision ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£15,000 24/03/2022
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Heart Of England Community Foundation - The Rainbow Alliance Kingshurst (TRAK)
£5,000 13/05/2021
To provide care packages with food and activity packs, signposting to other services, and to begin a hot meal service, and a dry food store.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£150,000 06/05/2021
36
towards three years' running costs of an adventure playground and community centre in Solihull, West Midlands.
Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£69,528 29/04/2021
50% of salaries and running costs over 3 years for an adventure playground for disadvantaged children in Chelmsley Wood, Birmingham.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Core costs
£2,000 30/03/2021
Core costs.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£100,000 22/03/2021
36
over three years as continuation funding towards core salaries at an adventure playground in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 05/03/2021
MAPA Break
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association (MAPA)
£5,000 04/03/2021
The grant will pay for the salary of 4 youth workers for 6 months
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£2,000 03/03/2021
as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Playground necessities
£2,000 04/02/2021
To purchase a year’s worth of consumables for the Playground.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Keep on keeping on
£5,000 21/01/2021
To support the running costs of the organisation following the impact of the pandemic on fundraising activity
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£80,000 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver an adventure playground to children and young people experiencing local deprivation in North Solihull, who are further isolated due to Covid-19. Outcomes include improved mental health and improved relationships ....more
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association (MAPA)
£5,000 24/04/2020
5
We have teamed up with new local partners and colleagues and volunteers to run an emergency service and food bank out of Kingshurst Community Centre (which has stood empty for several years until recently and been recommissioned by the local ....more
Sport England - Physical Literacy and play
£10,000 03/02/2020
7
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Physical Literacy and play. This project is a Sport and Physical Activity project, with a focus on younger beneficiaries.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground
£24,000 16/07/2019
installation of lighting and CCTV for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Birmingham
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Build
£10,000 08/03/2019
12
This funding will be used to repair and improve the local adventure playground. The project aims to continue providing outdoor play experiences for young people.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer play scheme.
£800 05/06/2018
Towards a summer play scheme.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£90,000 19/02/2018
36
over three years towards core salary costs at an adventure playground in Chelmsley Wood, Solihull
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Meriden Adventure Playground Association
£30,000 10/08/2017
36
This project is an environmental based afterschool provision in a deprived area of Birmingham. The project aims to provide access to safe spaces, improve relationships with peers and improve life skills.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - MAPA Summer Playscheme 2017
£5,000 17/02/2017
2
This grant will enable us to employ two full-time experienced and qualified playworkers for the duration of the summer school holiday 2017.
Woodward Charitable Trust - Towards a summer playscheme
£700 25/05/2016
Towards a summer playscheme.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

  • ALISON WOOD (Chair) Appointed: 2016
  • DAVID ANTHONY WOOD Appointed: 2019
  • JOHN LOUIS FREEMAN Appointed: 2016
  • JEANETTE BURROWS Appointed: 2022
  • MARCUS BRAIN Appointed: 2022
  • MARK WILSON Appointed: 2018
  • MCCALLMONT CLARKE Appointed: 2018
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 27/01/2017, number: 1171350
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Meriden Adventure Playground
Moorend Avenue
Chelmsley Wood
BIRMINGHAM
B37 5TE

Objectives

TO PROVIDE, MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE FACILITIES AT MERIDEN ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN RESIDENT IN CHELMSLEY WOOD AND SMITHS WOOD, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND STIMULATING PLAY OPPORTUNITIES SO AS TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, SOCIAL AND MENTAL SKILLS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN CHELMSLEY WOOD AND SMITHS WOOD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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