Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

THE PETER PAN CENTRE 

To provide exceptional care, support and education to children from birth to age 5 with a range of special educational needs, Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. This enables children to make rapid progress in their development, with a focus on key life skills. Parent/carers benefit from respite, family support, training, social activities and community-based stay and play sessions.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and 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
31/10/22£297£297£0n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/10/21£234£258£-24n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/10/20£267£254£13n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/10/19£412£238£174n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/10/18£262£247£14£0£0£0n/a04
31/10/17£250£211£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/16£199£240£-40£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/15*£243£273£-30£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/14£293£275£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/13£247£259£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£212£242£-31£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11*£102£119£-17£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 14 years

www.thepeterpancentre.co.uk

info@thepeterpancentre.co.uk

01782715219

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
GiG Classification
  • Early years interventions
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 10 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£248,520
Garfield Weston Foundation£55,000
The Foyle Foundation£15,000
Masonic Trust£12,540
DCMS£10,648
Co-Operative Group£4,773
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust£4,750
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Peter Pan Centre for Children with Special Needs
£2,121 21/10/2023
We would like to give children with special needs the best start in life through weekly specialist play therapy, and give their families the support they deserve.
National Lottery Community Fund - Giving children with SEND the best start in life
£248,520 27/07/2023
This funding will be used to enhance and extend its sessional respite and outreach provision for families of children with SEND. The project aims to support families and their children to grow and ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Peter Pan Centre - 02/11/22
£3,000 09/12/2022
Core Funding
The Foyle Foundation - Learning (MGS)
£15,000 20/09/2022
towards a new, fully accessible, playground for children aged up to 5 with special needs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£20,000 22/04/2022
Education, Care and Development Sessions for 0-5 year-olds with special needs
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Peter Pan Centre for Children with Special Needs - 21/09/21
£1,750 12/10/2021
Core Funding
CareTech foundation - Match Funding Grant
£115 10/06/2021
Match funding Grant awarded to registered charity in the UK to support the applicant's fundraising efforts
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 27/11/2020
Education, Care and Development Sessions for pre-school children with special needs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Peter Pan Centre
£2,651 24/10/2020
We would like to give children with special needs the best start in life through the provision of education, development and care sessions.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,948 24/07/2020
"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
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Peter Pan Centre For Children With Special Needs
£2,700 17/06/2020
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COVID19 - This grant will fund staff hours to allow for more engagement with disabled children who are isolated at home due to Covid-19, and help them reduce isolation and improve emotional ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,700 20/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Small Grant
£12,540 10/02/2020
Unrestricted core funding for small charities
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 04/09/2019
The Peter Pan Centre
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Peter Pan Centre for Children with Special Needs
£4,679 19/11/2018
We want each child with special needs to access our services to begin their next step in education with life skills to succeed.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Peter Pan Centre
£3,818 04/08/2017
We need funding for a specialist care support and education that gives every child with special needs the best possible start in life.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Peter Pan Centre for Children with Special Needs
£6,051 04/08/2017
We need funding for a specialist care support and education that gives every child with special needs the best possible start in life.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Peter Pan Centre For Children With Special Needs
£99,783 11/10/2016
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The project will provide structured and tailored support to children with complex disabilities in a nursery setting. This will enhance the child's health, wellbeing and life-skills and aid ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Peter Pan Nursery
£25,000 28/02/2014
The charity provides specialist service to children under 5 with special needs and their parents. Working on a 1:1 basis to support the developmental needs of the child, and providing training ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 35-70
  • SARAH MCDOWELL Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Specialist Teacher Consultant
  • DIANE MCVEY Appointed: 2012, Occupation: Area District Senco Early Years
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 15/07/2010, number: 1136915
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/06/2010, number: 07285867
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR15: 1 days late, AR11: 28 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOSPITALS CHILDRENS TRUST on 02/06/2023
Main office

HOON AVENUE
NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME
ST5 9NY

Objectives

TO PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS OF PRE-SCHOOL AGE

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE STAFFORDSHIRE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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