Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

RAY'S PLAYHOUSE LIMITED 

Ray's Playhouse aims to provide low cost daily accessible stay and play sessions to parents and carers for under 5s within a highly deprived area of the Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. It also provides services support and links to other family services within the area and local employment with back to work schemes within the Playhouse.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • 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 dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board is completely female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

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
31/12/22£161£146£16n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/12/21£135£127£8n/an/an/an/an/a4
31/12/20£145£135£10n/an/an/an/an/a7
31/12/19£124£136£-12n/an/an/an/an/a15
31/12/18£128£134£-7£0£0£0n/a020
31/12/17£156£144£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/16£137£149£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/15£122£131£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/14£110£118£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/13£147£131£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12*£128£107£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£97£57£40£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 13 years

www.raysplayhouse.org

info@raysplayhouse.org

02077310750

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Recreation
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Hammersmith And Fulham,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
John Lyon's Charity - Uplift grant to Ray's Playhouse
£2,000 11/01/2023
Cost-of-Living Uplift
The Childhood Trust - Raise for Ray's
£1,000 22/06/2021
We are raising money to enable Ray's Playhouse to be able to continue running. Ray's Playhouse provides vital, much needed services to the diverse local families in Sands End, Fulham. We receive no ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Ray's Playhouse
£30,000 16/06/2021
Core costs, Speech and Language Therapist

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-74
  • RANIA ASSAF Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 06/06/2011, number: 1142275
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/01/2011, number: 07489085
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
12 returns made; AR12: 29 days late,
Main office

Woodfords Solicitors L L P
11 Harwood Road
London
SW6 4QP

Objectives

OBJECTSTHE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:1. TO ENHANCE THE DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION, PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN PRIMARILY UNDER STATUTORY SCHOOL AGE BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND SUPPORT FACILITIES IN COMMUNITIES IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM;2. THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION (OR ASSISTANCE IN THE ORGANISATION OR PROVISION) OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PERSONS FOR WHOM THE FACILITIES ARE PRIMARILY INTENDED) FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES;3. TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE UP TO AND INCLUDING THE AGE OF 12 YEARS LIVING IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HAMMERSMITH AND FULHAM AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF: (A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS; (B) ADVANCING EDUCATION; AND(C) PROVIDING RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITY IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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