Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

PLAY BRADFORD 

Play Bradford is the umbrella charity who aim is to provide sustainable community play opportunities across the Bradford District. Our work focuses on delivering quality play and playwork using the medium of adventure play. Our current programmes consist of; The Big Swing Adventure Playground, Mobile Adventurous Play, The Bradford Community Play Partnership, The PLATTER project.
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 including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 16 years

www.playbradford.org.uk

janet@playbradford.org.uk

01274613254

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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£315£380£-65n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£435£376£59n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/21£298£304£-6n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/03/20£394£248£146n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£309£266£43n/an/an/an/an/a1
31/03/18£206£233£-27£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£231£186£45£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£119£130£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£177£202£-25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£208£200£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£148£134£14£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£114£114£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£146£161£-15£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£150£126£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£103£96£7£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Other charitable activities
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bradford City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£460,721
Sport England£147,000
Leeds Community Foundation£53,463
DCMS£25,234
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Play Bradford
£3,000 15/03/2023
Capital costs for Youth Welfare & Education
National Lottery Community Fund - Bradford Community Play Partnership
£161,318 20/01/2023
This funding will be used to embed six community play hubs across the Bradford district creating sustainable play spaces where families can come together with their children (aged 5-13 years) to ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Play Bradford
£10,000 20/12/2022
Grant to Play Bradford
Leeds Community Foundation - Bolton Woods Community Connecting programme
£5,000 05/09/2022
Grant to Play Bradford
Leeds Community Foundation - Strive to Thrive
£9,972 18/08/2022
We want to develop a Strive to Thrive programme of enrichment and support for young people aged 9 + to aid transition, maintain confidence/self esteem and create opportunities for ongoing personal ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Play Bradford
£10,000 25/05/2021
refurbishment of a building for a charity supporting disadvantaged young people in West Yorkshire
Sport England - The Big Swing Build
£25,000 01/02/2021
19
Funding under Sport England's Local Delivery Investment funding programme for a Capital project titled The Big Swing Build. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and capacity ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Play Bradford
£6,783 20/11/2020
6
Grant to Play Bradford
Leeds Community Foundation - PLATTER project
£6,782 29/09/2020
4
Building on the success of the summer PLATTER programme, we will provide a minimum of 4 hot meals and 5 play sessions per week to the most vulnerable children in the Ravenscliffe community, targeting ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£25,234 29/09/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Play Bradford
£9,926 15/07/2020
3
Support for ongoing delivery and adapting operating/funding model.
Leeds Community Foundation - Covid-19
£5,000 15/04/2020
5
Grant to Eccleshill Adventure Playground
Sport England - Community facility, kitchen and toilet facilities
£22,000 26/09/2019
31
Funding under Sport England's Community Asset Fund funding programme for a Capital project titled Community facility, kitchen and toilet facilities. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a ....more
Sport England - Capital project-Modular building
£100,000 20/08/2019
19
Funding under Sport England's Local Delivery Pilots funding programme for a Capital project titled Capital project-Modular building. This project lists its main activity as Sport participation and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Bradford Community Play Partnership (BCPP)
£299,403 20/06/2019
36
The Bradford Community Play Partnership (BCPP)
Leeds Community Foundation - All things Playful
£5,313 12/03/2019
6
To provide child-centric outdoor open access play opportunities, across the city, targeting wards of disadvantage, with a focus on healthy food and active play, during the holiday periods from Easter ....more
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Eccleshill Adventure Playground
£8,795 04/12/2018
To build an outdoor play structure at a free open access adventure playground.
Leeds Community Foundation - The Big Swing's Big Build
£6,480 23/11/2018
4
Youth led design and build of a new play structure at the Big Swing in place of our recently burnt down indoor playroom with opportunities for older members of the community to help support and guide ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Swing into Action!
£4,880 23/08/2018
12
Grant to Play Bradford
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 05/07/2018
Main Grants award
People's Health Trust - The Big Swing's big play sessions
£23,480 05/07/2018
This two-year project delivered hands-on creative sessions for children and young people aged 5-14 at the Big Swing adventure playground in Eccleshill, Bradford, after school and during school ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Eccleshill Adventure Playground
£89,497 14/06/2017
36
Big Swing Inclusion Project will provide regular open access adventure play sessions for children and young people with additional needs to improve physical health, build self-esteem and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - All things playful
£347,222 09/03/2016
36
This is a development of existing support delivered by Eccleshill Adventure Playground (EAP). It will target the most deprived areas of Bradford’s six districts and will provide a wide range ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Eccleshill Adventure Playground
£25,000 29/03/2012
the salaries and on-costs of the Adventure Playworkers and Senior Playworker and activity costs for the holiday play schemes
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-79
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/02/2008, number: 1122592
  • Registered at Companies House on 13/06/2006, number: 05845461
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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 expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR09: 297 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from PLAYSPACE ASSOCIATION (PLAYSPACE) on 29/03/2023
Main office

Office V22
Inspire Bradford Business Park
Newlands House One
Newlands Way
Bradford
BD10 0JE

Objectives

3. THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) AREA) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, DISABILITY OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE: ECCLESHILL, BRADFORD, WEST YORKSHIRE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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